Anari: Um Twilight, you left a tiny mistake in the prologue of the story.

Twilight: What? –smacks self on the head– That's why I didn't get any feedback!

Anari: No kidding. You gave people the wrong message saying not to comment.

Twilight: I should just learn to keep my mouth shut when I'm typing stuff down. Sorry viewers…

Anari: –pats Twilight's head– That's a good girl. You should be able to get more feedback now.

Allen and Lenalee: Hey? Where did you go?

Anari: Crap! They still think that I can't speak yet!

Twilight: Well, that's true, since we didn't reach the next chapter yet! And your supposed to talk to Komui tomorrow!

Anari: They don't pay me enough for this job…

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Stage 9: The Boy and His Pet

"Urrrgghhh…"

It was already early morning…or dawn perhaps. Yep, the same ol' morning…where everything seems to look right.

Except the fact that I woke up in another time period.

I woke up on a pile of crates, as my head promoted from 'empty-headed' to 'heavy-headed' (when I mean by heavy-headed, I mean 'I've got a huge headache' just for waking up).

Note to self: don't wake up on a pile of crates, even if you feel tired or if you traveled back in time. Not good for your physical health.

Well anyways, it looks like that I'm just directly outside of town. I would know because I memorize every street corner in my free time, every wolf should know their way around the city's streets. And since I'm inside the back alley, I should get a move on quickly if there are any rogues or thugs nearby.

I started to put one foot down and started to work my way up. It was hard though since my body ached from every corner, head to toe. I should really work on getting a good night's sleep really; it's no wonder that I'm stressed out all the time.

The only thing that comes to my mind…is finding Anari and bring her home. But the thing is…how do I get back home?

Well, I won't know for sure until I try. I will worry about how to get back home later, and I doubt that the scepter will have enough energy to take us back home…

So, I got up, and finally got the feeling back in my legs again. Feeling a little relieved, I went wolf and I started making my way out the alleyway. (I don't want to make a scene that a human being has made his way out from the alleyway. Or they'll assume that I live there or something.)

I got out, unharmed (that's for sure), and when I came to once my headache suddenly went away, I instantly looked up to see the city lights.

Now this…this is what the nineteenth century looks like…

This looks way different from back home. I mean, there aren't any wacky signs or screaming people everywhere you go. There aren't any car chases…drug dealers…nothing weird going out in the streets. Now that I mention it, it does seem a lot more peaceful back home. I could probably get used to this for a while.

"Hey! Try using this!!"

My excitement quickly died away due to the fact that I finally heard screaming for the day. I guess, the nineteenth century isn't as different as I hoped. I thought the towns are always this sleepy…guess I was wrong.

I decided to see what the fuss was about. I headed towards the corner and slowly took a peek. My eyes widened straight away, as a group of thugs started to gang up on the old man. There was a creature floating about over his head.

The creature floating over the old man's head was basically just a furry creature with a white coat while every other part of its body is purple. Purple pointy ears, big purple eyes, purple bat wings, and a long, slender, purple demonic tail.

"Now, old man," One of the thugs said with a cracked voice, "Give us all of the innocence that is placed inside that bag of yours. Unless if you don' wan' to get hurt."

"Why in devil's name would I give it to you freaks?" The old man said, with a ferocious tone. "I'd rather much have God put me in chains and kill me with my own blood than give it to you!"

"C'mon Master Mucchi!" The creature floating over his head squeaked, "Don't do this sort of thing! We should run away and give it to the exorcists!!"

"Good idea…" Master Mucchi replied, lowering his voice, "You freaks better step aside. I don't wish to punish anyone under God's name."

"Why punish…" The same thug said in a low voice, "When we can kill??"

Then the strangest thing just happened. The thugs suddenly turned into these strange type of monsters that I've never even seen before. The monsters looked so vile and so ugly that I wouldn't know where to start. But I knew this wasn't looking any good so I tried to help out.

But just before I could even take the tiniest step, I saw the old man already die in front of my eyes. Everything went by blindingly fast, and the old man's blood already reached the concrete with it's dark crimson…

"Master!!" The creature started to whimper, "Noooo!!!"

The creature suddenly had huge, wallowing tears rise up in its big purple eyes. The thought of the thing losing its only master was really hard to watch. The creature went down to its master and started crying hysterically.

"Alright then." One of those monsters said out loud, "Hand over the innocence if you don't want to get hurt…pixie."

"Kanopy will not…" The creature started to squeak even louder, "Disobey Master!!"

"Alright then…" The monsters suddenly made a grin, "Then will have to break you then. Since you won't hand it over."

The monsters already started to strike, and then, before I could even realize it, I ran up to the monsters and stole the bag right out of their hands at top speed. They turned their heads over towards me…including the pixie.

"Who are you boy??" One of the monsters scowled at me, "Are you this old geezer's grandson or something?"

