Episode 1

The stars above him soared across the heavens, tumbling down into the reddening horizon beneath them. The darkness suited him well, as he knew perfectly well. The cold, heartless moon reflected off of his glasses. It would soon be fulfilled. His duties would be fulfilled.

His desires would be fulfilled.

He did not know how many lives would be ruined because of his experiment. Of his mission. Nor did he care in the least. What were they to him anyway but pawns? This was a game, nothing more and nothing less. A game of which he was simply the trigger. No, this wasn't his game. But it did not matter. He was curious as to what would happen.

And, no matter what, he would do anything to fulfill his game from beginning to end. He answered to this master only for the sake of power, and his master would only acknowledge his abilities if the game was completed.

"Time to begin…" he whispered to himself as he waited a moment for the barrier of stars to collapse into oblivion.

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"Why does it seem that you are every bit the weakling I thought you were when this first started, police girl?"

Seras Victoria was so frustrated. How long had she been working with the Master? It must have been a year, at least! It seemed that way. She had long lost track of time with her nocturnal sleeping patterns, in any case. Her days in the Hellsing Organization's base had seemed to melt into the next seamlessly, so slowly until the point where Seras had just stopped bothering to even look at a calendar. Naturally, what was the point of keeping track of time when you knew you had an eternity left to live?

And she hadn't screwed up, per say. She had simply, in lack of a better word, missed. How it happened, she had no clue. Vampires were supposed to have wonderful aim, which she had taken advantage of frequently.

The target, from her knowledge, was male. Judging by the remains of the house he had escaped from, he was armed with a revolver of some sort. The vampires that littered the ground weren't dead when her Master Alucard and herself had been dispatched. Now, of course, they were little more then bloody smears on the floor thanks to her Master.

Seras had sensed the man, and had shot a bullet at him without haste. She was sure she would hit him, but it missed. Well, to be specific, the bullet hadn't landed in his flesh; it had merely grazed his cheek. But he had run off screaming like a complete idiot afterwards. Seras had cracked a smile in his ridiculous frenzy. Alucard had been very disapproving of that.

"So, what is he? One of the Iscariot?" The XIII Division of the Vatican, the Iscariot Organization, had long clashed ways with the Hellsing Organization. Although, Seras considered as an afterthought, they wouldn't have let the vampires live like this man did.

"I think even you know that answer, Police Girl," Alucard sniffed the air, "This is no human…but it isn't a nosferatu or anything like that…" Alucard's eyes widened under his sunglasses with glee, "I am going to like fighting such a worthy opponent…"

Seras sighed, "No doubt, Master…but shouldn't we test his blood or something? DNA?"

"I don't think that is necessary, Police Girl…"

"I have a name, sir…"

"So what? You didn't hit him."

"You didn't even shoot!"

"It is no concern of mine to shoot. I was preoccupied with this filth!"

Seras wanted to retort out of this ufairness, but consigned in replying, her head down, "Yes, Master…"

"Now…we have to…eh?"

Alucard looked on the ground. Taped to the floor was a piece of paper. Alucard tore it from the floor, and read it aloud, "Love and Peace…?"

"Sounds like a religious fanatic to me…"

"Perhaps this is a new weapon of the Iscariot…"

"That makes sense…but why the bloody hell didn't they send someone like Anderson or—"

"Don't worry…but still…he isn't a vampire hunter…so what the hell is he? Whatever he is, though…I am going to enjoy myself…"

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"HAIL ILLPALLAZZO!!!!!!!"

"Excel…annoyingly perky as ever, I see…"

Excel had much reason to be excited. Aside from finally being reunited with her beloved Illpallazzo, she had finally had a perfect mission. Hyatt hadn't died until after she had returned to base, where she was now bleeding steadily all over the floor. Excel expected her to return to them in about two or three seconds, and she wasn't disappointed when the blue haired Hyatt returned from the dead, whipping away the blood oozing from her mouth.

"Yes, sir! Excel is very happy, sir! Excel finally managed to succeed in your every desire! Excel is most pleased with her—"

"Hyatt, how about you tell us what was so wonderful about your mission…" Illpallazzo interrupted Excel completely. She didn't stop screeching at the top of her lungs about her success.

