"I like your voice." Someone said from outside the tower, down below and far away.
It was strange.
She had been alone for years and years, yet when someone had spoken to her, the girl could not say anything except thank the person and respond that she liked the other's voice as well.
Though it had only been a few seconds since she knew this person, the girl's loneliness had disappeared. In place of that she felt…good. Even though she did not know why.
"I'm tired of being lonely. That's why." She thought before the girl outside the tower spoke up again.
"My name's Saya."
For a second she wondered if "Saya" was just telling her the name so that she would know who another person was that would be hurting her, but soon the thought disappeared.
Saya, did not sound like Amshel had.
There was no deal. Nothing that she had to give the girl in return. Instead, she had said what her name was simply out of what seemed to be desire.
"Saya." She though out loud, thinking about how much she liked that word.
It was interesting to her for some reason.
"I am…" The girl began, trying to think of something to call herself.
But the names she had been told by Amshel and Saya were different than the words that he had made her remember. They were unique. And she did not know any unique words.
"Tell me what your name is." Saya quietly urged from outside.
"Name?" She thought out loud again, trying to scrounge up something- anything to call herself.
The girl must have been thinking about it long enough for Saya to figure it out.
"You don't have a name?"
To that, she didn't know how to reply.
"Then we'll just have to find a name for you." She heard Saya say while approaching the tower that the girl was a prisoner of.
"Um, let's see." Saya spoke, in thought.
She began singing again, not sure what else to do, as Saya grew closer.
As she sang, Saya spoke up once again, causing the girl to stop before finishing.
"I know! Your name will be Diva! Diva the princess! With the beautiful singing voice!"
"Diva?" She asked, thinking about the word.
She liked it. It sounded pretty and somewhat reminded her of Saya.
"I'm Diva?"
"That's right! Diva! So now we can become friends!" Saya said happily from down below.
She had been taught the definition of the word. But never truly understood it before.
Diva, that's who she was, had asked Amshel once if they were friends, in an attempt to grasp its meaning. But he had not replied, only looked at her like he always did before leaving the room.
However, she had been told that friends often gave each other things to show that they liked each other and looked around for something to give Saya.
Her cloak wasn't good enough, but…
Diva reached out and plucked one of the blue flowers, called a rose, from the vines on a wall and tossed it out of her prison's window.
It was strange, she could feel it drifting downwards all the way through the air, even when Saya caught it in her hands.
Her friend sounded happy afterwards and Diva guessed that she had done something good.
"Thank you!" Saya spoke up to her in gratification.
"You're welcome." She responded, remembering as well that that's how you are supposed to respond when someone thanks you for something.
"Now that we're friends, how about you come out here so I can see you?" Saya asked up to her.
But, she couldn't. As much as Diva wanted to just throw open the door to her prison and go down to Saya she was unable to.
And she was too afraid to jump out the window. Otherwise she would have done so long ago.
More than anything else though, she was scared of what it would be like outside.
Though she did not like being stuck in this room, it was all that she knew.
"I cannot." She responded hesitantly.
"But why?" Saya complained.
"I am stuck in here. I can't get out."
"You mean… you have never left the tower?"
"No. I haven't."
"Then I'll find a way to get you out!" Saya said up to her again.
She was surprised, and scared.
But if she could see Saya, Diva was willing to leave.
She wanted to leave.
It was really loud in here.
Diva had always made a point of staying away from noisy things, aside from Saya of course. And this helicopter would have definitely been on her "no way" list.
But she'd felt much worse less than an hour ago, so her ears bared it as they floated up into the sky and then flew back the way she guessed it had originally come.
Kai was in-between her and Saya, probably keeping them from bothering each other again.
Diva didn't care though.
He was next to her, that's what mattered.
Though he was being mean by still not letting her hug him.
She had pouted at first when he stopped her advances but had eventually given in and was now content to simply sit next to him, enjoying the company.
David and Lewis, those were their names right? They were sitting on a bench near the door of the helicopter, which the two had been unable to close.
That was part of the reason it was so loud in here. And she was beginning to get bored.
Whenever Diva had tried to get up from where she was sitting, Kai would always pull her back down and tell her she had to stay seated or she might fall out.
This, again, had made her pout. And by now, she was feeling stale.
There was nothing to do here. Just sitting around. And she couldn't nap either because stupid Saya and Haji were sitting on the bench as well.
Diva would have gotten up to throw them out and lay down, but she held herself back since she knew it would upset Kai.
"Strange…I've never done anything for someone else before." She thought, trying to escape from the boredom.
But it didn't work.
She had never been one to sit around thinking. That was why when she had a choice Diva would always choose to have Solomon or Nathan around, as they kept her busy.
