AN.: So, this is my first story here. I am nervous about it, but I think I can manage.

This chapter is more like the later half of the story than the real beginning. I do not know why I started like this either. The next chapter will be the real beginning.

Ratatosk is OOC because he don't have a reason to hate humans, and he was raised by Martel and the others. No one raised by Martel can be truly evil. And as I said in my profile, I do not know many of the character's personalities. If you have time visit my profile, yes?

Disclaimer : I don't own any of the tales of characters that might appear here. Nor the musics I will mention or put here.

I hope the ones who read this enjoy. It's a multiple character's pov story by the way.

Oh, and there are some characters from other games in here as well, as you might see in this chapter. They are not the focus so do not worry about not knowing them, but I suggest on looking up the ones you don't know to visualize the story better.

How it wasn't supposed to be ( by the crimson eyed one )

I look ahead and I see the scientists organizing the rest of the materials. They are really eager to study me, aren't they? Heh, bastards. They don't even care that I am going to die because of this, right? Well, I don't know if I would care if I was one of them either. I close my eyes and take a deep breath.

I start to remember the moment I was awaken for the first time...

The man who had bought me was showing me to a girl, at that moment I didn't know anything. I was like a newborn. The girl laughed and walked away. The man was furious. He took two necklaces, which had pendants that were blank and opaque, threw them at me and walked away, just like the girl had done. I stared emptily at the direction they had gone and, after some time I looked at the necklaces and took both, at the same time, with my left hand, but only one pendant turned into a red orb with a crimson wing, look-alike, inside.

I stared for hours, in awe, at them and, when it started to rain I stopped staring and hid under a building, just like the humans were doing. If I am not mistaken, it was a hospital. One of the employees, Martel, took me in and, along with her partner and friends, educated me. She explained me what a partner is. One of them is a human and the other an android. Their destinies are bound through an amulet that comes with the latter. She said that the thing that bonded them could be anything. A bracelet, like her brother's Mithos or like her partner's Yuan. An earring, like her best friend's Anna, or a necklace, like... me.

She also said that what truly bind partners together is a mutual feeling. Love, in her and Yuan's case. Happiness, in Mithos' and Genis case, or any other feeling that is mutual between them. But that love is the best.

I always brushed that off but now I see she was kinda right. Ugh, that is it, I am becoming too soft.

"Ratatosk, it's time." I open my eyes and see them looking expectantly at me. I groan and go to them. How many times have I heard this phrase today?

Don't answer, it's rhetorical.

"Where do I stay?" I ask annoyed, they are truly getting on my nerves, something like that is unusual since Martel and the others taught me how to be patient.

"It would be better if you laid here." One of them said while pointing to an iron table. I raise an eyebrow but don't discuss, no use trying to get comfortable when you're going to be turned off.

I lay where they said for me to and stare at the ceiling. I hear them chatting and getting the last things ready.

Once again I close my eyes and remember one last thing. Emerald green eyes. Those were the only things that made me different from him. I wonder if... he will miss me. I guess not, after all... Aster will go back to them after this.

"It's time." I open my eyes and look at the scientists that were standing at my right side. They don't have another phrase to say, do they?

He starts trembling with excitement, and, after turning my head back to the ceiling, I close my eyes and open it for the last time.

Glancing at my other side I see a blue-eyed blond looking at me emptily. He has a blank and opaque choker on his neck and he looks astoundingly like Guy, but he is taller and his haircut is different. I smile at him, he smiles back with sadness and mouths something that looked like...

I hear the sound of the machine starting to run and, suddenly, everything goes black.