1You must find me incredibly evil, don't you? Yeah, I would hate me too, BUT I have an excuse. As always, so I don't torture you guys for no reason whatsoever. Or do I? Anyway,first off I DID have a draft of this chapter, and I WAS gonna update sooner than I am now, but I got sidetracked by numerous thing like; my new addiction to Full Metal Alchemist (TIS GOOD); Acting crap (in which Im already quit), Books Im reading, and my laziness. And I have to say I feel unbelievably guilty for not updated sooner so I'll try to make this chapter longer.

And by the way, while we're talking here, this story is coming to end, but don't panic! Cause there will be a sequel, causethe plot of this story was petty angriness and hatred between Mina and Atem and which it obviously isn't anymore hence the "Redefining Hatred" Haha, but yeah I can't continue this story with this title, I'll squeeze like 3-4 chapters out of this story to start the new one. M'kays?Kay, I'll let you read now xDBTW heads up on Death.

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Suddenly from the left corridor, there was a loud Boom

After all the grace and elegance the party had with all the scattered chattering of the nobles that were there, everything had been stopped to a complete silence. With the tense feeling of confusion in the air, mixed with worry. There were bits of plaster flying everywhere and it was probably impossible to see without getting one stuck in your eyes.

Several split seconds later, a pang of worry struck Mina. She almost went to her knees of the sharp pain. And without thinking, she immediately grabbed a cloth from the banquet table to hold to her mouth while walking through the dusty, collapsing corridor. Dodging and running through the panicking crowd someone held her arm and held her back with a great intense pull.

Mina turned around to argue, "What the-"

"Where do you think you are going?" an obnoxious voice had cut her off.

"Nanami, I have to go see what happened." Catching her breath.

"You are not going anywhere. Mother told me to look after you and see that you would not do anything stupid. As to putting your life in danger from a wall that is caving in"

Mina glared, and snapped at Nanami, "Since when did you ever care about my welfare? Stop sucking up to Mother." And pulled her arm out of Nanami's grasp and continued running.

When she got there, she had realized. . . the corridor seemed like it had exploded. With some unknown substance, this hall had exploded.

And out of it all, Mina noticed a lump deep within of the hall. Evading the rocks on the floor and other objects falling from the wall Mina realized that the certain lump she had seen was a guest from a party in white. That guest was a woman... Mina couldn't bear it. That guest was Rachi!

Mina rushed, throwing the cloth where ever it landed, over to see if there was any slight thin sign of life. Tears building up in her tear ducts . She knelt to Rachi's now lifeless body where she had several scratched throughout her body, and blood coming out from her ear.

Mina grabbed her arm. "R-Rachi," she stuttered. "Rachi! Wake up. Rachi, you aren't dead" She said again, being oblivious to the tears coming down her cheeks. "Rachi, you–you are going to get up, a-and you are going to give birth to that baby that was kicking just a few moments ago."

Behind Mina, she felt footsteps running towards her direction. She cleared the tears from her face and stood up straight to see a woman running to her. "Is the woman dead?" The woman asked desperately.

Mina answered her with a question, "Who are you?"

"At this moment, it does not matter who I am, just if the woman is dead."

"If it is any of your concern, yes she is dead," She felt tears coming back to her. "By the time I got her, she was already dead" And before she knew it, the woman was running towards Rachi's corpse. "What are you doing?" She exclaimed.

The woman ignored her, "Do you have any clue of who might have done this?"

"No, like I said; I found her like this."

The woman sighed and cursed under breath, after what seemed like an eternity looking at Rachi's dead corpse, the woman started introducing herself, "I am who they call Isis, part of an organization to protect those who have the mark of the moon on their shoulders. You're friend here had the what they called the 'Sacred Mark' Thats part of the four phases of the moon."Isis paused; her tone deadly serious. "Unfortunately, that makes one of the four who are dead" she added.

Mina looked at her in bewilderment; was the woman serious? Was it just a joke of some kind? "Excuse me, what?"

"At this moment, I do not have time to explain. But I have a feeling we will be reunited soon enough," Isis stated. "Farewell" And she left just waking through the corridor in ruins, by that time the corridor was not longer emitting dust or bits of rock from the walls.

Mina looked around, and the aftermath of the explosion was great. And Rachi's body – Rachi's body wasn't there! She looked around for the body frantically. Racking through her brain to find where the body was. But it wasn't there, like it was stolen or something. She wondered what had become of the baby inside. Clearly it died, but she couldn't help but build up tears for the unborn baby... and Rachi.

