Post by Anemone on Nov 17, 2007 13:12:20 GMT -5
Prologue
Are they human? Are they not? What exactly are they? People usually think it's silly to fear their own shadows, but when their own shadows commit murders, then fear grows. The government of course has gotten involved in this, trying to find the secret to these mass murders, is it a serial killer? Maybe a disease? No...they have found the one thing they think can stop this, but is she really able to be trusted? She has also killed a lot of people, when the girl gets captured by the government and is tested they find a split personality, they keep her in a room full of light, and make sure there's no shadow's available to manipulate. When she escapes and loses her memory, she finds an orphanage and goes to school as a normal girl until she learns that she has a shadow and it can talk. It leads her to the world of shadows and teaches her how to fight, but what will happen if her shadow side awakens? The government has also discovered other beings like her, how will this effect San?
Chapter 1, the escape
San looked up at the bright light, she was sitting in a room filled with white light, and she was isolated from the rest of the outside world. She sighed and closed her eyes, "Even my shadow has retreated." San looked at the white tile floor. The light began to flicker and San smirked, "So, God has given someone like me a chance...so there are still surprises in this world..." She stood up and her shadow returned to her. "So it's returned," she smirked as the light started to go out, "It's my lucky day." Some of the soldiers that worked on the base were outside of the room Sankyou was in. They walk up to the door and one takes a key off from around his neck. "Chow time for you....little monster" he says. San glares at him as a tray comes in through a small doggy door. The light flickers off. "Now who's the monster again? I'm going to show you a monster...bye painting the room with your blood!" She yells.
The light flickered on and the soldiers shook a little bit and stuttered at talking, "You can't do that locked in that room of light...look...even your shadow left you..." San gave them a weird look, with her wild red eyes she smirked. The soldiers' heads turned to the ground and noticed the shadow lay beneath San. They put their guns up and pointed at San. The lamp burst open and there was no sight of light anywhere in the white room. Her eyes glowed in the darkness and black arms reached out from the room. "My shadow has left me huh?" she asked with a sneer. The soldiers were grabbed by the shadows and in minutes the room was red with blood. Sankyou's shadow busted open the door and she started walking out of the room. She stepped on some of the blood and led a track of prints to where she was going. "People might find me...they'll have some bad luck.
More people rushed out of rooms, a couple soldiers followed the tracks to where San was heading, they had no clue that they were heading strait to their deaths. "Maybe a survivor is limping around here," one of the men said. Another one replied, "What if it's that crazy witch." "Yeah, I agree, we should retreat," another one said. "No way...I'm the team leader, besides if we can catch her off gaurd-" the leader said, being interrupted by a man in white, "Heh, that won't happen."
The leader turned to the man in white, "What the hell are you talking about? No one's invincible!" The man tried to hide his laughter for he was certainly talking to a fool who didn't know anything about the situation, "She's pretty close to it." The leader muttered under his breath, "I can't believe we're supposed to be afraid of a woman, especially a child." The man frowned at the leaders words, "She's also not human." "Huh, not human?" the leader asks with interest. "Exactly, I thought you people were briefed on the situation, but apparently you don't know the full gravity of the situation." Leader replied with suspicion, "Full gravity? Exactly what kind of mission is this? If that girl isn't human, what is she?" The man in white got frustrated with all these questions and tried to keep calm, he whispered to himself because he couldn't keep his thoughts inside his head, "What a collection of fools, all these guys are muscle and weapons, we actually pay these guys to ask questions." The leader clenched his fists and grabbed the man in white's shirt collar, "You're really starting to piss me off with all this 'collection of fools' talk, why weren't we told about this thing that appears to be inhuman, at least answer one of my questions." "Let me go and I'll tell you everything..." the man demanded.
