How are we to even start looking for him? We had left the scene and into the mansion again.

"This shit…" I panted as we ran. "Is getting freaking old!"

"We can't find them any other way," Gil called to me.

Suddenly both of them stopped and I barely halted behind them. Right before us I saw two kids.

"Those two…" I murmured. Then I saw it. The huge round thing with eyes and its mouth wide open, its long tongue swiping the head off one of the art pieces.

"If I could I would help, but…" I thought.

It's okay… I turned and didn't see anything.

"What the…" but I didn't have time to react before the scenery changed again. But this time it was a dark place where know fell.

"I'm glad Jack brought me to you," the same calm woman voice called from behind me but I couldn't move. I couldn't turn around. Then suddenly I felt it. A pair of warm hands way different than Jack's pulling me into an embrace. It felt familiar but I don't know why. But I felt like wanting to cry but of happiness. The hand stroke my head warmly. "I know you don't remember me child. However I see your soul and body remember me well enough." I didn't understand what she was saying until I noticed my arms tightly around her.

"Who are you?" I mumbled loud enough. She took me apart from her embrace and held my face. My eyes widened in surprise. Her face identical to ours, Cloude's and mine. Her sapphire blue eyes a mirror image of mine. And her white hair was like light in that dark room. She brushed the my bangs from my forehead and felt her touch my scar. "You can realize that yourself can't you, my xiote dei luna?"

Her Daughter of the Moon? "Mo…mother?" she simply smiled the same way Cloude smiled at me before leaving me. She kissed my forehead. "Your brother and I are delighted that you found the strength to keep living. You found someone to live for and he who will live for you." Someone? Did she mean Eliot? "It is the force of such mutual love that your heart became whole again." Then I wasn't dreaming it. That sound I heard when I was with Eliot. It was…

"Why are you here?" I asked. "Aren't you…"

"Yes, my child. Alike your brother I am not in this world any longer. However a nice young man showed me the way to you. You see this?" she said looking around at the dark snowing room. "This is how your heart feels. Clouded by darkness but with twinkles of hope surfacing from every place. I came to release you of that darkness." She pulled apart from me as she held in her hands something. A blade that looked quite distinct. It handle was encrusted with rubies and the handle itself was silver. The blade was of a white material. It was thin but a bit more thick than a foil. "Your younger brother, Cloude Nicholas, granted you the second turn; a second chance in life to find the lights that would surface from the dark. I, Edea Catalane Florence as your mother, grant you the powers of my ancestors, the third turn." She held out the handle of the blade while grabbing the blade herself. I looked up at her and with reassurance in her expression I held onto the blade. "Clarice Luna Florence," she pronounced. "As Wielder of Time and Space, I now grant you the last strength to turn the clock completely around. By taking the 'Lost Memory' in your hands you will become it's owner. As I, the White Sage, now grant you this power of our people." She let go of the blade and suddenly my sight became engulfed by a golden light that came from the blade. When I opened my eyes it had changed completely. The silver blade was now ivory except for the two small sides of the handle and the hilt. The teeth was a ruby heart with it's left extremity broken, the heart itself, the broken part, was being embraced by a full-spread angel wing while the other side barely being held by a sprouting wing. In between the handle and blade the same two wings where placed towards the blade. The top most part of the blade had a hollow part before uniting at half towards the teeth. The hilt was intricate with runes a small chain dangled from the end of the handle. It looked exactly like the teeth of the blade.

"What just…" I mumbled holding the light blade in one hand holding it up.

"My blade has chosen a new bearer. It's name is 'Lost Memory' no more. It's bearer chooses it's name," she pronounced.

"I choose?" I held it to the sunlight as it came over my eyes and horizon. I smiled, "It's name is Radiant Dawn."

"Nice choice," she said. "Look around now." A meadow spread through every side up until where the eyes saw. "You are renewed as my successor. A new sage and apparently by the glow of you blade…you're not the White Sage anymore. You are the Golden Sage."

"Now am I not…?" the questioned linger in throat as I dared not to know a negative answer.

"With your heart anew, your body and soul are no longer in peril," she said smiling. She came and hugged me and I felt tears fall from her face to my shoulder. "I'm proud of you. Like Cloude told you and as I am telling you right now, cherish your life and the ones you love." she kissed my forehead before I fell a pair of hands pulling me under, I tried reaching out for her. I didn't want to leave her side. Not when I've finally found her. "Mother!" she simply smiled, "I love you, Clarice. My dear, little Claire."

Suddenly I heard the rebound of the shots that Gilbert had shot not long ago. Eliot apparently had pulled me down as he was being pulled down by Gil as to avoid Humpty Dumpty.

"Are you trying to kill those children?" Eliot called.

"They're not children, they're illegal contractors!" Gil bellowed back.

I stood up and jumped over the shelf we where hidden behind. "If they're contractors, they're still children. Just like Oz, they're not different!" I bellowed to both of them shocking them. "Claire, what are you doing!" Eliot called terrified.

"You can't fight like that, your body won't handle the exertion!" Gil called coming out with his gun out but too far from me.

"I can handle it now!" I called looking over my shoulder. "Can't I? Mother." I held out my hand as a circle of power surrounded me rising the wind. "My name's Clarice Florence. As your master I command you. What I desire is…" it's figure glisten with my thoughts. "Radiant Dawn." The blade appeared as I held it in my left arm. The tongue like razor came over as I raised the blade. It defended me just like the powers of Seiren did. I thrust the blade forth and threw the Chain back. "Chronos!" I called.

"Alright!"

The two kids stopped in their tracks. Unable to move. I know what I had to do and I knew I could do it. "Lacrimosa!"

