Kent Paranormal

Episode 1: Formation

To Lancetheflamesniper, whose clever little idea on a boring Thursday night became something more productive. May the sushi restaurants you frequent ban frat boys and may there always be something on the menu you haven't tried-Steve

To say bodies were always found outside the Math and Computer Sciences Building after a meeting of the KSU Anime Society would be like saying it's always sunny and warm in Kent year round. Yet as Tilden Ryan, Steven Shroyer, and Lance James walked out of the building that's exactly what they saw. Steven had seen some strange shit, working at Rosie's will do that to you but to see a girl laying on the concrete, in a Blair cosplay outfit with multiple puncture wounds on her body was something he had never seen before. "I sense something, something not human." Kagura said stepping out of the building pulling her coat close to her. Tilden looked, "Demon?" He said, Kagura shook her head, "No, something else." She said, Steven spun and saw three shapes walking towards him, their skins were pale in the lamp light, it was then he knew what they were. They had names, names like "Nosferatu" or "Children of the Night" all Steven knew is they were one thing, Vampires. It was then the shapes disappeared, dissolving into darkness. "Fuck, looks like an ambush, Lance you better pull out the high caliber stuff." Steven said as the three young men appeared behind Kagura. "Hey beautiful, why don't you show me that neck of yours?" Steven knew this one, his name was Edward Cullen, and he had been a thorn in his ass since the day he began wielding Lance as a weapon for protection on campus. Kagura fell into a trance, the sound of his voice made her feel at peace, yet as his fangs moved toward her neck, Edward felt a swift kick to the side of his head. "Kagura run, now!" Tilden shouted, Steven turned, "Lance, to me!" he shouted and pulled out an Uzi loaded with hollow point Teflon coated bullets. "Tilden, get out of here I can handle myself." Steven said as Tilden ran, Edward shouted at his two cronies, "Emmett and Jasper get them! I'll handle the technician!" Edward shouted. Steven then began to open fire, Edward's body jerked violently with each bullet, tearing holes in his clothes and causing little blood blossoms to form. Steven stopped, as he hit the ground, Lance turned into his human form. "Dead, is the bastard dead or not?" Lance shouted, "Steven stood over him, "I think so, can't be too sure with these ones." he said and then felt Edward grasp his leg, "Shit, get the fuck off me!" He shouted, Lance shot a bolt at his hand and transformed into an AR-15, "Now," Lance said, in Steven's head, "Would be a good time to run like hell!" Steven nodded, "First rule of killing vampires: Cardio, Cardio, Cardio!" he said and ran.

Kagura and Tilden had made it halfway down past the MAC when a van stopped and squealed its tires. Automatically the doors slid open, inside was a man of about fifty with a buzz cut of white hair and a lab coat, "Tilden and Kagura I presume?" Tilden nodded; he was too out of breath to speak. "I suggest you hop in here before they catch up. Oh, and tell your friends to hustle." Tilden shouted to Steven who was firing at a gaining Edward, "Steven, Lance let's go, assholes and elbows you two!" Steven reached the van and slammed the door as the van peeled off, leaving the vampires to fume over their lost kill.