The leader put him down to the ground and sighed, "Now...old man, spill it." The man in white pushed his glasses up on his nose and took a breath, he dusted himself off and started to explain, "In a world a couple years ago, people would it was silly to fear your own shadow, but..." The man paused as the leader gave him a funny smirk, "Of course, you'd have to be stupid to be afraid of some shadow." The man ignored his comment and continued his lecture, "Of course we all know that a shadow is a dark image vast on the ground by a body intercepting light, but we have discovered a new definition." The man had his eyes closed the whole time and when he opened his eyes to take a breath, he saw the whole team, except the leader, sitting down, eating popcorn. They seemed to believe this was just a fantasy tale. The man put his hand to his head and sighed deeply. He looked to the left, in the corner of his eye; he had noticed the leader of the team was asleep. The man muttered to himself, "No wonder they don't know anything about this mission, they weren't listening. I'm tired of this, I want employees who listen and do their job. LISTEN UP OR I'LL HAVE YOU FIRED!" The soldiers quickly hid their popcorn and the leader quickly woke up from his nap.
"Hey, what's your name? You're the director of this operation right?" The man nods and answers, "Otoko, as you so put it, yes I'm the leader of this operation, but this is more than an operation. Where was I? Oh yes," he coughs and continues, "We have now found a new definition of the word shadow, these 'shadow's' are actual living beings. They have been labeled, "Sankyou Kages" or shadow bridges. Many of them have been spotted near a shrine outside of Tokyo, Japan. They haven't been identified with parents, their genetic code is all wrong; it's as if they've been created out of dark matter. They have different 'traits' than humans." Otoko holds up three fingers, "One, they have pointed ears," he then puts one finger down, "two, they have red pupils and black irises," he puts another finger down, "and last and most important, they can manipulate shadow's, or most of them can, some have other abilities."
Otoko stopped and took out a clipboard, coughed, and threw it to the leader of the soldier team. The leader caught it with ease and pulled back the first page, which was blank. "It has information on the subject who has escaped," Otoko stated as he crossed his arms. The leader smirked with much anticipation, "Subject 0001, 'Sankyou Kage' 'Shadow Bridge,' Sankyou, San," he read, "How original, bridge?"
Otoko ignored the comment and gave him orders, "You are to stop her, and bring her back to her cell, we are working on a new containment unit, until then we have to do with what we have. If this mission fails...and San escapes, the whole world will be at risk, got it?" The leader seemed to be irritated by this demand, so he responded sarcastically, "So...the fate of the world is in my hands? This makes things much tougher now." The leader rolled his eyes and started walking toward the place where the blood tracks led, his team followed. Otoko walked back to his lab, "Those guys will be dead, and I hope their friends are going to plan a nice funeral for them." Otoko chuckled a little and opened the door.
San looked down at more soldiers she had slattered with the manipulation of her shadow, her red eyes glowed with a fiery rage, her pitch black hair seemed to match her eyes, and her pointed ears fit in as if she really were a demon. San noticed that one man was alive, he was the leader of this team, "You seem to be at your last breathe, you have a look of insanity in your eyes. You said that there was more of me?" The man didn't answer; he let out a small scream. "I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONLY ME! I'm the original; I don't want anymore people like me! If they are locked up, I'll kill them myself, but first, I'll put you out of your misery!" Her shadow stretched across the floor to the man's shadow. San's shadow rips the man's shadow apart and the man's arms start to bleed, he finally stops moving all together, he had died.
"Humans, so pathetic, all they can do is fight with their fists and stupid weapons," San turned and looked at another squad of soldiers. "Looks like we found her, finally after listening to that Otoko guy talking for ever, we get to face this witch we've heard so much about," the leader of the squad said. San turned around and glared at the leader, "You people, bore me with trying to stop me...it won't work." The leader bit his lip and smirked, "Such big words from a little girl." He pulled out the machine gun that was on his back. San's expression didn't change, her shadow reached out. "Don't mess with me!" the leader yelled, firing the machine gun at San. Her shadow caught the shadows of the bullets so they stopped in mid air. San's shadow returned to its normal size and the bullets fell to the ground, "You won't kill me..." The leader was starting to get frustrated to he ran at San. San didn't move, and she didn't phase at his attack. A hand of her shadow rose out of the ground and the leader stopped, he seemed to be sweating. "Leave me alone," she said. The shadow grabbed the leader and squished him, splattering blood all over the place.
