Gerud. A small European-Asian country. The date is 14 AAR (14 years After (the) Anti-Renaissance). The world still hasn't fully recovered from that terrible war. World War doesn't even cover the damage it has done to the Earth. It's almost as we've been put in a time machine, humans are fighting each other, technology is primitive (Save for some instances), and resources are scarce, hence the title "Anti-Renaissance".

We start off in the Capital city of Woaurk. A small group of Soldats are in getting ready to arrest a murderer in an alley. He has pulled a little girl into that alley and killed her. The Soldats move in.
"Freeze! Do not attempt to attack or we will use lethal force!"
The man turns around. WE now see the giant red letters on the wall behind him.
SoLdat scum, PRepAre to perIsh!
After closer inspection, it was painted in blood. The man still holds the girl's arm that he used as a brush. He then drops it.
"You asked for it."
The man pulls out a Great Katana from his throat, holds it in one hand, and charges towards the group of Soldats. about a minute later, the group is no more than a pile of bloody corpses.
"Teaches you to mess with Uzumakumo Hasegawa."  

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A woman walks down the street, her boots making a clacking sound with the pavement. She gathered up her black hair on top of her head and tied it with a piece of cord. Nowadays, even hair ties were hard to come by. She turned quickly towards the one building in the area that wasn't totally destroyed, as it had pieces of other buildings holding it together. "Unit 7 Headquarters." She muttered to herself. It was going to be a long day, and a tougher one than usual.
She walked up to the front gate where the guards were slouching off. They eyed her uniform suspiciously until they found the four bars on her coat. Their eyes widened as they immediately popped into attention. They opened the gate quickly, avoiding eye contact. She walked through the hallway briskly, ignoring the comments as she walked by, which mostly consisted of cat calls and the occasional: "She's the now Major General? What the hell?"
The comments didn't stop even as she walked into the assembly room, where it seemed as if the entire unit was contained in it. She made her way to the front while being elbowed, listening to the entire group mutter "What are they thinking? A women in charge?" She got tired of it. Fast.
She was at the front of the room, where everyone seemed to back away as fast as they could. After making eye contact with the Brigadier General, she decided to end their comments. She stomped her foot on the ground, and it immediately got silent.
"My name is Major General Akane Hitsugi. If anyone has a problem with my position, please speak now." There was a murmur about the audience until a (slightly balding) man spoke up.
"Yeah. I do. I have a problem with following a little girl thats half my age."
"Then I present a challenge." She spoke calmly and clearly, and everyone listened. "If anyone in this room can defeat me in hand-to-hand combat, they can take my position." The entire group stared for a few seconds, then started whispering excitedly. "Even a advantage for you," she placed her left hand behind her back, "I won't use my left arm." The Brigadier General and Akane shared a hidden grin.
Many people tried, and they all failed. No one disrespected her in Unit 7 ever again. Especially after they found that her right arm was her "weak" arm, since her left was robotic. But thats a different story.
The alarm rang, a runnner was causing trouble again. Akane stepped into action. "Squad five, move out!"

Hasegawa, still in the bloodied alley, steps out for a second. At this point, he can hear footsteps coming his way. They're getting awfully close.
"I think he went in here!"
Hasegawa cringes his teeth.
"Sh*t.  There's too much for me to handle."
Hasegawa backs himself against the wall. he then puts his hands on it, still facing the entrance, flips himself onto the wall. It's as if he has no solid bone in his spine.
Hasegawa is ready to climb up the wall when...

