A/N: YAY! my first fanfic! weeps tears of happiness O.K. over that and moving on! this is just a story including the Fates and three immortals whom i thought up. I came up with this after a dream i had...stares in distance trying to remember dream...gets hit in the head with a knife that came from a closet...bleeds swoons...ok... sorry about that people. you can thank maren for bringing me back. rubs head and gives maren death glare Back to the point though! i havent stolen anything but i will tell you a secret ive been lent a character ;D. keep reading and updating if you want to meet the mystery character!

DISCLAIMER i do not own the fates or their names(which are their real names).
BUT i DO own Kaiya, Kana, and Aria + the story line. so woot woot for me!

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" There were three, and they were immortal. Sisters, born of the Sun and Moon.

There was the Sun immortal, Kana, who was born when the Sun came into sight on the first day. She appeared when the bright, warm light of the Sun touched the cold hard Earth. She was beautiful in the eyes of the people. She had golden silk-like hair that shone like the Sun, her eyes were the blue of the sky, and her skin was sun-kissed, yet still pale. But she was created from the Sun giving life to the Earth, and therefore she was given the job of caring for the people of the Earth and watching over them until the time came that they should die and return to the Earth.

The Moon immortal, Kaiya, who was born when the Moon reached the highest peak in it's nighttime journey through the darkened sky. She appeared when the silver-blue light of the Moon stretched through the darkness, capturing shadows in its beams. It robbed the Earth of the heat that the Sun had given it. She too was beautiful. She had long hair the color of the darkest shadows, that shone silver when the twilight touched it, her eyes were violet, and her skin was pale, more so than Kana. Since she was born of the moonlight taking the life giving warmth from the Earth, and creating shadows, she was given the task of taking the souls of the dead, and guiding them down the Moonlit Path to their final resting place.

Then there was the immortal of the Void, Aria, who was born when the Sun and the Moon eclipsed for the first time and the Moon blocked the Sun, and a space between them was created, which had no boundaries and nothing in it. This nothingness was the Void. She, like her sisters, was beautiful. She had dark silver hair, pale green eyes, and skin the color of milk. Since demons had been created from the Void at the same time she had been, she was given the duty to capture all of these demons, and banish them back into the Void, for she could open and close it at her leisure. She was also to help human souls who had managed to get trapped in the Void.

They were charged by The Fates to help guide human souls to the afterlife and help those who were stuck in-between. For The Fates were there when they were born and they above everyone else knew what the immortals were capable of. They took great care to do their jobs and were never careless. The people of the land loved them and they loved the people, and for a long time they lived in harmony, each doing their part. But the people started to forget about the three celestials, and though their souls would remember, their minds soon dismissed the idea of three immortal maidens who were born of the Sun and the Moon.

This saddened the maidens greatly, and they started to believe that they were only causing the people of the land misery. They loved the people and didn't want them to hurt, so they set off to hide in the yet unknown places of the world. Though time passed and the people all but forgot the maidens, they continued to carry out the duties that The Fates had placed with them, guiding and helping the souls of the people reach the afterlife. They consumed themselves with their work, and tried to forget that the people didn't remember them, for they knew that the souls remembered them for they would call out when Kaiya was near, begging her to lead them to the afterlife.

But the maidens loved the people too much to forget, and so, looking to one another, they said 'Why can we not disguise ourselves and live among the people? We could still carry out our duties, could we not?', so taking great care they hid the more celestial aspects of themselves, and though they would never truly pass as human they were pleased with their work. By the time they were done, Kana had taken the form of a temple priestess, Aria had taken the form of a great archer, and Kaiya had taken the form of a expert swordsman.

And so, they set off into the world they tried so hard to keep in balance. Some say that they still walk among us, and for all you know she could be the Moon immortal, Kaiya."

