📍 Location: Aomori, Japan – Abandoned Blossom Village
Once a quiet countryside town famous for its cherry orchards, now shrouded in fog and sorrow.
🌸 Scene 1: Arrival
The team stepped off their drop-craft onto a narrow, cracked road lined with dead cherry blossom trees. Fog curled around their boots like grasping fingers.
Emma (looking up):
"These trees… they're not just dead. They're drained."
Nick (shivering):
"I hate fog. It's like walking into a Silent Hill fan mod."
Lucas (calmly):
"GOC Japan called it a ghost signal. People disappeared with no resistance. Every team sent in stopped responding within an hour."
They crossed into the main street. Everything was still. Too still.
Then a music box started playing.
A child's voice echoed from nowhere:
"🎵 Come find me… Lucas… 🎵"
👻 Scene 2: Vanishing Point
Suddenly, the environment glitched—like bad reality TV. The houses shimmered. Lucas blinked—and Emma and Nick were gone.
Lucas (tense):
"Emma? Nick?"
No response. He turned—
Thud.
A child-like figure stood before him. Blonde. Laughing. Hollow eyes.
Child:
"You left us, Lucas. Now we all disappear."
Lucas instinctively summoned Forge, spinning a kunai from a shattered lamp post, but the child phased into mist.
🎭 Scene 3: Divide and Conquer
Nick's POV:
Nick found himself in a repeating hallway, like a Japanese inn. A figure walked ahead—a young girl in a kimono humming softly.
Nick:
"This is why I don't watch horror movies…"
He charged forward, but the floor collapsed under him—he fell into a pit filled with whispering shadows.
Emma's POV:
Emma ran through what looked like her childhood home. Her father's voice whispered: "You'll never be strong enough." Her eyes blurred.
But she bit her lip, refocused, and screamed:
Emma:
"You don't control me. Not anymore!"
She activated Assassin, vanishing completely and cutting through the illusion.
🧠 Scene 4: Truth Revealed
Lucas found a shattered temple near the center of the village. The cherry trees there were blooming black petals.
In the middle stood a pale figure: the Type 2 Neuroxin, Hana.
She looked like a young noble girl, wearing tattered traditional robes.
Hana (smiling):
"You know me, don't you?"
Lucas:
"No. But you… you know my family."
Hana (giggles):
"Your mother told me you'd come."
Lucas froze.
Lucas:
"You're lying."
Hana (softly):
"She was kind. Until she ran. Just like you. Would you like to see her memory?"
She touched a tree. It pulsed—and Lucas saw a flashback: A woman with Lucas's eyes and a GOC badge, holding a young Neuroxin child.
Lucas pulled back, panting.
💥 Scene 5: Battle at the Blossoms
Suddenly, Emma reappeared beside Lucas, dual daggers glowing.
Emma (fierce):
"She's using memory-splicing. She's not real, Lucas."
Hana (sorrowful):
"Then I'll become your new memory."
The trees writhed. From the roots, Type 1 "Wailers" emerged—shadowy, shrieking childlike Neuroxins that leapt tree-to-tree like monkeys.
Nick (landing with a crack):
"Okay! I punched a ghost. I think I'm back. Who's got the boss marked?"
Lucas (activating Forge):
"Emma, air. Nick, flanks. I'll hold the center."
Lucas summoned a double-ended blade, twirling as Wailers lunged at him. He struck each mid-leap, creating a blossom storm of black mist.
Emma turned invisible and sprinted up a tree, kicking off and plunging downward with glowing blades. She impaled Hana—only for the girl to vanish.
Hana's voice (all around):
"Lucas… we're the same."
Lucas shouted:
"We're not."
He stabbed his blade into the tree's core, which began pulsing red—then summoned an explosive wave that collapsed the illusion zone.
🔚 Scene 6: Aftermath
Fog lifted.
The village was empty again.
Emma (panting):
"She wasn't strong. Just… tragic."
Nick (wiping his brow):
"She was trying to be remembered. Creepy, sad, and confusing. Like my report cards."
Lucas (quietly):
"She knew my mother."
Emma (softly):
"Are you okay?"
Lucas:
"No. But I know what to do next."
🔎 Scene 7: The Recording
Later that night, Lucas privately viewed a data shard retrieved from the temple. On it, a video played.
A young GOC agent, standing beside the Neuroxin child, Hana.
She looked into the camera and whispered:
"Lucas… if you ever see this… they'll lie to you. Even the GOC. Trust your squad… and find the Crystal."
Emma (entering quietly):
"Still think this isn't a date series?"
Lucas (glancing back, smiling faintly):
"Depends. You bringing Nick again?"
Emma:
"He's tied to a tree. He'll be fine."
Nick:
"hmmmmm, HMMM"