"Who the hell are you?" Tilden asked, as the van rolled up summit hill and down passing McGilvery Hall. "I don't think you can explain these photos can you?" The man said. The photos were familiar to Tilden, the man in the photo especially. "Lance, you son of a bitch, what have you got me into?" he said, Lance James looked at him, "I didn't do anything!" Lance James shouted as the van wound its way toward Kent Hall, stopping for the driver to enter in a pass code at a parking meter and sending the car slowly underground. "No you dumbass, my brother Lance Ryan" he said The man in the lab coat spoke "I am afraid I haven't properly introduced myself, my name is Dr. Samuel J Pleasance and I am director of paranormal research here at Kent State." Tilden looked at him, "That's fine but what does my brother have to do with this?" he asked. Dr. Pleasance put a tape recorder in the middle of the van's center console and pushed play, Lance Ryan's voice spoke. "Greetings, especially to my big bro, Tilden, "he began, "You are wondering why you are here going seventy feet under Kent Hall? In 2009 I was brought here to Kent for a hearing on whether I should remain in Japan where my paranormal activity came into question. During the final decision a Werewolf broke into the governance chambers and I more or less annihilated it. It was decided that I should stay where I was and also that the Psychology department should ask President Lefton to allot funds for a Paranormal research facility here at Kent. I was asked to pick the most powerful paranormal people on campus and I chose you four. What you are doing here is top secret and known only to the high brass in the University. I wish you all good luck as the four new members of the Kent Paranormal Investigation team!" The tape switched off and the van pulled into a parking spot. "Wait, I can't do anything paranormal, my brother is the one who is the reaper not me." Tilden said. "Not so Mr. Ryan," Pleasance said, "When you went to have that AIDS test three months ago we took a sample of your blood and found you have very high latent paranormal abilities. We just need to find what those are." Pleasance said as he pushed open the door to the Kent Paranormal Investigation's team's lounge. Steven was in awe, "Fucking sweet, A Wii and god damn flat screen TV, please tell me we're living here?" A man with blond hair and pale skin turned to Steven, "Your stuff has been moved from your dorm." the man said Steven recognized him, and nearly fainted, "Meir Link? The Count Meir Link from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust? Next thing you're going to tell me is that Charlotte, Zero, D, and Yuki are here." Steven said Pleasance nodded, Steven struggled to keep his balance, and these characters were in an alternate universe he created for a piece of fan fiction called "From the Files of the BPI" no way the BPI could exist in real life. In real life Barak Obama was president, The New Orleans Saints won The "Super Bowl" and Sara Palin and Rush Limbaugh had not yet been committed to a facility for the mentally handicapped. "These people were brought here by Tilden's brother from the spirit realm, they exist because of their creators but their abilities have been enhanced since you began writing." Steven stood there, "I don't think this is possible. Yet again I have seen crazier things." he said, Tilden looked at Steven, "Like what?" he said. Lance looked at him, "Really you just said that? You just asked two employees of Rosie's Diner and Rations what's the craziest thing they've seen? We see crazy shit a lot; it takes a bunch of nutty things to top what we've seen." Steven smirked, "Like a person in a seven foot tall penis costume for example, or while we're on the subject of past Kent Halloweens, a line of Amy Winehouse's getting food at Rosies." Kagura looked at Steven, "Amy Winehouse? Who's that?" Tilden turned to his girlfriend, "Only the world's most famous crack head, she's a singer too but that's beyond the point." Lance smirked, "Yeah, I got relatives who could beat her record for most crack consumed in a year tenfold." "If I may interrupt," Dr Pleasance said, "We are having a meeting in the conference room soon, and then we'll show you to your respective dorms. Oh and don't worry about classes or anything, we'll handle that." Steven raised his hand, "Yeah how is this going to affect my plans for graduating in two years?" Dr Pleasance turned around, "I'll be blunt with you all, and after the meeting you will all receive a very high tech procedure to enhance your mental capabilities to that which your degree requires. As of today you are no longer considered students here, and will be treated as such. You will each be paid two-hundred and-fifty-thousand a year, have access to a fleet of vehicles as well as weapons, and have the status of a tenured faculty member. However, the life you knew before is dead, you might as well give up the idea of a cap and gown and a speech from President Lefton, you are now ghosts on this campus, you wander but nobody will notice." Steven looked at him, "Are you saying I can't go to Anime Club anymore, because if that's so than fuck this I'm out." Pleasance shook his head, "No, you can still go to Anime Club, you just can't talk about your missions here, as far as the registrar knows you all graduated this past December." Steven smiled, "Good, because we're watching some good shit in there and I need ideas." Just then a brown haired girl walked out into the room, "If you four would just follow me, we are about to have our briefing soon." The girl made Steven's heart flutter, more so than the girls he dreamed of meeting in his sleep. "I'd like you to meet Yuki Cross, she is our campus liaison." Steven held her hand and kissed the back of it, "Bonjour Mademoiselle." Yuki laughed, "You are such a baka it it's funny." Steven smirked, "If baka means good looking then yes, yes I am, but I know it's not, forgive me for jumping the gun here ma'am." Yuki smiled, "Skip the formalities, Yuki is just fine." Steven smiled and walked with the others. "Nice going Coshocton Casanova." Lance said, Steven flipped him off and kept on walking.

