Chapter one

Prelude:

"I still don` t know how I got dragged into this, I guess I had to in the end. But in the beginning I was born into it. Though it hurts I must proceed against my wishes. Another needle into the quilt. A stitch."

"Huuugh… I hate math class…" Arashi groaned mindlessly. "Ah shut up once we get out for summer there will be no scary math work." Arashi` s friend Wanni stated, just to shut his friend up. (quite sarcastically at that.) Arashi was about six foot with red hair and with different color eyes usually wearing black blue or brown And Wanni was about five foot nine with also a medium build and blue hair, usually wearing blue clothing and black pants. As the bell rang the two walked down the hallway for the last time this year. And met up with Luna, a young girl in 8c, About six foot one with dark brown hair, usually wearing black or red. (Arashi and Wanni are in eighth.) (Also Arashi` s secret crush.)

" Good morning." She said with a big bubbly smile. ( Even though it was 3:30 in the after noon.) "Uh… ello Loonaa I mean luna ah-eh ahh! Hi." was the most Arashi could ever muster up when she was near. Never the less he said hi eh` s and ah` s alike. "Hi Luna, Arashi` s just having his… pre summer spasms." Wanni greeted. As they walked over to Luna` s (as they always do after school.) they talked about grade 9 and what it would be like in high school.

Now that they finally got to Luna` s house the argument of who got the first player controller on super Mario land. But in the end Wanni always got it and today was no change. -After about four hours of mind numbing video games- " Arashi it` s getting late you should head home now." Luna stated. (The last time Arashi was late he was grounded for a month.) So after a long evening of mushroom stealing and alien bashing Arashi left. With a boldly said "E-gh bighhthert b,b,b,bye?" Walking down a dimly lit street Arashi was thinking about Luna as always.

As he walked through well decorated door. (Mom always did like dollar stores.) He noticed the lights were of and no one was home. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted a small note that read: "Dear son I have had another attack Serenade should be here around 9 ish. P.S there is this great dollar joint down town, and its having a grand opening sale… please go..." Arashi` s mother had a rare disease called O.B.C and Arashi` s father had disappeared long ago. So Serenade, one his close friends had to be a baby sitter quite often. Nock-nock Serenade came in. "Ello Arashi. I have pop tarts!" Serenade greeted. "Hi S!" Arashi said back. "Well you got half an hour before you gotta got to bed." Serenade said as he plopped him self on the coach. "Ok." Arashi said as he walked into his room and began to draw. Half an hour later he passed out on his desk. He had a nice sleep, of coarse dreaming about video games and Luna.

The next day he slept in until noon.(As always.) His mother still not home and Serenade sleeping on the coach. Arashi got up and made him self some break fast and flipped on the TV. He of coarse had satellite. Nothing but 500 crapy channels on a shitty TV. So he went out for a bike ride. It was a nice day with little clouds and lots of sun. He called Luna from a pay phone (Of coarse by now he learned how to jip the pay phone so he really didn’t pay.)` t but she wasn’t home though so he called Wanni no home either. After words he headed home.

But took a detour. ( He met up with a kid from school named Shonen an they went to the park for a while. "Su wet yu bin op to?" Shonen asked. (he has a bit of an accent.) "Aaah not much really." Arashi replied.

It was getting near lunch time and Shonen had to go home… so he did. And so did Arashi.

"Where the hell were you?!" Serenade busted out when Arashi walked through the door.

"Just at the park." Arashi answered as he walked into his room and got back to drawing. The phone rang once and stopped. "Stupid pranks…" Serenade mumbled.

Of coarse Arashi flopped in his room.

Chapter two:

Overture

All through the after noon and through out the night Arashi sat and writ. He writ about his friends and his dreams (most of which some what boring.) But what he enjoyed most was poetry. "As I sight alone and quite, a mouse be heard to pass I cry A tear that burns of hatred I only may close." Arashi closed the book and then re-opened it and drew some anime for a nice little while, and dozed off.

The next morning Arashi awoke to the blaring nose of his alarm clock shaped like him in chibi form, special made of coarse. Off topic! Anyway. He walked down the hall to see Serenade snoozing on the coach. He quickly snook out the over decorated front door and outside.

Just at that moment he heard the phone ring, careful not to let it wake Serenade he snatched it quickly. "Hello ko-Arashi of the Tamo house speaking." Arashi greeted. " Hey it` s Luna, Wanni come over? About two-ish. K?" Luna asked. " Ah sure. I geuss." Arashi responded. "Bye." "Bye." They both said as they hung up.

*Nock nock* "Ello? Luna? You home? …" Arashi silently asked as he knocked on Luna` s apartment door. Faintly inside Arashi heard her say, "Hold on a minute." And in that minute she had come to the door. Wearing a dark blue T-shirt and black jeans. " Come on in Arashi. I finally rented that movie you wanted to see. Ahh what was it again… Um… Oh ya! Neon something er other." Luna greeted. "Yay movies!!!" Arashi quite happily responded. For the next three hours the two sat staring at the TV only leaving to get pop or washroom.

After the movie the two sat on the balcony watching the stars. "Today was fun… Well um I er um don` t know how to say this but I um *NOCK NOCK* "Hey luna you there?" Arashi was interrupted. But buy who. The question now answered as Wanni Walked through the door. Wearing a bright blue muscle shirt and waved orange pants.

" Oh Arashi what were you going to say to me earlier?" Luna asked. "Du uh ah ugh… um erg… ah tell you later ok?" Arashi bravely (cowardly) responded. As the three walked down the twilight street. There was very little conversation. They finally arrived at Arashi and Wanni` s building. Luna briefed them good bye and they walked up to the sixth floor. "You totally got the hots for Luna don` t ya Arashi. Come on admit it." Wanni teased as Arashi` s face filled with blood.

"Ah shut up! Wanni as if!" Arashi blurted, blushing now more than ever. They said good-bye and Arashi plopped in bed. (Serenade still on the coach asleep. Mom still not back.) That night they began. The dreams. Not so bad at first, He heard screams. And felt as if his entire body being plunged with a thousand needles all at once. His acid blood spilling through his vanes. The pain seeming to echo through his mind, the screams thickening boiling him more so than before. The words coward wreaking through him like the moans of a million children in agony. (Holy shit this guys fucked up.)

