The Eternal Wanderer Zen Here, sorry for the wait got held up with several essays and my exams for college which kept me from focusing on writing. and then when that was done with my main computer broke, luckily i was able to transfer the files to one of my usb keys, and since then i manged to get a working replacement until it's fixed. now to the story, due to how i planned stuff I ended up rewriting the previous two chapters. the first chapter is mostly the same with only small changes done to allow it to flow properly into the two new chapters. chapter 2 was completely rewritten so that there is no rebels fighting against the forces of evil. They do have an alley they meet/ Make but no rebels. This is more because i found it hard to write from the point i left off and i started with to many active riders, currently in the version only three riders have the ability to transform. Also there are three characters which appear in this chapter which appearance rise look like characters form other shows. now they just look like them though some of them i might borrow characteristics from them. they are Riza wildman from Princess Ressurection, Frankenstein from Fate franchise, and Lunar from my bride is a mermaid. so I hope your all enjoy the new chapters and are having a good new year.

As always i don't own anything other than my ocs.

Ch 3: Of Course, it's a Dragon

The next morning Twilight, Cadence and Zen were brought to the room where they ate last night and where served breakfast. It was mainly a mixture of fruits, grains and vegetables as the deer's where all herbivores. After breakfast, they returned to their rooms to prepare for the trek to a clearing where Zen could test his Fuestle.

As he was getting ready Zen heard a knocking coming from the door to his room. Quickly putting the last item in his bag and slipping the ooos driver and medal holder into his coat pockets which were surprisingly roomy, though he suspected it had something to do with the ability all riders seem to have for storing items related to their belts on their person with no visible bulge. Reaching the door, he opened it to find Cadence standing there waiting.

"Hello, is there something you need?" Zen asked feeling it was strange she would seek him out when they are shortly set to leave.

"Yes, I have a small question which I would like to ask in relation to the information you told us yesterday about the Greeed." She replied as she moved into the room closing the door behind her.

"And what would that be," Zen asked though Cadence took note he seemed to slightly tense up.

"This may sound rude, but are you one?" She asked.

Zen looked at her in deadpan. "Blunt aren't you, may I ask what lead you to ask me such a question?"

"It was a simple observation. When you were awoken from the coffin, several sets of medals orbited around you and the entered your body. You mentioned in your talk about the Greeed that they have core medals which are part of their body, just like the ones which entered you. Therefore, you must be a Greeed or something similar. At least wouldn't that be the logical conclusion to come to. I do hope you are honest with me, as you yourself said if any Greeed got too many different cores in them they would turn into a world-ending thing" She replied as she smiled sweetly.

Though it wasn't the good kind of sweet smile, one would expect for a princess like her. No, it was the kind of smile women gave which to only the densest of people would miss the hidden warning it hid. Zen physically felt a shiver race down his spine as the Alicorn princess of Love watched him carefully.

"I see, there is no real point in hiding it. I'm most likely turning into one. I honestly have no clue. Yes, there are medals inside me, heck the first time I henshined in front of the king and when Allister used my body to fight the medals came from my body. Though for the demonstration I used the ones from the holder. I don't know what will happen, what I know about both are form a story I heard in my old world, and I don't know how well it matches up with Allister's past, still trying to figure out how to access them on demand. But know this no matter what happens I will fight to aid you and Twilight in saving your land even if I must become a monster to do it. I will help you guys no matter what" Zen said as he looked her straight in the eye.

She knew he wasn't lying. After all, one of the things about being a princess of love is the ability to sense the emotions of other people. While yes, her main area and most accurate revolves around romantic feelings and other types of love. She still made sure to study and practice using the ability to detect the other emotions. After all in any royal court it handy to be able to understand the emotions of others when keeping an eye out for the ones who might try and use you for their own gain.

"I'll trust you, but two things first," She said with a firm tone.

"Yes," Zen replied.

"First if you ever hurt Twilight or do anything to harm her, I will so you how deadly a princess of love can be," She said

"Yes, mama" Zen shouted back accidentally snapping to attention.

"Good, the second thing is this evening me, you and Twilight are going to sit down, and you are going to tell us exactly the process of becoming a Greeed. So that we can do our best to help you and also be able to notice any warning signs if something goes wrong." She finished.

"I understand" Zen replied, though he noted that Cadence confrontation felt similar to a worried sister mixed with a dad threating a boyfriend. Though given the relationship of the two it wasn't unexpected.