Akane rushed into the alley, her squad followed up behind her. She stopped in her tracks. One of the girls in her squad screamed.
The wall had words painted on it in blood. The corpse of a girl, collapsed in a way that seemed impossible, her arm missing lay crookedly on the ground. A lifeless arm lay against the wall, a pool of blood surrounding it. A sight Akane knew all too well. She cringed and held up her left fist in defense in front of her face, or at least, thats the way it seemed. She may have been checking to see if it was still there.
She glared at the monstrosity in front of her; a man with blond hair stained with blood and red eyes. A demon of a person. His clothes still had the blood of the girl on it, making him seem more of a monster than a human.
'This is why I hate runners, dammit.' Akane thought. The girl was defenseless against him, and he killed her anyway. Akane would attack, but he was on the wall, the high ground, the advantage. But she had numbers. Six total people behind her, all trained for battle. But something told her: This man was not normal.
She flexed her hand, and almost immediately, the hand convulsed and retracted into her wrist where it was replaced by the barrel of a gun. "Place your hands in the air and come along quietly." She said, pointing the gun at him. "If you do so, you may be pardoned." 'Yeah right.' She thought. 'More like tortured to death.' Nowadays, Runners who were caught were either executed on the spot or experimented on. Neither of which were pleasant.

Hasegawa twisted his neck around to see the Soldat pointing her gun at him. He dropped to the ground, got to his feet, and looked at her. He started laughing under his breath.
"Pardon me, I've left something behind."
Hasegawa picks the arm up. He looks at it with a burning desire.
"Little girls are always the most fun. I love the look of pure terror in their eyes. They also taste the best."
Hasegawa shoves the whole arm down his throat. If there was one word to describe this, it'd be "disgusting".
Hasegawa slowly walks Akane's direction.
"Now, pretty, let's see if you're any different. Heh."

((I don't exactly wish to write the fight scene seeing as I don't want to godmode and I don't know your abilities. If you want, we can talk about it (either here or on Wednesday). In a nutshell, my character just has a gun and a blade (like a dagger) in her arm. And martial arts. Since she's not "mystically powerful" I guess she just kicks butt at regular fighting. Of course, she IS kinda fazed (anyone would be!), which I intend to describe next.))

The sound of metal clattering to the ground filled Akane's ears. "THOSE IDIOTS!" She thought as her squad dropped anything they had on them and sprinted for their life out of the alley, leaving Akane behind. So much for her advantage. She was right though, he DEFINITELY wasn't human. Luckily, years of traveling through horror scenes helped her keep her composure and kept what little food she had in her stomach from coming out of her mouth.
Her instincts told her to run, run as fast as she could with her squad, but she willed herself against moving from her spot. "If I move, he'll come after me, and the rest of my squad. He'd kill them on the spot, dammit. I have to keep him occupied!" She took in a deep breath.
"Unluckily for you, I'm not a little girl." She braced herself and shot, straight for one of his bright red eyes.  

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Splat. More blood went onto the wall.
Ironically, It's Hasegawa's. The bullet was a direct hit. Half of Hasegawa's face is missing.
Along with half of his hair, skull, and brains.

"Wh-Wha...?"

Hasegawa reaches for what's not there. Realizing he has half of a face, he stumbles to the wall.

"AHHHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Hasegawa pounds (Or what's left of)  his  head against the brick wall. Looking at him, it seems that Akane shot not nearly as much of his face as she previously thought. Wait, no.
He's re growing it.
Hasegawa, crumpled in a pile like a crushed piece of paper, feels his face, and it's good as new.
Hasegawa stops a second to vomit some bloods, and gets up.

"You've pissed me off. But fortunately for you, I have to leave now."

Hasegawa crawls up the wall, like some demented spider.

((Hasegawa's power is that he can regenerate any injury, but it causes his a lot of pain. So when you're fighting him, he can't god mode, because if he's harmed enough, he can't continue to fight. That's why he had to leave. Not many people can just shrug off a shot to the face.))

((XD Akane's a good shot! WHOO!))
That THING left. She blew up half of his head, and it grew back, just like new. What was he? Akane, shocked, dropped to her knees as her metal hand replaced the gun barrel. She heard a shriek as she hit the ground. "Oh good," she thought, "the new girl stayed." At least not ALL of her squad were utter cowards. With that thought, she passed out, feeling someone holding her back.

((Hey guess who Chaos? ITS YOU!X3))

(( okay here I go... I know it will probably suck... but let's hope I did this right.))

She was paralyzed.  Her body was trembling with terror after witnessing the dreadful red eyed creature reciprocate his face from bloody torn half to a polished whole. She wasn’t sure anymore if this was real or a nightmare.  She shut her eyes tight and shook her head.  This is how she tries to calm herself.  She opened her right eye while her left eye shut tightly.  The THING had left.  It was her and her squad leader alone.  She let out a shriek as her squad leader gradually hit the ground.