San wiped a bit of blood off of her cheek and looked at the blood on her finger. She thought for a moment and sighed, she looked toward the other soldiers. Every one of them had fear written on their faces, they ran. San sneered, "Come back, I want to play...you toy with me...so I'm going to toy with you." With her shadow, she ripped their arms off, and then their legs and then their heads, "That was boring."
“You people...left me locked up in there for so long, now I’m returning the favor, by taking your lives away as well,” Sankyou said walking to a door. She heard someone coming so she quickly opened the door and was on the edge of a cliff, she dropped her foot down to a ladder, she looked down to see water, not dry land. She falls forward and grabs a bar on the ladder with one hand. She grits her teeth and smirks. San tries to shorten her shadow to help her, it didn’t work. “Dang it, it’s at the bottom of the ocean, I can’t reach it, it’s...over.” San slipped and fell off and went down towards the water. The wind blew her against the ladder and she hit her head on one of the metal bars. She fell unconscious. San landed in the water; luckily she fell on a small piece of wood and held on to it.
The Sankyou Kage floated towards the shore to a shore along the coast of Japan, it was outside of Tokyo. San opened her eyes looked up to see a boy around her age sitting in the sand on the beach. He blinked a couple times and rushed into the water to get her. San sat up on the piece of wood and fell into the water; she couldn’t swim so she held her hand up as she sank. The young boy caught her hand just as she went under. He pulled her up, carried her to shore, and set her on the sand. She coughed up a little bit of water and sat up. “Hey miss, what were you doing all the way out here, and what’s with those ears and that purple hair, and those eyes,” the boy blurted out. San touched her ears, “Where am I? Who am I?”
Are they human? Are they not? What exactly are they? People usually think it's silly to fear their own shadows, but when their own shadows commit murders, then fear grows. The government of course has gotten involved in this, trying to find the secret to these mass murders, is it a serial killer? Maybe a disease? No...they have found the one thing they think can stop this, but is she really able to be trusted? She has also killed a lot of people, when the girl gets captured by the government and is tested they find a split personality, they keep her in a room full of light, and make sure there's no shadow's available to manipulate. When she escapes and loses her memory, she finds an orphanage and goes to school as a normal girl until she learns that she has a shadow and it can talk. It leads her to the world of shadows and teaches her how to fight, but what will happen if her shadow side awakens? The government has also discovered other beings like her, how will this effect San?
Chapter 1, the escape
San looked up at the bright light, she was sitting in a room filled with white light, and she was isolated from the rest of the outside world. She sighed and closed her eyes, "Even my shadow has retreated." San looked at the white tile floor. The light began to flicker and San smirked, "So, God has given someone like me a chance...so there are still surprises in this world..." She stood up and her shadow returned to her. "So it's returned," she smirked as the light started to go out, "It's my lucky day." Some of the soldiers that worked on the base were outside of the room Sankyou was in. They walk up to the door and one takes a key off from around his neck. "Chow time for you....little monster" he says. San glares at him as a tray comes in through a small doggy door. The light flickers off. "Now who's the monster again? I'm going to show you a monster...bye painting the room with your blood!" She yells.
The light flickered on and the soldiers shook a little bit and stuttered at talking, "You can't do that locked in that room of light...look...even your shadow left you..." San gave them a weird look, with her wild red eyes she smirked. The soldiers' heads turned to the ground and noticed the shadow lay beneath San. They put their guns up and pointed at San. The lamp burst open and there was no sight of light anywhere in the white room. Her eyes glowed in the darkness and black arms reached out from the room. "My shadow has left me huh?" she asked with a sneer. The soldiers were grabbed by the shadows and in minutes the room was red with blood. Sankyou's shadow busted open the door and she started walking out of the room. She stepped on some of the blood and led a track of prints to where she was going. "People might find me...they'll have some bad luck.
