A/N Uhh… Hi there, this will be my first attempt at Fanfiction so please be gentle with me. I've only learned of the Persona series recently and have quickly fallen in love with it, Persona 3 specifically. Probably wouldn't even be attempting this were it not for the stories here. Oh well here we go!

Well here I am, going back 'home' to Tatsumi Port Island. It's been nearly ten years since I was here last, and It wasn't a very happy goodbye then either, there was this huge explosion on the Moonlight Bridge and a lot of people died, my parents included, at least that's what the News reports said.

I remember though.

First thing I remember is the car stopping suddenly, when I asked my parents what was wrong they didn't answer, fearing, no, knowing something was wrong I looked at the front seat of the car, didn't see my parents, just two coffins in their seats. I was almost able to fool my self into thinking that I was having a nightmare…I wasn't.

Next there was this metallic…scream and another car landed right in front of the one I was in. I got out of our car and started running, to where I didn't know, I just knew I had to get away. As I was running I started noticing other things that were odd, for one the moon was HUGE and a sickly yellow as well, the sky and ground were various shades of green and there were puddles of blood everywhere! The ocean was also blood, when I saw that I stumbled and tripped. I twisted my ankle or something when I fell cause I could barely stand afterward, looking around all the cars that were on the bridge were stopped and had coffins in them as well.

I started to hear sobbing, the first sound I had heard that wasn't myself or whatever it was that I was running from, taking a chance I called out hoping that I wasn't the only one here. "H-hey is anyone there?" In a few moments I girl my age with reddish brown hair came around a car a little behind me with a scared look on her face that probably mirrored my own. "Do y-you know what's going on here?" She asked while inching closer to me, I could only shake my head wincing when I put to much weight on my foot. She seemed to notice this and immediately all traces of fear left her face and ran over to me and started asking where it hurt and what happened and such, she was talking so fast I barely understood her.

Just when I was about to ask her to help me walk there was another metal scream and another car fell near us…It landed on the car that the girl had been hiding near, she looked back and started whispering "Mommy?…D-daddy?" She then grabbed onto me and started sobbing, I could only stare at the wreckage, I recognized the car that had fallen onto her parents car…it was mine. Silent tears began to fall from my eyes.

I starting hearing other sounds, metal striking metal, gunshots. When I looked back the way I had run from There was this big black…thing, don't know how else to describe it, it was easily ten feet tall, humanoid body and had a big-ass sword. It/he(?) was fighting with this blond girl who looked like she was in high school. The big thing started swinging at her with his sword but the girl was too quick for him, instead his strike hit another car and sent it flying back away from them and us. I was frozen in place my arms around this girl I didn't know, both of our parents probably dead, watching a fight…I blacked out.

When I came to the redheaded girl was shaking me awake screaming at me to get up. I looked behind her and saw the giant throw the blond girl behind us, he started walking towards us, rearing back for another strike with his sword. I tried to push the girl away from me and him, got her away just in time for her to be missed… I wasn't so lucky, as I pushed her away from his sword's slash I didn't get out of the way completely. My left arm was cut off, right at the elbow, I watched in horrid fascination as it flew through the air, he was watching it as well, he reached out and caught it with his other hand and…and ate it. Then I started to feel the pain, searing, scorching pain was shooting up my arm, the redhead started hugging me again apologizing over and over. I could feel myself blacking out again the last words I heard were a monotone "Two vessels present for the sealing process…commencing!" Looked back and saw the blond missing an arm, I found this funny, there was an incredibly bright light, then I blacked out, laughing.

Woke up in a hospital, everything was fuzzy when I looked around, I started blinking and rubbing my eyes, I guess this caught the attention of a nurse nearby, probably waiting for me to wake up, I was very confused for a couple of reasons; one, I was alive. Two, I was rubbing my eyes with two arms, well one arm and something heavy on my left arm. Three was what the nurse said. "Oh don't do that dear, it won't help your vision, there was an accident last night and you were in it" Accident? The giant guy? "You must have been near a fire…I'm sorry dear but your eyes were damaged, you were blinded." What? I decided to ask some questions. "But my eyes were just a bit blurry I can see fine now. What did you mean? It's not funny."

That caught her off guard, I finally got a good look at her, black hair tied in a short ponytail, normal nurse outfit, completely horrified look on her face. "U-umm why are you looking at me like that?" Oh right my arm! It was in a cast…and I could feel it, but didn't the giant cut it off and eat it? The nurse handed me a mirror so I could look at my face, I couldn't see what the fuss was about just a couple bandaged cuts and some bruises, then I finally looked at my eyes, completely white, no iris', no pupils. "W-what!" quick turn to face the nurse from my bed again. "What's going on? Why are my eyes like this? What happened to my arm?"