Kaiya sighed as she looked at the green oak trees swaying above her head. She thought about the legend the wise woman had been telling the children of the village and sighed again. When the old woman had pointed at her, she had been so surprised that she had thought that her heart would stop, which of course, it couldn't. For one second there, she had worried that she had been discovered. She thought back to the old woman's tale, some things had been changed, Kana had been painted as calm, collected, and level-headed. 'If they only knew what she was really like.' Kana was the most hyper, klutzy, and cheerful person she knew. Aria had been blamed for the birthing of those damn demons, she wasn't to blame, she had been placed with the duty of banishing them because she was the only one capable of opening the Void. Kaiya shuddered at the thought of being trapped inside the Void for all eternity, unable to kill her self. 'Being immortal has its bonuses, but if I were stuck in there again, and were not able to get back out, I would want to kill myself…which I couldn't do.' Aria was calmer than Kana and definitely more level-headed, but she was forgetful and klutzy too. Once when they had been in a battle with one of the demons, Kaiya had had to go inside the Void after the demon so she could try to kill it. Aria was supposed to hold it open until Kaiya got back out, but closed it as soon as the demon was inside. Kaiya had been trapped in the Void for three days before Aria and Kana had realized that she hadn't just wandered off, as she sometimes did, and had gotten trapped in the Void instead. 'Aria had to keep still for two days so she wouldn't fall apart again. I really shouldn't have ripped her apart like that….I caused Kana to worry a lot.', Kaiya thought, her smile being replaced by a slight look of guilt.

"Kaiya!", Kana said in a sing-song voice, "Stop day-dreaming and hurry up! We're leaving! Aria sensed another one!" Groaning, Kaiya got up from the ground and headed towards the direction Kana's voice had come from. When she arrived she found Aria drawing in the soil, and Kana sitting next to her packing her things. When she approached she found that Aria was drawing a map, small X's showed where demons were.

"Did you see something?", I asked, Aria just nodded her head at me and continued to draw. When she finished, she sat back, wiped her hands on her shorts, looked at me, and said "The demons are gathering in this region", she pointed to a spot on her map, "and are planning to take us on all together." I only sighed in response to her comment, 'Again? Don't they understand that we are immortal? Stupid things…well I am tired of sitting around all day.', I thought, 'With all these inter-clan disputes going on, I'm following The Path with at least five every night, I wish they would stop killing each other…in any case it is my duty to lead them so I shouldn't complain.' I came back to reality just in time to grab my bag and follow Aria and Kana down the path towards the valley where the next battle would happen. It was still early morning when we had set off and I figured that, walking, we could make it to the valley in two days. 'No, that's no good. To get to the valley before the demons get organized we need to be there by tonight. Running maybe…in this form we might make it there by night, of course we couldn't stop on the way there. Well, I'll deal with that problem if we aren't half way to the valley by sun high.'

'Ok, maybe giving our bodies human limitations wasn't such a good idea. I guess now would be a good time to ask Kana and Aria if they think it'd be okay if we let a small amount of power into these bodies. We really need to get to the valley the demons are gathering in as soon as possible, we've been running for a couple of hours now and we're not even half way to the valley.', I thought as we ran along the path that would lead us to the valley of the demons. "Hey! Kaiya! Keep up or you're going to get left behind!", Kana shouted. I hadn't realized just how far behind I'd gotten, with a small burst of energy I easily caught up to them. "Hey," I started, "Do you think it'd be safe to release a small portion of power? My body's starting to tire and I know I have more stamina than either of you." We slowed to a standstill, "Yea, we probably should, these bodies aren't built to withstand so much stress. That or we could have Kana call a couple of horses for us.", Aria stated. "But we could run faster than the horses with some of our true power, besides, we need to get there as soon as we can." I pointed out. After thinking about it I shrugged, it didn't really matter to me, the fights were always more fun when the opponents had at least little bit of a plan formed. Aria thought about it and then she took my hand, all of us knew I couldn't release my power until night fall without Aria's help, after all she was the link between the Sun and the Moon. After a second I took Kana's other hand and shrouded us in shadow. The Sun was at it's zenith, but we had stopped in a forest, so even if someone did come by we couldn't be seen.