More people rushed out of rooms, a couple soldiers followed the tracks to where San was heading, they had no clue that they were heading strait to their deaths. "Maybe a survivor is limping around here," one of the men said. Another one replied, "What if it's that crazy witch." "Yeah, I agree, we should retreat," another one said. "No way...I'm the team leader, besides if we can catch her off gaurd-" the leader said, being interrupted by a man in white, "Heh, that won't happen."
The leader turned to the man in white, "What the hell are you talking about? No one's invincible!" The man tried to hide his laughter for he was certainly talking to a fool who didn't know anything about the situation, "She's pretty close to it." The leader muttered under his breath, "I can't believe we're supposed to be afraid of a woman, especially a child." The man frowned at the leaders words, "She's also not human." "Huh, not human?" the leader asks with interest. "Exactly, I thought you people were briefed on the situation, but apparently you don't know the full gravity of the situation." Leader replied with suspicion, "Full gravity? Exactly what kind of mission is this? If that girl isn't human, what is she?" The man in white got frustrated with all these questions and tried to keep calm, he whispered to himself because he couldn't keep his thoughts inside his head, "What a collection of fools, all these guys are muscle and weapons, we actually pay these guys to ask questions." The leader clenched his fists and grabbed the man in white's shirt collar, "You're really starting to piss me off with all this 'collection of fools' talk, why weren't we told about this thing that appears to be inhuman, at least answer one of my questions." "Let me go and I'll tell you everything..." the man demanded.
The leader put him down to the ground and sighed, "Now...old man, spill it." The man in white pushed his glasses up on his nose and took a breath, he dusted himself off and started to explain, "In a world a couple years ago, people would it was silly to fear your own shadow, but..." The man paused as the leader gave him a funny smirk, "Of course, you'd have to be stupid to be afraid of some shadow." The man ignored his comment and continued his lecture, "Of course we all know that a shadow is a dark image vast on the ground by a body intercepting light, but we have discovered a new definition." The man had his eyes closed the whole time and when he opened his eyes to take a breath, he saw the whole team, except the leader, sitting down, eating popcorn. They seemed to believe this was just a fantasy tale. The man put his hand to his head and sighed deeply. He looked to the left, in the corner of his eye; he had noticed the leader of the team was asleep. The man muttered to himself, "No wonder they don't know anything about this mission, they weren't listening. I'm tired of this, I want employees who listen and do their job. LISTEN UP OR I'LL HAVE YOU FIRED!" The soldiers quickly hid their popcorn and the leader quickly woke up from his nap.
"Hey, what's your name? You're the director of this operation right?" The man nods and answers, "Otoko, as you so put it, yes I'm the leader of this operation, but this is more than an operation. Where was I? Oh yes," he coughs and continues, "We have now found a new definition of the word shadow, these 'shadow's' are actual living beings. They have been labeled, "Sankyou Kages" or shadow bridges. Many of them have been spotted near a shrine outside of Tokyo, Japan. They haven't been identified with parents, their genetic code is all wrong; it's as if they've been created out of dark matter. They have different 'traits' than humans." Otoko holds up three fingers, "One, they have pointed ears," he then puts one finger down, "two, they have red pupils and black irises," he puts another finger down, "and last and most important, they can manipulate shadow's, or most of them can, some have other abilities."
Otoko stopped and took out a clipboard, coughed, and threw it to the leader of the soldier team. The leader caught it with ease and pulled back the first page, which was blank. "It has information on the subject who has escaped," Otoko stated as he crossed his arms. The leader smirked with much anticipation, "Subject 0001, 'Sankyou Kage' 'Shadow Bridge,' Sankyou, San," he read, "How original, bridge?"
