Chapter 7: The Girl

Arcadia was tossing and turning in her sleep. She felt like something was going on and that she should be awake. The second the clock clicked to 2am, Arcadia's eyes shot open. The only light in her room was from the moonlight coming into the window and from her digital alarm clock. Arcadia yawned and sat up. She noticed that her door was slightly open. She was about to get up and shut it when she heard the floor outside her door creak. Arcadia got up out of bed and walked to her door. She opened it to see darkness. 'Odd, I could have sworn I heard someone out here,' she thought to herself. She walked down the hallway to the living room. In the living room there are two big windows, and those windows had the moonlight flowing into them. With the moonlight from the living room windows, and the moonlight coming out of her room from her window, the whole hallway was lit up with a faint blue light.

"I guess I was just imagining it." Arcadia had looked around the living room and didn't see anyone, nor did she see any signs that anyone was awake recently. She turned around to come face to face with someone. The person, which is a girl, has the same face as Arcadia. She has black hair, purple eyes with a white spider web in her right one. She had a crazed look in her eyes, her head was tilted to the left and she had a big creepy smile on her face. Arcadia let out a scream and fell backwards onto the living room floor.

"I'll be seeing you again soon." The girl said, in a voice similar to Arcadia's. The girl then turned and ran silently out of the apartment, leaving the door wide open. Both Giriko and Justin were out of their rooms and were next to Arcadia. They both only had their boxers on.

"What's wrong?" They both asked when they saw her on the floor.

"There…a girl…" Arcadia was breathing heavily and was trembling with fear. Justin realized that Arcadia wasn't going to be able to speak so he decided to pick her up. Giriko went and closed the door as Justin took Arcadia to her room.

"It's alright now Arcadia." Justin told her as he set her down on her bed. He moved to leave the room, but a hand on his arm stopped him. He turned to Arcadia as Giriko showed up in the doorway.

"Please, Justin, Giriko, stay with me. I don't want to be alone." Arcadia whispered to the two boys. They looked at each other and nodded their heads.

"Alright, we'll stay." Justin responded. They both climbed into Arcadia's bed with her. Justin was in front of her, with her head against his chest and his arms around her. Giriko was behind Arcadia and had his arms around her from behind. The three of them were asleep as soon as they were all comfortable.

The next morning, the three of them woke up and looked at each other. It took them all a moment to recall why they were in bed together. Justin and Giriko sat up and looked at Arcadia. She looked at the boys and her eyes went wide with shock.

"So, what happened last night kid?" Giriko asked, not noticing her wide eyes.

"Well, um, both of you put clothes on and then I'll tell you. I can't focus with you two like this in my bed." Arcadia responded, looking away from the two guys who were nearly naked. Giriko and Justin looked at each other and their eyes went wide as well.

"Oh," Justin and Giriko said together. Last night they hadn't realized that they had so little clothes on. Justin hurried to his room, clearly embarrassed that they both saw him like that, but Giriko went to his room walking normally, clearly not caring that anyone saw him like that. Once the boys were back, wearing their normal clothes, they sat back down on Arcadia's bed. She explained what she saw and what she was told. She told them that for a while she had been feeling as though as someone with a similar wavelength had been following her around, but she thought it was just herself she was feeling. She told them that when she was near that girl, she felt the similar wavelength from her. She paused in her explanation to think about something.

"What's wrong?" Justin asked when Arcadia suddenly gasped.

"When I was younger I felt the same wavelength coming from someone who used to appear when it was bed time. When I was only a few months old, a shadow figure would come into my room and hurt me and scare me. My dad told me he took care of it and that I'd never have to see the figure again. I had thought it was my imagination or that I was seeing things because of my dad's madness, but does this mean it was real and it's the same person?"

"We need to go and speak with Lord Death." Justin said once Arcadia was done explaining things.

"Why?" Giriko asked, obviously not wanting to go see Lord Death.

"We just need to, alright?" Justin snapped.

"Then get out. I need to change my clothes." Arcadia told Giriko and Justin.

"I can help you change if you want." Giriko offered, stepping towards Arcadia.

"Hell no, get out."

"Fine," Giriko grumbled and then left with Justin. Arcadia couldn't help but laugh at his reaction. She quickly got changed, just in case Giriko decided to come and help her change. She put on a purple tank top that showed her boobs and black jeans. When she walked out of her room, she saw the two boys were arguing about their choice of boxers.

"You have Lord Death boxers, you're a child." Giriko told Justin.

"You have womanly parts on your boxers, you are a disgusting pig." Justin snapped back.

"Boys, you are both cute in your boxers no matter what is on them, so shut up." Arcadia told them, hoping they wouldn't kill each other. The guys stopped arguing and looked at Arcadia. "Let's go." The two guys looked over at Arcadia and couldn't help but stare. Giriko smiled proudly, the tank top Arcadia has on now is one of the ones that Giriko made her buy.

"Yeah, let's go." Justin mumbled, trying to not look at Arcadia's breasts. The three of them walked in silence to the DWMA and walked through the halls in silence as well. Once they got into the Death Room they told Lord Death what happened and the other things that Arcadia remembered. Giriko also added in Justin's choice of boxers, much to Justin's dismay.

"Well," Lord Death started, ignoring the Lord Death underwear comment from the chainsaw, "I apologize to you Arcadia. I knew that she was in town but we had to wait until she made her move."

"What do you mean?" Arcadia replied, curious and concerned.

"You have a twin sister. It appears that she may be on the side of evil. She is either here to kill you and take your power, or she is here to take you back to Mosquito."

"Why wasn't I told about her before?" Arcadia asked, trying to not freak out.

"Justin and I didn't think you needed to know yet."

"Excuse me?" Arcadia turned to Justin. "You knew?"

"I knew about her, but I didn't know her intentions. If I knew she intended to harm you I would have-"

"Stop." Arcadia whispered, holding her hand up. "What are you going to do now?"

"The boys will protect you of course." Lord Death said happily.

"Alright…" Arcadia shook her head and began walking away. "Just leave me alone for now." Arcadia went to the training grounds within the city and sat down to look up at the sky. "So I have a twin. A twin that wants to kill me. Now two guys have to protect me. Protect me from my twin that wants to kill me." Arcadia shook her head. "I'm starting to be so much trouble for everyone here. What if people die to protect me? What if Giriko and Justin die because of me? Maybe I should just leave and never come back."

"I don't want you to leave." Arcadia turned to see Giriko and Justin. "And I'm pretty sure the damn priest doesn't want you to leave either."

"If our lives are put in danger, it'll be alright. You are worth the risk Arcadia." Justin said with a smile.

"This will be damn near the only time the priest and I will ever agree on something, okay kid?" Giriko and Justin walked to Arcadia and helped her stand up. She hugged them and smiled.

"Let's go get drunk now!" Arcadia suggested happily. The three of them laughed and went back to the apartment. Once they were there Giriko and Arcadia started to drink alcohol, but Justin stared at the glass of alcohol they had given him. Somehow Arcadia convinced Justin to drink with them, so he soon began to drink as well, but at a much slower pace. The three of them went through a quite a few bottles of alcohol before eventually passing out in the living room…around midnight. For Justin's first time drinking, he lasted much longer than Giriko and Arcadia expected him to. Then again Justin did drink much slower than the other two. All three of them could agree that even though the day started out odd, it ended great.