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It's a very quiet, hot, clear day in Hareth town. The trees move gently onto the breeze keeping the day as cool as possible. A girl, with white long hair wearing a red kimono, white high heel boots, holding onto a cat doll; taking a stroll down her street to visit a good friend of hers. "I wonder if zack would be there...?" She thought to herself hugging her kitty doll close to her chest.

This shy girl, has a crush on a certain boy who in fact likes her friend. The shy one could imagine why. She got to her friends house, which was a single blue story house and the yard was only 1/2 acre big filled with plants and the grass was lush and green. She walks up to her door step and knocks on the door still holding her doll close. "Who is it?" The voice called through the door, sounding a bit suspicious but cheerful. "Its me, Shadow..." The shy girl responded quietly.

Shadow opens the door with a smile on her face. "Hey Keal! Nice of you to come and visit!" Shadow is a bit taller than Keal, she has black long hair that goes down her mid-back, a light blue, snow-like kimono, blue sneakers, with lushes cat-like blue eyes holding onto a polar bear doll. "I'm glad I can come." Keal smile softly as she was let into her house. "So, is zack here?" She asked curiously hiding her blush behind the doll. "Aww you still like him, huh?" Shadow chuckled pats her head. "Well, he's going to come by later, he's still working." She added as Keal lowered her head covering her eyes still red.

Zack works at the F.F.J. Which stood for "Fighting For Justice". Its affiliated with the government, C.I.A., and the F.B.I. But the F.F.J. has more elite agents under them, including assassins, like Shadow who is also part of the F.F.J. unlike Keal. She could never be part of the F.F.J. due to the fact that she could never fight. "So Keal, How have you been? Its been a while since we hung out." She exclaimed sitting onto the couch in her living room which was well furnished with white sofas, two recliner chairs between the sofa and small fire place in front of it, with a 64 plasma tv above it.

"Yea. It has been a while...or at least...a whole year." She giggled nervously as she sat down on the sofa next to her. "I really miss you guys..." She added with a sad tone in her voice. "Yea...I miss you too, Keal. I wish you could join us at F.F.J. but you have to go through the initiation which may be difficult for you..." She explained, but knows well that Keal is never a fighter nor good at it, since she's always gentle and weak. "Well....I wish I was strong and swift like you and Zack.... But I never fought in combat..." She lowered her head with a frown on her face. Keal wished to be strong like Zack and swift like Shadow, but she lacks the experience for both of them.

Shadow could see that Keal is very troubled by this and thought about how she could get her mind off of it. "How bout I help you become swift!" She offered as she jolted off her seat looking at keal smiling. "R-really?" She stuttered, jumped a bit from her energetic offer looking up at her. "Sure! I don't mind teaching you!" She smiled big, grabs hold of Keal's hand and heads to the back yard where there's dummies set up all over the place like an obstacle.

Keal was in disbelief to see all of those dummies scattered all over Shadows yard. "How am I going to learn with all these raggedy, straw stuff, dummies scattered around like ants on a riot when someone stomped there home?!" she thought to herself shouting in her head exasperating a little. "So...how am I going to learn this ability...?" She asked her curiously as Shadow walks pass her with her hands behind her back; walking casually, a few feet away from her and yet still away from the scattered dummies in front of her.

"Well, you basically have to be fast, unseen, and have the agility." She purred and disappeared in front of Keal. She gasped and looks around frantically for her. "Hey, Shadow, where are you??" She spun around looking around curiously not knowing where she is. She soon hear a "shing" behind her. She turned to see a dummies head flying above the sky and landed on the grass the a small thud. Soon more heads were being cut off and it started to rain dummy heads on Shadow's yard, which made Keal's jaws drop in awe.

The last dummy head fell onto the grass in front of her, which almost left Keal a bit scared. "OK Keal ready to try being swift?" Shadow shouted happily behind her. Keal majorly jumped 4 in off the ground and cringes over breathing heavily from the scare holding her doll close to her. "P-please don't do that again. You know well that I hate it when you do that..." She says, still startled from her appearing behind her.

Shadow nodded understanding. As she was going to teach Keal how to be swift, they heard a scream a few blocks down her house, making Keal scared while Shadow just stood there being calm and alert. Her eyes soon started to turn into slits as she thought to herself, "There here..." Keal stood close to shadow whimpering knowing that something bad is going on within her gut. Shadow pushed her away from her.

