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Prologue

       Destiny, the path one takes in order to accomplish a predetermined goal set by oneself or others. Many have a set destiny but due to some circumstances are never able to achieve them. Some have a destiny that sounds far fetched or otherworldly. Just how distant can something like one's destiny become? One resident of Earth will have his destiny achieved. Karu, a fifteen year old boy only starting high school year, will have the experience of a lifetime.

1. Take Off to a World Unknown

       "Hey redhead! Get your lazy ass over here and help clean up so we can-" A student called out before being interrupted by the procrastinator himself who sat gathering his items in his bag in a sloppy fashion.
       "Yea yea, help clean up to get out, I know the score, geez, keep your underwear on," Karu hissed silently to himself pulling the flap over his  messenger bag before he slugged out of chair to help.
       "Um..Karu?" A female's voice rolled through the air into his ear.
       Karu spun around to meet a familiar face, one of his friends whom he hung out with often, Carra was her name, a short sophomore who seemed to show a deep down attraction to the red head.
       "Hey, Carra, what's going on?" He asked a bit more relaxed now that people were not yelling at him.
       She shuffled her left foot on the floor behind her other foot as she looked down at the ground, “W-Well there’s something we could use your help with over here if you need something to do."
Karu grinned some as he walked over with the girl to take care of his chore.
       "Say, Karu?" Carra called out to him as she wiped down the board in class.
       Karu looked over at her, the short girl had taken up use of a step-stool to get to the higher parts of the board and at the moment he was cleaning the desk the teacher sat at. A near perfect opportunity to get a shot at her skirt before he caught her staring at him.
       "W-what is it, Carra? Can you not reach something?" He asked to subtly play it off, exhaling a small breath.
       She shook her head again, laughing a bit before she spoke, "You know we're almost in high school. I don't mind if you have a peek."
       At saying that his face lit up a bright red color as she continued on to speak.
       "But seriously, you remember that time you told me about the world you used to dream about so much? Do you still have those dreams now?" She asked as she stepped down from the stool.
       Karu thought for a moment as he stood upright. In the past he'd had dreams about other worlds and whether there was life out in the universe aside from Earth and one day he hoped to travel to any or all of them.
       "I haven't had the dream as much lately... I wonder if I'm growing out of it," he responded leaning against the desk.
       Carra giggled some, "Don't get rid of your dream, Karu...make it your destiny to do what you dream."
       Karu nodded, "Maybe not right now...but one day I'll definitely go and see another world. Maybe even all the worlds out there. Its been forever since this planet has tried to make contact with other existences, I hope to accomplish that."
       Just as he finished speaking there was an abrupt smack to his back. One of his other friends it seemed, Alex.
       "You going on about going to other worlds again, dude? Leave that dumb dream alone, its not like you're gonna meet some space chick and fall in love or some crazy crap like that," Alex pronounced.
       "Yeah yeah, keep it going your story amuses me..." Karu replied with a sharp hiss in his voice, "That's not why I want to see other worlds."
       "I bet, anyway what are you doing after school? I got a new DVD that you just have to see," Alex responded with, one of his fists clenched.
       Karu blinked before frantically waving his hands, "Are you dumb!? Don't ask me that right in front of Carra, you dope!"
       Carra who'd taken notice of the conversation let out a curious hum which caused the two to shrink away from her.
       "I'll talk to you after school then...I might have plans already." Karu stated sighing some afterwards.
       Immediately after he was done talking, Alex barked at him.
       "How can you already have plans, and this is way more important than any plans you, of all people could possibly have!" He exclaimed, fists waving in the air.
       Karu held a hand up in unnecessary defense in case of a wandering punch being thrown his way as he replied, "Calm down, man. If it's what I'm thinking it is, I'm sure it can wait anyway."
       Alex stood in shock, Carra beside him hiding a chuckle as best she could.