“OH SAN!!!! Major General!!!!” She ran toward her stumbling upon the scattered weapons on the ground.  She reached her shoulders and placed her back on her lap.  “Major General Akane!!! Wake up!!” she shook her a little but it was useless; she was unconscious. ‘SAN!!!! What am I going to do?!” She checked Akane’s body for any injuries, running her hands on the bloodied cloth.  She gave a relive sigh after she’s satisfied the blood on her uniform wasn’t hers and she’s left unscathed.  “At least you were brave to face him.” She murmured under her breath.

She gazed around the dim alley.  The noxious smell of blood permeated the place and it made her sick.   Blood were painted everywhere, not far from her was the little girl’s corpse.  She vividly recalls the sickening image of the creature devouring the girl’s arm.  She shut her eyes once again and shook her head.  She slowly opened them and saw the words ‘SoLdat scum, PRepAre to perish!’ pasted on the wall. ‘The person who wrote this… who is he? He’s not even a person!!! He’s far from that… just glancing at his bloodied eyes made me feel like I’d just drew my last breath.  Who is he? What is he? Are there more runners like him?' Every thought of the scene she just witnessed terrifies her and every drip of blood on the alley makes her sick. She clutched her hand and drove them on the ground with all she’s got.  A shot of pain ran in her right arm. “Dammit Yuu!!!  Why are you so useless!!!” she cursed her self.

She cautiously place Akane’s head on the ground and grab her right arm and raise Akane from the cold floor.  Yuu is on her feet while Akane limp on her back balancing her with Akane’s right arm on her shoulder.  It would probably help her if she also takes her left arm.  She reach for Akane’s left arm behind her and suddenly drop it. She felt a hard object.  “What?” she was sure that it was Akane’s arm, but it felt like an object.  It didn’t even crash when she drop it. She gazes behind her and check on it.  She spotted her left arm and takes a grab for it.  “What the hell?” The HARD THING was her arm alright.  She took off Akane’s glove and a metal was under it.
“Her left arm is robotic!” She thought of the fight against the Soldats earlier. ‘She didn’t use her left arm…’
“Just how strong are you?” She knew she wouldn’t receive a reply so she resumed to her objective. ‘This place is awfully sick. I better get going.’ She placed both Akane’s arms on her neck and lifted both of her legs from the ground to her waist.  She bent to keep her balance.  The Major General was light so it wasn’t difficult to carry her.  Although Yuu was more afraid she’d get ambush by some runners if she doesn’t get going. Therefore, she sprinted almost all the way to the headquarters while carrying Akane on her back.

((I was going to write more but I'm not so sure with the info. What's the setting? I mean is it night time? yeah well if I do have a lot of errors here please just tell me and I'll redo them.))

Yuu had almost reached the headquarters when Akane opened her eyes with a groan.
"Ah, you're awake." Yuu looked back at Akane, who was still a bit woozy.
"What happened?" She asked quietly. Yuu grinned and spoke.
"You passed out after you ran that monster-of-a-runner off." Akane tapped Yuu's shoulder.
"Here, I can move on my own now." Yuu let Akane off her back.
"Might I ask what your name is, Lieutenant?"  Yuu shook Akane's hand. "Lieutenant Yuu Misaki, Major General m'am."  Akane began to walk off. "I'll keep that in mind. Thanks agian."

Akane needed to hurry. This was one report she couldn't DARE come in late. She ran into the hallway, nearly tripping over other people in the way. She threw open the door at the end of the hallway.
"Brigadier General! Major General Hitsuga reporting!" He looked at her suspiciously, raising one eyebrow.
"Now then miss Hitsuga, what would make you so excited that you'd come into my office breathless. For a status report nonetheless?"
The Brigadier General was old and ragged looking, although you could tell that he was still quite in shape. Balding with a beard, he looked pretty stereotypical.
"Sir, I've just encountered something you may not believe."

