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They saw the cries before they saw the flood of people running from Shiba park. Adrian could only decipher bits and pieces of the screams and warning and apparently there was some kind of creature made of shadows attacking someone in the park. It was just a hunch, but Adrian had a feeling that it had something to do with the strange man that Yuko fought in the Harajuku station. By the fact that Yuko was already running ahead of Adrian and materializing her sword, Adrian new that she had drawn the same connection. He tried to call for her, but she was already moving much faster than he could keep up.

Yuko ran as fast as her sore feet would carry her. She couldn't let what happened in the subway station happen at Tokyo Tower. What she saw at Shiba park though was a nightmare on a whole other level than what she'd faced only hours before. It stood a broken remnant of a man. Its body was stretched out like that guy from the Fantastic Four comics. As it sensed Yuko near it removed its blackened and bloodied claws from the girl that had been its first victim. He paled corpse flopped to the ground and her eyes stared blankly into the afternoon sky; the light stolen from them and sucked into the lifeless orbs of this Thing. Yes, thing, that was the only way Yuko could think to describe it. Not waiting for it to move, Yuko launched into her attack, lunging forward and swinging her sword down from over her head, but this creature was astonishingly fast and it leaped backwards as her blade smashed into the concrete where the creature once stood. It's mouth curled in a twist smile as if mocking her; challenging her, daring her to face it. Somehow she seemed to see its abyssal eyes dance with laughter. Suddenly it released a blood curdling screech that made the hair stand up on the back of her neck and without warning Yuko was blown from her feet as an unseen blast of energy hurled her backward across shiba park. Unfortuantely, Yuko's flight was broken by a wooden park bench as she crashed into. Wood went flying in all directions and the bench moaned and cracked under her weight and that of the feather-like zweihander as it gave way and she fell on top of its ruins.

He body felt sore all over and she seemed to take the impact harder than she had in the station. She was still weakened from her earlier fight and hadn't had enough time to recover. Before Yuko could pull herself together the creature was on her, materializing a large black blade of its own. It struck down at her and she didn't have the strength to raise her sword in time. Then suddenly Adrian was there in front of her, arms out in a defensive manner.

"Back off!" he shouted at the creature and Yuko was astonished at why he would even think that would work. What happened next came as a surprise to both of them. His voice shot through octaves as if run through the worlds largest amplifier. The ground began to shake around them and suddenly the concrete in front of them ripped apart as the sound waves traveled away from them. Then as if by moved by a giant the creature was stopped mid strike and tossed into the air like a rag-doll; tumbling head over heel and slamming into the base of Tokyo Tower in the center of Shiba park. "Sugoi (wow)," was all Yuko could say.