The nurse seemed to catch herself and started talking "There was an accident last night and…and a lot of people died, we were able to identify the bodies, I'm sorry but your parents were among the dead, we… thought that your eyes were blinded because of their current condition but you proved us wrong, and as for your arm…it was hurt in the accident and was broken and cut in multiple places it will be a while before you can take off the cast, if ever…I'm sorry. Umm do you know anyone that we can call to take care of you when you get out of the hospital?" I thought for a moment "There's only my uncle…but he lives in Canada, can I use the phone to call him? I'm really good with numbers, so I can remember his number."

It actually took me a minute to remember his area code, looking around for a clock and saw that it was 23h12 so then it would be…10h12 thereabouts, ok ringing ringing. "Hello?" Oh right English umm "H-hi uncle Tyler? I-it's Lyn your niece…" "Oh hi Lyn how's it going? Isn't it a bit late for you to be up? Where is Tommy and your mom?" I started sniffling and crying a bit "T-there was a-an accident mommy and daddy they…they died last night a-and you are the only relative that I know, mommy was an only child and grandpa and grandma died before I was born…" There was silence as he absorbed the news "A-ah I, uh, I see I think that I can be there in a couple of days, where are you?"

I turned back to the nurse "Umm can I get directions from the train station to here?" she was about to take the phone so I had to ask "Do you know English? Because uncle doesn't speak Japanese at all." Quickly her hand was withdrawn and she began to list off the directions slowly so I could translate them for uncle Tyler. "Alright I'll be there in a couple of days, don't worry I'll be there soon, bye Lyn." "He said that he'd be here in a couple of days, is that alright nurse-san?" the nurse nodded and I remembered something "Umm nurse-san? Was there another girl brought here? Reddish brown hair, around my age?" She put her finger to her cheek as if in thought for a moment "Oh! You must mean Mina-chan! She's in the room next to yours, do you know her?" I nodded, what could I tell her? What really happened last night? "Alright then let's go visit her!" I follow the suddenly cheerful nurse down the hall, we pass by a clock on the wall and I notice that its almost midnight, a sudden pang of fear shot up my spine, I don't know why though.

When we got to the door the nurse knocked and a very quiet "Y-yes?" was heard. "Mina-chan? Is Nurse Sayoko may I come in?" "O-ok!" When we entered I couldn't see anyone at first then I say her red hair next to the bed, I guess she was hiding again, when she saw me she jumped over the bed and tackled me in one move "!" "Please get off, my arm hurts, not that I'm angry with you thought!" She turned a brilliant shade of red, almost matched her eyes which I just now notice are a deep red, odd, but then again who am I to talk now? She looked down at my cast then back at my face "Wait arm? But wasn't it c-" I shushed her and pointed at Sayoko, Mina-chan nodded, then the world turned green. Only thing I could think of was one word that I remember hearing when sneaking a peek at a movie mom and dad were watching one time.

"Fuck"

I immediately clapped my hand over my mouth, realizing what I had just said and looked back to where Sayoko was to apologize, but there was no Sayoko just a coffin, I gasped and turned to Mina-chan for comfort, no Mina-chan, just a smaller coffin. I fell to my knees and started crying, wondering why this was happening to me, my encased arm started throbbing. I must have cried myself to sleep because the next thing I knew I was flying down a checkered hallway towards a blue door, it must be a dream, I've dreamt of flying before. When I flew through the door I was in a blue room, no it was an elevator? We were moving upwards. There was a couple of chairs a table and two people with me, a old man with a long nose that reminded me of Pinocchio with a big grin and bloodshot eyes, and a woman who looked like she was around twenty, she had pale skin, pale hair that almost matched her skin and yellow eyes. The man started to speak.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room, my dear young lady. My name is Igor…I am delighted to make your acquaintance. This is Elizabeth, she's a resident here, like myself." His voice is…breathy? Like he is too excited to see me or something, the woman, Elizabeth I guess, began to speak "Pleased to meet you" "Umm nice to meet you Igor-san, Elizabeth-san, I'm Lyn Relis." Oh Igor wants my attention again "This place exists between mind and matter, dreams and reality…. It's been years since we've had a guest. Only those who have signed or will be able to sign a contract are able to enter here." I was really confused, I looked from Igor to Elizabeth "W-what's happening, isn't this a dream? What's going on?" Igor looked to Elizabeth then back to me "Ah it seems that you came here before you were supposed to, I believe that it has something to do with your eyes and arm."

