Many years ago, a Journalist did a report on a man suffering from demonic delusions at a place known as Jasper's Asylum. This was one of only a few papers he wrote that ever did well. Life hasn't been easy since, but he keeps trying. One day, he receives an e-mail from someone who says they have another story from him at Jasper's Asylum. He doesn't know who the send is, but he doesn't want to miss the chance for a big selling story and heads out to the Asylum far out of any cities or towns.

There, it all seems normal, but the doors are locked. He prepares to head home when he sees a broken window. Concerned, he enters through it and finds the main floor empty. As he begins to go further in, things become dark. Blood lines the floor and walls, and soon he is attacked by patients. In his flee, he takes shelter upstairs in the Director's office where he meets a woman who is dressed like a patient.

In truth, she is the person who sent him the e-mail. She was a doctor for the Asylum, but was forced into being a patient when she learned of the project they were using the patients for and refused to go along with it. Although both are scared, they decide to try and gather what information they can before finding an escape. Unfortunately, the deeper they go, the harder it is to see themselves ever getting out alive.

The son of a tyrant kind has been raised blind to the truth of his father's actions and led to believe that his father is a godsend to his people. All his young life, he has wanted nothing more than to prove his worth to his father, and soon the day comes when he is finally given the chance. His father requests that he, and a few men, go into the neighboring woods of the kingdom to find a group known as 'The Hunters'. The Hunters are a rebel group that have been known to kidnap and kill people from the kingdom, as well as ruin trade from foreign lands. He wants the leader dead by any means, as the king believes the group will disband if the leader is no longer present.

When in the woods, the prince and his men are ambushed. His men are knocked out cold, but he is left untouched. The leader of the group approaches and...the prince is surprised to find out she is a woman and not a man as his father had been stating... More so, the man who stands beside her as her guard is a man he knew growing up, a man who taught him to use a sword...

The woman states that everything the king says and does is a lie...and that he is a tyrant bent on absolute control... She gives him two options; He can give her two weeks to prove her case and in turn he can assist in overthrowing the tyrant king...or he can turn around and go home without any interference from her people. He knows that going home will only shame him, so he agrees to her deal.

The universe is a mass of colonized planets. Earth is no longer the only livable and sustainable planet in the galaxy. Times have changed and people are thriving throughout, but one planet has been cast straight into Hell. Venus has become infected with a virus that has killed 95% of its population. Those who died have mutated into monsters and are hunting down the living as food. A man and his group managed to survive and hide away, but slowly they have died off one by one from wounds and suicide. Now alone, he struggles to survive.

One day, he hears a loud crash from above his safety bunker and goes up to investigate. What he finds is a crashed ship. The blood around he cockpit tells him that the monsters already got the pilot. He hurries back to his bunker, but becomes surrounded. Suddenly, he is saved by a woman--the pilot of the craft that crashed. She is clearly a trained fighter, with an illegal cybernetic arm that is considered a weapon and banned across the galaxy.

Now stuck along with him, she assists in finding other survivors to help them escape the planet. What she has to say though will come as a shock to the survivors.

After being taken from her land alongside her twin brother and brought to Rome as slaves, her brother assists in her escape before she can be sold at the brothels, leaving him behind to be sent to fight in the coliseum for the entertainment of the masses. When she learns what they have planned for him, she asks the man he paid to rescue her to give her the chance to repay the debt and take his place. Although they are both against it, she forces them to allow the swap.

Her first battle is a small achievement, but each battle to come, she grows stronger and more brutal. Her brother is only safe as long as she wins, but in time, this no longer mattered...for he would succumb to his illness. Now, a year later, her life is in the arena as a prized and valuable fighter. Nicknamed "The Mute Warrior", she fights hard...but for no true reason other than to survive.

The emperor is very impressed with the fighter's skill, to the point his son has become enraged. His father always compares him to the fighter and doesn't praise his own skill, which is quite great compared to most. After watching a fight, he decides to confront the gladiator and ask for a fight. He storms into the bathing chamber in the arena where only a few slaves are allowed to bathe and finds...that his target...is in fact...a woman...

