1 - Beginnings A cold wind blew throughout the city, and I could tell that it was going to be a long day as I moved through those grey streets. I looked up and around, trying not to let this ominous feeling of something coming affect me, and failing miserably. I found myself looking around every few moments in a paranoid sort of way, attempting to discern just what the coming disaster was. The city still felt completely normal; cars drove by on the street, people of all different races met up... Mostly though, people avoided mutants, and other beings they detested for their own selfish reasons. I myself am different from the average citizen in this city, due to my strange ability to notice when something was brewing (and I mean that metaphorically and literally). I sighed, as I realised in my lookings that the sky appeared to be blotched with grey clouds towards the horizon. It would rain again, and I woukd get my favourite jacket wet - that's the kind of thing I was bothered by back then. I shoved my hand into my jacket pocket and pulled out my phone, calling my girlfriend. "Tako~" she'd said, the pitch of her voice heightening to express her excitement at recieving the call. "Hey, Nanami," I muttered into the phone, "Mind if I come over?" "Takumi, when do I ever mind? Seriously..." she groaned at me. I sighed and told her that I'd be around in a few minutes. And that was about the point where shit started to go down. Going to Nanami's house involved going through a bad area, and heading through there, as I walked by an alley, I saw a small group of men who appeared to be wearing suits and surrounding a young woman. I told myself to put my morals aside and leave it, until I saw the reason she was cowering before those men - each had a gun pointed straight at her. I did what anybody would have done: I ran straight at one of the men and punched him straight in the face, before they each strangely phased out of reality with a static-like noise. Confused, I approached the young woman, who appeared to be dressed only in rags, and offered her my hand. She reluctantly reached out for my hand, took it, and as she did, the world around me faded to black...