Santana paces around the house in despair
"MOM! WHERE ARE YOU!?"
Santana stops and thinks.
"I need to call Shiro to see if he can help me"
Santana dashes to his room to get his phone.
He called Shiro.
For a moment there was nothing but silence, then Shiro picks up.
On the other end, Shiro says "Hello?"
Santana in desperation says "Shiro.. you need to help me. My mom dissappeared without a trace."
"What are you talking about?" Shiro says.
Santana repeats, "My mom, dissapeared without a trace left behind."
Shiro says "I don't understand. Where do you live? I'm coming over"
Santana tells Shiro his address.
Time passes, around 25 minutes before Shiro arrived.
Santana is still pacing around the house, then there was a knock at the door.
There is a voice on the other side of the door
"It's Shiro. Can I come in?"
"Sure." Santana said.
Santana opens the door for Shiro.
Shiro says "Okay, you said, your mom disappeared in the middle of the night without a trace."
"Yes, she did" Santana says.
Santana looks at Shiro in desperation.
"You need to help me. Please.."
"I will. We should start looking for clues."
Shiro calls for his sword
"Shenzei."
Shenzeikano appears in the palm of Shiro.
"You called?" Shenzeikano says.
"Yeah. I want you to search this home for any clues of a disappearance."
Shenzeikano scans.
"That is interesting.."
Shiro looks at Shenzeikano with a confused face.
"What's interesting?" Shiro asked.
Shenzeikano's blade shone.
"There is a trace of a phantom appearance.. but the trace is irregular."
Shiro says "What do you mean by irregular."
"The trace of a phantom is there, but there's also a trace of a unspecified being along with it."
Shenzeikano said.
Santana decides to call on Kurumi.
The pistol and its holdster appears on Santana's left hip
Santana says, "Kurumi can you re-check the activities last night around the house? Please."
Kurumi replied, "Sure."
She begins to scan.
Santana asks Shiro, "How did you figure out about the scan ability of your weapon?"
Shiro aswered.
"Well it happened the night we met. When you left to go home, Shenzei aleretd me that there was another phantom hiding somewhere. He called the ability something like 'embrace scan'."
Shenzeikano corrects Shiro. "Hidden trace scan."
Shiro says "Same difference."
Shenzeikano sighs.
Shiro continues.
"Anyway, it's an ability that can only be used once per 3 hours. Once you use it, it'll give you a short vision of your surroundings telling you where the phantoms are hiding if they're hidden. The only downside about it is that it uses some of your weapons energy force, so they wont be as strong as they normaly are."
"Sounds interesting.." Santana says in excitement.
Kurumi blurts out.
"Scan complete. There is something new I didnt notice before"
"What is it?" Santana asks
Kurumi answers
"It's a phantom, but its bigger than all the others.. way bigger.."
Shiro gets a shiver up his spine
"Somethings here.. Santana get ready to fight"
Santana and Shiro grab a hold of their weapons.
Santana asks "What's happening."
Shiro answers "Phantoms. 4 of them. Coming this way."
The phantoms arrive. They look blood thirsty and murderous.
Shiro holds Shenzeikano.
Shenzeikano alerts them
"The third phantom, that has the same trace as the one I read earlier, but the trace is slightly different.. this one is like.. darker than normal.."
Santana takes aim and fires at the third phantom but it deflects.
It speaks
"You pests. You must die!"
The phantom charges at the boys and lets off a lethal attack.
Shiro barely blocks the attack using Shenzeikano.
"Since when can they speak?!" Shiro asks.
Santana yells "You asshole! What did you do with my mother?!"
Santana is bleeding from his cheek but he doesn't pay it any mind.
The phantom looks at santana and gives a evil grin.
"She's locked away in the Tower of Hell. Good luck finding her."
The phantoms retreat.
Shiro says "Tower of Hell huh.. Guess we know what we should look for next."
Santana follows up "But where would it be.."
Little do they know, they had a long adventure ahead of them.