Akane went on the tell the Brigadier General the whole story of what had previously happened. Normally, the General wouldn't believe a tell like this, but Akane had never lied to him before. She spoke so convincingly and with such grotesque detail that he had to believe her.

When Akane finished, she drew a breath and snapped to attention.
"Sir! I would like to hand select a unit, for a mission that I would like to lead personally."
The old man's face grew hard, he knew what was coming.
"I want to lead an assassination operation in order to kill this... monster! He must be brought to justice."
The Brigadier General looked straight into her eyes. "No. I cannot allow anyone to go foolishly looking for such a creature. Major General Hitsuga, for your father, don't go around looking for death!"
Akane walked up to his desk, returning his own stare. "Sir, that thing has to be stopped. You know that." The tone of their voices were both cold.
"Of course I do. However, I will not allow a woman to do -" Akane cut him off, slamming her fist on the desk.
"I'm the toughest fighter you know! Give me a chance. I'm the only one who's encountered him before, so I know I can do this. Just let me."
The Brigadier General sighed. "Fine, permission granted. Keep this in mind though, if you cannot find enough brazen people to join such a unit, your mission will be void. Do you understand?"
"Yes sir, thank you sir!" Akane opened the door to leave.
"One more thing Akane." The General called, "if you get killed, I'll be the one your father will haunt, so don't you let that happen!"
"Yessir, I'll be sure to remember that."  

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"Looks like you took quite a blow down there... I thought you had been killed, but you're obviously a tricky one."

Yellow eyes met Hasegawa's as he made it to the top of the building he had climbed, leaving the soldats behind. Before he could do or say anything, the young woman strolled haphazardly toward the ledge of the roof and leaned forward to see the damage from the soldats confrontation. Ghost wasn't exactly fond of innocents being killed, but generally overlooked such things when soldats were involved. She was unphased by the gore on the wall and had watched the soldats that had stood to fight retreat. One of them almost looked like... no, impossible. The woman turned back to Hasegawa, then smiled.

"Haven't seen many fellow runners in this area of the city of late. I'm Ghost, and I can assume you're Uzumakumo..." she trailed off, trying to remember what he had yelled at the soldats during the scene that had happened moments ago. "Hasegawa, right?

"I was tracking that group of soldats to see their patrol patterns, but I guess you were the one that got them... sidetracked. But you supplied me with invaluable information concerning their tactics of battle." She said the last sentence in a mocking tone, amused out how easily the majority of soldats ran when faced with actual danger.

"Ahh, Ghost. It's nice to meet you. It's getting awfully boring to do the same thing over and over. You you like to join me?"

Hasegawa Stretches out his blood-stained hand for her to shake.  

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The young woman smiled, readily shaking his hand without taking notice of the blood.

"To be honest, I was looking to rally a group to take down cur like them." she said with disgust, referring to the soldats. "I used to work with two others, but..." she said, trailing off. Ghost shook her head, unwilling to bring up such painful memories. After all, things happen when fighting for freedom.

"Well, if we're going to work together, we need to exchange information. I just entered the city limits about three days ago and have been monitoring and recording soldat patrols." she began to explain, tapping a small bag she had slung over her shoulder. "I have their schedule written down in here, and from what I can tell thus far, it's fairly consistent. Well, unless irregularities like you occur."

Ghost had tendencies towards fighting enemies with tactics similar to a military's, which is why it was necessary for her to find allies such as Hasegawa.

"I can assume you've worked on your own so far, right? What can you tell me about the soldats in this city?"

"To put it bluntly, the Soldats in this city are simply imbecilic. Many of them have fled, leaving only a young woman. She shot me and passed out. She also had a mechanical arm. I haven't seen one of those cense the Anti-Renascence began. She also had some sort of toady ((Not really the case, it's just how Hasegawa recives it)). Other then that, Soldat goes nice with Fava beans and a nice Chiati. That's all I know."

((toady? You kinda lost me there, but hell, whatever. I'll let you guys finish your conversation before I come back in, since that would be just plain rude and weird. Not to mention, NOBODY else has told me that they'd join my unit aside from Chaos... le damn.))

((I'm waiting for Itami to reply.))