NOTICE: I. Despise. My. Computer. The original seperaters of POV's won't show, so I'm reduced to using "-"

Authoress Notes-:

Still writing on Notepad, still using an online spell checker.

To my reviewers; you know I love you all.

DISCLAIMER-: See Prologue

Relapse of Darkness

Chapter 1:
Letters

"... If this is someone's idea of a joke--" A blue haired teen-aged males roan red eyes glared at the sheet of parchment before his face as he absent-mindedly played around with a blue, white and red baseball cap in his hands.

"Then they have a very bad sense of humor, Takao." A second male sitting across from the first gave him a stern look, golden eyes flashing behind black bangs.

"But who on Earth would send tickets to England--" the first, Takao, argued.

"Who says they're fake?" the second retorted.

"Rei, these tickets cost money. And they're not exactly CHEAP."

"Your point being?" Rei asked airily.

"Theres no way someone would just send us three tickets to England for NO GOD DAMNED REASON."

"Read a little closer, Kinomiya. They gave a reason..." A third male, one with two-toned blue hair and violet eyes muttered stiffly toward Takao.

"Oh suuure Kai. Some senile fool sent us tickets to England so we can attend a 'school of magic'. And you call ME gullible."

"Well..." Rei trailed off nervously "I mean, there is a possibility that it's--"

"REI! Magic. Is. Not. Real." Takao fumed.

"You can't criticize Takao, none of us can. If there's such thing as bit beasts, what's saying magic doesn't exist?" Rei edged away from his comrade slightly.

"It-- Well I--... What if this is all just scam? I mean, we've had plenty of freaks after us before, what's saying this isn't any different?"

"Takao, we've gotten away from all of those 'freaks', haven't we?"

"Damned straight. And given them a kick up the ass to boot."

"Then what's saying that we can't get away from THESE 'freaks'?"

"..."

"Face it Takao, we might as well give it a shot. What harm could it do?"

"... Fine. But if we die, I'm dragging you both straight down to hell."

"That's... comforting."

-

Pushing a strand of red hair irritably from his face, a pale faced male read a letter written on yellowed parchment in flowing black ink over as he had so many times before.

Yuriy Ivanov,

'What, no opening gesture? Not a very good first impression.'

I know we haven't been introduced properly, but this is a matter of urgency.

'Oh wonderful... Yes, I can tell I've never met you before. As for the matter of urgency part-- I get that from fan girls all of the time...'

One Messrs. Kai Hiwatari, Brooklyn Kingston, Takao Kinomiya, and Rei Kon have been informed about said matter.

'... Interesting...'

Please meet me at the Yasukuni Shrine at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

-Harry J. Potter

'So he's a Westerner eh?'

The red head, also known as Yuriy, eyed the parchment carefully. It had been strange enough to have it delivered by owl (during which the wretched bird had taken a bit of his lunch with it) but it was also bizarre to know that Kai, Brooklyn, Takao, and Rei had been 'informed about the said matter'.

Well... If it was some kind of schitzo involved, it'd be easy enough to take the bastard down. And as much as Yuriy hated to admit it...

He was interested.

-

Brooklyn was used to birds.

He was fond of the creatures, and didn't mind them hanging around. In truth; birds were more pleasant than most human company (to him, anyways).

But it was still rather odd to be visited by a Horned owl in the middle of the day.

It was even ODDER when said bird was carrying around a letter.

And it was downright PERPLEXING to find out that said letter was addressed to you, in your exact location. And by exact, I mean EXACT. It wasn't his everyday junk mail, that was for sure.

Folding the parchment carefully and placing it in his pocket, he stood up from his sitting position under a rather large cherry blossom tree. He stretched a bit and allowed his gaze to waver at the clock tower.

A good ten minuets 'till four o'clock.

He was fortunate that the Yasukuni Shrine was only a three minuet walk from the park...

Tbc... .

Authoress Notes-:

I'm sorry that this chapter was so short, but I didn't want to cause any confusion by writing up all of them receiving their letters and then heading for the Yasukuni Shrine. That will be in the next chapter, which CERTAINLY will be much longer than this, what with all of the pondering that comes with the fact that they are wizards.

-Chibi Amo