This story takes place just as the “Second” Kira makes an appearance. This story introduces a new character into the fold of Death Note, who becomes another rival like L to Light Yagami - but unlike L, this new rival possesses a Death Note, and has a much different agenda than Light Yagami. This story does not interfere with the Death Note story and plays in between established events.

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“THE DRAYCOTT FACTOR”

PROLOGUE - A NEW SHINIGAMI DESCENDS TO THE HUMAN WORLD

The Shinigami descended down the spiral staircase, and then stood on the precipice edge that overlooked the mystical time pool in the Shinigami Realm.

He had purposely dropped his Death Note in the human world and now, by Shinigami law, he had to go and retrieve it. However, gauging on the advise of another Shinigami, he waited a few days before coming. This way, no doubt, a human would pick it up. Then the fun would begin.

He was bored. And this would provide some much needed entertainment from the mundane, insipid existence in being a Shinigami.

The Shinigami Realm was a dilapidated, barren wasteland. The human world, he heard, was interesting, lush, and lively.

But unlike the Shinigami he spoke to, he would do things differently. The other Shinigami had told him all about his experiences he had in the human world, and with a human who tried to become a god. In the end, the human failed, and the Shinigami wrote the man’s name in his Death Note.

The Shinigami had told this story to many other Shinigami, who then passed it on. This is how word spread that the human world was an interesting place. Well, to some anyway. Most Shinigami didn’t care, and they carried on with their boring lives.

But as years passed, and more Shinigami began to take interest in the human world, and the story the Shinigami had told. . . it interested him, and he watched events the Shinigami told of playback in a time portal viewer in the bones of a long dead Shinigami skull, fashioned into a sphere.

The portal saw everything past, present and future. Time was relative, so it was possible to know everything about anything. The human world was but one existence, yet it interested him greatly, and he wanted to experience it, too. And the time the Shinigami spoke of was where he wanted to visit. So that’s where he threw his Death Note.

Fun awaited him, and he was eager to embrace it.

Wings sprouted from his back, and jumping off the precipice. . .he leapt into the time pool. Its supernatural properties engulfed him in a bright white light. And the next thing he knew, he was in the human world.

He flew through the air across the city landscape of Japan, and landed on top of a tall skyscraper, overlooking an urban jungle of human achievement. Humans were so ingenious when it came to constructing monuments and technologies to themselves. They were selfish, vain, and ravenous. Smart beasts. What a contradiction in terms, he mused. He wondered which human had picked up his Death Note. It called him like a beacon. The human resided in Japan.

He leapt off the building and took flight, and was excited about the entertainment that would unfold.

to be continued