p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Piles of boxes were stacked up all throughout the room. Samejima Yamamoto searched the entire warehouse to find no exit anywhere, and the place had even less light. Then a beacon flowed forth from heaven, one solitary beam of light as bright as a ray of sunshine. Sameji began to walk towards the light, and as she draws closer to it, she begins to see a silhouette of some person. This person stands directly under the beam, with their solitary back to her, but as she drew closer, this person turned, and because of the light, she could not see the person's face. However, strangely enough, even with the bright light blinding her, she could still see this person's eyes. As clear as the light that hides their face. The silhouette told that it was a masculine figure, and he was wearing a tight fitted suit of armor, not like a knight but an organic-looking high-tech suit. The person's eyes were warm and a deep-hazel color. The man began to walk towards her, and an odd feeling began to creep over her. Though it is strangely calming to her in her otherwise tense state of mind. A song began to play. It is one of her favorite songs, /spanem style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Shinjitsu To Gensou To/emspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true", as performed by L'Arc~en~Ciel. Throughout the room, as if in stereo, it echoes the sweet and sad melody. The figure takes her up into his arms, embracing her in a warm hold. This also washed her over with some comfort./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Then it happened the figure tilts Sameji's head, their mouths intertwine. A chill goes up and down her spine. She does not fight him; the thought did not even begin to cross her mind. His hand moves to the side of her face then become entangled in her hair. As the other hand begins to move its way down, resting gently on her hipbone, they continue to kiss. Suddenly and very violently, the man pushes Sameji back away from him. She looks again into this person's eyes. A great wave of fear filled the once warm, inviting eyes. As she continues to watch his pain-filled eyes. He begins to scream as hundreds of tentacles fill the room, piercing boxes left and right. The screams became torment-filled as two long bug-like wings unfold from his back, twitching and fluttering. His face was now that of a humanoid insect, its mouth open, his citrine eyes the epitome of sorrow, loneliness, and tragedy./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"From the light, a shower of cherry-blossom petals begins to rain down over them both. As the man begins to rise up to the sky, "Wait, who are you?" asks Sameji./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"{{Opening theme:} /strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Relient K "Who I am Hates Who I've been" from the Album:/spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" [Mmhmm]}/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"[/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"October 21st, 2004. The Yamamoto's residence./spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"]/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Sameji... Samejima!" called Ranma Yamamoto, the girl's father, as she rolled over and looked at the time. It was half-past 8. She definitely late for school since her classes begin each day at 8. She jumped out of bed and hurried around her bedroom. She didn't have time to care, throwing on anything that wasn't dirty and barreled down the stairs. The restaurant was bustling with the usual early goers. She rushed into the kitchen and walked into the bathroom, quickly washing her face. She checked herself out one last time in the mirror and made sure she didn't have too significantly from bedhead. As she stepped out of the bathroom, she said hello to the waitresses that worked in the morning. She walked up to her Dad and hugged him./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Tou~san, I'm heading out." Sameji said./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well, you better hurry! Your going to be even later kid." said Ranma as he turned around in her embrace and returned her affection. "Have a good day!" said Ranma as Sameji smiled and quickly left. As she got outside, she walked to the eastern part of the parking lot and unlocked the shed, where she kept her bike. Yamamoto's is a quaint-style small, and the building was an abandoned building that used to a restaurant many years ago. Ranma and Sameji moved out here about 14 years ago now. He purchased the rundown building for twelve hundred. Ranma being a widower and single father, was down on his luck, a former cooking prodigy being the only student of the infamous Shirotetsuo~no~Taiyoenjinryu style, but ultimately left his master and his teaching to pursue something he felt stronger to love. The restaurant was opened about a year and a half after that, and Silent Meadows adored them ever since. Living a few miles out of town was a bonus for them. Since Sameji, who was and will probably always be a naturally curious type of person, loves to explore the surrounding forests, often taking a camera along and photographing anything that catches her eye, usually dead animals./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She opened the double doors and walked over to her bike, her pride, and joy. A beat-up Suzuki motocross bike, and with a pleased look on her face, she pulled the bike out. The smile was she knew a shortcut to the college. Her Dad forbids her from taking, in his opinion, such a dangerous out-of-the-way trail that one could possibly get lost on and perhaps be attacked by some innocent animal that she may enrage, through accident she'd claim. Still, she was nineteen years young, and she could make up her own mind, right? He wouldn't have a clue, and she could roam the mountainside for some fun, cutting her drive by at least ten minutes. She kicked the starter, and away she went./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"This was one of her favorite things to do, among other things. One being the enjoyment of riding her motorbike, another was writing poetry, music lyrics, or composing her own songs. However, all those things pale in comparison to her most favorite thing to do, which of course, was to play Denji Sentai Megaranger. Which was located at her second home and most favored arcade in all Silent Meadows, Grendel's Lair, through some very questionable connections acquired one of the few remaining units importing it from Japan via the INET group, who had manufactured the game over half-a-decade ago. But she was not heading to Grendel's; she had to in class about 20 minutes ago. She noticed she was rounding a mountain trail as she began to cross the reserve's parking lot. She came to a screeching halt. The parking lot is a cluster of police vehicles with a few that noticed her and immediately blocked her off./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Sorry miss, but you cannot drive through here." said a young police officer./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, I wasn't planning on it... What happened here?" asked Sameji. The policeman, with his index finger, raised the brim of his hat. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well, on the down low... A High-school student was found dead in the parking lot." Sameji tried to see who it was, but the police officer immediately blocked her way./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Can you tell me her name?" asked Sameji with the sweetest look on her face. The officer kept his poise, and Sameji didn't bother continuing the conversation. Hence, she drove just along the edge of the lot far enough to keep the police's eye on her but not enough to be a nuisance, and as soon as she saw her trail, she took it and was off again. Later, Minutes headed into the college parking lot, which was utterly devoid of all other human contacts, which would be typical. Silent Meadows Community and Technical College was that sort of place. Everyone was so laid back that the school had an unnaturally excellent attendance record, minus of course herself. Still, the faculty all know her father personally, which leads her to believe he was hiding a lot more than he led her to believe. But regardless, the faculty is all reasonably considerate anyway when dealing with matters of the home. She pulled up to the bike rake, and along with all the bicycles, she locked her front wheel into the rake, chaining it excellent and tight, though she knew in the back of her mind that no one would steal it. But luck favored the prepared. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The police continued searching the surrounding area for any clues to how this girl may have died. One police officer knelt down and overlooked the body again. The hole was already beginning to fill with maggots. He looked around her and saw nothing that would say she fought back, other than the fact that one of her hands was still missing. One was found picked at by a bird dropped some 30 feet from the crime scene, while the other had was still unaccounted for, a couple of them believe an animal may have run off with it. "Detective, so are you ready with a statement? The press was tipped off to us... They're going to want to know what happened."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Tad, look at this laceration. It went right through her and whoever did this stood right in front of her." he places his hand into the hole. "It was done by someone with either a shovel... or possibly a hand?" on the edge of the woods, well hidden in the mass of branches, a crooked smile twists across a demented face./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Skulldugger! Report!"