FireCacodemon: Welcome to the first chapter of The Gate's Consciousness. Something I've wrote and then struggled to Title and put a Summary but I've done it! So enjoy~

The Gate's Consciousness

A Darker Than Black Fan-Fiction

Written by FireCacodemon

Disclaimer: Darker Than Black belongs to Tensai Okamura

AU!

Summary: AU! People just thought the gates were just there…little did they know that both gates had a conscious of its own. It wasn't the power of BK-201 that caused the gate to vanish but something else. "I can give you the power you seek…All I want in return is your soul."

Prologue

"I think this is as far as we can go…" a female voice echoed through the distorted lands of Heaven's Gate. Her body was tall and thin with a red and black uniform covering her body. It was padded for potential attacks or clashes with the floor. On her hip was a holster for a pistol but the weapon itself had run out of bullets a long while ago. Long pale green hair reached her hips with amber eyes scanning to see if there were any enemies nearby. Satisfied that there wasn't, she turned her attention behind her to see her companion. A younger female with pale blue eyes, dark brown hair was tied back in a ponytail with some long bands giving her face some shape. Her face remained emotionless as she stopped and looked around. Her uniform clung tightly to her body with the colour design of blue and black.

"Amber…What about Hell's Gate?" She questioned Amber.

"Bai. We should be able to secure all contractors and dolls by just moving Heaven's Gate." Amber flashed a confident smile at Bai but she was met with a look of worry from the younger contractor. "You…seem to have changed since the war…"

"Changed…? Hei said the same thing when I became a contractor…he knew instantly that something had happened."

"You've become more emotional…Hei can be very perspective when it comes to you."

"Is…that a good thing…?"

"I dunno…maybe you're evolving…it is possible for all species to evolve and adapt." Bai didn't look so sure; her mind was elsewhere and it wasn't on what they were going to do now. She watched as Amber brought out a round disk of glass. Hei had been the one to find it before he was attacked after that by the enemy contractors. They weren't the average contractor he killed either, they were more ruthless and were quick to turn on the others even if they were on the same side.

"Do…we have to use the meteor shard for this?"

"To protect the gate, yes."

"Then…Let's do it before I change my mind." Amber nodded in agreement.

Darker Than Black – The Gate's Consciousness – Prologue

There was something nagging at the back of Hei's mind as he had taken the life of another contractor. He slowly let the limp, lifeless body of the contractor reach the grassy field below. A quick look up at the stars reminded Hei on why he was here. His eyes fell on two stars; his sister's star, star BK-201 and Amber's star, UB-001. Both stars were important to him on different levels. He was in a group of four but with so many stars shining and then becoming dull once more it was harder to find where his last team mate's star was. Her name was Havoc. She often distanced herself from the others because of her power and personality. She was ruthless, violent and used her power whenever she could. She was a monster like the rest of the contractors Hei was fighting against in the war. He wasn't close to Havoc as he was to Bai and Amber but then again…he was only in this war to protect Bai and he was doing (as he believed) a damn good job at it. There were cases that she protected him, something that Amber had once said made no sense to her.

"You're really special to her…you know that…Right?" Amber voice echoed in the back of his mind.

"I don't know what she thinks about me…" Hei whispered quietly to himself. "All I know that she's still my sister and I'll protect her with everything I've got." The wind shifted, alerting Hei of an oncoming attack. His reflexes kicked in and Hei rolled out of the way as a thick invisible pulse came flying past him and destroyed the nearby tree. Splinters of wood flew in different directions, slicing Hei's skin open on his arms and caught his face. Hei hissed in pain but moved to run into a more comfortable area where he could take out the contractor. He was human. He still felt the raw emotions which drove people to do what they do best…taking what isn't theirs to begin with.

"Get out and fight me contractor!" A female voice screamed into the night. Hei hid behind another tree as he planned on how he'll kill this contractor. His blades would be effective but that'll require getting up close to the target. He had a limited number of blades to use and he was already running low. Thankfully his wire had been used a lot more than the blades but the wire harshly ripped into his skin as he didn't have any protective gloves to help protect his hands. He heard another tree explode.

'Go figure…she knows I'm hiding behind a tree…' Hei thought to himself before he ripped himself from the tree and darted around to confuse the contractor. He could feel his heart pumping blood around his body…out the wounds from the tree splinters. He couldn't let the pain bother him now, he needed to eliminate the contractor before she killed him. He wasn't any good to anyone if he was another body on the ground. More trees were attacked as the contractor fired her air blasts everywhere to try and hit Hei. Using his own agility, Hei quickly approached the contractor and drew his blade, slashing her neck open. Her blood sprayed out from her neck, splashing on Hei before the blood began to dribble out the open wound. The contractor died swiftly as her body fell onto the ground and Hei's alarm bells in his mind started to become quiet once more as he didn't feel like his life was in danger anymore. Hei's breathing increased as it did every time he took a life, the panic and guilt that he had just taken another life came to the surface. Hei let it play out for a few seconds before he clamped down on his emotions to regain control over himself.

"More blood on your hands…" He whispered before he moved, he needed to reach where Amber and Bai were back at the camp.

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Bai was handed the meteor shard. After discussing the plan with Amber once more she felt more confident in what she was doing. With the amplified ability, she could save the gate and force the Syndicate to take a step back with their plan. She couldn't tell Hei what they were planning and hoped that he didn't turn up. He wasn't a contractor so he couldn't see the spectres from the dolls but Hei was her brother, he always somehow knew where to find her.

"We don't have much time, we have to act now." Amber warned Bai. She nodded and closed her eyes so that she could focus everything she had with the particles in the gate. Even with the meteor shard, it was still a struggle to connect to all the particles in the surrounding area. Amber watched as the pale aura of the synchrotron radiation flared to life around Bai as she started to connect to the particles of the gate, ready to change them. It wasn't long before Amber felt her own body flare up with the synchrotron aura…and then the sound of someone running towards them. Amber froze. That couldn't be Hei, right? She wasn't going to let Bai give up on this, everything was perfect. The sun cycle was in the right position which also increased a contractor's ability, the meteor shard was in their possession and they were as far to the core of Heaven's Gate as they could possibly be. Amber kept an eye out on what was possible approaching and thought up how to try and stop them from interfering with the plan.

Swiftly, a contractor was approaching while Bai was getting closer and closer to saving the gate. She had followed Amber and Bai as they reached as close to the core as possible with the meteor shard. The enemy contractor smiled and went to activate their ability. The nearby plants shifted and morphed into long tentacles made of the plant life surrounding the contractor. With the thickened plant material forming a spike the contractor was ready to attack before they picked up the fast-moving footstep sound.

"The Black Reaper…" the contractor hissed and redirected the plant spikes towards Hei, alerting Amber that the contractor was nearby and a threat to the plan. "Die!"

The plant spikes came soaring towards Hei but his reflexes kicked in, ducking and rolling to the side, the plant spears passed him and crashed into the ground unravelling back into the plant life it once was before dying shortly after. Hei cautiously approached where the spears had been thrown before he swiftly picked up the pace and ran. More spears were coming his way but they were easy to avoid as the contractor attacking was either being attacked them self or was distracted by something different all together. His harness was easy to access along with his blades and wire so he wasn't going to let this contractor kill him or a potential member of the small group he was in. Hei swiftly drew one of his blades and moved in for a kill just as a spear came towards him.

A white light engulphed them all as blood dripped onto the grass below.

FireCacodemon: Hope you liked it~ I'll be back again next chapter~