He quickly awoke in a cold sweat his face scared with fear. And his soul shaken by the nightmare he stared silently towards Luna` s building. To dark to see if she was staring back. He remained until morning. Now the sun was high in the sky and he decided to fix him self up some breakfast. Scrambled eggs and beacon. Just then he heard the familiar nock of Wanni. "Ello." Wanni greeted as he walked through the doorframe and sat down on the coach. (Serenade still sleeping.) "Hey Wanni." Arashi politely greeted. "come on admit it you like her." Wanni bugged. "No I don` t like her!!! No no no no no!!!"Arashi yelled. "Il give you twenty dollars…" Wanni bribed. "Fine I like now were` s my money!!!" Arashi admitted. "Just don` t tell her." He added. "Ok I promise." Wanni said as they flipped on TV. (Arashi never got his money…L)

A few hours latter Wanni left and Arashi was alone again. (Asides Serenade still sleeping.) He walked into his room and began to draw. But nothing could get the dreams out of his head. The flashes swirling through his mind like a tornado. He laid down for a nap. Three hours latter he reawoke to a phone ringing. "Ello?" Arashi half awake greeted. "Ah hi Arashi its Luna. Im phoning to talk to you about what Wanni told me." Luna grim said. That stupid lying fucker! Arashi thought to himself as he tried to think of some thing to say. "Ah ya about that what exactly did he say?" Arashi asked with a deathly tone in his voice. " Oh just that you liked me and that you were to cowardly to ever say it so you wanted him to say it for you." Luna replied. "What!? I didn’t say that I told him I didn’t want him telling you and that I was going to tell you until he interrupted!" Arashi angrily yelped with thoughts of disembroiling Wanni (And other thing to do with knives and forks and barbed wire.J). " But I have one question… Luna do you… ah well like me?" Arashi asked with fear. "Yup." She simply answered. "Any way I gotta go now ok bye." Luna said as she hung up the phone. After that conversation Arashi felt more confident in himself. (A sudden change from his apathetic self.) He then picked up the phone and dialed Wanni. He answered. "hello." "You stupid fucking lying bastard!? I told you not to tell her!!! But what did you do!? you just went along and…Well I don’t quit know what swear words to use at this point but I will tell you when I know them! What were you thinking telling her!"? Arashi yelled as he blushed stupidly. "Well technically I promised I wouldn’t tell after promising you money, so I need to give you money before the other part takes effect, plus I didn’t tell her, I emailed her. There is a difference you know." "Fine then you can go… I don’t quit know what you can go do yet Good bye!"

And Arashi hit the phone down on the receiver, still blushing and frightfully mad.

Serenade then woke up from his slumber and asked "What’s wrong kid." "Nothing." Arashi said as he walked into his room. Thinking of Luna of coarse. (Oh what a change! I did mean that sarcastically of course.)

Chapter three:

Crescendo

"I want nothing more to do with your sick operations. I do not want any thing more to be said about it." "Hhhm well that’s just not good enough anymore, I m afraid your going to half to come with us. And you of all people should know I will not take no for an answer." "If you really want me you’ll have to take me by force." "Than so it be." *CRASH!*

That night the dreams continued. The theatre of pain worse because now fueled by malice and confusion . He awoke after the first one in a blind rage and stared towards Luna` s building for the remainder of the night. In the morning tears now dried on his face he wondered why these dreams continued to occur, And why and where they came from. So he got dressed and stepped into the living room. As he walked into the living room he noticed Serenade was gone. Probably went home. But he also noticed mom wasn’t there ether. He sat on the chair and after five minutes of nothing the phone rang. "Ellu?" Arashi greeted. "Hey Araeo (Shonens nick name for Arashi.)? No ones home that means fun! Wanna come over?" Arashi asked. "Sure Ill be over in twenty minutes. Wait Wanna meet at the park?" "Ok meet ya there, bye." Arashi got of the phone and crashed on the coach. He flipped on the TV, and after every thing on sucked, decided to go meet Shonen on his way here. (And the park was only a block away.

On the way there his thoughts seemed to wonder. Revenge he wanted it more then any thing else .So he waited around the swing for a while when all of the sudden. "Ellu!" "Eh Shonen what took you so long?" Arashi asked half smiling. "Oh I had a little time to burn so I… got a hot dog." "Sure there." They walked over to Arashi` s slowly. Once they had finally got there Shonen opened the door it seemed to open with an eerie creek. That seemed as if it had not been opened in at least four years.

But aside from that Shonens place was… a dump… to put it mildly. Socks hanging every were, pizza from two years ago, dead rats in the corner. But they crashed in his room (Arashi not caring much about the mess…) And played surprise surprise! Video games!… After an hour of Shonen getting his ass kicked they gave up. (Arashi may stink at math, French, science, English, gym, health…etc but he is good with games.) "Im gonna phone Luna and see if I can go over there now k? … um Shonen? Were the hell is the phone? Or do you have one?" Arashi asked. "Oh the thing ate it a few weeks ago." Shonen answered. "Um the… thing?" Arashi looked very puzzled at that moment (Scared out of his wits to. Because he could believe that there was a thing just by looking in the fridge.) "Uh ya the thing… So it eats a lot… Oh and watch out for the sink holes." Shonen giggled. "Sink holes?" Arashi ran out the door in dispirit attempt at escaping. Just then something grabbed his ankle. "AAAaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!! The thing the thing its got me get it of get it off!!!!" Arashi screamed. "You idiot that’s my sister, Reana." Shonen laughed. "k bye." Arashi pried the little thing of his leg and went over to Luna` s.

"ELLO?" "ELLO?" "Oh hi Arashi sorry I took so long I just came out of the shower." Luna greeted. Arashi noticed she was wearing nothing more then a bath towel as he blushed (a few other thing filling with blood as well). "C`mon in." "eh uh er gh ok." Arashi blurted out. He walked into the newly painted apartment and into the hall way. " All be out in a sec I just gotta change." Luna walked into her room. "Oh wait need to tell y…" Arashi blurted not noticing he had accidentally opened the door. Luna standing in the middle of the room just as shocked. Arashi slammed the door shut. (of coarse crushing his foot.) . Luna standing in the middle of the room, with nothing but a bath towel on. Arashi crept closer to the door wondering a large array of events that could happen. He let his thoughts get the best of him. He opened the door, but to late she was dressed, mostly (no socksL) Arashi cleaned his thoughts to more child appropriate things apologized . "uh er um sorry?" "um apology accepted." Luna stepped out of her room. "Any thing else…" Luna looked at Arashi suspiciously. "Um … er No nothing else not at all…" Arashi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when he realized that was his chance.

He slowly crept towards the door and heard "Don’t worry about it." As he saw Luna wink in the hall way. "Luv ya, bye." Just then Arashi found himself sitting on his ass in the hallway. As he walked home he found that he couldn’t see home. Un like usual he couldn’t see the tall silhouette of his building on the cold, hard Tokyo sky. He wondered on the poorly lit streets until dawn. Finally found the corner of Rai and Kiratsu. But there was no building, no home just ashes and caution tape. "A, ahh ah um what the fuck happened." Arashi asked one of the fire fighters at the seen. (of coarse he was really thinking "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH What the fuck happened to my building and more importantly my video games!")

