Chapter One: It All Begins

The church was in ruins. It looked to be abandoned for use decades ago. There was garbage everywhere, the pews were long gone, the place gave a cold, abandoned, atmosphere. It was completely empty - except for the one person lying on a bare mattress in the middle of the once holy building.

The woman was in immense amounts of pain. Sweat drenched her long dark hair to her forehead, her body twisting in pain, her white dress giving her very little warmth. Lying near her was her box of personnal possessions that after all this time she still kept with her. It's also where she kept her drugs - necessary to keep her from finding her, and her gun; her last resort she often called it.

She was going to have to use it now. She was coming. She found her. She had no more drugs to keep her from discovering where she was hiding and she refused to let herself be captured. She wasn't going to help her find them.

"It has to be now Becca" the gentle voice cut through the silence of the church, Becca turned to face the owner of the voice. A man with long black hair and a beard, his hands rubbing up and down his companions arm in encouragement. Becca leaned into the touch gratefully. To anyone else in the church, it seemed like Becca was talking to thin air, but she knew that she wasn't, she knew that he was there. She also knew that he was right.

"You're their only hope Becca" he mummered, "they'll be hunted regardless. Give them the fighting chance they deserve."

Becca nodded and got ready. As the pain passed through and she saw them, she couldn't help but gasp. These people, these strangers were now all connected to each other for life now. They were all facing a cruel, emotionless, almost computer-like enemy. And they had no idea. She wouldn't be able to help them like she should, it was too late for her, she had been discovered.

"Take care of them for me Nyko," she whispered, as he nodded to her in reassurance, before she suddenly stiffened in terror. "She's here," she whispered, "Nyko you must leave." Nyko nodded, squeezing her arm one last time in farewell and vanished. As soon as he did, a cool identical copy to Becca, only more polished and in a red dress appeared over her shoulder.

"Was that Nyko?" Her sister asked. Her voice was cold and emotionless, just like her appearance, she looked and sounded like a computer program. If Becca hadn't known better, she'd swear that she was. She also didn't bother to answer her, just grabbing the gun up to her chest and clenching it closely. "Oh my dear sister did you just give birth? How traumatising for you. But don't worry, I'll look after you."

Just then the doors of the church banged opened and a group of armed guards came in, accompanied by Alie, only now in her human form. Terrified but determinded, Becca tightened her hold on the gun and clicked the safety off.

"Drop the gun" Alie demanded coldly.

"No" Becca said simply, "I won't let you hurt them." Quickly she brought the gun up to her mouth.

"Stop her" Alie ordered, but it was too late, Becca pulled the trigger and then slumped to the ground dead, as her spirit departed and went to warn her new cluster. Her last hope was that Nyko would keep his promise and look after them.

Dublin - 12:13p.m.

Bellamy Blake was in the middle of a lecture in university, listening to his professor drone on and on, quickly taking down rough notes to be re-written later for his notes folder. Glancing up towards the powerpoint, he was startled to see a woman in a white dress staring up at him from the middle of the lecture hall. He quickly looked around to see if any of his classmates had noticed, before turning back to see that the woman had vanished.

Paris - 13:13p.m.

Clarke Griffin was coming back from a 24 hour shift at the hospital where she did her work placement. Her shift was only supposed to be 8 hours, but some victims from a massive car crash came in and it was all hands on deck. She hadn't gotten an ounce of sleep or something to eat or drink in over 24 hours and all she could think about was a grilled cheese, hot chocolate and bed when she saw the woman. She was just standing in front of her staring. Clarke stood perfectly still trying to work out if the woman was real or a figment of her exhausted mind. She was just standing there not moving, breathing or even blinking. Clarke's eyes started to get heavy from the lack of sleep and she furiously rubbed them, but when she looked back up, the woman was gone.

Rio de Janerio - 8:13a.m.

Raven Reyes was just starting work on her car. She had just done a massive job the night before and the haul was to die for. But it meant that her car had to be remodelled, so her victims wouldn't recognise it. It needed to be stripped down, have the license plates changed, get a new paint job and be cleaned from the inside-out. She glanced up to stretch the muscles in her neck, when she saw the woman staring at her. She had thought she was alone. The woman didn't move at all and vanished the second Raven blinked.

New York - 7:13a.m.

Jasper Jordan was stumbling back to his apartment. He was exhausted, had spent the whole of last night at a party both doing and dealing drugs and had to be in class in exactly six hours. But Jasper was pretty proud of himself. This was the first party that he had been to since the incident that he hadn't drinked at. He was finally making progress. As he clumsily opened the door to his home and stumbled in, landing on the floor, he saw a woman in a white dress watching him. Panicked, he tried to get to his feet. He was sure that this was his apartment. But when he got up and looked around, he saw that he was alone in his apartment and that the woman was gone.

Soeul - 19:13p.m.

Monty Green sat alone in his dormroom. His roommate was out somewhere with his girlfriend and he knew from experience that he wouldn't be back until tomorrow at the earliest. That was fine by him as it gave him the chance to do some hacking without someone looking over his shoulder. Suddenly he spotted the woman out of the corner of his eye watching him. Spooked, he whipped his head around to where the woman was, but found that nobody was there.

Boston - 7:13a.m.

Zoe Monroe was wrapping up her bloody knuckles. She and the rest of the squad she was with had just got back from teaching a lesson to a group of people who should have known better. The job could count as a success as they had lost no men, got roughly $20,000 and made sure those men would never mess with them again. She blantly injured the pain in her shot shoulder, as Lexa wiped the area with alcohol and got ready to sew tbe wound close. As she focused straight ahead, she saw a woman in a white dress staring at her. As the needle went through her skin, she shut her eyes from the pain. When she opened them again, the woman was gone. Blinking, she shrugged it off as a developing concussion.

Hawaii - 23:13p.m.

Harper Mcintyre was up on the hotel stage singing her heart out. The rich and wealthy hotel guests hardly giving her any attention. Suddenly she saw the woman in white just appear out of nowhere. Standing right in the middle of the room in front of the stage. The woman made no movement and none of the other guests or hotel staff, seemed to notice her either. Then just as suddenly as she appeared, the woman disappeared.

Sydney - 20:13p.m.

Nathan Miller was with Murphy in his flat as the pair got ready for another job. They had been eying this target for weeks. It was a jewellers and if they could get their hands on what their sources said was in the safe, would set them up properly for a few months at the very least. As they got all the equipment ready, he glanced out the window - and nearly had a heart attack when he saw a woman in a white dress staring right back at him. He turned to try and get Murphy's attention, but when he looked back, the woman was gone.

Dublin - 12:14p.m.

Alie stared at her sister's lifeless corpse lying on the floor of the church. Thankfully, the gun had a silencer on it, so people wouldn't be coming to investigate. Turning she looked to her guards, who were patiently waiting for orders. "Clear out" she ordered. "And leave her here. She's no use to us now. We've got a new cluster to find thanks to her."

Turning on her heels, Alie strod out of the church, her guards forming a protective barrier around her as they left the church and Becca's body lying on the ground.