The Great Clock Tower had stricken midnight on June 17, 2011, and before Hikari knew it she was surrounded by a bright white light and when it had faded she was in a completely different place. The new place had an eerie feeling to it and for some reason she already knew what the place was called. The Muted Dimension. She observed the area but didn't see any other people other than seven others. The moon was full even though it had been a waning crescent a few minutes ago. Hikari also had a different outfit then she did before with three sets of jewelry. Red, blue, and green. She was very curious about the place so she bravely went up to one of the strangers, a quiet girl, but she just shook her head and backed away. She asked the others as well but they were as confused and surprised as she was. She soon just started to wander around the place wondering why the moon phase had changed and all the trees were bare. After what had felt like almost forever she began to give up looking for other people and noticed that the Great Clock Tower was still in this Muted Dimension. She began to grow even more curious and walked towards it. When she had arrived there all the others were there as well. She assumed it was because that it was the only place that everyone new of. Hikari was going to ask the girl she had asked before why they might have really come to the clock tower but she was interrupted by a roar with a mix of a panther and wolf. She turned around to see a horrific figure that seemed to have a greenish color to it and it began to charge.

"Ken-kun...go to sleep! It's late already...!"

"Kaa-sama! Come on...I have a test tomorrow...go to sleep first...I can take care of myself, kaa-sama!" Ken grumbled as he turned his head and buried his nose in his books again "Wait a minute...this doesn't seem right...Ah, shit! I forgot a 3..." Ken cursed and tapped his pencil on the book, corrected his mistake while running a hand through his hair "...tsk...11:56 already?"

As the Clock Tower's bells tolled, Ken felt something weird. He looked around and clutched his books in his hand "...Kaa-sama...It's you, isn't it? Kaa-sama...?...Mom?..." He said cautiously. As a white light surrounded his body, Ken let out a yell "Whoa, whoa...What the...?" Before Ken could react, he disappeared.

Ken reappeared at a strange place. He felt face first onto the ground. Pushing himself back up,the books still in his hands, Ken yelled angrily and spat out a mouth full of dust "...Shit! What the hell? Where the hell am I? I have a TEST tomorrow!!! Why can't anyone leave me alone? DAMN IT!!!" He looked around and stopped yelling when he realized: Ken was not in his room. Stood up, the teenager looked at his clothes and nearly yelled again. He was wearing OLD Japanese style clothes! What the...? And are these swords...real swords? He looked around, confused as hell. Ken asked warily as he spotted seven others boys and girls "...who are you people?"

"Why is it so hot today" Mugen had wondered as he tried his best to keep himself cool. The utter decimating heat was unbearable and there was a not single cooling device at his place of residence so he thought it would be wise if he bought tons of water from the local convenience store. The bag filled with water bottles shook in his hand as he thought of ways to best the heat. Suddenly, almost in unison with the midnight bell he felt his body fleet as he took his next step in a strange strange place.

He quickly glanced around to figure out where he was, he wasn't in the same neighborhood anymore, or even on this planet possibly. There were 7 other people of varying ages and they seemed just as confused as he was. "Where am I?" Almost to echo with his thoughts, his memories mocked him, the Muted Dimension. He may not know where he is, but he knows that is what it's called, has he been here before?

"...Who are you people?" A voice announced, it was one of the 7 other individual, an older boy who was in an olden Japanese style Yukata and dual-wielding blades. That was the next logical question, he didn't really know how to respond to such a simple question. "I'm Mugen, and I might be in the same boat as you are, not entirely sure what I'm doing in the Muted Dimension." I announced clutching the catalyst in my hand, catalyst!? Not water-bottles?? He was feeling light headed, he was not aware he was wielding a large catalyst in his left hand where his water-bottles used to be. Paralyzed he wasn't even sure if the guy in the Yukata responded or not. Before he can find out, a girl was already in front of him. She seemed to question him quickly about our whereabouts, she didn't seem to be pleased with my response and moved on to the next person. He should probably seek to do the same, to find out some answers.

It had been June 17th, 2011 and Kai had been walking in the darkening streets. It was nearing midnight and the boy knew that he shouldn't have been out so late by himself, but he had been so caught up with his job, that he hadn't noticed time fly.

The boy nervously shuffled around other busy people and tried to stay out of their way. Gnawing on his lip and running a hand through his pale blond hair, he thought of his Mother and little Sister, how they would be worried for him. How they would leave his food in the microwave because they knew that he would be hungry when he got home. The only two people who truly knew him and understood his mousy silence. He was just disappointed in how much he was disrespecting them.

During the night times in Tokyo, there seemed to be less people to avoid, so Kai took the time that he wasn't keeping away from strangers, to look around him and at the city.

He was passing a large Clock Tower, staring as it's hands slowly tock-ed. For some strange reason, this made him pause to watch as the hands continued to move, faster and faster it seemed, until all hands hit the twelve and a pang came straight from it.
Kai felt the noise zoom through his head, vibrating in his temples. Not only did that feeling frighten him, it was also the fact that the night was melting away along with the city. Where he was, was not Tokyo. Definitely not. No, the name automatically came to the tip of the tongue at the thought.