"Why the hell should I tell you ya little arsonist." "Because I Live HERE!" Arashi screemed. "ah those pulsing veins, those shifted eye brows… Get in the truck. Now! You` re a suspect! " The fire man said in a loud voice. "fuck you." "what’s that kid?" the man asked rather pissed. " Don’t make me repeat myself… fuck you." "Get in the truck. What have you got to hide, if you didn’t do any thing then you will be reunited with you` re family in an emergency care home." "FUCK YOU!" Arashi yelled and swung his fist as hard as he could, and turned and of coarse ran, a blind hit, he wondered what the consequences of his actions would be but no time and he ran down the nearest ally. " As he ran tears went down his face, each one feeling as if it were sulfuric acid. A loud crash was heard. He didn’t quit know what had happened, or why. Let alone why he did what he did, it was just instinct.

He then awoke in a sewer, Not entirely knowing how he got there but seeing that he had stepped in an old sewer gate he decided to stay there at least until things cooled down. Afraid that surfacing could risk juvenile hall. He wondered through the seemingly endless labyrinth of waist, for only a day, saying no words thinking no thoughts… just wondering. A day seeming to be an eternity. He sat down and thought. He thought of his friends. He thought of Luna. And he thought of Wanni. "… If I had only known … If I had only known that… that this this would happen… My last words… wouldn’t be they wouldn’t be… So meaning less…" Arashi blacked out.

He opened his eyes alone he did not know how long he had been out for but now it was early morning, afraid and lost in his own thoughts. Thinking of Luna but no tears could be shed. He saw it small at first as It got bigger and bigger so did his fear. It was a ruby red light. He heard a soft soothing voice. "Arashi don’t give up. The void is not full yet. There is still some one." At that Arashi`s eyes opened. Unsure if it was a dream or if reality had finally caught up to him. he say a shadowy figure only a few meters away. He was bulky and was dressed as if he were a military general. His trench cote stained and tattered. The man spoke his voice warm and inviting "I` ll bet your hungry." At it Arashi lost consciousness. (Again.)

-for not the time, when the eyes awake spread to light the candle for the dark;

Chapter four:

X

A day later Arashi awoke in a dark room. The room was cold and dark. The only source of light was the dangling sealing light hanging above his very head. His arm was hooked up to an intervenes stand. But it had no wheels. So in fear that if one of the cords came loose he would die or something he decided to stay were he was for the time being. But as time passed and his eyes adapted to the dark he realized he was in a medical room. (Was his first guess the intervenes?) The room seemed of good quality but it had old style character to it, as if it were a mach tent in the war or something. He had also been given fresh clothing to wear. A navy blue jacket, a red t-shirt and black jeans. After inspecting his surroundings to the best he could he felt some what safe. Just as he was slowly nodding off he heard the door slowly creak open with a nasty *creek* that seemed like it had not been opened for a hundred… and one years. A small glimmer of light dripped in as he heard. "Oh sorry didn’t mean to wake you up." Then all the lights flickered on and the room looked normal… well as normal as it could look.

"Hi my name is Drowen. I already know that you’re Arashi. Tetsyu` s child." Drowen greeted casually. "My dad… Um were is he I need to talk to him I need to see him. Who brought me hear? I…" Drowen quickly interrupted Arashis questions. "All these and more will be answered in time. But first let me cover the basics. You know about Yami right? Right who doesn’t… they own the world… But you could consider us sort of an anarchy group really. We do not agree with their methods, we` ll get into that later. But so far talking and debates have not solved any thing and they have just led to members being arrested for ~spreading conspiracies~. So we are taking violent measures to deal with yami`s violent plans. But you most be thinking why the hell am I hear then? Well I`l tell you why. Number one you’re the chiefs son. Number two there` s something special we need you for…" Drowen explained. "Well what’s that special thing then?" Arashi asked. "I cant tell you yet." Drowen replied.

And to much of Arashis dismay Drowen had to leave. Arashi decided to sleep for a while longer. Oddly he had not had a nightmare since the building caught fire. He was finding it hard to sleep when he had so much to think about. But he eventually passed out.

He slept calmly for the rest of the day into the night. When he awoke to a cold sweat. He was not sure what had woke him but he remembered seeing a black feather in his dream and that was all. He sat alone in the dark pondering the black feather. To bad Luna wasn’t here she could figure it out in a heart beat. Remembering Luna made him slowly depress.

The pain of losing two friends and the girl he loved hurt. Worse even then that horrible tooth ache after Halloween. (Oh that’s a funny story I think Il put it in extras. *Giggle*)

(Arashi: don’t you fucking dare!) Any way…

As he sat alone and tired he wondered what every one was doing, wondering what there reaction of him being a wanted arsonist. But he shunned his thoughts away from depressing matters and on towards the future. He knew that working with his father would be no long lost father son reunion. But he hoped he could work out some kind of relationship with the father he had never known.

After a few hours of waiting Drowen returned. "Sorry that I kept you waiting for so long." "Oh hi I have a question… I know this is an organization but what is its name? And why is it here. And why am I here. And what about m,m, my dad?" Arashi asked puzzled at the thought of just about everything (as usual.). "well there are two divisions of us. In asia there is shur-yu in the western half of the world there is Dora. And at once there was s sheene in Europe, but project reprise was… sabotaged and it was a large blow to our cause and the lives lost and energy released were at Chernobyl levels. Of coarse you would know that more as the ^The N3 bombing. ^ never solved, and left open. Of coarse they came up with something to get the general public’s mind of it pretty quick. The beast system, designed by terrorists to destroy yami. God I hate people who believe the shit they come up with. Any way does that answer your question(s) "Well how did they come in power?" Arashi asked. Drowen replied. "Sorry ,before my time." "What about my dad were is he now?" Arashi begged. " I cant tell you right now, I wish I could though. Any way you should rest some more." Drowen spoke with much worry in his voice. He walked from the room in a cold sweat.

Arashi lied back down and stared at the stained sealing, wondering when he would see his father sleep was impossible. He had not seen him in so long, he couldn’t remember his name… Tetsko or Tetsa er Tetsyu or something along those lines. He mothers name still fresh, Tamoko. He continued thinking of his family, his friends. "Why was I so mean to Wanni that day? E,er I don’t know I will see him again soon right? I dout it. If I do I hope its on happier notes." ( I doubt it.)