When an spider-like alien race takes over Earth, society crumbles. Many are killed, others used as host bodies, and many are kept alive only to work and breed to create more food for the race. When the alien's learn of a group surviving in the middle of nowhere, they send in a general in a host body. He manages to bypass a faulty scanner and enters the facility as a 'survivor'. Quickly, he takes an interest in their female leader. Female leaders in his race are unheard of, more so, she is not like many of the female humans he has met, and her cybernetic arm shows her intelligence. The second in command, a close friend of the leader, does not like the man asking so many questions or watching her so closely, and he makes it very clear.

When his men come in for the attack that night, he ends up assisting her in escaping. Later, he reappears to ask that he join their side. Humanity is doomed and he could provide her safety if she will put her mind to use for them. She refuses, telling him that he should join their group to see that humans are not as weak and pathetic as his kind believes.

Although he doesn't like the idea, he doesn't want her to be killed and joins, despite the rejections from the second in command and many in the group. She believes that, if he can switch to their side, he is their only hope to getting in close enough to take out the mother-ship and the leader.

Iroh invites Zuko and his friends to his new tea house in the Earth Kingdom. He's been opening many across the lands, but he feels this to be his greatest. When Zuko arrives ahead of everyone else, the two catch up. During the night, Zuko begins hearing things and seeing a woman in white who vanishes in the blink of an eye before he can catch her. This goes on night after night. Iroh jokes and tells him that he is seeing a ghost, but Zuko feels that Iroh isn't telling him something.

The next time he sees her, she is speaking with Iroh. Zuko immediately confronts them both, but Iroh simply smiles and walks away to let him speak to the woman.

What he learns is that she is not human. She is from the spirit world, having come to the human world to fight numerous dark spirits that have escaped through a rift that was torn between realms. It is revealed that she knows not only all the elements, but a few only she can teach people...one of which Zuko has the ability to learn--Darkness. What he learns, he knows he must keep a secret from everyone when they arrive.

After their arrival, Iroh tells Zuko that the woman will be leaving soon, but he is worried and attempting to stall her... Although she has the ability to fight, she is only allowed to fight the spirits, leaving her open to attack from humans. Zuko, as he continues to get to know her with everyone else, begins worrying as well when he sees some people from town harassing her and her allowing it to happen.

Mai is less than thrilled that her boyfriend is spending so much time focusing on this woman, leading to numerous verbal fights. Finally, he has enough and decides he's going with the woman to make sure she's safe in her journey. While she refuses the idea of someone accompanying her, he refuses to stay behind. Worried he'll get hurt simply following her, she allows him to come along.

Wesker infiltrates a asylum in Russia where he has learned of a mutation of a virus. The documents are on a computer and he needs them to see if they are of value to his research. Unfortunately, he realizes quickly someone has gotten there before him and already has the information...having destroyed what was left behind on the computer. He attempts to catch this person, but when he finally gets a look at her and hears her speak, memories begin coming back.

In his youth, while beginning his work for Umbrella, he learns that, due to the project stalling, they have hired 5 scientists from another organization to work along side them to help fix what they are doing wrong. These scientists don't know what they are actually working on... Wesker scoffs at this idea, but is shocked to find that he has been paired with the only female of the scientists. She is quick to point out every flaw in his work, which both impresses and annoys him. The two don't get along at first, but soon have a strange friendship that gets Wesker slightly teased.

Although their 'relationship' never became much more than innocent office flirting, he still becomes protective of her, which is revealed when one of the test subjects breaks free. The woman is bit in the hand and, Wesker, though knowing he should put a bullet in her head, uses an emergency ax to cut her arm off, hoping it would stop the virus from spreading.

He tells her the truth about what she has helped create and then tells her he'll make sure all of the scientist form her organization escape. After that, he never saw her again. He assumed, due to the world not knowing the truth sooner, that she'd died. All information he can find on her including files, say that she is deceased.

Now, he realizes that she is alive...and she is working on a cure for everything he has done. He attempts to sway her, both through words and action, but finds that she is just as stubborn as he is, and just as strong. She has her own 'enhancements' that keep her from being an easy target.

