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Chapter 3: Shadows

Kanade looked at her wrist that was now unscathed, then she glanced over to the area of which she cut her wrist, there was no blood or any evidence of the sort. She decided that the best idea was to sit and wait for Otonashi to return and await further instructions, she sat and tried to remember what had happened during her previous experience at this high school, "Who was I, am I familiar to these people, no if I remember correctly I believe that you had at most four years in this place... but I had seven years here, why can't I recall anything?" Kanade pondered as to why she was sent back, she had fulfilled her "life" there, "wait, what did I fulfill here?"

Girls Dormitory; fourth floor

"Com'on what the hell is taking so long Clyde?" Otonashi asked hastily. Clyde spent around twenty minutes tops working on his attempts to get the computer to work,

"Almost done, chill," Clyde paused and looked at the computer's internals, "Well I found the problem, it just needs a little dusting." Clyde took a deep breath and blew out as hard he could, a mass of dust expelled through the back of the computer and the fan blades let out a slow whiz the gradually grew louder, the monitor turned on and began its start up, "And that my good friend is called patience."

Otonashi shove Clyde away from the computer and knelt down so that he could operate at eye level, "alright miss Tachibana lets see who you really are."

Kanade sat and pondered to herself as to what she fulfilled and what she accomplished. She remembered her abilities, her skill and that she served as an enforcer during her years there but had forgotten the real reason why she was able to move on, "Maybe I better tell Otonashi or that other guy what happened maybe they'll have some answers." she had decided to go out and find Otonashi and Clyde, she emerged from the couch and made her way through the door to search for the two.

Otonashi sat at the computer searching relatively frantically through the computer while Clyde sat on the bed and observed Otonashi work. There was a thick silence in the room, the only sound that could be heard was Otonashi's fingers typing, clicking, and searching. Clyde was curious as to what Otonashi was searching for so he decided to investigate into his cause,

"So, this Angel who or what was it?" Clyde asked as Otonashi searched the computer,

"I don't exactly remember everything, I remember that it was a girl, she was very important to me. She kept order through out the school and she went about her days as a student," Otonashi answered,

"What happened to her?" The typing stopped suddenly and both Otonashi were perfectly still. Otonashi looked down and replied,

"She abandoned me, abandoned us, because after she left, they showed up. She didn't move on, she knew what was coming, she and God left us her to be destroyed, erased." Otonashi resumed typing, "She promised to stay with me, they said there was a chance that she would return but I've waited almost a hundred years and nothing has happened... look at this," Otonashi said as he pushed the chair back to make room for Clyde. Clyde got up and walked over to see what he had found, "This was a list of Angel's abilities, this is what made her powerful." Clyde looked through the list of abilities and examined them, Hand sonic, Harmonics, Wing, "wow someone got really bored," Clyde thought,

"And look at this, there is no user present in the current area, meaning that Angel is not here... I want you to link this computer to the hack and keep it updated," Otonashi ordered,

"We almost have the hack full, and why do you want the computer to update us on something that isn't even here and hasn't been here in the past ninety-nine years?"

"I don't think Angel isn't here, because someone has to observing us right? Can you try and link the hack to just that program?"

"Yeah, shouldn't be a problem, just give me a moment." Clyde pulled out a rectangular device with a screen that reassembled a phone except this has a USB at the end of the device and two prongs on the bottom, this device was the 'Hack' it allowed the user to track multiple computer's activities. Clyde put the Hack into the USB driver and began linking the Computer to link it to the hack.

Kanade roamed the campus in search for Otonashi and Clyde, she stood at the front of one of the dormitories hoping to find them, she walked inside the dark building and called out, "is there anyone in here?" the dark responded with dead silence, Kanade walked back outside and looked around, until she saw a figure move across the building across from her, "Excuse me!" She called, the figure stopped. Kanade waited for a response form it but it didn't say anything, she walked toward the figure about fifteen steps until it shifted directions. She immediately stopped and watched the figure pan its body over to her, its head was low until it turned to her, slowly the figure lifted its head and flashed it's blood red eyes and let out a low rumbling growl. She watched it raise its arm up, the arm bubble and melt until it mutated into a long double bladed sword, then it let out a loud roar. Kanade immediately turned around and ran for the dormitory she could hear the creature's loud footsteps stomping behind growing louder and louder.

