1: Meet Me at the Equinox.

Kira Blackwater, also known as Shadow, sat on her front porch staring at the night sky as the moonlight from the full moon glimmered down on her. She had been sitting there for around twenty minutes, now waiting for the trouble to arise.

Shadow lived in the bad part of her city; a lot of drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, and violence. But she always lived for the violence.

Shadow's roommate, Lizzy Ashfield, has been her friend for around ten years now. Lizzy was currently pacing around the living room nervously while her friend sat calmly waiting for the fight. Where Shadow was a dark dressed, quiet, fighter girl, Lizzy was her polar opposite in every possible way. No one ever knew how they became friends.

From under the hood on her head and behind her hair covered face, Shadow smirked. Trouble was coming, she could feel it. She stood and cracked her fingerless leather gloved hands. Standing at about 5' 5" and weighing around 120 pounds, she didn't seem that threatening.

But she's always been underestimated by just about everybody.

Earlier that Saturday, Lizzy and Shadow watched Yu-Gi-Oh together like usual (A/N: because they're the coolest eighteen year olds you'll ever meet. Haha.), went out to lunch, Lizzy dragged her friend shopping to which Shadow turned the tables and dragged Lizzy into Hot Topic. In the midst of dinner, Shadow saw on the news that Lizzy's older brother was the leader of a new gang coming to NYC.

That set her off and was her motive for her current position.

Now Lizzy was watching her best friend beat the living hell out of six guys bigger, older, and stronger looking than her. Shadow was winning, but then Markus came into the fight with a gun. He never played fair for the ten years Shadow's known him.

"Kira, I've missed you. How's my sweet little sister doing?" He said sadistically.

"Better off without your heroin addicted ass," she replied calmly. Shadow rarely spoke to most people, but when she did, it was amazing the things she would say. She knew things, and was snarky. Nobody could ever figure her out. Not even Lizzy sometimes.

One of Markus's goons came out of the house with Lizzy which really pissed Shadow off. She began fighting again; punching, kicking, thrashing, then the first bullet was fired. It was only into the air, but it caught Shadow off guard and she was grabbed.

As Markus began to rant, Shadow gave her blonde-haired friend a look that they knew as, 'Escape tactic and run, now!' Lizzy nodded and the duo narrowly escaped their grips, and ran like two bats out of hell.

"Where do we run?" Lizzy asked frantically. She never knew how, but Shadow always knew where to go and when.

"The alley up ahead." Shadow replied calmly.

"Are you insane?"

Shadow sighed, and yanked Lizzy into the alley. "I have a feeling that there's an escape here."

"It's a dead end here, we both know that!" Lizzy argued. "But why can't we see the end? The moonlight is bright enough and then there's the street lamps—"

Shadow walked further in. "I think it's a portal to somewhere."

Lizzy looked at her dark friend like she'd gone mental. "A portal?" Shouts and footsteps were growing nearer to the two. "Let's try it!" She said shakily.

Shadow nodded, the two linked arms, and walked into the blackish-purple cloud.

Kuraki-chan: Okay so I came up with yet another newbie. Haha. I'll get back to the others very soon. But here's this one in the mean time(: Review, my dears(:

And here's chapter two's preview;;;

CHAPTER TWO PREVIEW:

2: Beautiful Nightmares.

"C'mon, Shadow! You loved this season!"

Shadow arched an eyebrow. Rain, eerie sky, she thought, wait, the rain! That was the omen of—

"Liz," Shadow began cautiously, "if you're right, and my hunch is right, than we need to get the hell out of here. Now."

Lizzy blinked in confusion, her light blonde hair sticking to her somewhat pale face from the rain. "You're having another one of those feelings, aren't you?"

"Sort of. But," her voice became a whisper, "if this really is the Yu-Gi-Oh realm, and this really is Domino City, and you know my favourite season, whose omen was the rain at night?" Lizzy gasped and Shadow nodded. "It's not safe out here. You know what Domino City looks like better than anyone, so where the hell are we?"

Lizzy looked around for a moment, then said they were probably a few blocks from the Kame Game Shop. Shadow mentally groaned; sure, they needed the Pharaoh's help, but Shadow couldn't stand any one of them. She just needed Lizzy to be safe.