CHAPTER ONE - THE BEFORE

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I woke up with a startle. Bed, Closet, Door, check. I'm in my bedroom. Looking around I can barely see the shadow of my desk. Everything is dark.

Geez, what time is it right now?

I groggily get up, landing my feet on the cold hard floor. Clicking my fingers, I attempt to activate the only minor spell I know, "Light". However, my feeble attempts to do so only resulted in disappointment. I walk myself towards the door, but when I reached towards the door, I could feel an intense ominous presence outside. I could feel it tugging at my spirit, eagerly hungering for my soul. I try to back my self from it, but I could feel the presence follow, it's endless madness seeking for its prey, me. I try to shout, scream, yell, but nothing comes out. I feel it grabbing me, pulling me in the darkness. I feel my self sinking, deep into the dark below.

A deep, guttural voice booms out.

"Hikigaya... Hachiman..."

Everything fades black.

Suddenly I wake up, choking in sweat. I pull my bed covers off, desperately needing help.

"Ko...ma...chi... some...one... help..." I barely wheeze out. No one comes. Where is everyone?! I'm dying here!? Zodiac Gods, help!

Few minutes pass, and slowly I recover from the traumatic experience. I had been having nightmares about the darkness lately. I finally catch my breath, but I feel a feline presence suddenly come beside me. It is our family familiar, Kamakura, in all of his fatness.

"Where were you when I needed you?" I questioned him. He tilted his head, but I knew he understood what I said. He started meowing at me, and started pointing his paws at something on the wall, and I quickly glance over. My eyes slowly drifts towards my alarm clock, and I realize the time and day. The machines in my head suddenly go into overdrive as I realize that I am late.

"WHY DOES NO ONE WAKE ME UP?!" I shout, quickly getting to my feet.

-Outside-

My feet rapidly peddles the magic bicycle through the street. I sigh to myself, half wishing I could just teleport myself to school right now. Though Magic was a big part of human culture, only the powerful could use it to its most potential. Everyone should have the potential to use magic, but that doesn't mean everyone can use the same amount. Shaking my self out of thought, I see the corner where I have to turn.

BOOM

A strong rumble suddenly vibrated my bike. My handlebar twisted out of grasp and I nearly crash onto a store wall. I couldn't catch myself fast enough though.

"Gah!" I gasp out as my leg scrapes hard on the brick wall. Grasping back onto my bike's handlebar, I feel something wrong, a horrid presence nearby. Hitting my brakes, I quickly get off my bike and set it onto the wall. I walk to the corner, and slowly peep around it. The sight that met my eyes was unsightly. A black limousine landed sideways in the middle of the street, with a large humanoid figure standing above it. The humanoid figure had a body that was covered in huge scarred muscles that were bounded in large steel chains. It held a large crystal sword that seemingly pulsated with a dark light. The head was the worst part. Instead of a normal human head, it was crowned with a black, bull-like head, scarred and bloodied with ages of battle.

It appeared to be fidgeting with the black limousine, but I knew if there was anyone inside the car, the creature would soon attack them.

Staring at the creature, I feel turmoil. A part of me wants to help. I mean I want to help, to be strong, to be a hero, to save the day. But I can't do anything. I'm weak. I can't even cast the minor spell "Light". There will probably someone who could defeat that beast, and I would only be in the way. It would also probably cut me into little Hachiman slices and put me onto a sandwich. I sigh to myself, and started to walk to my bike. However, I stopped when I heard a piercing scream.

I glance around the corner again, and a girl with bright pink hair was seemingly running towards the creature, but at closer inspection she was chasing a brown dog. The girl was in panic.

"Sable stop! DON'T RUN TOWARDS THE BIG BULL MAN!" The girl screamed.

However, the small brown dog ignored any of her screaming and was undeterred by the creature. The brown dog got to around 20 feet from the creature, and started fiercely barking at it. The creature stopped messing with the limousine, and fixated its focus on the brown canine. When the girl noticed it's glare shifting focus, she squeaked and quickly hid behind a telephone pole.

