Tokyo

The roar of the crowd cracked with the roar of life. Both the light and dark were at work here in Tokyo. Vshusaku, hanging out on a nearby alley, passed a dark hooded man. Money passed to his hands, while a notebook passed into the mans. Shusaku pocketed the money with a cruel smile on his mouth, and he began walking home.


As he passed a convince store, he received a sense of danger, and ducked, pulling his chest to his knees. A barbell barely missed him, a barbell with 80 lps on ut, hurled like a javelin. It created a large hole in the wall, scaring the people inside. Shusaku sighed: There was only one person who could throw something that heavy like a maniac... only one that would target him out of everyone else.

He looked across the street, where a couple of people had an open gym, working out in the public. One man stood, glaring at Shusaku with demonic eyes. “SHUSAKU!” He shouted, grabbing another barbell, and ran at Shusaku with a demonic roar.

Shusaku groaned, and shrugged, “In plain daylight, Vayney?” He teased, before turning around, and began running at top speed in the opposite direction. Even with a barbell in his hands, Vayne was a speedy opponent, and he was only a short distance behind Shusaku

He was chased across Shibuya, running for his life. He could his modified PSP vibrate, indicating mail., While a ring tone sounded in Vayne;s pocket. Normally, neither would have stopped, but they did as similar things were heard everywhere. Ringtones of all sorts were beeping at the same time. This was enough for both to stop, and take a look at what it said.

“Life as you know it is over.
There is no place to run.
There is no place to hide.
Let's Survive.”


Shusaku glared at the text and, seeing his chance, bolted, “Hasta la Bye bye!” He shouted, disturbing Vayne from his reading. By the time Vayne scomplained, Shusaku was long gone.

Vayne glared at the message: “Let's survive... let's survive what, exactly?”


Shusaku rounded a corner, contemplating the mail he had just been sent, when he slammed into some one.

The impact of Shusaku barely moved they young, fragile looking boy named Remiel, whom was wearing a black pea coat over a white dress shirt with a green tie; a black and white stripped scarf wrapped around his neck with the ends falling to his thigh; a pair of short, black dress shorts; knee high, black socks, and a pair of black dress shoes. His glasses sat at the tip of his nose. Remiel looked to the ground, watching as a few of his papers went floating in the wind."And there goes my homework," Remiel bent over to pick up a couple books that dropped,"Hello I'm---." Remiel stopped his sentence dead in his tracks. Staring into the boy's eyes. A curious, and eerie presence could be felt nearby, as a faint gust of wind pushed the fallen leaves down the side walk.

"Curious device you have there." Remiel said softly staring at Shusaku's PSP, then looking up, back into the face of Shusaku."Do you believe in fate, Mister? You should. God has a plan for everyone, and everything. Today shall be Tokyo's day. Make sure you keep your friends close and enemies closer tonight, Mister---It may cost you your life." Remiel held his books at his chest and walked around Shusaku.

Now...where's the station again? Geez...only two years away and I'm lost already..., and Beka was lost, hopelessly so, although she had never really been all that good with directions, that had always been Sora's department while she had been here. God she had missed him for the past two years, they hadn't really stayed in contact, other than the occasional email or phone call. Beka smiled at the memories of her best friend, although they certainly didn't start out that way...Sora had hated her at the start, and the feeling had been mutual, to say the least...

"You take that back!", Beka's high-pitched, ten year old voice rang through the playground, aimed at the skinny redhead in front of her...Sora Isobe...If little kids had any idea of what having an arch-enemy was (outside of watching cartoons), then this boy would be hers. He had taken an instant dislike to her as soon as she had arrived, fresh from the US and barely able to speak a word of Japanese, although she had gotten better, with all the yelling she had been doing over the last few weeks, mainly at this irritatting redhead.
"Nu-uh! No way!", The other boy's equally pitched reply really pissed her off, and she ran forward, intending to hit Sora. Unfortunatly, he had the same idea, and a fight broke out, instantly drawing a crowd of kids to the scene. Hair was pulled, along with Chinese Burns, scratches and punches, Beka gaining a burst lip from the encounter, and Sora with a black eye, both participants earning a lot of bruises all round. The damage could have been a lot worse, had it not been for the teachers investigating the fight, who literally had to pull the kids off of one another...although Beka was sure that she had won regardless....