"What the hell?!" Clyde yelled,

"There's one on campus, let's go!"Otonashi ordered as he ran through the opened door and raced down the stairs while Clyde followed behind Clyde followed behind.

Kanade evaded by diving sideways to the ground and the creature charged right past her. It char-crashed into the dormitory and turned around, it growled and placed it's hand on the ground and drew its blade back, it was prepped to charge at any given second, Kanade pulled up her arm to activate her hand sonic, "Guard skill, hand-" before she could activate someone called from inside the dorm,

"Hey!" Otonashi yelled as he drew his sword from his back. The figure turned around, blade still ready to strike, Otonashi looked over and saw Kanade laying on the ground staring at him with a straight face. Clyde stopped at the top of the stairs and watched as Otonashi took his stance before the figure, the figure let out a roar and thrust it's blade forward, Otonashi pulled his sword to his shoulder and let the figure's blade glide across his. Otonashi noticed the creature over extended it's reach and pushed it's blade knocking it off balance, in one quick motion Otonashi swung his sword through the figure's head. Kanade and Clyde watched as the head flew and dissipated through the ground, "where did it go?" Kanade thought. She glanced up and watched the figure body fall to the ground as blood fell from where it's head used to be. soon after the body also dissipated into the floor leaving behind a pool of blood.

Otonashi flicked the blood from his sword and sheathed it on his back, he walked over to Kanade and knelt beside her, "What the hell were you thinking?" Otonashi scolded,

"I tried to find you two," Kanade answered blandly,

"You can't be out here at night that is one of the basic rule of this campus!"

"Okay."

"What the hell is wrong with her, she seems like nothing ever happened."

There was a loud roar in the distance followed by another in the same direction,

"We need to get moving," Clyde said as he walked over to the two

Otonashi nodded and stood up, Kanade stood and waited, "We're heading back to the office and you are coming with us." Otonashi looked over Kanade's shoulder and looked at another figure prowling on all four legs, red spikes pulsed from it's back as it crawled slowly and almost unnoticed, "Run!" Otonashi yelled as he turned and ran, Without question Kanade followed along with Clyde.

The three ran into the office Otonashi slammed the door behind them and locked it, they sat down to catch their breath. As they began to quietly breath calmly Otonashi spoke, "You're relatively new here so I'm assuming that you have a lot on you're mind, first off I'm going to give you the rules, one, no going out after eleven without an escort, two no going out past midnight period, three try to stay alive as best you can."

"What was that?" Kanade asked,

"That's the schools worst enemy, we call them shadows. After almost a hundred years ago a variation of the shadows appeared, human students went missing and we sent search parties during the day to search for them, until one day a search party came back late, but they said that something followed them back, most of us took up arm and walked back to where they searched, by the lake, they saw one of the shadows standing at the edge of the lake and on the floor before it was a student, he was massacred by this thing so the party shot at it, it died but the night after, these things appeared more frequently, they came out at night to hunt us, but after about sixteen year later our easy going job got harder, they became stronger and smarter, not only that but bullets didn't seem to do the trick anymore, they just deflected off the shadow's body, we took some time and sacrifice to figure out how to beat them then we found out the we had to get close in, which means we needed something that we could hit it with close up, and that meant a sword. After a while they started varying, some were completely useless, like the shrimps that are small and just crawl on the ground, but there are a few strong ones, we classified them by their strength and recognized them, F was the lowest while SS represented the strongest. Some people hunt them down and in turn we give them rewards. However we lost so many people to these creature's and so we have to fight to survive in this school." Otonashi explained,

"So what makes these Shadows so dangerous, you stabbed me and I healed quickly."

"Let's leave it at this, when a shadow kills you, it consumes your body and soul, so think fast and fight hard until your dying breath."