The girl. The limousine. The dog. I know I couldn't back off and let someone die after. Even as a loner, I'm not a coward. But how could I stop it? But then, like a lightbulb turning on, a plan started to form in my mind. I had to quickly act. Rushing my muscles into overdrive, I quickly got my bike, and ran out of the corner onto the middle of the street. I could see out of the corner of my eyes that the creature took notice of my presence.

I gather all my breath.

"HEY BEEFCAKES! DO YOU WANT SOME HUMAN MEAT? I BET YOU DO!" I yell with all my might. The creature turned its head towards me with an intense glare.

"OH GOD YOU'RE UGLY! WHAT DID YOUR MOTHER GO TO BED WITH TO END UP WITH A DISAPPOINTMENT LIKE YOU?" I spit out. I didn't know if it would've understood me, but judging by its red flare that came from its eyes and air blowing from its nostrils, it understood well enough. It roared, nearly knocking me off of my feet. It started rushing towards me, it's muscles shifting from the strain.

As it grew increasingly nearer, doubts filled my mind. It's not too late for me to get on my bike and out speed the creature. But I had to do it.

I grabbed my bike, and with all my might, I hurled it towards the creature. The creature briefly was taken aback from that action, but recovered quickly and sliced my bike in half with its crystal sword. My bike fell in two pieces onto the ground, it's metal parts crumbling to dust right in front of my eyes. Oh crap, crap, crap. My head went into overdrive, to find something new that could get me out now. All the paths led to one thing. I'm going to die. I'm actually going to die by some bull-headed man.

But still, there is still something I could do with my worthless life. I have to stall for time. To save them. I smiled.

"Sorry Beefcake but you walked right into my legendary Trap Card." I announce to him, hoping I don't quiver from my fear.

The creature stared at me incredulously. It looked around for anything suspicious, and stared back at me when it found nothing wrong.

"The trap is behind you Beefcake."

I say with a smirk.

Beefcake turned around to check its behind, and while he was busy checking, I got into the stance that I learned in a magic book that could supposedly defeat the foe I was battling.

"Fire of Dragon's Roar" I yell. I don't really remember if that was the correct chant, but I don't have anything to lose right now. Suddenly I could feel something build up inside of me and I opened my mouth to let out the power building up, and suddenly a smoke puff blew out of my mouth. Coughs suddenly wracked my body, and I fell to the ground.

As I coughed I could hear a deep rumbling, not unlike laughter. I looked up to see the creature laughing, it's body rumbling.

"Ah..you are a funny mortal. I haven't had this much fun on the mortal realm for this long" it said while still laughing.

"You're weak. I can sense no magic from you." It said. The creature drawled on, content to savor this moment.

"Why bother on trying to help? You couldn't do anything." The creature ranted on and on.

Yes I know these things. I knew I couldn't stop it. But even now, I feel disappointed that I couldn't do it. But I could feel something stirring from me.

"Im going to keep you alive to watch this, for your idiocy and merit." It chuckled, turning away from me.

Watching it turn away from me, something cracked in me. I felt my fear despair, seemingly every emotion wash away from me at that moment. Leaving only anger.

"Shut up." I growl loudly with my teeth clenched.

The creature turned around, its eyes sharp.

"Look mortal, I'm doing you a favor here-"

"I said, SHUT UP!" I could feel a dark presence take over me, exactly the feeling in my nightmares. I could feel power and anger take over any action I did. I charge straight at him.

I black out quickly afterwords.

So here ends the first chapter! I hope you guys all enjoyed it. I don't know if chapter 2 will come as soon as chapter 1 but I will be working on it as soon as possible. There are many ideas running in my head for this fiction and I hope you guys enjoy it. School Life in Chapter 2, I wanted to do the rendition of the car crash in my way of the story, also the way Hikigaya is doing magic in this chapter isn't exactly the correct way, but that will be explained later.