1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

it was quiet. the warm wind of a late summer's day had filled the air. despite the warmth the streets where empty, not even a rat was seen scurrying into the dark corners. the moon was high in the sky, helping to light up the night. the street lights that lined the dark road flickered on and off causing a static noise to fill the echoing emptiness. a woman dressed in a long black skirt and white shirt stumbled through the street, she clutched her bag tightly into her chest. tears were streaming down her face and glinted in the dim light. she walked under one of the many flickering street lights; she leant against it and wept into it. spots of blood were visible on her shirt and her dress was ripped by what looked like claws. the deep gashing showing her bare legs, which had thin red cuts on them, the blood dripping down her legs like a cascading river.

she shook violently, fear had possessed her eyes and her bottom lip trembled uncontrollably. suddenly and a

uptly there was a crashing of metal bins and from out behind the corner of a building came a tall figure wearing a long jacket. his hair was matted and was a greasy looking black, he smiled at the woman with blood all over his mouth, and his menacing teeth glinted like red rubies against the moon. the woman gave a scream in fear before regaining herself; she dashed away in fear dropping her bag. she ran as fast as her legs would carry her. as she ran, the man's footsteps closed in on her, in fear that he might catch her she panicked and lost control of her footing and tripped over a loose slap in the pavement. she went crashing to the ground. turning around in a panic she found the man closing in on her, in desperation to get away she pulled herself off the pavement grazing her hands and knees. she began to run with standing the pain in her legs.

she finally got into the safety of an alley way and placed her back firmly against the corner of the wall. sliding her back down the wall to put herself in a crouching position she wrapped her hands around her legs and looked with terrified eyes over her knees. to her surprise the man ran right passed where she was hiding, everything suddenly became still and quiet, all that was heard was the heavy

eath of the woman. as her

eathing returned to normal everything grew still and quite, as if everything was holding its

eath. she waited in silence for a minute then let out a sigh of relief and shakily stood up cling to her arms, she walked out from the alley way with caution and lifted her head and looked at the moon. it lit the darkness of the ally way and made her feel safe. its light emitted all around her, and enclosed her almost like a barrier protecting her from dark night.

then unexpectedly two hand came out from the ally way and seized the woman by the face. the hands began to forcefully drag her to the ground. one hand clasped tightly on her mouth, preventing her from screaming, the other enclosing her eyes and removing the light of the moon, plunging her into darkness. feeling the cold hard ground press tightly on her back, and her captor's hands slipping from her face, she looked desperately up to see the man moving his fore finger from side to side as he did so he tutted, his voice low and menacing. "running away from me? how naughty of you." the man voice changed to a threatening one.

"please." the woman begged as tears streamed down her face. "please don't kill me." her voice trembled and was no louder than a whisper. the man gave a cruel smile. his sharp teeth splitting his ugly face in two.

"but if i do you can be with your friends." the man said as he leaned down and went to bite her neck. the woman flinched as his hot

eath washed over her like a wave ready to swallow her whole. just as his teeth were only a hair away from her neck, there was a click of a gun and without warning it was fired. the bullet hit the man directly in the shoulder.

as the bullet buried deep, the pain forced the man up on to his feet and he shrieked in pain. he clenched his bloody shoulder as smoke rose from the wound and into the air. the woman looked at the ally way entrance to see two teenage boys. one boy had

own hair and silver eyes; he held a silver gun out in front of him, smoke rising from the barrel. the other boy had pure white hair with purple eyes, clenched in his hand was a giant black sword with a cross em

oidered with roses running down the blade. the handle was weirdly shaped it had what seem to be a demons tail and curved to run almost vertically down the blade. the boy with the

own hair wore blue jeans with black boots that came up to his knees; he wore a black shirt with the top two buttons out to reveal a hairless chest, he wore a light

own jacket with the collar sticking up to cover his neck. the boy with the white hair wore the same blue jeans with black boots that came up to his knees; he wore a black t-shirt with a red fa

ic shirt over it, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.

"i'm sorry but we couldn't make it in time to save your friends." the white haired boy said, his voice full of condolence.

