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This is Destiny City, full of weird happenings, strange people, and one of a kind monsters. You’re used to youma, probably, even if you don’t know what they are. Trick or Treating is getting more and more dangerous every year; are you making any precautions to keeping the neighborhood kids safe? Or are you banking on carelessness to get some extra energy?
Destiny City was a strange place. She'd known that even before she'd decided to move there. Well, okay, that wasn't exactly true. She'd seen advertisements for Romano's, been won over by the excellent opportunity it provided for her, gotten her heart set on stopping traveling and going there to make something of herself. And then she'd shown her mother, and her mother had known how strange it was there, which was something she'd quickly and immediately pointed out to her daughter. Things seemed to happen here fairly regularly that didn't make sense, or were even dangerous. She hadn't been allowed to make the decision to live there until she'd accepted that fact.
Which was maybe a point against how stubborn she could be, because the moment she'd had her heart set on Romano's there'd really been no turning back. It didn't matter that strange things happened there. Strange things happened everywhere. Odds were that the news reports coming out of this particular city had been blown out of proportion by the time they'd gotten back to her mother anyhow. At the time, it had just seemed like a tactic to make her think twice about leaving her mother's side.
Now that she'd been a part of that strange and dangerous part of the city, though, she was beginning to rethink that. The shadows she kept seeing at night and stalking her through the day, the bats that had descended from the sky to wreak havoc on the festival as it was in full swing, the Vampire Sickness that had plagued her for a day, none of that was a normal degree of weirdness on any level of thinking. And as time ticked closer and closer to Halloween night and everyone geared up for trick or treating, she found herself wondering if all those kids' parents were even considering the same.
This was going to be dangerous for them. All those kids just out looking for candy and who knew what could happen to them. More bats? Some other kind of monster? Another one of those gang wars that always seemed to spring up in the papers could even spill out onto the streets tonight. Someone had to do something, she remembered thinking earlier, but what could anyone do? The thing was...The thing was, she thought she had an idea of where to start.
Maybe she was too old to trick or treat herself without getting embarrassed, but there was nothing stopping her from going out there and walking around to keep an eye out. The physical training they went through here left her more qualified to deal with a threat than some, and didn't all the professors always talk about how good it was to protect those who needed protecting? About how much the world, how the city needed that? It wasn't like she was going to be doing anything else with her night regardless.
It was something else she wouldn't be able to tell her mom she'd done. That was a list that kept on growing, it seemed, but she wouldn't let that bother her. Grabbing her jacket and phone, Rebecca hopped up and made her way out of the dorm. She had patrols to make, didn't she?
