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Zanegar's POV

"I don't think I could handle another one of those…" Aquous said pointing at Light, the one currently with us gave him a withering glare, "No offense of course." He added quickly. We rolled our eyes.

"Hey, is it just me, or does she look smaller? Like, a little kid." Acai asked. I looked again.

"Huh, you're right…"

"Or it could just be distance, the farther away you are from something, the smaller it appears!" Rui chirped probably quoting some art technique.

"No, I'm pretty sure she's smaller like a kid…" Acai repeated, Rui looked again and reluctantly nodded.

"Seems so actually… but, Light is… uh, how old is she?"

"She's eighteen." I supplied.

"How do you even know that?" Rui asked with a raised brow.

"Her birthday was about two months ago, we celebrated." I told her with a shrug.

"So how come she looks so little?" Acai asked.

"Why don't we stop talking about her in third person and actually go to her and talk to her?" Keiko said with a flat look.

"Good idea…" Light commented dryly, I turned to her and scratched my head while grinning.

"Guess I kinda forgot you were there… sorry!" Light rolled her eyes but a smile sparkled within them as she said, "Idiot."

Cautiously Acai walked towards the other Light, the rest of us followed closely. Really, she wasn't far away, when we got close she turn to us and said.

"You know I heard everything you said, right?" A few of us, including me, flushed red.

"Um, sorry…" I said to her, she shrugged.

"It's okay, you're probably surprised anyway."

"Yeah, uh, how come there are two of you? And, uh, how old are you?" I asked.

"When Lucy, Miki and I were attacked different things happened to each of us depending on our situations. Miki was hosting a spirit and now it seems that, that spirit is now feeding off her soul.

Lucy was technically untouchable due to her bracelet, so the dark energy swarmed around her and attacked her from all different angles in order to gain access to her soul, but it couldn't, and she went a bit mad.

Personally, I was slightly affected by the darkness already for a long period of time. However I was loved by the dark one, so the darkness really didn't know what to do with me. I ended up being shattered by the indecision and split into multiple personas based upon certain personalities and characters. The light with you is Honor. I am Wisdom."

"Wisdom? But you're a child?" Momo said inquisitively, Wisdom raised her brow.

"Isn't a child the most wise as they are not yet jaded to the world?"

"That's a matter of opinion!" I chirped.

"Shut up Zanegar." She replied her wide, blue-violet, five-year-old eyes flashing.

"Hey she is wise!" Aquous exclaimed.

"Shut up!" I exclaimed indignantly, Aquous just grinned.

"So, how many Personas are there?" Keiko asked.

"Um… I'm not too sure; I don't think that we were split up into every single possible personality and character because in that case there would be over a hundred. I'm thinking what the main ones might be, what defines me. Or just what might be important." She paused a while to think. Then when I was about to burst of boredom she spoke up again.

"Honor, Wisdom, Virtue, Love, Truth, Hate, Innocence, Pain, Immorality, Courage, Fear, Hope, Trust, Betrayal, and Revenge. Those would be the ones I'd search for first, just fifteen, and you already have Honor, and me- Wisdom, so only thirteen really."

"But, what are we going to do? Run around with fifteen different Lights? Won't that look odd, and not really help?" I said.

"Look mister, my whole fricken soul is shattered to pieces, do you think it's any easier for me?" She sighed heavily, "Look, once you find each piece of me, we'll become one again, okay? After I am complete once more I'll be able to return to my body." With that she touched palms with the older Light, Honor, and she faded away.

A glowing light surrounded Honor and faded away, most likely into her. After the light had left Honor's eyes seemed more mature, she had become wise once more.

"So, that's two down, thirteen to go?" Rui said with questioning optimism.

"Where do you think we should look? I mean, we have a whole world to search through…" Momoji said.

"How about Titan, Adam, and me take the lead? 'Cause I bet we know this place better than anyone else here, and because of that we can probably guess where each will be based on the persona." Elijah suggested.

"I think that's a good idea." Keiko said. Umeko nodded in agreement.

"So where do we look first?" I asked.

"Well, why don't we figure out a place to crash for now? It's about six, we can sort out places to stay then find something to eat before we look, 'cause I don't know about you, but I'm starving." Elijah replied.

"We could stay at my place. Lucy and I left it in a bit of a… mess, if I suppose you could call it that, but it's really close by and should be big enough to fit everyone." Adam said. I saw Elijah's breathing hitch and eyes flash for a moment as he thought of some unknown event that Adam had reminded him of, but he was back to normal so quickly I wasn't sure if I had really seen it.