That memoriy made her happy, since when they had been in the office later, awaiting their punishment, he had actually complimented her on how hard she could hit, while she was pretty happy at the fact that he had actually hit her properly, even though she was a girl. That started an unusual friendship between the two, one which continued for the next four years, until she had to move away due to her parent's work...Of course, she was back now, but would he still want to be friends with her? Beka was pondering this as she wandered around, until she saw that spikey mop of red hair, as familiar to her as her own straight black tresses...

"SORA!!!", she yelled as she ran to him, catching him from behind and getting him in a playful headlock, taking full advantage of his surprise.

SORA!!!

Beka's he- His thoughts and his turn were interrupted by an arm closing around his neck, and holding him. He attempted playfully to pull away, but they both knew that was impossible, Beka's vice-like grip was something Sora just couldn't break free from (he was quite glad she didn't/couldn't use it when they were knee-high). Both of their cell-phones started to beep, "Lemme go, got a message, le'go..."

“Life as you know it is over.
There is no place to run.
There is no place to hide.
Let's Survive.”

"This is a new kinda chain-mail...Ever seen anything like it?"

“Life as you know it is over.
There is no place to run.
There is no place to hide.
Let's Survive.”

"This is a new kinda chain-mail...Ever seen anything like it?"

"Nope...not this type...", Beka replied, finally letting go of her friend and grinning. She glanced at her own cellphone, since she had read the message from Sora's while she still had him in the headlock. Yep, same message...weird...
"You think it's some kinda network scam? You know the ones that make you waste your credit by sending it on? Like the 'send to ten people or be cursed' type thing? I hate those.", Beka was rambling slightly, but she only ever did that with Sora, so he was used to her endless chatter when she was happy.

Shusaku watched the mysterious boy walk away. "That's a weird one, to be sure." He said, though he wasn't really one to talk about the weird problem. Did he believe in fate? Not especially, because that would mean all his life's work ever happened because some God tole him so. But, the rest of what he said was even weirder. What exactly was about to happen, and what did that boy know about it?
He continued walking ,making sure Vayne was nowhere in sight, when he came across some people, seemingly friends, but he would rather ignore them, since they seemed a little to happy.

His PSP had different ideas, though. A dark red mist emerged from it, followed by the sounds, "Hee-ho, Let's Go!" Shusaku panicked, and dropped his PSP with a "What the f-"

A small white.... thing, emerged from it, and it looked a lot like a doll of some sorts. "So this is the human world, ho?"
Following it was a floating pumpkin with a cape.
The two... things, stared at the PSP, "So this is what brought us here, hee- ho?" Pumpkin face said, picking up. Shusaku, realizing that that probably wasn't a good idea, tackled him, and stole it.

White-face stared at him, "Say, Pyro, this the guy we gotta kill to stay free, ho?"

"Well, he just grabbed it, so I guess so, Frost."

Both turned on him, looking a lot more evil then dolls should.
"Shusaku stared at them, "I have no earthly clue where you freaks came from... but good luck trying to kill me." Shusaku said, pulling out a switchblade knife from his pocket.

It was at that moment that Beka's cell phone decided to go mental: the thing started glowing and a huge plume of dark smoke started appearing from it. She dropped the phone, scared that it would explode on her, getting ready to run for it if it did...There was a flash of light, and when it faded...well, lets just say that Beka thought she was on some sort of trip...the drug kind...

"This world seems puurrfect, doesn't it? Too bad we can't stay...", the first...creature, a weird cat-thing, (which Beka vaguely remembered was a Nekomata, from the little she knew about Japanese mythology), said to the other thing, which Beka definatly recognised: Lilim, a demon from her own, Western faith, famous for luring men into adultery...not that she believed that pile of crap, but she tolerated her parents' religious thinking for too long not to know some of the stories.

