[Black Alpha Zero]

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   Zachariah-

   You know, up until earlier this year I was just an ordinary high school kid worrying about completing my homework, but now I spend my days saving mankind from Demons Invading the world. All of the government's have decided to call these demons Sora no Akuma. A rather fitting name if you ask me because they do come from the "Void", a place of absolutely nothing.

   You might be wondering how did I end up in such a position? Well it's a rather long story, and I think you are gonna want to sit down while you listen. Now where to start... Oh yeah! I guess I ought to start with the day that literally changed my entire life. The day I had personally witnessed a Demon Invasion happen in my hometown.

   I had just got done with school for the week and was worrying about the English paper I had to finish by the end of the weekend, as I walked home when I heard the very sound every person hoped to never hear in their life. It was the warning alarm for an imminent Demon Invasion. To describe the alarm would be that it is a loud low pitched tone that would increase in pitch to a extremely high pitched sound that made your ears hurt. This alarm was set to repeat until the Invasion ended or it was destroyed, preferably the former.

   Not even thirty seconds later the town turned into a chaotic mess. Everyone was running for the underground shelter entrances set every few blocks, in the middle of this mess was me staring at the sky, watching it rip open and seeing the Demons drop down into the streets and onto buildings. They caused damage to their surrounds just by simply landing, and that was just the beginning of the destruction they had in store for my town.

   I gotta say, they weren't as ugly as I have heard people say they are. They stood about 8 feet tall and about 10 feet long. Their body resembled one of a mantis but with a short and wide upper torso and had oversized crab claws capable of easily crushing anything that was caught in them. The head was massive. It sat close to their torso and looked like someone had cut a sphere in half with their face elongated to have a sharp point on the end. They also have a very wide mouth around three feet wide filled with razor blades for teeth. They were mostly black and had purple veins running all over that seemed to have a glowing light moving through them. This particular class is called Hunters.

   To be honest these creatures fascinated me. They have been coming into our world every so often for the past thirty years and we still haven't had a chance to learn all that much about them. We know they come from a place called the "Void", a place of nothingness; hence the name Sora no Akuma, Japanese for "Demon of the Void". We also do know that our conventional weapons have almost no effect on them, which had led to the release of the Seraph Gems, a set of 13 different types of precious gems that are said to have come from Heaven and each gem has power over different attributes. These Gems have the power to stop and defeat the Demons whenever they invade our world.

   Not just anyone can use the Seraph Gems, one of the gems must respond and choose you in order for a person to use them. Once a person is chosen by a Seraph Gem, they are sent to Seraph Academy where they train and learn how to use the Gem they received in order to help protect Earth.  Only the class of top students get sent out during the Invasions and they are known as the Beta, referring to their rank [Beta].

   Speaking of [Beta], they ought to be here any second now... Ah! Here they come! A cargo plane passes over and several people drop down onto the street wearing similar gear to each other. Each one hold something different, some hold weapons, others wear armours of different levels of protection, and others hold nothing in their hands, but they have a small creature with them. Once they all land they head straight for the Akuma who seem set on flattening the town.

   At this point almost no one is left on the streets besides me and the [Beta] group. I realize that I shouldn't be out here if I wish to survive for another day. I had turned around and started to run for the shelter when I hear the scream of a small kid somewhere, stopping me in my tracks. I look around trying to find out where I had heard that scream from when I see movement from the corner of my eye. I turn towards where I saw the movement to see a little girl who couldn't have been more than 5 years old running towards me screaming at the top of her lungs with tears streaming down her face. I quickly look behind her to see a Hunter about 50 yards back, chasing her; I quickly run to the kid scoop her up and head towards the shelter.