Chapter 1

It was hopeless...

He had searched the building from head to tow, but had found nothing that hat lead outside. Which was pretty crazy in itself.

"If I get my hands on Shinra, he will wish that he was never born..." growled Izaya. In the meantime he was back at the ground floor. He wanted to try it one last time, as he could have overseen something. Even though he would never admit it...

A strange creak caught his attention.

He couldn´t explain where it came from, but as he eyed the corridor before him, something strange caught his eye:

This one wasn´t there before...

Curious he entered this one.

He didn´t really trusted the whole situation, but if this new opening gave him a way to get out of here, he would try it.

But there were no bad surprises, instead he found a door.

"Well, better than nothing..."

Carefully he pulled down the handle and opened the door. Almost instantly rain whips against his face and he had to look twice before his head registered, that this one lead outside.

Finally, now he could get out of here!

Delighted he run along the way untill he reached a spot where the balustrade was a bit lower, so that he could climb over it. Normally this wouldn´t be a problem, but the forest ground was totally overgrown so that he had to expect the unexpected, when he decided to jump into there.

He wanted to be on the save side.

He was already over it with one leg, when something sliced the air.

He pulled his head back, but not fast enough...

Something heavy hit him and he was thrown backwards.

Before he could even register what was happening he already had to roll to his side, because his attacker hadn´t given up yet.

Just now he had a chance to look that guy in the eyes and was terrified. Whatever that guy was, he was deffinitly no human!

He had chalk-white skin and red glowing eyes from where a strange black liquid, maybe blood, leaked out. And the fact that this lunatic was spinning his sledgehammer in Izaya´s direction doesn´t made it any better.

He had to get out of here!

He wouldn´t get far with his head wound, but maybe he was able to shake him off!

Over the balustrade was no option so he could just run along the way before him, hoping that this wouldn´t be a dead end...