       "Anyway, now that school's out, I'm heading home. We're supposed to be getting a storm soon and I didn't bring a jacket or umbrella," he went on to say getting his belongings from his desk and heading for the door. Carra and Alex both looked at one another exchanging shrugs. They both knew that Karu had that odd 'keep to myself' characteristic about himself.
       On his way outside the building Karu was accompanied by groups of other students who were starting to file into buses if their parents weren't waiting for them in the lot across the loop before their school. He would look up to the sky wondering how it was that he was supposed to expect rain when there were so few clouds in the sky. Avoiding collision with other students he walked down sidewalks until he was off of school property. Thoughts began racing through his head about what Alex had said back in the classroom, going to other worlds. How could his own friend not believe in his dream to visit another planet?
       Just as the thought hit him, his thoughts were invaded by an unknown voice. From the sound of it it was a younger woman's.
       "Are you the one...who's destined?"
       He stopped walking after hearing this as the voice continued to speak, its feminine monotone speech.
       "Are you the one who'll chance the destiny of the planet?"
       Karu's head sank in thought he knew that telepathy wasn't something that was achieved here on his home world. Could someone be sending him messages from another planet? Was someone on Earth that wasn't really from earth? He shook his head. While he didn't abandon the thought of life on other worlds, maybe his friend might have been hinting to an overactive imagination. He resumed walking onward to his household. Looking back up he noticed the sky was now beginning to become full and darkened with clouds. For once the weather he'd been told about was true.
       Once home he approached his front door, by now the sky had become much more active, thunder booming and lightning surging from cloud to cloud.
       "Yo dad, I'm home!" He yelled, soon heading to his room.
       As he would expect, his dad didn't respond and his mom had a night job so it wasn't likely she was home.
       Like usual he headed straight to his room and threw his bag on the floor and collapsed on his bed to take a nap.
       As soon as he fell asleep he was vividly thrown into a dream, long everlasting field of grass with a single growing tree that stood towering on a large hill by itself. He would approach the single tree and stand by it seeing few things off in the distance but what caught his eye fastest was a girl clad in what appeared to him as a white robe of some kind.
       The woman approached him but something seemed off....although he was able to recognize the figure before him was a girl, the robe accenting various curves around her torso, he couldn't see any parts of her actual body it all seemed to be blacked out as if she didn't even exist.
       His gaze had been locked onto the figure's head and while it appeared that the expression was blackened a white space emerged about where her mouth would be as if she were speaking. Perhaps it was just because he was dreaming, but he didn't hear a bit of what she was saying. He couldn't say that he couldn't hear her. After all, this was happening in his subconscious.
       When she was done speaking, the white space curved into a grin just before everything around the pair of them changed from the serene environment to a sea of flame and destruction with the exception of the one tree he stood by. It was just about then that he was shocked awake.
       "Wh-what was that?" He panted some looking around.
       It had grown dark outside now and the storm was still carrying on. He pulled his cell phone from his pocket to check the time. Several hours had passed since he had gotten home. Something felt different though. With the exception of the storm outside everything was quiet within the house the light in the hall outside his door was on he noticed by looking at the space beneath his door.
       "I wonder if dad's even around...he never came to check up on me or anything," he said to himself as he stood up and traveled outside his room.
       No sooner than opening his door did he realize the light he saw earlier was not from the hallway light. The source had changed from the hallway to the living area now. He waited a moment thinking again, he'd seen things like this in movies where odd phenomena like this occurred and usually it didn't end well but he couldn't leave it alone. Besides his dad couldn't have been but so many places and he only lived in a one story house to start with.
       He began moving toward the living area and the light source slowly faded away as he moved forward. Could this have any connection between his dream and what was going on now? He wasn't sure of course but his curiosity was getting the better of him now. He headed into the living area, the lights there were also off. The source of light had moved toward the front door.
       "Outside?" He questioned looking toward the kitchen which was opposite the direction from his room, "There's no way a light like that could be strong enough to show from my room from the front door..."