With that, the two headed to meet the others at the gate. Twilight was already there reading one of the tomes from the temple she got from Zen during breakfast. once they were all checked and ready, they headed off to the clearing. The walked for about half an hour before reaching a large open space that was well hidden by the surrounding foliage. Zen took out the Fuestle, and the Kivats appeared, causing all of them to expect Zen to jump.

"I see you also had the legendary armour makers with you, is there a reason you didn't mention them before?" Aspen asked as he looked towards Zen.

"They went off wandering during the meeting, and with all the other information it slipped my mind, sorry. Though I should introduce you to them, the black and dark red one is Yami, the lighter coloured version of him is Kivats and last, but not least is Kivala." Zen said as he introduced the Kivats.

With introductions out of the way, he tossed the Fuestle to Yami. Who caught it in his mouth. As he closed his mouth on the Fuestle, the sound of trumpets filled the air. Then silence fell. Zen looked towards the sky as if he was expecting something to appear. But much to everyone's surprise a large castle doorway shimmered into existence.

"Okay, that was not what I was expecting. Yami is there a reason this happened?" Zen asked as he turned to the Kivat.

"There is, it seems that Doran is currently stuck somewhere and can't reach us. But seeing as the doorway was sent that means that she is safe along with her occupants. The doorway will lead you to the inside of the castle though I suggest adding searching for Castle Doran on you to do list. As the fact I can send the door to us means that it is somewhere in the land." Yami replied as he gave Zen back the Fuestle.

"Got it, so are the rest of you ready to enter Castle Doran?" Zen asked as he turned to the rest of the group.

"Yes," they chorused and with the group entered the castle through the doorway. On the other side was a large ornate hallway which stretched father then they could visibly see with doors and turns leading into different hallways. As he passed through the door, Zen felt a similar sensation to when he first met Bramble pass through his body. As they all came into the many forway a low growl filled the air, and a black and white blur tackled Zen through a doorway which opened on its own. Before anyone could follow the door vanished. And the door they came through shut and disappeared leaving only a dead end behind them.

"What was that?" Twilight exclaimed as she rushed to where the door Zen flew through just was. She was surprised to find a belt now laying where the door was. It was mainly black and gold with blue highlights. It was split into two parts one looked like a knuckle duster while the other was attached to the belt and had a red jewel in it. As soon as she touched the belt, the floor below her opened sending her down a drop. Just as it too vanished the rest of them heard the sound of a splash.

"Twilight" Cadence shouted as she watched her sister in law vanish rushing forward but unable to reach her in time. A sound of bells then filled the hallway, and as she turned to find them, she found she was alone, and the guards and Aspen had vanished. Just a few feet away from her was some sort of gun and a silver and green belt which had a coin slot on it and a stack of what Zen had called Cell medals beside it. Cautiously she picked up the belt, and as her hand touched the driver, she found the knowledge on how to use it and what it was called forced into her mind. The belt was called the Birth driver. But before she could recover from the transfer, a crashing noise drew her attention. She looked up to see a bulky figure which had stitches all over its body and in its arms was a large hammer. Bolts could be seen on either side of its neck. Cadence noted that it had an eerie similarity to the monster of Dr Frankenstein from the book she read when she was younger.

The creature then began to charge towards her. She rolled out of the way, putting on the Birth driver on her waist without realising it. As she recovered, she quickly fired some bolts of magic towards the creature hoping to stun it, so she could escape and look for Twilight, Zen, and Aspen and his guards. But much to her shock her attacks either bounced off or just did nothing. Seeing this she suspected that its skin was magic proof or at least resistant to it in some way. As she looked for something else to use her eyes drifted to the gun which the knowledge transfer told her was called the Birth Buster laying on the floor. Her eyes moved back to the creature who had already turned around and was preparing another strike. With another roll, she dodged out of the way as the creature grabbing the Birth buster and the cell medals as she did. She quickly loaded the gun like how the knowledge told her to. With a quick turn, she faced the monster and pulled the trigger. Unfortunately, the kickback was greater then what she expected, and she was thrown back as the shot went wide hitting the roof above the monsters. A loud roar echoed throughout the castle. Candace quickly recovered as she dodged another strike by the creature.

"This is getting ridiculous; maybe the belt can do something to help" She muttered as she pulled out a cell medal and slotted it into the driver as she turned the crank. She then heard a popping sound.

