This is the start of the Neo Date A Live revision. The rest of the chapters will be done every Friday from this point on. I'm giving myself a deadline to my writing can feel like a homework and I can get the chapters done faster.
Amidst the raging inferno around them, a young boy pulls a girl the same age as him by the arm through the smoke in search of safety. The two of them were too young to know where they were going or what to do, but they knew that fire was something to be feared and they had to get away from it. The screaming and shouting of random adults around them terrified the children to no end, but the boy knew they had to press on or they wouldn't make it out of the smoke. The girl suddenly slips out of the boy's grasp and falls on her knees, clutching her neck with one hand and coughing heavily from the smoke. The boy falls over as well and skins his knee on some broken glass on the ground, making him wince in pain. He hears the girl start crying behind him and he forces himself to turn around to her on the hot asphalt. He slowly crawls toward her, despite the intense pain from the flames and the glass and reaches out to her, only for a burning telephone pole finally fall over and crush the girl under its weight.
The boy watches as the girl's body disappears in the flames and he lets out a painful scream of anguish, hoping someone would hear him and save him from the nightmare in front of him. His screams ultimately go unheard and he slumps to the ground, his breath thinning out from the smoke. The boy ends up losing consciousness and silently accepts his fate in the flames. The fire slowly creeps closer to the fallen boy's body, when someone steps in front of the flames, making them go out and be pushed back from the person's mere presence.
The specter looks down and lets out a small tear, feeling empathy for the young boy's suffering. The specter reaches down and picks up the boy in its arms, cradling it gently. It breaths out a cloud of white gas and takes a small gem out of its body, watching the cloud swirl together and be sucked into the dark stone. When the last of the gas enters the gem, it lights up with a pulsing blue light, sparks crackling within the glass object. The figure places the gem on the boy's chest where his heart is and let's go as the stone slowly sink in and merge with the boy's body.
The figure suddenly hears the sound of approaching people and pushes away a small patch of flames with its hand before setting the boy down in the open area. The figure gives the child a small kiss on the forehead, his breathing evens out from the touch, and walks toward the fallen telephone pole before vanishing from sight as the beam of a searchlight lands on the sleeping boy's body.
Five years ago, Tenguu city suddenly broke out in flames that consumed and ravaged the lives of all those who lived within the city. No one knows what really causes the fire to start in the first place, but everyone knew that it lasted for three days before the fire brigade was able to put it out. When the last of the embers finally burned out, the city was in left in splinters and ashes, and the event went down in history as "The Great Tenguu fire." However, there was a secret being kept within the flames. Amongst the many victims of the fire, a handful of kids were saved from the clutches of death by an unknown force. Whoever they were before the fire started was burned away when the flames died down. These ten kids that survived the fire became the next generation of spirits to walk the earth and this is the story of how they, through countless trials and hardships, came together to save the known world.
The date was June 10, 2051. Five years had passed since the events of the Tenguu fire, but the city was able to rebuild itself from the ashes and start anew. Today was the start of a new school year for the Osaku household, but little did they know that after today, their lives would be forever changed.
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" A young girl with lilac hair that went down to her shoulders and bright green eyes, wearing light green pajamas jumps up and down on her older brother's bed to wake him up. Unfortunately, the boy wasn't having as much fun as the girl thought he was with her little game. "Myra," the boy calls from under his covers, "I can't get up of you're on top of me. Can you get off?" The girl stops jumping and childishly pouts before stepping off the bed. "OK big bro. I'll stop jumping." The boy under the covers lets out a sigh of relief as she steps of his bed. 'Finally, she stopped jumping on me! Ugh, today can't get any worse than this.' He apparently jinxes himself as a wave of ice cold water is thrown by Myra onto him, the water soaking him through his clothes. "WAHHHHHH!" The now wet older brother throws the covers off him in a rush, revealing his short black hair and cobalt blue eyes, and shivering from the water. The boy, Rute Osaku, wraps his arms around himself and tries to warm himself up."M-Myra, w-hat w-was that f-f-for!?" He asks through chattering teeth.
The girl stands next to the bed with her arms crossed and legs spread apart. "You weren't getting out of bed, Rute! You always get to sleep in and we always end up late! But this year's going to be different!" She dramatically points to the sky with a triumphant grin. "This year we will make it to school on time! So, get up already!" The boy, Rute Osaku, shakes the water out of his head and a mischievous glint appears in his eyes as he lowers his head, the shadow of his hair covering his eyes. "Myra l-listen. You need to run away, now." He tells her in a strained voice, his hand clutching his heart in imaginary pain.
His younger sister breaks her facade and tentatively reaches out to her bring brother. "Hey, Rute? You're OK, right?" Rute rocks himself from side to side as he pretends to dry heave from an illness. "I-I don't know but, it hurts so much!" He makes himself fall to the side and looks up at Myra with pleading eyes. "I-I can't c-contain myself for m-much longer. Please, Myra, you have to r-run!" The said girl is now shaking in fear with faint tears in her eyes. "N-No I can't leave you. Big bro please!"
