This is going to be a long, long , LONG story, so don't be too surprised if I have some long chappies in this one. I'm long-winded and I'm not going to try to supress it that much after this chappie. It's my stress reliever story LOL

Remember hearing that Sniper disappeared after graduating high school? Where has he been all that time?

I own nothing. Enjoy.

At Shuichi Minamino's home...

"Yes, mother...I will...Give the others my love..."

Kurama hung up the phone. He had been having strange feelings since he had returned from Demon World. He'd been wanting to talk to Shiori more frequently, as if he sensed that something was going to happen to her. Could it be that she was about to fall ill again? Did it have something to do with all of those demons in town recently? Maybe something was going to happen to him? He wanted to know what his gut was telling him, but no answers came.

There was another gut feeling nagging at him. He felt like he was being watched. He had been scanning his surroundings constantly, yet, he could not feel a physical presence near him. The only other time he had felt this was when Hiei had been watching him from a distance with his Jagan eye, but Hiei had stayed behind in Demon World. As talented as he was, even he couldn't be watching from another world.

Pondering these questions was getting him nowhere. He decided that he needed to go out and look around. As he started out the door, his phone rang again.

'I suppose mother forgot something...'

He answered his phone.

"Minamino residence...Kaitou?...No. I'm not terribly busy at the moment... Yes. I'll meet you there."

He hung up the phone again. Kaitou's voice had been troubled. There was a great urgency in it. What did he want to discuss? Was he having the same feelings as the Kurama and the others?

Across town, in a small brick building...

"Right this way."

"Sir, if you don't mind me asking, what is this tape about anyway? Why do I have to watch it to be a part of the group?"

"You'll see. Soon enough. I will only tell you that all the secrets, including why you have that strange power, are about to be told."

"That power..."

The boy grew silent. He was lost in thoughts of what had happened to his mother. He had always had the power Yeon had spoke of. When he was a baby, if his bottle wasn't there on time, his toys had a tendency to fly across the room. When he got older, if he was angry, things fell off shelves, or, like that time in gym, when the boys were playing keep-away with his street shoes. The ring-leader jumped out of his reach and a softball had come out of nowhere and stopped rolling under his feet. The boy had spent months in the hospital due to three broken vertebrae in his spine.

His mother had protected him all those years. She had home-schooled him after that incident. She hadn't wanted his secret out. In the end, he had been the monster to kill her. She had been yelling at him. He hadn't done his chores or his studying that day. The first signs of teen-rebellion were starting to show. She had done all the talking she could do and it did no good. He couldn't take the yelling. The room had spun. Then there was a crashing sound, and the yelling stopped. He looked to see his mother, lying beneath the antique bookshelf that stood in their living room. He had ran to her, but her skull was an unnatural shape, and there was blood. Lots of blood. He had ran. He didn't know where he was going. He just ran.

Yeon had caught him as he'd ran through the woods. He had comforted him, and taken him in. Now, he said he was going to show him this tape. The rest had all seen it. They told him that after watching it, he would be one of them.

"Yeon, I'm glad to see you've returned. Is this our new recruit?" a woman asked.

"Yes. This is Ken. He's about to view Chapter Black for the very first time."

Ken jumped back when he got a look at the woman. Her hair was a fiery red, with orange looking strands in it, the color of an inferno! There was heat coming from her, and her eyes, they seemed to glow red. As he watched, he saw not only red, but orange and yellow. The colors flickered and danced, like there was a fire behind them, shining through. She looked like no other woman he had ever seen, not even in the movies!

"Wha- what is she?" he gasped, instantly regretting the question. He was afraid they would take offense to this, and he was afraid of them!

"I see he hasn't had dealings with us in the past," she said to Yeon, amused at the boy's reaction to her.

"No. He has a power, but so far, he's never had any run-ins with demons."

"DEMONS? What are you talking about?"

"You need not be afraid of Charla. She's one of us. She's a fire apparition. She and her sisters have all decided to help our group expose the truth. I'll explain more about that after you see the tape."

After leaving him in the Media Room of their small compound, Yeon returned to what he called his Operations Room. There he was met by a skeptical looking Charla.

"Why have you taken interest in that brat? He's had no dealings with demons, and what power I sense from him is pathetic. He can't possibly be worth wasting time with."

"He has the power of telekinesis. He has been known to slam and lock doors from across the room. That could be useful when we take this public."

"How do you gather?"

"Once it becomes apparent that the TV stations have been taken over, every cops within a 20 mile radius of each one will come running. We don't want any interruptions before we get to the good parts, now do we?"

"I thought that's where my sisters and I came into play?"

"You can only be so many places at once. Besides, I may have a different job for you."

"Oh?"

"I don't look for those in Spirit World to just hand this victory over. They're going to strike back with whatever force they have. My partner has already warned me about what happened last time someone attempted to use this tape."

"Your partner? You're talking about that human, Hagiri."

"He was the only one who was here the first time around. Before you start telling me you don't like him, I'll tell you, I have no choice but to keep him around."

"I thought the last time was irrelevant. That human was just trying to let the demons through because of some self-righteous plan to purge the world of humans."

"He planned to make the humans atone for their evil acts. I don't care about good or evil. I don't care about human or demon kind. When this is through, all I care about is sitting high on my throne, ruling them all."

"With all the chaos that tape will generate, Spirit World's men will have their hands full elsewhere. By the time they get to us, it's going to be too late," Charla smirked.

"Mass religious hysteria, riots in the streets, suicides, murders. Humans react to the unknown in all different ways, but when they all start reacting at the same time, and then get forced to deal with the reactions of the others as well-"

"You will have opened Pandora's Box," Charla said, a twinkle in her burning eyes.

"Yes. And when the demons see what the humans have done to their kind..."

"They'll swoop down on them with a vengeance. The blood will flow in rivers. Then the disputes should arise in my homeland."

"The demons will do most of my work for me. Once the uprising has begun there, they'll take care of the strongest leaders themselves, along with those in Spirit World. Anyone who tries to stand in the way of killing the humans. Then I will be left, standing beside my 4 S class sorceresses. You and your sisters will be able to put down any resistance left. I will rule the three worlds, with my queen at my side." Yeon put his arms around Charla and gave her a long passionate kiss.

'Little do you know lover,' she thought as she returned his kiss, 'you are the one doing all the work for me. My sisters and I would never stoop so low as to share the monarchy of the worlds with a human!'

Now that the overall plot is laid out, we can get down to business in the next chappie. No more beating around the bush. Till then, REVIEW! That's my reason for writing if you guys haven't noticed, lol.