"That isn't true, Darling...if we kill whoever summoned us, then we can stay..." Lilim replied, adopting a very seductive pose when she seen Sora standing slightly behind Beka...for some reason, that really pissed the dark-haired girl off...Hang on...Summon? What's she...it...talking about? Wait a sec, those things came from my cellphone...is that what she meant? Are they gonna kill me? ohGodohGodohGod...no...gotta stay calm here...if it's a fight they want, then it's a fight they're gonna damn well get..., Beka's eyes darkened as she grabbed her phone off the ground, and she got into her usual stance, one leg tensed behind her, ready to spring forward with a kick, her hands guarding her face and body...Sora would do well to get out of the way now, cos once Beka got into this state...well...let's just say that there was a reason she had never had many friends: most people who had seen her fight had run in the opposite direction and never come near her again...

After Beka's cell sorta...exploded, Sora recovered from the blinding light, only to find his own cell starting to get...violent, droping his own in panic, causing it to land slightly behind him. He barely realised that demons had emerged from Beka's, so was unprepared for what came next.

For the cell that Sora had discarded, came a portal. From the portal stepped a large dog, lion...thing, with a snake for a tail, Only one head, but the snake tail is the key element. Kerberos. Known by Romanji name: Cerberus A feminine hand then extended from the portal to calm Cerberus, followed by a horned, winged woman, "Wow, this world is really pretty. And if we want to stay, all we have to do is kill the one who summoned us, isn't that right?" Umm...horns, wings...That's it: Ishtar, Babylonian goddess of love and fertility... He cleared his throat as he thought that, hoping a little that Beka didn't know just who had come into the picture...

Wait...summoned? He looked down at his cell, that had now stopped glowing, Shit...I think they mean me... He gulped, and was now almost back-to-back with Beka, and would be if she hadn't adopted her trademark battle stance, meaning that she was about to destroy anything in the general area of wherever-the-fuck-she-wanted. This gave Sora resolve. Resolve to know that if he died, it would be fighting beside Beka, even if their targets weren't the same. Before she flew off into battle, Sora put his hand on her shoulder, "Just gimme a shout if you need a hand, it'll be like that time we pissed off that so-called 'gang' of 10 year olds. I'm pretty sure we got grounded that day, but it was worth it." It wasn't just each other they fought when they were knee-high (Just mostly). They had fought so much growing up, that it was a wonder that neither of them had flat knuckles, or some kind of large-scale scar, or police record. They have mellowed out since then, but a combat high is rarely something that one grows a disliking to...

He punched his fists together, and dared the demons to make the first move, which was almost always a mistake when fighting Sora...

Vayne looked at the .... things that had come out of his cell phone... a big green monster, and some red guy with a bunch of swords. They paused, talked among-st the other for a few seconds, then came back, brandishing their weapons. "Did you summon us?" The red guy asked.

"If you mean you guys came out of my cell phone...then yes, I guess I did." Vayne said, still holding on to the barbell he had used when he was chasing Shusaku.

"THeN yoU DiE." Came the green skinned pig, and they both charged him.

Vayne laughed, twirling the bar bell, bucking the red skinned guys swing, baseball swinging the green guy in the face before returning his attention to the skinned guy, ducking another swing, before slamming him in the gut, then launching the barbell up, catching him in his chin, then stabbing him like you would a spear. Before turning back to green-skinned freak, he slammed him in the back.


He jumped, avoiding a swing from a club, used the barbell as a pole vault and kicked him, before landing, and slammedd him against a wall, and threw the barbell, nailing him in the gut.

"I don't give a crap WHAT you guys are... there's no chance you're taking me out."

The red one groaned. "Damn... that guy's strong..." The red skinned one said, "Well, the contract is fulfilled...I am bishamon. It will be a pleasure to fight by your side."

"I aM BeHeMoTh. IT IS A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU!" Shrek said, before disappearing.
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Shusaku ducked, dodging a bolt of fire that pumpkin face launched. twirled, and sliced him on the skin., before jumping as a spear of ice missed him, nailing pumpkin in the ground. "ah...ee ho... I'm Pyro jack, and i'm beat... let's team up, hee-ho."

A red mist appeared on Shusaku's PSP, with an image of pumpkin face. On a hunch, he pressed L and R, and another red mist appeared, reappearing back on the field. "So I take it you're working for me noe?" Shusaku said, "then Nail them with a bolt of fire!"

Jack Frost looked horrified. "What, hee-ho? Don;t ... he.. tell me, ho? NOOOO!" Jack Frost said, as it was incinerated.

