"Huh?" Nabu took a bite out of his doughnut as he listened at what his ginger-haired friend said through the phone, "Well, sometimes you get lucky, I guess...?" He shrugged. The braided haired boy was casually sitting on his bike on a busy street with ambulances and police cars, probably in the middle of a crime scene of some sorts.

"Yeah, imagine, liking the same video game that I do!" Timmy beamed brightly through the phone, Nabu could feel that his friend was grinning from ear to ear.

Nabu took a bite on his doughnut yet again as he replied with, "Yeah." He nodded, "What was it again? Pookmon?"

Timmy, who was currently sitting on the bed of his small dorm room, eating a burger, frowned, "No, it's Pokemon!" He corrected for the umpteenth time, swallowing the burger, before continuing with, "We're going to the arcade together this coming Sunday." He informed his friend happily.

Nabu raised a brow at this as he looked up, it was getting dark. "Oh yeah? I'm not really sure how good an Arcade Date is gonna be." He shrugged. "But have a good time, I guess."

"Yeah." Timmy responded, after that, he hung up. Nabu sighed as he put his phone in his pocket and rode off using his bicycle.

...

"...I have to say, this is getting ugly." A man sighed, shaking his head as he looked down at the blanketed and bloodied corpses laying down on the ground.

Another man made his way to the man, "Yeah," He agreed, adjusting his round glasses as he himself looked down at the corpses.

"I heard that eating one person is supposed to last them a month." The man informed, "But these binge eaters are something else."

"Write them off as animals, and they'd eat a number of people, wouldn't they?" The other man questioned.

"Ghouls as animals, huh?" The man wondered, looking up at the sky.

"They're worst than livestock, since they're not good for anything." The other man replied, fishing out a handkerchief and wiping his hands.

"Yeah." The man sighed.


...

"Mr. Timothy," The girl with frizzy hair, Stormy, addressed the bespectacled boy politely as they both sat in a table in a restaurant of some sorts. "What's your favorite generation of Pokemon?"

Timmy looked up after slicing up his fried pork on his plate, pondering about which his favorite generation is. "Err, it would have to be the first one." He answered as he ate one of the portions of the pork.

Stormy smiled, "It was the most well known one, after all."

"Y-yeah." Timmy managed to smile back, slightly blushing. "You can call me Timmy, by the way."

"Okay, Timmy," The frizzy-haired woman giggled.

Timmy just chuckled nervously. It was then replaced by silence as they both just ate in silence, and by they, I mean only Timmy just ate in silence, since Stormy did not touch her food at all and just looked out the window. Unable to stand the silence, he spoke up, "E-errm, Miss Stormy, um, you don't eat much, do you?" He asked, referring to her sandwiches that only had one bite.

Stormy was caught rather off guard by this, "Huh? Oh, actually, um, I'm on a dietary regimen..." She said quietly, looking away as she covered her mouth.

Before Timmy could respond, Stormy grabbed her purse and stood up, "Um, excuse me, I need to go to the restroom." She excused herself. With that, she walked away.

Timmy just sighed, glancing at her barely touched food.


...

"Thank you very much for today." Stormy thanked the bespectacled boy with a sweet smile, holding a shopping bag that signaled that they might have gone to the mall or something.

"N-no, thank you." Timmy stuttered, "I-it's been fun..." He chuckled nervously, lightly scratching his blushing cheeks as he looked away in nervousness. But as he looked back at the girl, he noticed her uneasiness as she bit her lip looking down, he also noticed that she trembled slightly. "W-what's wrong?" Timmy asked, very concerned.

Stormy looked hesitant for a moment, before saying, "T-the truth is, I...live near where these recent incidents have been..."

Timmy raised a brow. "Oh? The ghouls?" He asked as his eyes widen, getting really concerned.

"I'm awfully bad at handling this..." She trailed off as tears appeared in her eyes, getting really scared. "Just thinking about it now, I can't stop trembling..."

"That's alright." Timmy gave an assuring smile at her. "Please, rest assured, I'll see you home." He offered.

The woman gave a surprised look, before giving a smile, but little did Timmy know, that smile meant something else other than gratitude.


...

"Yes, so then Nabu asked me, 'Which do you like better, me or video games?'" Timmy told her about random things as he and Stormy walked through the streets of Magix City, off to Stormy's house.

Stormy giggled. "He sounds like a funny person." She said, referring to Timmy's best friend for who-knows-when, Nabu.

Timmy nodded, as they went down a short flight of stairs. "Yeah."

As they continued walking, Stormy asked something, "So, was there something that made you turn on to technology and video games?" She asked him curiously, due to the fact that he studies Computer Science in Red Fountain University.

"Well, my dad used to love inventing things and all that, and he happened to leave his inventions for me to discover." He told her, recalling his childhood tinkering gizmos and all that. "I-I lost my dad before I can even remember. The inventions he left made me rather curious about technology, and while my mom was out working, I spent the time trying to complete the incomplete inventions, and all that..." Timmy smiled at the memory, before frowning, "Then, ever since my mom...died..." He trailed off, before turning to the girl, "You know, Nabu is the only one I've ever told this to."

"Is that so?" Stormy raised a brow, before halting as the two encountered to different paths. Timmy was about to enter the one with street lights, but Stormy's destination seemed to be in the, rather eerie and dark one..."Ah, it's this way," She says, pointing to the dark path.

Timmy looked hesitant for a moment, "Oh, uh, okay."

Just as the two was about to go to the darker path, two high school girls; one with short, dark blue hair tied into pigtails, and slanted blue eyes, and the other, with short, asymmetrical magenta hair in a pixie cut, and teal eyes. The one with magenta hair, of who we already know as a waitress in the Alfea Cafe, Tecna, stopped for a moment to observe those two that just walked in the dark path, while her friend just continued chatting.

