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Prologue: The Awakening; Personal Plot; Closed
Topic Started: Jan 15 2012, 12:56 PM (340 Views)
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[A small Japanese town, away from Hyakuji]

To say it was a tragedy in this rural Japanese community that comprised of family groups that had such close-knit neighborly relationships with one another that date back generations would be an understatement; but it wasn't merely the extended relatives of the Tsukiyoru Clan that shed countless tears that fateful night. No one knew what exactly happened, but the local authorities basically reported in the media the incident as a "tragic accident" that shook up the sleepy community with the destruction of the Tsukiyoru Shrine, a site that long held a deep historical and cultural significance to the locals, and along with the knowledge that (almost) the entire main branch of the family that had run said shrine for generations.

However, no matter how deep one's grief was, eventually one would realize the need to move on. It took the town authorities some time as they discussed at length during their council meetings, bringing up issues such as budget, manpower and such - but it was eventually finalized that while the original familial caretakers of the Tsukiyoru Shrine are gone, they weren't about to simply let a piece of their heritage die along with them. And so a redevelopment project was put in place - the restoration of the Tsukiyoru Shrine. The locals figured that even though the original caretakers are gone, by maintaining their cultural practices they continue to live on, in spirit, through those who take up the torch.



Once the project was approved (however long it took for them to finally give the green light, anyhow) however, the work pretty much took off at full swing as day and night work went on at the site where the Tsukiyoru Shrine once stood, with the purpose of restoring the shrine back to its former glory. Tonight was another typical night; a momentary lull as the work site grew quiet as the current shift of workers clocked out and the site supervisor waited for the next shift to come in. A moment of respite. The site supervisor let out a heavy sigh as he took off his helmet, heading back into the relative comfort of the foreman's office to kick back with a mug of coffee while waiting for the next shift to arrive, passing the time by posting on the walls of some of his Facebook buddies over his smart phone.

It all looked like just another typical end to a good day...

Until it started.

It pretty much came without warning; as the only clue to something unusual was about to happen was when the coffee inside his mug started rippling madly before the initial tremors began to be felt. And like any Japanese, he was familiar with his earthquake drills as the man quickly threw his helmet back on and dived underneath his desk as the ground beneath him rumbled with increasing intensity. An earthquake - something that the Japanese were all too familiar with. Huddling beneath the table, the site supervisor put his hands together and prayed - hard - for his safety, and the safety of his family back at home, eyes tightly shut lest he should see his end coming...

When the man opened his eyes after the quake died down, the first thing that ran through his mind was how long had it gone on, before silently thanking the gods for his safety. Acting on instinct, the first thing he did was to go straight for a small transistor radio that was lying on the floor, switching on the device. After all, if an earthquake had really struck it would only be natural that the government would have issued some form of emergency broadcast. Except that there was none - the local radio station was still airing popular songs as though nothing had happened at all; tuning in to several other stations, and he got the same result - it was as though the "earthquake" had hit only the work site, and no where else. Picking himself back onto his feet, the next imperative was of course, to survey the damage done to the work site and report back to his superiors.

"Makoto-san! Take a look at this!" No sooner had the site supervisor stepped out from the now-disarrayed foreman's office was he approached by the next shift's workers running up to him, pointing in the direction of where the backyard of the shrine once was... except that in the aftermath of the earthquake part of the ground had mysteriously caved in, leaving behind a circular hole, roughly wide enough for an average-sized man to climb down with his hands and feet grabbing onto the sides.

"It looks like a ground subsidence to me," the supervisor commented as he retrieved a flashlight, shining a beam of light down the hole, trying to see how deep it went. "But it's pretty deep though... can't see the bottom from here. But is it just me, or do you hear sounds coming from down below?" he asked the workers that were at this point all gathered around the hole - although the smoothness of the edges and small diameter made it appear more like a shaft than a case of a ground subsidence. The workers looked around, casting worried glances at one another and murmuring amongst themselves... before one of them picked up a fist-sized chunk of debris, inching towards the edge of the hole before dropping the stone in, using the sound to determine how deep the hole went.

Hiss...

