When Two Worlds Collide
CHAPTER 1: Unexpected Ones
The object which was falling down through the skies crashed with immense force into the ground, causing quakes over the city of Tokyo. The beautiful, sunny day turned into dusk thanks to the ash the 'meteorite' has made. Almost everyone in the city felt the earthquake as it has landed in the western park of the city.
Eto felt the crushing wave and was not feared of something like humans call it 'apocalypse' going out there, but surprised and excited. She went out of her room and straight through the corridors with red carpet and illuminated with red light from the lanterns Aogiri was using. A tradition, she wasn't sure where she got that idea from. In less than a minute she stood before Tatara, her most trusted subordinate. She looked at her with a kind glance. As always Eto spoke in a childish manner.
''You have felt the quake, didn't you, Eto-chan?''
He smiled behind the red metal mask he was using, unknown even to her why. She didn't care about that. As long as he was doing as she commands. She nodded and jumped before him. She couldn't hold the excitement that was dragging her to see the phenomenon. Eto knew it could be a very powerful ghoul or whatever.
''Yeees~!'' She sang happily. ''We have to go and check out immediately. Only the two of us will go. I don't want to drag any unwanted attention. Okay?''
She was instilling fear and respect to her followers with ease as the One-Eyed-Owl, right? Her word was the law here and everyone obeys. No excuses. Despite her childish behavior.
''You want to make any preparations?'' Tatara asked while walking next to her in the corridors to the exit of the building.
His red mask, mixed with the light of the red lanterns made it to glow very attractive. He was about two times higher than her and it made the two of them look like father and daughter. Eto thought of that pretty often, she found it was a funny joke to use when they were alone.
''No.'' She told him clearly. Eto rose her left hand.
''I said it's a scouting mission. Let's see first what caused the tremors, then we will think of our other actions.'' She was swinging the index finger in front of him like a professor in front of the blackboard, explaining something to students.
''Oh, you may be right, there will be a lot of people there and we will look a bit hippy with those things on, especially the doves. Let's just be ordinary persons now.''
She managed to hide her ashamed look from him, knowing he was right this time. They both respected each other so Eto didn't want Tatara to see her face after a failure by her side. Tatara stopped in the middle of the corridor and turned back. Eto followed him and they went into their own rooms to change clothes. When she entered her body trembled by the thoughts of what could have fallen out there. She removed her bandages, leaving only those which were on her face and put on ordinary clothes.
When they both met each other back in the corridor Tatara was standing and waiting for her in his 'clothes'. She couldn't hold the laughter that filled her chest. She writhed and started laughing on the ground by the sight in front of her green eyes.
''I know what that looks like. Don't laugh.'' His words didn't reach her ears as she continued to laugh insanely.
''Ahahahaha! Tho-tho-those were modern back in the 80s, you dumby! Eto slowly and barely rose from the floor with tears in her eyes.
''Let's go. And stop laughing!'' Tatara was the ashamed now.
'Am I really so bad looking?'
''We have to go shopping for some clothes after that I can't bear the sight of these things around you.'' She said to him as the daylight illuminated them as they exited the building.
It was very sunny in this part of the city, but the bigger part of the sky was covered in ash. The both of them coughed and quickly placed their hands on their mouths and noses so the ash and dust won't reach their lungs.
''Wow, it's crazier than I expected! Let's go quickly, it's bad to stay here for a long time.'' She said as they started to run and the darkness engulfed them as they were getting closer to the epicenter of the crash.
Kaneki stood in his apartment probably awaiting a call from Aogiri (probably from Eto) while reading Takatsuki Sen's new book. His room was a total mess. A man could easily lose his shoe in the books on the ground. He was lying on the bed and was holding the book in one hand while keeping to chop his thumb on the foot with the other hand's fingers. He used to do this when he crossed legs. There was some coffee left on the table and even on the raft with the books. The light that shined upon the room was coming from the big window next to his bed. He hated so much light to enter into the room he read, but he tore apart the curtains he put there few weeks ago.
Then the force wave reached him and it was so strong he even fell off the bed.
''What the… damn!'' He tried to not hit his head somewhere.
A few seconds later it passed. But he was pretty surprised what could have caused such thing. He quickly stood on his feet and began searching for a shirt or T-shirt and jeans because all he was wearing were black boxers. He found them very hard due the mess here. He quickly put on the T-shirt and was already trying to put on the second left sleeve of the jeans, jumping on one foot while going to the exit where his shoes were. He exited and even forgot to lock the apartment in the haste. He ran down the stairs and exited the building. He went to the crash site.
''What could have caused such a disaster?! The CCG? Aogiri?'' Hundreds of thoughts passed his mind while trying not to breathe too much air.
