Hello readers,

I think this is the quickest chapter I've ever written, Got it done in about a week! :D


Chapter 4

As I sat on my bed in my favourite grey baggy sweats and brown tank top, towel draped around my neck I couldn't help but think about the strange figure in the old church window.

It was starting to rain as Nathan and I hurried through the streets trying to make it home before we were completely soaked through our clothes. We had taken nothing but the small items that would fit in our pockets; everything else was stored in the boxes for Jed to pick up tomorrow. I was holding the photo album under my coat to shield it as I ran.

We were just passing the church when one of dads' letter openers fell from my pocket and into the street. I stopped and went back to pick it up, it had fallen right at the entrance to the abandoned church. As I picked it up I gazed up at the dark ominous structure. Everything was quiet in the cool evening rain. There was a light mist starting, making the glass from the large bay window shimmer. While I stared at the window a sinking feeling started in the pit of my stomach. My body went cold, I wasn't the only one staring through the glass; there was something or someone inside looking back at me.

The rest was a blur as Nathan and I ran back to Jed's house. It's happened twice now; the first time I couldn't be sure but now I was certain. There was something in that church and I needed to know what.

As I thought about what I would bring with me to the church my eyes wandered the room. There was nothing different aside from the random objects on my desk that I had taken from our old house and stored in my jacket pockets.

I took dads homemade letter opener simply because our family crest was on it, the old photo album (the picture was bothering me) and the earrings mum got for her 10th anniversary. I wasn't one for earrings because I hated when the thin metal ends jabbed my neck, but these ones were small hoops that clasped inside the other end. Once you put them on you don't have to take them off.

I sat down in my desk chair and pulled the family picture out of the back of the album and set it in front of me. I turned it over so I could see the handwriting; I was still confused as to what the lines meant.

It's my fault, the accident that I'm sure will happen…

I was a fool and put you in danger. I just hope I'll be able to hide it before they come.

I've left it with you, be careful. It's more important then you know.

I'd been trying to piece it together since I read it and the only incident I could think of was the Akuma attack, but how could that have been my mothers fault? How could she have possibly known those things would come to kill us? Then there was the question of what she hid. She did hide Nathan and I in the cellar but she uses 'it' not 'they' in the warning.

"I've left it with you, be careful. It's more important then you know…. What the heck is that supposed to mean?!" I slumped backward in my chair, half hanging upside down half falling off. I spun my chair in a lazy circle letting it stop on its own. The chair came to a halt facing the other side of the room where I spotted my upside down bedside table with it's upside down picture frame.

I lifted my head and slowly got up, ambling over to the table I picked up the photo in its silver frame. It was an exact match for the one on my desk. Lying down on my stomach in the middle of the bed I removed the silver backing on the frame releasing the photo.

It was blank; there was no writing, no warnings of doom and no mystical eye opening message from mum. I had the picture in one hand and the frame in the other. Sighing I was about to put the picture and frame back together when there was a huge crash and my door was thrown open. In my panic I lost my hold on the frame and it smacked into the floor with a hollow crack.

"Sorry did I scare you?" Nathan asked scratching the back of his head and smiling sheepishly.

I raised my eyebrows, "Uhh yeah, you scared the shit out of me! What was the big crashing noise?"

"Oh! Yeah... I need your help with that, I may or may not have broken the fold-able stairs for the attic… can you come check it out?"

"Alright, I'll come and save your pathetic hide." I teased, "Give me two seconds."

After he closed the door I reached down and picked up the picture frame, the front looked the same but on the back there was a large crack running along the bottom. I was surprise at the extent of the damage because the frame was supposedly real silver, plus this section of the frame was thicker than the rest of it. Upon closer examination the inner portion of the frame where the crack formed was not made out of silver but an alternate material.

I inspected the crack with my thumb nail and felt it go into the crack and through.

"Huh… It's hollow, well then how do I open it?"

I ended up forcing a flat head screwdriver into the crack and prying the rectangular sheet open. Yes it was not the cleanest way of opening it but I wasn't known for being a patient person. Inside was black coloured foam rolled up into a tight log shape, kinda like a rolled up carpet. I grabbed the foam out of the frame and unrolled it. Resting in the center was a necklace.

The necklace was a thin silver rectangle a little smaller than the length of my thumb, strung on a thin silver chain. There were no markings on the surface of the rectangle; it was smooth and devoid of scratches. It was beautiful.

"Reina you coming?"

I clasped the chain around my neck and went to help Nathan.


The street lamps cast long shadows across the entrance to the alleyway, making the figure look like a broken flickering image cast from a flame. A grisly smile split its face from ear to ear, it was time. Finally it appeared; the Akuma could easily sense it's presence now but it would wait, oh it would wait. The demon was fond of its twisted games.


I had gone to bed after helping Nathan with the stairs, as it turns out he'd only jammed the closing mechanism. It was the earliest I'd gone to sleep in weeks and I slept soundly till morning. Today was the first time since I started my job at the station that I was out of the house early enough to make it there without running and still have a couple minutes to spare. The air was cool and the streets were empty as I walked my usual root past the park. I was about half way there when the voice of a man called out from behind me.

"Miss? Is it alright if I ask for some directions? I seem to be a bit lost."

"Of course." I said as I turned around to help him. But there was no one there; the stone pavement was deserted.

"I'm over here~." Whispered a giddy voice in my ear. Before I was able to move away I felt a sharp pain in the base of my neck and a light falling sensation, then my vision went black.


My body was stiff, my bones ached from the cold and my clenched jaw throbbed from the pressure. I cracked my eyes open slowly and the room swam around me.

"Fuuuck, this is the last time I leave the house early."

I hauled myself to my knees and fought a dizzy spell before scanning my surroundings. I was in a large rectangular room, full of high ceilings and stone pillars. Beautiful stained glass windows stretched up to the domed roof. Everything was coated with a thick layer of dust and grime. I was kneeling in the middle of the main room of the abandoned church.

A deep and crazed giggle floats in the air sending chills down my already frozen spine. The voice seemed to be coming from everywhere and nowhere which didn't make sense because I was the only one in the room. I stood up and turning in a full circle looked for the source.

"Hehehe I'm over here~!" The voice sang mockingly.

I didn't care if it seemed cowardly, I wasn't going to stick around to face something I couldn't see. I made a dash for the door but only managed to get a couple of steps before my legs were kicked out from beneath me, sending me crashing to the ground in an awkward heap.

I stumbled to me feet again this time not moving. I was a quick learner and I wasn't a fan of face-planting at full speed. I stood there just scanning for any signs of motion.

Something solid collided with my back and I was thrown back to the floor this time landing on my arm.

"You won't find me with those eyes girly." the thing called.

"Really, Well what about mine?"

There was a flash of silver then a deafening explosion that sent my hair into my eyes. I was sitting with my legs at awkward angles wiping away the hair and dirt to clear my vision when the second voice spoke again.

"Even with your ability you can't hide your soul from my eye Akuma."

I looked up to see a cloaked figure with silvery white hair standing midair a foot or two above the ground where the old church alter used to be. He was looking at the floor beneath his feet as he spoke.

"What is it you plan to get from this girl, I know you don't want to eat her, otherwise you wouldn't have waited hours till she woke up."

The Akuma appears beneath the new comer grinning, "And why should I tell you~?"


Hope you liked Allen's entrance as much as I did~. xD

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I'm always looking to improve my writing skills! :P