1 Chapter 1: Purgatory meets Shadows

It was a normal day in Georgia Sector A, nice bright day, people coming and going from the beach, and someone being attacked by a large monster. Luckily there's someone that can fight it off, and he was a bit young yet very powerful. He had long black hair, was about 5'3, and had somewhat pale skin with pink fox-like eyes and glasses. He also had pointed ears with star earrings, and a single fang hanging out of his mouth, and summoned 9 paper talismans while in his swimming trunks. "Wow, you're a brute. How's about we make takoyaki out of you. Soul Dolls: Mizu Guruma." the boy said as the dolls started to blend together and transform into water and slashed the massive octopus mutant into pieces in what seemed like an instant. The boy then collected all the pieces before they hit the sand, and cook them with a flame spell circle. "Mm, can't wait to see how delicious this tastes. And hopefully I don't pig out before I give some to my step parents." he giggled. He looked out to the ocean's horizon and smiled at the beauty of it. "Rengoku. It means Purgatory. And that's what I do to evil beings, send them to a personal purgatory. I do miss you mom and dad, be safe wherever you happen to be." he said quietly to himself before getting splashed in the face by a dolphin that laughed before swimming off. Rengoku trapped it in a water bubble and started to spin it around like a drill until he was stopped by a punch to the head which knocked him on his face. The person that punched him was his partner, Anacra, a British sorcerer that transferred over to learn. He had long black hair and dark spiraling horns that went backwards. He also wore glasses that were squared and had a demon wing design on the right side, and also had pointed ears. He was wearing a pair of purple swimming trunks and was wet from the water. "You mind not educing a dolphin to vomit out of spite? I think you forgot you just drenched half the class in ink from that octopus. Mind splashing water to clean it since it's your mess?" he asked, which Rengoku did as he was face first in the sand.

Later in the day, Rengoku went home in a tank top and his swim trunks, and was greeted with a large bear hug from his step dad who was a chubby trucker man with orange dyed hair, and dressed like a lumberjack and had a small beard. "Ah there's my boy. How was the beach today? I was worried sick about you out there." he said while squeezing the absolute daylights out of Rengoku. His step dad was a bit of a worrier and was constantly looking out for his baby boy. Rengoku slipped from his grasp, going to the kitchen to get a sandwich and juice. His small cat named Kappy slithered up to him as a shadow and nuzzled his face cutely. He then got a phone call from his friend Suzaku. "Hello bestie. How's the book coming?" he asked. Suzaku yelled over the phone about how the whole thing was ridiculous, how the whole war was depicted wrong, and how he didn't mention the cyberpunk landscape at all and forgot to mention the tree was an energy construct and not a physical object. "Sorry, I just mashed ideas together. Besides, you can just say no and have your dad do it himself. I'm better at art anyways, plus you can't deny your dad is smoking hot in his outfits. Now if you want a refund that's all well and good, I got the cash in my room right now." he said. Suzaku reluctantly agreed to the refund and hung up, making Rengoku laugh. He then started to draw while eating, making himself with a boy with long hair with red highlights, brownish skin, a chubby body, and vine tattoos. He wasn't wearing much, and looked like a Hawaiian spirit with glowing fingertips. "Hehehe, so cute. Chubby boys are the best! Just wanna squeeze em and hug em and motor-" he was cut off by his step dad looking at him with a bit of a disappointed face. Rengoku smiled wide and awkwardly as he went up to his room and put his drawing away and got in his regular clothes. "Ah my half Japanese/Hawaiian babe, I'll have you in my bed someday. Now I should get to the guild for missions. Although I don't know if any new ones came in today, or any good ones at least. I swear if I gotta find another missing cat or something, I'm gonna be pissed all the way off." he said as he put on his glasses and ran outside to what seemed like a stylized storage unit house. Inside was a sort of alien made entirely of water, and a young girl that dressed like a witch. The interior was decorated like a Harajuku room in Japan, complete with a large magic mirror, and a neat cyberpunk computer with a waterproof visor. It was only the 3 of them in the guild and wasn't allowed bigger missions other than infiltration and finding objects.

"Hey you guys, sorry I'm late, I came from the beach and was all wet from octopus and junk. So anything good come in? Or any recruits...at all?" Rengoku asked. There was none, which was disappointing to say the least since they gave out many fliers for their guild, but everyone saw them as rejects. Hence why they're dubbed Shadow Rejects, the ones no one wants to recruit. Rengoku was physically weak, only able to crush rock as big as his hand. The alien named Hydro, isn't very strong either, and doesn't have many abilities and isn't good at defense. The young girl isn't able to control her full power, and has to use power suppression arm bands to keep it at bay. All 3 of them don't have good reputations, but don't give it attention in order to complete their tasks. Rengoku saw an all black paper that states: "Warning. S-class Slaying Mission. Murder one of the Shadowpaw Subordinates and prevent it from corrupting innocence." and Rengoku decided to take it despite how dangerous it is. Hydro tried to stop him from going, but he already ran outside and into the Dark Wilds, where all sorts of mutated beasts live away from people for their protection and peaceful observation. As Rengoku went into the wilds, he felt a strange pressure all over, like something or someone was watching him and following him, so he gathers a small ball of water from a tree, and slings it around at high speed in order to weed out whatever was around. It hits something, and it turned out to be a being made of shadow. It was just an astral body, made of darkness sent to interact with outside. The being started talking. "What are you doing here? Here to kill us again you scum? Can't be satisfied with winning all those years ago, you have to keep killing us?" the being said. Rengoku wasn't sure what he was talking about, but he didn't seem hostile at all and walked towards it. His eyes started to glow red as he was trying to identify it, but it was difficult since it was Vampyre Magicks, something he's never dealt with, but saw a glimpse of his true body, which made him slightly blush and smile. The being was confused by what he was making that face for, and blasted him with concentrated telekinesis as a threat. "Stay. Away. From. Here. First and last warning fool. And tell the other-" he was taken aback by Rengoku holding his hand and slipping a rose into it. "I'll see you again, vampyre." he said as he started to separate into a swarm of butterflies to leave. The being looked at the rose and saw it had no thorns on it and smelled like sweet candy. His darkness avatar vanished without a word, and hid in his room, wondering why Rengoku gave him a rose that was a symbol for love.