Title: Paws for Thoughts - IU

Characters: Aya, Capell, Michelle, Sigmund, Edward, Eugene, Balbagan, Touma, Rico, Rucha, Vic, Gustav, Komachi, Genma, Savio, Dominica, Kiriya, Seraphina, Kristofer, Leonid, Saranda, and Faina.

Couples: Aya/Capell Sigmund/Michelle Leonid/Saranda and others

Rating: Teen to Mature

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone/anything from the forum Infinite Undiscovery. I am only playing with the characters and promise to try and return them in one piece (Cannot really say the same for the sanity). Square Enix owns Infinite Undiscovery and its characters. There is no copyright infringement intended. I do not make any profit/money or take any credit.

Summary: Moments filled with sadness, humours, and happiness. Everything that a person should have because memories are our lives.

A/N: This is from a prompt table I wrote myself. Do not expect a limit amount of words for each chapter – any of my teachers can tell you that I suck at limiting myself to a certain amount of words – some will be short and some will be long.

Some will have mature contents – an 'M' be placed next to the title. It will not be in order, so I will place the number in the title line as it is in the table.

Not all of them will contain couples – there will be friendship chapters as well so I hope you will enjoy it.

Head to my profile for the link to the table!

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#91 – Deaths

Capell – many

Warning – it is kinda choppy.

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I sit here and think back on all the deaths I have seen since I joined the Liberation Force and I wonder was it all worth it?

The Liberation Force was a group of mismatched rebels fighting for freedom that the chains had threatened. There was a man called Leonid who had gone insane and started enchaining the moon to our world, leaving trails of chains everywhere and with each chain came death, destructions, and chaos.

I ended up arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The people who had arrested me were a group called 'Orders of Chains', they protected the chains. They believed me to be a man who they called 'Sigmund' and refused to believe me when I told them my name was Capell.

During this, a woman came out of the ceiling and saved me – despite my protests over breaking out of jail. I found out her name was Aya. While we had been running in the woods, she fell and I ended up carrying her for the rest of the way, not wanting her to overdo it.

Aya had almost died to what we call a lunaglyph curse; it was killing her from the inside, and nothing anyone could do to heal it. I refused to accept this and demanded for an answer. They were going to leave her behind to die but I was not going to allow that to happen.

Sigmund had given me the answer; in a small village, there was someone who could help Aya gets better. Edward had protested saying that I was not trustworthy but somehow, Sigmund trusted in me to look after Aya.

Looking down at Aya just removed any doubts that I may have had, she helped to save my life, and I would do the same for her despite the fact that I barely knew her.

Upon reaching the small town called Nolaan, I had met twins and we had gone through the shrine in order to find their father and a cure for Aya only for us to meet the worst sight a child could ever witness…their father dead.

The twins had been brave upon their father's death and ended up joining the Liberation in order to help other people. I had been so impressed with the twins then and they continue to impress to me to this day.

After that, Sigmund died protecting me from Leonid's attack. We never had a body to bury; he just disappeared in a flash of light, leaving his pendant behind. Out of grief and anger, I attacked the chain, smashing it and freeing the castle from its sorry state.

Dominica had given me the pendant and told me that I needed to think long and hard about what I was going to do next. Having the pendant in my hands told me what I needed to do. I needed to become Sigmund and that Capell had died that day at the top of Vesplume Tower.

It had been hard trying to copy Sigmund, it meant breaking all my habits, but with the help with everyone, I slowly grew into the role of being Sigmund. It was weird now that I do not have to be Sigmund anymore, that everyone now knew who I was.

While we were in Kolton, we almost lost a good friend to the Luna Rain increasing the power inside of him. He had turned into a Vermiform but we were lucky, we had managed to get him back before he was lost completely.

I lost a friend, Faina, and her brother. I had promised that I would protect her whenever she was in danger but I was too late. Overcome with grief and anger, I had turned my back on the Lunaglyphs, believing that they should be wiped out. It had caused problems between the others and me as they tried to help me in my grief but I would not let them.

Aya had scolded me for keeping too much inside of me. We finally talked everything out; allowing me to feel freer than before, I no longer had the burden of feeling guilty weighing me down any longer.

I almost lost Aya…Saranda had me wrapped in her chain and sent a bright light toward Aya, intending to kill her when Aya's father stepped in front of the light, protecting his only daughter. While the man and I had not seen eye to eye on things, I was forever in his debt for saving Aya. If she had died, it would have just pushed me right over the edge without return. I would have never been able to accept the world the way it was.

