"NDS: Book 10: Chapter 66: Twilight Lone"

There, I think from now on I will title chapters like this. Seems interesting. Anyway, fine, you stink. I read your review and felt pathetic. You had everything pretty much half-right. The Twilight Elements don't put you in memories, so your theory about them reliving their past lonely memories is wrong. The Twilight Elements just take what is applicable to them from the person's true feelings. With Twilight Sun it was the character's dreams that became their reality, in Moon it was their fears and nightmares, and in Gemini the Element manifested their most hidden side, now, with Twilight Lone, since there is no point in hiding it since it will be here in a moment, it's what they perceive being in a state of loneliness is. But damn, so true with the second part of your review, but it does help that that was the same basic formula of Twilight Sun and Moon, so…yeah, let me start. Note: You were close to another thing though with the first part, but not the second in that instance.

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Jet opened his eyes as he felt his body weight diminish and gravity disappeared. Upon opening his eyes he was not sure he had opened them. The simple truth was that Jet seemed to be floating through an endless black void with no characteristics at all. "I'm alone then…even from myself. Sort of the opposite of the Gemini then." Jet noted as he continued to move about aimlessly without want of such. "This is definitely Twilight Lone. A place where true loneliness is felt…because I am really alone…and cold." Jet began to think about the location of the others, but could not. His second thoughts went to those about his way to get out. After minutes of aggravating ideas he burst out in anger like a jet flame. "I have to go stop bloody Nobuo from committing genocide!" He absolved.

"But…of course…Twilight Lone…is the safest place to be then." Jet realized. He was safe here, forever. He could never be killed by Nobuo like this, he figured. Nobuo could go ahead with his plans and never bother Jet.

But did that not bother him?

He shook his head vehemently. "I should have never said that." He swore. "My…My friends…and even Adven, and then all of those asses I met getting here…I can feel them." Jet was a bit confused on how when he honestly put his heart out there he could feel everyone else, but in the end, he could. He could even see Pike right now back at Claiborne getting ready to tend to the horses. "Pheh," he laughed, "It must be true that a dark void does not mean nothing is there. I am. If this were a white void anyone could pick me out fine. On a piece of paper the slightest mark can be found, but not on a black one. If I were to look hard enough though…"

He shook his head. "I want to be alone." Jet simply said with a grin. It was something he knew he always wanted for some time now. And now he could say it without getting a disappointed look from Virginia. "I want to be alone, because no matter what, I'm never really ever going to be alone. Even here, in the deepest loneliness I still am bonded to them, even if I don't like that."

He nodded in affirmation. "I want to see them all one last time. I will go back just to see her." Daisuke closed his eyes and gravity took over for him.

Virginia was looking out at a familiar scene to Jet, but one that was still foreign to her. For some odd reason she was standing on a land of green grass and in front of a blue sea of sand as a wind cooled her. It was Jet's Twilight Sun reality. She had never seen it, but she had been told about it, and her thoughts, when she thought of this place, were lonely ones. She knew why though, too, because when Jet told her them she wished she could have been there with him.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

She spun around to face Jet. "Jet? What are you doing here?"

"It's strange really." Jet, still with a grin. "I was floating in a dark void, and suddenly, I was just here. Normally I just had to go out of my own Twilight reality to get to another…but…" He shook off all of that stupid explanation that had interested him for about the same time he had opened his eyes and showed up just behind Virginia. One of those hearts he felt asked for him. "I've been here before." He commented.

"You have?" Unaware that this really was the same as Jet's dream.

"Remember how I told you about the place I was at in Twilight Sun…well, this is it. Exactly."

"I thought I was alone again for a moment." Virginia said, closing her eyes with heart. "But, I suddenly realize that I'm never alone."

"No one ever can be, much to my chagrin." Jet simply replied. "We are connected by these." Jet pointed outwards to the left side of her chest. Suddenly he noticed that his finger was placed on not just her heart, but something else that he had not. He quickly pulled back with a blush, and jerked away from any wrath that would surely be coming. "I'm sorry!" He quickly got out in hopes it would save him, if not he also was cowering with his arm folded over his head to protect it.

Virginia simply let out some laughs and finished with a smile as he slowly looked at her in confusion; breaking his defenses. "Jet…" She softly said, "Let's get out of here. We can come back later when we want." She moved towards him, grabbing his hand. "We're not alone any more."

With a clang in the background from an idling engine Jet and Virginia stood on the sandcraft, in the hallways once more. Jet was quick to look for their enemies, but found none. "Nobuo is gone." Jet said cautiously. His grin faded and his determined, hooded glare returned as it should. "How far were we from the Twilight Lone?"

"Within running distance. Maybe five or so minutes from here." Virginia replied. "But, the Twilight Lone isn't there."

"You're right, it's not." Jet confirmed. "That's where Generator Eon is. And that is where Nobuo has gone."

"What will you do?" She wondered.

"You stay here and wait for the others." He replied as he broke away from her. "I'm getting the Raven's Wing and Aigert-Lahm, and then…" He looked back to her.

"Then you're going to go…alone?"

