Dawn spreads over the World

"Yasu-sama…"

"Ah, you're back, did you finish the job?"

"…Keia saved him…gomen nasai…"

"Heh, just what I expected! Tomorrow we will arrive at Patch, go and tell the others…we will leave this instant."

"Hai!" the footsteps faded away and the black lion looked up at the sky.

"Tomorrow…dawn will take over the earth…"

"HAAAAA!" Keia quickly sat up straight while gasping for air. Again she saw them, the demons, they were coming…

'No, we're not ready…where the hell am I?' she noticed she wasn't in her own room. This was a room in one of the fancier inns of Patch and most certainly not her room. And this also was not her bed!

"Don't worry you're at my place." A calm voice she knew pretty good spoke from beside her.

Keia slowly looked beside her and saw Hao sitting on a chair that was turned backwards. He stared at her and smirked what made her blush, once again.

"Uuuuhhh, konichiwa?" she greeted while sweat dropping. "OMG, I haven't told the others I was training!" Keia jumped out of the bed, quickly grabbed her shoes and tried to run out when suddenly two arms grabbed her from behind.

"That tiger woman came by, she knows you're here." Hao whispered in her ear as he pressed her against his body.

"O-Oh, okay…" Keia swallowed uneasily "I-I still have to go though…y-you know t-train and stuff? I think the demons a-are coming s-soon." She slowly tried to free herself, but wasn't really successful.

One thing was for sure she didn't like this, she didn't like it at all. There were too many things she had to do and there was no time left to do them, but at the moment that wasn't her concern. It really wasn't…

'Why is he standing so close to me? I don't like it…or do I? No, I don't! I don't! What's going on around here? I don't understand…' Keia stared lifeless at the door completely lost in her thoughts.

"When we were younger…I was the one who was doing this, ne? Hugging you, even though you didn't like it." She smiled sadly as she took a peek in the 'other Keia's' memories. The real events of seven years ago still weren't exactly hers, they belonged to someone who died along with the rest of the Floral clan, little innocent Keia.

"Hmpf, you were supposed to be scared, but instead you always hung around or took me to places, very annoying." He smirked and let his chin rest on Keia's shoulder.

She flinched and started blushing all over again. The only thing that crossed her mind was the word 'time' and that was what she didn't have time. There was no time for bringing up memories of her former self, no time to relax or laugh, no time for jokes or fooling around…no time to be loved or to love. That last thing shook Keia awake, she never thought about such things as 'love'. It made people weak and willing to sacrifice themselves that was stupid in her opinion or was it, now that she knew who she once was.

She shook her head forcefully, there was no time to think about her own stupid little problems. They would just keep her up and lead her down to insanity.

"Why are you crying?" Hao's words shook her awake. She hadn't noticed the tears that were traveling down her face.

"…heh, I just realized I don't have a life…or that I'm not who I am or that I don't exist or maybe none of us exist, but that would be stupid. Maybe this is a bad dream and soon I'll wake up still being seven and still being in Floral and stuff or maybe-!"

Keia was cut off abruptly by Hao pressing his lips on hers. Her eyes widened as she quickly pulled away looking very shocked and not to forget ashamed.

"How could you! Who do you think I am? We were enemies a few weeks ago; you can't go around ki-!"

Again she was cut off in the exact same way, only now he also pulled her closer to him. Keia, who now was even redder then a beet, was about to freak out completely. It wasn't because she didn't like it, but it was Hao! The one who thought her to fight and stuff, the one who was her most hated enemy for seven whole years, even though that wasn't real, and the one who she secretly fell in love with…

'He can't know…I'm not weak, that emotion is weak, it makes people weak and willing to do everything in order to get hurt in the end! I am not falling for that spell!'

"Ee, I agree with you on that, but surely you aren't falling for that emotion, now are you?" he softly whispered in her ear while smirking. Keia slowly shook her head as she tried not to make eye contact and to make matters even worse…

"Hao I'm going to wake her up now! The demons are coming this way and they will be here at dawn tomor-"Kirura came floating in and stopped abruptly when she saw the two of them standing like that. "-row…what in the bloody holy name of whoever are you two doing!" the silver haired shrieked while her ghostly cheeks colored red.

Keia quickly took the chance to free herself out of Hao's embrace and stared ashamed at the ground. Kirura raised an eyebrow and beamed them suspicious looks. Keia shrunk to the size of an ant and Hao just looked at her like he always did, bored.

"I will not ask what you were doing…I only came to inform that the demons are coming this way. They'll be around Patch tomorrow morning at dawn…that's all you may continue where you left off." Kirura was about to disappear when Keia yelled at her.

"'Continue where you left off!' Are you really that stupid! Nothing was going on, you sick minded phantom! If you want to be angry at someone blame it on him, he started it!" she looked disappointed at Kirura and ran out of the room and out of the inn.

The silver haired sighed deeply and looked away ashamed. "I'm not the right person to do this…" sighed Kirura and she shook her head.

