Yo. So I might not be updating as quickly because of school, and I've lost the ability to use one of my thumbs for the next couple of weeks or more. Anyways I hope you like this chapter. The twins will finally head over to Namimori next chapter!

I also want to add a special thank you to colbub! ^^

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Chapter II

Alicia POV

Hailey and I landed with a thud.

"That's it! I'm gonna pulverize those two!" I shouted to the ground. I tried to get up, but my limbs weren't responding very well.

"Hey Ali! We got a couple of new recruits!" A male voice called out.

"Oh? Your right! Hey how're you doin'?" A woman's voice asked above me.

I looked up. A pretty girl with brown hair and eyes was kneeling by me. "I guess I could be better," I grumbled. "How's Hailey? How's my sister?"

"Your sister looks fine," Ali answered, "It's common for new recruits to show up unconscious. I'm surprised you're awake, considering what age they sent you here and all."

"Huh?" I asked confused. I looked down at my hand and saw that it was…smaller? "What the fuuuuuuuudge!"

Ok. Now I was able to stand, albeit unsteadily, but standing none the less. There was a mirror in the corner and I ran as fast as I could manage over to it. I stood in front of it in shock.

A man walked in. "So how are they?" He asked. I tackled him and grabbed his collar.

"Why am I a kid? Why the hell do I look like I'm five again? I finally get past friggin' elementary and I get shrunk to a five year old? What the hell! I just started going through that damn puberty, why the hell would I want to go through it again! Why? Why am I like this?" I demanded while shaking the dude.

"Hey Zach," Ali called cheerfully from next to my sister, "I was just about to explain the whole age flux thing to her."

"Why is it that I always get blamed for this?" The person named Zach ran his hand through his hair. He picked me up and made me sit down on Ali's lap. "Look newbie, you're like that because it's easiest to train yourself for your mission when you grow up with it."

"That's right!" Ali confirmed.

"What's their mission?" Zach asked.

Ali held up a piece of paper. "No clue. I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet."

Zach caught the paper and held it up. "Hmph, that's gonna be a tough one for these two."

"What is it?" I asked, ok demanded.

Zach rolled his eyes, but told me anyways. "You're supposed to play guardian angels for a boy named Sawada Tsunayoshi and his six friends. Through your main charge is Sawada. You only really have to guide and give advice to his guardians."

"Ooh! What's their weapon of choice!" Ali asked excitedly.

"It looks like the one in your lap will be best suited with firearms and hand to hand combat. The other one will be best with-" Zach whistled, "That's quite the list. Not only hand to hand combat, but the staff, swords, knives, and archery, with guns as her secondary."

"Of course Hailey would have that many!" I sniffed.

"Well I'll go put your sister to bed since she's asleep, why don't you go with Zach and start your training," Ali said as she put me down and stood up.

"Don't want to," we said at the same time.

"Fine, fine. Take her to David then," Ali waved us off.

"Wait!" I called after Ali, "I want to stay with Hailey! We promised each other that we would stay together, and she's going to want me to be there when she wakes up."

"Hmmm…" Ali tapped a finger against her chin. "Well then how about I carry Hailey and stay with you while you train! I can also give you a tour of this place while we're at it!"

This Ali person is way too positive, but she's like Hailey so I guess it's ok.

Speaking of Ali, she's walking away. Ah crap! My legs are too short for this. I have to run to keep up with this person!

"Ali, wait up!" I called after her, "My legs are too short to keep up with your pace."

"Oops! Sorry. Don't worry squirt, you'll grow up before you know it!" Ali said cheerfully.

"So I'm guessing that us being so young means that our main charge is the same age right?" I asked, trying to keep a conversation going.

"Yup, but you'll get more details about that from the head guardian angels. Over here that's going to be Zach and David." Ali told me.

I raised an eyebrow skeptically. "Head guardian angels?"

"Yeah. After Zach and David passed their own trials, they decided they wanted to continue helping others who get sent on trials."

"Was this the world that they were tested in?"

"Ha, ha! No, We can't go back to our original world or the world we took our trial in. In those two worlds Zach and David are dead. So if they were to suddenly reappear, even by accident, it would cause some serious problems."

"So who are you playing guardian angel for?"

"Hmm? Me? Oh, I'm protecting a woman named Aria."

"Aria? As in the current sky arcobaleno, the sky princess, the one who carried the orange pacifier after Luce, Aria?"

"Yup. I'm helping her through as much as possible since she dies so young. I actually became her guardian before she became the replacement sky arcobaleno."

"So you're her friend?"

Ali smiled sadly. "No…it's dangerous for guardian angels to become too close to their charge. When the time comes for our trials to end, we have to fade away and it's best not to have too many attachments on either side. I'll be done with my trial before Aria goes, so if we aren't very close then she can't miss me too much now can she?"

"So how do our trials end? I mean do we just die in this world the way we originally kicked the bucket?"

"Depends. Some die the way they did in their original world, but I've known of a few who die the mafia way."

"Ugh. The mafia way?"

"You get shot." Ali held up my file and read it a little. "Yeah, see, you kinda just dropped dead because of your connection to your sister so you're likely to go out the mafia way."

I made a face at this. "I don't want to die here by getting shot."

"Well you could also be one of the ones who go out by illness."

"That sounds long and painful."

"Well you're running out of options squirt."

As we walked around this giant building, Ali told me about the different rooms and facilities. As it turns out, we now reside in a small village. The building we arrived in was the main office area. We were going to have our intellectual studies here too. The physical training facilities were right behind this building and each member had a house to themselves.