Chapter five:

Tainted (T_e go^hi* my!h),

"AnTi-everything,, tournequet. The rain is now the time is then the pain is here the sin is coming so it be said so it be done."

"The gothic angels shall safice. with the endless.X. on the side of shru-yu this will not be easy."

"We maybe able to use the endless it self to generate, to repent."

"X does have a mind you realize, He will not be swaded by us under the influence of shru-yu."

"I suppose, maybe we could use X to at least dispose of "him"."

"perhaps we could. But shadow is not under our jeristiction any longer what reason does he have to… end him.?"

"He is young and nieve. Any thing with human arms and wings meens creation. Creation meens yami, this will be easy."

"Tetsuko what about tetsuko? He still poses threat. How will we kill him. Im sure he wount kill his own father."

"That’s were I come in Krew. I will destroy him with my own hand. After all * ** *** ******."

"I understand, sir but um Tamoko, the body was not found. She knows what do we do?"

"No problem the documents must have been destroyed and with a story and record like hers the asylum should come with open arms."

"Go now get the other two, give the plan. Execute."

"Yes sir. Good bye."

"Eeeeyyem ok whats for breakfast, or just serve my self." Arashi got out of bed and looked at his room, mettle walls, dresser, two beds, shelf and bathroom . Seeing the two beds he guessed he had a room mate. And seeing he was out of the medical room he also guessed he had been transpored to his room during the night. He stepped towards the door and he saw there was a piece of paper taped to a key board on the wall, he looked at it. It said : passcode: 99103hdue892X1001//hs66. So he typed that into the key board. And the door opened.J Yay! He walked slowly down the hall way. It wasn’t to busy but there were more people than he had expected. Most of them looked like soldiers out of uniform though. (no ice cream shop L)

He stopped at a door that said caffiteria. "FOOD!!!" He yelled as he ran in. Every one looking at him very puxxled. He walked down the room to the counter with the food. And picked up a plate and stood in line. After waiting for a little while it was his turn. He held out his plate with a look on his face expecting lobster or something. The cook plopped a bluish green pile of… I don’t wanna no what (they call it glerulp.L) on his plate. He gave the cook a quick look of confusion. And took his seat.

After almost having to inject the glerulp through a needle (which he`d like more than eating it but it would kill him if it entered his blood.) He ate it with out vomiting (much)

He returned to his room to look through his clothes other than the red shirt and black pants he had on. He opened the drower and saw socks boxers blue and red shirts blue and red uniform trench coats and black pants and sitting next to the dresser, a pair of steel toed work boats. He peeked under his bed and found a black case. He unlatched the latches and opened it. He saw it then a shiny blade and a large staff to attach. A giant scalpel it looked like. But he closed it and slid it under his bed for later and decided to write a journel with the utensils in one of the drawers. J

Chapter six:

Scenario (noir)

(four weeks have passed since Arashi`s ressidance at shru-yu.)

"Bbbblaaahhem, im hungry… hmm no im not." Arashi slid out of bed at seven a.m (like always… because he has to.) Arashi walked slowly to his dresser, and got dressed. (as always , I hope.) He put on his blue uniform and left for the caffitirea ,hungry for glurup he stepped in line. As every morning he did not really wake up until eight or nine but he looked like he was. But back on topic. He looked around for his friends. (Koji, Triggle, Atreyu and slang. He met them all on second week, all children of soilders to poor to do anything else with them or something like that.J)

"Glurup? Boy ? FOOD!" Leena the lunch lady, nurse, ganeter and weapons design no. three hundred twenty three. Yelled trying to get Arashis attention. "Oh yes food, thanks." Arashi stumbled. He picked up his dish of greenish purplish goo and sat at the usual table. He ate his mess for a few minutes before Koji plopped down next to him. "Hey bud, how is ya?" "*mmm* *crunch* *crunch* *chew* *slurp*" Arashi continued eating pretending to pay attention to Koji saying something, but what was he saying?

"So do you know were slang is?" Arashi finished eating. "You knockle head I just finished saying she is sick!" Koji replied. "Ohhuhuh oh! Sorry I was just, eating." Arashi fumbled. "Uh huh I know, Yer brean dead when ya eat." Koji grumbled.

Suddenly the p.a came on, *All recruits, attention ! There is a new opprative arriving today so be sharp. He is a transfer from Dora so welcome him nicely, for a change. His name is Noir, He is French but can speak English vary well. He will be arriving at five sharp so be ready. He is a top assassin after all.* The p.a silenced. "Oh arashi I was gonna tell ya I heard to generals talking yesterday they said we are in danger, that’s why they hired this Noir guy, They said something about mytherals new breeds of them." Koji explained. "Mytheral?" Arashi puzzled " A genetic alteration, didn’t drowen tell you?" "Oh ok." Arashi replied.

The two walked down the hall to the draft dorm meeting room. (draft is the section Arashi and friends are in and the dorm room is the central home room.) They sat in there beet up old chairs around the TV. They flipped it on. (When it came time for sheene to get knew chais the three boys had bonded to the old chairs so much they wouldn’t let them through out the old things. But triggle isn’t there right know.) They flipped through looking for cartoons. (as always) But they found nothing but ^chip and orbits brain game fun^ "stupid bloody fucking shapes pretending to live in the fucking TV, morons." Koji hated chip and orbit with a passion, more so the tele tobies, bastards. But they both love sponge bob.After yelling at chip and orbit for ten minutes they left to go see if slang was feeling any better.

*nock nock* "Hello slang, slang? Are… you there?" Koji slammed open the door (so easy to do beacuase slang acsedentaly smashed her security system.) The room was empty. There was a note "Agent slang is on a mission as a substitute. Have a nice dayJ"

"S,slangs on a mission? Uh oh remember last time?" Koji looked rather frightened. "Ya think she`ll live? " Arashi distastefully asked. "Of course she`ll live!!!" Koji hit Arashi up side the head.

"Uh sorryL" Arashi mumbled. The two walked slowly through the hallway to Kojis room. They sat quiet not much was said but they both wondered what kind of mission and when she`ll get back. The time was neering five and Noirs room was just down the hall and they wanted to meet him.

The clock turned to five thirty and waiting in the hall had grown boring, When they heard foot steps. They saw a teenage boy walking down the hall, carrying a brief case in each hand. He stopped right in front of them. He was dressed in: Black baggy pants, red shoes, a studded black belt, a spike bracelet cover his lower arm, a black trench coat, a black shirt and a spiked choker, His light brownish red hair covering his eyes. "Can I help you?" He asked. "Hi my name is Arashi and his is Koji I tak it your Noir right?" Arashi greeted kindlyJ. "That’s officer Noir to you, and boys stay out of my hair!" Noir slammed the door behind himL.

