January 31st

“Haa...ha...ha…” A young boy slowly opens his eyes, he has his face lying on the ground, the room is empty and he only sees darkness.

“Where am I?” The boy asks himself as he tries to stand up, he slowly lifts his body but he feels something strange. He can't move his arms or legs, he looks at them and notices that he has chains.

The boy, with a frightened tone begins to say; “Why am I chain up, what's happening?”

(BAAADDUUMMPPP)

The boy feels strange, he feels extremely weak that causes him to fall once again. That night is so cold that he can see his breath, he breathes heavily as he notices a warm liquid coming out of his head.

“What's this warm feeling?” The boy looks at the ground and sees a red color liquid, suddenly he raises his body one more time and sees a puddle of blood, the boy than sees that he is bleeding from his head and his stomach.

He remembers that he was cut by someone wearing a skeleton mask. The boy begins to shake and tears come out from his eyes.

“SOMEBODY HELP ME, SOMEBODY, I DON'T WANT TO DIE! HELP!”

The boy cries as he once again falls completely to the ground feeling very weak. Tears dont stop falling as he cries with fear.

“Mama, Papa, Valerie, Daniel...where are you…”

The boy´s vision begins to get blurry as he breathes even heavier.

“Why is this happening to me, why did it have to be today...Why was I so weak that I couldn't protect my little sister…”

The boy slowly begins to close his eyes as he thinks:

“Mama, Papa, Valerie and Daniel, I am very sorry but this is the end for me…”

There is silence in the room, the boy stops breathing as his blood loss was too great. The boy begins to feel as if he is floating; “It's so warm and peaceful…”

Suddenly, everything turns red...The boy opens his eyes and sees a giant black figure. The figure is blurry and it appears to be changing its shape.

“YOU CAN'T DIE YET… YOU MUST AWAKENED...YOU ARE THE SUCCESSOR…”

The boy is left speechless as the shadowy figure expands, covering turning everything black, the boy who is really scared turns around and sees a giant skeleton face.

“HAHAHA, YOU SURE ARE WEAK, NO WONDER YOU´RE FATHER WAS DEFEATED, NOW I WILL GO AHEAD AND MAKE MY WAY TO YOUR SISTER, I BET SHE CAN HANDLE MORE THAN YOU…”

The boy opens his eyes full of determination, he begins to crawl towards the door as he begins to think:

“I won't let you hurt my sister, even if I die, I will die protecting her…”

(BBBOOOMM, CCCRRRAASSSHHH)

“RUN AWAY, THAT GUY IS DANGEROUS, WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS….AHHHHH…”

The boy hears loud noises, followed by gunshots and explosions. He stops as he wonders what was going on. The explosions get closer to him, the boy with fear of what was going on outside continues to crawl slowly as he knows that he doesn't have much time left.

(SSSSSLLLLLAASSHHHH)

Suddenly, the door collapses in half, a red light shines in the room. A dust cloud begins to fill the room completely. The boy breathes heavily as he looks up and sees a figure approaching him. The dust cloud clears or reveals the silhouette of a man. The man is wearing a Mariachi attire with a mariachi sombrero covering his face.

The boy is frightened as he sees two red eyes looking down at him. The boy is left speechless as he coughs up blood.

“HAHAHA, DON'T TELL ME YOU ARE DYING, MUCHACHO” The man says with a joyful tone, the boy looks at him with a blurry vision as the man continues to speak.

“NOW, NOW, DON´T TELL ME THAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF ME… ANSWER ME THIS QUESTION, DO YOU WANT POWER?”

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On January 31st, in the region of the Borderland, there are two cities next to each other separated by a river. People live their lives peacefully, some working, the children attending school and others passing their time watching t.v. A mysterious case was open, the Vazquez Family, composed of five members, suddenly disappeared leaving no traces. The neighbors of their house reported various explosions, when the police arrived, they were frightened to see the scenario. The whole Vazquez residence was completely destroyed, along with a couple of houses. The building was gone, with no signs of life, the investigation began with no positive results.

It is a peaceful night in the Border region, both Sun City and Rio Grande city citizens spend their evening like any other. Because it is a Friday night, countless young people decide to party. Some to the night clubs, some to the bars. Many children spend their Friday night playing with their friends playing video games or watching movies.It is a normal night in the Borderland, however, nobody was prepared for the events that were to happen...

“WOOW, LOOK GRANDPA, THE COLOR OF THE MOON…” A young boy with spiky brown hair and bottle shaped glasses points at the sky as he is looking through the window.

“Now, now Alejandro, please don't get too close to the window, remember that we are on the 10th floor.” An old man wearing glasses approaches Alejandro, he pats his head and with a smile he looks at the moon.

“So, the moon is crimson… Do you want to know a story, Alejandro?”