I looked down at my arm, hoping to see the cast still there, no there was no cast, nor was their a broken and cut up arm, no what was their was much worse, starting at my elbow my arm was black, the deepest black you can imagine, the skin wasn't normal either it looked like it was scaled…or maybe something like snakeskin? It didn't feel like my arm anymore and the hand…the hand had smaller scales, to allow flexibility I guess, the fingers looked normal for the first two segments, the first for the thumb, but the final part of my digits were long talons, claws or something. I looked back at Igor with fear and panic he sensed this or read it in my face, he began to…comfort? No Inform me of what had happened.

"Your arm was indeed severed last night, and the final blast did burn out your vision, you now have something inside you, that something has given you it's arm and it letting you see, I cannot tell you what it is but you will find out in due time." "But, uhh, Igor-san what about Mina-chan? She was there last night too, why is she a coffin tonight?" "You must understand child, you were near death last night and as such your power is much more awakened than your friends, as you needed that power to live." "Umm ok Igor-san, but doesn't that mean that she will come out of her coffin eventually?" Igor's smile grew wider, it almost looked painful "Hmhmhmhmhm why, yes it does, and aren't you a clever child to catch my slip of the tongue?" It will be years before it becomes necessary for her to awaken, now as a reward for your quick mind take this." He holds out his hand palm up and a card appears above it and begins to rotate on one of its corners.

Remembering my manners I thank Igor before asking "What is this? If I may ask" "That my dear guest is your Persona!" seeing my confused face he continues "A persona is a manifestation of your psyche" Again confusion. "Persona? Psyche? I don't understand Igor-san!" He widens his smile even further, how? "It may take some time to fully understand, you can think of it as a…mask that protects you as you brave many hardships, you will come to understand, in time." I…think I get it "Ok Igor-san thank you for trying to explain things to me, thank you as well Elizabeth" She merely nods but Igor "Think nothing of it, now Time marches onward in your world!" He waves and everything fades to white.

Once again I wake up in my bed in the hospital but Sayoko wasn't there this time, instead there was a very big man with a huge beard, once I saw that beard I knew who it was immediately "Uncle Tyler! You really came! Isn't it to soon for you to be here though?" I could barely move my arms, my body felt so heavy "Early? Lyn it's February 17th, it's been a week since you called me, the doctors say that you fainted and that you haven't woken up since" He looked at my face and his eyes widen in shock "Wow the doctor was telling the truth your eyes are white…I thought that it was something that was lost in translation, only one guy seemed to be somewhat fluent in English."

"Wha- a week? Uncle I'm sorry if I worried you, umm, what's going to happen?" "Well your, uh, your parents' funeral is today actually I was just checking on you before going myself, if you feel up to it you can come to, I think that they told be that it was going to be monk Mutatsu who will be presiding over it, he was a friend of your mothers right?" I thought for a moment Mutatsu…Oh! "You mean bulldog! Yes I know him, and…yes I would like to come, do you know if they have any of my clothes here?" He points to a small suitcase near the bed and leaves the room so I can have some privacy, I manage to get a dress on over my cast eventually, every time I look at it I remember the black talons and shiver. When I finish getting dressed nurse Sayoko came in without my uncle, I look over to her and ask a couple questions "Umm nurse Sayoko? Is Mina-chan still here?" "No, she isn't, her relatives came and took her away, she was crying that she didn't get to talk to you again…" "Oh, that's to bad, umm n-nurse? M-my arm…isn't really broken is it? It isn't normal anymore right?" I look at her tears starting to gather in my eyes "No, no it isn't normal, the doctors don't know what happened so they decided to lie to you and hope that you had moved away before taking off the cast!" Wow she sounds angry I guess she didn't agree with the decision.

"I, uh, I see thank you nurse Sayoko, for all your help." I bow and exit the room. I find uncle Tyler at the front desk staring at the form to discharge me, I go up to him and take the form and fill it out, had it back to the nurse on duty who is staring at my uncle, mainly my uncles beard, everyone stares at his beard, it's an awesome beard. "Uncle your scaring the nurse with your beard, lets go…I don't want to be late." He nods and takes my suitcase, he has a taxi waiting for us, we head to the shine, we are some of the first to arrive so I head over to Bulld- I mean monk Mutatsu, I call him that because his cheeks sag and his face looks like a bulldog's, he sees us and comes over kneels down and gives me a hug, this surprises me, Mutatsu never gives hugs. "I'm so very sorry Lyn-chan, your parents did not deserve this. What can I do, what should I do? Tommy and Ayane were two of my closest friends…where will you go, do you have any relatives?" I point to Uncle Tyler " A-ah yes, this is my Uncle Tyler Relis, he will be looking after me, unfortunately he lives in Canada and doesn't speak any Japanese so I will be moving to Canada I expect." I could feel the old monk freeze when he heard this, he stood up and looked over to uncle Tyler, then up, uncle is really tall six foot two I think I remember dad saying.