Karl would get her dresses and dolls as well, and it was even fun to tease around with James, even though he never lightened up.
But Amshel… for some reason whenever he was obsessed with learning about something and no one else was around there was nothing she could do to get him to pay attention to her. It was as if she was still stuck up in that tower with nothing to do.
The window was just right in front of her and the confines were silver metal as opposed to sand-colored-rock.
Her eyes became droopy and it felt like she had a fever she was so bored.
The blues orbs' gaze drifted over and looked at David, who was fiddling with some kind of red fluid in a vial.
It was strange though, it didn't smell like blood.
For a second she wanted to taste it to see what it was, but decided she was too lazy right now to get up, even if Kai would let her.
"If he can be like Saya's brother, then he can by my brother." She thought to herself.
David inserted a vial of that red stuff into a strange-looking syringe, then looked over towards her.
She instinctively backed away, though it was only an inch or so.
"Kai," he began, making her feel uneasy.
"What is it?"
"I need you to help me do something."
Kai's brow furrowed in response.
"What is there to do? We're in a helicopter, David."
"I just need you to help me hold something."
Her eyes lost their droopiness and she observed him like he was a a kind-looking ice-cream-man with an obviously poisoned dagger behind his back.
He wasn't supposed to be trying to hurt her now. They'd said they needed her!
"I'm still not feeling good." She thought, continuing to back up, unconsciously moving into Kai.
"Come on, I already told you no." He grumbled to her while looking back to David, who was still holding that damned thing.
It was shiny, even in the darkness. And it resembled things she hadn't seen for a whole century. And had never wanted to see ever again.
David stood up from his seat and walked towards them, not holding the syringe out but not hiding it either.
"Just hold her still." He spoke, closing the small distance between them.
Diva didn't know if Kai was going to help her, and didn't care.
She bolted up and tried to push David away, but only succeeded in getting herself trapped by his free hand and thrown face-first into the wall that held Kai's bench.
Before Diva was able to do or say anything, the blonde bastard slammed into her back and held her still as that nasty syringe thing was injected into her from behind.
"David, what the hell are you up to?!" Kai complained as the bastard behind her backed away, letting her go.
"S-76, Subsisto-76, or, translated to English, Halt-76 freezes the unique cells in chiropterans' bodies and keeps them from interacting with other cells. It results in the temporary absence of the assisted processes which is given by their interaction."
Kai shook his head as she rubbed her bottom and cowered against the wall, glaring at it.
"It temporarily suppresses the abilities that chiropterans have."
Her hand tightened into a fist and she whipped around, attempting a jump towards David, aiming to tear that horrible thing from his hand and throw it out the "door".
However, her reflexes were ridiculously clumsy and she tripped on one of her own legs, herself falling towards the opening in the side of the helicopter.
They were hundreds of feet above the trees of the rapidly disappearing forest, and she knew that if she fell out now, with that crap in her, she could die.
But even as the wind began shooting across her face as she approached the outside, her left wrist was grabbed and she was roughly yanked back into the helicopter completely, colliding with something behind her and landing on top of her rescuer against a wall of the helicopter.
She struggled around before seeing that it was Kai, and looked away from him.
"Look, just calm down." He told her while moving him and her to sit back down like nothing had happened.
"You promised!" She yelled, audible even above the noise.
He shook his head and looked away.
"You promised her what, Kai?" Saya asked him, a very slight insinuation in her tone.
He scratched his head in response.
"I promised that I wouldn't let you kill her until you both beat that guy."
Kai looked back at Diva.
"But that doesn't mean I'm going to baby-sit you, Diva. Besides, you being human is probably best for everyone right now. Just stay quiet and behave."
Her eyes widened before she slammed them closed and locked her eyelids shut, her head leaning over the floor.
A fever took over her forehead and then her whole body, making her colder than she already had been and sapping what energy she'd still had.
"Saya, David, Kai, Lewis, Haji…I hate all of them!" She screamed inside her head, somewhat glad she felt so sick from the fever, as she otherwise would have begun crying.
She was as weak as they were now, and couldn't stop them from doing whatever they wanted.
"Come on, stop being so upset." Kai told her while trying to touch her shoulder and pull her back up.
In response she threw his hand away and snapped her gaze up at him, unintentionally shifting into Riku's form for a moment, stunning him.
"Don't touch me! Every time one of you humans lays a hand on me I either get hurt or it leads me to getting hurt! Stay away!" She spat while moving to the very edge of the bench, making a vain attempt at staying away from everyone at the same time.
"It would have been easier if Saya had just killed me." She thought, her mind in shambles as she buried her head in-between her knees and tried to wait for this horrible ride to end.