"Well who pissed in your royal cheerios !? Your highness!" Arashi sarcasticly said as he walked back to Kojis room. "Hehehe pissed. Heheh." Koji followedJ. "So uh Oh I just don’t know any more!? Wiat that makes no sense… at all." Koji mumbled.

The p.a system activated: *Would Arashi Lee-Saryu please attend to the office of operations please I repeat. Would Arashi Lee-saryu please attend to the office of operations, Arashi Lee-Saryu.Over*

"U,u,uh mission. Arashi, I hmm. Bye." Koji was shocked at two friends being called away on one day. "uhh well good bye I guess , see you later.," Arashi walked slowly down the coridoor to the office.

He stepped through the door. "Arashi?" The secretary pointed to the door to the left down the hall. He walked to the door with no thought in his mind.

He opened the door , A bulky man in uniform and glasses stepped up. "Arashi Lee-Soryu. You have been called here on be-half of a hostige crises. Do you know Slang Britton?." "U,uh yes yes I do." " We need your help to get her back, She has been taken hostige by a Yami base in Los angelas. Normally we would let it slip and call her dead But she will be transported to central base ground tomarrow at nine and she has vital data." "Well what was she doing in Los angelas any way?" Arashi asked. "Mission ,that’s all I can say. Your plane leaves in one hour pack your bags and alert Drowen, He is assigned as well."

(One hour later the two of them boarded the plane.

Both fully briefed on the operation and ready to

Receive orders upon arrival. Koji sad and others un

Notified.)

Chapter seven:

Tear

-Four hours later the flight landed-

"Alright we` ve landed, know what?!L" Arashi complained bitterly, pissing off Drowen. "Uuhhh why so bitter kid?" Drowen asked. "Eeeh you know that flight thing rich people use an excuse.," "Your not rich, your actually dirt poor." " Uh huh point being?"

Drowen, Arashi and the seventeen other recruits on the plane were briefed by the general of the operation, sir. Kiruken the fourth. (A bit a moron at least.) "Now men, and child… The plan is short and easy. As you all know twenty of our troops have been taken hostage and will be executed soon, something we don’t want. (Duh?!) Know, we will proceed through the back alleys to the Yami complex eight miles from here, once inside we will split in three groups. One will act as a decoy moving up the building killing all in there way, The other one will slide through the ventilation and the last group shall proceed through the master pipe way accessed through the basement. I will know announce the groups, group alpha the pipeline: Drowen, Agasuka, Keamono, Richard , Triggle , Vodka, Warren. Group two beta, Ventiletion: Ervine, David, Alexander, Arashi . Group three omega, decoy : Simon, Spex, Squall, Kitti, James and Kip. Know we proceed please reframe from communication, that meens talking."

The small group snuck through the alleys for over an hour with no conversation, let alone a noise. When they hit the two mile mark they rested as a ^half way treat^. "So do your legs hurt yet?" Kip mumbled in Drowens ear. "I have two options of answering that, Number one I can kick your ass. Number two I can kick your ass. Which one?" Drowen looked at him very… creepily. " U,uh um number zero?" Kip sputtered and started inching away. "Oh yes number zero, kick your ass so hard your grandchildren will feel it!!!JJJJJ" (Although the fact Kip wont have grandchildren because he is gay might have some effect on that…) Drowen yelled as Kip ran, quit fast at that. "Hah he heh heheh!JJ" Arashi`s head looked as it would explode with laughter, but this isn’t a cartoon that cant happen can it? (I hope not)

The brake ended L sad.

"Ok ladies move it!" General yelled. (Lsad.) The sky was getting dark and they had to pick up the pase. (OR ELSE HE YELLED) They marched on and reached the building.

"All right groups split up and move out!" The general walked in with the decoy group and Arashi` s group marched to the back were the air entered the building. David unscrewed the gate on the vent and it opened. (And yes Drowens group is inside to.)

As the group entered they heard rounds being opened already, They hurried through, looking for the way up or the main shaft or something going up dammit! In the mean time Drowens group entered through the back door (Disposing.) of the security guard. They found the mane pipe line, It was small (But not to small.) and they hoped that Arashi` s group had disengaged the water system. (Of which they didn’t.)

(Speaking of Arashi,) Arashi crawled through the vents along with the others and came out in the water pump room, un guarded. (Considering all the active guards were getting shot…) They quickly disengaged the pump systems and returned to the vents as fast as possible. They crawled for a long period of time (Five minutes top.) before finally arriving at the top floor, Arashi peered through the vent, to find only a room, an empty room. After what seemed like four hours of climbing resulted in an empty room! …

Arashi and his group did not leave the vents, because of coarse it was a bit suspicious that the room was empty. They waited a short time, for Drowens group or the decoy group to show up. A faint sound could be heard, a small buzzing noise… it grew louder.

There were no windows in this particular room, but Arashi could fill a small upset in his stomach, as it usually would in his or Luna` s elevator. As if the building itself were rising.

Suddenly a small dinging sound was heard, a hidden door opened at the back of the room. A man stepped out he was tall and thin he was wearing a navy blue business suit. The hidden door slammed shut behind him. "Now that that has been taken care of…" The man spoke with a low but creepy voice. The P.A loudspeaker flipped on:

"Sir! They’ve broken through! There is noth*** I *a* DO!"

"So they are coming after all…"

The man walked over to the desk in the corner and sat. However Arashi and party didn’t quit feel so confident. (Although he may have if he had known that Atreyu and five other soldiers had escaped hostility. But he didn’t.) A moment later the silence was broken, on the far most wall to the left, a crack appeared. An entire section of the wall then collapsed. The decoy team had smashed and crashed its way in. (A few missing here and there, but none the less the team had made it.)

"I have been waiting for you, I suppose your back up is hiding some where? The pipes, the vents maybe… Do you know where we are? We are currently flying one hundred feet beneath the o zone lair. -(What’s left any way.)- So escape is impossible, now as you may have guessed I am a Mytheral. And now you die…" Arashi watched in horror as the mans back ripped open at its bloody seems, his arms expand to large red bulging monsters, (But still arms.) and his eyes go white with hate. No amount of words could equal the amount of horror reeking through Arashi or the grotesquety of the Mytheral` s

changes. It began to massacre the troops one after another… The blood splattering on the floor like a monsoon rain storm.

"Retreat…" Arashi whispered to the troops behind him. "No we can` t. This is war…" The troops slowly inched to where Arashi was, the battle raged on.

"Move in!!!" The troops shoved past Arashi and jumped into the battle. Arashi on the other hand had stayed frozen in his position. Afraid to move.

