A/N: Hey, everyone! Today, we're not only watching KCA 2013 today, but some of us are turning off the lights in observance of Earth Hour! Which means it could be a little creepy at night with total darkness. Which brings me to this: the return of Soul Shifters! That's right, Tony and Daryl are back with a revised plot and same characters! However, I raised the rating a bit because of scary stuff is going to happen in this fic. So, readers who wants to see this kick into action once more after waiting for months to it's return, it's time to shift and start the show!

"Man is not truly one, but two"

- Robert Louis

At some kind of prison hallway, two muscled men are guarding one of the prisons in this hallways. These prison cells contains not only intruders who accidentally or intentionally trespass this area, but also experiments from their mysterious, yet sinister plan. But one of these prison cells in this hallway contains a special experiment, which they heavily guarded to prevent it from escaping.

Most of them call it a perfect experiment, while some called it a deadly addition to their syndicate, and some called it dangerous assassin. However, one of them didn't even call it an assassin or an experiment, he thinks of it as a victim of this crime, a crime that nearly lose his innocence within him.

After weeks of seeing this experiment tortured and subjected to hypnotic drugs and sedatives, he can't take seeing it suffer anymore. So, without hestitation and ignoring his captor's orders, the man sneaks past the guards when they decided it's time to change shifts and when they are gone, he quietly opens the door to the prison cell.

As he opens the cell, he saw not an experiment, neither is a killer or an assassin. He only saw an innocent 4 year old boy, tortured and scarred from the syndicate's experiments on him. Seeing the scars and the empty look on his scarred face, the man realizes if he's tortured on him one more time, his mind will completely break and will become a complete monster that the syndicate will use him for their nefarious plans.

Not wanting to see him suffer like this, he tries to approach the boy to help him, but he noticed the man's presence and prepares to defend himself, despite being injured from his tortures.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you," the man says to the boy, but he only gave him a death glare. "It's okay, all you have to do is to take a deep breath and relax."

Having no choice but to follow the man's instructions, he took in a deep breath and calmed himself.

"Now close your eyes and clear your mind," the man said to the boy. "Forget the pain you've injured and the torture you just faced."

Following his instructions, the boy close his eyes and calmly took deep breathes, clearing his mind of his recent tortures and pain he had.

"As you breath in the calming wind around you, breath out the pain and suffering you had. Anger will only lead your soul to be completely covered in corruption."

Feeling the calming wave in his body, the boy begins to lose conscious.

"Shroud yourself in darkness, ignore what everyone says, because every man is like a coin. Two side on a same one. Use the darkness within you to rest. Until the time is right, rest, calm yourself, and endure the pain you will have from now on. As light shines your path, darkness will also aid. It will guide you. It will be your weapon to stand against the corrupted. Don't let it control you. Calm yourself and rest."

As the boy tries to stay awake, he notices something around him: black aura coming out of him.

"Darkness..."

With a whisper, he completely blacks out.

"Is darkness is our friend or foe?"

Is it my true path?

RunnerAwaker presents...

Inside a dark bedroom, an 11-year old boy is staring blankly at the wall right in front of him while sitting on his bed as the same man as before takes a quick peek on him from the door before closing it slowly.

Then, a man older than him with the same appearance approaches the man and asks, "How is he?"

"He's fine. But judging how many minutes left before 10, I have a feeling he starts to feel 'it'," the man replied.

"Hmm... He's starting to change," the older man thought. "Looks like his necklace is amplifying his 'transformation' in any second."

"Yeah, but he's still a young boy, Dad," the adult reminded him. "Despite what he have going through and endures them a lot, he still remain firm to his decision to keep his abilities."

"And with that necklace, it's not causing the change, but it's also enhancing his abilities as we speak."

However, the man is still worried about this whole situation.

"He's getting stronger everyday, yet I'm worried about him more if he did."

"I know this isn't you're decision to choose this, but we have to face the consequences," his father said.

The man then sighs in defeat and says, "I know. I can't worry about him any longer. I have to let him do this, for his sake."

Back inside the bedroom, the boy keeps staring at the wall until he felt something painful to his chest. As he clutches it, his thoughts start to erase themselves and his memories start to fade.

The scene cuts to the same 4 years old boy staring blankly at the criminals pulling somebody to the door, which they are trying to throw him into the river as punishment for not cooperation.

As he continues to watch, his blank expression starts to fade as it replaces with horror.

It cuts back to the bedroom as the boy keeps on clutching his chest, which he starts to pant for air as he tries to reach for something on his desk.

We then saw the 4 year old boy pulls out not only some kind of necklace, but something from his pocket.

The boy managed to reach the object in one point, but it quickly fell down.

As the scene takes a closer look on the boy's hand, it revealed a pocket knife that he pulled out.

When the object fell to the floor, the boy desperately grabs it and clutches it in pain as he starts to feel weird while his memories and identity continue to fade.

As he silently approaches the criminals, his shock turned into anger as he reveals his necklace to be, a crescent moon-shaped pendant with a gem on the middle...

Which is the same design as the object that the 11 years old boy grabbed. Suddenly, he starts to scream as he felt more pain within his chest and his head. Before he can scream for help, his eyes widened in horror as he was quickly covered in black and purple aura, which he starts to scream in pain even louder.

As the criminals turned around when they heard a scream, they are quickly shocked to see the boy about to attack them with his knife, which the scene ends abruptly.

Back outside the bedroom, the man heard the boy's scream, which he realizes what it means.

"Looks like the shifting is done," his father declared.

Without hesitation, the man slowly opens the door and takes a peek at the boy's bedroom. When he noticed the boy, he slowly approaches him and becomes shocked upon seeing the boy.

"A-Are you okay?" the man slowly asks.

Hearing his voice, the boy slowly turns around and sees him, which he quickly recognizes.

"Yes, Master. I have awakened."

The man was now even more shocked upon seeing the boy's face, which is not seen. However, his shock faded as it replaced with relief.

"Sorry, I'm worried about you sometimes," the man said. "It never hurts to check."

However, the boy stood silent for a few seconds, which didn't amuse him a little, until he asks to his 'Master', "Master, I need to go into the city now. I need to hunt."

As he raises his head, we only saw his eyes darkened his green eyes and some weird crescent-shaped pupils.

Soul Shifters

We then saw an unknown figure wielding some sort of giant scythe overlooking the city at night and the full moon in front of him.

A/N: Looks like it's starting! What new twists and turns in the beginning will we see? Find out on Chapter 1 soon! Until then, review and happy Earth Hour!