"Well then… what are we waiting for?" Rui asked, he gave her an amused smile and rolled his eyes before turning around and began to walk towards the unknown destination of his house. The rest of us followed him each chatting with another in easy conversation and I smiled to myself, this was what contentedness felt like. There was only one thing that could make this better; Miki.

It didn't take too long to get to Adam and Lucy's house; it was a dome shaped building made of some sort of mysterious white stone. There were a few windows cut around the circumference of the house, and each was covered by a black glass that I was sure one would be able to see out of perfectly in they were inside. There was a door made of similar glass and Adam touched his hand to it muttering a small spell or password. The door swung open and we walked inside.

I had an urge to say 'It's bigger on the inside?' but I resisted. However, it was. The house which seemed kind of smallish and cozy from the outside had plenty of space inside its walls. There were a few smooth curving pillars which not only helped distinguish and separate the kitchen from the living room, as it had no wall between the two, but most likely helped support the building, the other pillars were cleverly part of the walls and doorways that led to other rooms.

To say that they had left their house in a bit of a mess was an understatement. Many simple objects such as pictures, books and a couple cups as well as some small house plants had been knocked all over and in some cases smashed, there was dirt and blood on the floor as well as shards of glass. There were also weird black stains on the walls.

"Tell me again what happened here?" Rui asked sounding somewhat horrified. Adam gritted his teeth.

"Taushin and Francis."

"Your life here was not what it seemed to be." Keiko said, more as a statement than a question. But Adam nodded anyway.

"You could say that. Lucy and I weren't exactly on the good side of the council. We were never supposed to be together. Anyway, I'll fix this." He then closed his eyes and a comforting darkness, like a blanket of soft night filled the room before fading away like the dawn. When it left everything was back into place and the stains had been wiped clean.

"Wish I had easy cleaning magic… I'd never have to clean my room again." Momoji muttered wishfully under her breath. Adam just looked about his house with an almost nostalgic look on his face, he seemed sad, yet happy; a bittersweet return.

"Right, so there are fifteen of us and five bedrooms as well as the living room. About three people per room, okay?" Adam told us we nodded and ended up making all-girl and all-boy groups, it would be too awkward otherwise. Everyone seemed happy to have a place too stay that wasn't overcrowded like my comparatively small house; even Momoji decided to sleep tonight.

We all sort of forgot about dinner as we headed off to our respective rooms. Adam, Elijah, and Titan as one group, Rui, Acai, and Keiko as another, Rose, Erina and Momoji formed the third group, Tera and Light had a smaller group of just the two of them because Umeko had wanted to stay up and prowl the streets.

Aquous, Icarus and I were the last group. And the pillow I laid my head on was one of the softest pillows I'd ever slept on. Or maybe it was just the exhaustion telling my mind that, regardless, my vision and mind soon faded to black as I slipped into blissful unconsciousness.

Narrator's POV

The night air was humid as Umeko slipped out of Adam's house. A slight breeze tugged at his fur and a swirl of unfamiliar smells assaulted his nose as he traveled further from the group. He didn't travel too far from them however, perhaps a kilometer or two, when he smelt an unfortunately familiar scent.

Immediately he turned back and began to race towards the house. His pace only quickened when he heard a scream.

Narrator/Tiger's POV

The room was oddly dark. The garden's roof was composed entirely of glass, and it was a beautiful spring day. Yet there was a shade upon everything in the room, as if the windows did not exist at all.

Among the plants of the garden were two figures. One was a woman, about twenty-five in age she lay on her back her head rested against the silver flank of the only other person in the room; a large female tiger. The woman grit her teeth and suppressed a scream as her body contorted through another contraction, she could not however help the pained moan.

The tiger was on full alert and had allowed none into her sanctuary. She too was a mother and had decided to aid this girl as she entered the path of motherhood for the first time. The woman let out a distressed howl as yet another contraction rippled through her body. Her child was forcing its way out and the pain was blinding.

Gently, the tiger rose to its feet, laying the woman's head on a pile of soft pink, green, yellow and purple tissue; remains of some of the garden's flowers. Every plant within the garden had mysteriously turned to paper not long after the woman had arrived.

At first she had been a young girl, but then two strange men had come onto the scene fighting, and the one made the girl into a woman. Not only that but the girl was also with child and very close to delivery. After the men had left, the woman had lain down on a patch of flowers, exhausted upon returning to an older age, and being so close to bearing her child.