       He moved reluctantly toward the front door hand extended to the doorknob. Just as he took hold of the handle a tangle of lines ran throughout the door within the split second the door was closed and disappeared once he pulled toward himself. A blinding light came from the crack as he opened it.
       "Wasn't it raining just a second...ago..." his spoke before awe took his voice away.
       As the door opened further and further he would see a completely different room now as if he'd been set up in one of those bio-hazard domes only he was looking at yet another hallway. Curious he stepped through the doorway looking either way down the hall. No one was around so he proceeded on to move down the hallway, behind him the door would slowly swing shut.
       "Where...am I?" He asked himself as he wandered down the hallway, conveniently his only wearing socks made it easy for him to travel the hard floor with silence.
       Oddly enough the house he was in was shaped just like his own with the exception of the staircase that leads to the second floor.
       "This place doesn't seem all that different but last time I checked...my house wasn't connected to another one.." he whispered to himself as he peeked around the corner.
       What he saw didn't amuse him in the slightest, it was like looking at an exact replica of his own house. Feeling a bit more at ease he walked out into the open and setting on the couch in the middle of the living area.
       "I wonder if dad knows anything about this," he questioned allowed as he rubbed his chin in thought.
       "Who is dad?" Asked an unknown females voice.
       The sudden notice of another person, especially a woman, threw him off the couch in shock as he turned around, almost hitting his head against the wooden table.
       He sat there looking at the figure that was now walking around the couch to approach him. after passing the side of the couch he had a clear view of the vixen that now stood before him. From the very top she had long straightened jet-black hair that reached down to about her mid back, some of it tied into a hard to spot ponytail and grouped together with a large ocean blue ribbon. Her skin appeared pale almost white even. Her facial expression wasn't the most friendly, more of a scolding and demanding one. Her torso was wrapped up in white robes which finely accented her body which from his point of view was both wide at the chest and hips, the robe also cut off at her hips as well and he could see very clearly what was going on. She wasn't very tall from the looks of it but the two most interesting details were the ears that pointed up from her head and the bushy tail that swayed idly behind her.
       "Wh-who are you?" Karu asked as the vixen walked closer until she loomed over him.
       Her gaze was stern and shot chills up his back and he tried his best now to start moving away. That tactic was easily stopped as the girl moved over him and quiet forcibly set on his torso.
       "I could ask you the same thing. I live here, what are you doing in my house?" The vixen asked.
       She had a serious look about her face but her voice,, to the young man, was almost angelic. Not only that but contrary to what she had bust and waist wise, she was very light even sitting on him. Fantasy aside his confusion rose quickly.
       "Wait...where...where am I even at? Is this even....Earth?..." he wondered.
       Taking another look at her, no one on Earth ever had ears or a tail like she did.
       "What is Earth? It sounds like it tastes disgusting," she retorted in her unusually soft sounding voice.
       Her ear perked somewhat and she looked up, then back down at him. Her hand tracing his cheek gently.
       "Whatever you are...I think I will claim you as my own. You're an interesting species." She grinned some leaning down to exchange a kiss with him shortly afterward.
       Karu's face lit up a bright red color as he felt the vixen's lip against his own the soft feel and warm touch. It was just like a girl out of his dreams. The embrace ended short-lived for him though.
       "If I catch you with other women you will regret it," she scolded him moving up and off his body disappearing in a puff of smoke.
       Shortly after she vanished the front door opened and in came two more girls, more thoughts began racing through his head as they entered only to see him laying there on the floor.
       "I must be dreaming...is this a planet inhabited only by women?" He questioned as he stared at the two dark skinned women.
       One of the two, maybe his height and approached him she was dressed in the equivalent of what could be considered gothic clothing: Short tattered appearing skirt, tight fitting top covered with a mesh body shirt, long black gloves on both arms and her hair as black as the woman from before.
       "What the hell is he doing in our house!?" Pitched the girl before him.