Her friend, noticing Tecna stopping for a brief moment to observe the couple, stopped talking and called out, "Err, Tec, is something wrong?" She asked.

Tecna just sighed and shook her head, before continuing to walk with her friend, "Mm-mm, not really." She responded. 'He's a goner...' She thought in her mind as she and her friend walked home.

...

"Well, I'm right over here, so..." Stormy told the bespectacled boy as she continued walking, probably towards her house, but was stopped by Timmy.

"Uh, Miss Stormy, wait!" Timmy called out, Stormy turned around with a curious look. "Um, if you wouldn't mind, can I see you again?" Timmy asked lamely, lightly scratching his blushing cheek.

Stormy just smiled as she thought about it. "We do have a similar taste in video games, we're the same age..." She trailed off. "There's a lot we have in common, huh?"

Silence was in the atmosphere between the two as a train briefly passed by.

"Mr. Timmy..." She began, slowly walking towards him.

"Y-yes?" Timmy gulped, he was getting nervous every second.

"The truth is...I noticed you." She said, slowly approaching at him and leaning on his chest, "The way you were looking at me..."

Timmy, at this point, was as red as a tomato, managed to stutter out, "Huh? Then, you mean, you too..." He trailed off, smiling nervously, for some reason, this girl was giving him a rather...weird vibe that something was going to happen...

The woman slowly whispered to his ear, "Yes." She whispered, "I too...happen to be interested...in you."

Timmy had never felt this happy in his life, a girl? Liking him back? Is this a dream? Well, it's only going to turn into a nightmare in a matter of seconds.

While the ginger-haired boy was still smiling brightly at the woman's confession, he feels... a strong and sharp pain coming from his left shoulder...from where Stormy was leaning her head from, like something, or someone, had...took a bite out of him. Before he knew it, Stormy looked up from him, revealing her...black eyes and red pupils.

"Ah, delicious." Stormy commented with a sickening grin as blood was dripping from her chin.

Blood started to splutter out of Timmy's bite wound as he dropped the shopping bags he was holding and fell down, gripping on his wound as he looked up at her with fear.

"Mr Timmy," Stormy began again, but this time, it sounded unnerving more than anything. "There's something I like more than playing video games, know what it is?" She questioned, grinning. Timmy only looked up at her, frozen with fear. "It's pulling out all the organs of someone who isn't trying to get away from me!" Stormy started laughing hysterically in an unnerving way, "That expression, it's fantastic." She said, referring to Timmy's fearful expression. Licking her lips, she asked, "Would you let me...thrill myself even more?!" She asked as blood red scaly tentacles protruded out of her waist, still laughing hysterically.

Timmy wasted no time and tried his best to stand up, trying to sprint away from the ghoul as he clutched on his shoulder tightly. "No way! No way! No way! No way! No way!" He kept saying to himself repeatedly as he kept trying to run away somehow.

But it didn't work as Timmy felt his leg being grabbed by one of Stormy's tentacles, causing him to fall and be dragged back. "I caught you!" Stormy exclaimed in a rather childish way as she threw the bespectacled boy around while he was still struggling.

After being thrown violently to a construction site of some sorts, Timmy, all bloodied, still managed to stand up as he still attempted to run away.

"Mr. Timmy!" Stormy called out in a playful, yet mocking town as Timmy attempted to run, or rather, limp his way out of this mess somehow. But Stormy had jumped out of nowhere and charged at him. Messing with him with her tentacles as she laughed in amusement, sick amusement. He screamed in pain as he was impaled on his chest and stomach with the sharp tentacles, blood kept on coming out of his mouth as he was being stabbed. "I'm going to gently scramble up your insides for you now, okay?" She asked in a teasing tone.

No response.

"Uh-oh, did you die?" Stormy asked, "That's too bad, I really did like you."

The ghoul was about to approach him and finish him once and for all, but little did she know, there was a big crane above her and the wires snapped, causing the big steel bars to crash unto her, "H-how...could...this..."


...

"His abdominal organs are ruptured!" Timmy could hear someone, most likely a doctor, say. "We'll begin operating immediately!"

"Prepare for an organ transplant." Another doctor said.

"Without the consent of the next of kin?" Another asked.

"Transfer her organs into him!"

He was very confused. Organ transplant? What were they talking about?

Finding the strength to at least open his eyes, he realizes he's in a hospital, and doctors were...performing a surgery on him. Maybe he'll be okay after all...

That is, until you look at his left eye. Which is now black with red pupils.


A/N: Well, the ending kinda sucked, but eh. At least I'm over with this chapter. Consider 'Tragedy' now done! And we will now move on to 'Strange Phenomenons'. We kind of finished the first half when it comes to the Anime but the full first chapter when on the Manga, so that's something, right?

So I'm not really fully following Tokyo Ghoul's storyline, like how Stormy (Rize) won't be pretty much involved as much as she is on the anime/manga, and uh, more *trying not to spoil*.

I realized that Tecna didn't have much involvement so far, so better luck next time TxT shippers! And by next time, I mean next chapter! Where the two officially meet and all that, wait no, maybe in the next chapter after that. Because next chapter is where Timmy discovers he has ghoul-like powers and becomes Ghoul man! (Not really).

Next Chapter- Strange Phenomenon I: After his operation and being discharged in the hospital, Timmy learns that something is definitely not right about his body after the operation, since every food he used to like now disgusts him for some odd reason. And after an intense encounter with a dark long-haired man and the pink-haired waitress at the cafe, he realizes, he might not just be human anymore...

Sorry if the characters are OOC, by the way...

I hope you enjoy reading!