Once, there was a maiden...
...whose shadow fled from her. She chased it over fire and stone.
She chased her shadow to a monster's mouth. It went right in. It didn't know how to stop.
The maiden caught her shadow in a deep cave full of ghosts. It turned into a ball of thorns that wrapped around her. When the ghosts pricked their fingers on the thorns, they came to life. This didn't make anyone very happy.
The maiden made a ladder from the ghosts' bones, but it only pointed downward. "Why go...
Some worlds were not meant to cross. When they do, rules get broken. But when has ever something not been done just because it broke some rules?
Follow Issei Hyoudou, a Chosen of Serenity (not that he knows that) and a Dragon-blooded of Water Aspect (not that he fully understands that either) on his journey with Ddraig, the Red Dragon Emperor who wants to know why his Boosted Gear is now black and blue and doesn't Boost, to find out why his mother has disappeared while everyone else he...