The park was relatively quiet, though there was a small but growing crowd gathering for a fireworks festival, some vendors had already set up their stalls, the scent of food cooking added to the various scents already in the air. A young man, in his late teens was leaning against an ancient cherry tree. He had neat black hair tied back in a ponytail, though his long bangs hung down framing his face. He wore a simple light gray button up shirt with short sleeves and a patch on the left shoulder of the high school he attended. He also wore black pants and shoes. Behind a pair of dark blue framed glasses, his dark brown, almost black eyes looked up from his book and at the girl running towards him.

"Sorry I'm late! Riku senpai" She was younger than him with shoulder length auburn hair and green eyes. She wore a purple tank top and baggy denim jeans, around her neck was a pair of worn, red-rimmed goggles. She stumbled to a stop in front of him, panting heavily.

"I had to help out mom in the shop." She said once she caught her breath.

"Understandable Ari-san." He said. "It still doesn't explain why those two are late." He said closing his book.

A few moments later there came the sound of two sets of feet running towards them. They were two young men each with dark green hair, aside from the fact that one had Gray eyes and the other had hazel, they looked pretty much identical. Though the twins style differed greatly. The hazel eyed twin wore a white button up shirt much like Riku's minus the school logo, the first two buttons of it were also undone. He also had on dark blue denim jeans and dark gray tennis shoes. The other twin wore a dark gray t-shirt featuring a band's logo and black cargo pants with white trimmed straps hanging down at the sides.

"Yo, Ari chan!" The gray eyed twin said brightly.

Ari looked at him and said, "Kenta kun, you're late."

"It's all Kouta's fault."

Kouta rolled his eyes "Kenta's the one who lost his wallet, causing us to miss the train."

Kenta coughed rather loudly and then said "Well, anyway, let's go find ourselves a good spot!" He called, walking off. Kouta rolled his eyes but followed his twin anyway. Ari and Riku followed as well. The four teenagers found a spot near the river to watch the fireworks. Soon dusk fell and the sky was filled with multicolored sparks.

In another part of the park, two girls were arguing about something. "Look Nani. Meiru-chan has been missing for two years, the likelihood of her being alive is close to zero." Said the older of the two. She looked to be in her late teens. She had two pieces of her pale green hair tied back so they curved over the back of her head, looking somewhat like antennae. She wore a dark green hooded sweatshirt over her scrawny frame and worn, somewhat secondhand looking jeans. Her light blue eyes currently showed her annoyance at the younger girl.

She was maybe 12 or 13 she wore a red beret over her short, somewhat messy dark brown hair. Her passionate brown eyes gleamed with exasperation as she looked up at the older girl. She wore a long sleeved black and red striped shirt, dark gray shorts and black shoes. Over her right shoulder was a bulky brown messenger bag.

" I know that the odds are stacked astronomically against me Saia, but they never found Nee-san's body, and all you told the police is that she was there one minute, and then the next time that you checked, she was gone. She's still gotta be out there somewhere, I'm sure of it!" Nani said crossing her arms over her chest.

Saia sighed. "Nani, she's not going to come back. Even if she's still alive, there are millions of people just in Tokyo alone, probably more than even the entire population of Hokkaido."

"So, you've just given up too, just like Mama and Papa and everyone else." Nani swallowed hard, her body shaking, trying to hold back her own grief and rage.

Before Saia could do more than put a hand on Nani's shoulder, two bright pinpricks of light seemed to separate from the flurry of sparks in the sky and flew towards them.

"Hey, what's that?" Ari called out over the cacophony of bangs from the fireworks, four specks of light seemed to be moving separately from thee rest of the brightly colored pyrotechnics, as if they had some sort of purpose.

"I dunno." Kenta said, "But I think they're flying towards us."

"It would seem so." Riku said, barely audible above the fireworks.

The lights, or whatever they were seemed to slow down as they flew towards them. Though the people around them didn't seem to notice them. Ari reached out for the one that seemed to be heading in her direction. It seemed to be glowing in a pale blue light, whatever it was. She grabbed it, it felt somewhat warm, as if it had been sitting in the sun for several hours. However, that was the last thing she remembered before she felt herself falling through space, unable to even think. She felt herself slam hard onto a soft, earthy surface before blacking out.