       Her hand was extended to his direction and quickly he scrambled to his feet.
       "I'm trying to figure that out myself. I opened the door to my house and ended up in yours," he responded quickly, folding his arms.
       The woman was in silence standing there, while the accompanying girl probably a sister due to similar appearance but slightly taller and much more grown out on her chest, went up to him. Her body leaned from side to side before him, examining his body. A look of scorn appeared on her face before it turned to satisfaction.
       "Well aren't you just the catch of the day," she complimented.
       She then helped him to the couch again setting down next to him soon after.
       "It's okay, Nina. Obviously he's not from around here. We should give him a chance to explain himself before pulling the gun," the woman stated.
       Nina, the younger of the two of them, sighed and folded her arms over her breasts.
       "Alright then, why are you here?" She then asked as if the whole occasion was staged.
       Karu blankly stared at her getting up.
       "I don't know what's going on but I know when I'm not wanted somewhere and I don't question so, peace," he replied, heading for the front door.
       The two sisters looked at him not commenting as they turned to one another. Karu exited the door without another word leaving them to themselves as he entered a whole world different, yet so similar to his own.
       "Iruka, do you think we should get Aaron in on this?" Nina wondered, her hand wandering up her torso in concern.
       Karu stood outside the house now looking around his surroundings. The world around him looked so familiar yet it was so different from what he was used to seeing.
       He stepped down the walkway from the house and exited through the front gate to where he was black asphalt on the ground. He was at the street now.
       "I know I'm not on Earth anymore..humans down have red skin or animal body parts. But why am I not excited?" He asked himself looking up toward the sky. Even it looked the same as back on Earth: blue sky, white clouds.
       He began down the street on his own, hands in his pockets as he walked. His gaze aimed toward the ground, he noticed he didn't have shoes on. His walk wasn't going to last him long before he would feel sore.
       He only made it a block or so down the street before he began hearing sirens.
       "Heh, even have police authority here," he mentioned walking down.
       As he walked along he noticed the sirens coming closer to his direction. Looking around him he didn't look like he was in a suspicious neighborhood. Then it hit him. What if those three he met just earlier called the authorities on him. He couldn't live his days in confinement or under surveillance or, worst case scenario, death.
       Having those thoughts cross his mind he turned back and started running to find somewhere to go to hide. He figured going back to that house he came out of would be a bad idea he'd be that much easier to catch. As he sprinted onward he watched for any turns offs into alleyways or something of the sort.
       The sirens continued to become louder and louder, looking back over his shoulder he had to wonder how they got there so quickly. Grunting he turned his gaze back ahead of him to resume finding places to hide for the time being.
       The roar of engines because quite noticeable even over the sirens themselves as a group of three vehicles sped down the street. They appeared to be solid white hatchbacks possible to house various kinds of equipment. Appearance wise  they seemed rather long as well and a bit on the short side and very low to the ground, almost like a sports car. On the roof of the car a single bar of flashing red lights sat.
       Karu wasn't going to be able to outrun these vehicles that were charging down the street most likely for him. By now he was out of breath and ended up stopping nearby the same house he had just abandoned, holding the gate before it as he hunched forward to catch his breath.
       Not even a few moments passed before the three vehicles were stopped before the very same household he stood at. Looking at them with one eye opened as he gasped for air he watched as each of the vehicles were opened and from them emerged at most two occupants dressed in rather slim fitting black slacks, utility belts around their waists that carried probably the most necessary items for a local authority: gun, sprays, baton, radios and a few other things. They all wore a black shirt and over it a partially closed white trench coat that had both sleeves removed and each of their arms had black belts wrapped around them one on the forearm and one around the upper-biceps.
       "Well, I guess this is my calling then.." Karu whispered to himself.
       Each of them walked toward him but not straight toward him as they passed him and went to the house. He blinked looking back to them to see what was going on. The door of the house opened and the same two girls he had seen from earlier showed up. A look of shock and dumbfounded-ness froze on his face as he watched the group converse before he saw the two girls notice him and point. The group of authorities all turned and started walking his way.