"The Muted Dimension."

Looking down on himself, he saw he was in a new getup all together. Baggy beige kapris, a black tanktop with a short orange jacket and blue scarf over top. On his hands were black and white gloves that fit perfectly.

In front of him was still the clock tower but around him were seven different people, both male and female, that he had never seen before. There was blonde girl who was walking around curiously, a female with odd colored hair, a male with an eye patch and several others but then there was one who... Was yelling?

"...Shit! What the hell? Where the hell am I? I have a TEST tomorrow!!! Why can't anyone leave me alone? DAMN IT!!!" He yelled, but stopped and stood up. He had seemed to notice everyone else. "...who are you people?"

"I'm Mugen, and I might be in the same boat as you are, not entirely sure what I'm doing in the Muted Dimension." The boy with the eyepatch walked toward him.

Kai nervously took a few steps toward them.

"I-I'm Kai..." he whispered nervously with a scratch to the back of the head.

"Muted... Dimension? What's that?..." Ken asked curiosly. For some strange reasons, he 'd already known the name of this place but he still liked to ask for more information. Ken frowned Muted dimension? I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW... Can't waste time on this...whatever this place is... As the two boys began to introduce themselves, Ken smiled, waved his hand a little and said "The name's Ken. Ken Yaban..."

Hikari notices that a couple of people are already starting to get acquainted so she decided to as well. She walked up to a guy who was wearing an old yukata and was yelling words at probably the most casually dressed person out of the other seven.
"So we're all going to get to know each other? My name is Hikari Kayane."

Before the two guys began to speak Hikari noticed a a pink haired girl.

Rima was in her room doing the homework she had forgotten. "UGH! Why is this happening? This is a 500 point test! I wish I remembered! I wish some miracle would happen to get my work done! Man it's already 11:50 I hope mom doesn't figure out." Rima does some more of her homework. "Rima? Are you still awake?" "EEEK!!!" Rima quickly turns off the lights and hides under her blanket. "Rima? Oh she's asleep." her mom leaves the room. "whew that was close. Better do my homework!" Rima gets out of bed and as soon as her feet touched the floor the clock tower struck 12:00 and she was swallowed into a bright light.

When Rima opened her eyes first thing she saw was the clock tower that had stroke midnight. "What is this place?" but for some reason the name popped into her head. "Muted Dimension"

7 people around her were dressed in odd clothing until she saw what she was wearing. She had on a frilly and short pink dress, a light pink band around her head, white dress shoes, and a golden staff with a crescent moon on the end. She was so scared and embarrassed of her clothing and the strangers around her, she curled into a tight ball.

Then a boy in Ancient Japanese clothes stood up and introduced himself. "The name's Ken, Ken Yaban." then a girl with blonde hair also introduced herself "My name is Hikari Kayane." Rima thought it was humanly stupid to go tell your name to a stranger in weird clothing but Rima stood up straight and did it anyway. "H-hi....My name i-is.....R-Rima N-N-Nukumori."

Ken smiled and nodded his head "Nice to meet all of you, Mugen-kun, Kai-kun, Hikari-chan, Rima-chan..." He said gently to Rima, trying to comfort the shy girl "...don't be shy, Rima-chan...as you can see...we're all very friendly..." Ken smiled. It felt...strange...talking to people who didn't suck up on him...but Ken liked it. He cocked his head to one side and asked again "...does anyone here have any idea why we're stuck in this... Muted Dimension ?"

Kai took a few short seconds to memorize all the names that he had just heard.

Mugen, Ken, Hikari, Rima. He gave himself a faint nod, knowing the information would be lodged into his head for the longest of times.

Being around so many people made him nervous, well... More nervous then normal. He wondered how he had gotten there exactly. His Mother and Sister would be worrying by then, wouldn't they? Would Kai even get to see them again? Was all of this even real? No, it was. He knew that for a fact, but there was a peice of him that just wished the real reason he was there was because he got knocked out and was dreaming.

Not very likely.

Kai was pretty sure he could feel his fingers twitching in some weird spastic way, the way he always did when he was overly-anxious. His cheeks felt warm, almost as if he were blushing and he started shifting back and forth from feet to feet. It was one of his worst cases of nervousness. At least he hadn't passed out yet.

"...does anyone here have any idea why we're stuck in this... Muted Dimension ?" Ken had asked after comforting Rima on her shy-ness. Kai knew he shouldn't be the one to say such a thing, being such a nervous fellow himself but he understood why she could feel so intimidated by people with ... Weapons on them.

"The q-question is, d-does anyone k-know how to get o-out of here?" He mumbled.

Rima gets nervous again and just stands there in shock since the boy so named Ken came over to talk to her with his swords. She stood there is fright. But then he smiled and while he was yelling before he seemed like a very nice person. It made Rima feel more calm. "N-nice to meet you Ken Yaban. May I call you Ken?" Then he asked the same thing Rima was thinking. "...does anyone here have any idea why we're stuck in this... Muted Dimension ?" Why were they?

