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The World Expands with You pt1

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Chapter 1: Meeting Friends, Old and New

It was a typical peaceful day in the Shibuya shopping district, located in the heart of Tokyo.  Like always the streets were filled with the hustle and bustle of hundreds of people shopping for clothes, enjoying good food, or just hanging out with friends.  It is here where we meet an Orange-haired teenager named Neku Sakuraba waiting beside a dog statue known as The Statue of Hachikō.

“Man, where are those guys?  It feels like I’ve been waiting here for hours.” Neku thought “Shiki said she had something really important to show me.  I can’t believe it’s only been a week since we beat the Reapers’ Game, not much has changed since we all came back to life.  But after all of the stuff I’ve been through, can I really just forget about it and move on with my life?  What happened to Joshua and Mr. Hanekoma, are they both still in the Underground watching over us? What about the Reaper Games, are people still being forced to play it in order to come back from the dead? What abou-”

Suddenly, Neku felt someone’s hand on his shoulder, which startled him and made him flinch.  He turned around to find hid friend, Beat and his sister, Rhyme standing behind him.  “Yo Phones, what’s shakin’!” Beat said “I haven’t seen you in ages.”

“Sheesh, don’t sneak up on me like that, I though someone was trying to mug me or something.” said Neku.

“He he he.  We didn’t mean to scare you so much Neku, we just wanted to say ‘hi’.”  Rhyme said giggling to herself.

“You guys didn’t scare me; you just caught me off guard, that’s all.  You guys haven’t seen Shiki around here, have you?” Neku asked.

“Yeah, she’s right over there with that red headed girl.  They’re commin’ this way.” Beat replied as he pointed behind Neku.

Neku turned around and saw his friend Shiki walking towards him.  Shiki was a very cute bookish girl with very ordinary looking glasses covering her brown eyes and short dark-brown hair with a single white hairpin in it.  She wore a black top under a green jacket and short black pants under a light blue skirt along with pink slip-on shoes.  She was walking alongside a red-haired girl that Neku recognized right away as Eri, the girl that Shiki looked like during the course of the Reapers’ Game as part of her entry fee.

“Hi Neku, sorry I’m late.  I accidentally forgot about some homework I had that’s due tomorrow, so I had to take care of it before I left.” Shiki said.

“That’s ok I wasn’t waiting that long anyway,” replied Neku. Actually, he’d only been there waiting at the statue for about ten minutes; he just never bothered to look at a clock “what was it you wanted to show us, anyway?”

“Oh, yeah, anyway I’d like you all to meet my friend, Eri.  Eri, these are my friends that I met in the hospital three weeks ago: Beat, Rhyme, and Neku.”  Shiki said.

“Um… hi, nice to meet you.” Eri said, still wondering how she met these three people at a hospital of all places since Shiki usually didn’t make too many friends on account of her shyness.  Just the other day, she thought her friend was dead, but it turned out to be just a rumor because she was actually sent to a hospital in Osaka to recuperate from the car accident she was in. That was all a big fat lie Shiki made up, of course.  She couldn’t very well tell her friend that she and her new friends died and were fighting off monsters and Reapers for three weeks.

“Nice to meet you too, Eri.  Shiki’s told us so much about you.” said Rhyme.

“She did?  Uh... where did you guys say you meet her again?” Eri said, still confused about the whole situation.

“Oh, we met in the hospital in Osaka, right Beat?”  Neku said while elbowing Beat in the arm.

“Uh, yeah, in the ‘Osakian Hospital’, pretty new, so ya might not have heard of it yet, yeah.”  Beat said nervously with his hand behind his head.  “We all got hit by cars, uh, cept’ Phones here, he got shot.”

“Oooooh-kaaaaay… whatever you say.”  Eri still wasn’t sure about these guys, but they seemed alright.

“So, anyway, I was wondering if any of you guys want to hang out or something, so we can get to know each other a little more.” Shiki said, noticing how awkward Beat was making the conversation.

“That sounds alright to me.” Neku replied.  “I’m in.” “Me too.” Beat and Rhyme said.

“How about we all go to that new ramen place that reopened in Dogenzaka.  What was it called again? Shadow Ramen? I heard they changed the menu and lowered the prices and junk.” Eri suggested.

“Do they got that ‘Curry Ramen’? I love that stuff.” Beat asked, his mouth started watering at the thought.

“Yeah, I think they do.” Neku answered.

“Then what’re we waitin’ for!? Let’s roll!” Beat exclaimed as he started skating towards Scramble Crossing, leaving his friends behind.

“That’s my brother; always thinking with his stomach.  Beat, wait for us!”  Rhyme said running after her brother.

The other three laughed as they followed the two siblings across the busy streets of the crowded Shibuya.  Unknown to them, a dark and terrible force was stirring in an alternate dimension of Shibuya known as the UG (The Underground) which would “change” their lives forever.

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Somewhere below the depths of the UG, was a dark and desolate place known as the Lower Plain, a shadowy unending labyrinth of cavers where no source of light could reach.  In this dim shadowy dungeon there was a massive door, like the ones that guarded a medieval castle, which was wrapped in strange chain-like markings, and was embroidered with a bizarre black symbol that resembled a bull’s skull.  The markings and symbol on the door were eerily similar to the seal that blocked the River in the UG that lead to the chamber of the Composer.

Usually, the door and its surroundings were completely void of life; everything was silent and unmoving, until now.  Without warning, a thunderous noise shook the caves of the Lower Plain as the large door began to quake and buckle as if something on the other side was trying to force it open.  Slowly but surely, the chain-like markings began to crack and break until the door burst open.  A black and murky mist spewed forth from it as a tall and dark figure stepped through.  He was twenty feet tall with pale white skin and fiery-red hair in the shape of flames and yellow cat-like eyes.  Two small curved horns grew out of his forehead, his ears were pointed and his teeth were razor-sharp.  He had large clawed arms covered by black leathery gloves with blue trimmings and pointed black leather shoes covered his feet.  He wore a blue frilled shirt under a black tuxedo coat with various gold, vine-like patterns sewn on the sleeves and the dark-blue silhouette of a bull’s skull on his back.

After having a good look around, the devil-like being burst into a malevolent laughter “AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-AAAA! At last, I am free of that accursed seal!  I knew those pitiful angels couldn’t hold me forever.  Nooooow what shall I do to celebrate my wondrous escape?” the creature said.  “I can’t wait to get to the mortal world and stir up some chaos.  Maybe I should lay low and do a little “research” on the upper worlds before I start.  Hehehehehe!”
The beginning of my first expansion fic based on one of my favorite DS games, The World Ends with You. I kind of based the devil-like villain's appearance off of Gecko Moria from One Piece (only a lot less chubby), we'll see more of him soon. Just as a heads up: this story will contain age progression and hourglass expansion in the later parts.

Sorry this part doesn't have any expansion, I'll make up for it in the next parts. Please comment if you have any advise for my future writings.

Note: I do not claim any ownership of The World Ends with You. The World Ends with You and all related characters and concepts are property of Square Enix, Jupiter, Gen Kobayashi and Tetsuya Nomura.
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mariohunter's avatar
THANK YOU! I was hoping someone would make an expansion thing for this game. You know i anyone else made something for this?