"You there," someone from behind exclaimed. Mina turned around. "What happened here?" It was funny how they showed up just when the body was about gone, and there was no one to investigate. Meaning she was a suspect of the explosion, or of what they thought had happened. "What happened here?" A palace guard who was approaching said with a few behind him.

Mina tried to pull herself together. "Th-There was an explosion an-and there was a dead b-body here." She failed.

"A dead body? Where is it?"

"I–uh . . " Mina sighed. "It is not here anymore"

"Didn't you claim to see it," the guard questioned.

"Yes, but. . . It seems to be gone."

"What do you mean it's gone?"

"I mean, it is gone. Not here. I clearly do not see it." She snapped back as a response. She wasn't regularly cheeky, besides when talking to Atem, but she was willing to make and exception to this guy.

"Did you know who the body was?"

"You mean...,"She corrected. "Who the body belonged to?"

The guard was baffled that a little snobby princess like herself had the guts to correct him. Suppressing his rage he responded, "Yes."

"It belonged to Rachi."

"Rachi...?"

"...?"

"What was her surname?" He spat.

"I did not really know well enough to know her surname, so if you excuse me mister, I'll be on my way. People must be worried sick," Mina said curtly.

At the exit of the blown up corridor, there stood people worried of what has happened. And they flocked to Mina like she was made of gold, and wanting to take chunks of her so they would have some of their own.

She heard may question fly through, and many of them to hard to understand. Mina had heard "What happened?" "Is anyone hurt?" "What caused the monstrosity?" There were endless questions, that remained unanswered. As soon as her mother pulled her out of the way. And dragged her back to the room. With amazingly great force, to Mina's surprise.

It seemed, to Mina, that there was something odd within her emotions. There was no sorrow anymore. And it struck her, she wasn't as sad as she should be about Rachi's death. Barely acquaintance or not. It's a death. And what about Isis? Who exactly was she? And before she knew it. Mina's mind was filled with unanswered question of her own. And again, before she realized it she was at her room.

"What happened it that corridor?" Her mother asked unexpectedly. That clearly caught Mina off guard.

"An explosion," she responded immediately.

"Who caused it?" She questioned again.

"I'm not really sure."

"What do you mean you are not sure?"

"I mean, I don't knowWhat has gotten into you mother? You're acting odd."

"There was an explosion, in which you ran towards to."She scolded. Emphasizing on the word "ran" with her fingers."And you expect me not to worry? I think the better question here is what are you thinking putting yourself in risk of your life?"

"Well, I had to beca-..."

"Well?"

Mina didn't know why she ran to where the explosion was. She just absent-mindedly went to see what had happened, following the feeling of worry.

"Mina, I order you to answer me," Her mother was raging with fury.

"M-mother, I think I have to go to sleep now. I am feeling a bit..," she paused at her sudden dizziness. "A bit..."And suddenly everything went dark as I hit my skull against the cold hard concrete...

A/N I thought about it for a while, and I realized it would be better if I did this story in first person. More detail, you know? Unless you guys don't like first person. In which you can give your opinions in reviews

There was a calling of my name, distant but clear. I had not remembered what happened after I had either fainted, or passed out from sleep deprivation. Either way I had hit my head pretty hard.I knew my consciousness would not last long, but I couldn't help my curiosity take over me and open my eyes and see who was calling my name. It so happen to be my mother, the one who was calling my name, and there were two other figures: Nanami, and Atem.

"Are you feeling better? You gave quite a scare in the bedroom," I thought I heard my mother smile while looking at down at me from what looked like a chair . And I was laying on my bed.

It took me about a split second for it to mesh into my skull, what in the name of Ra was Atem doing here? I couldn't ask myself anymore question, as I drifted into unconsciousness... yet again.

The morning sun from outside where shining on myeyes, waking me up to find that I was not alone in the room.

"Sounds like you awoke" a voice that sound too much like Nanami said.

"What are you doing here?" I groaned, not bother to turn to her.

"Such gratitude," she said with a tone of sarcasm. "Is this the thanks I get for watching you most of the night?" She added.

"I had no need to be watched while I slept."

"Well, apparent to a woman named Isis, you did."

The name rung an annoying bell, "Isis?"

"Yes, anyone you know?"

I paused, I really had no clue if this woman was dangerous or not, she obviously knew about the explosion, and about the victim of he explosion, she knew about Rachi being in danger. Would it really be necessary to lie? "No. I don't think I have met a woman named Isis"

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Oh! She doesn't know who Isis is. Hmm. Suspicious. Hehe.

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