Chapter 2-The Meeting

Shadow got ready for the day. He woke up at 7 a.m., and the last time that happened was quite a long time ago, before he went into the suspended animation that left his mind blank. The dark circles under his eyes that had come as a result of sleepless nights had faded as a result of his being able to actually sleep without waking up every night at 2a.m. or 3a.m. He looked better than usual, and was ready for the day ahead that filled him with a newfound hope.

As he ground down the fire escape, he jumped off the edge and jumped toward the ledge of his apartment building. He then jumped off of the building and into the clear blue sky onto a house. As he was falling from the peak of his jump, he said, "Chaos Control", and as he did, time around him slowed down, but he didn't, giving him a boost of speed by approximately 180mph. It was called the Chaos Control ability, and it had extreme potential. Therefore he got away in time before the inhabitants realized the impact of the fall.

He ground on the side of the bridge ahead at hyper speed, and said, "Chaos Control" again, bringing his total speed to Mach 2. From the bridge he went for a daring jump, hitting seagulls to increase his hang time and bring him to the coast of Prison Island. The even luckier thing was that he landed on the side closest to the hangar, and had a lot of time remaining.

As he walked in, the door slammed, and the wind flew across his back. You'd have to be pretty fast to make wind fly in hyper time, and to have someone in hyper time feel the effects of the wind. Shadow couldn't see a thing in this deserted area on an uninviting island.

Suddenly, the light turned on. The hangar lit up like lightning in a dark storm, and as it did, Shadow saw a bucket full of Florida ballots from the 2000 presidential election. A voice came from nowhere, and said, "An Earthling would only wonder where that ended up."

Shadow said to the shadow hanging like a bat, "Obsessed with getting rid of Bush, I see. You sent me here. You sent the package, right?"

"Correct you are", said the voice, which was now visible as a cloaked girl. Her face was shrouded in mystery. She was about Shadow's size, and she was wearing a black coat, which covered all but her eyes, which looked uninviting. She had a deep voice and a necklace with a blue gem around her neck.

Shadow said, "You requested that I be here. Why?"

"You do want to find out about yourself, right?"

"Yes. Tell me if you know so much about me."

"I know much about you, but your past is a different story. I simply know of where to find clues."

"So let me get this straight. You asked me to come here to go on a wild goose chase?"

"Not a goose chase at all. I have the locations for the clues."

"Then tell me. I'm afraid I don't have all day."

"One of them is on this island, on a tanker, in the holds, and the tanker is parked on the south side of the island. The other four will come up after finding the first of the five."

"What am I looking for?"

"Newspaper articles that were archived after the events were described as 'too dangerous to be read'. The articles contain the information you want."

"Too dangerous to be read, huh? I'll show them a thing or two."

"You'd better be careful."

As Shadow headed off, he turned his head and said, "Thanks."

Shadow then headed off to the tanker to obtain his first article.