We continued smashing the chains we met up with Saranda again. Aya had admitted to me, later, that she had seen a part of herself in the older woman. That both of them were just following the man they loved.

We managed to reach Castle Casandra where I received the biggest shock of my life. An order named Iskan du Bal used to be a warrior for Casandra when Casandra had a King named Volsung but Volsung had turned his back on being an Aristo and being the King after losing his son and wife within a month. It had turned out that the Son was an unblessed, born without a lunaglyph and Volsung had been forced to follow tradition of exiling the child from the kingdom.

Iskan was the one who had been tasked with the duty only to receive a surprise at the end, there had been a letter tucked in blanket wrapped around the child, pleading for the child to be given a chance at life. For he will be honourable and kind, he shall be named Capell.

I do not know who was more shocked, me, Aya or Edward over the fact that I was actually a prince. I was Sigmund's son who he gave up and lost his wife in the process. It made sense when I found out because Sigmund must have regained his memories during the Luna Rite he had undergone. It explained why he had been kind and almost…fatherly toward me. I only wonder if he had been given the time, would he have told me that he was my father?

Edward and Aya had told me that it did not change anything, that I would always be Capell to them and that helped me to regain my thoughts. They were right; I was just Capell. Titles did not mean a thing, not when you were at war.

We managed to fight our way up to the top of Castle Casandra where we fought Leonid only to receive a surprise when I tried to cut the chain. It was the other way round so we went up the chain to the moon where we met the moon god, Veros.

It was Veros who had explained everything to us; it was his plan for the moon to be enchained. He wanted to destroy both the moon and our world so he could create a new world and offered me a place at his side but I refused, remembering my father's words before he had died.

We had to fight Leonid again but he was different, he was no longer Leonid anymore but a puppet under the control of Veros. Once we had defeated Leonid, Veros had been infuriated that we had turned our back on him and attacked us.

We won in the end and I ordered everyone back down to the world so we could warn everyone of the impending disaster of the moon crashing, we did not know if cutting the chain would stop the world. Edward had caught on and helped everyone to get moving, leaving me, Aya and Edward alone.

Aya had been confused over what was happening that I had to admit what I was planning. I was staying behind to cut the chain and the risk was…I had to stay on the moon. She had been furious with me, calling me a liar, and refusing to leave my side that, in the end, Edward ended up slinging her over his shoulder.

As Edward dragged her away, she refused to forgive me if I did this. I told her that I promised her that I would find a way to return to her, no matter what it took and I did but it took me two long years – something Aya had punished me for but it had been worth it, I had kept my promise to return to the woman that I loved.

Looking down at the bundle in my arms, he let out a small yawn, his little hands curled into fists as he settled down in his little cocoon of covers once more. He blinked open his red eyes before cooing softly.

Everything we have been through, everything we have seen, lost, and gained, it was all worth it for this moment with my son, Sigmund. I reached out and stroked the soft dark brown hair that he had inherited from his mother before moving down to his chubby cheek. He turned his head, his mouth seeking my finger to suck on it, substituting it for his dummy.

The moment I saw him after he was born, the name just slipped from me and my wife had smiled at me, agreeing with me as she felt the name had fitted our son perfectly.

"Is everything okay?" Capell, broken out of his thoughts, lifted his head to see his wife standing in front of him. She was dressed in one of his red shirt, buttoned up, messily. Obviously, she had just grabbed the first thing her hand met as she climbed out of bed.

"Just thinking," Capell told her and she gave him a soft smile before she slid onto the couch next to him, resting her head on his shoulder and looking down at their son. Sigmund gurgled when he saw her.

"He looks more and more like you every time I see him," she whispered to Capell, pressing a kiss to the side of his neck.

"At least he has your hair," he muttered and she grinned, running her hand though his dark red locks.

"I like your hair," she, teasingly, scolded him, her green eyes shining with sleepiness and happiness.

"And I love yours and you still don't have permission to cut it," Capell responded, seriously. Aya giggled, shaking her head before she turned to her son once more to see that he had now fallen asleep.

"What were you thinking about?" she asked Capell, curious.

"That everything we've been through to get here was worth it," he told her. Aya smiled before she leaned in and kissed him, tenderly. They stayed like that for a moment before she pulled away and they stared down at our son once more. He was worth everything they had gone through to get here to this moment.

The End

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