Sorry if it took this long but my PC broke.

I don't own Wreck-It Ralph. Happy Reading!

Clarion was too focused on the mark in her arm to notice anything around except for the most powerful instincts, allowing her to feel every presence near, but none was close enough to be a menace. She felt electricity as she touched it and a light burns, not just in her arm but in the back of her mind as well.

While it she was thinking about her next step. They would want answers and, if she wanted hers as well, she would have to say something, but what? She needed a new life, to get rid of the older before the chocolate effect went away and the painful memories coming back consumed her, get all it out before her mind was completely broke.

Life had been hard and even kinda boring the way it was before, maybe she should admit

"It's happening again..." The voice whispered. "It's not safe here, they're not trustable at all, what are you thinking?"

The girl tried to ignore it, to block all sounds, all thoughts, all interference, but there was this slight ringing on her ears. Wandering back into reality, she noticed Felix was talking to her, so tried to focus and hear.

"What did you say?!" She not even tried to hide the fact she wasn't hearing.

"I can try to fix it to you, if you want." He offered, motioning the scratch on the girl's arm.

Clarion rolled her eyes, not fine enough to argue because of the chocolate.

"You can try, Winid-Coi, but I'm betting against you this time."

Felix recognized that particular nick, no more than his name, Fix-It, which was good enough coming from her, besides the fact she saw that as no more than a waste of time.

But he didn't thought so. If she was just hurt, he really could help. Depending of the code fail, he also thought he could help. And as she did agree with the plan, he gently tapped the injury with his hammer... Things didn't react very well.

A hard energy wake almost threw him back and Clarion growled to herself, closing her eyes and hiding her arm. It was burning now, burning too much and her head began to get cloudy and confuse, voices and memories swirling around, her emotions quickly changing, from indifference to fear, from fear to anger, a fire burning inside her, it was like a battle was happening in her mind.

The girl let out a loud roar and a small flame, trying to calm herself.

"Are you okay, kid?" Ralph asked her.

"I'm fine." She didn't mind she sounded a little angry, she felt angry, but it wasn't with them, it was natural anger, her way to fight the pain.

"I don't know what happened..." Felix muttered to himself, a little shocked, but quickly recovering from the impact.

"It's okay. No one can say it's your fault because you didn't try." Maybe it was the time to confess, every fail, every pain, to hide nothing, like people wanted her to do when she was six and they sent her to psychologists and psychiatrist, say everything they wanted to know, anything that would help her to get free from that monster of a past. She was getting sick of secrets and lies, she hadn't been sincere even to herself the past years. No more tricks, no more trying to look cool or even normal, she didn't need another perfect lie, not caring if critics ever jump in line her life wasn't what it seems, like she had been dreaming for the past nine years, she knew a little more of the real world now, things that could have saved her if she knew them before, she would have made things different. But now she would make it different, expecting the answers she wanted to complete someone she could finally be, finally forget old Sabrina as Clarion would be reborn that night and Jawell would be finally out of that nightmare, it would be the end of that horror novel, the begin of a new adventure story. She always tried to see a light to keep going but couldn't, now she found a real light in the end of the tunnel she'd been in and she would get out, no matter what. "I... I think it's the best time to tell you all a story," Clarion not even waited for anyone to ask, it had to be done on her own will "an old story of a little lost girl... Very ill and alone since born, her first two years were around hospitals. High fever, frequent loss of energy and fainting, various learning problems later some speech problems, among other things... No doctor would know what was wrong. But the illness subsided between her third and fourth year, giving its way to a strange series of coincidences, or was it everyone thought. She was said to bring bad luck, she was said to steal things, she was said to be a wicked witch and, convinced her parents abandoned her, she was still four years old when she ran from the orphanage she lived in, determined to find her true family."

The chocolate pushing her mind, she didn't hesitate in telling them about the first high incident, not hiding details, like she always did to herself, but still telling the story as it happened with other person. How she had gotten easily lost, still believing in the goodness in people heart, how she got tricked in that horrible accident, how she realized the trap in time but just escaped through her lost of control.

