"Hey!" a child's voice called to me in my dreams. "Wake up!" And I noticed it was me when I was little. "Don't you think you're in far too much trouble to take nap?"

"Wake up," I heard Break say as he shook my shoulders lightly. "Get away," I say flinging my arms around.

"You better wake up before I hit you with the cane again," he warns. I snap awake protecting myself. "I was kidding," he says and I open my eyes to see him.

"Where-"

"Are we?" he finishes as he stand up. "I have no idea whatsoever." He extends his hand over to me and helps me stand back up. I look around and see where we came to be after Thanatos somehow disobeyed me and brought us here. It looked more like a child's play house to me. Kind of like Cheshire's place but this somehow was a bit creepier. "I feel deja vu," I say giggling at my own joke.

"I don't think it is time for jokes, Elena-san," he says smiling. "I'd like to know why your Chain brought us here."

"Beats me," I say walking on forth and getting one of the couple of rose heads that was floating around. It was blue. It looked beautiful. "What is this place anyways? Is it another dimension that's not our world but it's not the Abyss either?"

"Most possibly," he said walking up to me. "Is something the matter?"

"Huh?" I snapped back and my hand jerked and crushed the rose head I had in my palm. "Ah damn."

"Shall we, then?" he asked as he motioned me forth towards the double door that guided to the next room.

"Sure," I say going as he followed. I went onto the double doors and pushed one open. As soon as I opened it, I saw something flying towards me and ducked as it went by. I looked back to see a little white dove. "What the-" I looked back at the inside of the room and saw this man of white outfit and long bleached blonde hair there. His eyes a mystical blue; gorgeous, yet they seemed wrong. He was seating on a white chair and was surrounded by a flock of the any bird and creature that was of white color. "Hurts my eyes," I say.

"Needs redecorations, I'd say," Break laughs.

I went up close, "Um excuse?" He didn't look up but I saw his head nudge in my direction. "Would you happen to know where we are?" He looked up and looked at me but it didn't really feel like he was looking at me. He simply got something from the table-also white- that was standing beside his chair. There he gave me a child's book and gave it to me. "Um thanks," I say getting it and he simply goes back to resting with the animals.

"What was that about?" Break asks as he looks at the book.

"You think I kno-" I stop as I look at the book.

He smiled, "I'm pretty sure you know now where we are."

"It's Shadowland," I say placing the book at the tea table again. "Shadowland?" he asks. "It's this place I came up with when I was little," I say kind of embarrassed and crossed my arms in front of my chest. "Go on," he says.

"That's it," I say getting redder.

"Oh, you wouldn't be blushing if that was it~" he said teasingly.

"I-I," I started stuttering. "It's just someplace okay! Fuck!" I stormed out to the door we came in without looking out.

"Elena-san, wait!" he called concerned.

I spun around to look at him and while sticking my tongue out said, "Not listening!" But when I take another step back I feel no floor. None. At. All. "Ah!" I'm about to fall back when Break pulls me back on the floor. I clutch to him as I don't want to get down that dark pit. "Why didn't you tell me!" I yell eyes teary with the fear I had.

"I did, stop yelling," he says picking his ear and seeming annoyed. "How did the room change?"

"This is Shadowland," I say almost reciting what I used to say to Aira when we played thinking my back garden was the playground I called Shadowland. "And that door I just passed was the Door of a Thousand Rooms."

"Okay, then how do we get out of the door's range?" he asked as we walked back in again into the White Room and see the Door close back again.

"There's a key that deactivates the Door's power," I say. "But I wasn't the one who came up with the key."

"Who was it then?" Break asked.

"The Boy with No Reflection," birds suddenly sang in unison scaring the crap out of me.

"The boy with no reflection?" Break repeated confused.

"Aira," I said and snapped my fingers. "He said that in the littlest of places. So it must be," I go on into the little teacup and look inside. "Yes!" I turn the teacup over not to find tea pouring out but a little silver key.

"What kind of games did you play," Break said as I turned the key on the Door's keyhole.

"I had a lot of time to think. Shadowland was the only place where I felt safe," I say as I open the door and we end up in a circular room with a charcoal staircase going up to the second floor.

"This is your imaginative world, where's the exit?" he asked as he climbed up the stairs leaving me behind.

"Wait up!" I call catching up to him. Once at his pace I start thinking, "It's been long since I last thought of the Shadowland."

"Think harder, there was a reason why Thanatos brought us here," Break said.

"I remember that Aira and I would always end our game in Shadowland when we visited the Mirror Maiden."