And now there was no doubt that everyone on the site heard the noise, but what happened next was beyond what they were expecting. "What is that smell!?" one of the workers gasped as he clapped a hand over his mouth and nose as a foul, retching odor filled the air, its apparent source being the hole in the ground. Although before anyone could worry if it was a case of hydrogen sulfide (due to its foul smell and all) seeping to the surface, a deathly red glow began to issue forth from the bottom of the hole, causing everyone to back away nervously, followed by a cacophony of inhuman shrieks as a host of misty apparitions bearing a vaguely skeletal appearance came right out from the hole with the red glow, flying into the sky like steam rushing out from a broken steam pipe.

"RUN! RUN!" The workers went helter-skelter at the sight they beheld, breaking into a run as they scrambled in a hurry to get as far away from the accursed site as they could. A few seconds after the men had all but fled the scene, the glow faded and the now-deserted work site grew silent as the shrieking apparitions simply evaporated away. However, a set of voices began to speak among themselves.

"Could it be true...? The sacred seal, I can no longer feel it..."

"After seven hundred years... free at last..."

"Tsukiyoru..."

"The time for vengeance, is at hand!"

"The Raksha Lords walk the earth once more!"



And meanwhile, miles away in Hyakuji, a certain girl would see the entire chain of events unfold as she slept...
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A pair of sinister eyes looked in her direction and seemed to pierce a sharp pain through her chest, a set of long boney fingers enclosing around her throat. The next thing Yuki knew, her own eyes shot open in panic and she found herself staring into empty darkness. She gasped for air as if she were suffocating, her initial disorientation of where she was worsening the situation while she clawed at her neck to break free from whatever she thought was around it.

As far as her brain was able to process, someone or something was trying to kill her, and she needed to get away.

Her heart was racing and felt as though it was going to pound straight out of her chest, and being greeted by forms shrouded in darkness didn't help. The uncertain shadows and silence in the room only served to terrorize her more, finding herself unable to draw the line between what was real and what wasn't, and that included not knowing where the threat was. It was here somewhere, she could feel it, it was too malicious to ignore...

Fearing for her life, the top half of her body sprung up from where she had been tangled in her bedsheets, she frantically wrenching herself free of her fabric prison in alarm and jumping out from her bed as if it were on fire. She stumbled across the floor as quickly as she could though it felt like it was taking an eternity, that she couldn't escape fast enough from whatever was after her. Finally she reached the wall on the opposite side of the room and slammed a hand on the lightswitch, bathing everything in bright light.

Her frightened eyes scanned every corner of the room hastily, frozen in place lest something sinister make itself visible. And yet, she caught nothing out of the ordinary, neither physical nor spiritual. This didn't make sense to her, she had been so certain... she could FEEL it...

"Yuki-chan! What's wrong?!" Nora called out in alarm, darting across the room to figure out what happened to the girl. She had never witnessed any sort of panic like this from Yuki, although Nora was able to feel the distress still residing in the girl's heart. Something told her this was no ordinary nightmare. And it wasn't just her strange behavior making her think that.

Overwhelmed by the episode she had just undergone, and finding herself unable to respond, Yuki's trembling legs gave way underneath her and she sank to the floor. Insuppressable tears ran down her cheeks while her upper body slumped against the wall. She raised a shaking hand to gently close around her neck while she quietly sobbed, feeling as though she had just narrowly escaped death although the only marks on her body were the ones from her own nails on her neck. Her body was drenched in a cold sweat and continued to tremble, unable to recall a time when she had felt more scared than she did just then. She released her neck and slowly slid her fingers through the hair at her scalp to grab handfuls of the pink tresses as if pulling at it would erase the demonic stare that was burned into her memory.

"Yuki-chan... please..."


The guardian walked up beside her, trying to coerce some sort of verbal response out of the terrified girl. As she attempted to calm her back down from where she sat on the floor, Nora took a moment to realize that something felt... off. She wasn't sure if the jolt she felt earlier was due to Yuki jumping out of bed, or if it was associated with what might have caused her to do so. She knew it was causing her to worry, and this type of worry felt more...ominous than it usually did. The feeling was almost nostalgic, but not in a good way. It was almost as if--

"Something..." Yuki barely whispered between sobs, snapping Nora out of her train of thought to carefully perk up her ears. Though what she heard next was not the answer for which she was hoping.

