The sun was just beginning to set, casting an orange glow over everything. A young man, perhaps in his early twenties, opened his front door and peered out. His sea-green eyes scanned the area carefully; he was looking for something.

"Are they there?" His mother's voice was a whisper. She didn't want anyone, or anything, else to hear her.

"I can't see them...I'm leaving now."

Suddenly, his dear mother Eliza was clutching his shoulder and sobbing.

"Be careful Adi; I can't lose you too."

Adi did not look at her; he simply pushed his blue-grey bangs out of his eyes and closed the door as he left. He had a dagger in his back pocket in case any of them decided to show up.

He couldn't help but grimace as he crept through the streets. How long until his world returned to normal? These odd monsters had been popping up all over the place and nobody had any real clue what they were or how to fight them. Well, except from that old magician. What was his name...Melvin?

Adi shook his head, because that was beside the point.

All he needed was to get to the market place, pick up some Potion and Phoenix Down and be back before those things caught up to him. There had been more and more of them lately. That was especially strange, why now?

"Adi-kins!"

The poor boy did not even have time to scream before something heavy landed on his back.

"Where are you going this late?"
That voice could only belong to one person. Adi sighed, with difficulty considering the extra weight on his lungs.

"Get off Kyrie."

Thankfully, the short teen actually listened for once, and stepped calmly back onto the ground, her heavy red boots thudding slightly.

After a few moments of regulating his breathing once again, Adi stood, and regarded his friend.

Her wine red hair was loose and brushing against her shoulders in the breeze. She'd put little braids in her bangs. Her golden skin was positively glowing in the orange light on the sunset and her cobalt blue eyes held mirth.

"Does your mother know what you're wearing?" he asked with a smirk, eying her black shorts and tank top, and her bright red combat boots. Kyrie's grin faded slightly.

"She's resting; those things attacked her the other day. A shopkeeper barely managed to get her inside..."

Adi placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Walk with me; I need to go to shopping. I'll get you a new bangle or something."

Then, as though the world was fine and they had simply been discussing the weather, Kyrie grinned. Then, placed her hands on either of Adi's shoulders and flipped over his head, landing behind him. Then she ran, and he chased after her without even needing to think about it.

They were children again; laughing and running and living without fear of consequence. She only slowed down when they reached the weapon shop, and even then he only just managed to catch her. She turned to face him.

"There's something missing here, Adi-kins." Her serious tone sounded bizarre when coupled with the silly nickname by which she called him. He looked around, seeing nothing but different shops and their owners, and a few shifty-looking people trying to blend into the walls.

"What could be missing?" he asked.

The sun's light was almost gone now, so everything was looking more purple than orange.

"Don't tell me you've forgotten them already..."

Adi, bewildered beyond rational thought, was about to ask who exactly she was referring to, but something stopped him.

In the shadows by a building, two glowing yellow eyes were staring at him. Kyrie looked at him carefully, analyzing his sudden stillness. She didn't speak, but very slowly took his hand. He grasped it firmly, but didn't take is eyes from the little yellow orbs in the darkness. That is, until Kyrie ran.

And then there were hundreds of little yellow eyes in all directions.

And then screeches from the creatures stung their ears.

And then t became a chase.

"Kyrie, let go and run ahead; you'll be faster on your own!" Adi called to his companion, as he tried to pull his hand from her own, but she only tightened her grip.

"The hell I will!"

She pulled out a pair of red gloves from her pocket and forced them on. She inhaled deeply then began muttering to herself. Adi caught something about hearts.

She curled her hand into a fist, and white metal suddenly formed on the gloves. She closed her eyes, as Adi pulled out his dagger. They were surrounded now; stuck in the middle of the Bailey.

Kyrie mumbled some more and then finally raised her voice for the final part of whatever the heck she was mumbling, which seemed to be what activated the gloves.

"One sky, one destiny!" Her eyes flashed open, now bright white. The metal on her gloves was glowing as well.

The creatures pounced on them.

I was writing this before and I decided to repost it and make a few changes. This is sort of set after Chain of Memories and during 358/2 days. I've only just began playing Birth By Sleep, so some parts of the story will be linked with that, and others will be of my own creation, so please don't expect everything to be correct, I'm making this up as I go.