Sorry about the long wait! my real life has been hectic, so I hope all of you are still willing to read!

The Unknown Alias: Yes, it is a series of shorts relating to there elments, I will be pulling in ties from my other story ORIGIN of SIN. The more shorts that pass the more they'll be conected, you'll see now that I have free time to write.

LittleBrick: PLEASE forgive me for taking so long, alot of real live events have cut me off from wrting fan fiction for a while, but I'm back! I will be updating ALOT more... and I hope you'll read ORIGIN of SIN as well.

Kay Togahna: I know we talk all the time...but thanks alot for the suport threw my hard times!

Also, I noticed in Flame, there I have a bunch of typos, so I'll be fixing that soon...ish...as soon as I can!

Ok, this came to me sudenly because I was playing card with my Friend (thank you so much Taicho!) and word games with anouther (ya Lee!)

It has to do with clock Solitare, for thoughs who don't know read, if you know, skip to the story. You deal piles of 13 piles of 4 int he shape of a clock, the 13th pile going in the middle, numbers 1-10 and jacks and queens represent 1-12 ont he clock, kings go in the middle, you try to get every card to it's represented spot on the clock . If you get the 4 kings in the middle before you get ever card to it's correct time, you lose... I hope you got it, if not PM me and I'll try explaining...or serch it on line... so with no further delay our own dear British man, Number X, The gambler of Fate.

The winning hand, the final play.

These where frazes often used to discribe the way Luxord won his games. He never lost.

Almost never.

There was one game he could never beat, not even as a somebody.

Clock Solitare, how he hated that game.

Flipping a card over, he felt his eye slightly twitch, a king, one more king and his time was up.

A seven, good, four sevens, pulling the bottem card out he looked at it, six, setting it on top of the other three he pulled out the last face down card from that pile.

A five...he set it on top of the other three fives, it was a count down, but would he win at the end of it?
"Hm, a count down," he mused aloud, pausing, staring at the face down cards, this was the farthest he had ever gotten, he only had four, three, two and one to complet...but one more king in the cent and he lost yet again. Time was the one thing he needed, yet he never seamed to have enough of it. Never mind it was his element. Stopping time wasn't as great as people would think, and it took alot out of a fellow. He glanced up when he heard some one flipping threw the pages of a book. He liked the sound, it remnded him of a deck of Cards being shuffled. He sighed, Zexion, it would be him.

"yes?" he asked. Zexion set the book down,

"now that I have your Attion Profesor..." Luxord twitched,

"You're being Cheeky, what's got you all wound up mate? Axel put salt in your coffe again?" he asked. Zexion was the one to twitch this time,

"No, not at all. I'm reminding you to show up to the meeting, the Supiorier odered me to bring you," he pointed at the cards set up int he clock formation, "last time you missed it becuase of that. We all know how much you hate wasted time," he smirked. Luxord turned back to his cards. Time was pressing on him now. Ignoring the short young man standing infront of him he pulled the last face down card of the five pile. It was four, setting it on top he pulled the face down card from that pile...Three, he felt sweat forming on his brow...the next card was a two, he might just win...

King

He chuckled, setting it down, "I lose," he said softly, "Not even this gambler can beat time..." he stood, "Very well, let's go then, shall we?" Zexion nodded, watchign the older man summon a portal, pulling the last face down card from under the ones, he saw it was the last one.

"not even Luck can beat time mate," he said starting threw the portal, "so, maybe it'll just kill the sin that took my heart,"

I'm not Really happy with this...but I wanted to get some thing up so you all knew I was alive...I might just rewrite it...let me know if you want me to keep this version or not...

okami-nin