Amber P.O.V

"Where is this place?" I ask Karl. He just continues to walk ahead. Fog begins to form around us and I struggle to keep up with him. He then stops and I ram into him from the sudden action. "Ow...!"

"We're here.." He says barely audible to my ears. I look up at him then ahead of me at where he's pointing. My mouth drops open almost instantly. He glances at me briefly and moves his hand under my chin and closes my mouth. I flinch and pull away from him.

"T-This place... Karl this is-!" He gives me a stare that makes me uber uneasy. I close my mouth but he looks up at the large structure.

"This was your families house..." He says and walks to the door. "I know I come here every now and again. And like elephants a human and statue..."

"Never forget..." I finish for him and he nods and rubs his damaged eye. He then walks to the abandoned building and opens the door, walking inside. I follow him as he walks into the livingroom. I notice a small pile of dried up and dead black roses on the coffee table. He passed it and reached into his pocket tossing another fresh red rose on the table. I watch him and he sits on the couch next to it and just stares at the pile then places his face n his hands. I felt a tear roll down my face. I felt so many emotions. Outrage, anger, hurt, sadness, regret... and another I have never felt. I walk over to him and sit there. He raises his hands and stares at me.

"You.. You didn't kill her.. did you?" I ask him. He stares at me with a shocked expression that slowly fades into a pained expression. He hangs his head and shakes it slowly. I sigh and push my hair back.

"Geez... I wish I could understand you better. If you were human than maybe you could show more emotion so I know if your..." I pause as he just stares at me and I blink. "Karl no."

"But you don't believe me. I wanna show you I am." He stands clearly angered now. "They all didn't believe me. Racheal didn't believe me! Your just like them!" he snaps his shoulders shaking. I back up and hit a wall and he flips the couch. He laughs his maniac laugh and I can see in his eyes he's lost it again. My body freezes and he grips my throat. I struggle for breath and kick at him. He just smiles insainly and presses down on my throat more. He laughs then stops short. His eyes widen and he releases me as I cough harshly and he steps back and trips falling back and sitting proped up on his elbow.

I glare at him enraged as my palms heat up and I walk over to him in a menacing manner. I pick him up by his jacket and the air becomes so tense you could barely breathe. I smile at him and tilt my head to the side and grip his coat as my energy surrounds him

"Fine you want to be human? Fine but you can only be half of both. But I promise you I am making this the most excruciating and painful thing you will ever feel. And you wanna know why?" I laugh and he flinches at the 'painful' part. I lean into his ear and smile whispering "You don't... wanna fuck with shady. Cause why?" I let my energy sink into him and he yells in pain as I smile at him writhing around on the floor.

"Cause Shady... will fucking kill you."

Karl P.O.V

Everything hurt. She wasn't lying when she said it would be excruciatingly painful. I gripped my chest as the tightness began to suffocate me. I looked up at her and saw she was smiling. It felt like forever until the pain slowly faded leaving me shaking and coughing, gasping for air. I sit up and wipe my mouth and I realize what I had just done. My eye twitched in annoyance.

Out of anger and my bondage with the past I had turned myself human. I always wanted to be one before. To be free and not watched but now... I hate it. I stand wobbily and see stars. I rub my eyes and suddenly I'm pinned to the floor. Ray is towering over me and she smirks her face full of mischief. My face suddenly felt hot and I tried to move my arms to throw her off but all of my energy had somehow been sapped from my body. Ray stood up and tossed her slightly wavy dark brown hair behind her head and pinned it up with a large clip from her shoulder bag.

"Come on. We better get back to the park before Castle blows his roof." she laughs. I blink. Is this girl bi-polar or what? I follow her wobbily unfirmiliar with my now lighter weight.

*~Time Skip~*

We arrived by morning and I yawned as we entered the gates. I stretched after sitting in that wagon for so long. I now had so many kinks in my back from being hunched over. Suddenly Climber ran over to us and tackled Ray who - in instinct - threw her bags up and accidently at me. I jumped back and caught them when suddenly all the kinks in my back were released. I blinked as Climber looked at me and I set down the bags and turned away to see Jack there too.

"Uh..." is all Ray and I can say. I then clear my throat and smile.

"Dear me sorry about that. I must have cracked somewhere." I say but really I know I'm not making any progress. Jack looks unconvinced and I hang my head. Ray steps forward and inbetween us.

"MR JACK PLEASE DONT PUNISH HIM! I DID IT BY ACCIDENT IN SELF DEFENCE BECAUSE I SORTA... Uh... S-sadi some things that should have been left... unsaid" she lies. Her face and expression looks convincing and Jack blinks along with Climber.

"Thats alright. Just... Don't let this happen again... Also Ray.. We will be relocating where... you stay for now since the... hotel is not that sturdy at the... moment." Jack says. I can't believe it. She gets away with it that easily. Jack hands her the adress and she thanks him and takes her bags and almost falls back. I catch her and our eyes meet. My face heats up again and we both stand up straight and I take some of her bags.

"I'll help you with that..." I mumble amd she nods walking ahead. As soon as she turns the corner I snicker. "You need to teach me how to lie better as a human one day." She laughs and I some reason smile. Arma and Ash suddenly appear out of nowhere and land on Ray and my shoulder. She was alot heavier than I remember. I channeled my energy and slowly focused on trying to become a statue again. It didn't take long actually because just had to think about it. I sigh as relief floods over my shoulder Arma sat on and suddenly I couldn't move. I stood there as Ray turned and rolled her eyes smiling.

"God sometimes you can be so useless in a good and bad way." She says and she pats the left side of my face and suddnly gain back some movement. I blink and she stares at me for a moment in astonishment and then places her hand over my scratched eye. Through her glistening green eyes I can see that my 'scar' is lightly glowing a greenish color. She then slowly retracts her hand and I lift my arm and flex it.

"Wierd.." she says. I glance at her.

"You know you say that but when you came here you never said 'wierd' when you saw me as a statue or even alive." I chuckle. She smirks and slaps her hand over my head and she laughs.

"Its hard to say anything when I was trying to kill you and keep a low profile. But look at us now. Me trying to kill you a few times has led us to becoming friends~!" She says laughing. I smile at her and Arma tilts her head at me.

Arma P.O.V

This is highly unusual. Karl has never shown this sort of affection twards anyone save for me. I tap his head and he blinks.

"Hm? What is it Arma?" he asks. I blink at him. Gladly I cannot show emotion to show how much I want to slap him for acting stupid.

'Like you don't know... Karl you've been acting strange... Are you alrght? Your not ill are you?' I ask him. He flinches a bit but shakes his head.

"Nope not ill and I am not acting weird." He says pouting. If I could roll my eyes I would.

'Sure. I'll keep that in mind lover boy.' I mumble. He looks at me questioningly.

"You say something?"