       "Stay where you are young man," one of them called out.
       Karu wouldn't dare move from where he was but couldn't help drooping his head again.
       One of them began speaking as they stood within arms reach of his person.
       "We've been called on account that you have been sent here via a dimensional rift. We'd like you to come with us and answer a few questions back at headquarters. The CEO would be very interested to hear," spoke another officer.
       Karu looked up some a bit discouraged of course at what he was hearing.
       "Yea, sure thing..." he replied blankly before they escorted him to one of the vehicles.
       The car ride seemed very short as only ten or fifteen minutes passed before he was approaching a large, or rather, very large building.
       "Th-....there's no way that's just a police building..." Karu mumbled to himself.
       Having caught what he said, the driver of the car he was in replied quickly.
       "Welcome other worlder, to Seilku Organization. As was said earlier you will be confronted by the CEO to determine whether or not you're able to stay here or if you're getting sent back to your home world. Though normally we don't mind visitors from other worlders, we prefer them done through us. Not the bedroom of this planet's residents," he replied with a humored grin.
       "Yea..." was all Karu could say back to him unsure of whether that was bad or good. After all he knew nothing of this planet or what its inhabitants may have done to him if he didn't have this happen first.
       "Don't worry, nothing bad is gonna happen to you. Aaron's got a way of being understanding for things like this," the office went on, "I have to say, whatever got you here in the first place was unnaturally powerful."
       "Yea..." is all karu responded with as the vehicle came to a stop before this enormous building.
       "Let's go, I'm sure that Aaron will want to see you as soon as possible," the officer went on to say.
       "So this Aaron guy, does he own or run this whole place?" Karu asked as he was escorted through multiple areas of the building he was sure he wouldn't remember even if he came back again.
       "Aaron owns and runs the whole organization as was passed down from his father he is the successor to the Sirkon family which is the only name capable of running the organization due to social status and operational status," he replied, "Since you aren't of this world I can't say more than that all I know is that the organization has been in running for the last forty years."
       Karu nodded silently as they were walked down a long corridor which stopped at a pair of steel doors which parted open after the officer put a card down on a panel found to his side.
       "Well go on, youngster," the man spoke.
       Karu gulped some walking through the doorway into the room, it seemed about as elegant as any other CEO's office would be, carpet floor a black glass top  executive desk, crazy view that always seemed to be overlooking the most spectacular spots. It fit the bill easy.
       "Oh. I see you have a guess master," spoke a woman clad in a white cloak that covered just about all of her body with the exception of a white pair of stilettos. Even her hair matched being it's bright white color, her skin and eye colors set everything off balance by being a pale cream color for her skin and a deep green color in her eyes.
       Karu waved silently to the woman who now approached him.
       "Welcome to Seilku young one, I'm informed that you've been sent here by some...nontraditional means. Is this correct?" She asked simply.
       Karu nodded, "It all happened so suddenly."
       The woman nodded and set her hand down on his head, having been covered her cloak she was now exposed somewhat allowing him to see the skin tight corset the girl had on as well as a solid white pair of short shorts that seemed to squeeze her figure some.
       "We've been waiting for your arrival, I'm sure you must have compiled quite a few questions. Rest assured they will be answered in time," the long white haired woman continued to explain.
       Karu nodded sighing some as he was brought a chair and set up by the desk with the big manager's chair facing away from him.
       "Tell me, son," came a man's voice from the chair, "When you arrived here on this world, what was you're intention. Are you hostile, allied or neutral?"
       The chair turned and a man with short silver hair bashed his palms down on the desk as he stood from his chair he was wearing a similar cloak to the woman's and beneath it he wore business formal attire: a dress shirt, slacks and even a designer belt.
       Karu slid back in his chair some as the man suddenly came into view.
       "I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know how I even got here, much less what's going on...to answer your question I'll have to say neutral," he replied settling himself down some.