Shusaku turned, to where other people were having trouble, and he pressed L and R again, making the Snow Man appear. " "You guys need help?" He asked


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Beka could tell that this was going to be fairly easy, where Lilim was concerned, as far as she knew, the small demon only had power over men, and were physically weak, while Beka was far from that...the cat-thing? She didn't know about, but if it was anything like a real cat, then she would have her hands full, trying to keep the damned thing still enough for her to hit it. Plus it had claws, which were never good things...she really didn't like cats... Deciding to take Lilim on first, she launched forward, delivering a kick that would have shattered some poor bastard's ribcage if it had connected with a human...but since it wasn't, Lilim only looked winded from the blow, and she giggled,

"Oh, my...you are fun, aren't you? Human women can be fun too, it seems...", Lilim said, her voice almost thoughtful as she spun around, making bolts of lightning rain down from the sky, some of them almost hitting Beka, and would have if she hadn't rolled out of the way in time. Demon slut can use more than just her looks, huh? Just gotta get close enough... And she did, using the momentum from her 'dodge-roll' she flipped back onto her hands then kicked at Lilim with both feet, knocking her back. (think the move that Riku uses when you first fight him on Destiny Islands, when he sorta curls up then launches himself at you)
"That's what you get for flaunting yourself at my best friend, whore.", she said to Lilim as it lay on the ground. She still didn't know why that had made her so angry, but she would think of that later...
"Huh? I didn't think you were so strong...Fine..., I'll contract with you, as long as you start screwing him at some point", Lilim muttered as she disppeared, jabbing a thumb at Sora as she did so. Beka turned briefly to find that the redhead in question was fighting some demons of his own, and she recognised Cerberus, but not the other one, though she got the feeling that it wasn't Japanese...Sora? What did she mean by that? And a contract? It was at that moment that Nekomata decided to attack, slashing at Beka with her claws, forcing her to make a last-minute dodge, flipping backwards Heh, gymnastics came in handy after all., she thought as she landed. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a dark-haired boy come closer, and he offered help, help that Beka wasn't planning on taking.
"Nope, got this all under control, thanks", she called to him as she attacked the Nekomata, barely dodging the claws before sinking her fist deep into the cat-demon's gut...or rather, it would have, had the thing not decided to get outta the way at the last second, landing behind her. Fortunatly, for Beka that is, the dark-haired girl had anticipated this and ducked the claws that were aimed at her head, and sweep-kicked the cat-thing before it could get out of the way again, and it fell to the ground.
"M-reow? That wasn't meant to happen...", it gave a startled meow as it also faded, and she glanced at her phone, which was a touchscreen, noticing that she had two new apps on it: one with a small black heart with a devil tail and horns, the other with a anime-style icon of a cat's face. Is this what they meant by a 'contract'? no time for that now, gotta help Sora..., she shook her head, panting slightly from the fight, but determined to help her friend as she ran to him.
"Need a hand?", she asked jokingly, knowing that Sora could more than hold his own, but worried about him all the same...

Shusaku took a quick look at the woman who rejected his help. She was defiant ly tougher than she looked... but her strength paled in comparison to Vayne's, so he felt relatively safe. He turned his attention to his PSP, where Pyro Jack and Jack Frost were chatting it up... and Shusaku had the volume turned all the way down. He wondered....

He turned the volume up. "- that we got a maniac as a boss, hee-ho. Should we count our blessings that we didn't die?" Jack Frost asked.
"HEY!" Shusaku, shaking the PSP, "You two shut up, and gimme some answers! What's going on?"

"Sorry, not part of the contract, ho." Jack Frost said.

"Okay... how many more of you are there?"

"Could be millions, he ho." Pyro Jack said, and put them on mute again

AS he waited for the fight to end, it was thinking time. There was first that mysterious message, that everyone in Japan seemed to have gotten at once. 'Life as you know it is over' He gripped his PSP a little bit. That was certainly something to be classified as something life changing.

"Let's Survive...." Shusaku said. That was the most obvious part... he had been fighting for his life up until recently.... this mail wasn't a scam, whatever he had first thought.

that boy from earlier" Today is Tokyo's Day.. it could cost you your life."