Hyatt, however, summarized exactly what she was saying in a sentence or two, "Well, sir, we managed to capture the target, sir, without having any personal loss…"

"Yes, well, that is a good start. However, Excel…"

Excel stopped her monologue, "Yes, Lord Illpallzzo!"

"You seemed to be successful…however…"

Excel was afraid of this.

"You seemed to have neglected to avoid confrontation, right?"

"Uh…"

"I seem to see that the body count of the other side was numerous, was it not? Easily over 99 of all the staff at present."

"Uh…about that…"

"The only percentage, it seems, you didn't kill were out sick…"

"Uh…"

"While the ignorant masses will obstruct your path to greatness…you still did not foresee the loss of such life would cause a great attraction to our secret ideological cause. What do you have to say, Excel?"

A small rope had descended from the ceiling above. Excel's heart raced as she tried to pacify their Lord's wishes, "I'm sorry, Lord Illpallazzo! Excel is so sorry! Excel will do everything in her power to help you! Please, sir, Excel will scale the highest mountain just to regain your trust, travel to the farthest place, swim to the deepest ocean, all for you, Illpallazzo!"

"Really?"

"Yes! Really!"

"Then swim down here."

He pulled the rope. Excel found herself falling down into the infinite darkness as the floor gave way underneath her. She saw Hyatt starring down from outside the small hole that had formed beneath her feet. It slowly closed up, and she waited to land, eventually, into a lake of water. Until then, she screamed at the top of her lungs. She was certain that glass, somewhere, had shattered from her voice.

"As Excel is unable to communicate with us—" Illpallazzo began.

"HAIL ILLP—" He could still hear that idiot's voice. That is, until she hit water, and the splash reverberated around the room.

He waited for silence before saying, "Hyatt! Bring me the subject!"

"Yes, Illpalla---oh…" Hyatt crumbled into a heap on the floor. She was awfully still for a moment before pushing herself up again, and walking into the shadows. A moment later, she was back. She was dragging a massive test tube on a small automobile.

"So…you brought his life support system as well…clever, Agent Hyatt…"

"Yes…he is still in his developmental stages of life…so taking him out would have killed him."

"Yes…it seems the ignorant masses had forgotten to arm this specimen more extensively…"

This subject had been recovered right outside F City. From his sources, Illpallazzo knew he had been created by a scientist who, although claimed he was famous, had never been heard of by anyone the scientists who discovered this creature knew. The creature had been made by various genetic qualities of various subjects throughout the world, supposedly. The ideal qualities of each. He claimed his last version was incomplete, but this was a Perfected form, stronger than the last incarnation.

The subject was known as Cell.

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"I heard we have a new student coming in…is it true?"

Tohru Honda was excited. She wondered if this new student would be someone from the Sohma family. She had no idea why she thought this would be the case. She had no evidence, and she knew of all the Zodiac members anyway. But still, if it was a Sohma, maybe she could learn more about them.

"That's what I heard…" Uo-chan said, bored.

"I sense that is the case…" Hana said, seriously.

"Who the hell cares, anyway? It's not like it really matters…" Kyo groaned.

"You know, you really piss me off sometimes, ya know?!" Uo-chan snarled, pushing herself up. Tohru didn't know how to react, so she simply stared perplexed as Kyo pushed himself up too.

"What the hell are you talking about? I just—"

"You ever consider maybe what you say hurts certain people sometimes?! Makes them feel stupid!"

Tohru knew what she was getting at. "No, Uo-chan, I don't feel—"

"Don't get involved…unless you want your head ripped off…" Hana said, seriously as she nibbled on a bag of chips.

Tohru could only stare scatterbrained as Uo and Kyo argued more and more, escalating uncontrollably into an argument related to Kyo's hair before order was restored by the teacher.

"Everyone…as you know, we have a new student coming into our class…"

Most of the students were perplexed. Some muttered, "We have a new student? How should we know?" Others muttered, "Maybe it's another of Yuki's cousins!" At that, some people muttered, "Where is he anyway?"

