TWEWY: A Fall Into Honor:

This story is about how Joshua became the Composer. The story is from Joshua's point of view. This is a prequel of the game The World Ends With You. TWEWY is made by Square Enix. This is a FAN FICTION and not the real prequel. Enjoy.

Week 1, Day 3:

Chapter 12: Noise in the Negitive Zone:

'So, this is A-East?' thought Joshua as he ran with Rei, twice he almost fell down from exhaustion and Rei scolded him for it like he was a little naïve boy.

It frustrated him that Rei wanted to give him advise, the only advice he needed was from Sanae. And for now he had to trust Izo and Rei, because who knows what might happen if he didn't meet them the day before.

Ayumu and Izo met them there in silence, Joshua felt a bit concerned for Ayumu after what he saw with Sho. Sho couldn't be trusted; that meant Ayumu needed him now.

"Now how could Noise be negative?" mused Joshua as they stood together, no one replied but he didn't expect them to "There must be some kind of way to figure out this."

Rei rolled her eyes at him and shrewdly spoke "How tosh, if I was the person who was making these crazy missions what would I be thinking. You should know Aleck."

"How should I know?" asked Joshua amused, as he looked at Izo who coughed aloud, the dark bluish haired boy scowled at him as he tilted his small oval glasses to be centered exactly on his face.

When he spoke his tone was icy "You know we only have 15 and a half minutes until we fail, fella. Either we throw ourselves to the Reapers with the white flag, wander 'round 'til we are erased, or… figure out what a Negative Noise is Aleck." those words seemed like pure venom to Joshua.

Izo and Rei sounded like they were speaking to the Game Master as Sanae titled the person.

"Know, Josh know." his younger half brother's sudden words surprised Joshua, who eyed Ayumu with widened eyes. Right now Ayumu was looking sightlessly at him, he wished that he could mentally see hope in his words. And with a nod he replied calmly "I'll try."

Rei snorted while Izo's chilly haze seemed to grow colder.

In consideration Joshua closed his eyes 'Did Sanae say anything about this? Err… Remember Joshua, I know I heard this from him…' for some reason he felt serene even though time ticked away fast.

Harder he thought until he heard Sanae's voice in memory "Negative Noise, Josh, are the Noise that feed off imagination from people in the RG. People who have great vivid imagination might as well get used to them. Other than those Noise is the Chump Noise, as you might say they are friends with them, well… because they always are the side effect of the Negative Noise."

Joshua opened his eyes slowly and smirked "I think we need to go do some RG mind hunting."

Izo narrowed his eyes and growled "Mate, you got to make sense, because we are all tense-" he yelped as Rei hit his head hard with a clipboard before scribbling something down "Focus Izo! You need to drop the poems or I'll drop you off for the Noise."

"It wasn't meant to be a poem!" protested Izo coldly.

How she had that clipboard with her this whole time, Joshua had no idea she had it. No matter that, they had to find people with vivid imaginations.

Ayumu suddenly nodded and brokenly mused "Sound near, people here. I trust brother, now." Joshua face palmed himself and sighed, when will Ayumu stop talking like this? It was getting on his nerves.

Hastily he took out his Player Pin and Rei and Izo did the same "Find the Negative Noise, we need to bring them all together for a Erasure party." Ayumu looked at the ground as they clenched their fists and closed their eyes in union. The next thing Joshua saw was the same blue abyss as he Scanned the area today.

He began to wander around searching for the Noise. Thoughts from the RG came and haunted him that he tried his best to block out. Shiftily he checked his timer to see they had only 013:44 minutes left.

As he searched he noticed Ayumu had his head hung with his eyes closed, this worried him.

Abruptly something yellow whipped by his face that he spun around to see, a boy that looked 12 years old with purple headphones was tapping his foot almost humming to his music while being unaware of the yellow Noise symbols that circled around him from the UG.

His queer funnel shaped collar hid half his face as his blue grey eyes were closing, and his bright spiky hair was almost blazing in the paling sunlight. From what Joshua understood, this boy had a heap of imagination.

There were at least 3 yellow Noise symbols there that were attracted to him while two red Noise symbols followed the other type of Noise.

Clearing his throat he shouted, "Fight us!"

Suddenly the Noise froze in the air before they started to swiftly dive towards him.

Joshua stopped scanning and despite his displeasure ran back to Ayumu, Izo and Rei were back as well but they didn't look like a horde of Noise were coming after them.