Mutatsu is probably judging uncle on his appearance, he just sees a giant, thin man wearing a black turtleneck sweater, black dress pants with matching shoes, aviator sunglasses, shoulder length blond hair, like my own, and a great big bushy beard that almost reaches his stomach. What happened next surprised me Mutatsu began speaking to my uncle in fragmented broken English "You…take care her…or hunt and hurt!" Uncle Tyler was taken aback by this and could only bow and offer a quick "H-hai!" I think that is the extent of his Japanese. But Mutatsu accepted this and began to assend the stairs leading to the shrine, normally it would be the monk of this shrine performing the ceremony but Mutatsu wasn't having any of that and nearly stepped on the monk of this shrine's puppy, I handed my suitcase to uncle and ran over to see if the puppy was ok.

He was, fortunately, the monk came over and told me that the puppy's name was 'Koromaru', Koromaru was a very pretty white Shiba-Inu with happy, red eyes. I scratched behind his ears before the monk picked him up and walked away while muttering something about Mutatsu and booze.

The ceremony was a small one, just my parents friends and a few co-workers, realizing what would happen my uncle gave my his sunglasses and told me "Put them on, it will stop them from staring at your eyes and let you pay attention" I nodded my thanks and put them on. After the funeral was over I said goodbye to Mutatsu "Goodbye Bulldog-san! Be nice to your son ok! I….I hope that we meet again someday!" Mutatsu just waved and wiped away a tear. "So, uncle, shall we get going?" He nods and we head to the hotel where he had been staying this past week, it was on a street that I had never gone to with my parents before, the street was called 'Shirakawa Boulevard' uncle got a lot of stares and fingers pointed at him as we walked up to his hotel, the man behind the desk was very short, fat and oily, he looked up as we came in and leered at us, and welcomed my uncle back in broken English. Uncle turned to me and asked me to stay here and tell the oily guy that he was checking out while he went and got his stuff. "Ok uncle but please be quick I don't like the way he's looking at me" He nods and heads for the stairs, I walk up to the desk. "U-um excuse me mister? My Uncle Tyler Relis would like to check out now… he should be down soon."

And the Oily looked down at me and whispered "Oh, that's too bad, I was looking forward to you staying here with us…" Wow that was creepy where's uncle, oh there he is, he and Oily talk for a bit, I don't really pay attention, I was getting really tired, my uncle noticed and picked me up and carried me outside, getting even more stares and pointing fingers, he walks to a nearby payphone and calls a cab, I must've fallen asleep again cause when I opened my eyes again we were pulling up to the airport, he grabbed our suitcases from the trunk and we headed inside to our flight, and my new life.

We were on the plane and our flight had just levelled off when I looked at my uncles watch, it was almost midnight, I knew what was coming, suddenly dry mouthed I took the little paper cup that came with my in-flight orange juice and headed to the bathroom to get some water, I had just gotten my cup filled when Coffin Time kicked in, looking around the tiny bathroom which was now tinted green I took a sip of my water, it tasted like iron, I looked at my cup and it was full of blood, I drop my cup and spit into the sink, more blood, I begin to feel nauseous and lift the seat so I can throw up, when I do, more freaking blood! The smell is overpowering in here, I leave and start heading back to my seat in the now coffin-filled frozen airplane.

Just when I was about to swing into my seat I hear this…squishing from behind me, I quickly turn and see a black blob of goo with a blue mask with a I on the front of it, it's focused on me and heads towards me, I back up looking from side to side, looking for a place to hide, something, anything! I get a shot of Igor's smiling face and I remember the card…what did he call it….per-something. My left arm begins to throb in its cast again, what was it! Wait it was "PERSONA!" the spinning blue card appears again, without thinking I reach for it with my left hand when the cast touches it the card breaks with the sound of shattering glass, I have a moment of fear thinking that I had destroyed my own salvation when a loud female voice begins to boom in my head.

"Thou Art I and I am Thou"

"From the Sea of Thy Soul I come forth"

"I am Atalanta, the Heavenly Huntress!"

There was this…woman? Floating in front of me, her body was pure white, while her head was pure black, she had a simple sleeveless vest and pants that ended just after her knees both vest and pants looked like leather and were a deep blue color, she had solid red eyes and long light blond hair, she had a belt with a bunch of knives in it around her waist and a longer dagger at each hip, she looked back at me as if waiting for a signal…or command. "Atalanta, CLEAVE!" She took each of the daggers and did this cross slash thing at the blob, cutting it into four pieces, which dissolve, after which she dissipates too. I sigh, thinking that that was it, I hear the voice in my head again

"Master it is too soon to be weary more of the fiends approach from the rear!"