Yuki had stayed home today. He wasn't feeling very well, and Tohru hadn't needed to tell him he needed bedrest more then once. Besides, Shigure had locked Yuki in his own room to make sure he didn't "spread his plague among the healthy people of this house! We don't need to suffer like you are! Be a martyr!"

The person who walked through the door was a girl. She was pretty, even Tohru realized it. She had pale blonde hair that went down over her eyes and to her shoulders. She smiled, a little nervously, as she stood beside the teacher.

"This is Yui Hongo, your new classmate. She had just moved in from Tokyo, and I'm sure you will all accept her with open arms…"

"Geez…I'd be freakin' embarrassed as hell if that was me…" Uo said.

"Strange…"

"What is it?"

"Her electric waves are so different…I've never felt anything like it before…not even from him…"

"What about me?!" Kyo shouted as Hana gestured behind her head.

Something about the girl, now that Torhu noticed, was different. It wasn't physical. It wasn't that she seemed mean or cruel or anything (if anything, Yui seemed nice as she tried to choose a seat for herself), but it was something…different…

"Uh…hello?" Tohru jumped in her seat as Yui took one next to her, "No one sits here, right?"

"Uh…not at all! It's fine! You can have it…uh…" Tohru didn't realize how much she must have been day dreaming. Not to notice her walk right up beside her and all. She wondered if she noticed.

"Are you okay?" she asked, slightly concerned as she sat down.

"You have strange electric signals…" Hana replied, staring at Yui in the eyes. Tohru noticed the blue sapphire earing in her one ear as she stared at her, perplexed.

"Uh…okay…"

"Don't mind her. She's always like that…" Uo said, reassuringly.

"Oh…okay…" Yui said, blinking with a slightly confused look on her face.

"So…I hope we become good friends, okay?" Tohru said, smiling. She seemed like a good person, and she wanted to know her better. Maybe she's understand something about her. A secret, maybe like the Sohma's!

"Sure…I'd like that…" Something about her smile back gave Tohru a slight chill, but it wasn't unpleasant.

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"Usagi! USAGI!!!! Come up for air, Usagi!"

Usagi had just, she estimated, eaten her weight in cake. If you just met her across the street, never meeting her before, you would have never noticed just what a glutton she was. Of course, Ami was her friend, not just a random bystander.

Usagi's face was covered with crumbs as she replied, "What is it?"

"That girl…"

Ami pointed toward a group across the street. Ami had noticed them by accident when she turned away to avoid a snowfall of crumbs that had issued out of the cake Usagi had just recently devoured. The group consisted of about five people. One was a red haired boy, another a blondie with hair that reached her butt. Another had dark hair in a braid behind her back. She was eating a bag of chips. Another girl had a smile on her face, and had long brown hair.

None of them was what had surprised her.

It was the blonde haired girl with the hair in her eyes and the sapphire earing that did.

"Doesn't that look like Haruka Tenoh?" Haruka, or Sailor Uranus, was one of their allies. One of the Sailor Senshi. She herself was Sailor Mercury, and Usagi across her was Sailor Moon.

Ami knew, however, it wasn't Uranus. For one, she was younger than her. For two, her hair was a little longer. And for three, what was with that earing? For some reason, it gave her a chill looking at her. She could sense something evil inside of it. An evil aura enveloping it.

Usagi, however, either didn't notice these differences or didn't care. She jumped from her seat, and rushed out of the restaurant. Ami called back and shouted, "WAIT!! What about the bill?!"

"What about the bill indeed…" Ami felt someone grab her from behind, "I hope you have money on you…"

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"So…you said your living in an apartment?"

"Yeah…a friend of mine came with me…" Yui said, "We're staying at another friend's place until we can go back."

"Why did both of you move out of your parents anyway?" Uo asked.

"Construction."

Tohru could relate. She had done a similar thing over a year ago. That was how she had first met the Sohma's in the first place. She sighed, "It must be hard? Leaving your parents and everything…"

"You don't know the half of it…" her voice trailed off for a moment before returning to normal, "So…"

"Haruka!!!!"

