The lost composer of London

Confusion

High in the London skyline, atop a building in the dead of night, stood the tree Joshua, Neku, and Seras. They had been silent for minutes now.

"You've made a mistake," Seras said.

"No, I'm sure I haven't," Joshua retorted.

"But I was never some 'Composer' when I was a kid," Seras argued. "I would remember if I was!"

"Would you though?"

"I have memories from back then: I went to school, I played with other kids, I did normal stuff. I never dealt with ghosts or 'Players' or whatever!"

"Memories are a tricky matter Seras. What's to say that you don't only remember PART of your childhood?" Seras struggled for words. This was all too ridiculous, she knew that it wasn't true. She remembered all of her childhood, she couldn't have forgotten anything. She couldn't have been in contact with the dead because then... because...

Seras stiffled the memory. "It's not true," she said simply. "It's just not." Joshua scratched his head, considering how he could convince her. Neku watched silently. She's surprisingly cool about all this, he thought. Most people wouldn't have even talked about the idea of being a Composer, it's really too unbelievable. Then again, vampires aren't that believable either.

"Look, Seras," Joshua said. "I know that this is hard to believe, but you need trust me on this."

"Trust you," Seras said, becoming annoyed. "Why should I trust you? I don't even know you! In the time I've known you, you snuck into my room, dropped me down a hole, and attacked my head! Now you want me to just accept that you're here to help me regain some title that I never had or wanted. No, that's not something that's going to happen! I don't want any of this!" And with that, Seras turned around and walked away from the two.

Joshua was about to object when suddenly something fell on top of Seras. A giant black thing in the shape of a wolf grabbed her in its jaw and shook her violently.

"Noise!" Neku snatched a pin from his pocket and pointed it at the giant wolf Noise. A bolt of lightning shot down and struck it in the back. The Noise growled in pain and dropped Seras, who was nearly torn in half. She was lifted off the ground by nothing and carried over behind Neku and Joshua.

She pushed herself up and looked at the two in front of her, and then at the Noise beyond them. It was looking dead into her eyes, snarling horribly.

"You should stay there," Joshua said, flipping open his cellphone. "We got this." Seras could swear that she saw the two boys smile at the wolf like it was a present on Christmas morning. They reminded her of Alucard at that moment.

The Noise charged them, slobber splashing from its fangs. Neku raised his arms, showing a pin held perfectly between each of his fingers. One flashed as he swung his arm, and three large ice stalagmites jutted out of the building's roof into the wolf. With another swing of Neku's arm five great boulders appeared in the sky and crushed it. A cloud of shrapnel hid it momentarily, then suddenly it was in front of Neku, jaw open and hungry. It bit down hard where Neku was, but Neku was no longer there. He appeared from nowhere behind it, and with another swing of his hand cast a flaming ball into the Noise's back.

Joshua jumped high into the air, but did not return to the ground. He floated in the air, above the Noise, typing into his phone. A beam of blinding light shot from the sky onto the beast, and it roared angrily. It turned to Joshua and leapt at him snarling. Joshua smiled at the beast and another lazor came from behind him, sending it back down to the roof with an incredible thud. Seras could feel the structure shake under her from its weight.