Conductor of Manhattan
In darkness of the night
I spied him in a tree
Sat I froze by the sight
He was looking at me
The summer's heat became a chill
The angel of death at his kill
I couldn't remember my entire life when I first got to the UG of Manhattan. Then a week went by and I remembered everything except how I got there in the first place. Anyway here's how the first week went.
I woke up and found myself on the streets of Manhattan just outside Central Park, aside from my name and age, the city was all I knew. I got up and found a pin in my hand. It had a very intricate skull design on it. I say skull because that's the closest thing the design resembled. It just didn't look like a natural skull. Then I put it on and touched it with my left hand. I heard the voices of the people on the streets get even more jumbled and mixed together than they were earlier. But at the same time, if I focused really well, they sounded clearer. I took my hand off the pin, and the voices stopped. I realized that those voices were thoughts.
"Just what is this pin!?" I asked aloud. I said it loud enough for people to hear me, but no one took notice. Then my phone got a message on it.
Reach Times Square. Time limit: 60 Minutes
Fail and face Erasure
-The Reapers
Now if I had my memories I would've known that I was a Player in the Reaper's Game by now (I played "The World Ends With You" before), however I didn't even remember how I got to sleeping in the middle of the street in Manhattan. So it tried to delete the text, but it wouldn't go away. Then my hand got burned and when I looked to see the burn, it looked like a working timer, counting down from sixty minutes. All the signs changed and said, "You Have 7Days." Then these weird symbols pooped out of thin air and next thing I knew I was under attack by frogs! (Sound familiar?)
Well I couldn't fight them so I ran, far and fast as I could, which took me to Rockefeller Plaza. However the frogs showed up here too.
"Ugh! Freakin' Frogs!" they attacked a whole hoard of people, and before I knew it they were all gone. "Wha-What!? What the hell is going on!?"
"Found one!" a girl's voice said behind me. I turned around to see the most stylish girl I saw since before I could remember. "Hey! You mind forging a Pact with me?"
"What!?" I asked. I looked this girl over. She had red hair with a pink streak in the bangs. Her eyes were blue, and she was very skinny. She wore a camouflage miniskirt that covered her thighs, a matching jacket a red tank top, and high heeled boots along with a hat that looked like something out of a camping magazine. "What do you mean a Pact!?"
"Just do it! If you don't the Noise will erase us both!"
"What harm could a little noise do?" I asked. Then I realized she was talking about the frogs, which now had us surrounded.
"You want to be erased!?"
"…Fine, I accept!" We slapped hands and there was a mini fireworks show surrounding us. The lights started getting closer and closer to our hands until they scratched another mark into them. A cross, like the one this girl was wearing, for me, and a skull, like one on my bracelet, for her.
"What was that!?" I had to ask.
"A Pact!" She explained. "We're Partners until the Seven days are up!"
"Okay, so how do we get rid of the Noise!?"
"Take this!" she tossed me a watch and a pin with a flame insignia on it. "Place the pin on the watch face and you'll be able to use the Psych!"
I tried her instructions. A wave of my hand and all the Frogs went up in flames.
"Did I do that!?"
"You're a Psychomaster! Focus on me, and we'll be able to fight together!"
Strapped to her back was a stuffed cat. As soon as she unstrapped it, it gained a mind of its own and went berserker going at the frogs. I just set more of them on fire and eventually they were all gone. I was tired, but the only way you'd tell was my panting.
"Nice job Partner." The girl said. I still couldn't find a reason to trust her.
But I said "Right back atcha'. Hey, do you know what's going on here?"
"It's a long story. Let's just get to Times Square. I'm Sara Bloom, by the way."
"Ricky Jordan."
Well we got to Times Square and the timer on both our hands was reset.
"Congratulations, Ricky Jordan and Sara Bloom," Said a voice from the Jumbotron. "Of course this is Day One, so don't expect the missions to be easy from here out."
It turned out to be a guy in his early twenties. He had earbuds sticking out of his shirt, and a pair of shades covering his eyes. He was dressed in a business/casual work suit. The thing that tipped me off that this guy was not normal was the very presence he gave off.
"Who are you!?" I yelled.
"Is that any way to talk to the guy who's letting your existence continue for now?" the dude said. He jumped down and stood up to walk over to us, an impressive feat, considering the Times Square Jumbotron is Three hundred and forty feet above the streets. When he got close to us, his presence was almost unbearable.
"I repeat. Who are you?" I said with more fear than rage now.
"Calm down, I'm on your side," he said. "I am Dracula, the Conductor of Manhattan."
"I thought that the UG had a Composer." Sara said.
"Half of the UG's do, the other half have people like me running the show from behind the scenes, if something happens to me, something happens to Manhattan."
"Then why are you here, if you have an all-important Job like yours?" I asked.
"I wanted to see how My Player was doing."
"Huh?"
"You'll understand in a little while Ricky, We'll meet again, I'm sure." He rushed into an alleyway and disappeared. Here ends the First Day.