* The imp's smile twists to a snarl as he places two of his stubby fingers up to his temple and closes his eyes. A third eye opens in his forehead./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"My Prince... the human's are still overlooking the body. Each as you can see have a weak manna pulse... not even worth the time to pick."* The man in the Crimson cloak is called Kierka. His eyes were closed the last sovereign of the Ancient creatures, and he also held his two fingers to his temple. He sat atop the statue and was already growing bored with their visitors. If this was the time of his former reign, he would have the power to make them bow, cowering in fear of mentioning his name. But in his weakened state, he could see nothing more than observing for the time being. Walking into the room through one of the walls was the Prince's sword, the masked-woman Mornia, her face cover in a featureless mask. Showing that she was nothing but the blade to cut her Prince's enemies. Kierka broke the link with Skulldugger. He slowly opened his eyes./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""What is it?" said an annoyed Kierka. Mornia immediately took a knee and bowed to him./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince, Wilina has finished reviving and she says she can revive your servants." Mornia's words made him hopeful that he could be at full strength very soon. Wilina was the King's sorceress, but if any of his father's subordinates ever an ounce more faithful, they would be few and far between. He rose to his feet and left the room through the wall Mornia had entered through. She was collecting up all of her veils of miscellaneous elixirs. She looked up and was struck back by the sight of Kierka. As she began to bow, he stepped forward and instead bowed before her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince?" said Wilina. Kierka looked up at her. His eyes were softened by her presence./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Dear Wilina... How have I continued without your aid?" Wilina turned, and Kierka stood. He stepped forward and embraced her. "Never leave my side again."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince, 'twas not of my conviction to your father that sent me from your side my Prince. What has been the goings on during our rest? Lord Rime made it clear that we have been asleep for a great many." Kierka began to seethe with anger./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""By the estimation from the stars... 6,000 years we have slept. But why are we the only remnants. The human's did not even seem to know who we are! The insolent vermin..." then an awful idea crept into Kierka's mind. He closed his eyes and focused back on his subordinate. *"Skulldugger! Do you still carry the creatures Lord Anansi gave to you?"* Without a second prompting, Skulldugger replied./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Yes, my Prince... I still carry the egg's that Lord Anansi gave to me?"* And then the same thought crept into the imp's little mind. *"Right? My Prince I know just what to do!"* As Kierka opened his eyes./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wilina, how soon can you have a batch of Serum ready?" inquired Kierka./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Within the hour. Less, when I become more acquainted with our new home." said Wilina as Kierka scoffed at the very idea./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Outside, Skulldugger opens one of the many pouches that hang on his belt. He pulled around pod shaped seed. He malignantly grins as with one hand covers his mouth and nose, while, with the other, he ran his long nail along the seam of the pod as it coughed out tiny bursts of spores. He generously sprinkled them into the air and dropped the pod. He watches in childlike glee as the police officers begin to cough, a cunctation of moments pass then as if like an orchestra that had been readying itself, setting into motion the overture of seizures that befell all those poor souls. Skulldugger snickered as he jumped from the tree. He landed with the grace of a cat and immediately began concentrating and performing ritual symbols with his hands. "Illu vi taium gig fash maper meno vuan!" Suddenly each began to stand and suddenly appearing on their faces are putrid-looking spiders. As each creature's heads were inserted into a part of the person's face, their little insect bodies trembled and pulsated./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""And it shall be done my Prince." said the Imp. He walked up to the police officers and seemed very proud of himself. *"My Prince, what would you like these pawns to do?"* Skulldugger waited a moment as he just started to notice how short he really was compared to these men. "You know you used to be closer to my height man. Seems the folly of your kind... you grow tall and you think your better than Skulldugger."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Send them out into the world, find us manna rich human's, animal's, whatever or whomever they can find for us."* Skulldugger smiled and nodded his head./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hear this Storks, go out and search for people, places, things or animals that are rich in manna. Report any findings back to either Prince Kierka or myself. Now go." the spider creatures squealed a most volatile screech, and the body jerked alive. Stumbling like B-movie zombies, they each get into their cars and starting them, all leaving the parking lot. Skulldugger finally turns, running back towards the cave with a particular pep in his step./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Sameji sat in the music room playing her guitar; she's started the bad habit of leaving it in the locker she was assigned at the college. She strums out a part of the piece she has been working on for her degree. Her dream is to one day be a music writer. Maybe even one day, find a label and play her songs for more than just herself. The title of this particular song is 'A work in progress, but it is a song dedicated to her mother's memory and a story she used to tell her. But that was such a long time ago before they moved here, before her mom left them for a better place. She wiped away some tears that were beginning to form. This song made her think so much about her mother. "Okaa~san..." she whispered to herself. She continued to strum the melancholy melody. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"On the opposite end of the room, something moved to cause a clutter of noises, and to make quite a few of the music stands to fall, the dissonance clutter the space with its loud echoing. This startled Sameji awake from her thoughts as she stood up and peered around the darkroom. She calmly lowered her guitar into its case./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hello?" as in walked her Professor Mr. Engsdall; a bulbous man with curly black hair and a passion for life second to music. Sameji finished putting her guitar in its case and walked over to her locker, sliding it in. As she turns, Mr. Engsdall is standing by the chair she was sitting in and was looking over her music. He turned and looked up at her, walking over to her. He personally hands her the sheets./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Your music is coming along quite exquisitely... you think it'll be ready for the spring performance?" Sameji shrugged her shoulders, in which Mr. Engsdall let out a sigh. "I hope you can finish it, otherwise you'll have to live with not passing this class...Speaking of, I've taken the liberty and spoken to your other Professor's. It seem that this is your only class you are holding a stable grade in and some of them are willing to overlook some of your tardiness, if you can convince them, many of them are very much looking forward to your performance. So, no pressure. Just keep coming along with this." Sameji looked dumbfounded as he patted her on the shoulder./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Eh, yeah, right...no pressure." as she turns and begins to leave the room. She could not be feeling any more pressure. She knew she was doing bad...but not that bad. She walks down the hallway; she walked up to the mezzanine and sat down on one of the numerous couches. "I can't believe my entire school career is depending on this song. This is great, just great!" as she looked down and noticed she was beginning to crumple up her music sheets. Loosening her grip, she slowly rose, walking back down the steps. As she passes the art classrooms, the doors were jarred slightly open, the rooms dark. She continues past without a second thought and walks out the double doors./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Right as she opens the door, she is hit with a cool autumn breeze. She shivers a moment and continues down the steps. Turning, she walks up towards the school's main doors to the bike rack where she has parked her bike. As she removed the chain, a man in a tattered police uniform began to approach her; she looked around, seeing if they were looking at someone else. He quickened his pace as she pulled her bike out of the rack. She noticed the man had a strange growth, no a spider on his neck, it pulsated and twitched as it seemed to have its face buried inside his ear./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Can I help you with something? *Like take you to a hospital*" said Sameji. The man's eyes rolled around as they each became fixated in opposite directions. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I...need...your...Manna..." as he drunkenly sways back and forth. Then, it came to Sameji. This man was one of the police officers earlier. He was overlooking the body. As just then, he lashes out, grabbing her arms and shoulder. She instinctively raises her leg and plants her foot into his groin, but it had little to no effect. So she did the only thing that came to mind, with great speed and force thrust her palm into his nose. Feeling it fracture at his grip, instinctively, he loosens it just enough for her to push him off./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She grabbed her bike and got on, luckily it started right away, and she sped off, leaving the man behind her. She sped off the landing and roared onto the parking lot. She glanced back, and the man in a full sprint was gaining ground towards her, suddenly she was pulled off her bike, her body striking the ground very hard. It was another of the police he had leaped out from behind one of the parked cars. With all the air knocked out of her lungs, she could not scream as more and more of the police began to appear. They completely surround her. Then they begin to assault her, most punching and kicking. At the same time, some start to tear at her clothing, ripping her jacket, her pants. They begin to get her clothes off when off in the distance, stopping what they at the moment are doing as the sound of whistling begins to pick up on the air, a familiar but very melancholy tune it seemed to echo on the air, they turn. A man solitarily walks towards them some begin to rise all stare dumbfounded by this person's presence./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""The Heavens call to me! The Earth calls to me! All Humanity calls to me! They call on me to defeat evil... So listen up Evildoers!" as he stops and strikes a pose. His left hand balled into a fist rests along his hip, his right stretched across his chest, and in his hand, he holds a puck-shaped device. A jewel that is inset in the middle glows a deep purple. "For all those that have fought for justice in the past, I am a Warrior of Justice!" as a bright light begins to shine, "Totem Access!"/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Surrounded by a vast emptiness, Alex's eyes are closed, his body naked. As he opens his eyes, space is flooded with water. As he becomes submerged in it, his flesh changes. He opens his eyes and is half-human, half-Orca. A killer whale appears and swims around him. His skins once again change as the whale circles around him; his skin is now covered by a black jumpsuit. He looks up as a helmet encases his face, its black visor flashes as the Orca cries in the background. A symbol appears on his chest resembling the Yin sign./strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""A new age calls for a new Shaman of the Earth, I am the keeper of the Universal song. Totem of the Ocean, Black Orca!" Alex takes another step forward as it seems as if the police are frozen in place. Then he sprints, dashes moving forward with incredible speed. Alex only hit each officer at a point between the neck and the shoulder. Knocking all the men out within moments, before poor Sameji had time to realize what was happening, all the people were on the ground. The man in black was carefully removing the insects from where ever they sat on the face. As he pulled them off, each crumbled to dust before it hit the ground. She began to sit up as a gloved hand outstretched to her. She takes it and is quickly helped to her feet. The man's helmet began to fold, retracts mostly behind his head, and she finally gets a look at her savior, realizing that he is a man about her age. His golden-brown hair sways lightly in the breeze./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""You're alright?" asks Alex. Sameji shakes her head. "Okay, Where are you injured?" suddenly, she snaps out of her trance./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, wow...I'm not hurt. But what was that you just did there?" the man smiles and shakes his head./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am a Shaman...that is a simple enough answer and second piece of info...I felt a rift in this dimension. Though it may be a tad unconventional to say so, I could hear these guys." as he looked down at the unconscious police officers. "They were calling to anyone that could hear them...they wished to be free of those...those insects." as he pulled out a puck-shaped device and as another flash enveloped around him, his body and whatever he had been previously wearing re-materialized he was in street clothes, a dark brown zip-up sweatshirt and a pair of light blue jeans. He still held the puck-shaped device. He slides it into his sweatshirt pocket. He turns just as a picture falls out of his pocket, landing on the ground. Sameji walks over and picks it up./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a second. You dropped this..." Sameji said as she turned the picture over. "September 21st, 1992, Alex/Samejima." the image had herself in it, a much younger self, about seven years old, with a much younger version of the man that stood in front of her now. They were posing. Leaning up against an old tree outside, she knew the one. It was out in front of the restaurant, she held a calico kitten, and he stood with his hands behind his back. They both looked silly, each with their grins so large./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, thank you... I don't suppose you remember me?" said Alex as he snatched the picture away from her. Sameji feels like she should know this person, then it came to her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Alex?" said Sameji as Alex smiled and nodded his head. "You've really grown. Wait, what the hell happened to you?! You just up and left! Your sister said you were being home schooled by your grandfather." /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well you can probably figure out that I was learning more than just Sociology and Art History," said Alex as he pulled out the puck-shaped device. "This is called a totem-dial...It's how I am able to transform into my Shaman battle state. Here you can hold it, if you want." as he extends his arm out. Sameji hesitantly touched the device. At first, a jolt of static electricity jolts her hand. Alex suddenly becomes a little more intrigued. "That's strange... The totem-dial is reacting to your life manna. I believe," as their eyes locked in a stare. "And don't quote me, but I believe you are a Shaman like me!"/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""How is that possible?" said Sameji as she again tried to touch the device. She received another shock, but this one was vastly weaker. So, the third time she just grabbed it out of Alex's hand. Instantly becoming engulfed in light. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She now stood in a great void, then from the endless darkness, something began to emerge. She now stands face to face with a large emerald fox, as the beast's nine tails sway as some crossed currents of electricity surged until the tails became too far apart. Sameji began to be overcome by fear, and the fox began to snarl, showing all its razor-sharp fangs. "Where am I?" Sameji said to herself, not expecting anyone or thing to reply./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""We are in the landscape of your mind." said a voice as clear as crystal./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Who's talking to me?" asked Sameji. She looked down, and the fox was perfectly calm. It was sitting on what could only be assumed as the ground./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am the embodiment of your Warrior's instinct. Warrior of illusion, denizen of the mystic camouflage, that which drapes all life in the allusion we know as life. You are one of the chosen, you will be called on as the Daemon lay claim to all the Earth, and you will be able to help those you love." The fox looked away from Sameji and off towards the horizon. Images of the police officers began to appear through ripples that just appeared. "These men were controlled by the use a loyal servant to the Daemon cause, they were common during their tyrannical reign... called the will of Anansi." another flash of light envelopes around her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"As Sameji opens her eyes, Alex was sitting in front of her. "You okay?" said Alex. She looks around and gets her bearings./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""What's happened to me?" said Sameji as Alex's attention is suddenly taken away from her as she followed his line of sight. A man stands at the edge of the parking lot and that highway that intersected with it. Alex began to stand as the man disappears, reappearing right in front of them; Kierka pulled back his cloak and revealed a face alien to them, his eyes glistening cobalt blue and resembled those of a large cat. His hair, a raven's shade of blue, was all spiked up and pushed behind a silver coronet that shimmered on his forehead. His face was dolefully statuesque, neglecting the fact he has no nose./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Shaman. I thought you might have become extinct like the world of which I was born into. What? Do you believe you stand any sort of a chance against us!" as four other persons who appear from what seems like nowhere. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am Prince and rightful ruler of Earth. Son of the High King, Emissary of Eternal Darkness, Over-ruler of the fabric that you human's refer to as Time and Space, his royal Majesty High-King Vuidyfel!" as he grabs Alex by the throat and raises him with ease choking him. A wiry man steps forward and gives a slight bow./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am his Majesty's loyal Chamberlain, foreseeing the Kingdom that my lore may come back too. I am Lord Rime." as Kierka loosens his grip and Rime lifts Alex's chin, he steps aside as a woman covered in thick overlapping robes shows herself./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am my Lords High-Sorceress, Tekhnadrasdireen Wilina." as she waves her stave, the ground begins to rumble as two stocks of stone shoot up and again raises Alex up, the twin pillars lightly pinch the sides of Alex's neck. He struggles to find ground as his feet grope the air. The totem-dial begins to glow in Sameji's hand./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Let him go!" Sameji cries Skulldugger steps forward, letting out a devilish snicker. He extends his index fingers out and as if he is unwinding some invisible string./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Name's Skulldugger... Tactician is my venue... Hope will get to play some baby Shaman." he moves his hands, a cord tightened around Alex's body. The final member stands silent and does not move, just watches the others make a spectacle of themselves. Skulldugger grins, "An that's Mornia... Tight lipped as usual." Rime walked up to Kierka's and stood next to his side./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince... What should we do about his life manna? We could use it... even if he is a Shaman?" Kierka does not seem to even flinch as he continues to watch Alex squirm./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Shaman manna is as pointless to take as stealing it from the dead. They may have storage of it, but it is a tainted kind being closet to that of the Great Spirit's. Their kind of filth will taint our desires." then a thought crossed the Prince's mind. "I have an idea... Let us begin our reign fresh. We will instilling fear back into this world and these fools will be the beginning!" as he watches as Skulldugger tightens the cord around Alex's throat. "Watch, as I recycle this Shaman-wannabe back into that reprehensible place! that girl there, we shall drain her manna until every once is gone, until her body crumbles to dust and blows away!" Then deep inside Sameji, something began to resonate as she felt herself filling up with an unknown amount of energy. She looked down at her hands and instantly noticed that they less resembled her hands and more so resembled paws! The Daemon appears to be shocked as they watch her transformation quickly take her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Let him go...ARGH!" was the last words that come from Sameji's mouth as several bolts of lightning shoot from her mouth. About to strike the Prince as Kierka quickly trades places with Rime, who takes the damage's brunt. Skulldugger yanks at the threads he was using to choke Alex tightened, Sameji leaped forward, and before the imp knew it, he was grounded and out cold./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Damn it! Attack!" screamed Kierka as Mornia moved in front of him to protect the Prince. But to Sameji in her animal state, Mornia could have been moving in slow motion. She looked back as her nine tails shuddered, each fully extended outward, sparks of electricity shot off of their tips. Then Mornia began to move, and Sameji opened her mouth and gave her a full electricity blast. As she spun around, Wilina was just finishing an incantation, which sounded very funny to Sameji. She leaped at her, planning to take a chunk of her throat out, and instead nailed Kierka in the back. He had suddenly moved in front of the sorceress with his back to Sameji. The ground began to split as seven pale white creatures started to emerge. As they rose, the Daemon set about to vanish as spirals of smoke swept around them. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She blinked her eyes, and they were gone. The seven pale creatures now surrounded her. Each had a single glowing eye that sat directly in the center of their faces. The claws that we're now extending from their left hand looked razor-sharp, and each one looked hungry for carnage. She turned her head and saw the spell that held Alex was now fading. But he looked worse for the ware. All seven lunged at her; she dodges them easily and manages to trip one of them. As he falls through, he cuts four thin marks down her side. She lets out a yelp and turns, crushing his skull between her jaws. By the time she turned, another was thrusting his arm towards her, barely having the time to react. She manages to avoid a severely deep cut. She scratches at him, but her paws seem to not do enough damage. She steps back, and as the next two try to stab her, she leaps up and, using their bodies, jumps over the group. She tries to pick Alex up, but he's out cold and much too heavy for her current body. Then finally, he begins to stir, and as he rises, Sameji tries to talk as only barks come from her mouth. But one of the Serum kicks her away. Alex looks up as blood trickles from his nose and mouth. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's alright. I've prepared for this day." Alex claps his hands together as he separates them the totem-dial appears levitating in the air, he grabs it, and as three begin to stab him, he screams, "TOTEM ACCESS!" and they become enveloped in a flash of light, as it dies down the Serum are crying as their claw arm are burned away in the brilliance. A small eruption of their oily blood splatters Black Orca's helmet. He stands, and as he takes his fighting stance, a ripple of energy shock waves through the air. He moved forward, leveling one Serum as he hits the ground, then plants another kick to its abdomen as its guts burst out of its back. He half-turns and punches another in the chest, rocketing its body backward. Then twists around and thrusts his fist up, cracking the third's jaw as he lifts it off of the pavement./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The sound of sirens hangs in the air as they near, coming from both sides of the street, eight police cars race towards them. They screech as they come to a stop. The police begin piling out and pulling their sidearms out. Alex shifts his feet and begins to motion waves with his hands. The last four Serum turn and face the multiple police, now some of the formally knocked out officers are beginning to stir. Alex slightly turns his head and looks down at Sameji. Then his attention is brought back to the front as the police exit their cars, and each holds their guns pointed at them. "Put your hands up!" screams one of the police. The Serum all look at each other. "I said, put your hands..." the officer is caught off guard as the Serum is now in their face! He began to utter fire, but before he could, the one that stood atop his squad car picked him up by his head and promptly removed it from his body. All the others officers, frightened, began to open fire. The asphalt began to spider web as Alex continued his dance. He stopped as a loud scream from below trembled the ground./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hydro Lancet!" as a rush of water shot up from every manhole along the street. The water-like metal to a magnet was drawn to Alex. It encircled him as he thrust his right arm forward. The water followed and crushed the police cars with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. Sameji lets out a pleading yelp as she tries to get his attention, and he suddenly draws his arm back. He had now a fist. It rests at his side, as he seems in a meditative trance. The water stops and falls to the ground. The police cars were gone, but the officers lay on the ground wet and unconscious./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Alex falls, taking one knee, as he all of a sudden tries to catch his breath. His helmet retracts back, and he begins coughing as blood and vomit fall out of his mouth. He collapses and lies on the ground. The gem was inset in the totem dial, which sits on his side, begins to pulsate as his suit once again disappears. Sameji suddenly cannot breathe as she also collapses./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The moon begins to enter the hemisphere as a car rushes through the parking lot—brakes screech to a halt in front of Alex and Sameji. The car door opens as Alex's grandfather runs to his grandson's side. He finds him unconscious and a naked girl next to him. He proceeds to lightly shake him; Alex stirs and groggily looks around. He tries to sit up as he begins to fall over. He looks over and, upon seeing Sameji, removes his sweatshirt and drapes it over her before falling unconscious again. "Alex, what happened here?" asked Daniel, more so to himself. He picked Alex up and loaded him into the car. Then walked to the trunk and took sweats out from a bag that was stored in the back. He quickly dressed Sameji and loaded her too into the car. "I see we're going to need to train an awfully lot more then." as he quickly drove away from the college./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"{Ending theme:} /strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Ace of Base "Blooming 18" from the Album:/spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" [The Bridge]}/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Next time