I swing around and see two more approaching, one behind the other, "PERSONA!" the card appears again and going on a hunch a swing through it with my cast, I hear glass breaking and Atalanta appears again, confirming my suspicion that I have to break the card to summon her. Suddenly I get a minds eye view of her abilities: ATALANTA- Fool

Weak: Agi, Light, Pierce Resist: Garu, Bufu, Strike

SKILLS: Cleave, Bash, Dia

Well then "Bash!"…eww, she raised both hands above her head grasped them together and smashed the first blob into the ground making it splatter everywhere…ok so she disappears between attacks and the blobs buddy is heading for me "Persona!" Card appears but blob is too close and slashes my right arm with its claws, damn that hurts, I smack it away with my cast and take a few steps back, damn didn't kill it…hmm…I wonder…"Persona!" card appears wait for it, Now! I raise my cast waiting for the blob to get close enough and smash through the card and into the blobs face/mask thing. Oh that killed it, and Atalanta is staring at me "uhh…Dia?" She raises her hand and a soothing green light envelopes me, the scratches on my arm are healing! Ok so file that away for later Dia equals healing. Atalanta disappears again and I am really tired, I get back into my seat and am about to fall asleep again when I hear her voice again.

"You have done well for your first battle Master, I shall be vigilant whilst you rest, do not worry, I will be with you from now on."

"Thanks Atalanta, I *yawn* think I will do that" Then I fell asleep again, if this keeps up uncle Tyler will think I'm narcoleptic or something.

"Hey, hey Lyn" Someone is shaking me, I know that voice "Mmn five more minutes uncle" "Lyn that was Japanese I have no idea what you said" Tricksy uncle making me wake up by thinking about translations "Ok I'm awake now uncle are we there?" I look past him out the window and I see night sky and ground, answered my own question "Indeed" "Eep! Atal-" "In your mind, he cannot hear me, so speak in your mind, and I shall hear you" Uncle was giving me a strange look "U-um my…arm was asleep and I got pins and needles going up it and it surprised me?" "Ah ok well, we landed so lets get going," "But its still dark out, it was a ten hour flight shouldn't it be nine in the morning?" "Oh I see what you mean, ya it's nine in the morning, in Japan that is, it's eight in the after noon here, or 20h00 to you." sudden dread, will that mean that I have to go through Coffin-time again today? "O-oh I see, thank you uncle, I forgot about time zones for a moment." And with that we left, uncle had his car in storage at the airport's garage so we didn't need a taxi but his town was two hours away from Ottawa where we landed.

The traffic was really bad for being in the middle of the night we finally pulled into his house at 23h45 err… 11:45 gotta get used to that. I looked at uncle's house it was pretty big, two stories, detached garage, looks like he's got a basement as well, the roof had gray shingles and the house was covered in yellow siding, he grabs our suitcases out of the back of his car and brings us to his front door, my new home. Nothing ended up happening at midnight, but I was kinda expecting nothing to happen, I had been thinking about the time zones and that would mean that Coffin-time would happen at 11:00 or 12:00 depending on this thing Canada has called Daylight Savings Time, it was odd but I could adjust, no, I had to adjust.

Uncle led me to the basement, apologizing along the way, saying that it was the only spare bedroom that he had. "It's ok uncle, you were kind enough to take me in, even traveling half the world to get me, any room would be sufficient" he's looking at me odd again "Um, Lyn? You really don't need to be that polite" Polite? Oh I think I see "My words are to proper and rigid correct?" He nods "This is not intentional, it is just the way I was taught, by my teachers, …dad…, and the dictionaries that they got so that I could translate for both of them" I smile at the memory of my father pleading with me to tell mother to stop hitting him with a skillet, a word he didn't know the translation for and she was making fun of him for "Stop hitting you with what dear husband?" I couldn't translate for him cause I was laughing to hard.

Uncle nods and leaves me to get acquainted with my new room, the walls are a dark blue as are the bed sheets, the bed is parallel with the wall opposite the door there is a dresser wedged in the remaining space from the foot of the bed to the wall on the right. The wall on the right is taken up by a closet and a full length mirror, and there is a desk with a lamp along the right wall. So this is my room for the immediate future, I walk in front of the mirror and take off the Aviator sunglasses that uncle lent me, I had honestly forgotten about them until I saw them in the mirror, and placed them on top of the dresser. Looking into the mirror, pearly white orbs stare back at me…I used to have hazel eyes, the same shade as mother's, my blond hair from my father was the same, I still have some of the bandages on my face from the…accident a week ago, I begin tearing them off, finding no scars or cuts, I see tears begin to form at the edges of my eyes, I go over to the bed and collapse on it, sobbing into the pillow, thoughts of my eyes, my…arm, my home country, my parents and the red eyed girl I barely said a word to that I would probably never see again, all of the emotional turmoil that I had been keeping in poured out into the pillow, I begin to hear a song, a lullaby in my head…was Atalanta singing for me? ~thank you, Atalanta, it's beautiful~ I had no idea how I know what it means, I have never even heard this language before, maybe it was Atalanta giving me the translation.