"Mirror Maiden, huh?" he asks suddenly he pulls me up into him as I see the stairs where I was standing being stabbed by huge swords that just appeared from nowhere. "And was sword fighting something you came up with too?"

"N-no," I say confused and shocked as he puts me down. "The violence never reached my mind since this was a safe place for me."

"We better hurry too," he said and pointed over to the floor below us as I saw weird black creature with yellow neon eyes coming from the shadows. "We've got company." He took my hand and we run as fast as we could up the stairs and finally getting through the door. I let go and closed it shut behind us as I heard distinctive thuds behind it and then scratching noises.

"What is this?" I say recalling those black things. "I don't remember Shadowland being this horrible."

"Was there a reason why you called it Shadowland?" Break asked without me turning around.

"It was me thinking that every Light has a Shadow," I say turning around and seeing this boy with black hair to his neck and bloodshot red eyes. His outfit was mostly white with black. And in his hand pointed a gun at me.

"Who dares disturb Her Majesty in this her Shadowland?" he asked not giving way to his weapon.

"You," I say recognizing that line. "You're the Knight of the Lake."

"Who dares intrude in Her Majesty's terrains?" he called I too remember how to disarm him. "It is us!" I call my voice echoing through the empty white and black room.

"What are you doing, Elena-san?" Break asked.

I turn to him and whisper, "Play along!" I turn back to the Knight. "I've come to plead mercy upon her Majesty's orders of destroying the regions of Radiantland, Rainland, and the town of Now."

"You, a mere peasant?" he asked lowering the gun a bit.

"No, my name is…" I hesitate. I…can't say that name here.

"Elena-san?" Break said coming closer.

"My name is…" I took a breath in and got it over with. "I'm the Princess of Timeland, Princess Anika."

"Anika?" he says and chuckles. "The Queen's rival dares enter her domains?"

"I came here with my own knight," I say and reach out to tug at Break's takes a few seconds before he acts along, "Milady Anika, I would give my life to protect you."

I tugged again hard and hissed while tilting my head, "Don't overdue it!"

"Who says I'm overdoing?" he say while leaning to my ear which only makes me blush more profusely.

"Anyways, I came here to plea a truce with Queen Veronique," I say remembering the name I chose for the girl.

"Why should I believe you?" he asks.

"Because," I say clearly remembering how complicated this answer was for me to understand even after Aira explained it to me. "I am not here as Princess Anika of Timeland anymore. I'll bare myself to you, your kingdom, and foremost your Queen. With this said, I comply to any punishment that will follow even banishment for I care more for those pity souls that have suffered enough. I now come to you as simply Anika Genevieve De la Rosa!"

It was only seconds later that the Knight of the Lake rendered his weapon down and opened the door for us into the Mirror Room.

"I get what you did," Break say as we walk in. "Giving away position and any other title made you a normal person. That proved that you didn't care about those things. It made you-"

"It made me pure-hearted," I finished his sentence. "Which I highly doubt I am." He chuckled, "What's so damn funny?"

"Nothing at all," he said. "You just remind me of someone I knew once~ that's all~!"

We go further in and find ourselves inside the center of the Mirror Room. It was a small square room, the furniture here was black. The walls where mirrored including the floor and ceiling. It was all a reflection.

"This is even more twisted," he says looking around only to find his and my reflections. "And there's nobody here."

"It's odd, I know," I answer facing him. "She always was here sitting on this armchair and she would become our friend and the Shadowland game would end."

"But this isn't a game is it now?" a voice said. I turn to the armchair where I heard the voice from but there was no one there. "Over here, dummy~" in the corner of my eye I see the reflection of someone sitting on the armchair. It was a girl. She had a very slim body and was about my age. She had a similar face to mine but her hair was black to her shoulder and straight and her eyes were a piercing gold.

"You're-"

"Inside the mirror!" she calls happily and perkily as she clasps her hands together. "And you've come at last, I thought Thanatos had misunderstood my orders."

"Your," I say slowly. "Orders?"

"What? You thought he didn't listened to you because you weren't strong enough?" she chuckled. "No, he's my Chain. You're just the vessel just like all the others."

"Others?" I repeat confused.

"Didn't Alvengoth give you all those memories from your past lives back?" she asked not sounding the little bit impressed. "You know those horrible nightmares you've been having."

"Those nightmares where memories?" I ask.

"Yep," she gets off. "And all of them," she raises four fingers, "Were the vessels of my soul."

"Who are you if we may know?" Break asked as he saw I couldn't talk anymore.