"What did I only just tell you, and you say yourself? We're never alone." Jet simply ran up the stairs and up for his room, leaving a worried Virginia behind.

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Emilia stood upward in a rigid motion, felling a great wind pushing back upon her. She looked out at her surroundings only to see clouds below. Below her feet was rock-hard mountain ground. She was on a flat mountaintop, high above the ground, but the air was not thin like it should be. Still, her only company was the cold wind that blew by her. She registered everything about her surroundings.

"So this is all of it…huh?" She wondered. This was the culmination of her life. Moments ago she felt betrayed by both Ed and her mother. Luckily she at least found that Ed, who is but a memory now, did not betray her. Still, he could have told her. She did not know of her past, she has no mother, and who was her father? For all she knew now, it could be Nobuo, but she was sure Carole was not involved with Nobuo that way. "Being lonely is the only feeling I've ever known, aside from the few times it was false." She sighed. "My mind is empty, and so was I, and then I lost both Ed and Mario." She shed a quiet tear that was dried by the winds.

"I've lived three lives, and I have been lonely for all of them I think. Even the past that I cannot recall now." She looked out to the clouds that covered over the ground. "This is how reality should be for me. This is how I want my life to be. My fourth life. There is no other life I can see right now…"

"Emilia…"

Emilia looked up with shock, but as she looked around, she could not find the man who made that sound. "Gallows? Are you there?" She glanced around for the Baskar, expecting one of those tricks of his. Something that had grown on her by now. She said she would help get him a woman, and in the end…she…"I was wrong then." Emilia resolved. "I do want to be with people. It's okay to be lonely…but only sometimes, but, sometimes, you just need someone else to help you. And for you to help them."

Emilia saw the clouds swirl below her and she felt she was going to fall, but when she was about to cling on to the mountain she found a brick and stone ruin that had become exactly that. An abandoned ruin with numerous large clay bricks and light brown stones that stood on desert sands. A ruin entrance close by. "Where am I know?" She wondered as she began to survey the area from atop the ruin she now stood upon until her eyes hit something. "Gallows!"

The Baskar noticed her as she waved and he ran towards her. "Emilia? Where did you come from?"

She jumps down to meet him, and he helps her stay up as she began to stumble after a botched landing. Caught in his arms she looked up to his face. "It doesn't matter now." She stepped backwards from him giving a look of thanks.

"This feeling I felt here." Gallows commented as he scanned the ruins. "The same ones I felt when my parents left. Feelings from so long ago. I guess they stay with you forever." He looked to her. "But that feeling isn't constant. There are others that take it away. Thinking now…I wouldn't want to be anywhere but with the Maxwell Gang. Even if we're led by a girl who has doubts, we have some book-loving father, and a girl who isn't just smart but deadly. And…also…some dumb android who never lets me ask out a single girl!" He chuckled a bit. "Jet really has a way of making me feel like I have another brother."

Emilia simply nodded. "I agree with all of those things." She grinned. "And smart and deadly is RIGHT! Just remember that, okay, you bug oaf." She looked at him with a smile for awhile as silence came over them. Her arch faded as it went on. "Gallows, I promise you, I will always stick by you, because I know I have no one else to do that for."

Gallows nodded. "Sure thing!" He boastfully remarked. "That way we can kick lonelinesses ass whenever it rears it's ugly butt around us giving us a deep blue funk!" He smacked one fist into a palm to emphasize his words, as a grin bore deep into her. As the fist hit his palm, the scene of a ruin shattered around them and as soon as it did they were standing with Virginia within the lower deck of the sandcraft.

Virginia looked surprised. "You two are back as well."

Emilia nodded as seriousness came back into play. "What about Jet?"

Virginia looked to the stairway. "He just left a few moments ago. After Nobuo and Generator Eon."

Emilia looked to Gallows. "Gallows?"

He nodded. "I'm going if you're going, after all."

She grinned. "Right." She looked to Virginia. "Someone has to stay and inform the others, but I'm going to Eon, and I'm taking Gallows." Virginia nodded in understanding knowing that Gallows may be needed for his arcana and she was after her mother as well as being the only other aside from Adven who could possibly damage Nobuo. Gallows was out in a hurry to get his stuff. As Emilia left she looked back at the brunette woman. "Virginia, please take care of yourself and the others."

Even though she did not like the finality in Emilia's words, Virginia nodded solemnly out of duty, "I will."

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Just one thing. I didn't know it I should write loneliness' or lonelinesses, so I went with the –es. Sounded more correct for a predicament I have never come across. Actually, I think I'm talking about loneliness as a thing or person, so a noun, so it should probably be "…Loneliness's ass…", with the capital and the apostrophe s that shows possession. Still, whatever, it's a more philosophical usage than literal so it's hard to say. Next time will probably be a short chapter, in fact I may just write it now. It's the end to Book 10, and the setup for Book 11, so, it's short. Still, I kept myself from adding the next part of Book 11 which is short as well just because originally I had left it at a end to one Book. This way I can still get a similar response when the chapter ends as I would when the book ends, well, not the same, but close enough, being that a book and chapter are two different things.