"Rest your head to sleep... Rest your head to sleep.. I'm next to you to protect you... Like sweet precious flowers... I lay you down to sleep… the care is like a golden key… To sleep like a small bird… To wake up to sweet bird songs... If you sleep Mr North Wind.. If you sleep Mr North Wind.. He gives you a boat full of dreams…To help rock you to sleep with the soft ocean waves… He'll sing a lullaby… You'll sleep and wake... Wake and grow…"

I fell asleep with tears pouring out of my eyes and a smile on my face. I awoke the next mourning to the smell of bacon and eggs…burning, seems like uncle doesn't know how to cook. I get changed, as I fell asleep in yesterdays clothes, put on uncles glasses, and head upstairs in hopes of rescuing breakfast, except uncle wasn't in the kitchen, there was a guy I didn't know, looked to be a little over twenty, around my uncles age frantically hopping around the kitchen, he's smaller than my uncle maybe five foot six short black hair and either heavily tanned or brown skin, he was wearing a pink tank top and jeans, he grabbed the bacon frying pan and yelped, looks like it's entirely metal and he didn't have a glove or cloth to grab it with. He's over by the sink now running his hand under water to help with the pain. Fearing for breakfast, I grab a cloth that is hanging on the oven's handle and move both skillets off of their respective burners. Looking around I see three plates nearby on the counter, I bring them over and divide the food, mainly to get them out of the still hot skillets to prevent more damage, but also because I hadn't eaten anything since the pretzels on the plane.

Mystery cook still hasn't noticed me, I turn off the burners and walk towards him. "Hello Cook-san? Are you alright? I removed the food from the oven I hope that's alright with you." He literally jumped when he heard my voice, he wiped around looking for the source of my voice, then looked down, I smiled at him "Do you know my uncle Tyler?" Realization appears in his eyes and says "O-oh you must be his niece Lyn, right? Thanks with the food I'm useless around the kitchen Tyler usually cooks but he is too tired from the trip last night to get up and cook for us. Oh! My name is Christopher Darrow, call me Chris! I'm Tyler's b-erm- f-friend, yes. Umm what did you call me? Cook-san? What does '-san' mean?" Oh right I can't keep slipping into Japanese like that "It means…Mister, or it's equivalent, and what were you going to call yourself related to my Oji-san…err uncle? Oh was it Boyfriend? Hehe" I couldn't help but giggle, dad had told me that uncle was gay but I guess he didn't tell him that he had told me. "Oh, haha, I guess you found me out huh, jeeze Tyler told me you were smart, but I didn't expect this level, shall we eat then? Before it gets cold?" I nod and we take our plates and forks to the table in the next room over. He stares at me when I said "itadakimasu…oh right umm it's similar to saying grace sorry, habits and all that." He accepted this with a nod.

There's a rumbling coming down the stairs, Chris identifies it as Tyler waking up and coming down to eat, he looks tired when he retrieves his plate and comes in to join us, also surprised when he noticed me sitting across from Chris…hmm I wonder if either of them would get it if I called Chris 'Oba-san' hmm maybe later, or now hehehe. "Good morning uncle, I was just talking with Chris Oba-san here about his cooking skills." Alright so Chris doesn't know what that meant but uncle is looking at me, so I smile, which makes him shake his head and sit next to me, and stares at Chris…angrily? "Oh uncle he didn't tell me, it was Father who told me about your…preference there is nothing to be ashamed about, and I would have assuredly found out sooner or later, please do not be cross with Chris!" Huh so uncle can have surprise, embarrassment, relief and look apologetic all on his face at the same time. "Fine, but since you did call Chris your Oba-san don't you think it would be fair if you showed him your eyes, and told him what that meant?" Oh it seems I went to far…well this is his house and he will be looking after me, they both will maybe, I should obey. "A-alright uncle, if you say so, I'm sorry Chris I was joking at your expense Oba-san means Aunt and as for the other part of my punishment" I reach up shut my eyes and take off the glasses, turn towards Chris and "My vision is completely fine, my eyes on the other hand…" open my eyes and look into Chris' light blue ones see him gasp and cover his mouth, even if I was expecting that it still hurt, I cringe and Chris seems to pick up on that.