"Okay now that we're all here let's begin the meeting shall we?" Dr Pleasance said and flicked on a projector with a crime scene photo. The photo was of a girl in calf high hooker boots and a short skirt, red splotches covered her legs, Pleasance began, "In fall 2009 semester reports started coming in from the medical clinic here on campus about young girls suffering from chronic fatigue. They all reported the same symptoms, lack of energy and low iron levels. However these girls all claimed they came in contact with a person they never met and blacked out before waking up. The girls also had signs of healed puncture wounds on their major blood vessels. Now our research has shown that three people transferred here from Forks, Washington in fall 2009." Pleasance changed the slide and brought up Edward's picture, "Edward Cullen, his brother Emmett, and adopted brother Jasper Hale all came here around the time of the attacks. We have records from our bureau in Seattle that Hale has been arrested for disorderly conduct when he went crazy during a Red Cross blood drive at his school. This correlates with the fact that Mr. Hale's blood lust tolerance is 0 which is rare for a class: A vampire. I should note for our new members the vampire typology: Class A's are vampires that can make others like them; they possess extreme paranormal abilities and differ from their creations Class B's. These vampires are more like zombies without the brain munching. They exist to feed and lack almost any paranormal ability over hypnotism. Class C's are more like viral vampires and are servants to class A's and B's the popular nickname is "Renfield" for these types. Moving on, we have reports that a person saw Hale drink from another in the middle of centennial field after walking home from a midnight movie in the Kiva. He thought it was a joke and walked on not thinking anything of it." "That's when the albino's emerged." Steven said, "I beg your pardon Agent Shroyer?" "I noticed a lot of these kids would walk into Rosie's days after I read about the attacks in the Stater. Lance would be expediting for the millionth time and they would always order the same thing, when I was near enough to hear them." Pleasance looked at him, "And that was?" He asked, Lance spoke, "A raw Rosie's burger, they never wanted it cooked, just bloody as hell. Kathy and Mara would throw shit fits when I'd hand out these raw patties, 'You're going to get us in trouble with the health department' they always said. Then I overheard Kathy on the phone in the office, it wasn't just us. Eastway, Prentice, the Hub, all had people asking for raw meat. Steve started calling them 'albinos' because they were always pale. Steve always thought there was a correlation between the rise of the albinos and the attacks because he'd see the victim's picture in the paper and then see them at Rosie's." Meir spoke, "As a psych major, Agent James, you should know that correlation does not equal causation." Pleasance spoke, "True Agent Link but, in this case it does. We do have proof that these students became Class B's; this does not however include the murders. I suppose you all heard Sheriff Doak talk about how these crimes are not paranormal crimes. We have conclusive proof we have been trying to show the Portage County Sheriff's department but they feel as if we are an intrusive factor in their investigation. Add to it that we are neither a state nor federally recognized agency and we have ourselves in quite a bind." Tilden spoke, "What's the mission here? I feel as if we're getting nowhere." Pleasance smiled, "Agent Ryan, please be patient I was getting to that. We have proof that Edward before his changing into a vampire in 1910 swore an oath to an ages old order to serve the Crimson King. The Order of the Red Dragon was a fraternity that set out to do the Crimson King's bidding: destroy the world and remake it in his image. Now we know Mr. Cullen had direct ties to Matthew Edward Shroyer, because he was his lover for some time, it was Edward who broke the barrier over Kent causing the incident of last week where we were all trapped in the universe of one Stephen Edwin King, a horror author from Maine. We had to call in your brother, Tilden, to help us with that one, plus the Crimson King had kidnapped his friends but that is another story for another time. Since the Crimson King's defeat at the hands of Agent James it has become Cullen's plan to finish what the King started. He is making an army of Vampires to take over Kent. After Kent, all of Ohio, until bit by bit we have a world where mortals will be the minority. Our Job is to stop this plan, and we don't have much time. Our prophecy expert Dr Stein says we have until next Saturday to destroy the three head vampires, before they begin the final act of their plan." Kagura spoke, "Why next Saturday?" she asked, A man with a screw in his head and glasses walked out of the shadows. "Because, next Saturday is the day when according to The Book of Sorrows, the Crimson King was supposed to have destroyed the earth. The Nineteenth day of February is referred to as his day, the day he created his kingdom on earth. The Book of Sorrow's is the Order of the Red Dragon's bible. Its creation tale states that the earth was reformed not in seven days but in seven months. February is the second month; seven months from now will be September. I'm sure Agent Shroyer will tell you what the 19th of September means." Steven looked at him, "My Birthday." He whispered Stein turned the screw in his head, "Not only that, but the day the Crimson King became mortal flesh, since your brother is dead, Agent Shroyer, Cullen is going to come after you personally, to make you unleash the power that you've kept hidden, in other words, bring about the reign of the Crimson King." "No." Steven whispered, Pleasance nodded, "The death of your club mate was a warning, join him or lose all you care about. I suggest you prepare yourself Agent Shroyer, those so called 'nasty motherfuckers' you mentioned once are going to come after you. After your imprinting go meet D in the training room, you'll need more than just a gun. Meeting adjourned."

