Disclaimer: Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve II, Third Birthday, Aya Brea, Daniel or whatever...they belong to Square Enix.

"What led you here was hope for tomorrow. Smile and walk toward the future. I'll be watching over you. Well, I'll do my best." Aya Brea's final lines.

Past Demons

"…That was a loooonnng night…Sleep well?" A young Japanese man in a messy blue suit and silver framed sunglasses greeted. If not for the look of intellect he gave, he could easily be a common homeless in the city. Or a moron who never had to dress himself up.

The woman named 'Aya Brea' startled at the sudden introduction. The voice was…familiar. She immediately gasped as she inspected herself to find a change of dress from the previous black vest, white eider coat, tattered jeans and combat boots, to now a set of black leather jacket, perfect jeans, white T-shirt and black heavy boots.

Her watch even changed to a monotonous black and white dial from the moment before. How did her clothing change all of a sudden? And who is this nerd? Does he know her?

"You were here ALL night?! I told you, it's not a Unversity Science Social party here, you need to go for your own sake." A voice identical to her own one spoken yet she didn't even feel her lips move. The voice was firm and shot a warning but there was a friendly tone.

"You're a scientist not a kindergarten student, you could have died of hypothermia you know!" Aya's arms folded despite the fact she wanted to keep them on the holster. Her body wasn't going with the way her mind planned. Her new body in this new outfit quickly pulled off her jacket despite the freezing temperature of dawn, her hand stretched out to the man as if to share warmth with him. The man politely gestured with his hand and bowed slightly to refuse.

"Scientists can't conclude in anything without reliable evidence. It's just one of those things….." The man growled out as he stretched his arms in the air, barely allowing the accent to destroy the quality amid the yawn. Aya's face smiled despite 'Aya' feeling her mouth was shut sternly and defensively.

"Oh hey Aya right?" He suddenly looked her in the eye again with an observing sight behind the reflective glasses. He took those off and rubbed them. "I er-. Please. Don't call yourself a monster….I understand your point."

"What point." Her voice went off again with someone else's words.

"I errr…can't express this well….but…I understand your….concern…but….monster aren't monsters after all…they like us are trying to make life better…guess…You're not a monster Aya.

"YEEEEESSS! HA!HA!HA! No TRAFFIC. THIS is the way it's ought to be here." A huge crackle came from a stopping screech.

A huge brown man in a plain beige suit and green tie flew out of the car as if he's size was nothing. It's not hard to guess he's a detective from the first size. Aya gasped again but no sound came. She didn't recognize this guy. However, some part of her did.

"Wait….Was this Mae….That creepy old guy who…." No sound came as she spoke. It was as if she was in someone else's body. Or rather she is.

"Come on. I thought you had a date to go to! Aya?" The view suddenly transformed with no warning again. Dawn was night. Sun turned into decoration lights. The Japanese man disappeared. Instead 'Aya' saw her hand nearly dropping a coin into the bowl of a sleeping old chap who looks like Santa Claus molested by a wolf pack from torn coats and messy hair that gave off unpleasant smells.

A short and slender Korean man called her. He was dressed casually, wearing an elf hat, brown cotton jumper, jeans and red tipped trainers. His expression was rather happy, alert. Appearing to be pretty hyped and bubbly.

"Well. I must voice my appreciation on behalf of her for your hospitality of the ride." The blond physicist in perhaps his 50s nodded to the younger colleague. His frozen blue eyes sent a welcoming glare through a thin spectacle. His face a grin.

"Thanks" 'Aya' quickly responded.

3 pairs of footsteps trailed off the silent night. A vehicle slowly drove into the traffic.

Another hallucination.

Life was hard to explain rationally to 'Aya' or the supposed Aya. The real Aya Brea died 3 years ago. What was left of her was only her body and the mind of a child that came out of nothing but a blastomere of cells containing the woman's genomes. The child worked originally only for experimental purposes of questionable morality.

In fact her creators were in one way or a bunch of extremist psychopaths who more or less were individuals that needed help. More like an angry toddler running with a shotgun. The only purpose that led them to create the child was purely destructive. The plan was to allow her to be the carrier of a deadly pathogen at the cost of her humanity. The pathogen would then spread across all the places known to man changing what precious genetics God made man with. What remained of the future would be a twisted and artificially assisted evolution where everything eats everything. Parents cannibalize offsprings, offsprings cannibalize parents. Where all life are back to the most primitive basics where it's just food, sex, and more children to feed on.

It was already a miracle that this plan didn't produce the bitter fruit. But the fact remains. The child's life still had its destructive purpose. Now on her family.

For ever since the day the child met the real Aya she had destroyed everything of that woman, there was some happiness that was brought into the Aya Brea's life but eventually all of the family, relationships, love, connection and gifts were a mirage to a meaningless destiny. The child had costed the woman's future with a partner, it costed her life.

The experience was more than enough to give her shellshock. It was inexplicable. The destructive power the child had gave her the ability to even manipulate the nature of time and consciousness. In the same city, the same time and around the same people, only at a different dimension, a different timeline, this 'Aya Brea' consisting of the original's body and the mind of the child would turn the world into a feeding den, where monsters appear randomly and consume, devouring everything in their way. A world where the physicist beside her known as Dr. Hyde Bohr will be hiding a darker agenda, something will mean he's not completely human, nor any normal organism on this planet that obeys its rules. He is nothing but a murderous plague born out of the child that will soon or later murder the one driving the car. The blame was eventually put onto a fatherly figure of the child's who more or less suffered the same symptoms due to their connection. That man's destiny was only a pawn for Hyde to play with, for Hyde even manage to achieve a crueler nature if not another miracle that happened with the real Aya coming back and disposing him.

That's what hurt the new 'Aya Brea' the worst. The original woman gave her life, she gave her own life which had directly the opposite purpose; to save, to a girl who looks like her but whose life is to destroy and murder.

This troubled the child from the beginning. To allow the child to live, the woman must die. When she died she would leave the world vulnerable to this sickly little useless brat. Who was not strong enough to save her family, who wasn't intelligent enough to calculate that she was carrying out the orders of a hostile evil, who wasn't sure enough of why she should live her life but at the same time take another role. Why can't she be the one to be destroyed instead?

The original Aya Brea took her consciousness and the child's body away. This had somehow averted a timeline where 2 species of life forms would kick humanity's ass off the top of the food chain. At the same time it allowed the child to live. For the parts left were her consciousness and Aya Brea's body which she took.

What did she ever do to deserve this?