"The Noise are attacking!" Joshua said loudly as he reached them, Ayumu looked up blinking as he brokenly said slowly "'Kay. Fight must us all." Izo had taken out a couple long pale white threads for some reason and tied them on each of his fingers while Rei held up her clipboard in a defensive manner.

The headphone boy's Negative Noise appeared in front of them, while screeching sharply like glass was shattering. Joshua scowled at them as he smirked "The Noise need a tune down."

At those words they all were bathed in pale brilliant light.

The battle area looked sort of like A-East, but was more closed off. When Joshua looked up at the Noise he saw four Gabba Bat Noise, two Carcinofolk Carcin Noise and one Alterna Wolf Noise.

Rei, Izo and Ayumu were back to back with him in bleak faded figures as the Noise made a tight circle around them; all of them had evil glares that made Joshua tense up.

The first of the four players to attack was Izo. He twisted his hands back and forth as his whip-like thread lashed at each Noise, until one of his threads caught onto a Gabba Bat Noise. Izo stopped lashing his threads and fluently moved them, to Joshua's surprise the Bat Noise moved as the threads moved like a puppet.

As Izo sent his Noise puppet to attack Joshua and Co began to attack.

Rei held her clipboard firmly as she scribbled down on it; she had a toothy grin as her hair ruffled from gales that surrounded her. Lighting suddenly twisted and struck within the wind that caused one of the Bat and Carcin Noise to jerk in a spasm.

Joshua summoned the ability of his Transflaration Pin, and used his powers to bend the blue flames into red before scattering them at his foes. Slowly he smirked before he did a silent scream as the Alterna Wolf Noise pounced at him from behind and bit his arm as blaze surrounded it's body.

He struggled under the grip of the Noise almost like the hunter pinned the prey, he tried to use his Transflaration Pin again but the pain was overwhelming him. Suddenly the Noise was knocked away from him by a golden yellow aura of warped wind, "Careful."

The older brother got up and smiled at Ayumu, who bleakly ran past him to send another warp of the area at the Noise. But the Wolf Noise did not look too happy; it's gold eyes were slits as fire burst from it as it charged at Ayumu.

Joshua leapt forward to his brother and used his Breezifreeze Pin to shield them. Ayumu stood quiet as Joshua vowed "You always need me don't you? We'll win this battle even if I sweat it." the word 'sweat' made Joshua shiver in unease.

The Wolf Noise suddenly broke through the ice that flung Ayumu and Joshua into a wall, the wall now had a crack created by them; they lay there dazed. Joshua looked down and grumbled "Fire and ice don't mix. Why did I do that?"

The question remained unanswered as the Noise continued to charge at them. Quickly Joshua grabbed ahold of Ayumu's collar, and yanked him out of the way before the Noise hit the wall.

Sprouted fire lay where it had run. The half brothers ran away from it only to be blocked by the other Bat Noise, Joshua narrowed his eyes and evaded the Bats as they spun around before diving at them.

He used his Transflaration Pin as blue flares sparked from his palms and levitated the fire by his psychic powers, he made the fire spin around them in a flurry as the Bats attacked only to have their demise of erasure.

"Try to help Izo or Rei." Joshua told Ayumu and ran off in the direction of the Wolf Noise, everything that was happening whirled in his sight as blurs and Joshua was almost overwhelmed by it. As Joshua ran away, his half brother only watched him go as he whispered, "Safe be brother. Good luck, fight…"

He passed Izo as he was controlling one of the Carcin Noise to fight the other one, the dark blue haired boy glanced at him for a second as he retorted in huffs "Mate! This mêlée… is wearing me down, how much longer… do we have?" Joshua did a quick look at the scarlet timer to see that they had only 7 minutes left.

'We're almost done for.' warm sweat rolled down his face as he reached the Wolf Noise that leered at him, he wiped his forehead lightly as he clenched his fists ready 'Ayumu will not lose me, I need to make sure of that. The vow I made to him… I won't fail…'

"Tosh dog!" the taunt sounded bitter as it left his mouth, in turn the Noise lowered it's head and barred it's teeth in a snarl "Your fur will burn off, yes siree."

The Negative Noise howled in rage and charged at him with a fierce blaze on its fur, smoothly he leapt to the side and mused "You sure are clumsy." it skid to a stop before again charging at Joshua.