"Come on Tyler, look at the poor girl, the translation was one thing but making her show something she wasn't ready for me to see was completely out-of-line! Don't worry Lyn it just caught me by surprise is all" I put the glasses back on and smile at Chris "Thank you for understanding Chris" Chris looks at the glasses on my face and frowns "Nope! Those don't fit you at all you need something smaller than those things, hmm, oh I know! Tyler do you still have that Morpheus costume from last years Halloween party?" Uncle looks taken aback and stutters out "I uh I think s-so? Why what does that costume have to do with sun…glasses" Realization dawns on his face along with a huge smile "Oh I see, I will be right back!"

I finish eating while waiting for uncle to get back when I was washing my plate I looked over at the clock on the stove and nearly dropped the plate, 10:59, well time to see if my theory was right, it's weird the clock is digital but I can hear the second hand counting down; four, three, two, one, Coffin-Time, my hand which were just washing my plate feel sticky, I look down and it is covered it blood, I rush over to the sink and grab the drying towel and frantically rub my hand on it, I look over at the sink and it is filled with blood, I almost feel nauseous but I catch myself in time, at least until I opened the fridge, the bottle of apple juice? Blood, Coka-Cola? Blood, wait, tap the bottle, yep carbonated blood, so wrong, and the bag of milk? Blood, ya they put milk in bags here, but in this Time they are bags of blood. Time for full blown nausea, I rush to the bathroom passing Chris' coffin and puke blood into the blood that was already in the toilet bowl. I suddenly felt the need for fresh air, I get outside and see that everything is green even the clouds, except for the blood puddles that had appeared wherever something has liquid before including the swimming pool that uncle's neighbor had…that was a lot of blood. "I wonder if I will develop a complex or something about this, any idea's Atalanta?" "I do not know, perhaps you will grow accustomed to it" "Hmm that may be worse, wonder how this will affect my school life, having this extra Time in the middle of the day?" "Maybe it shall be a blessing in disguise? An chance to stretch your legs and begin your Hunt." "Hunt? You mean those blob things? Wait Igor did say something about coming before I was supposed to, so I could use this time to get stronger, to help when the real time comes…yes thank you Atalanta." I swear I could hear her smirk in my mind.

The Time eventually ended only a couple of the blobs where around nothing special happened, they never got near me, Atalanta took them out easily but the experience was enough for her to learn a new move called 'Bufu' she said that it was an ice attack so that's cool. And there is uncle still with that huge grin on his face. "Alright Lyn I will be taking back my Aviator's now" I nod and hand them to him he hands me these tiny black circles connected by a thin wire, very small sunglasses, yet they seem to be mirrored, I try them on and am assured by the both of them "They really suit you!" "Looking good Lyn!" I can feel my face heat up, then I remember something unpleasant. "Umm thank you for these, but…sorry Chris can I speak to Uncle alone for a bit? There is a private matter I need is opinion on." Chris looks a bit saddened but nods and heads upstairs, I nearly drag uncle to my room in the basement "What's this about Lyn? Do you not like them?" Quick shake of the head "No Uncle they will be fine, they are still larger than my eyes and fit close enough to my face that my eyes won't be seen from the sides, no I need to talk about my left arm. Are either you or Chris good with wood working or molding plastic?" At least it's him that's confused this time instead of me.

"Uh, well yes, Chris deals with *ahem* making plastic molds of…things, it's a bit of a home business" Alright back to confusion for me, but he has what I need "But I don't know what this has to do with your arm Lyn, isn't it pretty banged up?" I shake my head "It was never damaged to begin with, they put this cast on so that I wouldn't start asking questions at the hospital, and since it's Chris who has the tools I need, we should get him so that I need only explain once" He nods and says "Chris you can come in now, she wants you here apparently" I turn around and Chris opens the door with a sheepish look on his face. I sigh then continue with my story. " Well the night of the…accident my arm wasn't broke or cut up, it was cut off right at the elbow when I woke up at the hospital my arm was in this cast, I know they didn't find my arm because it was ea-umm thrown into the ocean by the blast, now don't ask me how I know, you wouldn't believe me, but this arm isn't mine, nor is it even human, that's why I need you Chris to make a mold of my left arm and make a…case for it, I can apply bandages on the outside to make it appear like a cast but with the case I can remove it in times of emergency." Now they are both looking at me like I'm crazy, well it's no surprise, I mean come on I'm six and I'm talking about cutting off arms and being replaced with something that's not human. ~Any ideas Atalanta?~ "Hmm you cannot summon my card during normal times but I may be able to strengthen you and allow you to use some fraction of my power, focus your mind and push your persona power down your left arm, try focusing on my new skill Bufu, it should freeze your bindings causing it to become brittle enough for you to smash open" I smile as I begin to hear my cast crack "Fine don't believe me, it seems the true path but watch" the floor in my room is carpet but the rest of the basement is concrete so I step out of my room and smash my cast of the floor, Atalanta was right, it did make it brittle. I turn back to the now gaping mouthed couple, and hold up my black, armor scaled arm complete with talons. "See? Not as easy to hide as my eyes" They both nod.