We all closed our eyes and concentrated on not letting too much of our true powers out. It wasn't easy, and there had been many times that I had just given in and let myself return to my truest form, the form that I took whenever I walked The Path with souls, for that was the form they remembered, the form of the celestial maiden. After I had finished my duties though I would just walk around under the moonlight, watching the shadows and moonlight swirl around me, and sometimes I would summon the moonlight into a form I could touch and mix it with a shadow I had called. The results were always different and I enjoyed the time I had to myself and the Moon, time which I hadn't had for a very, very long time. I loved the feeling of having all of my powers back, the warmth that filled my human body would disappear and I would be completely comfortable. In my opinion human bodies were too warm, but Kana always said that they were too cold, 'That probably comes from us being from the Sun and Moon'. No matter how much I liked being in my true form I almost always reverted back to my human form before dawn, or else I would have to wait for the next night to come before I could change back, but sometimes, like when we had a big battle coming up, I would just leave my powers intact until the battle was over, Aria and Kana would too. It had been so long since I had been able to walk with the people of the land in my true form, with all my powers. Clotho told me once that there would, once again, be a time when we could all walk with the people of the land in our true forms with our powers. I had been overjoyed at hearing this, but she had not been able to tell me when this time would come.

'Having my powers back during the day feels so good, I can't believe I'd forgotten.', I thought as a small amount of my power seeped into me as I let my mental barrier down, it was a coolness that drained the warmth out of my body, the power flowed through me like an electric current. Once the sensation of an electric current stopped I felt a wonderful lightness, a feeling of being one with the Earth, but that feeling would stop when I stepped back into the sunlight, for that would remind me that I was neither part of the Earth nor was this time during my reign. Once we had enough power to run to the valley of the demons we let our hands drop to our sides while our human bodies adjusted to having so much power in them. After I was ready to go I dismissed the shadows surrounding us, and turned to ask Aria which way we should go, but before I could ask her, she collapsed.

"Aria? Aria!" "What's wrong?" "Did you see something?" "What was it?", Kana and I were almost yelling. She didn't respond but that wasn't what was worrying me, she never responded when she had premonitions, but she didn't usually collapse. She hasn't had a premonition this strong since our meeting with The Fates to discuss what would happen if the stars ever aligned. We had been standing on the high mountain I had been born on, and Lachesis had been telling us that if the stars did align something involving the Earth would happen. She did not tell us what the 'something' might be, but we understood by the way she had said it that it could either be a good thing or a catastrophic thing. As Lachesis had set her hand on Aria's shoulder, Aria had collapsed. She had been terrified after that premonition because she had seen a very bright green light, and she could sense something or someone, but couldn't see it. She had told me that she felt both the aura of coldness that came from me and the aura of warmth that came from Kana. This had confused me, because I didn't understand how anything could be both warm and cold, she had tried to explain that she hadn't felt them both at the same time, but they had both been there. Aria had said, "Lachesis was right, whatever happens, had both the possibility of being a good thing or a bad thing. Now it's not a matter of if the stars will align, but when." As I came back from my reverie, Aria started to open her eyes. She was at once the stone-faced woman that showed her face when she was in battle. 'Oh, no. This can't be good if she's gone into battle mode.' I thought. Just as I had thought, Aria refused to tell either of us what she had seen until she had a chance to talk to Lachesis.

I checked the position of the Sun, it was no longer at it's zenith, but not much time had passed. As Aria stood up beside me, I looked at her. White-silver hair. What ever she had seen had been powerful enough to shock the dark silver into her hair, a trait she had gotten from the Moon having helped create her. Dark silver was her natural hair color, although it very rarely showed in her white hair unless she had let a large portion of power into her body or if she had seen something extremely potent. 'Well, we better set off if we want to get there with enough time to relax. We'll get there in a couple hours now.', I thought with a slight smile on my lips. Running, now, was nothing. Our powers had both refreshed our bodies and boosted our stamina.