on Shugoshin Sentai Totemranger.../strong/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"A new threat appears, and someone becomes the target of the recently re-awoken Daemon, but little does this person know that they have the power to be more than just that, they are a Shaman, and they do not even know it! All paths eventually connect, and the past is simply a stepping-stone for the boulder that wades in the ocean that will become our tomorrow./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Then it happened the figure tilts Sameji's head, their mouths intertwine. A chill goes up and down her spine. She does not fight him; the thought did not even begin to cross her mind. His hand moves to the side of her face then become entangled in her hair. As the other hand begins to move its way down, resting gently on her hipbone, they continue to kiss. Suddenly and very violently, the man pushes Sameji back away from him. She looks again into this person's eyes. A great wave of fear filled the once warm, inviting eyes. As she continues to watch his pain-filled eyes. He begins to scream as hundreds of tentacles fill the room, piercing boxes left and right. The screams became torment-filled as two long bug-like wings unfold from his back, twitching and fluttering. His face was now that of a humanoid insect, its mouth open, his citrine eyes the epitome of sorrow, loneliness, and tragedy./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"From the light, a shower of cherry-blossom petals begins to rain down over them both. As the man begins to rise up to the sky, "Wait, who are you?" asks Sameji./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am a ..." as the music playing in the background begins to play louder and louder, drowning out the man's last words./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"{{Opening theme:} /strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Relient K "Who I am Hates Who I've been" from the Album:/spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" [Mmhmm]}/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"[/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"October 21st, 2004. The Yamamoto's residence./spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"]/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Sameji... Samejima!" called Ranma Yamamoto, the girl's father, as she rolled over and looked at the time. It was half-past 8. She definitely late for school since her classes begin each day at 8. She jumped out of bed and hurried around her bedroom. She didn't have time to care, throwing on anything that wasn't dirty and barreled down the stairs. The restaurant was bustling with the usual early goers. She rushed into the kitchen and walked into the bathroom, quickly washing her face. She checked herself out one last time in the mirror and made sure she didn't have too significantly from bedhead. As she stepped out of the bathroom, she said hello to the waitresses that worked in the morning. She walked up to her Dad and hugged him./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Tou~san, I'm heading out." Sameji said./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well, you better hurry! Your going to be even later kid." said Ranma as he turned around in her embrace and returned her affection. "Have a good day!" said Ranma as Sameji smiled and quickly left. As she got outside, she walked to the eastern part of the parking lot and unlocked the shed, where she kept her bike. Yamamoto's is a quaint-style small, and the building was an abandoned building that used to a restaurant many years ago. Ranma and Sameji moved out here about 14 years ago now. He purchased the rundown building for twelve hundred. Ranma being a widower and single father, was down on his luck, a former cooking prodigy being the only student of the infamous Shirotetsuo~no~Taiyoenjinryu style, but ultimately left his master and his teaching to pursue something he felt stronger to love. The restaurant was opened about a year and a half after that, and Silent Meadows adored them ever since. Living a few miles out of town was a bonus for them. Since Sameji, who was and will probably always be a naturally curious type of person, loves to explore the surrounding forests, often taking a camera along and photographing anything that catches her eye, usually dead animals./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She opened the double doors and walked over to her bike, her pride, and joy. A beat-up Suzuki motocross bike, and with a pleased look on her face, she pulled the bike out. The smile was she knew a shortcut to the college. Her Dad forbids her from taking, in his opinion, such a dangerous out-of-the-way trail that one could possibly get lost on and perhaps be attacked by some innocent animal that she may enrage, through accident she'd claim. Still, she was nineteen years young, and she could make up her own mind, right? He wouldn't have a clue, and she could roam the mountainside for some fun, cutting her drive by at least ten minutes. She kicked the starter, and away she went./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"This was one of her favorite things to do, among other things. One being the enjoyment of riding her motorbike, another was writing poetry, music lyrics, or composing her own songs. However, all those things pale in comparison to her most favorite thing to do, which of course, was to play Denji Sentai Megaranger. Which was located at her second home and most favored arcade in all Silent Meadows, Grendel's Lair, through some very questionable connections acquired one of the few remaining units importing it from Japan via the INET group, who had manufactured the game over half-a-decade ago. But she was not heading to Grendel's; she had to in class about 20 minutes ago. She noticed she was rounding a mountain trail as she began to cross the reserve's parking lot. She came to a screeching halt. The parking lot is a cluster of police vehicles with a few that noticed her and immediately blocked her off./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Sorry miss, but you cannot drive through here." said a young police officer./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, I wasn't planning on it... What happened here?" asked Sameji. The policeman, with his index finger, raised the brim of his hat. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well, on the down low... A High-school student was found dead in the parking lot." Sameji tried to see who it was, but the police officer immediately blocked her way./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Can you tell me her name?" asked Sameji with the sweetest look on her face. The officer kept his poise, and Sameji didn't bother continuing the conversation. Hence, she drove just along the edge of the lot far enough to keep the police's eye on her but not enough to be a nuisance, and as soon as she saw her trail, she took it and was off again. Later, Minutes headed into the college parking lot, which was utterly devoid of all other human contacts, which would be typical. Silent Meadows Community and Technical College was that sort of place. Everyone was so laid back that the school had an unnaturally excellent attendance record, minus of course herself. Still, the faculty all know her father personally, which leads her to believe he was hiding a lot more than he led her to believe. But regardless, the faculty is all reasonably considerate anyway when dealing with matters of the home. She pulled up to the bike rake, and along with all the bicycles, she locked her front wheel into the rake, chaining it excellent and tight, though she knew in the back of her mind that no one would steal it. But luck favored the prepared. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"[/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Back at the Nature Reserve./spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"]/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The police continued searching the surrounding area for any clues to how this girl may have died. One police officer knelt down and overlooked the body again. The hole was already beginning to fill with maggots. He looked around her and saw nothing that would say she fought back, other than the fact that one of her hands was still missing. One was found picked at by a bird dropped some 30 feet from the crime scene, while the other had was still unaccounted for, a couple of them believe an animal may have run off with it. "Detective, so are you ready with a statement? The press was tipped off to us... They're going to want to know what happened."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Tad, look at this laceration. It went right through her and whoever did this stood right in front of her." he places his hand into the hole. "It was done by someone with either a shovel... or possibly a hand?" on the edge of the woods, well hidden in the mass of branches, a crooked smile twists across a demented face./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Skulldugger! Report!"* The imp's smile twists to a snarl as he places two of his stubby fingers up to his temple and closes his eyes. A third eye opens in his forehead./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"My Prince... the human's are still overlooking the body. Each as you can see have a weak manna pulse... not even worth the time to pick."