"I get the first shower then! Thanks, Myra!" He suddenly jumps off his bed and runs out the door, leaving my sister behind. It wasn't until the door shut behind him that his sister started screaming in anger. "Hey! No fair big bro! That's not fair!"
A few minutes later, Rute comes down the stairs wearing his school uniform and turns on the TV for Myra, knowing she always watches the news before they leave. His and Myra's parents are usually called abroad to another country for work. They don't say much about what they really do, but they told Rute that they worked in a subdivision of another larger group. Because of this, Rute and Myra end being left at the house by themselves. It was hard at first but the two of them were able to make things work out.
Rute finds an apron and goes to the stove to make breakfast. He cracks and heats eggs in a pan as Myra comes down and plops herself down on the couch facing the TV. She looks over her shoulder and crosses her arms over her chest, makes a 'Humph!' noise and turns away. "That's wasn't fair big bro! Tricking me like that!" Rute chuckles at his sister and reaches into his pockets. "Hey, it was just a joke. Besides you started it." Rute says as he pulls out a small piece of paper from his pocket. "Here, I'll make it up to you, my treat." Myra turns her head to the side and her eyes widen when she sees the paper in his hands. Rute was holding a coupon for Danny's, her favorite restaurant. Myra's mouth started to water as she stared at the coupon with anticipation.
Myra's sadness suddenly vanishes like she forgot what had happened and a big grin appears on her face. "Big bro you're the best!" She says with a smile and grabs the remote to find the news channel. She watches silently as Rute finishes their food and sets the table. Something on the TV makes her gasp loudly and she grabs the remote to turn up the volume for Rute to hear. "Rute look at this!" She says as the newscaster appears on the screen.
[Earlier today, a category C space quake was recorded in the eastern area of Tenguu city. There are no recorded casualties but the damage to the surrounding is quite extensive. Repairs are being done as we speak and are expected to finish at...] Rute silently watches the news with his sister until the screen changes to show the crater left by the spacequake and Rute can make out their house in the background just outside the crater.
Rute's eyes widen at the closeness of their house to the destruction. "How did we not hear the alarms go off? We could have died because of that thing." The phenomenon of spacequakes started happening about 30 years ago when the first recorded one destroyed half of the Eurasian continent. They used to happen more frequently after that but nowadays they happen about once a week. Humans still haven't made any counters to the destruction they can bring, but citywide alarms and underground shelters are our only defense for them now.
Rute looks down at Myra, who looks visibly shaken by the news. "Big bro, are we really safe here?" She asks Rute, the fear audible in her voice. She turns around and looks up at him with tears at the corner ls of her eyes. "I'm not going to lose you, am I? You're always going to be there for me and we'll always be together. Right, Big Bro?"
Rute understands her fear and sets down their breakfast. He walks over to her and pats her softly on the head like he used to when she was little. "Don't worry Myra. We are safe here and I promise I won't let the spacequakes hurt you or me." He lets her go and wipes away her tears. "Come on, let's go to school." Myra smiles with relief and looks at her brother endearingly. "OK, big brother."
At the same time, in an alternate dimension, a young teenage girl with long dark hair floats in the endless void of nothingness. Her eyes are closed in a deep vegetative slumber and she remains unaffected by any outside force. Suddenly, an explosion occurs not far from where the girl is and the shockwave causes the void to ripple like water. The invisible waves reach the girl and her eyes close tighter shut from the discomfort. She suddenly feels a jolt of pain as her mind is suddenly flooded with painful memories of raging fire.
She suddenly sees herself in her mind, standing amidst the roaring flames from her past. She immediately falls to her knees, her hands covering her ears as she remembers the way she felt in that situation. The relentless screaming, the overwhelming dread, the smoke that filled her lungs, the mysterious voices of an unknown persona.
The girl suddenly snaps out of her dream and opens her eyes to the darkness surrounding her. She turns frantically around in the void, looking for anything that could bring her comfort. The sound of shattering glass was heard from behind her and she turned around to see the dark dimension break apart into shards, letting a small light pierce through the emptiness. She blocks the light with one hand and looks into the open space of the light and sees a humanoid figure standing outside void. The figure is completely black but it turns to look at her with shining blue eyes and it reaches out to her with one hand, a loud voice piercing the void and reaching her ears.
"Even if the rest of the world leaves you, I'll still be here for you! And I promise I will never leave your side!"
The girl feels something within her resonate with the figure's voice and she reaches out with one hand and is brought closer to the figure by an invisible force. Her hand slowly reaches the figures and when she finally grasps it, the rest of the world around her shatters and the figure disintegrates into particles the spread out and merge with her body. The image of a glowing white sphere against a black background suddenly enters her mind and knowledge floods her mind to match her apparent age. The force overloads her mind and she closes her eyes in exhaustion, a vacuum opening below her and sucking her out of the alternate realm with a loud explosion, thrusts her into another world.