'Oh thank Kami', I thought as we reached our destination, ' It's almost night.' Kana, Aria, and I had been talking and we had decided that when we got to the opening of the valley, we would release our powers. 'Now I just have to find a nice secluded area.' I had never liked being around Kana when I transformed, because she let off sunlight when she transformed and I let off moonlight. This made it hard to be around each other until the light faded, because direct contact with light while half transformed could cause us to revert to our human forms automatically. That, ordinarily, would not be much of a problem, but on the eve of a battle could cause troubles for Aria, because then she would have to fight alone. Especially if I could not battle, because while Kana could fight, I was the best warrior of us. We had each chosen a role when we had first assumed our human forms and I had been allotted the slot of warrior, because death was naturally drawn to me and I had always been the warrior goddess. Kana had been a sign of healing and life, Aria had been a sign of the afterlife and of safety from demons, and I had always been a sign of death and battles by the people of the land. The Fates had given us the choice of what our specialty would be and because Kana disliked fighting and Aria already had the duty of banishing demons the grace pf fighting skills had been given to me. 'Not that I'm complaining.' I thought, 'I actually really like fighting, at least I do when I'm not fighting the people of the land.' Fighting was a real joy to me, I knew that and so did my sisters, it was one thing I was really good at. 'That man, he was kind of…funny. When he was telling that wise man about the demons.' We'd been in a small village after that last battle, and a man had come running in like Atropos was after him. 'Listen! Listen! The demons that have been plaguing us for so long have been destroyed! I saw the whole thing!', he was shouting. Everyone in the vicinity had come to listen to the man's tale, including us. 'I saw the whole battle! The demons took the form of men when three women neared them. For some reason they seemed afraid of the women, it was like they were preparing for a fight, and I was really confused, 'cause I figured that they were only women. I was about to yell out to them that they had to be careful, when I felt it.' The children were completely enthralled at that, the older folks were too.' I thought smiling. 'The man continued with his story and the kids almost passed out from excitement', at this point I couldn't help but laugh out loud, the whole village had gathered to hear of the destruction of the demons and the were all listening intently while I already knew what the rest of the story was. The part that had intrigued me, was later in the man's story when he was describing my fight with the demons. ' The woman with the black hair stepped forward first, and the demon leader did too. It happened so fast that I could hardly see it, but I felt it all right. The auras put off by the demons were powerful, but the aura put off by that woman was the most powerful thing that I've ever felt. I crept forward toward the battle 'cause I didn't want to miss anything, and I got a look at her face. She was up against about 12 demons at the time and she was smiling. She was enjoying the fight. Just looking at her, covered in blood, surrounded by heaps of carcasses, smiling and damn near laughing, it scared me. When I saw her I felt as if death itself was standing before me, wearing armor and wielding two katanas. Her friends they were fighting demons like her, but they only had about 4 to each of them. The blonde one was just as comfortable as can be, but the one with silver hair was serious about her fight. It scared me, them fighting like it was an everyday thing, something was wasn't worth being worried about.' The young people of the village had thought the man was insane, but the old ones were starting to talk about legends from their childhood. Legends involving three great immortals, talking about one in particular. The Moon immortal, Kaiya who was said to be the warrior of the three and who was also the one who led souls to their final resting place.

When I came out of the memory I realized that I had come to a small glade where the moon would shine right above during it's zenith. It was a beautiful place, surrounded by large maple trees with a large pond on the northern side. The rest of the glade was carpeted by tall swaying grass. It was truly beautiful, especially when the moonlight touched everything with a silver glow, as it was now. I realized with a small smile that if someone came here right now, they would see a woman standing in the middle of a beautiful glade, gazing at the Moon as a silvery light emanated from her body. It really would be a beautiful yet terrifying sight. 'I wonder how a person of the land would react to seeing me change into my true form. Although I don't wan to find out, the shock might kill them, that or my initial aura.' Smiling at this thought I let all my mental barriers down. It was a wonderful thing to discard my human body and return to my true form, moonlight emanated from my body and shadows encased me. A wonderful coolness settled over me and my appearance returned to normal. My hair darkened past the black known to the people of the land and was touched with silvery moonlight. My eyes deepened in color until they returned to the purple they truly were. When the moonlight around me faded I only faintly resembled the human guise I often wore. As I looked around the glade, everything seemed to be better defined, the leaves were more lustrous, and I was connected to the Moon in a way that no mortal would ever understand. It was a part of me and I a part of it. When I turned my attention back to the Moon I realized that it was time for me to lead the souls of the dead down the Moonlit Path.