"Oh god no this cant be happening…"

"More sacks of human shit…" The Mytheral leapt at the back up.

"What the fuck did he just say, we are humans we have pride, ATTACK!!"

The group ran towards the Mytheral from different directions, and attacked.

"Wait a second, he said we were flying… That meens there is a source of purpoltion.

And that source must have a control room, I can access it through the vents no doubt."

Arashi crawled through the vents, peering through the gates of the vents into each room until he finally arrived at a dark red room at the atmost bottom of the building. He kicked in the gate of the vent and jumped in to the room.

"Intruder!?" The guards yelled and leapt to there feet. "Take aim, fire!" The guards grabbed to semi automatics and began to fire rapidly. After quick observation of the room. He saw on the far left corner there was a large computer, in the right corner there was a table with cards and some rum and in the center of the room there was a shaft, it seemed that the shaft went down quite deep, possibly down and out into the open air.

He ran towards the table and grabbed the rum and hurled it at the computer, The glass bottle shattered and rum spilled all over the hard drive of the control computer. "Shit no, all systems down were losing purpoltion speed."

The guards dropped there guns and ran to the computer. Arashi ran and jumped to them and landed on one of the guards shoulders And smashed his head of the computer.

The ship building thingy lost stability and fell at a great speed towards earth.

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"H*w ma** ar* a*I** ?"

"C***Ti*g…"

"X… I* * A*ive?"

"* h*** fou** h**!"

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"We are gathered here today to recognize those who were lost in the last desperate plea for victory. Although Arashi` s plan did give us loss he did the right thing, and now we award him with the metal of the Golden Dragon. Luckily the majority of the recruits on board survived with minimal injury. So we will celebrate this great time." Tetsyu, Arashi` s father announced. And then they begun the party. Warren, Zell and Lemidyen cracked open the booze and from then on in Arashi had one hell of a good time.

(Since this is an anarchist group under aged drinking doesn’t really matter.) Arashi never did see Koji after he returned, if only Arashi knew. But now was no time to think of it, after all this was a happy party.

Arashi spent the rest of his night, well doing what he does best. Goofing off.

Chapter eight:

The wandered

"Hhhuuuaaaaa, I hate waking up." Arashi rased his head from an almost death like sleep, still half awake (and hung over.) he stumbled on to the cold floor. He had barely gotten dressed when there was a nock on his door, (nock nock) "E,eehheheh,eh…eheh.e.h/eh eeehehhheh,h,h,hhrh,hel,herelo, hi." *Cough* The door swung open, it was noir, "Amature, idiot, moron, dip shit all words to describe you!!!" "Ehh… can I help you?" Arashi mumbled in his ^quiet^ voice. "Yes you can, today at fife pm you can get supplies like your supposed to, oh wait! That was six hours AGO!!!" Arashi slammed the door in noirs face, un happy of coarse. L

He then reopened the door with: "YOU FUCKING MORON!!! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO THAT!!!" * twitch * Arashi then slammed the door (again.) And pressed his ear against the door, he heard laughter. (stupid noir, basterd getting his sick kicks out of me…)

He looked up towards the sealing but was reminded today he was sopposed to get groceries with his dad.! (SHIT!) Suddenly he heard the PA system click on: "Would ko-Arashi please tend to the central office on level two." "Ah dammit," Arashi stepped down the hall to the office.

He walked by many rooms but there were three new one labeled: L.M, W.C and S.J, paying no attention to it as it doesn’t have to do with food, videogames or luna he couldn’t give a shit.

He stepped up to the office door and stepped inside. "Arashi they will see you know." The seceratary pointed him to a gray door down the hall. He walked in the room, it was dark and had a Manson family feeling to it.

"Hello, Arashi sit down." A dark voice came from the corner, "You were supposed to hunt for supplies this morning," "W,well n,not to talk back or any thing bbb,but I had a party last night and couldn’t attend the,,, supply hunt." Arashi broke out in a cold sweat.

"I guess you will be our supplies, do you know what glerup is made of?" Arashi gulped and answered; "N,no I I m am afraid I don’t…." "Well its made of…" the voice was side tracked with giggling, The lights flickered on and Luna, Wanni and shonen stepped out from a closet. "Had you going there fer a sed," Shonen almost exploded from laughter.

"It was there Idea you know." A burly man stepped from the corner and laughted lightly. "You’ve been promoted, you’re a privet now and these three are youre squad." "Im sure they’ll explain once you see them to there rooms.

The four walked slowly down the hall to there rooms, Arashi curios to his friends apperence; "So why are you all here?" "All in good time buddy, all in good time." Wanni answered.

Arashi still half hung over went to bed extremely early, for once.

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"Sir I disagree, his mind is not suited for such a thing, he`d never work."

"Do you have a back up? No you don’t, thus you will use him."

"Alright sir, goodbye."

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"After five days of settling in he shows signs of recovery, he was given a six day leave and will report back tomarrow."

"That’s nice, but what about the sneaky one, shonen?"

"We have him under constent watch."

"good."

"B*wa**"

"I l*** ***"

Chapter nine;

Duet

"You know Luna if you just tell him he` ll be a lot more approachable."

"Yes I know, but I took some really stupid advice, from a really stupid person, and I feal stupid for it."

"I see"

"And then there’s that petifile, Noir god he` s perverted, with him and his cheap lines, and his bondage gear and his,"

"Ok that’s enough!"

"Awake I am, Awake I am! I’m awake today!" Arashi sang in the shower for many a minute, until he heard a nock at his cheery gray door followed by a nice friendly; "Shut the fuck up in there or I will personally shove the soap up your ass!" Of coarse Arashi stepped out of the shower and gave a nice casual "Bet you like shoving stuff up my ass you fucking child molester!" After that Arashi continued his cheery shower, and singing with out the interloper’s comments, he didn’t know why he was so happy today. Maybe because of seeing Luna return, or maybe the after effects of the vodka last week, no matter what it was it seemed to be fun.

He stepped out of the steamy shower and put on his new privet uniform, made especially for him. It was black with a red trip around it, with his name on a tag, and four blue stars on the right shoulder. He eat the breakfast he had delivered, (privets get that you know) And walked down the hall to Luna’s, he knocked, and knocked and knocked a little more, but to much dismay she did not answer L.