Unfortunately for Hailey and me, since we were so young we would have to live with another member. On the other hand, I suppose we were lucky enough to get bunked with Ali. What I didn't completely understand was that we were the youngest members. The youngest before us were in their late teens. The rest were in their 20's to mid 30's.

When we went outside and started heading to the training facilities I was reminded why I hated being a little kid. The females that spotted us came rushing over and started cooing over me. Lucky Hailey was sleeping on Ali's back with her face hidden behind Ali's shoulder, so I got all the unwanted attention.

"Aaaaaww! She's so cute!" One with light (like nearly white) blond hair squealed in my face and pulled me into a hug.

"Aaaaw! She's so small! I wanna play with her!" A girl with red hair and green eyes giggled and pulled me into a hug as well.

"Oooh! Let's do her hair!" A girl with black hair said excitedly.

"Yeah! And we can dress her up!" A girl with strawberry blond hair said enthusiastically as she picked me up.

Oh my god what was this. What am I, your friggin' dolly?

I sent a desperate WILL-YOU-F-ING-SAVE-ME-ALREADY? look to Ali.

She giggled but walked forward to stop them from taking me away. "Girls, chill. I'm giving these two a tour and then this one is going to train with David for a little bit."

"Aaaaaah, Ali you're so stingy!" The strawberry blond complained.

"Yeah, you just want her for yourself!" The girl with the red hair grumbled.

The moment my feet touched the ground I ran and hid behind Ali's leg.

I can't believe how helpless I am in this state!

Thankfully those women didn't follow us as we continued on our way. The rest of the way to the training facilities Ali explained how everyone here made up the Perduto e Dimenticato Famiglia. The Dimenticato Famiglia for short. Since everything in this world revolved around the mafia, it was natural that our group of the dead on trials would form a mafia family as well. It made each of our trials a whole lot easier.

As we neared a rather large structure the wall was blown apart.

"The wall! The wall…..the wall was blown apart. The wall was destroyed. Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" I cried out as I panicked and pointed to the other 3/4 of the building.

Ali just laughed at me. "Hey David! Jamie! That's coming out of your budget!"

A guy popped his head out of the huge hole and waved at us. "Hey Ali. We were testing out Jamie's weapon of choice."

"Ali! Ali! Look! I can finally use this missile launcher properly!" A girl called excitedly as she ran out of the partially destroyed building.

"Oh my god! She's running out of there with a missile launcher! What are you trying to do kill us?" I screamed and backed away.

For some reason this made Ali break out into a fit of laughter. The other girl, Jamie, slowed down and walked the rest of the way to us. But I wasn't taking any chances. If that thing went off, I wanted to make sure that I could grab Hailey and make a run for it.

When Ali finally calmed down looked at me and said, "Sorry, your reactions were just so funny. We've been around this stuff for so long that we've gotten used to it. Anyways, you can't die. You're technically already dead. I mean it would still hurt a lot, but you would still remain in this world."

"Hey, who's the munchkin?" The guy, apparently named David, asked.

I could feel a vein throbbing. What was with all the stupid shorty nicknames?

"This one's Alicia!" Ali answered as she handed over Hailey's and my file, "Since she was conscious after landing I decided you should see her now."

"Huh, you were awake right after getting here? That's pretty good! So that means you should have sun flames." David glanced over me and Hailey.

Jamie raised her eyebrows. "But I'm pretty sure you had to have something stronger than just sun flames. I mean she's five."

"Well it says here that they're twins. I've heard that twins to have the more unusual types of flames. But we'll have to find out through training, eh?" David handed back the file. "So why don't we start with testing your endurance and combat ability"

"And how are you going to do that?" I asked sarcastically.

"Well I'll conduct the combat part. But for your endurance test why don't we just see how long you can outrun Jamie." David clapped and rubbed his hands together in anticipation.

"Oh I get it! This way you can finish working with Jamie too right?" Ali asked.

David nodded. "Exactly. It'll be like killing two birds with one stone."

"Okay shorty, you better start running!" Jamie said excitedly.

I looked at them in confusion. I could feel horror starting to creep into my chest. "Wait, what?"

"Start running squirt or you're in for a lot of pain." Ali sniggered a little.

And to make it worse, Jamie pointed the missile launcher straight at me.


Hailey POV

I jumped off of Ali's back.

"Hailey you're awake?" Alicia cried as she hugged me.

"Yup, I've actually been awake this whole time." I laughed nervously and rubbed the back of my head.

"Huh? Then how come you didn't say anything?" Alicia demanded.

"Well, I wanted to study their behavior to see if they were really trustworthy. But then it sounded like you were going to get blown to bits so I decided that I should stop pretending."

"Cautious one, ain'tchya?" Jamie joked.

"But that's not bad. For the two of you to both be awake after the landing, you both have to have some pretty strong flames," David mused.

I lowered my head a little in shame. "I'm sorry. I just wanted to make sure that my sister and I could completely trust you guys. It's the only way I can protect my sister."

Ali bent down and patted my head. "It's okay kiddo. You two really care about each other, and it's important to have a strong bond. But you don't have to worry. Everyone here is really nice and we'll all do our best to help you two when we can!"

I smiled. I had already figured this out from listening to Alicia's and Ali's conversation.

"So are we gonna test them out or what?" Jamie called impatiently.

But I was already on the other side of the field hiding in the trees. "Go for it!"

"Hailey you traitor!" Alicia yelled as she booked it, as fast as she could away from Jamie.


Il perduto e dimenticato = The lost and forgotten


Thanks for reading! I'll try to finish up my next chapter soon!

Also I want to say get well to my friend Lily (winterlily24) who is in the hospital right now! I hope you feel better soon!

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