Yuna: People who actually read this story...can't you all think of something to do with your lives?

Yuji:...Yuna...I thought we agreed not to control SHINE-AT-SHADES's body again...I mean, you did that since chapter one...aren't you tired of insulting the readers?

Yuna:...no.

Yuij: Everyone...just read the chapter and help me come up with an idea to shut my twin up...she's getting annoying now isin't she?

Yuna: What was that? turning on a chainsaw

Yuji: Oh, for the love of crap!

...I get really bored now these days...

Lucifer can't imagine himself being serious anymore. All his life, being positive and silly was his main priority. Now standing in front of the Blue Crest HQ in Dark City makes him realize how serious the Destruction War means to him.

"The Rose Guard is basically the four captains of each of the Crest: Blue, Green, Red and Orange. Their duty is to pinpoint any remaining member of the Gardner family. This tradition has been past through many generations. The four of you has been given several followers to not only locate the Gardner family but to kill anyone who is opposing the power of the Council of Roses. We are the government, they must follow our rules. Is that understood?"

Not really. Lucifer wasn't paying attention when First Petal Bakura was talking to him after Leo's execution. He was automatically the Captain of the Orange Crest. Something that still bothers him today.

He was thinking too much before he reached Captain Seto's right hand man or woman in this case, Qing, who was staring blankly at her computer. It took a while for the young vampire to notice Lucifer, "Oh, hello Lucifer. Master Seto is waiting for you on the ninety-fifth floor. Just find the room with the double door and you'll be fine."

"Thanks." Not long ago, Qing was pretty nice towards Lucifer, he guest that she's still shocked after finding out of Lilac's death. All he hoped is that the rest of the building wasn't half dead and staring blankly at some screen, or something.

A couple of minutes later, Lucifer made a mental note to himself: never use depressing songs in his elevators at his HQ. The last thing he wanted to see was more half dead vampires and humans on the ninety-fifth floor. Sure Lilac was beloved by all but they should get over it, or so Lucifer thought.

It was like looking at Tea again...

How half dead she looked when she saw Leo's execution. It devastated her. Her fiancé being killed in front of her eyes,how Leo gave her one last smile, that same smile that made Tea love him in the beginning. It was too much for her, having her parents found dead that same morning and all. All that happening on her sixteenth birthday.

So Lucifer made a promise: To be positive and be near Tea. Add a few "love" jokes and be dramatic here and there, and maybe Tea would go back to her normal self.

It worked, for a while.

At last, he found the room he needed to forcefully enter. An hour ago, Lucifer got a text message form Seto about something important. Lucifer knows that Seto was a member of the Izumimiya family. It was Seto's father that wanted to separate his family from his brother's "eternal promise."

"Are you going to enter or not?!" Leave it to the new Captain of the Blue Crest to shout from his office, even through the thick wooden doors.

Lucifer just had to sigh. This was too much for him. He's confronting a five-thousand year old vampire and he's only two-hundred and fifty.

"You pathetic excuse for a ninja!"

Second Petal Marik slapped Lisa across her face. A habit he doesn't want to stop.

"I told you, I was caught off guard."

"That's your excuse for everything. As a Captain you could have sense Ishizu before she realized it was you. But no! You had to wait for her to realize that it was you!"

Lisa was already bored with him. I t was always the same thing, except this time, it's different. She had to grin.

"What's so funny you bitch? I didn't tell you to grin like that."

Lisa chuckled. "I came up with a plan that should please you...Now if you want to get rid of me that badly, I won't get the chance to tell you about an invasion of the Spring Palace..."

Now this got the Ruler of the Red Crest's attention. For five-thousand years, no Captain of the Red Crest ever got an idea about an invasion. Of course, Marik could have done it himself but Bakura wouldn't let him. Now, with a ninja and her plain, Marik would get revenge.

"An invasion of the Spring Palace?" Third Petal Dartz stared at Lloyd, questionably.

"Yes, since I have the exact location on where the Spring Palace lies beneath the Ruins on the West Coast, we could all get through the border and set an invasion. Since that's where Atem is in the moment, we could capture him and tell us where the last remaining treasures are."

Dartz was happy with Lloyd. The Ruler of the Green Crest can finally get some payback that he so rightfully deserve.

This will show that ungrateful vampire lord.

Cecelia looked worried. The hot springs was destroyed, again.

"...What did Malik do this time..."

She turned around to see her husband, Maximillion Pegasus.