* The man in the Crimson cloak is called Kierka. His eyes were closed the last sovereign of the Ancient creatures, and he also held his two fingers to his temple. He sat atop the statue and was already growing bored with their visitors. If this was the time of his former reign, he would have the power to make them bow, cowering in fear of mentioning his name. But in his weakened state, he could see nothing more than observing for the time being. Walking into the room through one of the walls was the Prince's sword, the masked-woman Mornia, her face cover in a featureless mask. Showing that she was nothing but the blade to cut her Prince's enemies. Kierka broke the link with Skulldugger. He slowly opened his eyes./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""What is it?" said an annoyed Kierka. Mornia immediately took a knee and bowed to him./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince, Wilina has finished reviving and she says she can revive your servants." Mornia's words made him hopeful that he could be at full strength very soon. Wilina was the King's sorceress, but if any of his father's subordinates ever an ounce more faithful, they would be few and far between. He rose to his feet and left the room through the wall Mornia had entered through. She was collecting up all of her veils of miscellaneous elixirs. She looked up and was struck back by the sight of Kierka. As she began to bow, he stepped forward and instead bowed before her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince?" said Wilina. Kierka looked up at her. His eyes were softened by her presence./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Dear Wilina... How have I continued without your aid?" Wilina turned, and Kierka stood. He stepped forward and embraced her. "Never leave my side again."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince, 'twas not of my conviction to your father that sent me from your side my Prince. What has been the goings on during our rest? Lord Rime made it clear that we have been asleep for a great many." Kierka began to seethe with anger./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""By the estimation from the stars... 6,000 years we have slept. But why are we the only remnants. The human's did not even seem to know who we are! The insolent vermin..." then an awful idea crept into Kierka's mind. He closed his eyes and focused back on his subordinate. *"Skulldugger! Do you still carry the creatures Lord Anansi gave to you?"* Without a second prompting, Skulldugger replied./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Yes, my Prince... I still carry the egg's that Lord Anansi gave to me?"* And then the same thought crept into the imp's little mind. *"Right? My Prince I know just what to do!"* As Kierka opened his eyes./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wilina, how soon can you have a batch of Serum ready?" inquired Kierka./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Within the hour. Less, when I become more acquainted with our new home." said Wilina as Kierka scoffed at the very idea./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Outside, Skulldugger opens one of the many pouches that hang on his belt. He pulled around pod shaped seed. He malignantly grins as with one hand covers his mouth and nose, while, with the other, he ran his long nail along the seam of the pod as it coughed out tiny bursts of spores. He generously sprinkled them into the air and dropped the pod. He watches in childlike glee as the police officers begin to cough, a cunctation of moments pass then as if like an orchestra that had been readying itself, setting into motion the overture of seizures that befell all those poor souls. Skulldugger snickered as he jumped from the tree. He landed with the grace of a cat and immediately began concentrating and performing ritual symbols with his hands. "Illu vi taium gig fash maper meno vuan!" Suddenly each began to stand and suddenly appearing on their faces are putrid-looking spiders. As each creature's heads were inserted into a part of the person's face, their little insect bodies trembled and pulsated./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""And it shall be done my Prince." said the Imp. He walked up to the police officers and seemed very proud of himself. *"My Prince, what would you like these pawns to do?"* Skulldugger waited a moment as he just started to notice how short he really was compared to these men. "You know you used to be closer to my height man. Seems the folly of your kind... you grow tall and you think your better than Skulldugger."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"*"Send them out into the world, find us manna rich human's, animal's, whatever or whomever they can find for us."* Skulldugger smiled and nodded his head./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hear this Storks, go out and search for people, places, things or animals that are rich in manna. Report any findings back to either Prince Kierka or myself. Now go." the spider creatures squealed a most volatile screech, and the body jerked alive. Stumbling like B-movie zombies, they each get into their cars and starting them, all leaving the parking lot. Skulldugger finally turns, running back towards the cave with a particular pep in his step./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"[/strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Silent Meadows Community and Technical College./spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"]/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Sameji sat in the music room playing her guitar; she's started the bad habit of leaving it in the locker she was assigned at the college. She strums out a part of the piece she has been working on for her degree. Her dream is to one day be a music writer. Maybe even one day, find a label and play her songs for more than just herself. The title of this particular song is 'A work in progress, but it is a song dedicated to her mother's memory and a story she used to tell her. But that was such a long time ago before they moved here, before her mom left them for a better place. She wiped away some tears that were beginning to form. This song made her think so much about her mother. "Okaa~san..." she whispered to herself. She continued to strum the melancholy melody. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"On the opposite end of the room, something moved to cause a clutter of noises, and to make quite a few of the music stands to fall, the dissonance clutter the space with its loud echoing. This startled Sameji awake from her thoughts as she stood up and peered around the darkroom. She calmly lowered her guitar into its case./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hello?" as in walked her Professor Mr. Engsdall; a bulbous man with curly black hair and a passion for life second to music. Sameji finished putting her guitar in its case and walked over to her locker, sliding it in. As she turns, Mr. Engsdall is standing by the chair she was sitting in and was looking over her music. He turned and looked up at her, walking over to her. He personally hands her the sheets./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Your music is coming along quite exquisitely... you think it'll be ready for the spring performance?" Sameji shrugged her shoulders, in which Mr. Engsdall let out a sigh. "I hope you can finish it, otherwise you'll have to live with not passing this class...Speaking of, I've taken the liberty and spoken to your other Professor's. It seem that this is your only class you are holding a stable grade in and some of them are willing to overlook some of your tardiness, if you can convince them, many of them are very much looking forward to your performance. So, no pressure. Just keep coming along with this." Sameji looked dumbfounded as he patted her on the shoulder./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Eh, yeah, right...no pressure." as she turns and begins to leave the room. She could not be feeling any more pressure. She knew she was doing bad...but not that bad. She walks down the hallway; she walked up to the mezzanine and sat down on one of the numerous couches. "I can't believe my entire school career is depending on this song. This is great, just great!" as she looked down and noticed she was beginning to crumple up her music sheets. Loosening her grip, she slowly rose, walking back down the steps. As she passes the art classrooms, the doors were jarred slightly open, the rooms dark. She continues past without a second thought and walks out the double doors./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Right as she opens the door, she is hit with a cool autumn breeze. She shivers a moment and continues down the steps. Turning, she walks up towards the school's main doors to the bike rack where she has parked her bike. As she removed the chain, a man in a tattered police uniform began to approach her; she looked around, seeing if they were looking at someone else. He quickened his pace as she pulled her bike out of the rack. She noticed the man had a strange growth, no a spider on his neck, it pulsated and twitched as it seemed to have its face buried inside his ear./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Can I help you with something? *Like take you to a hospital*" said Sameji. The man's eyes rolled around as they each became fixated in opposite directions. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I...need...your...Manna..." as he drunkenly sways back and forth. Then, it came to Sameji. This man was one of the police officers earlier. He was overlooking the body. As just then, he lashes out, grabbing her arms and shoulder. She instinctively raises her leg and plants her foot into his groin, but it had little to no effect. So she did the only thing that came to mind, with great speed and force thrust her palm into his nose. Feeling it fracture at his grip, instinctively, he loosens it just enough for her to push him off./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She grabbed her bike and got on, luckily it started right away, and she sped off, leaving the man behind her. She sped off the landing and roared onto the parking lot. She glanced back, and the man in a full sprint was gaining ground towards her, suddenly she was pulled off her bike, her body striking the ground very hard. It was another of the police he had leaped out from behind one of the parked cars. With all the air knocked out of her lungs, she could not scream as more and more of the police began to appear. They completely surround her. Then they begin to assault her, most punching and kicking. At the same time, some start to tear at her clothing, ripping her jacket, her pants. They begin to get her clothes off when off in the distance, stopping what they at the moment are doing as the sound of whistling begins to pick up on the air, a familiar but very melancholy tune it seemed to echo on the air, they turn. A man solitarily walks towards them some begin to rise all stare dumbfounded by this person's presence./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""The Heavens call to me! The Earth calls to me! All Humanity calls to me! They call on me to defeat evil... So listen up Evildoers!" as he stops and strikes a pose. His left hand balled into a fist rests along his hip, his right stretched across his chest, and in his hand, he holds a puck-shaped device. A jewel that is inset in the middle glows a deep purple. "For all those that have fought for justice in the past, I am a Warrior of Justice!" as a bright light begins to shine, "Totem Access!"/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Surrounded by a vast emptiness, Alex's eyes are closed, his body naked. As he opens his eyes, space is flooded with water. As he becomes submerged in it, his flesh changes. He opens his eyes and is half-human, half-Orca. A killer whale appears and swims around him. His skins once again change as the whale circles around him; his skin is now covered by a black jumpsuit. He looks up as a helmet encases his face, its black visor flashes as the Orca cries in the background. A symbol appears on his chest resembling the Yin sign./strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""A new age calls for a new Shaman of the Earth, I am the keeper of the Universal song. Totem of the Ocean, Black Orca!" Alex takes another step forward as it seems as if the police are frozen in place. Then he sprints, dashes moving forward with incredible speed. Alex only hit each officer at a point between the neck and the shoulder. Knocking all the men out within moments, before poor Sameji had time to realize what was happening, all the people were on the ground. The man in black was carefully removing the insects from where ever they sat on the face. As he pulled them off, each crumbled to dust before it hit the ground. She began to sit up as a gloved hand outstretched to her. She takes it and is quickly helped to her feet. The man's helmet began to fold, retracts mostly behind his head, and she finally gets a look at her savior, realizing that he is a man about her age. His golden-brown hair sways lightly in the breeze./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""You're alright?" asks Alex. Sameji shakes her head. "Okay, Where are you injured?" suddenly, she snaps out of her trance./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, wow...I'm not hurt. But what was that you just did there?" the man smiles and shakes his head./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am a Shaman...that is a simple enough answer and second piece of info...I felt a rift in this dimension. Though it may be a tad unconventional to say so, I could hear these guys." as he looked down at the unconscious police officers. "They were calling to anyone that could hear them...they wished to be free of those...those insects." as he pulled out a puck-shaped device and as another flash enveloped around him, his body and whatever he had been previously wearing re-materialized he was in street clothes, a dark brown zip-up sweatshirt and a pair of light blue jeans. He still held the puck-shaped device. He slides it into his sweatshirt pocket. He turns just as a picture falls out of his pocket, landing on the ground. Sameji walks over and picks it up./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a second. You dropped this..." Sameji said as she turned the picture over. "September 21st, 1992, Alex/Samejima." the image had herself in it, a much younger self, about seven years old, with a much younger version of the man that stood in front of her now. They were posing. Leaning up against an old tree outside, she knew the one. It was out in front of the restaurant, she held a calico kitten, and he stood with his hands behind his back. They both looked silly, each with their grins so large./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Oh, thank you... I don't suppose you remember me?" said Alex as he snatched the picture away from her. Sameji feels like she should know this person, then it came to her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Alex?" said Sameji as Alex smiled and nodded his head. "You've really grown. Wait, what the hell happened to you?! You just up and left! Your sister said you were being home schooled by your grandfather." /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Well you can probably figure out that I was learning more than just Sociology and Art History," said Alex as he pulled out the puck-shaped device. "This is called a totem-dial...It's how I am able to transform into my Shaman battle state. Here you can hold it, if you want." as he extends his arm out. Sameji hesitantly touched the device. At first, a jolt of static electricity jolts her hand. Alex suddenly becomes a little more intrigued. "That's strange... The totem-dial is reacting to your life manna. I believe," as their eyes locked in a stare. "And don't quote me, but I believe you are a Shaman like me!"/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""How is that possible?" said Sameji as she again tried to touch the device. She received another shock, but this one was vastly weaker. So, the third time she just grabbed it out of Alex's hand. Instantly becoming engulfed in light. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She now stood in a great void, then from the endless darkness, something began to emerge. She now stands face to face with a large emerald fox, as the beast's nine tails sway as some crossed currents of electricity surged until the tails became too far apart. Sameji began to be overcome by fear, and the fox began to snarl, showing all its razor-sharp fangs. "Where am I?" Sameji said to herself, not expecting anyone or thing to reply./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""We are in the landscape of your mind." said a voice as clear as crystal./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Who's talking to me?" asked Sameji. She looked down, and the fox was perfectly calm. It was sitting on what could only be assumed as the ground./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am the embodiment of your Warrior's instinct. Warrior of illusion, denizen of the mystic camouflage, that which drapes all life in the allusion we know as life. You are one of the chosen, you will be called on as the Daemon lay claim to all the Earth, and you will be able to help those you love." The fox looked away from Sameji and off towards the horizon. Images of the police officers began to appear through ripples that just appeared. "These men were controlled by the use a loyal servant to the Daemon cause, they were common during their tyrannical reign... called the will of Anansi." another flash of light envelopes around her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"As Sameji opens her eyes, Alex was sitting in front of her. "You okay?" said Alex. She looks around and gets her bearings./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""What's happened to me?" said Sameji as Alex's attention is suddenly taken away from her as she followed his line of sight. A man stands at the edge of the parking lot and that highway that intersected with it. Alex began to stand as the man disappears, reappearing right in front of them; Kierka pulled back his cloak and revealed a face alien to them, his eyes glistening cobalt blue and resembled those of a large cat. His hair, a raven's shade of blue, was all spiked up and pushed behind a silver coronet that shimmered on his forehead. His face was dolefully statuesque, neglecting the fact he has no nose./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Shaman. I thought you might have become extinct like the world of which I was born into. What? Do you believe you stand any sort of a chance against us!" as four other persons who appear from what seems like nowhere. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am Prince and rightful ruler of Earth. Son of the High King, Emissary of Eternal Darkness, Over-ruler of the fabric that you human's refer to as Time and Space, his royal Majesty High-King Vuidyfel!" as he grabs Alex by the throat and raises him with ease choking him. A wiry man steps forward and gives a slight bow./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am his Majesty's loyal Chamberlain, foreseeing the Kingdom that my lore may come back too. I am Lord Rime." as Kierka loosens his grip and Rime lifts Alex's chin, he steps aside as a woman covered in thick overlapping robes shows herself./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I am my Lords High-Sorceress, Tekhnadrasdireen Wilina." as she waves her stave, the ground begins to rumble as two stocks of stone shoot up and again raises Alex up, the twin pillars lightly pinch the sides of Alex's neck. He struggles to find ground as his feet grope the air. The totem-dial begins to glow in Sameji's hand./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Let him go!" Sameji cries Skulldugger steps forward, letting out a devilish snicker. He extends his index fingers out and as if he is unwinding some invisible string./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Name's Skulldugger... Tactician is my venue... Hope will get to play some baby Shaman." he moves his hands, a cord tightened around Alex's body. The final member stands silent and does not move, just watches the others make a spectacle of themselves. Skulldugger grins, "An that's Mornia... Tight lipped as usual." Rime walked up to Kierka's and stood next to his side./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""My Prince... What should we do about his life manna? We could use it... even if he is a Shaman?" Kierka does not seem to even flinch as he continues to watch Alex squirm./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Shaman manna is as pointless to take as stealing it from the dead. They may have storage of it, but it is a tainted kind being closet to that of the Great Spirit's. Their kind of filth will taint our desires." then a thought crossed the Prince's mind. "I have an idea... Let us begin our reign fresh. We will instilling fear back into this world and these fools will be the beginning!" as he watches as Skulldugger tightens the cord around Alex's throat. "Watch, as I recycle this Shaman-wannabe back into that reprehensible place! that girl there, we shall drain her manna until every once is gone, until her body crumbles to dust and blows away!" Then deep inside Sameji, something began to resonate as she felt herself filling up with an unknown amount of energy. She looked down at her hands and instantly noticed that they less resembled her hands and more so resembled paws! The Daemon appears to be shocked as they watch her transformation quickly take her./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Let him go...ARGH!" was the last words that come from Sameji's mouth as several bolts of lightning shoot from her mouth. About to strike the Prince as Kierka quickly trades places with Rime, who takes the damage's brunt. Skulldugger yanks at the threads he was using to choke Alex tightened, Sameji leaped forward, and before the imp knew it, he was grounded and out cold./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Damn it! Attack!" screamed Kierka as Mornia moved in front of him to protect the Prince. But to Sameji in her animal state, Mornia could have been moving in slow motion. She looked back as her nine tails shuddered, each fully extended outward, sparks of electricity shot off of their tips. Then Mornia began to move, and Sameji opened her mouth and gave her a full electricity blast. As she spun around, Wilina was just finishing an incantation, which sounded very funny to Sameji. She leaped at her, planning to take a chunk of her throat out, and instead nailed Kierka in the back. He had suddenly moved in front of the sorceress with his back to Sameji. The ground began to split as seven pale white creatures started to emerge. As they rose, the Daemon set about to vanish as spirals of smoke swept around them. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"She blinked her eyes, and they were gone. The seven pale creatures now surrounded her. Each had a single glowing eye that sat directly in the center of their faces. The claws that we're now extending from their left hand looked razor-sharp, and each one looked hungry for carnage. She turned her head and saw the spell that held Alex was now fading. But he looked worse for the ware. All seven lunged at her; she dodges them easily and manages to trip one of them. As he falls through, he cuts four thin marks down her side. She lets out a yelp and turns, crushing his skull between her jaws. By the time she turned, another was thrusting his arm towards her, barely having the time to react. She manages to avoid a severely deep cut. She scratches at him, but her paws seem to not do enough damage. She steps back, and as the next two try to stab her, she leaps up and, using their bodies, jumps over the group. She tries to pick Alex up, but he's out cold and much too heavy for her current body. Then finally, he begins to stir, and as he rises, Sameji tries to talk as only barks come from her mouth. But one of the Serum kicks her away. Alex looks up as blood trickles from his nose and mouth. /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""It's alright. I've prepared for this day." Alex claps his hands together as he separates them the totem-dial appears levitating in the air, he grabs it, and as three begin to stab him, he screams, "TOTEM ACCESS!" and they become enveloped in a flash of light, as it dies down the Serum are crying as their claw arm are burned away in the brilliance. A small eruption of their oily blood splatters Black Orca's helmet. He stands, and as he takes his fighting stance, a ripple of energy shock waves through the air. He moved forward, leveling one Serum as he hits the ground, then plants another kick to its abdomen as its guts burst out of its back. He half-turns and punches another in the chest, rocketing its body backward. Then twists around and thrusts his fist up, cracking the third's jaw as he lifts it off of the pavement./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The sound of sirens hangs in the air as they near, coming from both sides of the street, eight police cars race towards them. They screech as they come to a stop. The police begin piling out and pulling their sidearms out. Alex shifts his feet and begins to motion waves with his hands. The last four Serum turn and face the multiple police, now some of the formally knocked out officers are beginning to stir. Alex slightly turns his head and looks down at Sameji. Then his attention is brought back to the front as the police exit their cars, and each holds their guns pointed at them. "Put your hands up!" screams one of the police. The Serum all look at each other. "I said, put your hands..." the officer is caught off guard as the Serum is now in their face! He began to utter fire, but before he could, the one that stood atop his squad car picked him up by his head and promptly removed it from his body. All the others officers, frightened, began to open fire. The asphalt began to spider web as Alex continued his dance. He stopped as a loud scream from below trembled the ground./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hydro Lancet!" as a rush of water shot up from every manhole along the street. The water-like metal to a magnet was drawn to Alex. It encircled him as he thrust his right arm forward. The water followed and crushed the police cars with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. Sameji lets out a pleading yelp as she tries to get his attention, and he suddenly draws his arm back. He had now a fist. It rests at his side, as he seems in a meditative trance. The water stops and falls to the ground. The police cars were gone, but the officers lay on the ground wet and unconscious./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Alex falls, taking one knee, as he all of a sudden tries to catch his breath. His helmet retracts back, and he begins coughing as blood and vomit fall out of his mouth. He collapses and lies on the ground. The gem was inset in the totem dial, which sits on his side, begins to pulsate as his suit once again disappears. Sameji suddenly cannot breathe as she also collapses./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The moon begins to enter the hemisphere as a car rushes through the parking lot—brakes screech to a halt in front of Alex and Sameji. The car door opens as Alex's grandfather runs to his grandson's side. He finds him unconscious and a naked girl next to him. He proceeds to lightly shake him; Alex stirs and groggily looks around. He tries to sit up as he begins to fall over. He looks over and, upon seeing Sameji, removes his sweatshirt and drapes it over her before falling unconscious again. "Alex, what happened here?" asked Daniel, more so to himself. He picked Alex up and loaded him into the car. Then walked to the trunk and took sweats out from a bag that was stored in the back. He quickly dressed Sameji and loaded her too into the car. "I see we're going to need to train an awfully lot more then." as he quickly drove away from the college./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"{Ending theme:} /strongspan style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Ace of Base "Blooming 18" from the Album:/spanstrong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" [The Bridge]}/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Next time on Shugoshin Sentai Totemranger.../strong/p
p style="color: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"A new threat appears, and someone becomes the target of the recently re-awoken Daemon, but little does this person know that they have the power to be more than just that, they are a Shaman, and they do not even know it! All paths eventually connect, and the past is simply a stepping-stone for the boulder that wades in the ocean that will become our tomorrow./span/p