---------Alyssa--------

My parents walked in the door. I jumped out of the computer chair to see them. Oh right! My name's Alyssa. I'm 28 years old. I'm living with my parents because my mom's five months pregnant with my little sister and needs help around the house. At least I hope it's my little sister. They haven't told me yet. They said I'll get too distracted at work if I knew. They just came back from an ultrasound. When I looked at the door, my mom was crying.

"What's the matter?" I asked, running over and hugging her.

"Alys," she started, using the family nickname for me, "you were going to have a little sister-"

"I was!? Wait.....what do you mean 'were'?" I asked, unaware of the tragedy I was about to hear.

"They couldn't find a heartbeat." she replied, tears streaming down her face.

No, I thought, this can't happen. It just can't! I could feel my eyes water and ran upstairs, to my room. I slammed the bedroom door and pressed my back to it. I slid down as I started to cry. I picked up my first stuffed animal, an old tiger plushie. I was planning to give this to my sister when she was born. I held it close. I didn't want to be the youngest, I wanted a little sister as much as I wanted a twin. My parents even said I could name her!

"No," I whispered, "this has to be a dream." I stared at the floor. I began to get an idea. I packed a small bag of things. A few bottles of diet Pepsi, pieces of candy, scissors, and my tiger plushie. I ran to the dark forest, as my friends and I call it.

I don't know why I was trying this. Maybe I watched too much Fullmetal Alchemist. But I did once a few years back with my cat. We found that she died shortly after running away. In vain, I tried to bring her back. I made an alchemy circle, put in a strand of her fur, and tried......it worked. As I ran, the falling snow blocked my vision. I slipped on the icy road. Getting up, I dodged an incoming car.

When I entered the main clearing of the forest, I stopped. I began to create a large alchemy circle in the snow with the soda, in my own design of course. In the very center, I placed the candy and the plushie. With the scissors, I cut a strand of my hair and placed it by the other things. After stepping out, I knelt down and put my hands on the ground.

"Please," I pleaded, "Please work." A vibrant red light flashed in front of me. I looked to see my twin standing there, eating a piece of chocolate while holding a bottle of soda and the tiger plushie. But something was strange....she had cat ears? Stupid cat must have been playing with my tiger plushie. But something else...she looked 14.

"Hi!" she said, waving at me. Her voice was so robotic.

"It's..." I trailed off.

"A miracle?" she asked. I just nodded. She was dressed like a vocaloid. The skirt, shoes, and arm warmers with the colored trim, but she had on my favorite shirt. A red T-shirt with a black heart on the chest.

"So, what's my name?"

"Huh?" I shook my head.

"You created me, so you should name me." she told me.

"Oh, right. So.......your name is Aly. Aly Neko." I said.

"And you're my....?" she questioned.

"I'm your sister. Alyssa Neko."

"Nice to meet you. Shall we go home?"

"We shall." I said. Walking hand in hand I realized that she was a chimera. She was 28, but her age was cut in half. I walked into my mom's living room. She was waiting for me on the couch. She looked up and saw Aly.

"Alys-" she started, but I cut her off.

"You remember Willow, right?" I asked. The little furball was sleeping next to my mom. She pet Willow and nodded. "I did the same thing for me."

"But, she's so young!" my mom said, astonished.

"She's a chimera. Her age is cut in half. Her name is Aly." I replied. "Aly, this is our mom." Aly went over and felt Mom's stomach. I looked away. I had to.

"There's no movement." she said. My mom stared at me. I took Aly's hand.

"Why don't you go to our room?" I suggested. Aly looked at me.

"Where is it?" she asked.

"Go upstairs, turn right, and it's the first door you see." I answered. She went upstairs and I heard my door close.

---------Aly--------

"Why is her voice like that?" I heard mom ask Alyssa.

"I don't know." Alyssa replied. "I'll try to fix it."

"It's like she has no heart." But I do have one, I thought, just no voice.

"I said I'll fix it!" I cringed. Alyssa shouldn't have yelled like that. I started crying. The two obviously heard because they ran in. Alyssa knelt down and hugged me.

"You have a heart." she said. "But not a full one. In order to have a voice, you must have a full heart."

"I will work on it. A full heart. Until I'm done, you can stay here, the vocaloid mansion." Alyssa's voice echoed in my head. So here I stood, in front of the vocaloid mansion.