He looked around, with very little info to go with, he couldn't piece together too much. So, he decided to waut f0r the red head to finish fighting, then suggest to team up for a little bit.

"Thats too bad Itsuki! I need those numbers yesterday got it? Dont call me back unless you have them." Rin said into her Bluetooth as she walked out of upscale apartment building. Looking down at her PDA she typed in a few notes while heading to a city park to relax. He black chunk heeled boots clicked on the side walk as walked. Today she sported a pair of bell bottom jeans and a white blouse with a small black mini jacket. On her way he PDA beeped signaling she had a message. Expecting the files she had asked of Itsuki, Rin opened it.

“Life as you know it is over.
There is no place to run.
There is no place to hide.
Let's Survive.”

"What the hell...."Rin said annoyed. "How the hell did this person get my private number. Ill just have to talk to the company...." She shook her head as she sat on a bench in the center of the city park. She set her PDA down on the bench next to her then crossed one leg over the other and closed her eyes with her head back. Suddenly there was a bright light behind her eyelids. Opening her eyes in annoyance to see a girl.....dressed like she had just come out of the book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Suddenly there was another flash the nearly blinded her. When she opened her eyes, a man stark-naked, stood next to the girl. He had a cloth draped around him covering certain areas, long blonde hair, and.....flowers growing from his head?

"Alice do you have a mirror? I think my hair is out of place." The man whined.

"Narcissus could you not worry about your looks for one minute? I swear your worse than Lamia, Lilith, and Succubus mixed." The girl, Alice replied. "Plus if we don't kill this human soon we wont be able to get you a mirror."

That seemed to snap the man known as Narcissus out of it "Right, lets get this over with."

"If you freak shows think your going to kill me than you have another thing coming." Rin smirked as she stood up and took a battle stance. Before the two could do anything she jumped into action. Running at the Narcissus, she used all her strength to kick him in the gut the turn and shoved the palm of her hand up into his chin. In anger he through out his hand as blades of wind shot out at her. Rin quickly flipped out of the way as a bolts of lightning shot down from the sky. These bolts of light seemed to be coming for Alice.

"How dare YOU!" Narcissus screamed. "You scarred my beautiful face" He pointed at a small scratch on his chin. He thought out more wind attacks a blindly that Rin barely dodged. A few just about hit Alice.

"You idiot watch where your aiming! You know Im weak against your damned wind attacks" Alice yelled to her companion.

"OH shush! You almost hit me a few times too! Your lightning attack are pretty strong too!" He replied back. "Now hurry up! I need to get a mirror asap."

Soon the both began attacking again, while Rin kept got a plan. Flipping right in between the two assailants, they both through out attacks powerful attacks. Just as they were about to hit her, Rin ducked down to the floor. Just as planned the two attacked passed each other and kept going. Lightning hitting Narcissus. Wind hitting Alice. Rin got up and looked at the two, both on the ground.

"I give. I for a contract with you." Narcissus whined while looking at Rin. He then turned into an orb of light and flew into her PDA. Rin then looked over to Alice who was getting up and dusting off her apron.

"Im not to happy about this, but at least I get a smart master. I, Alice, contract myself to you...er what is your name?" Alice asked mid-curtsy.

"Rin" she said simply while dusting off the dirt on her pants.

"I, Alice contract to you Rin. I hope Narcissus and I will be of much help in the days to come." Alice completed her curtsy then turne into an orb of light and disappeared into the PDA.

Rin walked over to her PDA and picked up and shook her head. "I must be going crazy....." she said as she sat back on the bench, leaned her head back, and closed her eyes.

Sora was too busy dodging claws, teeth, fire and electricity to even think about retaliating, so when Beka took her place by his side to help, he was thankful, "If you wouldn't mind." Stay out of this little girl and we won't have to kill you too... Shouldn't have said that...