Alejandro Sanchez, an 11 year old boy who lives with his grandparents, he is very hyperactive and has a lot of imagination. He likes to spend his time researching the unknown mysteries of the world and hears his grandpa’s stories.

Alejandro nods in agreement with a face full of excitement. His grandpa sits:

“There is a legend about the Crimson moon.” Alejandro’s grandpa begins to tell the story:

“A long time ago, the sky had a red crimson tone that resembled the color of blood. The wind blew hard causing a whirlpool to form; the clouds spinned, taking the shape of a hurricane.”

Alejandro gets nervous as his grandpa continues to tell the story:

“The world was at the verge of being destroyed...everyone had lost hope as the catastrophe approached. When there was no hope, a figure appeared in the middle of the chaos, there was a figure that seemed to be a young man. The young man carried a sword and walked slowly towards the cliff, a huge roar sounded causing large shockwaves around the water surface. Lightning began to strike the island destroying the buildings surrounding it. In the front of the young man there was a huge silhouette of a giant monster with a pair of wings, horns and claws. ”

“Wow that's awesome, what happened next”

“The young man fought against the monster and managed to seal it away, he was known as “The Silver Hero” and he became a legend...” The grandfather says as he points at the moon and continues to speak:

“Now listen, the legend says that the “Beast” will return someday, however, I believe that the “Silver hero” will also return to stop that beast...”

Alejandro grabs an empty paper towel tube and begins to swing it:

“That was awesome grandpa, I want to meet that hero someday...”

“Haha, I´m sure you will be Alejandro, one day you will...”

“Indeed, in the meantime, Alejandro, time to eat dinner and then go to bed, tomorrow you have a fun day with your friends right?” Alejandro´s grandma gives him a plate of cookies, Alejandro nods in agreement and walks to his room; “Good night grandma,Good night grandpa, I love you...”

His grandparents wave back at him, Alejandro walks to his room thinking: “Wow, the Silver hero, I can't wait to tell Uriel about this, tomorrow when I see him...”

“Is something wrong dear?” Alejandro´s grandpa asks his wife. “Something is wrong, the manna in the air feels so dense, dear I think something horrible is approaching?” “Is that so, I felt it too, we need to be prepared, the moon is crimson, meaning a catastrophe is coming...”

Meanwhile...

“Hurry mama, papa, I want to go home...” A young girl with red hair, brown eyes and bottled glasses walks in the sector known as “Downtown.” She is with her parents as they head to their home. They are walking beneath large buildings as the cold wind blows through them.

“Victoria, please wait, you`re going to get lost.” Victoria´s mother says to her as they walk along the sidewalk. She is holding hands with her husband, Victoria stops and turns around looking at them and smiles;“Okay, I´ll wait...”

In another part of the city…

“Raul, please turn off your lights, it's almost bedtime...”

A mother shouts from the stairs to her son. “Okay mama...” The boy says as he continues to write in his computer thinking: “I must finish uploading this file about the attack on the “Vatican” before I go to sleep...”

In a large mansion...

A girl with silver hair named Marjorie and a girl with black hair known as Angela are having a sleepover...

“Okay Marjorie, who do you like the most, Uriel or Aleister?” Angela asks with a shy voice. Marjorie blushes and with a great smile she looks at Angela and replies:

“I think it's obvious that Uriel...” “Aww no fair I like him too...” Angela frowns, Marjorie puffs her cheeks and says:

“Well I saw him first....”

“I guess I will ask him tomorrow, who does he like better...”

Angela says as she also puffs her cheeks.

“Alright, let's ask him tomorrow...”

On a small hill..

In a large mansion with black gates, a young boy looks at his window. He has black hair and reddish eyes. The young boy looks at the red moon and says; “Father, how long will you keep me waiting...”

Suddenly, the boy is enveloped in a purple color aura, the windows begin to shake as the boy looks impatiently at the clock.

“So it's almost time...for the fun to begin...”

Vazquez Residency...

“What in the world happened here...” An old lady wearing a nun's attire is in a state of shock as she stands in front of a house that has been completely destroyed, the house belongs to the “Vazquez” family, however they are nowhere to be seen.

She walks inside and sees a picture. The picture features a man with bluish hair, a woman with red hair, a boy with blue hair, a girl with purple hair and a boy with reddish hair. “Maria...where did you go...”

As the clock slowly turned from 9:59pm to 10:00:00, a massive green light illuminated the Borderland. The light was coming from a pillar that extended to the sky around 20 kms away from the cities. This event paralyzed the two cities completely as everyone who was outside saw it, the ones who were asleep woke up because of the intensity. The pillar of light covered the moon, the light lasted for one minute.