"exorcist!" the man shouted with fear in his voice. his eyes grew wide and fearful. "no…no….no! i won't let you kill me or ruin my meal."

the

own hair boy smiled and readied his gun.

"you have killed innocent people, for that i have the job of ending your miserable life." the man becoming full of rage at his words lunged forward bearing his teeth, the fear had vanished from his eyes and was now possessed by rage. the

own haired boy drew out a second gun and both were fired at the man. the bullets buried deep into the man but he showed no signs of slowing down. he knocked the

own haired boy to the ground and was ready to strike him, but just in time his friend slashed his sword in the direction of the man. the blade slashed his torso in two and within seconds the man was no more that dust.

the white haired boy, stood

eathing heavily, sweat pouring from his

ow. regaining himself he walked over to the woman and placed his hand on her head. "don't worry you'll forget this ever happened." his said, his

eath still rasping in his throat, for the woman everything went black. the two boys where left in the silent alley way, the

own haired boy picked himself off the ground and dusted himself of from the fall.

"damn demons" he cursed.

the sun was high in a cloudless sky and birds sang as many people walked the streets, going about their daily business. a girl of seventeen lay on a bench, her eyes tightly closed. she lay enjoying the warmth of the sun on her face; the girl wore a long white three quarter length sleeved shirt, with a belt around it making it look like a dress. she wore white socks that came up to her thighs and black converses, the lasses on them dull and worn out. a weird, but cute black dog lay on her chest, it's ears were long and pointed like a rabbits, it legs quite short and close into its body and it nose was short and round. it lay eye closed, also enjoying the warmth of the sun. giving a yawn and a stretch the dog sat up quickly as if startled by something, immediately after it started pining helplessly. the girls eyes opened slowly as she sat up to looked around her. her eyes half closed as the

ight sun blinded her. she

ought her hand up to shield her eyes as she looked down at the black ball of fur that sat on her chest. it looked up at her with the large diluted puppy dog eyes.

"what is it mika, you found something?" the dog looked at her and pinned again, its eyes becoming more dilute. the girl rubbed her eyes before looked up at the morning blue sky, taking in a deep

eath as she stretched. suddenly her eyes grew wide and she a

uptly stopped stretching. he looked around her in a panic, the turned her attention to mika. mika's ears pricked up as cloud stared concerned at her companion. a strange aroma had filled her nostrils; she reacted by placing her hand firmly over her nose and mouth. "that's demons blood." the girl came off the bench and placed her hand on her head, the smell had made her queasy. regaining herself she went down onto one knee and looked under the bench, there was a small rucksack that she pulled out and slung it over one shoulder. the bag was a dirty grey colour and different coloured patched were dotted all over it, most of the patched were at the bottom. "come on mika." mika cocked her head to the side as if confused, but she followed the girl as she began to walk away from the bench.

the girl walked through a group of people who seemed to be enjoying the summer's weather laughing and talking; they paid no attention to her and simply walked past her. not even mika was given a sideways glance. the girl walked on and was now walking down the street on her own, people's attitudes changed dramatically, all of them now giving her and her strange companion as wide berth. mika becoming skittish ran forward catching up with cloud. the small ball of fluff cowered beneath cloud's legs.

"hey cloud." mika called up in a hushed tone, her voice no louder than a whisper. "i don't think this is such a good idea, the last time we….err i mean you, decided it was a good idea to investigate, we were caught by the police because we were snooping about!" mika said as she crawled up on to clouds shoulder.

"don't worry we'll have a look and we'll be right back out, and what have i told you about talking in public! people think you are a dog, and talking will obviously make them think other wise. " mika slapped her paw on her fore head as cloud continued to walk in the direction of the scent of demons blood. cloud followed the scent of blood to an open area, there was police lines going across a wide open alleyway. there was a sudden chill in the air that the summer sun couldn't quite reach. cloud shiver and crouched underneath the police lines.

"cloud wait maybe we shouldn't do this!" cloud turned around and looked at mika.