So he went to visit Atreyu, although once he arrived there was a note on the door saying "Gone hacking." (Atreyu` s a computer hacker for Shru-yu.) So Arashi having an hour before having to ready the weapons in the inventory depot, decided to go see if Slang was in her room, Of which, to more dismay she wasn’t. So finally he found Shonen in the hall. "Oh hello Arashi… strange seeing you here, in the hall." Shonen seemed nervous for an odd reason. "What` s up, you seem a little giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy What` s wrong???" Arashi stared at him with much curiosity. "Nothing, bye!’ Shonen found away of sliding under Arashi` s arm pit. (creepy…)

Arashi noticed that Shonen had dropped some thing, a paper; "Hmm what’s this?, Its assigned to my father… Dogma something or rather. Maybe I should bring this to the secretary." And so he decided to do, He walked and walked and walked and got on the over crowded elevator, some one on that death trap had bad B.O but that’s besides the point. He walked a little more and stepped in side the secretary office and handed her the paper "Shonen Utena dropped this, I assume its important so, here." Arashi handed her the paper. "Oh yes thank you very, very much you’ve helped us plenty, and Drowens waiting at your room to talk to you, he says its important." The secretary folded the paper and shoved it in the drower of her desk.(special)

So Arashi cheerfully walked back to his room awaiting Drowens important news. He arrived in front of his room assuming Drowen was inside, he stepped in. "Long time no see." Arashi greeted him happily… But he did not respond, he just sat there in the shadows, not moving, hardly breathing a glimmer of light revealed a tear drop fall from his dark face. "Drowen? What’s wrong? " Arashi stepped closer. "A,Ar Arashi, I don’t know how to tell you but, but your father," "What ,what about my FATHER!" Arashi grabbed Drowens shoulders and shook him. "YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN SHOT!!!, he, he was carrying important papers and… OH god!… He` s gone. dead." Drowen broke into tears.

"important papers… dogma." Arashi fell to his knees.

"Oh god, I cant believe it, I just cant."

"Arashi, do you know something?"

"Shonen, It couldn’t be…"

"Shonen, what happened?"

Arashi fumbled the words of Shonens sighting.

"That fucker, he" Drowens words were interrupted by the intercom; "Code red, I repeat code red, Mytheral has breached Level five, All ---------------static----------------à"

"Arashi move, Shonens a Mytheral, that meens its your troops job to dispose of him, terminate target, that’s a direct ORDER!!" Arashi Ran to the elevator, "Fuck, where’s level five dammit!" Arashi slammed his fists down on the button panel, The room to him became hot, sweat dripped from his face. Though the thermometer on the wall said it was quite cool. Pain. Pain struck through Arashi` s body, All through it. *Shreeeeeeeeeeek* A horrible shrieking nose, followed by an explosion. "Fuckit!" Arashi felt a blast of rage run through his body. And black. The floor of the silent elevator fell through with a mighty shatter.

Arashi fell down the dark shaft, screaming "You bastard!, You killed him You Lied!, You betrayed me! You are dead to me!"

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"Sir we’ve lost transmission with him, wait there’s two! Two Mytheral signals that meens he was not lying!"

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Arashi approached him, hovering down slowly, Shonen looked up "So you see me now, a Mytheral as you would know me, Sent to kill me I see, not truly knowing what you wish to slaughter."

"I Know damn well what I want To kill, a lire, a killer and worst of all what I thought was a friend!"

"Is it you that thinks these things of me, or is what you’re told to think of me?"

"You bastard, try to tell me your no killer! You killed my father, what the hell are YOU!"

"I embody your genes, your emotion and most of all your blood, Do you really know the truth what you are?"

"Of coarse I do!, I’m… the truth?"

"Yes Arashi the truth, you and I are the same, we are both the same person fundamentally, So why must you treat me as a different being when we are both the same?"

"Im not you!"

"Hhm, yes you are, yes we are, Mytheral!"

"No, no I am no Mytheral! Damn you!"

"Yes you are, we are a duet in perfect synchronization."

"Never."

Arashi felt rage then, at that moment. Rage neither you or I have felt, true rage. Followed by pain through his arms, his legs, his whole body, he could see nothing, but he heard one thing, a scream. And the pain went away, vanished with clink of a chain.

His eyes opened, darker than when they had been closed, he saw a light, bigger, bigger, bigger it grew. The end of the tunnel, of the shaft. It was The bottom! He landed hard and as fast as a bullet. He lay in his blood, feeling as if every bone in his body shattered. He mumbled; "If I had none… oh god Luna, I, I love you, but I know you cant here me."

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"Sir one Mytheral signal remains."

"So I suppose he is aware."

"Send down medics at once, and burn the targets corpse, let there be no proof it ever existed."

"Its almost a shame it didn’t finish developing, or we could’ve seen some massive amounts of G.A"

"Would you really want it to finish, really?"

"No not really."

Chapter ten;

Theater

-I walk through the shadow of the valley of death

"Is he alive?"

"Get a signal dammit!"

"Oh god we cant have lost him."

"We have a transmission."

"Send down Drowen and the medics to pick him up!,"

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"N*mbe* on* I* l*st, A* f*r X, life pu*** s on*****."

"Oh god no,! It cant be, Shonen, Arashi, is he ok?!"

"Its Ok Luna there’s still a signal."

"Oh god I wish I had told him!"

"We have some disturbing news, both Shonen and Arashi…"

"Mytherals!?"

"Duet…"

"I am not my own conductor…"

"Emotions…"

"Life, a theatre, I wish to be master of puppets, can I?"

"No."

"We are a duet…"

"X…"

"I am not there child…"

"Atreyu, Now I don’t know if he will even live, let alone love."

"Relax, I` m sure if your there for him he will love you, if he doesn’t already…"

"His father should have told him…"

"There he is, get him in!"

"Drowen… is that you?…"

"I want to live, puppet or not."

"*re *re yo* th*r* , T*e ?"

"Te** him."

"is this, my blood? It cant be, god no I was wrong, Im sorry, Arashi,"

"Arashi, are you there? Can you hear me?"

"He’s got a heart beat."

"Sir, we’ve lost him…"

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"This day I know the truth."

"He, he is alive!"

"His pulse just shot up, huh?"

"Sir this doesn’t match up, it isn’t Arashi` s signal, its not him…"

"The G.A has morphed his genetic pattern."

"It isn’t long now…"

"I am afraid that this is the beginning of the end."

Chapter eleven;

Stitches

"Four months have past since we were sent the Mytheral, Arashi is beginning to recover, Shru-yu wont lose him, At any rate Luna is begging to recover as well, its hard to pick up stitches of a past life. She been visiting him every day for the last three months, the first month of coarse Arashi couldn’t be let near any one, he was in an isolation chamber. I just wish he hadn’t, killed Arashi` s father. I don’t know how Arashi will respond to, his changes. But then he has been through a lot." Atreyu set down her journal, and walked down the calm hall way to talk to Wanni. *Nock* *nock * "Hi." Wanni opened the door, his facial expression hadn’t changed since the ordeal happened. "Atreyu, I want to make sure you take good care of Luna for me…" Wanni pulled a back pack up onto his shoulder. "Take good care of her?, were are you going?!" Atreyu grabbed Wanni and pushed him back into his room.

