Prologue

There it was; right in front of her nose. All she had to do was grab it. All she had to do was type. She already had her plot laid out, her characters' bios fleshed out, everything she needed planned to a point. All she needed to do was tie all these things together and form a story. Really, it sounded easy, especially with how organized everything was. She just needed to type, yet the screen in front of her remained white.

"Why is this so difficult?!" Mana shouted, breaking the silence that had once hung through the room.

She threw her head back as a long sigh escaped her mouth. Her hands banged against the keyboard, sending random letters to appear on the screen instead of anything that would make sense. She didn't know what was going on. She had the story in her head, yet she couldn't seem to capture it properly in words. It had never been this hard for her to write a story, yet here she was struggling just to start one.

"Why?" she cried out, falling forward.

Her head hit the keyboard with a loud thud blended with key clicking noises. More gibberish formed on her screen. She rolled her head up a bit so she could look at the screen.

"I wonder if Glasgow would take this as my story," she mumbled. "I could call it Twaddle or Brain Rot."

What was sad was Mana was actually considering this possibly for a second. But she quickly dropped it when she figured her editor would not be too pleased with such dribble.

Mana had been having this issue for the past few weeks. She couldn't seem to write anything. Even with a deadline fast approaching, she couldn't seem to spit anything out. She knew she needed to get this done, but that pressure wasn't helping. Mana couldn't think of anything to do that might help her.

"Shit, shit, shit," she muttered, hitting her head against the keyboard.

She kept doing it – followed by a curse word each time – only to stop when she heard a crack. Her head shot straight up just as the "J" key popped out and flew to the floor. With all her head banging, she broke her keyboard without even meaning to.

"Shit!" she cried out, rushing for the bouncing "J"-key.

She dropped to the floor and cupped her hands over the "J". As she knelt down, she grabbed the key and got up. She'd need to fix her keyboard before she could finish – well, technically start – writing. She placed the key on her desk and went on a search of some sort of glue that could save her keyboard. She didn't want to have to buy a new one; she didn't have that sort of money. Really she didn't know why she was even banging her head against her keyboard in the first place, especially seeing how she couldn't afford to anyway.

"I think I have some glue in my nightstand," she mumbled.

She rushed to her room located at the back of her apartment. She flicked on the light and rushed to her nightstand, which had a complete mess lying on top of it. Inside the drawer was no better. Mana was a complete mess, not putting much effort into cleaning. The drawer was full of miscellaneous knickknacks and whatnots that didn't really have a home; or if they did, Mana never really bothered to find it. Everything seemed to be in there, yet amongst this array of clutter, she did not find glue. She eventually closed the drawer, and while standing up, began to wonder where to search next. That is when the lights blinked once and then completely turned off.

"Don't tell me," she whispered, making her way over to the light switch.

After flicking it a couple of times, she confirmed what she had feared. Electricity had gone out. At least she hadn't had anything unsaved open on her computer. But that also meant she couldn't work on anything also. Mana walked over to the window, staring out, trying to figure out if it was the entire neighborhood or just her block.

"Wow," she said, gazing at the scene. "It looks like it is the entire city."

From her second-story apartment window, Mana couldn't see everything. But she sure could see enough. It was just like she said; it appeared to be the entire city. The building that usually stood high and lit up, looking like totems in the darkness, were pitch black and blend into the black sky.

"Seriously," she muttered. "I guess there is nothing I can do, aside from getting upset about it. And what is that going to do?"

Maybe it was life throwing her a break. Maybe it knew she needed one and her editor couldn't get mad at her for not writing seeing how she can't even turn on her computer.

And just as she was about to take this break handing to her and go lay down on her bed for a bit, something caught her eye. Really it was a bunch of "somethings". A cluster of shooting stars suddenly formed in the sky. Mana had never seen something like this. She had seen meteor showers before, but none that just formed out of nowhere; and none that traveled this fast. One second they were high in the sky, the next they appeared to split from their group and come crashing down to the ground.

"That's strange," she muttered to herself as she watched the scene unfold. "Wait! What?!"

She shouted as she noticed one take a sharp turn towards her direction. She had no time to react as the ball of light crashed through her window and hit her square in the chest. All she could remember was the glass of the broken window going everywhere with a loud shattering noise and a searing pain in her chest. She quickly passed out.

This story takes place in a fictional city called Coeur City. It follows nine individuals as they must navigate a new world unfolding in front of them. As during the night of December 22nd, Winter Solstice, nine "stars" shot through the sky. However these weren't typical stars, as they crashed down into Earth, connecting with nine humans. They granted these nine humans a special form, a form which they are also given powers with. They then choose whether to use these powers for good – to fight the monsters that seem to be showing up – or for evil – to fight with the monsters showing up. In the end, it is a classic battle of good versus evil with an unclassic form.

I am currently not accepting any characters. Here are the characters that were accepted...

Chikara de la Nuit
Felix McAllister
Haru Wakagi
Jarik Kensaki
Kauro Nakamura
Mana Haoma
Reyna Banderas
Sango Nishimura
Sterling Hirako
West Carter
Whitaker Parker