"I don't know what was going to happen, I don't want to know, doctors had to drug her to take her to the hospital, they said she was physically fine, but they didn't think she would be psychologically fine after the accident. It was what they called that, an accident, but the little girl was beginning to realize she wasn't like them, she had magic on her and she had killed someone... It wasn't what she wanted to, but it did happen, and killing breaks the soul. Other children would be traumatized, but there was something, like a strange power, holding her up, whispering in her mind, trying to guide her... People were bad, she convinced herself, not all them, but how to know which ones? She couldn't trust any of them anymore, for her safety and for her sanity and even for their safety."

She kept telling, ignoring the interruptions, about the day she realized she could use her new found abilities to get a little money at age of five; the day she realized that, for worst the situation looked, there was always someone in worst situation and that she would fight for them; told them about her first friend, her fights, school problems and activities and finally the incident... This time she changed her point of view on the story.

"I was even more broken, understanding more of the situation, even more convinced of how people were bad and knowing it was my fault, because I knew I could have done something more, but I was so happy I just realized it too late. I swore I would never have friends again. It did make me feel happier, but was a risk to their lives and to my sanity once again. People began to realize they should really be afraid of me, because I hadn't anything to lose anymore except for my life and I never really cared about it. So I met James, by the time called Luke and, like chocolate, he quickly made his way through the labyrinth around my mind and when I realized everything, we were in Sugar Rush. His life in my hand, I couldn't let him lost there and follow with my life and upon losing my memory, realizing he was my brother and he could control me even through my fury, I made a promise to myself to protect him. But we drew your attention and, because of him, I never could isolate myself again... Now I feel happy I didn't."

She closed the story finally beginning to eat the salty fries. As the chocolate effect began to fade, she began to regret her words, but it was too late now.

"I won." She whispered, talking to the dark voice in her mind. But thought she heard a faint Let's see in response, but could be just her imagination.

"Clar, I'm sorry. I..." James muttered, holding his sister's hand.

"For what? You knew nothing and I preferred that way, but you did the right thing, I said I'm happy how everything went. It's hard to face a battle alone, because I know one is coming. You was the one thinking straight on this story and if someone should be sorry, this one should be me, for everything I said, a few things I did and even the ones I thought, so, to all you, I'm sorry for being so stubborn last night and early today!"

"And what make you think you can trust us now?" Tamora asked. The story matched the girl's past actions. No kid should go through that much and of course it would break her spirit. But the fact she reacted to well after the sugar effect was gone said she had hope and they should help.

"Chocolate. If any of you would want to cause any harm to me, I think you all smart enough to do it while I was sugar driven and less able to fight. And you? Why do you think you all can trust me?"

"You saved me from that dragon." Vanellope smiled at her.

"And I knew you before here... I still believe the girl playing with me out there is the true you." James said, still holding her hand comfortingly. "You just need to give life and yourself a second chance."

"And we know a little more about your past than you think. It's time to tell you two..." Felix told them. It was easier to tell the story when it was for the second time the same night. But finish it... "...I don't know how your mother kept you two as a secret, but until a month after you were born, she did just it. No one can really explain what happened a month later, when the virus began to spread, like a contagious disease, without warning, without giving anyone time to escape. They say your father was there, he still tried to return to his own game before the virus struck him too, but it was too late ... They also say that Kira wasn't there when it all began, but all we really know is that she was still around when the game had to be shut down. Your father's game lasted yet another week, she had been around all this time, they say they still tried to save them, with the help of Starlight, an apparent witch who no one ever knew where had come from, as if she just existed. The three were caught with some kind of unknown spell that afternoon when the fate of your father's game seemed inevitable. Starlight disappeared at that moment, Kira didn't last more than a week after that..."

"But they saved us." James interrupted Felix. "I had a dream about it. Three people, a portal, they were caught before finishing whatever they were doing, Starlight but was willing to finish it for them..." The boy closed his eyes, somewhat nauseated, reality starting to hit him. He had no idea if it was the fact that his parents were dead or that what he saw wasn't just a dream, maybe both, but was grateful to have stopped eating a few minutes ago. How his sister could have such insatiable appetite?

"Are you okay?" Vanellope asked.

"Of course. Just a little headache." He lied.

