"A long time ago...Two Nations fought over a Stone that said to tell the future...crushing and destroy anyone in their path to reach that conclusion. Slaughtering entire groups of people, for the sake of prosperity. Yet, it was never reached. Some say it is impossible to reach a happy ending with violence...perhaps that was the point? Such a silly story, right S..a.r.."

Chapter 1

Home

I opened my eyes, I was in a warm bed and a room. That's right, I was somewhere. The sound of faint singing entered my ears...it was awful. Like a lion trying to do vocals, my eyes flinched slightly as the smell of a fresh baked pie entered my nose.

I finally sat up, my head still pounding. I felt like horse stomped on me. I coughed before I noticed my upper body was completely bandaged. I looked out the window beside my bed. Outside there was a field leading to anywhere. My brain finally started to work.

"I...can't remember..." I let those words escape my mouth, I knew how to breath, I knew what a bed was...but my name who was I...nothing, a complete blank.

I staggered to my feet, looking around the room I took a breath. I dragged my feet to a nearby mirror. I had red eyes and white hair...well, white hair except an odd black streak in it. I looked like a teenage girl, I grumbled.

My head was still pounding.

"Hey...you're awake!" A heard a cheerful voice as I shook my head. I looked towards the window to see a small white haired girl tapping on the glass. She was giggling to herself as she pointed to the locks on the window.

I slowly crept up to the window and opened it. The white haired girl wearing a silver dress crawled through it and landed on the floor. She dusted herself off and gave me a wink.

"Golly, that look on your face, you don't remember me at all?" She tapped her lips as she tilted her head.

Did she know me..."Who are you?" I looked at her blankly, despite the randomness of the situation I didn't feel any hostility towards her...like I knew her from somewhere.

"Me...I am you greatest friend Nephy! Gosh, you really don't remember me huh? We're going to have to fix that right quick!" The girl giggled as she snapped her finger. A small flame appeared in her hand.

"You see this here? This is called...um, 'Memory restoring Fire Fonon's!'" it sounded like it was a name she made up on the spot. "Just let me hit you with it, and you will get all your memories back!"

And so she casually tossed the flame towards me. My heart skipped a beat as I moved out of the way. The fire vanished in a puff of smoke

"...Hey now, if you don't get it by it, you won't get your memories back. You're new to Auldrent right? So let me cure you!" She giggled again as she prepared another flame, for some reason I didn't want to get it by it.

So she blew it again, giving me a wink as I moved out of the way...a moment of silence fell between us. The cute girl's smile slowly twisted into a horrifying frown.

"I get it...you're making fun of me! You always had a sick sense of humor, kukuku, but that face and those eyes. I really can't let you live you know..." She closed her eyes as a glyph appeared below her. I held my breath.

However, the sound of the door opening behind me was heard. Nephy stopped her attack as I turned to the door.

Long light brown hair filled my vision, as a woman entered the room. She looked like she was most likely in her late twenties. She was wearing a long white robe with a strange symbol on it as she tilted her head.

"Oh, you are awake, that is good," she gave a warm motherly smile as I glanced over my shoulder. Nephy was gone.

"Well, do not just stand there...there is some clothes in the closet for you. Get yourself cleaned up and I will make you some breakfast!" She put her hands together. There was so many questions I wanted to ask.

She exited the room as I walked towards the closet, slowly picking out my clothes.

"You won't remember at this rate..." it was Nephy's voice as I quickly turned to face the window.

"You were trying to set me on fire before...weren't you," I frowned as she laughed.

"Yeah, that's the face you use to make. That thing inside of your skull, what we call a brain? She is going to be pecking at it, telling you to go to the Crag...I wonder if you will listen..." she wasn't making any sense.

"What are you even saying?"

She sighed before giving a shrug. "Oh well, you better get going, you probably have something better to do..." With those words, Nephy completely vanished from my sight. I shook my head again, as I put on the clothing that was in the closet.

They weren't particularly flattering, still it was better than just wearing pajama pants and bandages. I quickly walked towards the door and opened it. Not expecting what was going to happen next.