His reactions kicked in when he heard Cerberus roar, knowing that that meant the doggy-lion was about to launch a fireball. Shoulder driving Beka from it's path, he had a few seconds to cover his face before the fireball impacted, launching Sora flying backwards, into a building. Quick as the lightning she was using, Ishtar was in front of him again, picking him off the ground by his neck, "Aww, did the big bad wolf hurt the little piggy?" She threw him again, but this time Sora caught his footing via a handspring. (Think of an Aerial Recovery, but one that pays attention to gravity)

Standing, he noticed that he wasn't the only one fighting demons. Quite a few teenagers, adults, and even a kid or two was doing the same thing, What happened...about 10 minutes ago, everything was fine. The ensuing carnage from the fights had left a lot of debris around, allowing Sora find a weapon. Specifically, a length of pipe, the size of his arm. Holding it back-handed, with it running up his arm (Think Ventus), he prepared himself for another attack. Beka had now started fighting Cerberus, (sort of, she was more running interference to prevent it from helping Ishtar fight Sora) and Sora seen a pipe that would fit her style. Picking it up and throwing it her direction as hard as he could (which is pretty damn hard), he turned his attention to the demon in front of him, "Quite a good friend you have there. It'll be a shame to see her crying over your broken, lifeless body, but that's what has to happen, nothing personal, you understand, right?" Sora pretended to think it over in his head, before charging her, "COMPLETELY!" His sudden charge caught to demon off-guard, allowing Sora to get a strong hit in with the pipe, sending the demon crashing to the ground, "You wouldn't hit a girl would you? Even if I am a demon..." She feinted weakness, to get Sora to lower his guard, not aware of his stance that gender means nothing in a fight, "In combat, yes, would. Now get up, you look pathetic." Ishtar did so, then attacked suddenly, but Sora managed to slip an attack through hers, sending her to the ground once more, "Fine, I give. I'll make a contract with you..." When she said that, she turned to light and went back to his cell, which was past Cerberus and Beka, "Beka, one down. One to go." He ran towards her, and as he got close, she suddenly rolled onto her back, with her feet in the air, which Sora jumped on. When she kicked up, Sora was sent into the air above Cerberus, and brought his heel down onto it's back, which caused it to lie down. It stood almost straight away, but instead of attacking again, it bowed it's head, growling all the while. Once it had bowed fully, it too turned to energy and returned to his cell. Limping over, he picked it up, to find a new button had appeared near the bottom, one that had a large "S". Curious, he pressed it, once he did, a menu came up that had the names 'Cerberus' and 'Ishtar' in it. He pressed the button to close the menu, flipping shut his cell as he put it in his pocket, he limped back over to give Beka, who was still sitting on the ground, a hand up. Once she was on her feet, his a dizziness kicked in from the pain he had just received, causing him to collapse into Beka's arms, "S-sorry..." He said, as she helped him stand upright. He opened his cell again (out of newly found instinct), pressed the "S" button and clicked on Ishtar. It showed a list of abilities she had, before asking for confirmation. Pressing "Yes", Sora held the screen away from himself. Appearing, Ishtar immediately knew why she had been summoned, "Oh, that's right, you got beat-up pretty bad, here let me help." She outstretched her hand, causing a glow to appear around both Sora and Beka. Sora immediately felt a boost of energy. Ishtar glanced about and sighed, "It's a shame I can't see this world properly, like you lot, but so is the life of a contracted demon..." With another sigh, she returned to his cell. Sora turned back to Beka, "That was...unique, to say the least." He laughed slightly as he spoke, a little bit high from the adrenaline, and a lot happy they both made it through...

"You said it, Sora...though I dunno if 'unique' would cover it", Beka, also still on 'combat high', replied, letting out a small, amazed laugh of her own...that had been the best fight she had been in for a while, even if her opponents hadn't exactly been human. She still had the pipe that Sora had thrown her, she liked the weight of it in her hand: it made her think of how it used to be, when she had lived here before. She and Sora always seemed to piss off any local gangs for some unknown reason, so the two of them had gotten into a lot of fights over the years that they had been friends...
"Why'd ya think that happened anyway? Cos of that text? I just got this phone as well...", she said sadly as she looked down at her phone, surprised that it had actually survived the fight, although there was a long scrape down the side of the screen. It was still usable, but it didn't look as shiny as it had when she had gotten it, which was only a few days ago...
She turned to the boy who had offered to help before, "I take it this crazy trippy-shit's just happened to you as well?"