"I , I cant stay here, I want to be normal again I want to forget this ever happened, im sorry." Wanni slipped his way past Atreyu and ran down the hall. "Why didn’t I try to stop him…" Atreyu stepped silently back to her room.

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"I hate this, all of it. I want to be a kid again, pick up the stitches of an old life. Is that so bad? It must be. I, I mean I feel bad about it. Why do I feel bad? Oh fuck why do I really care. Better off Im eaten by sewer rats then in a battle… No its not."

"His pulse has returned to normal, wake him at once!"

"His eyes, they` re opening!?"

"What’s going on, Shonen? Luna, Drowen ,Wanni?"

"The patient is awake."

"Can you hear me?"

"Yes and I can see you to."

"Your left arm is still broken, you should recover soon though, come with me."

Chapter twelve;

History

------------------Four weeks since Arashi` s recovery------------------------------

Well Arashi has made a full recovery, asides from his arm which is doing quite good. Any way I am of to go visit Drowen, he is such a cute guy…"

Atreyu put down her pen and diary and crammed them both way up high in the top of her closet, where no one would find them. She then slid her dark red top on over her red bra.

She flopped on her hello kitti slippers and walked to Drowens. (You see they can do this because they, being Arashi, Luna…etc are back up troops As in they are only used when they are needed.)

On her way she met Arashi. "Oh hey Arashi, good to see you walking again. Hehe… just kidding, well it is good your walking but no insulting tone meant I` m sorry." Atreyu began to blush at her, not so goodness with words. "Eh that’s alright." Arashi walked down the hall to talk to Luna.

*Nock* *nock* "Hold on I’ll be there in a second." A small voice replied from the inside. The door opened And Luna invited him in, "Com`n in." Arashi stepped in. "Its good to see that you have recovered, you know I was really worried about you back there. I’m glad to see you` re alright." Luna looked kind of sad at the thought of remembering the ordeal. "Its good to talk to you again to, I have really been thinking about you. And well I would like to tell you now while I` m still alive!, that I… I… uh ghuhuhgghhhh love you…" Arashi` s face filled with blood and he just about died of heart failure. "I know, I` ve always known, and I love you to always have if you haven’t noticed?" Luna looked Arashi very oddly as if she thought it has a joke that he didn’t notice.

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Both Luna and Arashi heard a loud scream blast through the hall way a great power, neither of them knew it was Atreyu, learning the guy of her dreams was gay. (Blaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!! J!)

Of coarse Atreyu hadn’t known Drowen as long as every one else, and more or less couldn’t care if he was gay until she had a crush on him. Funny that slang learned the same way.

"Uh I should go see what that was, I guess I will talk more latter." Arashi got up but before he could leave Luna gave him a small peck on the cheek. And Arashi got up to see what all the ruckus was about. So first he walked to Atreyu` s room but to much dismay she wasn’t there, so he wondered around looking for her. And strangely couldn’t find her, Nor could he find Koji` s room. In fact he hadn’t seen Koji for a long time, maybe on a mission?

But finally he ran into Drowen, "Hey Drowen. Say have you seen Atreyu?" "Why yes but she ran of to Wanni` s room after I told her I was gay… I think she liked me.. oops." Drowen looked sort of confused but no more then usual. "K, thanks." Arashi ran down to Wanni` s room and with out knocking barged in.

Atreyu was in the corner, she sounded like she was crying. "Atreyu? Are you, are you ok?" Arashi stepped closer. "No!… this isn’t right. I let him leave, and now… and now he is out there homeless and wanted. Maybe even dead!" Atreyu lunged at Arashi and kissed him, not just a short one either. Long and damp. Of coarse this made Arashi some what uncomfortable, but he didn’t show it much. She moved back, "I, I` m sorry if that made you uncomfortable, I just needed to do that…You see Wanni left… I let him.

I don’t know why, it just seemed like the right thing to do. I was trying to get us all like a family… because none of us have one, but I failed. I failed you, Luna and Wanni but most of all I failed my self. And there s nothing I can do to fix that now. And I am sorry most of all for dumping all my problems on you. I guess I need a shoulder to cry on, a tourniquet. I need some one to love." Atreyu closed her eyes in disgrace. "That’s alright, we all need some one to talk to and have as a tourniquet. And we all need to love some one. But Atreyu I am not the one you should love, I am not even the one Luna should love, I` m creepy and dishonest and a wimp and cant handle anger well, although I don’t get angry easily, but most of all I cant even stand my self!" Arashi looked depressed at the thought of his words. "No your not!, you are a very responsible trust worthy person and if I ever hear you say that again I will… I will do this!" Atreyu yelled, she stepped forward and slapped Arashi as hard as she could, and before he could yell she jumped on him. They made out for a small time, Arashi` s mind going blank.

They stopped, Arashi took a breathe and spoke; "We cant do this, Luna has deeper issues than she lets on. And I don’t want to hurt her, so we should just stay friends for now ok?" "Alright I suppose that is a good idea, for Luna` s sake." Atreyu sat back down on her bed. "I should get going now." Arashi stepped out the door. "Bye" Atreyu waved and laid down for a nap.

"I think I am going to go see Slang." Arashi thought, still curios about what the hell had just happened. Of coarse he didn’t.

He stepped up o Slang` s door, he rung the bell. And within five seconds She answered ; "What do you want cant you see I m busy! Oh hi Arashi sorry I thought you were that Noir guy… what a pervert, him and his well just him but still." "Hi slang I` m just here to talk and visit and so on." Slang brought him into his room and the sat and talked for a while. "So why is Koji avoiding me?" Arashi asked with a sudden change of topic. "Koji, um you mean to say you don’t know? He was shot down on a mission. Nobody told you?! Oh god I` m so sorry, I just figured you knew." Slang sat with an astonished look on her face. "Dead…" Arashi looked deep and out of it. "Um Slang, I think I am going to go now ok." With that Arashi stood up and walked out of her room. "Uh ya bye…"

"Oh god… Koji is dead. And Atreyu… and Shonen was. This is not right." Arashi walked into his room and fell asleep with tears dripping down his face.

"He has reached the truth about him self and what he must do."

"**** will soon bring about the destruction of Shru-yu."

"It is his life purpose, what if he fails to get X or destroy Shru-yu?"

"We will move to plan B."

"Sir Tamoko` s corpse has still not yet been found, not in the remains or any where else, we believe she may be with Dora…"

"Again she slips through our grasp, history repeats it self once more."