Glenn Alexander Velvet (& Aya Alayana)
Shinto - Streets
Night Phase
Five minutes later, you are looking through the car's backseat window, doing your best to endure Tohsaka Natsu's tourist guide speech. As the vehicle moves through the streets of Shinto, you are given a brief description of each place of interest you leave behind. However, it would be a lot more useful if you could actually see a bloody thing. Because, as it would turn out, not only is it dark at this time of the night, but also a thick layer of mist has descended upon Fuyuki. The windows are a little fogged up as well, so there is little a man can do to deal with these obstacles to one's vision without having to resort to Magecraft.
"And that's 'Convergence'," Natsu pointed out, speaking the last word with a forced French accent. "Right now, it's the biggest shopping centre in Fuyuki. It was formerly called 'Verde', but it was bought by a rich French family a couple of years ago. Maybe we could..."
The boy goes on about how taking his teacher to such place would be equal to embarking on a great adventure and seems to take the unilateral decision of visiting it together later down the line. Meanwhile, Matou Kaori has been, for the most part of the ride, silent, almost as if giving you a cold shoulder. Perhaps she is shy, or maybe she isn't fond of bureaucratic Magi from foreign countries. Whatever the reason, you have not managed to extract more than an unimpressive 'Nice to meet you'. On the other hand, Aya can be slightly more successful because then the blue haired girl has no option but to answer, as she would like to avoid facing an enemy she has no chance of defeating. Though they seemingly get along well, Matou and Tohsaka might actually be polar opposites.
Eventually, your eyes catch a vague sight of the edge of the bridge through the window. Ah, this is the bridge that connects Shinto and Miyama together. Despite the fact that, from your current perspective, it's looks hardly any different than any other road, you did catch a glimpse of it during the flight's descent and you were unable to deny its grandeur. Surely, such a marvelous construct must play a meaningful role in the story of Fuyuki. Unfortunately...
---That is as far as that train of thought is allowed to go.
"An accident...?"
Matou Kaori mutters, somewhat skeptical. There is no such thing as heavy traffic here, much less over a bridge at this time of the night, so the events that can lead to a car accident are few. Aya Alayana must have already noticed something wrong with the scene, as she had already began lowering the vehicle's speed before Kaori spoke. The fog however, makes it hard to see what's lies only a few meters ahead, so it is only natural to be careful. However, as the car moves closer and closer to the scene, you spot the silhouette of a man standing there in the middle of the road, with a vehicle by its side.
"We need to help...!" Natsu, quick to act as always, tries to open the door to the car. However... "Huh...? Nee-san?"
However, the doors are closed. And for a good reason.
Without delay and probably without time to give it a second thought, Aya puts the car on reverse and steps on the gas. At the same time, the tires shriek in agony as the abrupt maneuver pushes them to the limit. Normally, given a person's size in comparison to the space a vehicle can navigate over the bridge, it should have been simple to avoid the threat and move past it. With a huge responsibility falling on her shoulders, it is clear that the heir Alayana cannot afford to confront whatever that thing is, not when it would put the lives of others at risk. And even so... Instead of moving forward and avoiding it, she has chosen to move backwards and retreat as fast as possible. Ultimately, it's the right call. For had she done otherwise, the four of you might have already been dead.
However, the horror doesn't end there.
The being which formerly lacked a distinct shape morphs and changes its appearance. Sprouting two enormous wings and a tail to be used as a weapon, it charges at the car's windscreen flying at low altitude. And from the looks of it, despite the driver's best efforts, the creature will crash into the car in no more than a couple of seconds. Within that time-frame...
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh-!"
The loud shout of two (or is it three?) scared kids overwrites every other sound.