This will be my first bigger fic, now that we know Doppel's real background I really wanted to do a new take on a Sig/Doppel story. Note that it follows up on ''First Day in Primp'', but besides Rafisol's friendship with Sig, the two stories are unrelated.

Prologue: The Arrival

The morning sun shone brightly over the town of Grimp and it's nearby forest, coloring the entire area in a warm, if still rather sleepy atmosphere. Within' the forest, but not too far from town was a house, inhabited by none other then lovaholic Ally and her ''sister'' Rafisol, the latter of which only now awakening from her comfortable slumber.

Stretching and lightly groaning the girl lazily rubbed the last bits of sleep from her eyes, while she still had much to learn about both the world and herself, having only been born from Ally's pendant a couple of months ago, she already knew for herself that getting up in the morning was not one of her favorite parts of the day.

Still though, she had good reason to get herself ready for the day as soon as possible, instead of trying to snooze off, after all this was going to be one of those days where Sig would come to visit. It had been about two months since they had become friends on that faithful visit to Primp and since then they had seen each other quite regularly. Usually Ally was with them as well and the three of them would do whatever came to their minds, sometimes they would just wander or sit somewhere relaxing and other times Sig would convince them to do some bug catching with him. Ally was always quick to go along with it, proving herself to be very enamored with the boy's love for the little insects, while Rafisol simply enjoyed to be in the middle of this trio of friends,

Indeed, since she managed to make a friend besides Ally, Rafisol had begun to lighten up a fair bit, something that her sister in spirit took note of and while it probably still take some time until Raf would feel comfortable to acquaint herself with others more often, she at least now had one more person to open up to and show her that she was indeed worth loving.

Either way, the cheerful girl's splitting image made her way into the livingroom of their home, to see that Ally was nowhere to be found, instead all she could spot was a piece of paper on the table in the middle of the room.

''Hey Raffy! If you are reading this then I'm still out grocery shopping. Sig came earlier and now he's with me too, but we will be back soon, we can have breakfast and then get intimate together as usual! Love, Ally ''

Was what the note said. So she missed them, a bit of a bummer, but not a big deal, they'd be back soon enough, until then she would do well to at least check the mail. Soon she was struck by the warmth of the sun as she exited the house, though at least she could enjoy the breeze of the wind a bit better, since she didn't bother to change out of her pajamas yet.

She made her way to the mailbox, still somewhat groggily all the the while and opened it up, only to discover nothing. Shrugging and not really wasting another thought on it, Rafisol was about to go back to her house, when all of the sudden, it seemed like she could hear something land on the grass nearby, only to collapse right afterwards.

Turning around Rafisol quickly discovered to her shock, that there was indeed the body of a person lying nearby, despite there having been no sight of one just a moment before. Still, she couldn't dwell on that for too long, quickly making her way to the body, kneeling down and cradling the person in her arms, to get a better look at their face.

The face of the person in question would proof to be another shock for Rafisol, the person looked remarkably like Arle, only with a darker hair color and red cloths, where Arle's wardrobe would be blue. Her condition didn't do much to help, her unkempt hair or the tired and pained, not to mention barely focused or even conscious look in her eyes would have already been indication enough that this girl had been through rough times, but what was even more haunting was how torn her cloths were. The side of her shirt even revealed a wound, that stained chunks of her shirt in dry looking blood.

A very uncomfortable sight indeed, one that was made even worse by the resemblance to someone that she knew. As much as the horror of the sight made her struggle to form any kind of sentence, Rafisol knew she had to say something, this was not something she had to experience before and truthfully she would have rather had it stay that way.

''H-Hey...you alright? What happened to you?'' The girl did not give a response, in fact it seemed like she could barely even muster up the strength to look Rafisol in the eyes, only expressing herself in quiet breaths, that at least indicated that she was still alive. Sighing and unsure what to really do, Raf swung one of the girl's arms around her neck and decided to carry her to bed. She had no medical experience and did not posses any healing spells, so for now all that Rafisol could do was to take her into the house and wait for Ally and Sig to come back. Hopefully one of them would know what to do...

(Doppel' POV)

Darkness.

Seemingly endless darkness.

And loneliness.

Her mind was clouded with them. It's all she had known for a majority of her life. Ever since she had managed to defeat the Creator at last.

At the cost of getting her old life ripped away from her.

Still though, she remembered the day she had finally been able to set foot back home again. The hurt, at being labeled a doppelganger and having to discover that another Arle had taken her place. She had tried to regain her rightful place by getting back Carbuncle and taking control of Satan, to challenge this fraud and set things straight.

Sadly things did not go as expected, everyone in her world had begun to play this ''Puyo Puyo'' game to fight their battles in her absence and as it seems the blue Arle seemed to be particularly skilled in that regard. ''Doppelganger'' Arle did not have the luxury to to have hundreds of matches of experience under her belt, she did try to compensate by using her most powerful shield spell to get herself an advantage, but it was to no avail. Soon she was beaten and ejected from her homeworld, back to wander the empty gap between worlds yet again.

Still she wasn't one to give up, to just kneel down and cry. She had been through too much to let herself get defeated like this. Ignoring the pain from the wounds she had received during the battle ''Doppel'' marched onwards, not even sure where to go or if she even made any real progress, all she knew was that somewhere there must have been an exit to this void, after all she had managed to find one before.

And so the months passed by, with ''Doppel'' continuing her quest to escape this dark emptiness, never stopping, barely even losing a thought on how long she had been doing this, all she could think of was to keep going. At last it seemed like she finally found something, a ray of light that upon stepping into it, spat her out face first into a pile of grass.

It was only then that she realized for herself that she had done it, no longer trapped in the void she could finally see something other then pitch black in front of her again. In her relief ''Doppel'' allowed for the exhaustion to finally take her in, only now registering how much she had strained herself, in her blind, but determined quest.

This would become even more noticeable when she suddenly felt herself being held by someone, a girl she didn't recognize, then again, her vision being rather blurry and unused to seeing something again after such a long stay in pure darkness might have had something to do with it as well. She was able to vaguely hear the girl calling out to her, but could not find the strength to speak up or even keep her vision focused.

It all was a blur really, she did eventually realize that she was being carried into a bed, but ''Doppel'' did not have it in her to savor the comforting feeling of the soft mattress or the cool breeze that came from the window.

All her mind could fully concentrate on was that she escaped and the memories of the other Arle, those things were occupying her mind, but after such a long time of wandering non-stop, she could finally get some rest, at least for a while. That's what she thought to herself as her eyes became increasingly heavier. The last thing she noticed were another girl and a boy, both of which she did not recognize either, both coming into the room, until she finally lost consciousness for good.

To be continued...