Ken nodded again "Of course, you may...Rima-chan..." He turned his head and looked at Kai "...And Kai-kun's right...how can we get out of here?" Running a hand through his hair in distress, Ken grumbled "...urg...this sounds exactly like those fairy tales and adventure novels..." He said sacastically, a hand still clutched his books tightly "...and there'll be a fairy appears in the middle of nowhere and then tells us to save their world...then we'll fight some random monsters and save their world and rescue a random princess and live happily ever after..." Let out a frustrated sigh, Ken mumbled "...just freaking awesome... and... I still have a test tomorrow to prepare..."

"Ken-kun if you keep running your fingers through your hair all of it will fall out. Be careful. What are those books in your hands? What is this test anyway? Where are you from? Why do you have swords? Can you do a cartwheel?" Rima was just getting very interested in this nice person.

Hikari was already feeling comfortable around these people and wanted to yak to them more
"Yup nice to meet ya! So do any of you know why we are here?"
Hikari pauses for a moment and looks at everyone else who was in their little circle.
"You think we should bring them in the group as well and bring our heads together on what to do?"
As she says this she points to the others then to her head.

Ken stopped running his hand through his hair and looked at Rima "...huh?..." He answered unintelligently. As he realized she had asked him a bunch of questions, he began to carefully answer them without giving too much information. After all, he didn't know if he could trust all these persons "...Let's see...these are my Chemistry books...and I have a Chemistry test tomorrow...I'm from Japan...I don't know how I have those shiny swords and yes, I can do a cartwheel..." He smiled and did a cartwheel. Stood up, Ken smiled "Does that answer your question, Rima-chan?"

Mugen listened in as everyone seem to share information back and forth; ken seems awfully popular. It is as he feared, nobody knows how they got there, or how to get out. "The q-question is, d-does anyone k-know how to get o-out of here?" The answer was plain and simple, no. Mugen didn't have the heart to tell him that, in fact I don't think anyone even heard the kid speak. He looked very nervous and seemed to turning a slight shade of pink, he's even pacing slightly back and forth. Poor kid's probably a bit freaked from the situation. "There's probably an entrance if we looked around, if there is a way for us to enter, there is definitely a way for us to leave." Mugen reassured Kai as he walked up to him. "Plus I remember this place faintly, and I know where we are. I probably came here a long time ago and never even knew, so that's even more reason to believe there's an escape." He patted Kai on the back "So why don't we get everyone together so we can figure out what to do, okay?"

Hikari noticed that Mugen has been pacing and mumbling to himself so she decided to go talk to him.
"Hi! So what are you doing? ^^ You seem awfully quiet."

Ken heard Mugen spoke and nodded, agreed with the teen "...sounds like a great idea...Let's get everyone together...then we can form a plan to get the hell out of this place..." He looked at his swords curiously and took out one of the swords "Whoa...whoa..." Ken said loudly, clearly surprised. The katana 's white and when he touched it, it became warm...as if it's inviting him to take it "T-The sword...it's warm..." He said finally

As Rima watches Ken do a cartwheel she claps and stares in amazement. Rima then notices Hikari had asked a question. "Yur name is Hikari correct? We should try to find a way out. Our families will be worried." Then Rima notices the two other boys standing close to them and waves them to come over.

"T-The sword.....it's warm!"
"What do you mean it's warm? Maybe you're just imagining things?"
Rima then notices that her staff in her hand starts to heat up and she hears the words Lunar Staff appear in her head and new that was the name of her staff.

Hikari had heard what Ken had said and wondered about her jewelry sets as well and brought her hands to the red one and she seemed to get very warm as if she was in front of a fire place.
"Mine too... except more warming... I wonder what these items that just appear do?"

"No...I'm not imagining it...It's still warm..." Ken shook his head and touched the katana in amazement "Whoa..." He offered the sword to Rima and said "...hey...why don't you try it...?"

Silver had just finished his set of training he was sweaty so he took a bath, he finished he placed a towel to cover himself up, he then reached out for the door nob; then he felt a strong pull from behind him. He blanked out, when he came to his senses he was in a strange place, The Muted Dimension echoed through his head. He the look to see other seven individuals other than him introducing and trying to find out about this place. Silver looked at himself seeing himself in a black Tuxedo with his gloves and rings on, then he heard the roar of a beast that sounded like a panther. Silver looked around a bit "Strange looks familiar somehow." He said then looked at a greenish figure far away he ignores it then walks over to the others, "Hello there names Silver." say's Silver with a smile.

Rima touches Ken's sword and feels nothing at all. "I think it might just be you Ken-kun"

Hikari noticed that she was being ignored by her statement about her jewelry sets.
"U-um my item seemed to warm up too... And wait—"
Hikari brought her hand up to her face in astonishment and pretended to be shocked.
"Ken have you already fallen for Rima? Love at first sight?"
Hikari elbows Ken on the side and says,"Ohoho romantic I see."