"Kaiya just left to guide the souls.", I stated. Kana looked up from the snake she had been playing with while I continued, "I don't think she'll be back for a while. There was a big battle today and many died, and you know as well as I do that she likes to be alone. Especially with the solstice coming up." Kana just laughed a little and went back to playing with the snake she had found on our way here. I sighed, tomorrow promised to be a long day. There were a lot of demons in the valley and Kaiya would have to help me get every single one of them into the Void. Opening and closing the Void was extremely easy work, it was just keeping it open that took a lot out of me. Walking over to Kana, I sat down on the ground and grabbed a stick. After drawing a few numbers and symbols I said, "The battle will last about two and a half hours. That's accounting for you with your fire, me with the Void with my bow and arrow, and Kaiya with her shadows and her katanas. Cleanup, though, will take about one hour, because there will be many carcasses." "Will any of us be hurt?", Kana inquired. "No, but I may need a new bow after." I said, "But we can easily take care of that. I'll go into a nearby town tomorrow and buy one." Kana nodded and smiled, she understood that I needed time to think about the upcoming battle.

I got up and walked away, wanting to find somewhere to think where I would be alone. 'Kana and I will want to stick together for this one, Kaiya, of course, will wander off and take a large group of them on by herself.' I smiled to myself remembering how reckless Kaiya could be sometimes. 'Like when she ripped me limb from limb after I accidentally shut her in the Void. It was pretty funny how freaked out she was after that though.' I couldn't help but laugh as the memory of her face as she got out of the Void floated to the front of my mind. She had been absolutely terrified, 'Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again.', she had said. Kana had been openly laughing and I was trying my best not to, but my best hadn't been enough. Omitting the part when she had ripped my arms, legs and head off, it had been absolutely hilarious. Kana had done her absolute best to piece me back together quickly but it still took two full days for me to heal. Immortal, yes, but even immortals had to heal. Flesh wounds and lost limbs Kana could take care of in a few minutes, but when I had been decapitated, that took a while to fix. It didn't exactly hurt, but I could feel my limbs separate from my body. It was not something I'd like to do twice.

Looking up from my feet, I saw that I had come to a rocky ledge overlooking a good portion of the valley where we would be fighting. There were caves, outcroppings, a plain, and a river. Seeing as we had so much room to fight in we would be able to choose the conditions of the fight. Kaiya would probably head over to the plain so she would have more room to move and would be able to take on more demons at one time. Kana and I would probably head for the rockiest parts of the valley, seeing as fire wouldn't do us much good in the river. We were lucky to get such an open area. 'If the demon's plan had been completed, they probably would have moved the fight into a smaller area. Their best bet would probably be to surround us, then attack Kaiya all at once. She would love that, having a chance to take them all on at once. But if they did get past Kaiya, they would have to go for me second and eradicate the problem of the Void. Lastly would be Kana, since her specialty is healing and she has the least battle knowledge. Damn it, I'm thinking up battle strategies for the opposite forces again. I really shouldn't do that, what if a demon found out one of the strategies and used it against us? Oh well, I'll just have to be careful that I never say any one them out loud.' After thinking this though and making a few adjustments to the possible plans we could use, I headed back to where I had left Kana.

She was right where I left her, except she was laying on her back looking up at the stars. At first I thought that she was asleep, but when she heard me coming she turned on her side and said, "So did you figure out what we're going to do tomorrow?" "Yes, but depending on how many demons there are this time we may have to change it a little." "Okay, well I'm going to go to sleep until Kaiya gets back. Wake me when she does okay?", Kana said before laying back down. "Okay." I knew that Kana hated just waiting. When we were waiting for Kaiya during the night she would usually go to sleep, not because she needed to, but because she was bored. We all knew that when we were in our true forms we didn't need sleep or food. 'When we're in our true forms, we're far from human. I love not having to face weariness, it's such a bother.' I thought as a slight breeze played with my dark silver hair. My bangs moved over my face as I looked at Kana. She had transformed as soon as we had gotten here because it was sunset and she had wanted to transform today. She really was a funny person, she would be so carefree about the largest matters, but when it came to smaller things, like when she transformed, she would get an idea in her head and wouldn't let it go until she had completed whatever she had planned. 'She probably didn't want to be the only one without her powers tonight.' I thought, 'But, of course, I wouldn't either.' With this in mind I lay down to wait for Kaiya to return, occasionally opening the Void and trapping bugs in it to amuse myself.

