Rei Hino had woken up on another seemingly regular day in Tokyo. She had done her chores for the morning and set off for her school. Despite being a keen practitioner of the Shinto religion, her grandfather had no choice but to send her to a Catholic school, some of the little sway her father still held over her life. Now she had to be there by the allowed time, or Sister Angela would "instill discipline" into her. But on the way, she saw some preschoolers terrorising a poor cat.
"Hey, stop that!", Rei yelled at them. This obviously worked, as they were quick to run away. She then went over to the cat. "Were those kids bothering you? Did they put this bandage on you?", she said, noticing that the cat seemed to react in pain to it. Pulling it off revealed nothing but a small tattoo, shaped like a crescent. Rei didn't have time to think on it, or she'd be late. But the cat had the time to take it all in. When it was certain that no-one could see, it said to itself "Could this girl be one of the chosen.?"
Later that day, Rei was walking through the shopping chentre, along with some friends from school. They had come to look at the jewellery shop's sudden decision to hold a sale. While Rei merely wanted to know why, her friends soon darted off to take advantage of the owner's generosity. Luckily, the woman wasn't inaccessible.
"Is there any reason you decided to hold a sale now?", Rei asked the owner.
"Oh no real reason, honey.", replied the woman. "I just wanted to do something good for the community. That's why all the proceeds from this are going to charity."
"Yeah right.", Rei said skeptic. "More like your purse." Rei didn't believe that anyone was really that generous. With that last retort she left just as a blonde and a brunette walked in. On the way out, she bumped into an older woman, one with blue hair.
"I'm sorry," the woman said "I didn't see you there."
"It's ok." Rei replied. "I was in a huff. I think there's something wrong about this whole sale thing."
"You know what?", the other woman said, smiling. "I think you're right." At this, Rei left, assuming the other woman was patronising her. But she didn't know that this woman could read people's emotions and sensed evil from within the building. And neither of them knew that the owner had been replaced with one of the Dark force's servants, who was now receiving orders from it's superior.
"Morga. There is an outsider aware of our operation. You must hunt down and destroy her."