Sentinels | 番兵

Prologue

Tokyo, JAPAN

The train was now entering the station when the cries started and the blood was spilled.

A few minutes ago, the train, which had been carrying around fifty passengers, had entered a tunnel that connected to the station.

"Damn these workers, there is no light here!" exclaimed the driver as he handled the train along the track only being guided by the front lights of the train itself.

The track, which had been under repairs after water clogging, had been left unlit by the workers, they had forgotten to connect the bulbs to the electrical supply.

"I'll have to put in a strong word about them once I reach headquarters." The driver muttered to himself.

As the train moved on and was nearing the station, the driver suddenly saw something that gave him chills. Standing in the middle of the track was a person. The driver quickly slammed the brakes so as to avoid hitting the person.

He opened the window and shouted, "You fool, what are you doing here?!" he asked, "I would have hit you had I not seen you! I'll make sure to get your ass arrested-"

Slick!

He was cut short as a shadowy hand reached forwards and chopped off his head! The blood sprayed everywhere.

***

"Dammit!" exclaimed a man irritably, "It is sure taking the train long enough to come, I have to get home quickly!"

"You're right, this is the first time something like this had happened." Said a woman standing nearby.

People who had been waiting patiently for the train to come into the station for the past half an hour were not getting impatient. The Tokyo Korakuen station had a reputation for the trains not being delayed. Therefore, such a delay could be considered to be an extremely rare occurrence.

Suddenly, the end of the tunnel visible from the platform was illuminated by white light.

"There-there it is! Finally, thank goodness!" said a teenager looking at it.

Flicker! Flicker!

The lights of the station suddenly started flickering. They kept on doing so until all of them burst, sending sparks flying and leaving the station in complete darkness.

"What the heck?" asked someone, "Is this normal?"

"I-I don't think so." Replied someone else, "This has never happened before. Is there some sort of a power outage?"

Zing!

The lights that had burst moments ago suddenly started getting brighter.

"Thank god! We can finally go home." Said a man as he turned towards the train. As he did so his body suddenly turned rigid.

Those who had been standing next to him experience the same thing, it was because they were in horror. The train that they had been waiting for had been completely destroyed. The windows were broken, there were slash marks on the outside and there was blood everywhere.

"Oh my god!" exclaimed someone, "What happened here?"

"It stinks so bad!" exclaimed someone else.

"H-hey guys? What is happening to the lights?" asked someone.

Immediately everyone looked up, the lights that had been getting brighter had reached the point of brightness that they had smoke coming out of them.

Boom!