PROLOGUE
A man, in all black, walked into a room and turned on the lights. He had pitch black hair, and light blue eyes that looked like the sky. The man looked around the room and it was very dusty, a clear sign that no one had entered in a long time. He walked over the the large bookcase seeing that it was sealed in a glass box. He ’tsk’ed and shook his head.
"You do know that even if you lock this bookcase up that it won’t seal it’s power, right?" The man asked as he turned around.
When he did he saw another man in all white sitting on a leather red seat. He also had black hair, but his seemed more dull, and his eyes were light green like grass.
The man in white stood up and said,"Of course I know that, but at least in that it’s power will be contained. Now why are you here?"
The man in black smiled and walked over to the man in white. "You know why I’m here. ’They’ called me here, just like how ’they’ called you here, for that," The man in black pointed back to an old wooden desk.
The two men walked over and it was covered with dust, so the two men blew on it at the same time, causing the dust to fly off in the air making both of them cough a bit. Once they observed the desk they saw it had an old gas lap, ink pot, quill, paint brushes from many different places, and many different pens. There were also little scratch marks on the desk that had been made with the pens. Then both of the mens’ eyes landed on a new leather red book. It had gold lining on it and it also had no title, just a blank gold line as to where the title should be written.
"No name? Looks like this one’s gonna be important," The man in black pointed out.
The man in white bit his thumb’s finger nail a bit then said, "It appears to be by the look of the book. There have only been 2 other books with a title written in gold."
The two looked back at the book case and saw the two books that had gold writing on the cover. One was an old black leather book and the other a white leather book.
The man in black turned back and said, "So should we start and see who’s story it shall be?"
"We have no choice. This person’s story will clearly affect us," The man in white said as they opened the book.
Once he opened it though they saw that the pages were blank. The man in white then started to flip through the pages and after a while he turned back to the man in black an said,"It’s blank."
The man in black rolled his eyes and said,"I can clearly see that, but why?" The man in white shrugged and said,"Maybe ’they’ didn’t mean to call us here."
"Or not, Look," The man in white pointed to the book and writing started to appear in it.
’Hello boys, I’m so glad you two came for this story. I promise you it will be worth your while. So sit both of you now, and go to sleep, for as I start to write you shall see the story in your dreams. A.S.’ "Sleep? Why should I sleep when ’he’ is here?" The man in white said as he pointed to the man in black.
The man in black got an annoyed look on his face as he heard the man in white. "Look here, I know we don’t get along, but I would never start a fight with you in here, especially when ’they’ have summoned us here."
The two men glared at each other and the book started to shake a bit. Out of it came a pair of arms and in their hands where cups of tea, in the right a black and blue cup, and in the left a white and green cup. Then writing appeared in the book again. ’Drink these then if you do not trust each other. Do it quickly because as the time goes by so does the story!’
They both grabbed the cups and muttered,"Well that solves that."
After they drank it all both started to feel sleepy. They fell on the ground and the cups fell out of their hand on the floor shattering.
A person in a black cloak appear above both of them, but because of the drink they could not see the person’s face, instead they saw a blur. "Look what you two did... Those where some of my favorite tea cups...." The person’s voice faded as they talked.
The man in black black smiled and said,"So...yyou actually... showed up?" After in the man in white said,"Iit’s been so long.... since we last saw you...." "Sh... Just go to sleep so the story can begin..." The cloaked person said.
Once the two men were finally asleep the cloaked person walked over to the desk and sat down in an old wooden chair. They looked around and picked up a thin black pen, clearly brand new.
"I like this pen... I just hope I’ll like this person’s story." They mumbled. They set the pen down on the book’s first page and it started to write a name. The person smiled as they saw the name and said,"Lets see why your story is so important Alex." The page turned on it’s own and started to write again.
SCHOOL
’Beep Beep Beep’
That annoying noise was ringing throughout the entire bedroom, getting more annoying by the second. A groan came from under the blankets on the bed and an arm came out. It hit the alarm clock, but the noise would not stop. The person groaned then
started to look for the plug. Once they found it they pulled it out from the wall and the noise stopped.
The person sat up and the blankets fell off him showing his messy black hair. "Time for another morning...." He said lazily.
He slowly got up from his bed and went into the bathroom to brush his teeth. He grabbed his light blue tooth brush and put a bit of tooth paste on it. He brushed his teeth for about 3 minuets and then he rinsed.
The guy looked at himself in the bathroom mirror and said,"I look like shit..." He walked out of his bathroom and started to change into a simple outfit, black jeans, a plaid white teeshirt, and an old pair of black vans. He brushed his longish brown hair, that could almost pass as black, and then packed his things.
"What do I need for school today...." He mumbled. He remembered that he needed to take something to school, but he just didn’t remember what he needed to take. He looked around his slightly messy room then shrugged. ’It’s probably not that important.’ He thought as he walked out his room with his black backpack.
He walked down the white hall to reach the white spiral stair case. Once he got to the second floor he walked quickly into the kitchen, which was also white. The entire house was almost completely white, and they weren’t even different shades of white, each room was the same dull shade of white. He sat at the small round table, across from a guy with short dull brown hair, bags under his eyes, showing that he had gotten very little sleep, and they even looked a bit child like as they played with a teddy bear.