"...S-something's coming..."
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"Wh-what?" Selene grimaced as the entire room suddenly went bright, the lights shining right through the corporate heiress eyelids as she sat up from her bed with a groan, staring into space for a couple moments as her eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness, rubbing the corners of her eyes gently with the back of her hand before pushing her blanket aside, slipping her feet into a pair of pastel pink fuzzy house slippers before casting a few (somewhat grumpy) stares around the room - stray locks of pumpkin-colored hair dangling over her face and with a strap from her pink with white lace nightie hanging off her left shoulder. "Yuki-chan, what is the meaning of..." the corporate heiress demanded, her tone somewhat grouchy by justified by being so rudely roused from her sleep...

And then the corporate heiress snapped wide awake as she noticed that Yuki's bed - that was located across the bedroom next to her own - was empty. The blanket and pillows lying on the floor indicating that her pink-haired roomie had gotten out of bed in a hurry, before darting over to a corner of the room to find Yuki huddled in a corner, head in hands, and looking emotionally distraught as Nora hovered nearby over the other girl who was in tears at this point. "Something..." she managed to say, her voice barely a whisper in-between sobs. "...S-something's coming..."

"Yuki-chan?" Selene called out to her friend as she inched towards the huddling Yuki, gingerly reaching out before resting a hand on Yuki's shoulder, patting her gently in an attempt to reassure here. "I'm here, Yuki-chan," the corporate heiress spoke gently, but firmly as her gentle pat became a warm and reassuring grip on the girl's shoulder before kneeling down and placing another hand on Yuki's head, running her slender fingers through the other girl's pink hair as she tried to gently coax the distressed girl into looking at her in the eye.

"What is coming?" Selene asked as she rested both hands on Yuki's shoulders, looking at her with an expression of worry and concern over her friend's emotional state and possibly, safety.
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"Urgh... what the hell is going on..." Selene's not the only one who was woken up by the sudden bright flash of light in the room. The half-phantom stirred groggily, waking up from a bundle of sheet she managed to entangle herself in, kicking it off her as she rolled off the couch, landing with a loud thud and an expletive the moment she struck the floor. "Crud... dammit... Beds needs restraints..." She muttered in annoyance, pushing herself up to her feet as she stared around for the source of the mild midnight commotion.

And there she found it, at the very far corner of the room, a tear-stricken Yuki and a comforting Selene. Alright... that's not something you would see everyday. Not that the half-phantom seemed to want to take more notice of it than she already was. "Oi, what's up, another nightmare?" The girl said, pretty much with as little tact as possible, running a hand through her short silver-hair as she gave a big uncaring yawn. Blegh... what a time to be having nightmares... so annoying... the half-phantom thought as she herself, despite how she seemed to not care, made her way to the two to check up on Yuki herself.
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Yuki hardly heard Selene approach, too lost in her thoughts and trying to shut out everything around her. The second she felt the hand touch her shoulder, despite how slowly and carefully it was placed, it caused the girl seated on the floor to jump. Her head snapped up from her hands in an attempt to recoil that didn't get her very far as she was already against the wall. She looked straight on at her roommate's face, eyes wide and wavering, her brain trying to process what was going on. For some reason it took a few lingering moments for it to click that this was not a threat, and instead quite the opposite.

"S-Selene-san?" Her tear-stained face looked up at the other girl, the initial shock wearing off into a feeling of warm, welcome relief. It was now that she noticed the fingers slowly combing her hair in an attempt to calm her down, and for some reason the weight of sitting alone in fear lifted off her shoulders.

"I'm here, Yuki-chan."

Yuki's expression softened and the tense feeling in her shoulders dropped, although the feeling that hit her was more akin to a scared, lost child finding their mother than it was anything else. The positive emotion was so overwhelming that it brought on a new wave of tears, the pink-haired girl raising and wrapping her arms around Selene for fear of being left alone again. All she wanted to do was feel comfort, so for a few minutes that's what she did, letting her tears flow with the occasional sniffle and sob as she clung to Selene.

"What is coming?"

Forced to recall why they were in this predicament in the first place, she battled in her mind between remembering what was in her nightmare and not wanting to recall at all. It was a strange fusion of the two that blurred the images, though she didn't know what they meant in the first place, just that they were terrifying.