Clarion also closed her eyes, it was better than focus on the faces of people around her. Not that she was sick too, the impact of outside light and fast reality was like a thin blade digging up in her chest, she would only feel the pain later when taking it away. Although, it was all better than she imagined, she wasn't I'll, she still had a strange fire within her, but everything else were her parents' programmed skills she inherited in some way. And, as painful as it was the thought of losing her parents, it was easier surmountable when she didn't know them and was much more bearable than the idea of being abandoned with which she grew up. It could have been a lot worse...

"What exactly is a virus? Here, I mean." The girl raised her absently question, touching the wound on her arm and feeling static emanating from there. "It's always like a disease or they may have physical forms, living ... dangerous and destructive as Cy-Bugs ... perhaps can be smart?"

"Viruses are corruptions in the code of a game are generally unaware creatures with one purpose to destroy, just as Cy-Bugs. But apparently some can spread like a disease." Tamora said. Why was she so interested in the subject of a sudden?

"But there are rare cases in which characters with deep corrupted code can become a kind of virus as well." Ralph added.

Rare was so to say, as far as he knew the only incident was the last with Turbo. A clever virus would be so dangerous that, depending on their powers, could destroy several games before anyone realized and it would be very difficult to stop. But there were rumors ... As much as anyone assumed that rumors were always false, with the recent events and in Starlight's case, whose the very existence was made of rumors... "Why?"

"Nothing." The little girl shrugged. "I just want to know what we're dealing with."

"We?" Felix asked, wondering if he'd heard right. Clarion had always been so individual and after what he'd heard from her story...

"Look, like it or not, I'm stuck with at least one of you 'till resolving this problem and, as you seem to be attached to each other, it seems we have our team for now." Clarion didn't want to depend on them, but her brother hadn't had this problem and when she saw it was too late.

Starting to get nervous, her hand sought the comfort of the medallion around her neck, but closed around something a little different.

"Cy-Bug." She said, had forgotten the "borrowed" accessory for a moment.

The girl didn't expect the reaction it caused, in seconds the group stood up, her brother half hidden behind her, Vanellope glitched next to Ralph, Tamora had her gun cocked and even Felix pulled out his hammer, the children seemed frightened and the adults scanned around, alert. The young unofficial couldn't help and laughed attracting the other's gaze to her now.

"What's so funny, Clar? A Cy-Bug is not a joke, I thought you knew!" James protested, which only made the girl laugh even more.

"You are the joke, Genius Boy. You all are!" She said.

"Not funny, Fire Breath. Lying about that sort of thing will only get you into trouble." Tamora protested angrily.

"First," Clarion held up a finger, still with an amused smile. "I was muttering to myself, not my fault if you were paying attention. Second, it wasn't exactly a lie." She decided it was time to share one last secret, one that wasn't just a memory and surprisingly she managed to smuggle through Surge Protector. She opened her hand, the little creature broke free of her neck and climbed into her hand, which the girl exhibited for the group.

"Where did you get that?" Her twin asked, between curious and frightened.

"It was with the Shadow Girl, but curled up on my arm when she ran away. I'm not much of accessories, but this combines with me."

Everyone gathered around to examine the insect. It was an exact replica, but on a much smaller scale. As they watched, the Cy-Bug extended wings and glided to the table.

"Wow!" Vanellope exclaimed brightly, touching the creature before the others could stop her, but the Cy-Bug only curled its tail around her wrist and set as a bracelet, finally standing still, except that this time, its light changed to a purple-neon coloring while its shell became teal and white stripped. Vanellope felt a light electrical current, but it was only for a second. "I want one!" She exclaimed.

"Are you sure it is not dangerous?" Ralph asked Clarion.

"I've been with it since the attack at the racetrack and it did me no harm. It can't be just a nice accessory but also isn't a war machine."

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Calhoun asked. She touched the bracelet, which moved to her wrist, turning back to the natural color.

Just then she felt the room temperature rising and an internal feeling that seemed to burn like fire, but it didn't hurt. It was like an unknown force accumulating inside her, something warm and powerful. The electric current seemed to establish some sort of connection. The sounds seemed higher and the scents slightly modified.

Felix noticed something was wrong as he saw the fiery glow in her eyes. He also touched the little bug, which moved up to him now.

"I knew you wouldn't let me stay with it." The girl replied. "I would not miss the opportunity to study this rare little gem first."

