"Keep working!" my mistress, a Shinx called Miuki, said. I, Midnight, am a Kirlia, and, as you can see, I am a slave. Not a slave with a set job, either. I am to do any type of work my mistress tells me to do. If I shirk my work or try to escape, my mistress shocks me. Trust me, with my skinny, frail body, I can't risk getting shocked. "I'm going out. I want this place spotless when I get back!" my mistress told me. It is rather rare for my mistress to go out, for her job as a Messenger Shinx just means she can be lazy, rarely getting up to deliver mail (we live in a house with a forest on one side and a town on the other. With so many Messengers in the town, it is now just a job of waiting), so I decided to, as soon as she left, escape. Once I knew she had left, I ran out the window as fast as I could, running into the forest. Soon i came across a cave with a red cloud above it. "This is strange." I said, walking into it to find a maze. I tried to find the center, like I always do, and find myself in a room with a big, muscular man with pearcings all around his body and wearing a black cloak with clouds just like the one on the cave all over it.