Prologue: Kyosuke Matsuda

-What was that noise?

The mysterious teenage boy stuck his head outside the bathroom stall.

He knew what had just happened. His brain was filled with ideas after ideas, he was hoping that one was the right answer but he could never seem to find an answer that fits.

“Nothing's wrong, I’m going to step outside and I’ll see nothing’s wrong.”

He knew he was lying to himself; his voice was trembling. He tried preparing himself for what was to come, anything could happen. He prayed that he would walk out and he'd see people calmly walking in the hall like nothing ever happened.

He walked out of the bathroom keeping sure to look both ways before leaving.

His pupils dilated and his face scrunched up when he looked at the floor. A body.

Tears grew on the sides of his eyes, he wasn’t sad; he only knew the result of him being in this location.

“H-hello? Are y-you okay?.”

The scared boy's voice was as if he was standing in the cold in nothing but his underwear, shivering with every word that came out.

The body was still, calm, but the lingering feeling of death filled the mind of the young man

He was whispering gibberish to himself; he didn’t know why he was talking out loud, maybe to calm his nerves?

He flipped the person over to reveal what happened, two gunshot wounds to the face.

Blood was still flowing out of the newly placed holes in this body, the predator was nearby.

The boy screamed hysterically, throwing the body back as he fell backward landing on his butt.

The boy could hear a final gunshot before a classroom door shoots open with enough force to throw it off its hinges.

“Kyosuke Matsuda, I’ve been looking for you!”

Kyosuke Matsuda was born in Japan so he was given a Japanese name, he later moved to America with his American mom and Japanese dad. He was given a few problematic qualities. He had blonde hair which spiked up to make it look like he had devil horns and sanpaku eyes giving him an evil stare, he knew his looks made people hate him. He was different.

An angry male voice called out from the opposite side of the hallway.

-W-why would h-he be looking for me?

Even in his head, his voice was trembling with terror.

Kyosuke looked down at his hands which were covered in blood.

He couldn’t help but throw up the lunch he had eaten just minutes before entering the bathroom.

“KYOSUKE MATSUDA YOU EVIL LOOKING SON OF A BITCH LOOK AT ME!”

The terrified boy looked to his right, shaking at the sight of a boy holding a gun.

Down the hall was an upperclassman he had seen just before entering the bathroom. There he was, standing less than 20 feet away holding a gun.

-Don’t run, please don’t run!

“~run!~”

A tiny voice that felt unreal made a click in Kyosuke's head, without thinking he began to run faster than he had ever before.

Why was he running,

"Who the hell was still alive and why would they risk his life just scream at me? Of all people why would someone risk their lives for me!?"

Kyosuke watched as bullets wised past him inches away from hitting and ending him. This is the first time Kyosuke has ever felt true horror, nothing before this event could top anything he's had to deal with, his body was burning up and he felt like he was about to vomit.

Bodies covered the floor, dozens of kids died without even knowing what happened to them. Their families would never know what would have been with them in the future, some could have gone on to save people's lives, and some could have invented revolutionary technology that would push humanity forward. None of this mattered now, he just wanted to live

“Please God let me live, I want to live!”

Kyosuke couldn’t help but laugh after he screamed this, it was a reflex to calm him down. People thought he was weird for this reason, he always laughed during funerals and sad moments in movies.

Suddenly without even noticing he was falling, he hit the ground.

“Dammit, why won't my legs work, just get up!”

His voice cracked and trembled with fear. He was crying when he looked behind him. No one was there, silence filled his empty ears.

-Where did he go?

Looking around seeing nothing but the filled halls full of corpses, just then Kyosuke’s head slowly hit the ground.

-Tired, why did I get so tired, it’s not like I stayed up all night like usual.

The world grew darker and darker until darkness that had been surrounding him finally consumed him.

-What about my family, I never got to tell my family goodbye.

The scared Kyosuke couldn’t help but think about his family and what they might think when they find out what happened to him on his last day on Earth.

A sudden flash of light blinded Kyosuke and suddenly-

“What are you looking at?”

A giant lizard human hybrid questioned Kyosuke for staring at him, he didn't seem angry so much as annoyed at being, for what he felt like, looked down upon.

“Excuse me I must have spaced out.”

Kyosuke let out a charming chuckle when he said this, he was always a very charismatic boy so getting out of situations like this was a breeze.

“Alright, you little twerp. just don’t let me catch you staring again with the evil look on your face, human”

The lizard snarled and got up to leave.

-Twerp? That’s about the least harmful thing he could’ve been called.

A cute bartender girl was staring weirdly at Kyosuke as if she's met him somewhere before. She quickly looked away as soon as their eyes met and Kyosuke thought her staring came from the fact that he appeared out of thin air.

Happy he was in the clear from any harm, the young Kyosuke took a deep breath but he couldn't help but feel unwanted in this place. He felt out of place here like he wasn't meant for this world, he felt more alone than ever before.

He wanted to go home, wherever that was anymore.