Warning: This story contains religious content which may offend some readers. My intent is not to make anyone feel uncomfortable or harrassed, merely to entertain.

Armageddon

Chapter 1

City of the Damned

"I swear it. We've found him this time. He's in this city, I just know it. He's here. Trust me."

Kairi rolled her eyes at her ranting father in the seat ahead of her and rested her head against the pane of the backseat window in their car. Her red hair clung stubbornly to the fog-encased window and she had to look through it to see the busy freeway outside. As cars on the other side zoomed past she could imagine her old home sinking farther and farther into the distance.

"He's here..."

Kairi sighed. Her father had done this seven times before. Pulled her away from one home just as she was finally getting settled in. Her mother didn't care. Oh, no. Of course not. She was just as drawn in to the stupid chase-the-antichrist game as her father was.

Kairi's parents, Hikari and Dubric Fonce, were both religious fanatics. They were convinced God had a special quest for them- to find the antichrist and somehow destroy him. They always moved after receiving a so-called 'special' message from God as to the antichrist's whereabouts. They had apparently received one three weeks ago. Kairi's mother and father were convinced she would play a major part in capturing the antichrist or killing him or whatever. They said God had even sent them a vision telling them when they would conceive her and all that grandeur.

They were absolutely nutters.

Kairi glanced up at her parents in the front seat.

"Oh, he's close," her mother was saying. "I can sense it."

Kairi almost reached forward to slap her mother. She was so crazy. Kairi vowed that as soon as she was able to, she would have them admitted to an old persons' home, or an insane asylum. They would say she couldn't do it to them or some crazy talk like that, but she didn't care- It was, after all, for their own good.

Kairi sank further down into her seat as they turned off the highway and onto a smaller street that would take them to her new home. Kairi sighed and turned away from her parents and their ridiculous ramblings. Kairi watched as factories and malls flew past the window, often overcrowded with cars and people, bustling about with shopping bags or large crates and boxes. The number of large malls and businesses decreased as they drove, giving way for smaller stores and restaurants, as well as several rural neighbourhoods.

Kairi sighed as one house rolled into another. They had all begun to look the same now. The same basic design, often the same colour and more and more the exact same garden along the front windows. Kairi thought now that she would hate living here if it meant being exactly like everyone else right down to every last detail including her then, Kairi realized with a sigh, she would never be like everyone else. Who else had parents who travelled all over the country looking for the son of Satan?

She looked once again to the front seat of the car and her parents, now trying to navigate their way around, having trouble saying whether they'd been down one street before or not. Kairi watched as her mother read the directions she had written down before and rolled her eyes as her mother muttered about taking a left turn further back. Kairi's mother began to wave her hands about frantically, saying that the street to the right was one of their turn-offs.

They turned down the street and Kairi smiled, finally a sight her eyes welcomed. The houses on this street were not all exactly alike. They all had their own individual style, their own colour, their own garden designs. They pulled into the driveway of a house with a sign reading "SOLD" out in front. For the first time in a rather long while, Karir trusted her parents judgement.

The house was perfect.

Painted a dim off-grey, the house stood two, maybe three floors tall. The house had three sections, one sticking out farther than the other two on the left. The one to the right was more of a wing, primarily consisting of a sunporch. The entire building was huge, but not big enough that one would think her family insanely rich. She could see houses like that a few blocks away, though, and they had driven past several.

Kairi was not now concerned with the affairs of the wealthy people living around her, though. She just wanted to get inside and pick a room for her own. Kairi hopped out of the car. She was about to dash inside when a voice calling out stopped her. She turned and saw a girl her age, standing there.

"Hey!" the girl said, extending her hand. "You must be the new kid!"

"Yeah... It's Kairi." Kairi shook the girl's hand.

She was pretty, though not gorgeous, Kairi noted. Her eyes were bright green and her hair was a shoulder-length brown. She had on a yellow sundress that looked like it was made for a little girl, larged and then put on. It was cute, though.

"I'm Selphie. Come on! I'll show you around!"

Kairi smiled and went on a tour of her new town. By the time school started the next day, she was absolutely fine, feeling totally welcome in this new place already.

That didn't last for long, though.