"!" My eye twitched as my hands moved in front of my face I caught whatever was flying towards my face...I looked at it, it was a simple apple as I looked into the room. The woman then smiled at me scratching the back of her head.

"Opps, curse me and my butterfingers. Sorry about that, but good thing you have such reflexes huh," the room looked like a small kitchen. There was a table in the middle of the room, there was a piece of pie on it with some other food laid out and two plates.

"A-anyway, sit down!" The woman put her hands together as I took a seat. Our gazes met as she opened a book and started to read.

My mind was drawing a blank, did she know me? Because I didn't know here, I was about to open my mouth but the woman spoke.

"What do you think is cuter, Cheagles or Liger Pups?" what a random question, but she opened the book wide and showed me a picture of both.

One was a picture of a cute rabbit thing...who's head was obviously far too big for its neck, and the other was of a puppy with no pupils. Honestly had trouble calling either one cute, but if I had to pick...

"This one...right here," I tapped on the bunny thing as her eyes widen.

"Oh, I prefer ligers myself. Cheagles heads scare me, it looks like their neck would snap if you poked them too hard," I remained silent before smiling, thinking about it, she was right.

No wait, I was losing track of what I was supposed to be doing.

"Where am I? Who are you? Who am I?" I let all of those questions race out of my mouth as the woman smiled.

"Where are you...you're near Sheridan. Or you could call this your home if you want. My name...well you can call me whatever you want, and for your last question...you're you," she was surprisingly unhelpful with her answers. Like she was purposefully being vague, maybe if I pushed her buttons a little.

"I can call you whatever I want...even Ocean Roster Cow?" I tried to think of a childish name as the woman frowned.

"On second thought, just call me Adagio," she laughed.

I got that out of the way, but that left the last two questions. She said I was near Sheridan, I faintly knew that place, but still...

"What about me, what do you mean I'm me..."

Adagio tapped her lip before smiling, ""well, honestly that was just a fancy way of me saying I have no idea who you are. I saw you unconscious outside my home, so I brought you here, that was a day ago...I get a lot of visitors like you though. People who forgot who they were, you're my fifth one," she made light of my situation.

"T-that doesn't help me at all, I don't know who I am...or anything, I don't even have a name," that was another problem, what would people even call me.

"If you don't have a name, then make one right quick. It seems like a proper solution, right?" She had a point...but what would I call myself...who was I today?

"Um...how about Tonic?" I gave it a little thought, but the more I thought about it the more it concerned me. I mean, that would be my name from then on, if I didn't like it...

"O-on second thought, how about Cadenza...yeah, I like that one!" Cadenza, it sounded girly enough for it to work as Adagio smiled.

"Well, like I said, you are free to pick your own name. You're lucky, most people don't get that option, now then Cadenza...why don't you finish your meal," so I did just that. We ate as Adagio picked up our plates.

Where words traveled through my mind as I wondered something. "You said, that there were other people like me right? People who forgot about themselves and you found them?" I asked blankly as Adagio walked towards the sink in her home, putting the plates in.

"Why yes, there were four before you. A rather large blue haired main, a blonde woman, a green haired boy and a pink haired girl. They weren't too far apart from one another, though they had a far more severe case of amnesia than you..."

"Severe...?"

She remained silent for a moment as she looked down, "they were quite skilled combatants, but they were incapable of doing even basic things like speaking or reading. It was quite difficult, but I had to teach them those things, that was quite a while ago. I wonder how they are doing right now..."

She seemed like she was remembering a distant memory as I shivered. I couldn't imagine not being able to even speak properly.

"Well, regardless, what are you going to do now?"

"Huh?" I tilted my head.

"Are you going to stay here? You are free to live here as long as you like, or will you go out and find out more about yourself?"

That was a good question, Adagio house was cozy, it was a place where I could be forever. It had the feeling of nostalgia even if I was pretty sure it was the first time I had ever been there. On the other hand, what Nephy said to me was still in the back of my head...it probably wasn't important.

"Could you give me some time to think?" I knew it was rude, but my brain was still wrapping itself around the situation.

"No rush, take as much time as you need. I have some notes I must take down, you are free to read any of the books on the bookshelf to pass the time," she smiled at me as she finished the last of the dishes and left the room.