"Keal! I want you to run away from here ok...??" She instructed quietly as she headed inside the house. Keal couldn't help but followed her inside holding her doll close to her chest. "Shadow, what's going on?? Why did you push me like that??" She asked getting worried on whats going on as Shadow went into her kitchen and rummage through her knife drawer taking out her chef knife and her butcher knife. She held each of her knives up in an eighty degree angle to see if they are sharp.

This startled Keal to see her friend with those knives and got her more worried and scared. "Keal, I told you to run away!!" She yelled with irritation in her voice as she held the two knives in each hand. "Not until you tell me what going o-"

"KEAL I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!" She shouted with anger. To see how stubborn she was to follow her instructions. Keal stood there in shock to have her friend yell at her like that, which never happened in all their years as friends. Before Shadow could say anymore, a big crash came through her living room, a car comes flying towards them. Shadow forced Keal to duck as the car flew over them and through the yard, which made the inside of the house more accessible. The house was soon filled with smoke from the crash of the smell of asphalt. Keal screamed out of fear and was overwhelmed by the car flying out of nowhere and soon gunshots went off.

"Keal whatever you do...don't! Move!!" She instructed her in a command as she flitted towards the people firing their weapons at them. Keal hid under the counter very scared hugging her doll very close to her chest. Meanwhile, Shadow dodged most of the bullets and went through the fog of asphalt. With her keen eyes, she could see right through the fog which her enemies couldn't. As soon as she got close, she sliced off the barrel of the guns of the two men in front of her adding a kick to the stomach to the guy on the right and elbowed the the guy on the left.

The fog still covering her presence, she took a good close look at the enemy to reveal that they are the Hex soldiers. The Hex is an evil criminal organization that housed the worst criminals known to man. They are also affiliated with the black markets, slave trading, drugs, betrothal houses, and even owns part of the government, knowing that the Hex is a very old organization that is owned by the twelves most dangerous criminals in the universe!

The Hex is not run by humans, but inhuman beings that they call aliens. The "aliens" actually look like humans, but their abilities aren't normal. As soon as she identifies the enemies she immediately contacted the F.F.J. of an invasion by the Hex, when she soon heard a scream in the kitchen. Shadow's eyes grew big with worried and ran towards the kitchen to see one of the enemies holding Keal hostage. The enemy that is holding her hostage happens to be one of the twelve lords in charge of the Hex. The man was six feet and four inches tall, slender with a muscular built wearing a black leather trench coat that has belts and hooks dangling where his waist are, the linen were tinted with gold and an emblem that looked like a peace sign with line underneath the three lines and the color of the linen were gold.

The mans appearance somewhat throws people off thinking that hes 19 but his actual age is 29. He wore dark black baggy jeans underneath his trench coat with steel-toed boots. His features looked very young, with lushes red dark eye and his expressions are apathetic as he held his hand close to Keal's neck, having her pin onto his hard body. "Let her go!!" Shadow cried angrily at the man, who's expression didn't change. "I will let the girl go, if you just come with us...if not..." He trails off as his hand turns into blades on each finger as his whole hand turned to steel.

This soon made Shadow uneasy and hated these decisions. If she chooses to go with them, she would spill information about F.F.J's location, but she refuses, Keal dies. She cuss at herself on hating how this situation turns out. "You got twenty seconds to answer...!!" The man warned her as his hand gets closer to Keal's neck. Shadow snarled as she stood there thinking of his choices that she think is right. "Tch I grew weary..." He scoffed as he raised his bladed hands at her. "Keal noo!!" She cried as she sprinted towards her.

The Hex soldiers soon appeared and held her back as the man continued to make his kill. "Is this it...?? Is this how I'm going to die...??" Keal thought to herself watching the man raising his unnatural bladed hand at her. "No..!! I can't just die here!! I want to tell Zack, how I feel....!! I want to help Shadow in battles...!!" She spoke truthfully to herself as she started to stream out tears. "I want...to get stronger!!" She thought a loud as the man is about to slice her head off.

"Is that really what you wanted...~?" The voice echoed in her head

[to be continued]