When I returned from my trip down the Moonlit Path, I saw Kana and Aria laying on the ground. Aria was playing around with the Void, and Kana was sleeping to waste time. I walked over to Aria and plopped down beside her, stretching my legs out before me. "How long until sunrise?", she asked me. "Only two hours." The answer came from Kana who had sat up while Aria had been talking. I had already changed out of my gown and into my armor because I didn't want to waste time doing that in the morning. I adored my armor because it fit me perfectly, we each have our own armor and it reflects each of our needs and personalities. Mine resembles a short kimono with an armored breast-plate. Its black with blue and silver sakura petals on it, on my back I carry a strap that holds one of my katanas, the other rests on my hip. I wear black wooden sandals that have two blocks of wood on the bottom that keep me just a little elevated. Kana always laughs at me because she can't understand how I can move so quickly on such unstable shoes, but she doesn't have a lot of room to talk because she wears a full-length orange skirt with a pale yellow short-sleeved shirt. 'I have no idea how she manages to not get her arms cut off with that flimsy material covering them. Although she doesn't actually make contact with any demons so that might be why she's able to wear that, but how does she move in that skirt?', I thought, although she had already explained that to me about a thousand times. "I don't move around as much as you, my fire protects me when a demon gets to close, so I don't need to move around as much as you.", she had stated. I shook my head to rid myself of the memory, and ,turning my attention to Aria, I noticed she had slightly altered her armor since the last fight. "Aria, why'd you change your armor?" I said. "During the last battle I noticed that I had a blind spot under my arm and by my around my hips. I just elongated my torso armor and added a shoulder pad over my bow-arm. See? Now my torso is better protected.", She explained. 'She always does think things through thoroughly, I never noticed she had blind spots on her torso armor. Probably because she almost never gets hit by anything.' I thought. Aria's armor was now a full chest plate, complete with a winged shoulder pad.. It was mostly a deep green, but complicated silver designs ran all over it. She wore loose black shorts that came to her knees and wore loose green boots that came to her ankles. It looked good, very good, but anyone who looked at it could see that it served a purpose. 'Only an hour left until sunrise. Damn it, I cant wait for this battle to come. I'm already getting bored, well I might as well just go to sleep until the Sun rises.' I thought before continuing out loud, "Hey, will one of you wake me up when the Sun rises? I'm going to sleep for a little while." "Don't worry, Kaiya, we wont let you miss the fight." Kana said as she stood up, "I'm going into the forest. I heard something running around a while ago and I want a little exercise before the real fight. I'll see you two in a while." she continued before running off into the dark forest.

The Sun was just barely above the horizon when Kana kicked me in theide to get me up. "Ah, is it time already? Okay when are we leaving?" I said while getting up and brushing the dirt off of myself. "Uh-huh! Aria said she want to spy on the demons before we met them!" Kana was almost bouncing with excitement, she loved spying on demons, she said it was fun to sneak up on things. 'I never will understand how she can be so…hyper.' My thoughts were interrupted by Aria chiming in, "I just want to see how many there are so we can divide them up." "Alright then, if we're going then we should get a move on." I finished the conversation by starting off in the direction of the valley, the other two following behind me.

As we reached the lip of the valley, the Sun was steadily climbing in the sky. We laid down on our stomachs and looked down on the gathering of demons beneath us. There were about a hundred demons, one of the largest gathering we'd seen in a long time. "A hundred that gives Kana and myself fifty and Kaiya fifty. That seems fair, although you," Aria said looking at me, "will probably finish your share and come over to help us. Am I right?" "Probably.", was my answer. I knew that we would give them a chance to introduce themselves and tell us what they wanted, but I also knew that no matter what they said, it would end up in a battle, because we couldn't let them live. The Fates had instructed Aria to banish all of the demons, and Kana and I weren't about to let her face them all by herself. "How long do we have to wait until we can go to meet them?" I inquired of Aria. "Actually," She began, "we can go down any time now. I think they have enough numbers that we can start." "Excellent! Let's head down then."

A/N: ALRIGHT! first chappy complete! its really long -.-', ten pages typed...but im really proud of it! if you wanna see the next chappy you know what to do! dont you? ok for those of you who dont...one word:REVIEW! the more reviews i get the faster i update! arigatou for reading and gomennasai if it wasted your time! flames, suggestions, notes, or anything else you want to give me are all welcome! remember, review! arigatou!