Otoko ignored the comment and gave him orders, "You are to stop her, and bring her back to her cell, we are working on a new containment unit, until then we have to do with what we have. If this mission fails...and San escapes, the whole world will be at risk, got it?" The leader seemed to be irritated by this demand, so he responded sarcastically, "So...the fate of the world is in my hands? This makes things much tougher now." The leader rolled his eyes and started walking toward the place where the blood tracks led, his team followed. Otoko walked back to his lab, "Those guys will be dead, and I hope their friends are going to plan a nice funeral for them." Otoko chuckled a little and opened the door.
San looked down at more soldiers she had slattered with the manipulation of her shadow, her red eyes glowed with a fiery rage, her pitch black hair seemed to match her eyes, and her pointed ears fit in as if she really were a demon. San noticed that one man was alive, he was the leader of this team, "You seem to be at your last breathe, you have a look of insanity in your eyes. You said that there was more of me?" The man didn't answer; he let out a small scream. "I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONLY ME! I'm the original; I don't want anymore people like me! If they are locked up, I'll kill them myself, but first, I'll put you out of your misery!" Her shadow stretched across the floor to the man's shadow. San's shadow rips the man's shadow apart and the man's arms start to bleed, he finally stops moving all together, he had died.
"Humans, so pathetic, all they can do is fight with their fists and stupid weapons," San turned and looked at another squad of soldiers. "Looks like we found her, finally after listening to that Otoko guy talking for ever, we get to face this witch we've heard so much about," the leader of the squad said. San turned around and glared at the leader, "You people, bore me with trying to stop me...it won't work." The leader bit his lip and smirked, "Such big words from a little girl." He pulled out the machine gun that was on his back. San's expression didn't change, her shadow reached out. "Don't mess with me!" the leader yelled, firing the machine gun at San. Her shadow caught the shadows of the bullets so they stopped in mid air. San's shadow returned to its normal size and the bullets fell to the ground, "You won't kill me..." The leader was starting to get frustrated to he ran at San. San didn't move, and she didn't phase at his attack. A hand of her shadow rose out of the ground and the leader stopped, he seemed to be sweating. "Leave me alone," she said. The shadow grabbed the leader and squished him, splattering blood all over the place.
San wiped a bit of blood off of her cheek and looked at the blood on her finger. She thought for a moment and sighed, she looked toward the other soldiers. Every one of them had fear written on their faces, they ran. San sneered, "Come back, I want to play...you toy with me...so I'm going to toy with you." With her shadow, she ripped their arms off, and then their legs and then their heads, "That was boring."
“You people...left me locked up in there for so long, now I’m returning the favor, by taking your lives away as well,” Sankyou said walking to a door. She heard someone coming so she quickly opened the door and was on the edge of a cliff, she dropped her foot down to a ladder, she looked down to see water, not dry land. She falls forward and grabs a bar on the ladder with one hand. She grits her teeth and smirks. San tries to shorten her shadow to help her, it didn’t work. “Dang it, it’s at the bottom of the ocean, I can’t reach it, it’s...over.” San slipped and fell off and went down towards the water. The wind blew her against the ladder and she hit her head on one of the metal bars. She fell unconscious. San landed in the water; luckily she fell on a small piece of wood and held on to it.
The Sankyou Kage floated towards the shore to a shore along the coast of Japan, it was outside of Tokyo. San opened her eyes looked up to see a boy around her age sitting in the sand on the beach. He blinked a couple times and rushed into the water to get her. San sat up on the piece of wood and fell into the water; she couldn’t swim so she held her hand up as she sank. The young boy caught her hand just as she went under. He pulled her up, carried her to shore, and set her on the sand. She coughed up a little bit of water and sat up. “Hey miss, what were you doing all the way out here, and what’s with those ears and that purple hair, and those eyes,” the boy blurted out. San touched her ears, “Where am I? Who am I?”