"I have many name's," she said. "But I'm best known as Wrath."

"You," I say remembering. "You're the beast!"

"That's what you called me," she said coming closer to the mirror. "And that's what the four before you said as well. I hated them all. They never let me out. But you, you made me in charge that time the bad kitty showed you about your aunt being such a hateful bitch by lying to you too. Unlike them, I like you."

"Why's is Pride after you and I?" I ask straight forth. "What did you do that was so bad that your own comrades want you to payback for?"

Her playful look changes suddenly into an expression of total hatred. "I never did anything," she said leaning her back to the mirror and hiding her face. She extended her hand and a reflection of a good looking woman with auburn hair like mine and green eyes; she was the swordswoman from my dream. "She was the one who started all the trouble with the Causes. My first. Gardenia De Luca. That bitch sacrificed the information she had to a Lee and made them betray the Yue. She started the ravaging of the Causes."

"Was she the one who went to a Xing and pleaded to safe the one she loved?" I asked and suddenly felt my body weak as I fell down to my knees.

"Elena-san," Break says in concern.

"I'm fine," I say.

"She was a fool," Wrath answered. "She gave her life and ended up giving the life back to a man that didn't love her anyways."

"But," I say feeling my chest heavy. "It wasn't just her that loved him…right?"

"I'll show you something if you're so curious about who you were. In actuality I don't want you to die like they did. I like you since you let me out and actually listen to some words I say." She turned sideways and looked at me as she moved her arm about as two more figures appeared behind the first. The one to the left was a red head woman with moss green eyes; she looked exactly like me. And the one to the right had long golden hair and gorgeous green and blue eyes. She had a grin that reminded me of someone.

"The one in the middle is Gardenia, my first vessel. Then when she died my soul traveled until I found another descendant. After almost a century and a half I found another vessel, the one on the right. Then the one on the left I found her sixty years later. I know her as Angelica Genevieve. You may know her as-"

"Mother," I say gently as the word left my lips for the first time. "What about the fourth one?"

Wrath motioned to her side as I saw a woman with the same look like Wrath's except much more grown, it was a woman. "She was my favorite. Because unlike the others, she accepted me fully. Her name was Analice Baskerville."

"Baskerville?" Break mumbles but I hear it clearly.

That's when I guess why he repeated that name, "Was she before you found the blonde one?"She looked at me, "It was almost a hundred years after I left my first vessel."

A hundred years after the War of Nadir meaning the timeline would be perfect for the Tragedy of Sablier. "If my mother was your vessel, she must've been your last, since she died." "Which is why I took you, her first-born child," she says. "A powerful witch in training and powerful contractor for Thanatos."

"Were all of your vessels contracted to Thanatos?" I ask as she nods. I look down and notice my eyesight begin to turn blurry and my breathing beginning to become heavy panting."You're my vessel, work with me to not get you killed by Pride and get in contact with the other five," she says.

"They're still alive?" I ask confused.

"Ouroboros thought that alchemy and magic would stop us," she snorts as the images disappear. "You should accept who you are. Soon the mark will depict the snake eating it's tail as the sign of a Yue and the thirteen as mark of an outcast." She kneeled in front of my and Break as far as the mirror let her and then her white hand and arm outstretched out and suddenly touched the right part of my bosom. Then I felt the heavy pain I felt before when I came back from Cheshire's place.

"Elena-san!" Break called and I started hearing the crumbling of the dimension again as at the same time I felt the cold air of Thanatos' wings. "You're snake has beaten your heart the representation of the cross," Wrath said. "At the third stage the snake will eat it whole and leave my soul as the only occupant of your body. Don't fight back, Elena. Or else you'll die in vain and without revenge." that's when I heard the dimension destroyed and I fainted from the pain.


Break landed with the fainted Elena close. He picked her up and placed her down on the bed. He sat down next to her and oddly started brushing the bangs from her face. Her sleeping face of bliss as if nothing had happened.

"You're her incarnation, then," he said softly as he caressed her face with the back of his hand. "No wonder," he said taking his hand away and chuckling nonchalantly. "A pure-hearted mind yet thinking you're still tainted. I know she was but I doubt you're like her, Elena." He glances at her as she breathes in and out peacefully and gently. His usual smile fades into a warm filled one as he leans in and softly presses his lips to hers. Just a mere touch was all he wanted to reassure himself. She was here; she wasn't dead. "No you're nothing like her and yet you are. I'll see that that Pride doesn't harm you. I'll be sure to protect you this time," he stands up quietly and opens the door but whispers before leaving, "My Princess Elena."