The Imprinting process took only a few seconds, all it involved was taking a pill and reading a short book. The pill increased mental focus and allowed the mind to pick up every detail from these condensed courses that were in chapbook form, each chapbook had the equivalent of a master's in any degree, LER's included. Walking down into the training room Steven noticed a man in a long trench coat at large black fedora on his head. This was D, a dhampir who was a skilled fighter, and had a smart ass parasite on his left hand, his hand laughed as soon as Steven walked in. "We're training this faggot? He looks like David Cassidy with glasses." It said, D spoke, "Forgive my hand, he's never seen a man in your era with such hair. Your outfit is in that closet right there." Steven opened it up and saw a black kimono with white trim, like Ichigo's from Bleach, and a large fedora like D's. He also noticed the two Kitana's, Steven smirked, "You must think I'm really a bad ass huh?' he said, D pulled out a kendo sword and got into position, Steven saw one on the floor. Just then D rushed toward him, Steven quickly snatched it up and jumped in the air landing behind D. "You half breed! Can't even pay attention to where you're going!" he said, D smirked and pushed a button on the wall unleashing computer generated demons. Steven smirked as they all began to move closer, "Ok, Ok it's time to play. Come and get me you sons of whores!" Steven kicked a demon in the chest, and then elbowed another one in the ribs before slashing off their heads. Steven then leaped into the air and landed in the middle of the demon hoard, racing quickly making rapid slashing motions with the kendo sword. He tore through the hoard; digital black blood fell all over the room until there were no demons left. D made golf clap and smiled, "I knew this was too easy for you, after all you come from a long line of Technicians. Do you know of the great Charles Edward West and his Weapon Sharon Louise Chubb?" Steven smiled, "Yeah they're my maternal grandparents, why?" D smirked, "Do you know what weapon he wielded?" Steven shook his head. "A sword and this proves you are his grandson. You have more of his family's blood than the Crimson King's side; I told Dr Pleasance this was a waste of time. I must say in the past few moments you've earned my respect. I expect great things from you." D said, Steven bowed and walked out of the room, he needed to sleep.

"This is impossible, how could we have missed it?" Pleasance said, Stein looked at the doctor, "I just ran the regular tests, standard operating procedure as always and she came up positive for a Type A. I'm sorry Dr Pleasance, I know how you wanted one non paranormal in your team but I don't think it is within our reach now. Shall I bring her in?" he said Pleasance nodded, Yuki walked in "You needed to see me sir?" Pleasance nodded and beckoned her to sit down. "Yuki I don't know how to tell you this but we ran your monthly blood sample and you are. . . "

To be continued. . .