So the chapter's kinda short, but don't worry. Subsequent chapters will be better and longer.

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Chapter 1: Silver End

"A soothsayer bids thee, 'Beware the ides of March.'" ~ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

The silver crescent hung low in the night sky like an icy scythe ready to descend onto an unlucky passerby. It was nine in the evening and I had just finished my holiday homework. Yes, I know I was supposed to complete it over the two months of hols given to us and it was just the second day of the holidays, but I'd rather spend my next sixty days having fun instead of mugging away at the homework Narabe-sensei had given us. That idiot teacher was the only one who gave us any homework actually.

A loud crash resounded in the kitchen. I vaguely wondered if my parents had come back to life and was now pouring out their wrath over what they would have deemed as an 'untidy' home. They were neat-freaks after all. Then again, my imagination had always been a bit too wild. Of course the dead don't come back to life. Their souls sometimes do linger around though, but shouldn't be able to create much chaos. Nope. Instead, there were six huge masked creatures destroying my poor kitchen. Now I had seen spirits before, which was due to some weird ability, but I had never seen these monsters before.

Then they noticed me standing there taking in the nightmare unfolding in front of me. Damn it. I ran out of the apartment and leapt off the corridor. It was only four floors to the ground (I've fallen from greater heights and so far, I've only twisted an ankle before) but to add to the nightmare, of course those creatures could float. By the time I reached the road, they were upon me.

Throwing me into the air and whacking me with a gigantic tail, I reeled and somersaulted to the ground. Nausea was the first thing i felt. Then an awesome headache. That was when I realized my body was a few feet away. What. The. Heck. And there was a suspicious chain connecting me to my body. I'm guessing that's my lifeline and I was in no hurry to get rid of it. Too bad, those creatures attacked me again and the negative energy that poured out from them was suffocating. I panicked, and did something I had not done for a long time. I screamed. I wasnt used to being the 'damsel in distress' but I was going to die… or maybe I was already dead. I didn't know, but I was too afraid to care. What on earth were these things? They looked like those weird spirits you only see in myth-based animes or something (A/N: anyone watched Gibli's Spirited Away animation before?)Everything was happening too fast.

Then, just like in some anime or something, my savior arrived, in black and white robes billowing in the wind complete with a short sword. Was he some Edo-Japanese warrior spirit or something? But warriors don't wear kimonos when they fight do they? From what I could see, he was young, though I couldn't really tell the age, and he had short silver hair. Then he promptly killed three of those creatures with one slice of his sword. Heck. I didn't even see his sword move. What was he? Where did he and these strange monsters come from? Maybe he was some fox-spirit (and judging from his fox-like face and mischievous grin i wouldnt be surprised.) this sounds stupid, but i think i like him already. Why did my life seem to spin so wildly out of control? Was this a dream? Yeah right. If this were a dream, i dont think my body (spiritual or not) would hurt so much.

Suddenly, one of those creatures that resembled a scorpion raised its barbed tail ready to strike. What happened next was also a blur. The next thing I knew, blood sprayed everywhere. Crap, did that silver-haired guy get killed? But he was definitely still behind me. I could feel his shock radiating off him. Then… wait a minute… since when was he behind me? I don't think my brain was functioning properly then, because I realized that I was the one who had moved, the blood was mine and the chain was broken. Then where was the pain?

The scorpion-thing roared and leapt into the air, the two others followed. It occurred to me that those three looked different from the other now-dead three. They seemed… whiter and more skeletal, if that made any sense. The guy looked from me to them. He was no longer smiling but had a really cute confused expression. I numbly waved him on. Who knew what might happen to some other innocent kid if he didn't get rid of them soon.

"I'll be back," he said, and then he disappeared. I vaguely wondered if he knew how to carry out spirit-first-aid. The night was silent after they left, and I don't know how long I stay there on the ground, blood flowing from my chest and lying next to my body. I was really tired, numb and dazed. Approximately an hour later, I saw another of those creatures, but not the same ones as before. Then the pain came and i knew, this was no dream. The pain was real enough. Too real. Black spots seemed to grow before my vision and blocked out everything else. And when I fell unconscious, my last thought was: he didnt come back.

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