At first there was silence, nobody knew what just happened, suddenly the wind stopped blowing, the flags stood still. The light slowly disappeared, and without warning, a powerful sound of an explosion caused the windows to shake and some even shatter.

“Grandpa, is something wrong? I heard a loud noise...”

Alejandro comes out of his room, he sees his grandparents looking at the window, his grandpa looks at him and says: “Alejandro you must hurry to our side...”

“Another one is coming and it's a big one...” Alejandro´s grandma runs to Alejandro.

(BBBBBBBOOOOOOOMMMMMMM)

People began to panic, in a blink of an eye, massive wind began to hit the cities with great force, followed by an earthquake, the earth began to split in half, the buildings and houses began to collapse.

Countless explosions caused black outs, people began to run in panic. The earthquake marked a 9 degree in the Ritcher scale and the winds formed tornadoes.

The floor below Alejandro´s feet begins to break, suddenly he begins to fall as the building begins to collapse.

(BBBBBBOOOOMMMMMM)

“AAAALLLEEEJJJAANNNDDDRROOO!!!!!”

His grandpa tries to grab him but fails, Alejandro begins to fall from the 10th floor.

“Am I going to die?” Alejndro thinks as he falls with tears in his eyes.

“AAAHHHHH” Without warning a woman with wings approaches at high speed, she manages to grab Alejandro before he hits the floor.

“Are you okay?” The woman asks Alejandro, he opens his eyes and only sees the silhouette of her.

Alejandro, who is barely conscious, smiles as he says; “Thank you...”

“She was really beautiful...”

“What's going on, mommy?” Victoria asks as the earth trembles. Victoria is standing a few meters away from her parents, her mother looks at her with a worried expression and screams:

“Victoria stay where you are, don't move...”

Suddenly a piece of building begins to fall towards Victoria, her parents notice that and run as fast as they can, pushing her aside.

Victoria looks at them as both of them smile; “Goodbye Victoria, please take care...”

(BBBBBOOOOMMMM)

“MMMMAAMMMA, PPPAAPPPAAA”

The piece of building falls underneath her parents, Victoria tries to run but she is blown away, a police named Officer Rodriguez grabs her.

“Let go of me, Mama and Papa are still there...”

Victoria cries of pain, the officer holds her as he cries: “It's too late girl, it's too late, I´m sorry...I´m sorry...”

“What's happening, why is it shaking?” Marjorie and Angela are frozen, suddenly, her butler, Charles enters and grabs both of them.

“Mistress, we need to get out of here now...”

“Charles....what's going on?” The girls look with panic.

“I don´t, but I must keep you girls safe....”

At his mansion, Alesiter looks at the light, the ground is shaking, however, he doesn’t move an inch, in fact, he is just laughing as he screams:

“AT LAST, MY DESTINY HAS BEGUN!”

Behind him there is a giant demonly shadow with horns and wings.

On that night, after only 5 minutes, tragedy hit the Twin Cities. Countless people died, countless buildings and houses were destroyed.

That night became known as “The Borderland Catastrophe” At the epicenter of where the catastrophe originated, a giant crater surrounds the area. There is no one there, the only thing there is a Rosary...

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Febuary 1st

“Where am I?” Alejandro opens his eyes and sees the sun shining down to his face, he slowly looks around and sees that he is in a hospital bed.

He looks around and he is surrounded by his Grandparents and neighbors, Alejandro is covered in bandages.

Raul, who is one of Alejandro’s friends, smiles and comments:

“Man, you sure took a beating..”

“Oh good you’re awake... you had us worried son...”

Alejandro’s grandfather says with tears in his eyes, Alejandro smiles and says:

“I’m okay grandpa, I was saved by an angel...”

“An angel? Are you sure?”

“Yeah I’m sure, it was beautiful, I can’t wait to tell Uriel about it...”

Everyone looks at him with a confused expression.

“Who’s Uriel, Alejandro, did you hit your head really hard that you now have an imaginary friend?”

Raul jokes around not knowing who Uriel is.

“Raul, I am talking about Uriel, you know our friend, the one that sits next to me in our class...” Alejandro says with a nervous smile.

Raul and everyone in the room look at Alejandro with a worried expression.

“About that...Alejandro, there is something I need to tell, it's something about what happened last night...”

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Later in the afternoon…

“Ha....ha....ha....”Alejandro runs towards Uriel’ house to confirm what happened, his grandfather told him that an earthquake hit the city, however no one has any idea who the Vazquez family was...

“This can’t be, how come no one remembers him...he was our friend, I know I am not crazy...”

Alejandro is sure that he had someone named Uriel as a friend, however he can't remember his face or his family.

Uriel Vazquez was a boy with blue hair and green eyes, he was Alejandro’s friend, they were almost like brothers. Alejandro used to play with him and his little sister, Valerie. Uriel had another brother named Daniel, his father, Roberto and his mother, Maria.

