Important Note: This is based off of the Good Ending of Shadow Hearts 1, as such, it ignores Shadow Hearts: Covenant.
Shadow Hearts: 2199
Chapter One
He was in this place... again. Where exactly this place was, he wasn't quite sure. It looked to be a graveyard -- a very typical one at that. Filled with mist, very dark, and was home to a few eerie, oddly shaped, old tomb stones. However, the thing that bothered him the most was the very strong sense of malice within this graveyard.
This time around, something seemed out of place. A sound. A pecking sound, to be exact. It sounded as if there was something pecking at a...
"Argh!" He shouted as he bolted up from off his mattress on the ground
... Window. He looked over to find a white raven pecking at his window. It was Woo, which meant another mission for him. He got out of his bed and began to get dressed. He slipped on a red t-shirt over his white one, pulled on his dark blue jean cargo-like pants with many pockets, put on his all black sneakers, and finally put on his zip-up black hoodie which was about one size too big for him.
Before leaving, he opened the window and took the piece of paper that was tied around the raven's foot. It was about 10 PM, so he was hoping the land lord wasn't awake. However...
"Alice Hyuga!" A rather round woman screamed as Alice attempted to sneak down the stairs "You're overdue for your rent!"
"Shuddap!" Alice quietly shouted, hoping she didn't hear him
The year is 2199. Alice lives in New York -- a place that many attempt to avoid now. An earthquake struck a few years back and every since then, New York has been covered in mist -- which at 12 midnight, becomes red. When the mist becomes red, monsters begin to appear. No one can explain it, however due to it, most of the buildings; the nice ones anyway, are now armor plated as well as cars, trains, and other such things.
Alice is 22, has red eyes, and short messy hair that is so blonde, it looks silver. Like all of the Hyuga family, Alice was a natural born fighter and had uncanny physical abilities. For protection, he carried spiked knuckles in the pockets of his hoodie.
"This looks to be the place..."
Currently, Alice was on top of a tall building in the south of his town, looking down on the rails of a SkyWay -- a train station built above ground. Alice slipped his hands into his hoodie pockets and put on his spiked knuckles as he heard the train coming. He took a deep breath and jumped, landing on the Sky Train.
He was supposed to save some chick that was coming back from work. A group planned on kidnapping her and using her for ransom, as she supposedly belonged to a wealthy family.
He landed with a thud. Had he been normal bloke, he would've broken every bone in his legs, luckily for him, he wasn't. He ran to the back of the train and kicked in the door.
The girls name was Emma Robison. All he really knew about her appearance was that she has short brown hair and would be wearing some sort of white suit.
"Heh! Looks like fun"
He looked around; everyone on the train seemed to either be hurt or dead. As he heard gun fire, he ran forward until he could see the shadows of people in the next train car. Another bullet fired, and the shadow of one of people fell to the ground. Whoever the gun using person was noticed Alice and turned to him, giving Alice a good view of the person.
"Emm--" Alice began to call out before he was cut off by a bullet in the skull
She looked at his body; he didn't look like one of the thugs that tried taking her. Did she make a mistake? She sure hoped not. But suddenly, it didn't really matter...
"Ow!" Alice moaned as the bullet popped out of his head, making Emma jump back and fall "You better hope that doesn't leave a scar... 'coz that'd be damn embarrassing to have a round scar in the middle of my forehead..." He complained as he rubbed his head
Their attention shifted up to the roof as a thud was heard, followed by foot steps. Alice quickly grabbed Emma's free hand and began running toward the back.
"So, uh, where'd ya learn to fire that thing so damn good?" He asked as he turned his head back to her as they ran
"Training. Money can buy anything" Emma responded
"Yeah... I've noticed" Alice smirked as he glanced at her chest
"You--!"
Emma was about to scream at Alice but stopped once a man wearing a huge black trench coat with long black hair jumped through the back door, standing in-between their exit.
"Yo!" Alice shouted as he put his fists, ready to fight
He didn't know who this man was, but he didn't care either. All he knew and cared about was that he was the only thing in the way of his pay check for this mission. The trench coat man popped out a long black sword that's sheath was connected to the belt of the trench coat.
"One of your friends?" Emma asked
"Are you an idiot?" Alice responded as he pushed her to the side and he jumped back, dodging the mans attack
Alice countered by jumping and doing a round house kick with his right leg, knocking the man into the door way of the train. Alice lunged at him, trying to push him out, however, the sword wielding man held onto the door way. Emma pointed her silver gun to Alice's back and shot, the bullet ripping through Alice and going into the attacker, thus making him let go of the train and fall out the back.
"Hey!"
"You'll heal, right?"
"Well, yeah... but my hoodie..."
He looked at his watch and then quickly scooped her up into his arms, Emma's face turning bright red. According to the mission plan that Woo brought him, within a minute, the train would be passing over a building. So, he counted to 40 then jumped. Alice landed so that his legs took all the damage of the fall.
"So, um... who or what are you...?" Emma asked as Alice put her down
"Alice Hyuga"
"Oh... I'm--"
"I know - Emma Robison"
"How?"
"I work for someone who gives me odd jobs like this. Dunno who he is, but every once and awhile a little birdie drops off a mission - I do it, I then find money back in my room in a nice little box. This time around, I was supposed to save you, though it didn't seem like you really needed it..."
"Yes. All you did was complicate things. You're a very useless man" Emma scoffed as she patted off the dust on her silver suit
"And you're a busty bitch. Now let's get down from here"
Alice opened a door on the floor of the roof that led to steps. They quickly worked their way down through the building until they got to the ground floor.
"They're real, you know" Emma said as the two exited the building
"Yeah, and my name ain't girly soundin'"
"... Well, where are we going, Alice?"
"Depends. Which of our houses is closer?"
"More than likely yours. As I live in Inner New York, with all the other clean rich people. Not in the outer parts with all the other useless dirty people -- like you"
"I hate you"
Before she could respond, they both quickly turned around as they heard the screeching of something metal being dragged on the ground. From out of the shadows walked the trench coat wearing man they fought before, however, now he was twisted and broken. He was bloody, with limbs twisted in ways they shouldn't be, and generally very messed up.
"Hey! I--"
"We"
"--Kicked your ass"
The attacker dropped his sword as he began to twitch. His body soon ripped open, a huge winged monster now revealing itself, ripping through the skin as if it had simply out grown it, which it obviously did.
"Doesn't that beat all..." Alice said, rubbing the back of his head
"But... its not even midnight yet!" Emma shouted as she pointed her gun at it
"Obviously, this is something much different. I know you're slow -- but try to keep up with the current events"
Emma let off a few rounds at it, the monster barely flinching. In which, Alice grabbed her hand and began running yet again.
"Scarlet should be around here..."
"Who?"
"Shuddap"
Alice ran through ally ways, attempting to lose the monster that was flying after them, only a few feet behind. But as he got about a block away from his apartment, Alice finally found the man he was looking for -- Scarlet. Scarlet is an old man who looks to be around late 40s to early 50s, wearing a black medium sized patched up tall hat, a light grey dress jacket with many patches and stitches, a dirty white t-shirt, beat up black dress pants with grey patches on the knees, and brown dress shoes. The only thing that wasn't dirty and beat up was his long scarlet red scarf.
"Yo!" Alice called to him as he ran into the ally way he was sitting by
Scarlet nodded and smiled as he got up. As Alice got out of the ally, a huge flash of red could be seen, followed by a loud monstrous howling.
"We're here!" Alice huffed and puffed as he stood at the steps of his apartment
Emma looked up at it and shook her head.
"Calling such a place 'a dump' would be too kind..."