I sat in my chair, just thinking. I glanced at the bookshelf before I picked a random one. I pulled it out, on the cover was a small note tapped to the front. 'Book of Fomicry...' I had no idea what the name meant as I opened it up.

To say it was filled with ideas that I couldn't understand would be an understatement. I couldn't even get past the first words before my mind collapsed on itself.

"Oh...you decided to read that one?" I turned around to see Adagio back in the room. I was positive she said that she was going to write something, but I guess it wasn't too important.

"Y-yeah, I just picked up off the shelf. Though I don't really understand it, guess I'm a little too stupid," I joked as Adagio looked towards the ground.

"Fomicry is the process of replicating an object using fonons rather than directly creating it. It is basically a short cut for production among other things, after all, making a chair is far easier if you could just cast a spell to do so..."

I really didn't get the details of what she was saying, but still. "That sounds amazing, you could do a lot of great stuff with something like that!" I smiled as Adagio chuckled.

"Yes...just think about it, you could make unlimited apple pies!" She almost cheered as scratched my head.

"I...was thinking about more along the lines of construction, but that's fine too," I closed the book before I started to look for more. Adagio simply looking at me, her once motherly stare turned into something a bit more unsettling.

"Uh...did I do something wrong?" I just wanted to flat out ask as Adagio simply shook her head.

"N-no, nothing, just remembering something..." a moment of silence as Adagio spoke.

"You know, right now Kimlasca and Malkuth are preparing for war. If you truly decide to leave, it is pretty dangerous out there,"

"...Sorry, but those names mean nothing to me," I was being a bit too blunt.

"Hehehe, sorry about that, you forgot important things like your family and name. Of course useless things like that would slip your mind. Still, it's important that you know some things..." Adagio walked towards the bookshelf and pulled down two books.

"Read these, they are pretty basic and give you a few lessons on the world. Now, I really do have to go take notes, why don't you relax in your room for the rest of your day?"

She walked out of the room, as I sighed. I took both books with me before heading back into my room myself.

So I read, and read. The time passed as I let my mind slowly wander a bit, there was a lot to take in from the world I was in. It seemed I didn't even know the basics, and before I knew it the sun had already vanished.

There was a soft knock on my door as Adagio spoke through the door. "I was just wondering if you were asleep. Do you need anything?" Adagio asked as I replied.

"No I'm good, I'm actually kind of tired..." I yawned as I leaned back in my bed.

"Very well, I will be seeing you tomorrow then!"

I heard footsteps as Adagio left me to my business. I laid in bed, my eyes slowly closing, at that moment I went to sleep.

Was I dreaming or remembering, I was cold. I saw a crack in ice and stone. There was something there, I know it. In a place of Ice and snow...maybe it was calling out to me. Like something tapping the inside of my skull.

Like a spider biting your brain and jump starting it with its venom. The chilly place, surrounded by six objects.

"Hey... are you listening? Something you need is near, after all...you are going to be the one that will wake me up...huhuhuhu!"

My eyes opened...it was already morning as I sat up and looked towards the window and my heart skipped a beat.

There Nephy was, her face pressed against the window. A great big smile across her face.

"Howdy!" She spoke through the glass as I grumbled, I knew she was bad news, I wasn't going to even bother opening the window. I was going to completely ignore her.

"Golly, that's no way to treat your one and only friend..."

I continued to ignore her as I checked the mirror. I was still me.

"You had a strange dream right? Fufufu, she's calling you...of course you could help me instead, instead of something that is old and busted...though you would hate that either way right? Just wait until you can have conversations with her, fufufufufufufufu,"

"Ugh, what do you want?" I glared at the girl who was still looking at me and her response was simple.

"I just want to have fun! And I hope you have lots of fun, wherever you go..."

She winked again before vanishing...she was gone for now.

I stopped for a moment and looked at myself...I needed to know more...

Author note

A slow starting story, hints given shows that this takes placing during the events of the game. Those who did a lot of the extra stuff in the game will probably have a good idea where this is heading. Though I'll let the story itself create the time line, considering we have more important questions that need answering.

Liger pups or Cheagles?