(end flashback)

Coming back to reality on the train heading to Iwatodai station I pat my encased arm, which Oba-san, he actually liked being called that now go figure, had just replaced for me before I left for Japan, neither of them liked the fact that I was leaving them but when I said that it was related to my arm and my parents deaths they knew they couldn't argue. Hell I didn't want to come back but when someone you haven't seen in ten years shows up on your doorstep halfway across the world what can you do. Ya, Elizabeth showed up a week ago said that it was time to come home handed me a pamphlet on some posh high school called Gekkokan and a address and map to 'Iwatodai dorm' then freaking vanished. So I informed my uncle and heh 'Oba-san' packed up my stuff and got my new arm case from Chris as well as a very tear-filled goodbye hug. Since Chris had deliveries to make it was only uncle Tyler and me in the car on the way to the airport in Ottawa, you can bet that that car ride was full of awkward silence, when we finally got to the airport it was just after 10:15...er 22h15 going to have to get readjusted to that, and my flight leaves just before 23h00 so I have a bit to wait, after twenty minutes uncle suddenly stood up turned to me and shoved a small bag into my hand and said a quick goodbye and left.

The big softie…He picked up a set of twelve Morpheus glasses, no idea where he got them, damn maybe I should have talked to him some more on the way up, hell he's probably crying in the car right now, blaring that god-awful country music he and Chris are so fond of, never got into that crap, stuck with rock and jazz and stuff. Bah enough of this mushy stuff its 23h55 and I'm in a metal tube in Japan next to this random redheaded chick listening to her own MP3 player with red flats stuck to her ears. Might as well look at the scenery even if everything is a certain shade darker with my Morphs on, as we started calling them, but I was pretty used to it, never took them off in elementary school, nor my first year of high school, had to drop a few guys who tried to paw them, or me, thinking that they could take advantage cause my arm was in a 'cast' ~Thanks again for convincing me to take that extra training 'Lanta~ "Think nothing of it, it brings me great joy to see my Master so fit and ready for action, although to be honest your blood thing is kind of off putting, even for me…" ~Hey you were the one who kinda predicted that this would happen, ooh look at the glowing blue butterfly that can keep up with a bullet train…wait, WHAT?~ Something about having a year? Bah not used to having voices in my head that aren't mine or Atalanta. Man there is something about this girl that I can't put my finger on…and it's not that you dirty minded person "Do you speak of me? Because I do not have desires of the flesh, unless you were merely warning yourself away." ~Come on ten years together and you still don't have a sense of humor?~ Anyway back to the girl.

Actually maybe a description of my self first; I stand a whopping 5 foot 1 I have long blond hair tied in a simple ponytail so it goes down half my back , gots my Morphs covering my white eyed stare, my skin is pretty pale to, almost as pale at that Elizabeth chick from the Velvet Room, got a dark blue, short sleeved dress shirt on with my new school's uniform jacket thing half on, as in wearing it with my right arm in the sleeve and the left arm at my side inside the jacket, and some of my old jeans on as well as some generic black runners. Equipment wise I got my suitcase my cheap no-name MP3 with earbuds in my skull, and my Swiss-Army knife which Chris had somehow secreted into my suitcase when I wasn't looking, softie new I felt naked with at least one blade, well that was in my jean pocket now, ready for anything, I hope. Dammit! No more distractions time to describe this attractive girl sitting next to me!

Dammit she's taller than me, not by much but still… maybe 5 foot 2 or 3, she has her brownish red hair in a high ponytail that is unnaturally fluffy, seriously looks like a pissed off cat's tail, her skin is just slightly paler than normal and she's wearing the full Gekkokan high outfit, jacket-thing, skirt, the works, oh hey she's woken up from music land and is looking at me with her…red…eyes? Where have I seen this chick before? W-wait…couldn't be…"M-mina-chan? Is that you?"

A/N Well that's chapter one done, mainly backstory but whatever oh and the lullaby that Atalanta was singing Lyn is nana na koimitheis no idea what that means, it's Greek and the translations came from a very nice person in the comment section.