Ok, originally this was supposed to be one chapter with two scenes, but apparently my IPad can't handle that many words. So, here.
Edit: OK! I accidentally made some mistakes, and now here's the HOPEFULLY FINAL VERSION! DX
-Zōngakure Ch. 1 START-
Dark.
That's all it was in the room. That...
...and boring.
"Can I at least take this stupid helmet off?" The annoyance in the speaker's voice was so thick you would've heard it even if you were deaf.
"You mean can WE take these stupid helmets off."
"Yeah, you can't forget about me, ya know!"
"Hey! You mean he can't forget about us!"
REMOVAL OF THE PROTECTIVE TRACKERS IS NOT AUTHORIZED
"Aw man! But I wanna see Uzu's face! And why aren't you correcting yourself for not including Phan?"
"No point in that, Fen. You two are the same person! So if you forgot about him, that means you forgot about yourself, ya know.
The united reply 'Uzu' got from the two others was,"...point."
It wasn't hard to believe.
The similarities between the first two speakers, dubbed as 'Fen' and 'Phan' respectively, were uncanny. They had the exact same bodily shape, lean, yet with some muscle. They even moved exactly the same, but that was something only the trained eye could see. Their voices were exactly the same, the voice of a teen just reaching adolescence. The only differences were that Phan had an echoey undertone to his voice, was giving off a soft, otherworldly glow, and, barely visible yet still there, his eyes glowed green. Fen had a normal voice, and was giving off no light from his body, yet his eyes shone an icy blue from behind his visor.
The third speaker, dubbed 'Uzu', was fairly short, a taboo when speaking to him, as Phan and Fen discovered upon their first week since meeting him. He looked to be only a year or two younger than the first two speakers. His voice was a little gruff, and he had a verbal tick, being that he sometimes said 'ya know' at the end of his sentences. With the lower part of the firey-pony-tailed helmet things, or the "'protective trackers'", visors a bit more see-through, one would have been able to see ever so slightly lengthened canine teeth and six distinctive whisker marks on his face, three on each cheek, had the light been a bit brighter.
Then there was the fact that all three were wearing the exact same things. All three were wearing something similar to a motorcycle helmet, but with a weird antennae thing sprouting from the top of it, showing it wasn't a simple helmet, being like helmets, but also trackers if one of the three were to somehow escape. The trackers were also near impossible to remove without scanning a special key card with the-dun dun dun-SCANNER that was built in to the back of the helmet. If that weren't enough of a security measure, there was only a few copies of the key card, and they were given to the most trusted agents of the facility that were containing the three boys, the current one happening to be a psychological facility. Out of the back of the helms were strange flames that formed a pony-tail, the strange part being that they were each a different color. Fen's flame was the darkest black, Phan's was a blinding white, and Uzu's was a shining gold, and the three flames were the only source of light in the room.
The three...roommates were also wearing handcuffs, ones that attached them to their respective walls, which seemed to add another level of restraint when you saw the additional chains around their ankles, keeping them from walking far from their respective walls, and the chains attached to collars on their necks. Other than the handcuffs, they were wearing cloaks, ones that hid everything from the shoulders down, and yet had long sleeves for their arms, the sleeves ending just above their wrists. All their cloaks had a hood that was currently down, and their colors were: a shining gold for Uzu's, Phan's a blinding white, and Fen's was a light-absorbing black. Each cloak had two, small, diamond-shaped gems on them. One held the top of the cloak closed like an expensive clasp, and the other hung from the tip of the back of the hood. Phan's were green emeralds, Uzu's were red rubies, and Fen's were icy blue aquamarines. Finally, along with the actual gems on them, each cloak had another large diamond shape on the back, the deepest shade of purple that wouldn't be mistaken for black instead.
They were each chained to a separate wall of the four-walled room. On one wall was a secure-looking steel door. Uzu was chained across the room from it, with Phan to the wall on his left, and Fen chained to the wall on Uzu's right.
The arranged restraints allowed for the three roommates to move around without having total freedom, and didn't get in the way...