"mika i need to see this. i've had enough of being kept in the dark. for some compelling reason i have to know about these demon. i also have an overwhelming feeling that the demons are some how connected to my memory loss." mika nodded and followed cloud they walked slowly being carful where they tread, so not to disturb anything. "looks like the police are still poking their noses in the exorcists business!" cloud said a harsh tone to her voice, as she turned to look at mika, mika looked around and sniffed the ground and began to walk around with her nose glued to the rough concrete. "mika be careful, you might move something." mika looked up and pointed with her paw. cloud's worried expression vanished and a hit of confusion and curiosity filled her face. beside her was a shell casing from a gun, but the bullet was different from how you would imagine a bullet, this bullet was like a dart, it was long a thin and it was pure white with roses printed on it. "what kind of bullet is that?" mika shrugged and looked up a cloud, cloud dropped down into a crouching position and took her bag of her shoulder and laid it on the ground. mika's eyes grew wide and full of alarm.

"what are you doing?" cloud smiled and pulled out a sketch book along with a worn out pencil. "we don't have time for you to draw!" cloud laughed, and began sketching.

"don't worry all i need is a quick sketch of the bullet and some of the crime scene and we'll be off." mika mooned as if impatient. "almost there just let me get a few more sketches." mika sighed sending a shiver of anger through cloud. "why don't you make yourself useful and keep a look out for anyone. i can't exactly do that if i'm sketching." mika sighed and turned around to look out into the streets of tokyo. cloud continued to sketch her left hand moving franticly. cloud took longer than expected and mika began to become more and more impatient. eventually losing patience mika turned furiously round and noticed cloud was facing the other way, still frantically drawing.

"come on we've been here to long." cloud didn't reply she just continued to draw. mika looked at cloud to see what she was doing and to her surprise cloud was putting the sketch book back in her bag. "finally!" mika complained as she turned to look back towards the street. as she turned back mika's eyes grew wide, coming towards them were two police officers. "oh no! hey cloud we've got company!" cloud spun around to see them, they had been spotted.

"you again, what are you doing?" cloud stood still like a rabbit caught in the head lights of a car. "you seem to be showing your face at every crime scene, well as they say the killer always comes back to the scene of the crime." cloud returned to her senses and replied to the officer's remark.

"for your information, this is no crime scene this was exorcists doing their job in getting rid of a demon!" cloud yelled anger burning in her eye's like hot coals. both officers looked at each other then burst into hysterics, cloud clenched her teeth together annoyed by their laughter. "this is no joke!" both officers stopped and the older looking of the two of them smiled.

"i don't know what you're on, but demons and exorcists don't exist, they are just fairy tales; now you're coming with us down to the station to have a little chat." cloud didn't resist, she just hung her head allowing her hair to fall over her face. the police officer hand cuffed her hands behind her back and pushed her towards the alleyway entrance. mika stood looking shocked at clouds resistance usually she would have put up a fight.

"go back home mika, i'll meet you there." mika shook her head and climbed up clouds back and into her bag. cloud was forced inside the police car and was taken to the station, where she waited in a large room with no fancy window, as seen in movies. she waited for what seemed like years when finally the door to the room opened, a friendly face walked in, it was the man who always bailed her out of these situations. "hi takahiro" cloud said with a childish look on her face.

"you back again, i thought i would have seen the last of you, but here you are" takahiro joked and cloud smiled, takahiro had always been like a father to cloud and had got her out of many tricky situations and he saved her life when she was still only a toddler. cloud had no memory of what happened that day all she remembered was that takahiro was there to save her. "so what is it this time?" cloud smirked. "let me guess, demons" takahiro sat back in his chair and folded his arms. cloud smiled and nodded a guilty look on her face; takahiro shook his head and looked at her. "you need to stop this cloud, one of these days you're going to be taken for a lunatic and plus, you're getting yourself into trouble with the police which will give you an even worse image." cloud nodded and looked away. "you're a smart girl cloud but you need to use your intelligence for something better than demon hunting, i know you say that they are real but in this day and age nobody will believe you. to normal people, demons are just something in video games and films, they don't exist" cloud nodded. "you should stay here over night and clear your thoughts and plus it'll keep my boss happy, you know he doesn't like it when i help you." cloud's eyes grew wide.