Spirit Bound: Beginning

The Beginning

A boy was born. They named the young child Riou. Though it is said that most babies see and hear what others do not, this was especially true for Riou. He grew, year by year, only to give into his strange ‘power’ as he began to call it. Before the age of five, Riou was able to see a spirit that has guided him throughout his life. The boy grew up with this spirit and when he was ten, he gave it a name.
Riou named him Alexei. He wasn’t sure as to how he came up with the name but he was satisfied and both of them grew on it. Alexei was a spirit guide who had banded together with many other spirits in order to bring both the spirit world and the human world into one existence.
The plan failed and the spirits realized that there would be no joint existence so they had decided that they should not interfere with any living beings. This plan was agreed to but soon broken as dark spirits who seeked to control humans as pets, got loose and began causing trouble within the realm of the living.
A band of greater, or higher, spirits decided the action needed to take in order to stop the spirits from completely controlling the second realm. Under leadership, greater spirits soon joined up with random humans at birth and taught them a new way to battle the evil.
At first, all the spirits taught were simple life lessons, but as the child grew to an age of fifteen, they began their real training. They would fight long and hard with their birth companions and would soon become fighting machines. But there was a problem that grew in the distance…
On the other side, the darker spirits managed to overthrow the greater spirits and thus caused great chaos. The spirits dwelling in the physical world would soon be separated from the friend and would have to live a life of their own.
Our story begins in the small rural town of New Soul with Riou at the age of seventeen.

His Chapter

Riou awoke to a thud just outside his dorm. He shot straight up in bed and it took a moment before he realized someone was knocking on his door. He jumped out of his bed and walked towards the door, yawning and rubbing his eye.
Riou got to the door but did not open it. Instead, he stretched and scratched his lower back until a second knock thudded on his door. He opened it to reveal a girl not much shorter than him. He did not know the girl but for an odd reason, he felt he did. He wasn’t sure as to why it was, but he had always had feelings that he knew people he really didn’t. But here this girl stood the first of many.
“Can I help you miss,” Riou asked, still rubbing the morning crust from his eyes. At first she only gave him a blank stare with her large brown eyes.
“Oh, I’m looking for Riou,” She began saying, glancing down at a piece of paper than back up to him. “Is this the right room?”
“It sure is, want to tell me what a girl like you is doing in a place like this? I mean it’s not every day that you see a beautiful girl walking down the hall of the boy dorms,” Riou replied, trying to be as smooth as possible.
She gave him a small dirty look which was really hard for her to actually accomplish. She allowed herself in and took a seat on the second bed that was unused. She looked around a bit with a little disgust but wiped it off as Riou came back into the room, the door unclosed.