The Song of Hope

Disclaimer: I only own Sapphire, Smoke, Yageo, Tama, Ishida, the names of Eiji's family, the Eiji devils, Eiji angels, the co-op attacks between the Guardians, Leo, Glacia, Nemi, Frank, Wei-Ko, Rotor (Aria), Hanako, Shugo, Miyabi, Akashi, and Death. I also own some of the plot of the story if you know what I mean. Anime, mangas, and games that are in this story that I do not own are Prince of Tennis, Yu Gi Oh GX, Chrono Crusade, Negima, Full Moon Wo Sagashite, Gravitation, Mermaid Melody, Marchen Awakens Romance, Skip Beat, Ultra Maniac, Dark Stalkers, Sakura Wars and Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

Summary: The sequel to Running Out of Time. Eiji Kikumaru woke up late and rushes to school one day. He then sees a boy drowning in a lake and decides to help him only to get pulled under by a demon that wants him for his immortality. When he is about to get eaten, a light bursts out of his body and destroys the demon. He is then found by Ryoma Echizen and Kaede Nagase who take him to the hospital where they are attacked by another demon, but with the help of a ghost named Azmaria Henderic, they defeat it. This is the beginning of Eiji's adventure as he teams up with two other Guardians Jun Manjoume and Judai Yuki and helps them to the top of the music community along with Kaede and a 16 year old girl named Mitsuki Koyama. This catches the attention of the president of LME Lory Takarada. He offers them a spot in the LME acting, but little will they know that LME has a very dark secret and the actors themselves. Plus add Eiji's friends from the past Sapphire Hibiki and Smoke and Hiroto and life will take its ups and downs. How will Eiji confess to his double partner Shuichiro Oishi before the rival of LME Yageo captures him and acquires his immortality?

Rated: M (for mature)

Pairings: Oishi/Eiji/Sho, Judai/Jun/Edo, Fuji/Kaede, Tezuka/OC (Sapphire), Ryoma/Azmaria, Takuto/Mitsuki, Izumi/Meroko, OC/OC (Ishida/Tokio) and slight Ren/Kyoko, OCxOC (Leo/Glacia) (Nemi) OC/Maria

Warnings: Bad language, blood, nudity, guns, rape, extremely dark themes (that may scare you), cruel humor, and yaoi

Categories: Action/Adventure, Romance, Humor, Supernatural, Angst, Friendship, Drama and Horror

Chapter 1: Awakening of the Last Guardian

Normal POV

It was another beautiful morning in Tokyo. Eiji Kikumaru sped from his house to Seishun Gakuen School. He couldn't believe that he overslept on a Wednesday!

I can't believe that I'm acting like O-chibi now oversleeping like this, nya! He thought to himself as he continued to run, but then stopped to check his surroundings.

The place he lives in isn't a bad place. Sure good and bad things happen from time to time, but nobody ever did anything that could threaten the world or even acknowledge the evil deeds of the dark side of mortals. Magic was another thing that wasn't acknowledge in this modern time. It was considered a thing that only happens in fairy tales like Harry Potter and Sailor Moon. That was going to change today.

On the way to the academy, he passed by a lake known as the Drowning Lake. It was called this because people would come here and would somehow drown. It was usually considered an accident, but when a professional swimmer swam in the lake, he also drowned. It wasn't because he was a bad swimmer, but people believed that their was something living in the lake that pulled people underneath the water. He stopped in his tracks when he thought he heard someone screaming for help. He listened carefully and was sure that it was coming from the lake. He faced the lake to see a boy no older than nine years old drowning in it.

Didn't your parents tell you not to swim in the Drowning Lake? Eiji asked himself as he ran over to the lake, dived in, and saved the boy from drowning. He than swam to shore to place the boy on dry land.

"Thanks mister..." he said weakly as he coughed water out of his esophagus.

"Don't try to drown yourself again," Eiji told the boy in a not so Eiji tone.

"Sorry, its just that something grabbed me in the water..."

That was all the boy said before he started to cough nonstop. Eiji was getting worried that he might of swallowed too much water.

"Hey, are you okay?" he asked in a concerned tone.

The boy just continued to cough and cough until finally his body began to glow a blue color.