"Hello Alex, did you have a good night last night?" The guy asked the teen who had just sat down.
Alex, the boy with black hair, looked at him and smiled. "I had a pretty good night last night. No nightmare, just a pleasant little dream. How about you Kanato?"
Kanato, the boy with the teddy bear, smirked and said,"My dream was so realistic it was like I didn’t even get any sleep."
After Kanato finished his sentence a maid walked over and gave Alex a plate of pancakes then walked away. Kanato frowned and said,"She forgot my breakfast..."
Alex got a confused look on his face and looked back at the maid. "Hey, you forgot Kanato’s breakfast," He then pointed to where Kanato was sitting and the maid got a confused look on her face.
"Ooh... I didn’t think you’d like more Kanato... I gave you one earlier..." She mumbled.
"DID I EVER SAY I WANTED NO MORE?!?! NO!!! NOW MAKE ME MORE!!!" Kanato yelled.
The maid flinched then started to make a new batch of pancakes for Kanato. Alex stared at Kanato a bit then looked back at the maid feeling sorry for her, since he didn’t
know Kanato already ate breakfast. This maid was a new one, so she didn’t know how to deal with Kanato. Their last one left. He didn’t know why, his parents just told him that she had to go, but then again his parents never told him anything. They were always in and out of the house, and siblings couldn’t help since they all moved out. The only people he could really talk to where the maid, butlers, and Kanato. Kanato was a friend of his that his parents allowed to stay there since they had no living relatives. After a while Alex had finished his pancakes and the maid had just finished making Kanato’s plate.
Alex stood up and said,"Well I gotta go now, see ya Kanato!" He grabbed his bag then walked to the front door.
At the front door was a man with dark brown hair in a white suit. "Hello young master Hezin. Are you ready for school?" The man asked him with a deep voice.
Alex nodded his head. "Yeah I’m ready Rui, so lets get going to hell," He said as he walked out the door.
Rui, the man in white, shook his head at Alex’s words. He opened the door and said,"School’s important for your future. You need the information they give you there."
Alex walked out and said,"Why do I need to know what they teach me there? I won’t even use most of the rings they teach me there. If anything I want to learn about my rights as a human being."
Rui sighed as they walked out to the black car in front of the large white, art deco, house. Alex got in the back and put his ear buds in, while Rui got in the front seat and started the car. This first song that came on was "E for Extinction" by Thousand Foot Krutch. Alex’s music was on full volume so Rui could hear some of the song.
"Alex, your hearing will go bad if you always listen to your music with the volume all the way up." He told Alex, but Alex didn’t even notice that Rui was talking.
Alex closed his eyes and listened to the song. As he did he started to see things like he always did.
A man with black hair and a mask was standing on a building and then they jumped off. They where then attacked by black shadows and the man in the mask said something that caused a light to come out of his hand and fired at the shadows. People had seen this and then the masked man ran. The people where confused and had though that he wasn’t human, but as they chased him a man that was more of a shadow person appeared. He attacked the people and they had had become shadow people. The masked man was cornered and he screamed as words of hate came from the shadow people’s mouths. As he screamed a beam of light came down and there was a person in a black cloak with it. They smiled back at the masked man and held out a hand for him. The masked man took their hand and they went off to help the people be people again and defeated the shadow man.
Alex opened his eyes and paused his playlist. He got out his note book and drew what he remembered of the cloaked person. It wasn’t much really since the cloak covered basically the person’s entire body and their face was covered by a mask.
Rui looked back at Alex through the mirror and asked,"Who’s that Alex? Another made up character?"
Alex shrugged. "I’m not sure. If it was I would’ve seen more of them, but they were wearing a mask and cloak."
"Oh~ A mystery character then?~" "I guess..." Alex mumbled. He did like to make characters, but he would just write a background story on them and then draw a picture of what they would look like. After Alex had finished drawing the person, they arrived at Alex’s school. Alex looked at his school then at Rui.
"Do I have to go?" He asked Rui. Rui sighed and nodded his head. "Yes, now get out and go to school, or I will force you out the car."
"Okay I’m going." Alex said quickly as he got out. In the past Rui had to force him out the car and that wasn’t so fun, and it was embarrassing for both of them.
Alex walked into the school ignoring the other students talking to one another. He heard them gossip about pointless things like, relationships or who was in the fight last friday. Today was monday so Alex had thought that everyone would’ve forgotten about the fight, but apparently not. He walked up the stair case since his locker was on the second floor, and after a few turns he finally got to his locker, which was near the library. He put in his combination and started to get everything he needed. His locker wasn’t decorated like others. It just had his text books, note books, some papers from past assignments, and a reading book for history. He already had a reading book which was a manga, but his history teacher wouldn’t allow that, so he had to get a ’’real" chapter book. His first two classes was science and math, so he needed the notebooks for those classes and his science text book. He never brought his math text book because his math teacher would always print out pages from the text book, so he just left his text book at home for when he needed to do homework.