"No…" I said calmly, "I'm just an average everyday stranger."

Then the monsters came up to me, and then I took a good leap and then flipped over their thick heads. Despite the fact that they're angry, I had to think of a plan to stop them. As for the pixie, he flew over towards me and hid behind my back.

"Who do you think you are??" The monsters questioned me once more, "Do you think you'll play the hero and stop us??"

I started to run, with the bag in hand, I felt my heart racing all of a sudden. I guess it's because I never fought these types of monsters before. So, I know that there's no end to this.

Suddenly, the pixie started to holler at me, "Human, you'll never be able to ward of the demons if you just keep running!!"

"I know that!" I hollered back, "I'm just improvising!"

"Call out to the Innocence!!" The pixie said out loud to me, "Only the Innocence will grant you it's power to get rid of these demons!"

I really don't know what's going on that's for sure. First, Anari ends up disappearing; next, I find myself in the nineteenth century; and now, I find myself fighting monsters that I have no experience with at all. This is just what the doctor wanted…Oh well…

But I had no choice do I? I did what the pixie wanted me to do.

I started to call out, "Innocence Invocation! Let me use the power to put an end to this unfortunate akuma's soul."

Whoa! What did I just say just now?? I thought to myself, with a strange look on my face. Nothing doesn't make sense anymore!

Just then, the four silver bracelets around my right rist started to glow like crazy, and then a strange light lingered in the background. Then, the light suddenly disappeared, along with my bracelets. But then, I saw something strange happened to my right palm.

There was a huge scar that formed a crescent moon followed by a cross on the edge of my palm, almost to where my thumb was exactly.

I closed my eyes for just a few brief moments, hoping to understand what's going on with me. But, just as I opened my eyes, I opened them wide with surprise.

I carried two blasters, one in each hand. But, they weren't just any other blasters. They were steel-plated tonfas!

Now, this was pretty cool. I held them the same way your supposed to hold a tonfa, they have the appearance of a gun, but they're usually red and you hold them sideways. They're easy to hold because they have a built-in handle that you can grip on firmly when you need to. The tonfas I carried around are lighter than steel, and they're a perfect shade of red on the handles while as everything else was a solid silver.

"What are you going to do with that boy?" One of the monsters started to taunt at me right away. "Shoot us? Ooh, we're so scared! Not even guns could even leave a scratch on us!!"

I just ignored the taunts, as I fired them at the monsters, each of them started screaming. And vanished…just like that. Smoke started covering the entire alley.

Just as the smoke cleared, I saw the tonfa blasters started to fade and merge right in front of me. A light emerged from the two tonfas, and then they turned back into my old bracelets.

Now I understand… I thought for a moment, When I called out to the Innocence just like the pixie told me to, it must have granted me the power to ward off those monsters. But I wonder why did it choose my bracelets?

"Wow…" The pixie started to say with a surprise look on his face, "For a human that used the power of the Innocence for the first time…that was most impressive!"

I saw the tiny creature flew around me, looking all excited. As for me, I just stood in place and just blinked.

"So…" I began, still feeling a bit lost over everything that's happened so far. "What are you supposed to be?"

"Master calls experiment 'Kanopy'," The pixie said with the same, squeaky voice, "Because, Kanopy was created to help people grant wishes when they sleep."

"Really?" I started to smile a little bit, "Does it work?"

"Kanopy never really tried." Kanopy answered, looking a bit glum all of a sudden. "Because, Kanopy never helped other people but Master. But now, Master's been terminated, Kanopy feels…feels…"

I saw big tears welling up in Kanopy's eyes. I can feel the strong bond that he has with his master. Even if he does talk funny, you could still feel the strong bond between them.

"You must feel lonely without him don't you?" I asked really softly, it almost sounded like a whisper.

"Kanopy feels so empty…" Kanopy started so say after all of the tears, "Kanopy's got nobody…Kanopy has no friends…Kanopy's all alone…"

My eyes are still facing the direction to Kanopy, whom was still crying over about his master's death.

"Kanopy…" I began, noticing that his eyes opened to the sound of my voice. "I know this is just a short time that we got to know each other…but, I would like to be your friend. I would be delighted to take care of you."

"Really??" Kanopy replied with huge sniffles, "You would do that for Kanopy?"

"I don't mind…" I smiled, from the thought of us being friends. "In fact, it would be a lot of fun if you just came along with me."

Then the weirdest thing just happened. I saw Kanopy flew quickly towards me and started to purr like a cat from under my chin.

"Thank you…" Kanopy closed his eyes. I could tell that he was happy. "Nobody's ever been nice to Kanopy, Kanopy's always been treated as an experiment to other people. Only Master treated Kanopy with respect…he treated Kanopy as if Kanopy was human…"

I couldn't tell if this was the love of a friend or the love of a machine. But somehow…it brought me to smile again after a long time.