Yui let out a soft sigh into the cold, open air. Her nose a rosy red, she shivered from the cold. Her platinum curls wet with icy mountain water, she let out a sneeze.

"You alright Yui?" A rough yet feminine voice asked with concern. Turning toward the voice, Yui let out a soft smile. Rosa, her friend, was standing there in her shaggy and ripped up shirt, her brown hair to match, uneven strands and split ends stuck out.

"Yes, thank you for asking Rosa." Yui replied with gratitude. Then she had noticed Rosa still hadn't woke up all the way yet. "Rosa…?" She waved her hand in front of the brunette's face.

"Huwha?..." Yui stifled a giggle at the strange sound her friend made. "Oh.. sorry." Rosa apologised and turned the other way.

"You should really go get cleaned up before Talia see's you." at those words Rosa's replied with a small 'yeah' and left. Her black shirt was all tattered and torn, the right sleeve torn off completely. Her pants even worse, cut up and ripped in several places, so dirty you could barely tell that it used to be tan.

"Hey Yui can you help me get Talia out of bed?" A mature and elegant voice interjected, interrupting Yui mid-thought. "Yeah I'm coming Lizah!" With her reply Yui ran toward Talia's tent.

Talia, however, was already in her wheelchair. Alyza huffed a sigh and crossed her arms. "Honestly, Talia you need to let us help you." Talia let out a sour expression, her blonde wolf-like ears dipping down.

"Don't treat me like I'm a crippled old lady!" Yui walked in the tent to see Talia growling at Alyza, Yui's sister.

"I didn't mean-"

"Then what did you mean?" Talia's words were tipped with venom, leaving Alyza obviously hurt. Before anyone could say anything Talia wheeled out of the tent. Nobody spoke after that, it was just silence. Alyza pulled her blonde hair into a ponytail on the right side of her head and briskly walked out of the tent, Yui soon following.

The sun was over the horizon now, slightly warming up the air around Yui and the others. Still she felt cold in the mountain air so at the firepit she sat. She looked around to see the others were all sitting there too.

The closest to Yui's right was Alyza, with a solemn expression in place. Alyza wore a tame green turtleneck under her light brown corset-like shirt, with a deep green skirt going down to her calves, fluffy brown boots covering the rest of her exposed legs.

Looking to who was next to Alyza, Yui saw Quinn. Quinn was quiet, but that was no surprise. Quinn was wearing a lavender dress, it bunched up at her waist, then under the belt was a long skirt lined with lace the sleeves puffy and ending at the elbows. A soft blue cloth came down from her shoulder and covered part of her chest and arm. Quinn's hair was also a curious case,it was a brown color dipping into a soft violet. It was short but had very long bangs that covered her eyes.

Turning to her left, Yui saw Rosa and Talia fighting over something- she wasn't sure what. Talia's wooden wheelchair creaked at her movements, but it seemed insignificant to the two as they just kept quarreling. Suddenly Rosa grabbed Talia's black braid lurking over her left shoulder, which caused Talia to grab a tuff of Rosa's right bangs. It was then Alyza had stepped in.

After the little squabble, everyone put on their fluffy cloaks and shaggy backpacks. Haruka walked over to Talia, ignoring the complaints received by the wheelchair's owner she started to push it along with the others walking beside them. "Ah, hoods!" Yui remembered suddenly. Everyone else seemed to have forgotten too, and slid their hoods over their heads.

After a long time of walking Haruka stopped pushing Talia. The girls looked at Haruka in confusion.

"Haruka?" Talia turned her head backwards to somewhat face Haruka.

"Its them." By just those words everyone just froze. In these days, if someone were to say something along the lines of what she just said, then it means bad news with bad people.

Mari looked straight into Yui's pink eyes with her own blue ones. It may have been just a spur of the moment look, but the emotions Yui saw in those eyes spoke volumes.

"How many?" Alyza asked.

"I'm not sure.." Haruka looked around wearily with her responce.

"We need to get off of the main path, stay together ladies." Alyza instructed with a face of utmost urgency. All seven girls moved quickly throughout the frozen woods, each straining their ears for footsteps behind.

Sadly it was all a futile attempt, for a trap was already set. As the girls walked, suddenly several lances had been thrown at them. Quinn let out a yelp of pain from being grazed not so subtlely on her right forearm. Not a second later several cloaked men submurged from the shadows. It was silent for a moment, until one of the girls- all unsure of who- said one word.

"Run."

The next seconds the exact opposite of before, everyone went into pure survival mode. They all ran in seprate directions, with pure instinct that lead them on.

Yui had ran to the far left- most likely the southwest direction- and three to four cloaked men followed her. Her breaths started to become strained after a few minutes of running in the deep snow. "I can't let myself slow down!" She thought to herself as she ran faster to heaven knows where.

That was a bad move on Yui's part. She was now cornered, stuck, per sae. Behind her was a slippery ledge with river rapids below, and in front of her was four cloaked men that would do more than kill her. Her hood long came off, leaving her semi-short hair to flow in the cold wind. She had fear in her eyes, but decided to take a chance.

"Lady Yui Evangeleane La Kominori, you have been ordered to come home to your father at once." One of the men declared. Yui then had a different look in her eyes, like a blaze was lit her face flared up red.

"I would rather die than go back to that man! He is not my real father!" she yelled with a uncharacteristic anger within her. She never got this angry before, not with anything, but that man made her quake with fury.

Before the men could grab her, Yui ran and made a jump off of the ledge. She landed right into the fast rapids of the icy river. Unable to swim, she could only struggle, and slowly but surely submurged under the water.

As she was swept away by the current, Yui thought about many different things. Her sister, her "father" and his twisted ways, how the others would be without her, and how she would finally get to see her mother again.

"I guess I'll finally be able to sing with mother once more.." with that thought everything went black.