Shusaku nodded, "Sure did." He said, showing her his PSP screen, where 3d images of Pyro Jack and Jack Frost were hanging out, much to his annoyance. "Names Shusaku... i'm sure I don't have to ask, but I'm assuming you the creepy 'There's nowhere to run' mail? You fought rather well." He said
"There's a panic going on." Shusaku said, as the sound of an enraged crowd reached his ears, "You want to go see what's going on?"

"Sorry, but the Shibuya line is closed!" Came an officer of the self-defense force. "This is for your protection. High Traces of Poisonous gas have been detected within the entire line. We ask for your cooperation."

"Oh, a lockdown?" Shusaku asked, visibly surprised. "Great, that means I can't get home" He said, now thoroughly pissed

Oh, a lockdown? Great, that means I can't get home.

"Nowhere to run..." Sora mumbled under his breath, sensing the 'slight' annoyance in their team-mate's voice, spoke up, "I have a flit in this area. Why don't we head there, to rest and regroup. After all, if we hang around here, there's a good chance we'll get caught up in a riot, if one erupts..." He motioned in the general direction of his flat and made off in said direction, hoping the other two would follow...

It was better than any other idea Shusaku said, so he followed wordlessly.

As he did, he noticed that something seemed... different about society... and he soon figure out what it was. Everyone had a large number was over their head... most read a 9... but over his own head, as well as over Sora's and Bekas, was the number 1... what was that all about? "You guys DO see the large numbers over everyone's heads, right? Or am i going crazy?" E asked, looking aeound. Almost veryone had a number of sorts hanging over their heads.

His hand continued to grasp his PSP. Something was going on, that's for sure.

Beka looked up, and soon found that she could see the weird numbers as well...it was kinda creepy...What worried her the most though, was the fact that Sora's and Shusaku' number was '1', and when she glanced at her reflection in a store window, her's was the same.

"Nope, you're not crazy, Shusaku...although that's not the best reccomendation of sanity, coming from me...", yeah, she knew she was a bit screwed in the head already, she had been in too many fights to keep much of her sanity, plus the very fact that she fought so much was proof of the fact that she obviously had a few screws loose up there somewhere...not that she ever bothered much about it though, she was too addicted to adrenaline. She had a rough idea of where they were going, though she hadn't known that Sora had an apartment here. She had thought he still lived with his family. She still did, the little she saw them, since they were always at work, so living in her parent's large apartment was almost like living on her own, which suited her fine, in her opinion.

Sora had been trying to ignore the rather ominous '1' that had been hanging around them, but now that the others were talking about it he didn't really have a choice. With a sigh, Sora turned and began to walk backwards, to better talk to the others, "I guess we'll see comes of the numbers as time goes on..." He stretched slightly, "My flat's close, just over...there." He pointed to a building close by and turned to walk properly.

Coming to the flat, he unlocked the door, allowing the other two in before him, then going in himself. The flat had bare-minimum furniture, just enough to get by.

Shusaku sat on a couch, looking around. "It's not bad... and it's certainly better than sleeping outside....not that he wasn't used" He said. "As I said earlier, I'm Shusaku. I work as an informant and as an adviser for the higher up companies... and before you ask, I don't know anything about what the heck's going on.... this is all too weird for me to even think about." He said

He stood up, looking outside through a window. "There's too many unanswered questions... the demons, the numbers... that weird message... It feels like someone's playing us for fools.... should we get some sleep? I have the horrible feeling that tomorrow isn't going to go easy on us." He said. Indeed, there was a dark, ominous feeling in his veins.

"Well, seeing as though we're doing intros...name's Beka", she said, flopping onto a nearby chair. Yeah, it was rude, but Sora was used to it. She glanced around the flat, "Never knew you had this, Sora. When'd ya get this place?", she asked him, genuinely curious. They had always talked about getting a place, if only to get away from their parents. Not for any other reason...although what Lilim had said still puzzled her. She liked Sora, he was her best friend...but she didn't like like him...right?

"I'm Sora. Not much else to say..." Sora was a little burned out from his fight, the attack from Cerberus making that statement quite literal.

Never knew you had this, Sora. When'd ya get this place?

"Umm...I'm not sure, I've had it for a while now...but not all that long at the same time..." He thought back to his and Beka's plans to get outta their parent's house, "Guess I beat you to get a flat, eh?.."