*beep beep beeep beeep beeeep beeeep* A young girl rolled over and smacked her alarm clock.  She sat up in bed, yawned, stretched, and rubbed the sleep out of her slanted eyes.  She got out of bed and quickly grabbed a coat and put on her slippers.  She looked out the window at the thermometer.  It was really cold!  She shivered and pushed the thermostat up.  She ate her breakfast and got ready.  She finished getting ready early so she switched on the TV and watched some of the news.  
“This cold snap should last another two days.  In other news: two more people were found mauled in northern Ho---” She turned off the TV and headed off to school in the cold.  

A toddler with a hat that dubbed him king sat staring at a screen.  
“Oh boy,” he said, sounding worried. “Ogre!  I want you to find out as much information as possible on this!  We need to figure out why and how he moved!”
“Yes, Koenma sama!”  The blue ogre wailed as he rushed out of the room.  Koenma leaned back in his chair and sighed.  He looked stressed, a large crease formed between his eyes as he thought,
“Yusuke isn’t made for jobs like this.”

The young Japanese girl walked home from school with her friends, they all wore thick jackets over their blue uniforms.  They decided to stop by a cafe for some warm drinks.  She and her friends sat down and clasped their hands around the steaming mugs.  She gently sipped her drink as her hands regained feeling.  She looked out the foggy window, the sky was full of gray clouds that sun could only penetrate enough, to tell it was daytime. She turned back to the bustling cafe as her friend said,
“Hey Akane chan, have you heard about the attacks up near Wakkanai?” Sorano asked.  The third girl at the table jumped in her huge blue eyes lit up as she told what she had heard,
“It’s been all over the news.  They say the victims look as if a huge animal tore them open!” her high voice squeaking in excitement.  She had light brown hair that was always up in a spiky bun.  She was also fascinated by all things supernatural.
“No animal’s smart enough to do all that Mari chan.  It’s probably a psycho killer,” Sorano said her long black hair falling into her face.
“That sounds SO much better,” Akane said, and laughed at Sorano’s pessimism.
  A boy walked into the shop and viciously rubbed his hands together, his black hair quickly became soaked as the snow on him melted.  He pushed it up trying to keep it slicked back.  He shivered in his wet shirt, and wished he had worn a coat to school.  Akane spotted him and rushed up.  
“Hey! Urameshi!” He looked at the girl and groaned.  The only reason she ever talked to him was to bother him about school.  Akane had been his partner for a presentation two weeks ago and now she had been assigned to do a skit with Mari and him.  Akane was happy Mari was in her group, but having Urameshi was going to be trouble.  He didn’t work very hard and often wasn’t available for some reason.  “Urameshi, me and Mari are coming over to your house on Sunday, so you better be there.  We won’t let you bring our grades down”  
He scowled and said, “Yeah, yeah, I’ll be there, don’t have a heart attack.”
“Humph.” Akane puffed out her chest to yell at him when a girl from her school came over and grabbed Urameshi.  The girl yelled at him for not being in a class and pulled him back out into the cold.  Akane fumed back to her seat. “He better be there.  If he’s not there at twelve, we should just do it by ourselves.”  Mari gave Akane this strange, confused look and said,
“Twelve?  I thought you said two!  I won’t be able to get there until two.”
“Wha?  You mean to say I’m stuck with Urameshi alone for two hours?!”
“Sorry Akane chan, but I have a tennis game at twelve.  It’s a pairs match so I can’t forfeit.”
“Tennis in the dead of winter,” Sorano said.
“It’s an indoor court,” Mari said matter of factly.
“That sucks,” Sorano said referring to Akane’s two hours with Urameshi. “You should bring a bat, so you can beat him if he tries any thing.”
“Oh, Sorano chan, I don’t think that would do any good.  I hear he’s the best fighter around here.  The boys say he has inhuman skills; some even say he can manipulate his aura to...”
Sorano cut her off, “Every one is some sort of super human according to you Mari.”
Akane watched them and thought, “Two entire hours?!”

Later Akane’s parents are home sitting on the couch and watching the news.  Akane is siting on the love seat next to the couch doing her math homework.  Then something on the news caught her ear and she turned to watch.
“The attacks still remain a mystery.  A surveillance camera caught this attack, but in the tape no trace of an attacker is visible.”  
“I hope Mari’s watching she’d love this,” Akane thought.  The tape of the attack is played on the news.  Its definitely true there wasn’t any sign of any one else there.  Akane shivered, she’d never admit to Mari but ghosts scared the daylights out of her. Then the attack was shown in slow motion, and for a brief second Akane thought she saw a large animal, like a dog attacking the person, but it went by so fast she wasn’t sure if she was seeing things.  All of the sudden her head started hurting.  It feet like her head is going to explode.  She quickly told her parents that she was going to sleep, and stumbled into her room.
Her ears rang and her eyes seemed a little blurry.  She held her palms to her temples and tried to physically push the pain away. She lied down on her bed and closed her eyes. She saw flashing images in her head.  She saw the creature attacking the person, and something else, it looked like a tall man.  She tried to see the man clearer but her mind was clouding, and it seemed too difficult to fight off sleep.