Broken Saints - Chapters

Chapters

Chapter 1: Introitus

In the quiet corners of the globe, four strangers receive a chilling vision of the future. Will they stand to face the coming darkness... and if so, at what price?

The opening chapter introduces us to the main 4 characters: Shandala, Oran, Kamimura, and Raimi. Shandala begins with a short, poetic account of her dream. Next comes Oran, who is hiding out in a bunker, speaking of his guilt and faith. That transitions to Kamimura, who has returned to his temple to find it ablaze. After the fire burns itself out, he recovers a box from its hiding place, only to be confronted by his former student Goku. Raimi is then introduced, walking the streets of Coast City, returning to his apartment after being kicked off the project he was working on at work. He is going to find out why. As the chapter finishes, we return to Lomalagi to find Shandala confronted by a vision. The intensity of the vision causes her to faint, where she is discovered by the other members of her tribe.

Chapter 2: Cryptic

A young programmer uncovers evidence of corporate treachery. But all secret knowledge comes with a price... for there are claws sheathed within the code.

Raimi Matthews begins to dig into his company's mainframe. Things go well at first, he finds his way into the information he is looking for when his computer freezes. Suddenly his monitor displays the sentence, "I SEE YOU," making him try to disconnect. His electrical cord shorts, shocking him and taking out the power. His screens, now powerless, light up with a flashing symbol, and he passes out.

Chapter 3: Versus

Beneath the harsh sands of the Iraqi border, a lone warrior fights for his sanity. But when the struggle seeps into the waking world, blood will be spilt.

Hassan returns to the bunker with supplies, but finds Oran in a state of near insanity. Oran lashes out against his dear friend, not knowing who he is. When at last he snaps out of it, he realizes what he has done. He checks to see that his friend is still alive, and then borrows his jeep to begin his journey.

Chapter 4: Epiphany

Kamimura explores the memories of an old foe for the cause of his temple's destruction. Lost in meditation, the dark secret is revealed.

Walking along the rolling hills of Japan, Kamimura contemplates his beliefs. Finally resting alongside a river, he examines the depths of Goku's mind. After reliving the moments leading up to his home's destruction, he witnesses an unknown person who gives him a message of things to come. Note: The vision is for Goku, not Kamimura, Kamimura merely gets trapped in the darkness of a message sent to Goku.

Chapter 5: Awakening

A tribal chief holds a mournful vigil at his adopted daughter's bedside. When the past arrives on their shores in the hands of a stranger, something will awaken.

Chief Tui Nisinu sits by his daughter, Shandala, who has not yet woken up from her comatose state. He talks about her past and her mother. He is disturbed by Tui Jr. who tells him that a boat carrying white men is anchored off the shore. The captain of the boat carries a picture of Shandala from before she came to Lomolagi. She wakes up, and takes a wrap off her hair to reveal that her hair is pure white. An omen.

Chapter 6: Synchronicity

If blood spills in the desert, will an egg break in Japan? Can a ghostly message in Coast City herald a seafaring emissary on the shores of Paradise?

Oran travels on foot, after Hassan's jeep ran out of gas. He begins to lose his mind when he is confronted by shadowy figures and then "The Other." In act 2, Raimi exits the BIOCOM building where he was taken after passing out from the occurrences of Chapter 2. He notices a vagrant wearing a sandwich board with the same message as his computer. Thinking it more than coincidence, he follows the man down a side street. After he talking to Gregory, a newsstand vendor, and buying a stroke mag and some Morley cigarettes, he heads down an alley to get one lit. There, he is confronted by the eyeless vagrant who talks in riddles, and foreshadows much of what is yet to come. Act 3, Kamimura finds himself in the back of a small truck, travelling through rural Japan. The driver, an egg farmer named Masayuki, makes some smalltalk, while passing on an important message. At a fork in the road, they go their separate ways, with Kamimura headed towards America. At the very end of this chapter, Shandala and her father talk along the shoreline of Lomalagi.