Once he closed his locker he saw a guy with blonde hair was leaning back on the locker next to his, his name was Shiki. That wasn’t his real name of course, that was just what he preferred to be called since it sounded more interesting than Ben.
"Hello Alex~ It’s nice to see your still alive," Shiki said with a smile. Alex rolled his eyes then asked him,"Why would I be dead?" "Because I never see you outside of school, and I don’t know what can happen to you during that time. Plus have those weird dreams and what if one of them kills you?!"
"How can a dream kill me?" Shiki shrugged then said,"What if you don’t wake up from one?"
"Shut up," Alex told him. The two started to walk to their class and continued to walk. As they walked people stared at Alex. Alex looked at himself then Shiki.
"Is there something wrong with me?" Alex asked Shiki. Shiki looked at him and shook his head. "No, why?" "Everyone keeps staring at me..." He mumbled. Shiki laughed. "Aren’t they ’always’ staring at you?" Alex hit his arm and said,"Shut up," causing Shiki to laugh. After a while they got to Alex’s class and Shiki walked away. Alex and Shiki didn’t have the same classes since Alex was in honors and Shiki was in regular classes. Shiki wasn’t in regular classes because he wasn’t as smart as Alex, he was in regular classes because he fooled around too much and never bothered to do the homework.
Alex sat down at one of the octagon shaped tables and got out his note book, text book, and a pen. He also got out his black journal and another pen that was thin and black, which clearly looked more fancy then the other pen he got out. That pen was purple, some pieces had come off it, and ink was also on it somehow. He started to write somethings in it when suddenly a guy walked over to him and slammed his hand on the journal.
"Hey Hezin, what are you always writing in the journal? Is it ways you imagine of killing us?~" The guy asked.
Alex rolled his eyes then said,"Believe it or not, but no. Why would I waist my time on writing your pathetic deaths in my precious note book, which, I’m a afraid to say, but probably has more creative things than you could ever come up with."
"What did you say?" "Would you like me to put it in a simple term for you? I said you’re not creative at all. I can guess that the only things you think about are losing your virginity, sports, and how your gonna graduate high school."
The guy got an angry look on his face and grabbed Alex’s shirt collar. As he was about to say something the teacher came in, making the guy quickly lat go of Alex’s collar.
"I’ll get you later Hezin." The guy said then walked his seat. Alex got a bit of a worried look on his face when he heard him. He wasn’t the most athletic kid, and his grade in P.E. was a D+. So he knew how the fight would end. ’How can I get out of this....’ He asked himself. Then he thought of Shiki. Shiki had been in many fights in the past and won them all. So he would ask Shiki to fight the guy for him. ’No wait... I don’t want Shiki to get in trouble for helping me....’
As class went on all he could think about was the fight with the guy. Then the class phone rang and the teacher went to go pick it up. "Hello, this is Hines...... Yeah their in class now why?........They have to go home now? School just started 20 minuets
ago...... Alright I’ll send them up right now." The teacher hung up the phone then pointed to Alex. "Alex your going home. Get your things and go to the front office."
Alex smiled and put his things back in his backpack. He walked out of class quickly then started to run to the front office. By the time he got their he was panting hard trying to catch his breath. He looked around and saw Rui sitting in one of the chairs.
"RRui? Wwhy......are you....here?" Alex asked him still trying to catch his breath. "Well after I dropped you off, I remember that today you had to go to the doctor instead of school." Rui said with a smile.
Alex made a slightly disgusted face as he heard the word ’doctor’. He never liked the doctor, especially this one since he was more of a therapist. His parents got him a therapist since he didn’t fit in with kids at school and they also thought he was weird. So just to make sure everything was okay with him, they got him a therapist. Alex and Rui walked out and got into the car. Alex sighed as he put his earbuds in. The only good thing about the therapist was the fact that he could get out of school for it, and he could sleep in there.
After about 45 minuets of driving they finally got to there therapist’s office, which was in a large building. They walked in and went straight to the elevator. Once they got in Rui hit the button that would take them to the 3rd floor. Alex didn’t take out his earbud since he didn’t want to listen to the awful elevator music.
Once they got to their stop Rui walked to the front desk while Alex went to go sit in one of the waiting chairs.
"Hello I’m here to drop off Alex Hezin." Rui told the Receptionist. The Receptionist nodded her head and pressed a button then said, "Doctor Kerita will be right out."
Rui nodded his head and went to go sit down with Alex, who still had his ear buds in. Within 5 minuets a man with longish brown hair walked out in a suit.
"Alex?" He asked. Rui tapped Alex’s arm then pointed at the man. Alex took out his earbuds then looked back.
"Oh hey Doc." He said as he stood up. "Hello Alex it’s good to see you again. Come on, lets start our session already. Your late." Doctor Kerita told him.
Alex sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck. He walked over and said,"Not my fault. The person who’s supposed to remember for me forgot."
"HEY!" Rui yelled from a distance. The doctor shook his head and walked into his office with Alex. Alex sat on the couch and Dr. Kerita sat behind his desk.
"So where should we begin the session?"