"What's going on?" Eiji asked, but didn't get the answer as the boy shouted, "GET AWAY FROM ME, OR I'll-"

Eiji's POV

I didn't expect what was going to happen next. I was too shocked of the boy telling me to get away from him and then kept screaming in agony. I was worried that he lost his mind. I was so focused on the kid that I didn't notice a long hand emerging from the lake.

It happened so fast. That hand grabbed me by the neck and pulled me under the water. Deeper, deeper...

I opened my eyes to see a horrible figure with three eyes (two in the sphenoid area and the third imbedded in the frontal bone) and four hands attached to my body.

"I finally have you!" it said, "The last Guardian is mine! I can finally become immortal!"

What is it talking about? I asked myself, but I thought that I would never get my answer as my eye sight started to blur. I thought my eyes were close, but they were wide opened. It was time to panic as the third eye of the figure was completely opened. Just looking into its made me dizzy...

"Yes, just submit to my powers. There's no escape."

I tried to move my body, but it wouldn't move an inch. My body was pulled closer and closer to the figure. I tried to call for help, but I was underwater, so what good would it do?

Oishi...help...

I thought I was dead, but all of a sudden a light from the deepest darkness shined brightly on me and the figure. The figure was engulfed in the light and I was certain that it destroyed it.

The light turned out to come from inside my body. I thought I was imagining things but I saw another ray of light coming toward me and caring me to the surface. That was all I remember before I passed out.

Me: Chapter 1 done with 1943 words.

Yohko: I see a many differences already.

Me: Yes. There are a many things I plan on editing in this story.

1. Editing and grammar are being edited as well as the line will replace the x.

2. Many things will be fixed to where it makes sense.

3. The DS cast will have a very dark personality. They will also have more understanding of other feelings. Like in this chapter when Eiji was thinking about the kid drowning, he was complaining about kids committing suicide nowadays while in this story I made him have a darker personality as he asks if he knew about the rumors of the Drowning Lake.

4. Some scenes will be added as some will be removed since it has nothing to do with the story. Here are some of them.

A. I will explain how Tezuka and Sapphire got together instead of just getting them together in one day. (So it sound Mary Sue like.)

B. Reference of Running Out of Time will be more frequent.

C. The war that is first mentioned in chapter 3 is still minor, but the war is my Kingdom Hearts story that I haven't posted or finished. I'm trying to decide if Sora should be paired up with Kairi, Riku or a crossover pairing of Trap Gunner Tico.

D. The Guardian powers will make more sense.

E. How Sapphire got kicked out of her house will also be added.

F. A little more about Oishi's life will be explained as to why his little sister left the family.

G. Ryoma knows more than he lets on.

H. Mitsuki will stay in her 16 year old form and will not go back to 12 years.

I. Smoke's character will be in depth.

J. How Eiji got the Eiji Devils will be explained as I forgot to add the dream scene when he required it.

K. Inui and Kaidoh will have more time in the story. These two along with Taka and Momo are cut out of the story too much while the other half of the Regulars know what is going n.

L. Judai and Eiji have different side effects in chapter 4.

M. How Sho switched his love from Kyoko to Eiji.

N. Added scenes to The Trip in Germany.

O. More interaction with the DS cast as they will make minor appearances in other chapters before their major appearance in chapter 27.

P. Atobe will have a bigger role than in the previous story.

Q. Some scenes will be more graphic such as the rape scenes.

R. Judai will be singing more songs than in the last story.

S. I will explain how Fuji and Kaede got together.

T. Eiji's family will have more background as well as Ryoma's.

U. Judai will explain why Luchia is in his body since all he needs is Shuichi, Yubel, and Hane Kuriboh.

V. Jun will be portrayed more uke like than in the previous story while keeping his high and mighty status.

W. If You Were Gay chapter will be changed slightly.

X. Eiji and Sapphire wont have a happy reunion.

Y. The scar that Eiji has will be mentioned more as well as the cross marks.

Z. Leo's Dane Cook joke will happen more frequently as Sho will be a pervert.

Yohko: Hell, that's a lot of changes!

Me: It won't be for me since the chapters are already written. Anyway please review the new chapter. Hope you like it since I did my best to change it.