Into the Depths of Night
Prologue:
The sun set quickly on the busy town. Dark storm clouds started to creep towards the city. It was going to be a rough night for the people of Kyoto. Thunder could be heard in the distance bright white light faintly stained the sky every few minutes.
A young woman walked swiftly down a sidewalk. Biting her lip nervously as she glanced up towards the darkening night sky, she sighed softly. `This isn't good…' she thought to herself. If the on coming storm wasn't bad enough, it was getting late and the streets were starting to look bare. It was all over the news, all the disappearances and few murders that have been occasionally been popping up all over the city. She knew that she shouldn't be outside this late at night, alone. She sighed again pausing at a street, waiting to cross. She ran a hand gently through her long raven colored hair, closing her eyes. A loud thunderous clap boomed over the city. The young woman jumped slightly and pulled her white jacket snugger around her. `Only two more blocks and I'll be home…' she kept repeating.
The small light across the street blinked green and she started to walk across the street quickly. `Why did I have to stay so late again?' she groaned to herself. She lifted the white sleeve of her jacket to glance at her watch. 11:45, almost midnight. `How did it get to be so late?' she thought walking down the now deserted street.
`One more block,' she thought reaching another stop light. Another clap of thunder rang loudly through the city, followed by a white, hot flash of lighting that lit up the gloomy street. The young woman froze as she felt a cold, wet sensation fall onto her face. `Greeeat…' she thought as it started to rain. She lifted her hood on her jacket in an attempt to keep dry. She kept her eyes focused on the little light across the road that shone bright red, indicating that it was unsafe to cross the road. The light remained red as the rain continued to fall harder. The young woman shifted her weight from one foot to the other impatiently.
Squealing tires and revving engines broke through the silence in the air. The young woman slowly turned her head towards the source of the sound. Her eyes grew in shock when she saw two cars turn the corner sharply. They raced towards her, showing no sign of slowing down or stopping. The car on the left swerved and mashed into the car next to it. The car hit the curb and started to spin out of control. `Something's not right…' she thought. Screeching breaks and the sound of metal being crushed and ripped apart exploded as the car lost its balance and started to flip. She watched as the small car was perilously crushed as it continued to roll. She gazed at the car came to a impacted stop in its hood. The rain hadn't let up and thunder boomed through the air loudly.
The second car had stopped at the side of the road. The young woman blinked once, twice. Trying to take in the situation that had just taken place. She was so shocked that she almost missed the car door opening on the undamaged car. The young woman wasn't sure what to do as a tall man slowly got out of the car.
The man inspected the flipped car from where he was standing. She gasped as she saw something start to move from the trashed car. The man shifted his gaze towards the young woman.
`Run! Run!' her mind screamed, but her body wouldn't move. Her focus was on the cold blue eyes that pierced through her. The man slowly started to walk in her direction, seeming to have forgotten for the moment the wrecked car behind him. Blue eyes never taking their hold on her body away. The wind began to pick up speed as the center of the storm moved over the city, and blew her hood off. Her now wet hair stuck to the sides of her face and the back of her jacket. She made no move to try to replace it.
As the man got closer and closer to her, the young woman's body began to tremble, but unable to move away from the strange man. The man smirked as he approached her. "My, my…" he said in a deep voice, "Miss, you are now in my way. What a shame…" he said. She was unable to find her voice and still stood frozen in that spot as he towered over her. The man was easily over 6'2 and his dark brown hair was matted to his head from the rain. She gazed at his features, but something was off. She moved her gaze to his mouth to find his teeth too sharp and rigid for a human. The man chuckled as he saw fear flow over her body and take over her whole being. He reached out and softly moved pieces of wet hair off her face. `Why can't I move?' her mind screamed. She knew she had to get away from this man. She could sense that something was dangerously off with him, something wasn't right. She was glad that it was raining, so the man couldn't see tears that started to fall from her eyes. The man gazed down at the woman before him. He seemed captivated by her eyes. He gently rubbed the side of her cheek with his thumb. Her deep chestnut colored eyes watched him fearfully.
He opened his mouth to say something but not a sound was able to come from his mouth. The only sound that the young woman heard was the sound of a gun shot that rang through her ears. Everything seemed to move in slow motion for the young woman. She watched as the man's expression made a dramatic change. His eyes grew wide with shock, and she was suddenly able to move again. As she took a small step back away from him, his hand dropped from her face to and pressed it firmly against the left side of his chest. She saw a reddish, orange liquid start to wash off his hand as the rain continued to fall. She couldn't scream, she couldn't run. She just stood frozen, petrified.
She was taken back when she heard the man curse under his breath and he sharply turned around. `Why is he not dead?!' her mind said frantically. A young man stood slumped in to middle of the street holding out a gun.
"You fool, you think that a mere gun wound can stop me?" the man yelled. She took more steps backwards, finding some strength in her feet to move. She caught a glimpse of the man in the street. Long white hair was covered in matted blood and mud. He held the gun in his right hand, while the other held his body steady against the car. His clothes where torn and many gashes were visiable from the outcome of the crash. His breathing was labored but she could sense of intimidation that radiated off of him. He still held a over powering presences even in his condition.
"And you think a car crash can kill me? Now Kyoru you can't get rid of me that easily," the young man yelled. The man in front of her started to growl. `What is…is he growling?' the young woman's mind screamed. The blue eyed man suddenly became tense. She saw his nails start to grow into dangerous, long, sharp claws. She started to stumble backwards, in an attempt to get away from the man, but stepped over a crack losing her balance she fell hard onto the wet sidewalk. `What the hell is he?!' her mind raced. `It's just a nightmare, yeah that's right a nightmare where a man was shot and started to growl and grow claws…yeah just a nightmare…' she tried to reassure herself.
She was snapped out of her thoughts as the man in front of her launched himself forward with immense speed. To frightened to run or leave the street, she could do nothing but watch helplessly. The man she heard that was called Kyoru leaped towards the young man in the middle of the street. But, he easily dodged it by stepping to the side. He then moved so quick that she almost missed that the young man gave Kyoru an impacted punch to the stomach that sent him flying a few yards away. The young man had dropped the gun and began to walk slowly towards Kyoru on the ground.
Kyoru stood up slowly as he growled and bared his fangs at the younger man before him. The young man smirked in annoyance. "Your time is over Kyoru…" he said as he took his hand, which now also had razor sharp claws, in one swift movement towards the throat of Kyoru. She gasped loudly as Kyoru froze. It seemed like hours flew by as she waiting to see what happen.
A high pitched scream rose into the street as she saw a cut on the man's throat open and splatter blood onto the sliver haired man. The man's limp body fell to the ground. She blinked back tears and was about to scream again but in the blink of an eye, the sliver haired man was only a few feet in front of her.
"D-don't you dare come near me!!" she screamed getting to her feet and started to run away from him. The young man growled in frustration as he jumped towards her and grabbed her arm to stop her. She quickly turned around and began to beat frantically into his chest crying and trying to break free. He quickly grabbed her wrists and forced them above her head, holding her still. "Let go of me now!" she screamed again still trying to break free. He opened his mouth to say something but quickly turned his head in the direction of the untouched car, which was starting to drive towards them.
"Fuck!" he swore as he wrapped his arms around her waist and jumped high into the air. She was about to let out another scream but looking down at the ground that seemed to be a few hundred feet she gasped and everything went dark.