Maka, armed with her weapon partner Soul ran through the dark corners and streets of Death city. The duo was chasing a long wanted pre-kishin that was tormenting the once quiet nights of the enormous mega metropolis. She quickly turned a corner between two old looking buildings in the market area and headed straight for an ally way. But before she could find the pre kishin, the soul eater duo heard a loud painful screeching sound coming from the area beyond the alley way.

"Maka! What's going on?!" Soul asked in a surprised voice.

"I don't know Soul, but that pre kishin's soul wave length just suddenly disappeared. And..there appears to someone else next to it?!" Maka described what she'd sensed through her soul perception ability."But if there's only one other soul there, then how could have they taken down a pre kishin?" Maka thought to herself out loud, still running towards the place where the pre kishin's soul had last been active.

"Well then lets be on our guard for know Maka, cause don't really have a good feeling about this. Soul advised his mister.

"Right" Maka agreed to her weapon's worried comment.

Lelouch Pov

When Lelouch finally awoke from what seems like forever, his head started pounding mercilessly, and his body felt like it would break if he slightly just moved it; it was truly a horrible position to be in. And to add more problems to the stack, he was somewhere in a foreign city, in the middle of the night that he didn't know of, and he had no idea how he could've got there. He tried his best to get up using a nearby wall, but fell back down again; he cursed under his breath.

"Grrrrrrraaaa" He heard a low inhuman growl accompanied with what seems to be the loud dragging and clinging of sharp pieces of metal. Clink clink clink, the teen now heard the metal sounds grew louder and more distinct; he know that whatever was coming his way was probably not going to be a friendly resident of this city. Whatever this thing is I better geass it. Specially if it decides to tear me to shreds. But with a low growl like that I doubt it would be human. A dog maybe? No, that doesn't explain the sharp metallic sounds. Lelouch thought to himself. He guessed he could only brace for the worst. And he was right, because a moment later a humanoid figure appeared; well it certainly had the normal features of a human, it also had pieces of metal poking out of its body, along with two giant metallic blades for hands. Upon closer inspection of the humanoid figure, had a somewhat deformed face and a coat of dry and fresh blood mixed together, thus giving it a look of having crimson red skin.

GRRRRAAAWARR! The pre kishin appeared letting out another growl. It seems to have taken an interest in Lelouch, and is now coming closer. Seeing what was approaching him alarmed Lelouch dearly. "Why it does have to be now of all times? My right leg's been badly damaged so running away would be hard. Calling for help would be useless since I don't think anyone would be near such a secluded area, either that or they couldn't fend this thing off, and probably stayed away. But worse of all I don't know if the geass would even affect this thing!"Were all the thoughts that had ran through the teen's still pounding head. The pre kishin approached him, and began to swipe at him with it's metallic blades; the walls around him were scraped away as if they were made of cheese, quick and smoothly cut. That's when Lelouch realized how sharp the blades were, and if he were to be slashed even once his life would be over, let alone his promise to Nunnally, or his rebellion for that fact. Despite Lelouch's horrible condition, he some how mustered up enough strength to dodge a few more coming attacks from the monster.

"Shit!" Lelouch cried out when one of the metal pieces attached to the bloody pre kishin give him a light cut. He was lucky the thing didn't cut too deep. As he tried his best to stay cut free from the oncoming attacks,he had thought about how to make eye contact with it so he could try his geass, even tho it was a crazy idea, it was the only chance he had at escaping this thing; a few seconds later and the ideal chance came, the pre kishin missed another attack, Lelouch then ran behind it, it quickly turned around to face him. Perfect Lelouch thought as he took off his contact lense.

"I Lelouch vi Britannia commands you! Die!" Lelouch commanded the pre kishen. He just hopped that this would work or otherwise he would be slashed into a million tiny pieces. After the command there a brief moment of silence; the pre kishen stopped in its tracks, and the next thing Lelouch knew the monster lifted one of its metallic blades then swiftly slashed through its throat; letting out a horribly painful screeching noise in the process. He did it! He'd actually won against this thing! He had taken the gamble with his geass and won! Lelouch stared at the pre kishin's corpse in silence, as he processed what just happened. That's when saw the pre kishin's body turn into a little red orb of light. What is that? He pondered to himself. But he was interrupted by the pain the pre kishin had inflicted on his body, and the previous wounds he had woken up with. During the struggle with the pre kishin he had completely forgotten about the pain, and now it seems to have come back to bother him some more. He suddenly felt his head pound even more, and then collapsed to the ground in pain; just before he'd blacked out, he saw a girl with blond hair tied up in pigtails, holding a scythe in the distance.

chapter 3