When she lay, the flowers around her had strangely turned to paper, and like a fast-acting disease all the flowers within the garden soon began to slowly turn to paper them selves. It had been a week before the woman woke, and not two hours after her awakening she entered labor. That was almost twenty-four hours ago.

Suddenly the 'sky' which had darkened the whole room for many days now flash with a brilliant light that faded away to reveal a clear, purple sky with cotton candy pink and blue clouds as well as the normal white puffs of clouds. And if she looked close enough, the tiger saw that the weather was not clear, but raining gently.

The drops of rain fell softly, almost undetectably, save for quiet murmurs, that if she strained, could make out sentences.

"…She hesitated a moment before replying fully 'I am Mercy'"

"…just wait a while longer, than they shall remember, they will all remember us, the ones who had been born into darkness, we may cry tears of anguish now, but when we are finished, we will be the ones who they beg mercy and love from…"

"I took a step back; her normally violet eyes were pure black with green computer code running across…"

"Take my soul"

"…Yes, I answer 'Yes' to your question from the Tokyo tower… I'm yours."

"…she came back down… she had a vacant look in her eyes…"

"I will NOT let Sakura die!"

"…'Just kill her' it whispered 'one slice from your blades, and she would no longer annoy you' it told him seductively…"

"…grabbed the eeta from her desk and crawled into bed. She felt herself moving saw a bright light and opened her eyes…"

The woman's breathing calmed and deepened. She opened her eyes and looked at the tiger, and then she began to sing softly, flinching occasionally as pain racked her body.

"Ooh, paper flowers, paper flowers, paper flowers.

I linger in the doorway,

Of alarm clocks screaming,

Monsters calling my name.

Let me stay, where the wind will whisper to me,

Where the raindrops, as they're falling,

Tell the story." The pink haired woman seemed to be speaking of the odd rain. The tiger became intrigued and listened intently.

"In my field of paper flowers,

And candy clouds of lullabies.

I lie inside myself for hours,

And watch my purple sky fly over me." the tiger's eyes widened. The odd happens had come from her mind?

"Don't say I'm not in touch,

With this rampant chaos; your reality,

I know now what lies beyond my sleeping refuge.

But I fear I've built my own world to escape." She must be psychic, or magic the tiger realized.

"In my field of paper flowers,

And candy clouds of lullabies.

I lie inside myself for hours,

And watch my purple sky fly over me." The woman paused for a while, her eyes shut bearing her pain, she let out a wild, painful scream, and soon a gentler cry echoed hers, her child.

She looked upon the baby and hurriedly murmured, "Luke, you are my precious Luke." Then she looked at me pleadingly before closing her eyes once more as pain continued to flow through her, she was with not one, but two children.

The tiger padded up and bit the child free of its umbilical cord, then curled around it, sharing her warmth as she began to lick him clean. The woman continued her singing, as if to distract herself from her anguish.

"Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming,

Cannot cease for the fear of silent lies.

Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming,

The open arms of imaginary realms."

"In my field of paper flowers,

And candy clouds of lullabies.

I lie inside myself for hours,

And watch my purple sky fly over me.

Ooh, paper flowers, paper flowers, paper flowers." The pink haired woman's voice faded away as she held her breath, before a she let out a weak moan, and another life was brought into the world. The woman held her second child and said in a breathy whisper, "Alexandria." before she faded out of consciousness.

This is chapter end, I really wanted to make it longer, BUT I sadly there exists a thing called 'plot' and I have one, so I have to follow it, and in order to do it, this chapter had to be short. But I hope you enjoyed it. The fragments of story (the raindrop sentences) were lines from different fanfic stories of mine. The last line however is from a story that is no longer posted, my very first fanfic. The stories from which each was from (in order) are: 'Mercy Upon the Lost' (or something like that, it is my Full Metal Alchemist fic, I only have one soo…), 'Black White' (my pichi pichi pitch fic.), '.hack/dark_data' (fanfic woudn't let me use '/' so it's written 'dot hack: dark data' I think…), 'My Soul To Take' (Full Moon Wo Sagashite), 'The End and New Beginning' (my second a.k.a first as after my first fic was deleted this was written, and kept posted.), 'X guardian- when love falls for darkness' (Shugo Chara!), 'RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Tsubasa Sakura' (my only Reservoir Chronicle fic), 'Captivity' (Tokyo mew mew), and lastly 'Dream Reality.' (Dream Saga) this last story might be reposed one day… edited of course though haha… anyways, NEXT CHAPTER IS A BONUS CHAPTER, IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS/THINGS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED, PLEASE PM, or review, THEM. Thank you!