Not willing to let this go unsettled, he decides to wait on returning again, but soon, as he looks up her alias, finds that she knows Chris Redfield. How she knows him is a bit more interesting. His men had stormed her lab only shortly after Wesker found out she was alive. Now, Chris wants to assist her in her research, but still has trouble completely trusting her due to the fact that she could easily become another Wesker...

Out one early morning on his own, Jin is attacked by a man who uses a poisoned blade. Although Jin does well, one hit leaves him numb and slowly dying. He blacks out as the man came in for his final attack. When Jin awakes, his wound is stitched, but he is weak from poison and unable to get up. Over the course of a week, he fades in and out of consciousness, able to hear a voice speaking to him and a vision of someone walking in and out of the room. Due to the poison and his last sight, he continues to think it's the man who attacked him...

The day he finally comes out of his near-death-experience, he is met by a woman with a soft voice and even fairer complexion. She is a foreigner, but speaks his language perfectly. She tells him that she's been taking care of him ever since she found him in the woods, and that he is lucky as she is one of only a few people who knew the cure for the poison used on him. The woman seems genuinely kind, but feels as if she's hiding something. One thing that confuses him the most is that she is blind...but yet somehow managed to get him out of the woods and help him... He's too weak to care to question it.

She continues to tend to him over the next few days, but something is haunting him. At times, when he sees her alone, he notices what appears to be a male figure in the shadow...at times hearing a male voice whispering... He shakes it off as a effect of the lingering poison in his system.

When she decides to show him how to play a piano, they are unaware that Mugen and Fuu have managed their way into the building. When the piano key-cover slams onto Jin's hands, Mugen rushes in to his shout, believing him to be in danger. Without realizing it, he goes straight for the woman, but in a second, she drops Mugen to the floor and a secret blade extends from her kimono sleeve. She apologizes and tells him he needs to be more careful and think before he goes in for an attack.

She allows all three to stay in her home, but they don't get to stay long. Only two nights later, the building is attacked by a group of Ninja and she is quick to run, the three in hot pursuit. She tells them that they are after her because she knows things they don't want her to, but Jin is suspicious...and with good reason as they will all come to find out.

The village has been peaceful for sometime and the kids are now nearing their twenties. One evening, after being rejected for a date by Sakura, Naruto goes home to sleep. In the early morning, he awakens and sees snow on his balcony. As he approaches the door, admiring the fresh white layer of ice, he notices a woman on a roof in the distance. Because she's unfamiliar, he goes toward her, but she vanishes when he gets to the rooftop. Now, he sees her on another, and the situation repeats itself, over and over... Until finally he finally is on the same roof as her, questioning who she is. When she turns, he is shocked by her glowing white eyes.
A scream then pierces the village (Hinata). Naruto glances in the scream's direction and the woman vanishes again. He heads for Hinata's home, only to be just as shocked as she is when he sees Neji with them. Not long after, Jiraiya also appears, as well as Asuma and many others who had died in the more recent battles. Tsunade calls the village together to discuss what is happening. Naruto explains the woman he saw, wondering if she could be part of it. Tsunade and Jiraiya both seems a bit shock when they hear her description, as if they knew exactly who he spoke of.
Then a soft voice is heard, asking the village if they are unhappy...asking if they rather they not be alive... When they say they are happy, the woman Naruto saw on the roof appears. Although she is of few words, Tsunade explains, in as few words as she can as well, that the woman is 'special' and should be welcomed into the village during her visit... It's clear Tsunade isn't telling the all she knows, but many have a feeling that doing so would be dangerous.
Over the next few weeks, she becomes well known among the village, often 'seemingly' flirting with different men...and women...causing some issues between those pursuing her. One of her main pursuers is Gai, who believes he's in a competition against Kakashi, despite Kakashi having shown no interest in the woman besides casual conversation and curiosity--at least until the moment her bare palm touches his hand.
As time goes, it becomes very clear that the woman could cause danger for the village when threats of war begin to emerge unless they turn her over. Who and what she is will come into light, but only at the cost of a loss or war.