After finally recuperating her emotions and placing them back at bay (and also her kimono and hair), Mayumi left her spot from the roof and entered the castle. She began to pace around the halls, every once in a while running into a waddle dee, and afterwards either finding her foot or fist on its face. Finally deciding she had enough, she decided to venture into the lower parts of the castle.

Mayumi soon found herself lost in the cyan tints of the passage, every twist and turn of the castle looking familiar to her eyes that had seen much more than crumbling cement and torches hoisted onto walls. Sighing reluctantly to herself, she sat down, clutching her aching feet that protested against her recent activities.

She decided to make use of the spare time that had finally placed itself in her hands to check any wounds on her body, and her seal by pulling her kimono away from her hip. It seemed like it was beginning to not only grab a hold on her Demon powers, but on her physical aspects as well, due to the fact that the dim, blue glow was beginning to grow to one of magenta.

Putting back her kimono into place, Mayumi sighed and leaned against the wall, feeling frustrated and upset since that little girl and Knight had been so snoopy about her past. For the recent few days, they had been reviewing her like a lab rat, and she hadn't enjoyed it in the least bit. No one ever seemed to respect her for what she was, and it was pushing her closer to her limit.

She was never one to be proud of her patience, and many battles were basic evidence of that. Since she was easily irritated, she often jumped into battles without plan or tactic, and often ended up with large gashes, and her protectors being on the ill-humored side of things, fussing over her once again, as if she was family to them.

She had known the real reason for not accepting any of their help after she had obtained her blood. She knew that she didn't pay much attention to them for a different reason. It had been to protect her own emotions from the pain that she knew was inevitable if she were to lose them. So she distanced herself from them and their warm embraces that they offered, not letting even one being in.

"I want to order a demon beast that cools things off! It's too hot!" Mayumi turned her head towards the source of where the voices were coming from.

"Yeah! Do you know how many fans we've had to buy from you guys?!" A second voice pitched in.

Curiosity was now beginning to be evident in Mayumi's body language. Deciding she'd need to go incognito for this, she transformed herself into a small twin-tailed fox. Since it didn't require loads of power to do so, it hadn't interacted with the seal, making things much easier for her.

She pranced over to the massive double doors, her twin tails assisting in opening them enough so that her small frame could enter. Dashing behind a trashcan in the throne room, she had barely managed to go unnoticed by the few Waddle-Dee's standing guard.

Finally feeling safe, Mayumi peered from behind the trashcan, observing with suspicion at the giant snail that had an aura of a merchant and a penguin who appeared to be bursting at the seams.

When she looked at who the penguin appeared to be talking to, she was somewhat startled. They were talking to a screen—no—a man behind the screen. He was dawned in a formal suit, and his veggie-green hair was neatly parted into two halves that looked like they had just the right amount of gel coating, giving it a glossy look.

"We will be happy to send you it, but you have an overdue payment of-"

"I'll pay it when I want! Just give me the Demon beast!" The penguin shouted angrily, waving his fists in the air.

"Very well then, but remember, if you don't pay up-"

"You will cease business with us yeah, yeah we know!" The snail went on to respond, placing fisted hands on his hips.

Mayumi had the urge to jump out and end this atrocious business, but decided to wait a little longer to see what they were sending.

After a bright flash of light on a complicated-looking device that she hadn't paid attention to, a small dragon-looking creature appeared. The penguin and Snail stared at it for a second, before yelling at the man at the screen. Mayumi now had her full attention diverted to the dragon. It definitely had the blood and brooding smell of a demon, but it had a slightly different tinge to it. Almost as if unnaturally created.

The dragon let out a scrawny growl before jumping away from the two devious beings and out onto the castle's cannon boardwalk. The penguin and snail, noticing that their newly paid for product was getting away, they gave into a chase, following the dragon. Mayumi also followed, but in a spaced pursuit, jumping on ledges and cannons and making sure to act like a fox would. At last, what a fox would act like in her opinion.

Eventually the dragon got away from the castle grounds, and ran into the forest. Mayumi watched as the Penguin's expression went from sad to aggravated, deciding to hit the snail on the head to get out his frustration, blaming everything on him.

Finally deciding that watching the penguin and Snail try out stupidity over and over again, (although it was more of the penguin in Mayumi's opinion), she headed back into the castle.

It was easy to dodge the waddle dees, as they weren't nearly close to her speed, and sneaking back was little more than a breeze. But she missed the fact that she was being watched, by of course, both Meta-Knight and Fumu, who were curious in what she was doing.

"She can turn into a fox? I never knew that." Fumu whispered out in astonishment.

"If demons have enough power to do so, they may change their form from their natural one." Meta-Knight responded calmly, as if knowing she had more hidden under her sleeve.

"Do you think she'll attack us? I don't completely trust her Sir Meta-Knight, and I don't understand why you do either." Fumu replied, a bit of nervousness tinged in her voice.

"I highly doubt it, as she doesn't seem likely to, especially with that seal. I aggravated her the other day to see if she would strike at me. All she really did was try to intimidate me, and then attempted to flee to Wispy woods." He softly countered back.

"Well, I have to go check in on Kirby and Bun, but fill me in on anything knew you learn from her." Fumu responded quickly, now noting on how she had promised them she would meet them at noon. "I will see you later Sir Meta Knight."

He hummed in response, before turning back to Mayumi.

'She's definitely got something interesting to her. But why is she the way she is? Will she really attack us?' Meta Knight thought to himself. It was definitely going to take a lot of probing to find her back information, but he was curious nonetheless, and he wanted to know. Why? simple. She was mysterious. And mysteries are always mean to be solved.

A/N:

Finally remembered to do an authors note LOL! xD! Anyways, I want to thank you guys for making my fanfiction nearly reach 500 views. As you can tell, it's not going to be a typical Mary-Sue mety oc ship, because they haven't exactly been smitten with each other. It's going to take development, because real love does, especially when you hold you dead baby brother, kill your parents, and a whole multitude of other things \( ~ '). Also, for someone is pm'ed me, (xxmini-lunaxx) YES there will eventually be a small fight scene between Mety and her, to express all her moves and how they look.

And to add, my dear readers! I beg of you to review. I only have three, and it makes me feel so very sad when I don't see any new ones coming in! So after you're done, make sure to drop a comment in the box at the bottom of the page! It will make my day if you do so! And it will also make me do fanart! As soon as I'm finished with this story, I'll be making it into a comic! My deviant page is karatesparrow (I haven't done any fanart yet, due to the fact that I have to finish some adoptables)

To finish this authors note off, I'm going to tell my batb readers (if you're reading this) that I will update sometime this or next week. (My doc is on a computer, and in the computer lab that the computer IS IN, they're doing a bunch of e.o.t.y testing (end of the year). SO I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry guys! I promise though, you'll love it!

Not your typical Fangirl~~

-Featherin out