The wind whipped across the sky as billions of snowflakes fall from the clouds. A young lady sits alone by a blazing fire. She stares at a picture of a man and a woman tenderly kissing each other. An elderly man enters the cozy living room holding two cups of hot chocolate. The young lady quickly folded the picture up and stuffed it in her pocket. "May I ask if there is anyone you were traveling with?" The elder man asked handing one of the cups of cocoa to the young lady. She answered in a small, shaking voice.

"No, I've been traveling alone." She took the cup and thanked him by nodding her head. He sat down next to the young lady and gently placed his hand on her shoulder.

"It's dangerous to travel alone in a place like this."

"I know but I need to find someone or something that lives in the Frozen Mountains." The man slowly took his hand back and left without questioning her. She stays for the night and left early in the morning leaving a note saying her thanks. The sky was slowly waking up behind her as she walks towards the big mountains. The town she just left filled with people that have been locked up by the weather for several days. A young man named Haku Kinyon sees the girl and decides to follow. When deep into the mountain the lady thought: 'What is this feeling? I felt this before. Is someone watching me? That's it! Someone is watching me.' The lady turned around. No one was there. "Come out! I know you're. . ." a hand covered her mouth and prevented her from yelling any more.

"Don't yell in the mountains." The stranger scolded her. The lady nodded and the stranger released her. "Hello, I'm Haku Kinyon." The now known stranger held out his hand.

"Hello Haku. I'm Aria Yoko."

"Why are you in the mountains?" Haku asked putting down his hand. Aria looked at a mountain that had no snow on it and pointed.

"That's why. According to this letter, an unknown event will take place in that cave at midnight and my life will change forever." She took out a crumpled piece of paper. 'That's the letter?' Haku thought looking at the paper than at the mountain.

"Let me come with you I can help." Aria turned around and looked at him with shock. "Aria, I'll help you on the mountain path. Plus, if you are going into a "magical" cave how are you going to fight the monsters protecting it." 'Haku does have a point. I'm going into a "magical" cave that is protected by monsters that will hunt me down and kill me if I steal.'

"Fine, but you can't touch anything. Got it?" Aria glared at Haku waiting for an answer. Haku nodded.

"I will not touch anything if you explain why you want your life to change." He turned his attention to her.

"Why do you want to know?" She looked down at the town they were once at.

"Curiosity."

"Yeah, well curiosity kills the baka [stupid/idiot]." Haku was about to fight back but instead laughed.

"I liked what you did there." He had a smile on his face that told you he is friendly. 'What is he? I mean I know his human but his different compared to the other human I run into.' Aria knew she could trust him.

"My life is not the best of lives but no one has a prefect life. My life is too, boring." His smile was still on his face for a few seconds then changed to a face that would scare an enemy.

"How are you going to fight?" Haku looked at her. Aria was a beautiful young lady with long black-greenish hair with a pitch black cloak rapped around her which only had a design of a dark green diamonds on her back. She also had a spiky choke collar and two spiky bracelets to match but one thing Haku didn't notice was her black and green tail. Haku was still waiting for answer when he notices she wasn't carrying a weapon. "Don't tell me, you were just going to charge in there when you don't have a plan or a weapon." Aria still did not answer. "Please, answer. I don't like being ignored."

"Sorry, did you say something?" Haku just turned his back to her and glared at the ground. "I was thinking, what is this is a trap." Haku turned around again and confusion written all over his face. "For magical creatures." She paused. "I seen these before. The magical creatures goes in but doesn't come out."

"Then we have nothing to worry about because were not magical creatures. Right?" It took a while for Aria to respond.

"Yeah." She said strongly but in her head she thought: 'Does he know? Does know that I'm a demon? No, what am I thinking? He's just a human at least his sprit feels human. Plus, he doesn't have that look in his eyes that hunters do.' "Let's go!" she skidded down the mountain they were on and started climbing another one. After a few hours of Aria going up and down, she reached the cave which was deserted. "Hello? Mr. Monster come out, come out where ever you are." Aria said sneaking into the cave. "When is Haku going to come?" she said mostly to herself.

"I'm right here. Plus, I killed the demons for you." Aria jumped at the sound of his voice and looked around for him.

"Uh. . . Where are you?" Aria continued to search for him.

"I'm right here." Aria looked at the wall that the voice was coming from.

"Are you in the wall?"

"Come on." A hand stuck out of the wall and griped her. Aria closed her eyes as she was pulled into the cave's wall. She felt everything stop after she was set against a wall. When she slowly opened her eyes, a pair of golden-brown eyes filled with kindness and worry where staring directly into her dark purple eyes. "Sorry, did I scare you?" Haku sat back allowing her to see him better. He had golden-brown spiky hair to match his eyes. He also had the poor and innocent look down with his ripped brown cloak coving most of his body. Now that Aria thinks of it he is quite handsome.

"Hey Haku, what happened to the wall and how did you get here so fast?" Haku's eyes showed that he was confused for a moment and then he was happy.

"I took the mountain path here, beat up some monsters and I was tied so I leaned against the cave's wall and I fell though. I tried to get out but only my arms and legs can get through. Oh and from this side there is no wall." Haku said what happened to him while the two carefully got up and head further into the cave to find a way out while stepping on bones here and there. The duo stop in a room filled with jewels and gold. Haku was running side to side pointing at stuff and saying "Aria look at this, no look at this." Aria was sure he pointed at the same object five times before he ran over and picked up a round gem that was a red flower covered in amber. Seeing Haku holding the sphere shaped gem snapped Aria out of her daze.

"Haku! I told you not to touch anything!" Aria ran up to him and grabbed his arm. "Let go!" She reached up and touch the gem but within seconds the gem started to glow. It glowed brighter and brighter until Haku and Aria could no longer see each other though the light.