This time Joshua tried to dodge but it bashed into him with its head, he yelped in pain, as fire and livid burns scorched his skin. Never before did he have this much trouble with any battle here.

He only managed to get to his hands and knees when it bowled him over again but this time bit into his shoulder, he let out a sharp agonized scream as pain shot through him. It was like his whole body was on fire while being impaled at the same time, he trashed around as the Noise dug deeper into his shoulder.

Soon he closed his eyes tight as he let out another scream; next the darkness in his closed eyesight was images from his past that he thought as 'life flashing before your eyes'. He lay limply there as his shoulder started to numb.

Weight from the Noise came off and Joshua snapped open his eyes. Ayumu was tugging at his legs like he was trying to pull him away, truth behold Joshua knew Ayumu wasn't the strongest of people, more like wimpiest. He sighed as he murmured, "Let go of my legs, I can walk still Ayumu."

Slowly he tried to get up, but the pain in his right shoulder almost made him feel like he would pass out anytime. So he just tried to use his left arm to pull himself across the ground.

Not long did Rei lift him up by the collar while he suffocated from the lack of circulation, he choked out as she held him "Let… go…"

"Your feet work," spat Rei as she spun around crossly, "Use them Aleck." She dropped him to his feet only for him to almost topple backwards. Joshua rubbed his neck before he cringed "Shoulder fading, Josh is in pain." slowly he saw that Ayumu was right, his right shoulder was gone and you could see past it.

"I need help, fellas!" yelled Izo almost fearfully but cold as the only remaining Noise, the Alterna Wolf, was chasing him as a trail of fire followed after it.

Rei shook her head and growled under her breath "Oh boy, always Izo getting his share of love. You should see him with kittens." A mental image of Izo being tackled by a horde of kittens filled Joshua's mind that he chuckled to, "I'd love to see it."

Both Rei and Ayumu looked at him blankly.

They all ran to help Izo, who only could whip his threads at the Wolf feebly as he teetered back and forth.

Joshua watched as Rei held her clipboard and scribbled furiously on it, dark clouds on cue formed in the sky and thunderbolts rained down upon them. Again with more scribbles a nasty looking hurricane appeared that slowly went towards the Noise, it only had time to look up before it was swept into the air with howls of anger.

Joshua could only stare at it as he queried, "How are you doing this?"

"When you have nothing else to do on a sunny day," explained Rei craftily with a grin as she watched the storm brew, "You think of horrific weather days by writing on a clipboard to amuse yourself. The possibilities are endless!"

'What evil grows in her mind?' pondered Joshua amused, 'I'd like to know and learn from it.' He noticed that Ayumu watched it without breaking sightless eye contact, 'The same goes for you, Ayumu…'

Suddenly he widened his eyes as he finally noticed Izo was trapped in the storm also, he was being thrown around like a doll in the hurricane as he hollered angrily even though Joshua had a hard time hearing him "Rei! I hate you! Why not wait until I'm beside you before you let loose the tempest."

"Enjoy the moment!" Rei called happily.

Suddenly the winds died down so fast that Rei's words meant nothing now. Izo fell towards the ground before a golden yellow glow shined from him, Joshua smiled and looked at Ayumu who held up his hand and slowly brought it to him "Saved me the trouble of doing it."

But his attention went to the Wolf Noise that had crashed to the ground and lay trashing. Joshua left the group and went towards the Noise, for some reason he smiled at it and he did not know why. Until he spoke "Time to end your pain." with that the queer feeling from before came back and a surge of brilliant light of sparks showered down on it.

'Starblight…'

By the time the light was gone, also was the Noise.

Right after that the next thing he knew, they returned to the A-East district.

Joshua instantly clutched the spot where his shoulder should have been as searing pain jolted into him, light particles for some reason were hovering over him as it slowly fell down. By the time it landed on his shoulder, the light was filling into the right side of him and slowly his shoulder reformed. It looked normal.

"Timer gone, now is all good." said Ayumu as he grabbed Joshua's hand and traced his fingers over it, and he was right. Just his plain soft skin was there, not the timer etched into it.

Suddenly Joshua felt pain as agonizing as though the timer etching into him through his head, he backed away and touched his temple as his vision began to blur and swim. One blurred figure in front of him spoke in slur "Josh… Josh are you okay? Joshua-" he knew it was Ayumu's voice and then everything went black.

To be continued, hope you enjoyed the chapter…