Chapter 7: Lucid

Shaken by the haunting alley encounter, Raimi prays for the memory to wash away with sleep. But when another vision strikes, there will be nowhere to hide.

Chapter 8: Lomalagi

An enigmatic man from the West seeks to return Shandala to her true family. Can he overcome the tribe's growing doubt and risk death on the Flaming Path?

Chapter 9: Personas

Who we are is often bound to what we choose to reveal. In the eyes of those who judge our second skins, we are all naked, unworthy, and guilty.

Chapter 10: Trinity

Three points to triangulate. Three digits for a flight code. Three cubicle walls. Three verses from a holy tome. Three men on a fated course.

Chapter 11: Surfacing

Torn between the love of her adopted homeland and the charms of a pale skinned suitor, Shandala's psyche threatens to crack and reveal a terrifying secret.

Chapter 12: Passage

From tragedy to transformation-from burden to blessing-and from Alpha to Omega-no man escapes unscathed. And no saint will emerge unbroken.

Chapter 13: Insertion

In the heart of an underground war machine, Raimi is forced to assist in a horrible experiment. The shackles of the soul are stamped in silicon.

Chapter 14: Harbingers

On the lonely streets of Coast City, Kamimura carries the burden of distant memories, and Raimi must face Oran's rising thirst for vengeance.

Chapter 15: Tempest

When the sky's breath collides with the messengers, a battle erupts between Heaven and Earth. Witness as wind, rain, and electrical fire are unsheathed.

Chapter 16: Fallen

Drifting lost in the icy sea, Shandala seeks strength in her childhood memories. But something watches from the empty sky, and lurks in her heart's depths.

Chapter 17: Lazarus

Trapped in a frightening limbo, Shandala succumbs to a shadowy man's poison... and a pair of unlikely fugitives rise from their cold metal tomb.

Chapter 18: Forecast

Divination and information lead to confrontation. With Raimi disabled, Oran enraged, and Kamimura possessed, a true clash of titans is destined. After escaping their death, eluding the military and witnessing death of Raimi's coworker Sandra, Oran and Raimi look for a place to crash. They enter a small gnostic shop, where an Albino fortuneteller does a tarot reading for Raimi. The reading makes Raimi want to investigate the alley he found the eyeless vargrant. There, Raimi reminiscences about his previous encounter with Gregory, the newsstand vendor as Raimi and Oran investigate the alleged evil eye. As they are stripping down ads covering the eye, Raimi hears moans of Kamimura, whom he mistakes for the eyeless vagrant. After he helps him get up, Raimi and Kamimura reach Oran just in time for Oran to shed the last ad and reveal the evil eye which releases Goku from Kamimura's mental grasp and sends the monk into an insane rage. As Kamimura and Oran fight, Raimi figures that Kamimura is another piece of a puzzle. He manages to snap Kamimura back to his original self. After revealing that he has seen the eye before, Kamimura joins the Saints in their quest, much to Oran's chagrin.

Chapter 19: Signals

Descending into the lurid depths of the Mars club, an uneasy alliance of Saints digs for proof of a greater conspiracy. Viewer discretion is advised. Oran, Raimi and Kamimura enter Mars's bar in hope of realizing what further plans does Benjamin Palmer has installed for them. As Raimi realizes the sheer scope of Palmer's plans, Kamimura uses his previously bought token on an Out Of Order strip booth. However, revealing the booth's secret contents immediately alarms Mars, Phobos, and Deimos. Negotiations quickly break down and a fight ensues, but Mars and his thugs are quickly disabled by Oran and Kamimura. Mars reveals that holding Shandala in the broken booth was a favor for Benjamin Palmer, and reluctantly turns her over.

Chapter 20: Inside

Pull back the curtain. Shift the system's gears. Stare into the backstage mirror and gasp at the face you see. All will be revealed... on the inside. Shandala, after being recovered from Mars' club, is taken to a hotel, but still suffering from shock and malnurishment. In order for them to spiritually heal Shandala, Kamimura sips hallucinogen fungus into their tea. The drug takes them to the tragic events that shaped their lives. When they once again find their reason and hope, all four simultaneously wake, and see that Shandala is fully recovered.