Everyone turned around to see a blonde haired girl panting at her feet. She had two buns on her hair, with gigantic ponytails trailing out of them. They touched the floor behind her feet as she said, "What are you doing here, Haruka?"

"Haruka? What the hell are you talking about?" Kyo muttered.

"Haruka…?" the girl was looked at Yui.

"Uh…my name's Yui…you must be mistaken…"

"USAGI!!!!"

A blue haird girl rushed out of a restaurant nearby. She grabbed the blonde haired girl, Usagi, around her waist, "Sorry about my friend here…Usagi! Don't you dare leave me to pay the bill on my own!"

"Wait…who are you two?"

"I sense more bizarre electrical waves…" Hana said, sighing.

"I'm Ami! This is Usagi! She confused you for someone else we know…a girl named Haruka Tenoh…sorry about the misunderstanding!"

"Hey, it's no problem…hope you find her…"

"Oh! We aren't searching! She just wanted to talk to her, that's all…"

Usagi stopped struggling against Ami for a second, and stared at Yui.

"Uh…"

"There's something funny about you…" Usagi said, curiously, "I wish I just knew what…"

"So do I…" Yui replied.

"Usagi…hi! I'm Tohru—"

"Hi!" Usagi said, smiling at her, "Usagi!"

"Yes, I know, uh…"

"See ya!"

Usagi rushed off the opposite direction, dragging Ami on the floor, "What about the bill…?!" Tohru heard Ami shout as her voice trailed off.

"What was that all about?" Kyo muttered.

"Strange…more unique electric signals…"

Yui, however, looked concerned about something Tohru didn't understand. There was some kind of mystery behind her, and Tohru intended on finding out now. She was determined!

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"So…it has started…You set the triggers in place, Gendo?"

The man with glasses nodded calmly to the cold, deep voice. The board room he sat at was dark, with many chairs. This was exactly what he had expected. The second the walls were down, the entire organization could meet as a whole, in person, rather then communicating through the aid of their Master.

"It seems as though our players are all in place, eh?" An Irish voice replied, shifting his own glasses onto his face, "And they are so many sinners too…"

"You can thank our employer for that, Anderson…" the first deep voice said. He brushed his blonde hair out of his eyes before saying, "If I may add, Gendo, out of all the people, only a select few are even aware of the situation…and they are nothing to worry about…I know from experience that the Priestess should be easy to win over in the right situations…"

"I am not worried about that…so long as the Master lets me have absolute control over the fate of Tohru-kun…" a chilly voice responded.

"You are all pathetic in that you do not see ahead your own selfish gain…I am not in this for rewards, save for power…"

"Aren't we all, Aoshi?" responded the first, deep voice.

"Will all of you settle down?! You are all giving me a headache as it is! All I want is power to get rid of those monkeys! That alone will let me have an empire! Don't act high and mighty on us, Aoshi, because some of them want material gains from our master!"

"I don't want anything but to kill sinners! Maybe power, sure, but just a chance to kill! AMEN!!!"

"The devil arts among these people are disgusting…I shall send them all to God's womb!"

"Here, here!"

"Anderson! Shut up! As for you, Scar, you speak of disgusting? Look in a mirror!"

"You're no prize yourself, Shishio!"

At that, even the multitude of people who had remained silent exploded into a gigantic riot of shouting. Gendo remained silent, starring. Only himself and the two people at his side did not speak during this fight. To be specific, they did not participate. After a few moments of shouting, one of his partners interrupted the battle of words.

"Order! Everyone! Just shut up!" The man that rose now silenced everyone. They shuddered back into their seats as he continued, "If we are to gain whatever rewards we want, be it material, power, or opportunities, we must understand that now that the worlds are all connected, we must make sure our enemies remain unaware of their fate. If that is not to happen…then we might as well throw in the towel now…"

Everyone knew that Sesshomaru was 100 correct. Gendo smiled to himself as everyone nodded in agreement. The plan was going to be a success. Now that the stars had fallen, now that the gateway between worlds had vanished, this would be getting very interesting indeed.