"And found something?" The sergeant studied the bracelet, but there was no indication of exactly what it did.

That power came from the accessory? Its smell was more technology than magic to contain something so powerful, then where did all that energy come?

She remembered how the girl identified her while tracking the Shadow Girl and her partner in crime, chocolate with pepper and a touch of storm's wind. Pepper probably related to the fire ... A hidden magic, perhaps asleep... Tamora was sure at that moment that, whatever it was, had awakened.

"It may be, but first I want to know if James can tell me anything more about it."

"May I?" The boy asked Felix, who handed him the little insect. "That's hard... High-tech, a little background magic, simple, perhaps adapting some power from another source. It makes direct connection, I don't know if to any code or just ours, which could mean it is programmed by someone who knows us. "

"Well, I see in you the ability to both." Clarion commented absently. A compliment coming from her? James was stunned for a few seconds. "Maybe you two are close in some way." The comment was completely innocent, but her brother looked even more shocked. "Like, if you want my point of view on the matter, the girl is from a parallel dimension."

"What do you mean?" Vanellope asked.

"Almost the same characters, different stories... maybe different choices, battles that took another direction..." Clarion touched the little Cy-Bug, who flew around her and again glided to the table, the girl just watched, talking distracted. "Maybe in one of these worlds, Sugar Rush has more secrets than it seems, maybe our old stories are part from a movie and, like a galaxy, other worlds are connected to this one, maybe, in this world's future, secrets we never imagined Sugar Rush could contain are discovered, maybe in the form of a new villain, ready to take over the game, making himself the new ruler, but the racers weren't going to be fooled by this trick once more and as they tries to stop him, mostly of them would get arrested, letting the game's destiny on the hands of a few of them.

But facing a menace this big isn't easy, not even I would try alone, if given me the chance, maybe you all could help once more, maybe in this other world Turbo, was back and on good terms with everyone else, maybe even with his Cy-Bug powers like we have our dragon ones... A good team to a high dangerous adventure...

"What are you talking about?" Ralph finally interrupted. Turbo back and willing to help?! Dragon powers?! She was really free from the chocolate madness?

"Uh?" The girl blinked and raised her eyes from the bug. "I ..." She tried to thought, what was she really talking about? It looked so real and natural a second ago but now it was all lost. "I do not know what you mean, or what I was talking about... you distract me." Was it important? Part looked so, she got a glimpse of a black-haired boy but it quickly went away, letting behind just a cold shiver. "Let's forget that ... Look at this thing!" Picking up the little insect, the girl activated the Sugar Rush map in order to distract them from the subject. "Maps and GPS trackers! This thing is really useful."

"Wow!" Vanellope said. "And those dots?"

"Any character appears on the radar. They had different colors during the race." Now all the dots were white. "That's how I met James after he sent me a mental connection."

"And this castle here?" Vanellope pointed out to a dark and scary looking castle close to Diet Cola Mountain. "I've lived in this mountain mostly of my life but have never seen anything like it!"

"Like I said, maybe the map is from another dimension, which usually includes some changes. It's kind of a sinister construction, but I like the style..." She ran a hand through holographic map, modifying it completely.

"But I won't think on it right now and it's not all this bracelet has. It also contains a Hero's Duty's map." The new map had something different, a group of black dots, but no big change as far as Tamora could see. "Very helpful, in my opinion, but it's not everything." She turned it into a new map.

"Fix-It Felix Jr." James noticed immediately. "A quartet of characters, a trio of games, all in this small device ..." the boy murmured.

"It seems a little different." Ralph said, turning the map to a house in East Niceland, which actually could be called a mansion by the size and the style wasn't exactly common to the game.

It had three floors, the roof had a summit that was to be glass, but if it was to be an external map or not they didn't know, but didn't show the inside, a small garden adorned the roof, the entrance had two carved columns. Something else seemed strange, but it was difficult to detect exactly what in a holographic model.

"Who do you think lives there?" Felix asked.

"The owners of this small artifact, probably." Clarion commented, zooming in one of the slots on the columns. A gear and a screwdriver, a pair of dragon wings behind. "This symbol ..." The girl turned off the map and turned the small insect, murmuring the verses of a song, an almost identical symbol lit up but hadn't the wings on the background. "Do any of you know what it means?"