"It was Lisa. She attacked Ishizu while they were both in the hot springs. Oh, guess what, I saw Tea. She looks just like Thomas. It's too bad that he died nine years ago."

Fifth Petal Pegasus grinned, "Yes, it's too bad...Listen my dear, I have an errand to run to. Can you stay for a while and check on things while I'll go to Dark City."

Cecelia hesitated; her husband has left her to take care of Illusions Inn on her own for many years, but not on these types of situations. Something had to be up.

Tea woke up to a gentle spring breeze. It all seemed like a dream.

"Are you awake, my little apricot?"

She quickly got up to what seemed like grass, or what felt like grass since she felt it in her toes. Around her, a meadow stretched for miles. She also noticed she was wearing a white summer dress, like the one her mother used to wear. A white ribbon that tied up her hair dances with the gentle breeze.

"Don't you remember me?

Tea quickly turned to see...

"Wake up Tea"

It took a while for Tea to figure out that she wasn't in a meadow and it was all a weird dream.

"Kuri kuri?"

She gently got up and gasped. She was sleeping in a bad sized for some king. The room around her was even bigger than her own apartment.

"Sooo...you had some type of dream where you are in some meadow and hearing some voice?"

"How di-who are you?" Tea turned around to see a "young" vampire sitting on a chair next to her. The vampire was wearing a velvet beige robe over herself, she was holding a small notebok, it would appear that the vampire was writing something on it.

"My name is Mana Izumimiya. As a member of the Izumimiya family, I am honored to serve you, Tea Gardner." Mana got off her chair to kneel down besides the bed.

"No, please-don't do that!" Tea quickly climbed out of bed to stop Mana, the kneeling made her uncomfortable.

"Oh don't be modest. That is exactly what your father did, eventually he started to like it. Maybe that's why he didn't want Atem protecting you."

"Wait, Atem, he was going to protect me?" Tea just found out about all the Destruction War stuff last night. Her father, Thomas, never said anything about being protected. Then again, he never said anything about everything.

"Tea, you are a member of the main branch," Mana reached to Tea's Necklace of the Stars, "only Atem and his father protect the main branch. You guys are basically targets for the Council of Roses. Especially you with this around you neck, it will help them get the last two treasures to open the world and release Zork. You don't want that to happen, do you?"

Tea actually had to think about that. If Zork was released to the world, darkness would basically plague the world into everlasting darkness. She would probably die from that. The good news about that is that she will get the chance to see Leo...

Mana slapped her, "Don't even think about that! We spend more time trying to protect your family than even stopping this useless war! I could have even kill that bastard Marik for what h-" mana stopped right there and reached for the door, " Hehehe...oh just ignore that and I'll just come back to ask you questions...hehehe..." With that said, she left.

Tea just stood there, shocked. It wasn't everyday that she got slapped. Except that time after Leo's funeral, by Lucifer.

"Kuri?" Tea turned around to see three different colored fur balls floating on top of her bed with the help of their small white wings.

"Kuri kuri!"

"You're saying you are all...my servants?"

"Kuri."

"Kuri..."

"Kuri kuri!"

"Atem is outside the balcony..."

"I told the three of you not to say anything!" A voice came from the balcony of the room.

Mana took a while to get the main hall of the Spring Palace. It was more of a ballroom than a hall. On the floor was Malik, he looked like he was asleep.

Mana took a deep breath, her body glowed a soft purple color and that aura surrounding her went into Malik's body.

"Malik what the hell! I let you control my body to see and talk to Tea and you ended up slapping her!"

"Mana, she wanted to die, give-up, do nothing! Of course I would do something like that. Don't you remember what happened to Celeste?"

"Of course I remember what happened but at least she wasn't a member of the main branch. She gave up...because...well you remembered it well..."

"Celeste died because she gave up. Not only that, but Bakura did get the White Dwarf ring...which of course told him where the Nebula Ring was."

Malik got up and stretched his wings. He didn't want anybody to give up their lives.

"Come one Mana, Mahado is about to announce a meeting taking place in his lab."

"Master is back?!"

"Yeah, like about last nig-oh crud."

"What?"

"I forgot to give Tea her birthday punches...she turns twenty-five today, doesn't she?"

Since Yuna and Yuji were controlling my body...again...I forgot to to mention something about this chapter...

Yuna: Until next chapter folks!!

Yuji: Not unless you kill them first...

Yuna: turning on the chainsaw

Yuji: Running away from his twin

...I really do have problems...