"GAH!"
...much.
"Uzu! Did you just trip, AGAIN!?"
"Heheh...uhhhh..."
"Just get up."
"Gomen."
"Hey, no need for apologies."
"THEN WHY DID YOU REPRIMAND ME, YA KNOW!?"
RELEASING CHAINS was heard from the hidden speakers in the...cell? Room? Whatever.
"Oh? Ahh, it's time for your stretch."
At that, the two look-alikes looked at Uzu, and in twin-speak, said,"Gee, really? We didn't notice!" Then in unison: "It's only the DAILY. ROUTINE!"
"Sheesh." Was the only reply.
At that, Uzu's appearance changed slightly. His already sharper than normal teeth got even sharper, the tips now overlapping his lower lip. His single-lined whisker marks seemed to blur, looking more like real whiskers. His nails lengthened into claws, and, barely visible from behind the visor of his helm, his eyes glowed a vermillion red that would have some from his old home screaming in panic and possibly running about, shouting to the world about "demons awakening their powers for revenge and to slaughter us all". A hidden door opened off to his left on the same wall he was once chained to, and Uzu ran off.
During this, Phan and Fen began to stretch. Yet, they didn't stretch their legs or arms like one would expect. Their cloaks open from the waist down, showing their legs to be those of a feline. Fen's fur was stark white, and Phan's a pitch black. From around their waists, a lion-like tail from each unwrapped themselves from around their waists under their cloaks, slipping through a hole in the back made specifically for the tail to stick through. The feathers on the tip of each tail, replacing where a tuft of fur would have been on a normal lion tail, spread into a fan-like shape at the tip. The tail was white feathers and black fur for Phan, and black feathers with white fur for Fen.
The tails weren't the only extra appendages the two differently colored look-a likes had. From holes in the back of their cloaks, massive wings spread. The feathers, despite being matted down from them leaning against them when sitting down, looked soft and fluffy. Like with their tail feathers, Phan had white ones upon his wings, whilst Fen had black.
The two crouched down, and took off, flying through a door that had opened on the other side of Uzu's "Wall". Their wings flapped in powerful bursts, yet quiet, their feathers muffling the sound of their wings slicing through the air, much like the feathered wings of owls did.
Through all of this, two men in bleak, white suits (A/N: lots of black and white, I know, but they were the only colors I could come up with for Phan and Fen.[P.S. You should really know who Phan, Fen, and Uzu are by now. If ya don't...well then that means you probably didn't read my descriptions for the three of them. I know there are people like that, I'm one of them!]{P.P.S. Sorry for the long A/N}) ,that were each different, stood, and watched from the very difficult to see window that was above the metal door. The first was in an actual suit, complete with a full headed helm with goggles, boots, gloves, and weaponry, not a single bit of skin visible. The second was in a tailored white suit, complete with a tie, and had sunglasses, practically being a ripoff of the Men in Black.
These two agents were of a government organization called the Guys in White, adding more to their already ripoff referencing of a movie. Anyway, the GiW was a government organization that was in charge of trying to control the havoc ghosts made. Unfortunately, many agents had taken this as, "Kill/Eliminate/Capture to experiment on any ghost in sight, no questions."
Luckily, or unluckily if you were one of the more violent agents of the program, these two agents were the ones that disliked the more violent parts of their job.
"So, what are you planning?"
Oh, did I forget to mention that the one in the tailored suit was the boss of the Psychological facility that our three main characters were in for the last year and a half?
"Don't you already know?" The boss said. His voice was deep, not overly so, but enough to tell you that this was a guy you wouldn't want to mess with.
"Meh, clarification is what many here want. Of the rest of the program's find out about this-" the soldier's younger voice was cut off.
"I know what the consequences can be. But, if this goes right, there will be a lot more peace, what with less ghost attacks and less fear of ghost attacks. Starting tonight, things are going to be very interesting."
And interesting this night would be, if they had anything to say about it. (A/N: OVERSHADOWING HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!)
Ok, first story EVER. ...Did I do good? Too much dialogue?