James blinked, surprised, then closed his eyes and concentrated, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a folded sheet of paper.

"I have an idea ..." he commented, delivering the sheet to Vanellope, who was closer to him.

"It is you?" The girl asked, looking at the drawing. "Because if it is, you look ridiculous!" She laughed.

"It's not that bad." Clarion replied. "You did this?" She asked her brother.

It was one of those superheroes drawings. He wore a silver jumpsuit, embroidered in black with the same symbol that marked the little Cy-Bug, carrying a biker helmet under an arm and a giant screwdriver like a sword, his red hair was spiky, as if he had taken a shock and he wore glasses, which gave him a mad scientist look, his belt also brought several tools and on his back he carried a gear-shaped shield.

"It was a friend who did it." The boy mumbled, blushing a little embarrassed. "But the symbol ..."

"I said you had the capacity ..." Clarion agreed. "Not only in that other world, maybe. But it seems there is always a connection between the two worlds ... So can you tell me where is this another map from? It can be our next destination." She turned it into a fourth map, a kingdom as big as Sugar Rush, well, maybe a little smaller, but had a varied region, a little more inhabited apparently. But the place didn't look familiar to any of them.

"Shadows of Time ..." James said finally.

"How do you know?" Vanellope asked.

The boy pointed a small print in one of the hologram edges.

"It's a new game, has been plugged in a few days ago." Felix explained. None of them had been in the game yet.

"A great hideaway, not too unreliable." The red-haired girl laughed. "Are you up to go with me to take a look tomorrow?"

"If it will help ..." Ralph said.

"Yeah! We're on an adventure!" Vanellope exclaimed excitedly.

"Why only tomorrow?" Felix asked.

"The post sugar effect drains my strength. I don't know what will happen there, but it is better we all be prepared. Besides ..." She didn't want to admit it, but after all, she'd given up trying to keep secrets, at least for the night. "This strange energy can be a danger if I try to use it." It was like fire, growing inside her, struggling to get out ... The room temperature seemed highly elevated, her instincts much stronger. "I couldn't feel it under the chocolate effect, but after it went off...

The force was powerful, even destructive and not too much under control... She wouldn't take the risk, not with her brother around.

She had no more to discuss, letting the Cy-Bug curl up back around her wrist and activating its music device, the girl went into a trance where the magic remained hidden and she didn't pay attention to anyone or anything else. Could she really survive another day like that?

-KK- -KK-

Luna watched the group leave until they boarded the train back to GCS. She wasn't sure if any of them had noticed her presence, she'd forgotten the Mirrors and their effects and now that they were with her bracelet ... But they had let her slip very easily last time, it was suspected.

The girl was concerned to see that Clarion could see through the veil... would she find her out? With Caramella's castle and the Heroes' Manor on view…

She wanted someone to be there to help her. Her uncle, Jack would be helpful, or perhaps Thalia... What would they do in her place? What would any of her friends do?

Ruby probably would have pretended to be some big and powerful entity and claimed the bracelet back. Jack would have frozen the whole game, picked up the item back and fled. Stella would have bet with the group, challenged Clarion to a battle... What would be of no use because it was likely that her friend would lose. Vanessa or Luke would have set a trap, with high chances of failure. Thalia or Candi would have sought someone they trusted, Candi her mother or Thali her father.

Luna would have relied on any of them, but none existed there. From the group with which she had been left, if it was just Felix or James would be too easy, Vanellope probably wouldn't be a problem if all that were before the incident in Sugar Rush, but after they have seen Prime's traces ...

Trying to steal the little Cy-Bug was a suicidal mission, so all she could do was watch and wait. Her chance should be coming soon...

"Creamy" The call came from her watch she used to replace the stolen device.

"Candi, what happened?" The girl asked.

Only static... Best find Prime and get back. Bad time, but it must be important!

I let this notes to the end after the chapter had happened. I don't own Candi, Cramella or Black Cola Castle neither the story Clarion began to tell before interrupted, it all belongs to TCKing12, the story in particular is a resume of Wreck-It Ralph: The Rise Of Licortwist Hothead, it all is referenced because the OCs will make appearances in later stories.