"What do you expect, a smile and a warm welcome? Puh, grow up, she doesn't even know you." Hao said sarcastically.

"What do you mean?" hissed Kirura as she clenched both of her fists.

Hao only gave her a look that said 'as-if-you-don't-know' and stared out of the window lost in his own thoughts while Kirura looked like she had just received a slap in the face, what wasn't even possible to happen!

"A-are you talking about those memories? I don't know why Keia sees them, but she isn't supposed to, they're mine and mine alone!" yelled Kirura angry. She really didn't care if Hao was listening to her or not.

"800 years of waiting in fear aren't going to be for nothing, this time we're going to destroy them all and if you ever do what you did again, I'll make the rest of your lives a living hell!" she bowed forcefully and disappeared again.

A deep sigh escaped from Hao as he shook his head. "Women…" he stood up and also left the inn. He walked straight to the lake of the Great Spirits. On his way he saw Yoh and the other training in the coliseum. His other half had become quite strong within these past few weeks…

But he decided to just let them train and continue his walk on to the lake. When he arrived there Keia was also busy training, but she still couldn't control her new powers and the demons would be around Patch tomorrow!

"Grrr, Umi no Hi! Umi no Hi! Umi no Hi!" she dropped to her knees again and panted heavily. All her attacks were useless and didn't do a thing. How was she ever going to survive the first fight?

Slowly she brought her hands to her eyes and started crying. Her spear fell next to her on the ground and turned back to the glass moon. All the time Hao had watched her from a distant, in his opinion Keia looked really weak, but the way she had healed him proved that she indeed was capable of being strong and independent. She just wasn't showing it.

"Stop being pathetic!" Hao was getting sick of her weak behavior, really sick. Only his shouting didn't make it any better, Keia only started to cry harder.

"Leave me alone!" she shouted through her sobs. Still not showing her face or taking the effort to stand up.

Keia silently sobbed on. 'I've finally reached it…the beginning of total misery! Death, pain, destruction and darkness are all that I will know from now on, but that isn't anything new anyway…Fight to fight, but live to die!'

Either she didn't notice Hao was still standing there or she just didn't care anymore He sighed and sat down next to her. This time Keia looked up for a moment, but then turned away from him.

"Why? Why did you kiss me?" she suddenly asked.

Hao raised an eyebrow and smirked. "You needed to shut up and since I can't hurt you I will shock you. What, thought it was something else?" he added teasingly. Keia started to blush and quickly shook her head, still with her back towards him.

"Good."

"Coughcoughkisamacoughcough…ahem." 'How does he do that? He insulted me and still it makes me stop crying and even feel a little better. I guess I'm just weird, heh, I can live with that.' Keia smiled and stood up.

She grabbed the glass moon of the ground and oversouled it with her furyoku. "Arigatoo…I don't know for what, but still thank you…"

"Don't thank me I only came here to train you, that was the deal after all." Hao said as he closed his eyes and smirked.

Keia blinked twice and then fell on the ground. Here she was trying to accept that her 'old enemy' wasn't her enemy at all and he just did what he did. She really didn't understand it anymore.

At the coliseum everyone was training even harder. Kirura had told everyone in Patch that the demons would come tomorrow at dawn and every shaman, everyone that was a member of the Keys of Light, was busy training. They refused to loose against the demons they refused to loose the earth to them, and they wouldn't they swore they wouldn't.

Near the lake were Hao and Keia fighting against each other both had used their weapons. Everyone needed to be trained and skilled for the coming fight.

The black lion opened his eyes and looked satisfied up at the sky. "Arise, my army of darkness!"

It was very dark where they were and in that darkness several glowing red eyes opened. Roars, howls and high screeches were heard. A dark figure stepped next to the lion and smirked, it wasn't as big as the rest of the demons, but it was strong.

"Master everything is ready for us to leave."

Yasu turned around and also smirked. "Yes, I've noticed. Now there is only one thing left for me to do…"

"And that is, Master?"

"Light always has stood in our way, we always had to wait till nightfall before we could attack, but not anymore. This is the reason I ordered them to break free instead of waiting for the Florals." The lion walked away and out of the hiding place. It stood now in the shadow of a rock what appeared to be part of a cave.

He looked up at the sky where the sun was shining brightly. Yasu opened his mouth and a black fog came out of it. The fog spread over the entire sky, almost blocking the sun completely. It wasn't much lighter then dawn now…

The lion stepped out of the cave and stood outside. The sun no longer was a problem for them…

Everyone in Patch saw the sky turn darker and it didn't return to its original color.

Keia looked up at the sky and sighed deeply. It was time, time to fight and save the earth, time to work together, time to survive at all costs and above all time to confront the demons for the first time.

"Seems like it has started." Hao also looked up. Getting his hands on the Great Spirits would have to wait till everything was back to normal if it would ever return to how it once was.

"Yes…everything depends on us now…the Keys of Light."

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Me: it was a short chappy, I know, but next one will be A. longer and B. filled with action and horror :D

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