Chapter 21: Convergence

With Shandala healed and tension mounting over Biocom's plans, the group debates what should be done next, as ghouls from the past loom close as peril. A group of marines barges in and shoots Oran, mortally wounding him—they have been tracking them using the chip installed in Oran's hand. However, Shandala unleashes her emotional "broadcast" power on the intruders, killing them, and then heals Oran. As Kami wonders about one person's ability to so easily be a monster and a savior, the gang agrees they must take Shandala home and they head for the pier where they find Gabriel.

Chapter 22: Revelation

Reunited aboard Gabriel's decrepit ship, a terrifying secret is revealed that shatters the souls of the Saints and awakens a slumbering darkness. Gabriel offers all of them dinner while Raimi and Oran grow suspicious of this coincidence. Gabriel later reveals that he used curare in the wine he served them, making them unable to move or speak but still conscious of his ongoing revalations.. He then reawakens Shandala's forgotten traumas. Afterwards, he leaves with Shandala.

Chapter 23: Ascent

Shandala's past echoes in the Now as the group converges on the BIOCOM building to face a military blockade and the shadowy architects of doom. After recovering from the effect of curare, the Saints compare notes and realize that Gabriel must be taking Shandala to the BIOCOM building. Upon arrival, they discovered that all soldiers in the area were slaughtered by an unknown foe, though cameras eventually show the familiar effects of Shandala's broadcast. The Saints enter the BIOCOM building, intending to search lower floors, but the trap is sensed when they are taken straight to the top. There, they confront Benjamin Palmer only to realize he was just another puppet. A horrific vision of the eye then appears before the Saints, crushing them to the floor.

Chapter 24: Truth

Every man, woman, and child on Earth will stand and bear witness to the fury in the sky. And in the final hours, Judgement will rain down upon us all. The conclusion of the series has all of the Saints' intended roles revealed by the Lears—with Shandala as the catalyst, a worldwide broadcast of fear would be sent out. The Saints were to be the first disciples in the new world order, but it is quickly seen that the meeting would not be one of joy. As Raimi attempts to change or delete the images of suffering that a crucified Shandala is being fed, Oran and Gabriel battle. During this, Kamimura relieves himself of Goku's spirit within a mirror and removes Oran's hand to save him from Dunham's own localized broadcast.

Feeling mounted betrayal and desperation as Raimi successfully uploaded previously taken pictures of all four Saints in relaxation (therefore lessening the potential of the impending worldwide broadcast, at the cost of getting blown from a high altar from Shandala's close broadcast), Dunham sets Gabriel to the task of killing an injured Oran. However, with his head turned to Shandala to be sure she understood his message (cruelty in the human heart), Gabriel was unable to see, and surprised to find that the final knife plunge was blocked by Oran's medallion. In the same moment, Oran shot Gabriel through the head.

As a final plea, Dunham asked Shandala to not let all the losses be in vain, but an aware Shandala denies him the wish. As Kamimura joins Dunham and Oran joins Raimi, an EMP launch is activated. The worldwide broadcast occurs at he right time, but Raimi's efforts have the message changed not to fear of God, but love for the fellow man. As citizens all around the world feel the effect and see Shandala's face, the EMP goes off and the upper level of the tower chapel is destroyed and the broadcast ends.

The epilogue reveals that Oran and Raimi are alive (likely due to Shandala using the last of her energy to heal them). However,Oran is still missing his hand with the arm wrapped in Kamimura's robe (as Kami was at ground zero to the EMP blast, there was no way to save him). They bring a box representing them all to Lomalagi, and when Chief Tsui realizes that his family is dead, he weeps. At the funeral pyre burning the box, Raimi reveals that even as the world's nations go through the motions of mass disarmament, he has stored the entire broadcast launch codes, in case anyone needs to be reminded how love and peace feels.