M.A.D.N.E.S.S ~ A Date A Live Story

Chapter 1: Are You Perhaps a Spirit?

In the middle of seemingly nowhere, a ball of energy begins to form. As it accumulates more energy, the ball of energy begins to percolate in size. A tornado would soon spawn but thankfully wouldn't do any serious damage to anyone due to the area being vacant.

The massive black ball of energy begins to clear up, and standing in the middle of where the mysterious ball of energy once was is a child. His characteristics included black hair and demon like red pupils with black eyeballs to match his hair. Although with one blink, his demon like red pupils and black eyeballs transitioned into normal white eyeballs and somewhat dark brown pupils.

He gets a feel of his arm and just tries to move around a little before taking in his surroundings. Unfortunately, he doesn't get to do this for long, as people are on their way to respond to the sudden burst of energy.

The boy looks to the sky to see around 20 women wearing Military Jetpacks armed with weapons swooped down to take in the situation.

"Hey, you!" The captain of the group called out to the boy. Successfully receiving his attention, the boy turned around to see the troop standing behind the captain.

"Captain, I don't understand. The reading says the spacequake occured in this exact area, right?" One of the soldiers asked the captain.

"Yeah. It happened right here, but all that's here is a lost little boy." The captain replied to her troop member. "This isn't making any sense." The captain assessed the situation.

"He looks no older than 4 years of age, Captain. What should we do?" Another one of the troop members asked the captain. She now has to take charge of this confusing situation.

"Hey, you! Boy! Come here with your hands up!" The captain ordered. The little boy would begin walking toward the captain, but only with one of his hands up. The reason for this would be discovered seconds later.

"Umm... Excuse me..." The boy muttered quietly, but enough for the Troop Captain to pick it up.

"Are you perhaps... a spirit?" He said in a timid and shy tone of voice. Many of the soldiers were thrown off as the boy had a deadpanned expression whilst asking the troop his question.

"Captain, what's he saying?" One of the Troop soldiers asked her.

"He's asking if we're spirits." The Captain told her crew.

"What ridiculousness. We're the AST!" One of them shouted.

"Quiet!" The captain shouted. The boy put his hand down and began walking towards the troop of AST Soldiers.

"Hey! Stay right where you are otherwise I'm gonna have to use force!" The Captain shouted. The boy didn't listen and only began walking a little faster toward them.

"Grrr! Troops! Get down!" The Captain ordered. All the AST Soldiers flew to the sky to watch the Captain use her Combat Unit to shoot a large green beam of energy towards the boy. When it make impact, the ground began to shake and a dust cloud had kicked up.

Once the dust cloud had settled down, the boy was nowhere to be seen. Assuming it was safe, the AST Soldiers flew back down to the ground.

Little did they know it was the worst and last mistake of their lives.

"Where'd the boy go?" One of them asked the Captain.

"No clue, the Radar isn't detecting anything suspicious." The Captain said, looking at her Radar.

"Let's head back to base and report our findi--" Suddenly, the Captain was stabbed in the back by a large black and red Core sword. The Core Sword was glowing it's respective colors as it went deeper and deeper into the Captain's back. She coughed blood before ultimately falling to the ground.