He passed dozens of scared people, some of which were not only humans. This made him think the phenomenon was something big. Well, how bad could it be? As he got closer to the crater the temperature got significantly higher. He started to sweat. The object which has fallen caused the land around it to get taller and he had to climb the very big cliff. At first he didn't see the middle of the crater, but once he got there he saw it - giant black cloud, with two moving creatures inside. He couldn't see the right figure of the creatures but he was sure of one thing, they were powerful.
Eto and Tatara finally reached the crater and as they saw the cloud, they awed. It wasn't anything they have seen before. Especially Eto, considering she was younger than him. Eto felt pretty uncomfortable due to the high temperature and ash density around them.
''It's very hot here. But this… wow!'' She said in awe.
In the next moment Tatara saw Kaneki peering from an edge to the cloud. He has expected him to come here. However, when he turned back in expectation to see Eto right next to him, she has disappeared. He started looking for her, but he remained still and left his eyes to do the job. Judging by how well he knew her, she was somewhere over the crater, probably spectating the little storm from another angle. He wasn't afraid for her, since she was his leader. He wondered if she saw Kaneki.
As she walked, trying not to slip down the cliff and fall into the heated air to burn, she looked very carefully at the things inside the sphere of darkness. She was more fascinated than ever.
''If only I could peeeer~ further into that motherfckin' thing!'' Eto cursed.
Kaneki stood right next to Tatara. At first the tall ghoul didn't notice him. Then Kaneki impatiently said:
''What is happening?'' Then he corrected himself. ''God, of course you don't know, if you knew you wouldn't be here.'' He expected an answer to his previous question, despite the fact it was a foolish one.
Tatara was taken aback from the 'ninja-ghoul' and stepped back slightly. He watched Kaneki and saw that he wanted an answer. He sighed.
''I don't know. I have purely no idea.'' He kept watching with interest in the sphere.
The dragon tried to dodge Sahr's krialon spear, but it pierced his leg and caused immense pain and partial loss of control of the leg. He was infuriated due to the pain and pushed Sahr with immense pulse spell far away to one of the 'meteor'-made cliffs. Unexpected to him, the pulse pulled him too, but remained in the air outside the sphere thanks to his wings.
At first the three ghouls saw only the werewolf-like figure which went through the condensed black air of the sphere. But then the winged beast showed too.
''A…. dragon?! Phahahahahaaa~! Amazing! Oh my god! It's just…'' Eto barely kept control of her emotions. She only slightly spotted Sahr as the dragon was her main interest.
She was in ecstasy from the sight. She dreamed of seeing a living dragon as she read some of Tolkien's books. She jumped and ignored the danger of falling down and hurting. But why should she? She had insane regeneration after all.
Tatara and Kaneki were amazed as well. Yet they kept their emotions from reaching Eto's levels. Tatara observed both of them very precisely. The werewolf wore full armor plating and a spear with a reddish blade atop of it. Also a bow was on his back and the arrows bound on the leg with collars. It was larger than any man he has seen and pretty big teeth sprout out of its mouth. The eyes were both orange. As for the dragon, he was bigger than a small house and tried to keep its balance in the air, probably because its wings were slightly cut and red dim spread out of them. He quickly associated with the wounds with the spear of the werewolf. Then he returned to the analysis. The wings were covering the sun over the half crater as they were disproportionate to the beast's body. The scales were black, but when the tiny sheaf of light pierced the clouds above, they flickered in violet. The right eye was red and the other one was cyan-blue. It was watching its leg in concerned look.
''Wow… impressive!'' Kaneki sighed in expression.
The dragon landed carefully hopping on three legs while holding the forth one with its palm. It kind of sat down and started to breath very hard. It coughed blood. The creature heard Eto's screams even on the bottom on the crater. They met their looks. And when she saw his eyes, she froze.
''Beautiful… I WANT YOU!'' Eto screamed and almost fainted. She watched every inch of the dragon with wide opened eyes.
The big sphere disappeared and at the same moment, Sahr was gone. Probably hurt by the previous blast. Tatara and Kaneki ran to Eto. The dragon was watching the three of them. However, the skies cleared and the heat vanished.
As he saw Kaneki going right into him, with bare strength he flew away in a spiral like trajectory.
''He is badly hurt, he won't go so far.'' Tatara noted.
''We've got to go, the CCG is on its way.'' Kaneki was peering into the receding silhouette. He wondered what would such a creature do here and how it even existed? Both of them. However Eto didn't mind where they came from, she wanted to see and touch the dragon. Possibly even talking to it?
''I don't wanna! I want my dragon here!'' Kaneki if didn't know how childish she was would think he was gonna cry. Yet she stood with scary face and crossed arms.
''Another time Eto.'' Tatara told her. ''Let's go.''
They ran to some safety from the CCG. They could see they have brought a pretty big detachment over there.
The dragon flew to the outskirts of Tokyo seeking shelter. It coughed pretty much blood.
''Fuck, it was a hard day… I need rest…''
*krialon – metal which is a natural magic destroyer, very rare. Emits glow and can be orange, yellow or red colored