Refusing to forget about him, Alejandro snuck out of the hospital and decided to go to his friend’s house.

As he arrives at the house, he sees that it was completely destroyed, there was nothing there, the strange thing is that there is somebody in front of the house standing there.

“Marjorie” Alejandro runs towards, Marjorie is looking at the house with her eyes shallow. Alejandro grabs her shoulder calling her name. Marjorie reacts and sees Alejandro.

“Alejandro, when did you get here?” Marjorie asks with a smile.

Alejandro sighs:

“I’ve been here all along, why are you standing in front of Uriel’s house, and what happened to it?”

Alejandro knows that Marjorie is in love with Uriel, and that she’ll probably remember him.

Marjorie looks at Alejandro with a clueless expression and asks:

“Who’s... Uriel?”

Alejandro looks at her frightened, he begins to tremble, and lets go of her shoulder.

“This can’t be...not even she remembers Uriel? What’s going on?"

“ Hey Alejandro, are you alright?”

Marjorie touches his arm. Alejandro grabs her shoulder’s tight.

“Marjorie, please remember him, Uriel was a great friend of ours, he went to our school, he was in the same class as us. You always said that he was your future husband....Please remember...”

“Alejandro, you’re scaring me....” Alejandro lets go of her shoulders and apologizes, Marjorie begins to leave as she asks herself who might Uriel be.

“No one remembers him, did he even exist...I know that I am not imagining things, I know that Uriel lived here with his family...”

Alejandro looks at the rubble trying to find some clues but there is nothing, as he digs more, he finds something strange...a shining object that lies below on what it appears to be a security box underneath the rubble... the object is enveloped on a piece of clothing, Alejandro grabs the piece of clothing and begins to unwrap the object...

“What 's that?”

Alejandro goes closer, the object takes a shape of a golden key that fits in his palm, Alejandro grabs it asking himself:

“Is this a key?”

Suddenly, Alejandro begins to feel strange, he falls down into his knees and begins to tremble. He begins to see strange patterns, patterns of strings that move around him, the strings are made of particles... Alejandro lets go of the key and throws up...

“What was that? It felt so unreal... I must hide this key...before....”

“Hey you, what are you doing here...” A person with a black suit heads towards Alejandro’s direction, Alejandro hides the key in his jacket and says:

“Nothing, I’m just looking here...”

Alejandro laughs nervously, the man looks at him and asks; “You didn’t find anything suspicious right?”

“No, no, I was just passing by...”

“I don't trust you, let me check....” The phone rings, the man gets distracted, Alejandro uses the opportunity to run towards the other house.

“Hey kid, wait....” The agent screams but Alejandro manages to get away.

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Hills near Sun City...

In an abandoned house near the hills, a place where Uriel and Alejandro called their “ secret base” Alejandro looks desperately for proof that Uriel exists, however, there is nothing there, not even a picture..

“Damnit, I know I have something here...come on, think... I know....”

Alejandro looks at a secret shelf on the corner of the shack, there he finds pictures of him and Uriel, as Alejandro looks at them, he begins to shake as he notices that Uriel was blurry in every picture...

“They are all like that, what is happening here, why am I the only one that can remember it, why....”

Alejandro cries as he feels he lost a brother....he feels despair and sorrow...he kicks a soccer ball to the wall.

(BOOOMMMM)

The soccer ball bounces back and hits him in the face, Alejandro falls grabbing his head out of pain and looks up.He notices something hanging, a badge with a “fire” symbol. “ Hey, that’s a Super Space Patrol Ranger Badge that Uriel used to play with.

Alejandro quickly grabs it, and looks at the back that says: “The Fire Space Ranger, Uriel Vazquez....”

“I did it, I found proof that you existed, Uriel...” Alejandro looks at the badge and makes a promise; “I don’t know what happened last night, I know that I saw an angel...However,I know that you exist, Uriel, I promise that I will find you, some day....”

At the top of a hill, two figures mounting horses, look down at the cities.

“So, muchacho, it appears they “erase” the Vazquez Family, and not even your friends remember you, are you okay with that?” The man with red eyes asks a boy who is next to him.

The boy begins to move away slowly with his horse as he says showing a pair of red eyes:

“That's fine, I don't need them anyway, my only objective is to get stronger, stronger so I can kill that man....”

“Hahaha, excellent, now then, that's what I expect from my successor, well then time to go, we have a lot to do before you can return here,Uriel...”

The boy with red eyes looks at the clouds and says:

“I swear I will become stronger...”

On February 1st, Alejandro made the decision to find his friend, and a boy with red eyes vowed to return one day...

That was the beginning of their fateful adventure....