       The man nodded, sitting back down interlocking his hands together.
       "I see. I apologize for my uproar just now, we've been having odd electrical readings lately and you're appearing here didn't put you in a good position as I'm positive you're feeling right now. I am Aaron, CEO of Organization Seilku. I'd like to welcome you to the world of Keiroy. Please, if you have any questions tell me them, I'd like to answer any confusions now."
       Karu nodded relaxing some, looking at the woman to his side.
       "Who is she, you're wife?" Karu bluntly asked.
       Aaron couldn't help but laugh out loud to the question.
       "Aaah what it's like to be young. This woman here is my aid, Zero. Zero, if you would, introduce yourself," Aaron commented sitting back.
       The woman nodded turning to face Karu, parting the cloak fully so it rest at her sides showing him her full figure.
       "Greetings, I am Zero, a ManaCOM product of Seilku. The prototype ManaCOM first made to serve by the owner themselves. I am also Aaron's pet," she introduced herself to Karu before bowing.
       Karu froze a moment to take in what she said. Eyelids fluttering a couple times before he looked back to Aaron.
       "I'm sorry, did I hear her right? Did she say pet?" Karu asked Aaron with a steadily increasing rate of confusion going about himself.
       Aaron nodded as Zero headed over to stand beside him.
       Karu's face remained rather stiff as he thought over the situation. His usual thoughts on something like this raced over and over the statistics of a being willingly submitting itself to another in servitude. some humanities in the past on his home world did this but he hadn't thought, in this age any race would still participate that way.
       "You look rather troubled. I assure you it's not quite as odd as you may be thinking. Zero here is an android, its quite alright that she's following orders," Aaron spoke out to clear up the situation.
       While a helpful move, Karu still rose to yelling.
       "Why would you produce slaves that look like humans!?" He exclaimed standing up repeating Aaron's action early by slamming his hands on the desk.
       "Karu, I could never think of Zero as a slave, I consider her my equal she just has capabilities that I do not. I've seen this in movies though and I can one hundred percent guarantee you that the development of feelings," he explains further turning around in his chair sighing some, "Zero, escort him back to resources, see if you can get him accommodations for a place to live."
       Zero nodded some and walked over to Karu waiting for him.
       Karu took in a deep breath and looked at Zero before turning to exit the room with Zero leading him.
       Aaron stared at the wall before him lowering his head.
       "At least...we've come to the determination that development of feelings is near impossible..." he whispered to himself as he heard the door shut.
       Karu and Zero headed back down to the floor level of the building. Karu continued to eye the manacom before him wondering how something like that would turn out. Aaron had heard about it, and so had he as well. It always ended up occurring in the end somehow. He shook his head taking his mind off it.
       "Say, Zero...you said you were expecting me back there...were you saying that just because I showed up at that room or do you know how I got in this world," Karu asked stopping once he was done talking.
       Zero stopped as well turning back toward him somewhat her lifeless stare aimed toward him. As his own gaze locked with hers he felt there wouldn't be a need to worry about it even within her emotionless expression.
       "You're right. I'm just being paranoid, I guess," he answered himself.
       Zero nodded some walking up to him and placing her hand on his shoulder. Although she was an android her hands were surprisingly lifelike. Almost easily mistaken for a human being.
       "So is there a way to get me home or am I stuck here?" He continued to ask her as they both resumed walking.
       "Until we can gather the necessary information on the phenomena that brought you here in the first place, we have no choice but to selectively place you with the inhabitants here. I do hope that's not an inconvenience for you," she responds as they approach a service desk.
       "I see... Well I guess it isn't a bad thing I get to stay here for a while. It's been my dream to visit another world," Karu smiled walking up to the desk to lean on.
       Zero turned to face him yet again, her eyes shuttering a few times.
       "That is a big dream you have, it is good you were able to do what you wanted," Zero commented before turning to the desk clerk.