"It's... I-I don't..."


"Oi, what's up, another nightmare?"


Yuki gave a small jump at the emergence of another body, seemingly have forgotten that she had roommates at all. She glanced up at Youma and rubbed one of her eyes, trying to hastily dry the tears from her face. Although there was reluctance of letting go of the one thing seeming to tether her to reality, she released Selene from the extended hug and cast her eyes at the ground. Realization was beginning to dawn on her on exactly what happened as far as her roommates were concerned, she turning on the bright dorm lights in the wee morning hours to wake them both up, though that side effect wasn't her intention for doing so.

"Another..?" She'd had some other nightmares in the recent past, more notably ever since her power base was expanded via Terado, but she didn't think the others knew about them. Not to mention those paled in comparison to the strong feelings of foreboding she felt in the one that night.

The guilt was beginning to creep over her now that it was finally sinking in that she'd disturbed her friends' sleep, and at the expense of just a dream, no less. There was no evidence of anything actually being in the room to cause a threat; apparently she just had an active imagination despite the fact that a tiny voice in the back of her head was telling her otherwise. Not to mention she didn't like the thought of burdening them with worry about her.

"It was. Just another one, I guess... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you both up, I just panicked for some reason..."


Nora looked up at Yuki, not entirely convinced on her explanation after having spent her whole life with the girl and analyzing her responses and expressions. There was still something unsettling her, but perhaps two in the morning wasn't the best time to try and resolve it. In the meantime, Yuki pushed the corners of her mouth up into a small smile to try and reassure them all.

"I'm fine, I didn't mean to make you worry. Like I said, just a nightmare... nothing to be scared of if it's just in my head, ne?"


Except for that nagging feeling that it wasn't just inside her head.

"Class in a few hours, we should get back to bed," she said simply with her plastered smile, pushing herself to standing and then offering a hand to help Selene up from where she was. Yuki made a brief stop by Youma's bed to help her recover her sheets and blankets, then set out to straighten up her own linens. She took her time, meticulously straightening and smoothing despite the fact that she was going to be using them, thereby delaying having to actually get into bed. She grabbed the corner of the blankets near her pillow and paused, eventually withdrawing her hand. Instead she turned to the desk adjacent to her bed and clicked on a small desk lamp, turning the light to be as unobtrusive as possible to the others.

"I think I'll just...stay up a bit and read until I'm tired. I'm really sorry again for waking you both up," she said with a bowed head, looking like she was confessing to stealing something of theirs (unless you consider the fact that she robbed them of their sleep). Nora jumped up on top of the desk to at least keep her company.
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Well, Youma did say that Yuki may as well just be having nightmares, but that's not what was on the half-phantom's mind at all. She knew better than anyone not to trust feelings conveyed by words, mainly because her nose is apparently better suited to telling apart feelings than her logical thinking. And it was way too clear for her that whatever this 'dream' Yuki just had, it's distressing her in ways dreams shouldn't have.

The half-phantom gave a sigh, as she trudged her way towards the couch and tossing off the blanket. But instead of lying down, the half-phantom turned around to Yuki with no more concern on her face than she would have shown to a piece of bread stick. "Oi, Yuki," The girl in green pajama said, plopping on the couch, smacking the pillow as she positioned it well on the armrest. "I'm not sure what kind of dream you just had, but rest assured," As though to emphasize her point she raised her hand and balled it up to a fist in front of her, clenching it tightly without so much of a change in her expression. "No one's getting through me to get to you,"

It would probably sound a little strange for those who doesn't know what Youma knows. And she's not gonna be wasting her time explaining because that's just how she rolls. If the other two girls were perceptive enough they could probably guess what the half-phantom was thinking. Really, if there's something that could shook the genki girl's emotion so much... in a way that it actually instilled genuine shock and fear in her heart... nothing like your typical bad dream or a horror movie like that...

And it's not a good sign that she could smell the same kind of feeling from Nora too. And knowing the cat spirit...

"Enh... can't believe I actually said that..." The girl said with a slightly meek voice, scratching her head and turning away before hastily curling up on the couch, covering her head from everyone's view. It took a while before she could actually drop off to sleep again. Gosh that smell of fear is strong...
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