"Roger!"

Both kids were suddenly yanked to the floor not falling but simply sinking into it. The magnetic force around them greaten. Now all I had left was the Chain, even if I couldn't destroy the main contractor I knew what I could do with these ones. "I need those powers one last time, Astro," I called murmuring. "Fuse them with Radiant Dawn and enable me the power to turn back their 'time'." The blade shone gold as I charged to the kids. I went right both of them. I turned just in time to see a purple haze leave their bodies. Then they fell to the floor unconscious by the sudden hits that someone behind them gave the two.

"Scary powers you have now," Vincent called from behind me.

"Vincent, Echo!" Gil called as they approached me.

"With that you were able to completely locate and nullify the contracts with the Chain, in turn nullifying their attacks, all without hurting the children," Vincent said intrigued.

I simply ignored him as I ordered the blade to go and thanked it as it disappeared.

"Hey big brother," he said changing the subject.

I ignored them as they talked. I looked at my hands. They weren't trembling anymore. I was really truly cured. "Thanks, mom," I mumbled. Suddenly I sensed the powers Yamane could so as he put the children to sleep. "Thanks for not killing them," I said to him not really looking at him.

"You very much welcome," he said. "For once my Dormouse is actually useful. Well…at least it's always much better than Liam's Chain."

"Damn, Liam and Break!" Gilbert called. "Have you seen them!"

"Did something happen?" Vincent asked nonchalantly.

"It looks like Liam was attacked by the Baskervilles while he was looking for the sealing stone. His fate is still unknown. While Break…" Gil trailed.

I went down the children. Looking at the little girl's I saw the seal a bit forth from the quarter turn. Eliot gasped. I simply took my glove off and placed my bare hand over it. The seal vanished yet it didn't break the contract.

"What did you do?" he asked in a whisper.

"They're in pain even if they are asleep. The other children keep using the Chain, I simply alleviated the pain by releasing some of the stress from them. But even if I can destroy the contract between them since it's so weak it wouldn't matter. The first contractor must die before I can even deal with the second contractors," I mumbled. Then Echo mentioned Break and the Baskervilles fighting outside.

Gil turned to me, "Can you locate Oz now?" I turned to an open space.

"Lacrimosa," I ordered.

"Scanning."

"Though I still am limited to location, I can logically assume that Yura has him and Alice somewhere underground. Everything is happening in the mansion. I wouldn't be surprised to find them in a cellar."

"Location confirmed."

"Thanks," I called. "They're this way." They followed me as we went. "Lacrimosa locate the others for me as well. Give me there location by range of power and killing intent. You can do that right?"

"On it boss."

"Chronos, I want you to engage on stopping the speed the fire's taking. If we can delay it, it'll be in our best interest."

"Thought you'd left me out. I'm on it."

We kept on going done the stairs as Vincent told us what he'd found out. "A new tragedy of Sablier?" Gil said surprised. "Is that what Yura's trying to do?"

"Yes…" Vincent said as I noticed he was merely walking. "There were a lot of guests in the mansion besides us and the Baskervilles…"

"They took Oz and that stupid rabbit?" Gil called surprised.

"I thought you'd catch that much from what I said!" I called from front. "I think your servant was taken as well, Eliot," Vincent said.

"Leo?" Eliot called confused and shocked.

"The religious fanatic I for the information out of said that he was taken to play the role of Oz's friend…I though Gil and Eliot were Oz's only friends…"

Suddenly Gil stopped making the whole group stop. Then Vincent retorted, "Are you worried about the Mad Hatter?"

"Yes…" Gil mumbled.

"He'll be alright," Vincent said plainly while chuckling. "You should know that. The Hatter is strong…a mere Baskerville could never defeat him."

"You're right…" Gil mumbled back.

He pisses me off sometimes. I stood between them and the path ahead, "Yeah we know how stubborn he is however," I called looking over at Vincent then at Gil. "But he is our friend and we care very much for him. I can bet it's something you've never felt, I'm sure."

Finally we got to a library and apparently Vincent knew exactly where to go. Moron making me waste my powers instead of just telling us straight out. We got to a library as Eliot and Echo search.

"Claire. Claire."

"How was it?" I asked out loud even if they could here.

"The fire's being compressed as much as my radius allows it," Chronos called.

"I've found Sharon and Ada Vessalius both are safe in the outside. Liam, I've got no signs of him whatsoever. Break is outside far from the two other and I felt the two other Baskervilles."

"Who are they?" I asked concerned. I knew they where the enemy but right now they were an enemy but not the enemy for the moment and she also felt the attachment from before deep within her.

"Fang and Lily Baskerville," she answered me.

"Fang and Lily?" I called and thought it over. "Place a string on Break, Fang, and Lily and keep looking for Liam." Then they found an open entrance.

"Is Leo in there?" Eliot called as Echo went before us.

"We'll find out by going there," I called going after her.

As we got closer to the bottom of the stairs we found some minions. "Nice, I've wanted to kick ass since I got my powers back." I went ahead holding my hand out. "I command you as your Master, I desire Radiant Dawn!" I got out and immediately went for simply getting them unconscious. By the time I was done everyone else was two. No further did we find Oz.

"Crap, what the fuck is this completely exertion I'm feeling," I mumbled untying the ribbon a bit loose.

"Claire!"

"Augh!" I bellowed from the yell they gave in my head. "What the hell! What's the freaking matter with you two?"

"Claire, Break's presence is ebbing from us," Lacrimosa called.

"What? But how?" I asked confused. Then it came to me, "He's using Mad Hatter too much." Gil, please get there. Hurry before Break loses or worse yet dies on us.