(Play Reverse/ Rebirth)

Balls of light shot out of the driver and flew to the joints on her body. Translucent armour began to appear and form around her limbs. Within several seconds she was fully equipped. She now sported a black, silver and green armour, with several capsules at different points of the body, including the shoulders, elbows, knees and hips. Using the knowledge, she slotted in a second cell medal and quickly summoned forth one of the attachments of the driver — the caterpillar legs. Now having the grip to nullify the feedback she shot the Birth buster again, this time the shot flying true and hitting the creature. The blast sent the creature backwards and seemed to knock it out. But before she could check a voice spoke behind her.

"Nighty, night princess."

She suddenly felt something hit the back of her neck and found her conscious slowly fading away. Though before she completely fainted, she caught sight of something blue.

Back with Zen he and the blur crashed into a large open room which seemed to be made for sparing. Zen was knocked away from the blur as he quickly got to his feet and slapped on the OOOs driver. He quickly grabbed some cores and slotted them into his belt and transformed.

(Play Sun goes up)

"Kuwagata, Gorilla, Cheetah"

His new form had a green head with stag beetle horns, a silver body with large armoured gauntlets and the yellow legs he used in his demonstration. He quickly turned to face what had tackled him, and its appearance confused him. It appeared to be a white werewolf with hints of red hair on the top of its head, and it was wearing a black short sleeve top and green cargo pants. Not really having time to take it in as the werewolf rushed towards him. He quickly raised the Gori bagoong gauntlets to defend himself. Pushing outwards he threw the werewolf backwards. Not giving it a chance to recover he used the cheetah legs to rush forward ramming right into the wolf with the gauntlets sending it flying into a wall. As it hit the wall visible cracks and a roar echoed through the castle.

"Sorry Doran, but the wolf attacked first," Zen said as he kept an eye on the werewolf who was groaning. Just then a voice spoke.

"Daddy, you're back."

He quickly turned to see nobody. He turned back to see the wolf flying towards him knocking him to the ground. He then heard in a low growl. "Never take your eyes off an opponent unless you sure their down, don't you remember that lesson, Allister"

Zen looked up and found the wolf looked different now. Gone was most of its wolf body instead the werewolf was looking more human aside for the large paws which were keeping him pinned. He was now face to face with a young woman with red hair and golden eyes. but just as he was about to retort the ground beneath them vanished and they began to fall. He heard the wolf mutter something along the lines of "What the hell Doran" before they both hit the water.

While they were both under the wolf quickly grabbed the ooos driver and undid the transformation and taking the belt.

"Shit" Zen thought as he quickly swam away from the werewolf girl knowing that without the driver he didn't have a chance unless he found something to fight with.

A few minutes before with Twilight. She coughed as she pulled herself out of the water along with the driver she had found. She had no clue what it was other then it was most likely something in a similar vein to the driver Zen used to create his armour. She looked around and found a towel sitting nearby. She quickly grabbed it and began drying off.

"Excuse me, quick question?" A voice asked.

Twilight quickly turned around and found a girl around her age with light pink hair and eyes. she was dressed in a light pink bikini.

"Yes?" She replied warily as she kept an eye on the girl.

"Did you get any kind of info dump when you touched the driver?" She asked pointing to the belt Twilight held in her hands.

"No, I didn't. should I have?" Twilight questioned back.

"Possibly yes, but it seems that you are not destined for that driver. That's fine it just means I don't have to test you. Doran wanted us to test all the riders of your group. Riza took the one using the old king's armour, and Fran was supposed to test the one who got the other driver the one using the king's armour had on him. I'll just take you to the library. Doran will be guiding the rest of the group there, and when the other two are finished, they will be brought there." The girl finished.

"I see, so my friends are okay then?" Twilight asked still being cautious of the girl.

"Yep, also you can call me Lunar, what is your name?" Lunular asked as she cheerily smiled Twilight.

"Twilight Sparkle, nice to meet you Lunar" Twilight replied with a smile as she started to feel at ease with the girl. But just as they began to move the ceiling opened up, and two figures fell down into the pool.

The first to emerge Twilight recognised as Zen who seemed to be in a hurry as he sprinted past her. Though as he passed her, he paused noticing the items in her possession.

"Hey mind if I borrow those for a bit?" He asked pointing towards the driver in her hand.

"Here, what happened to your driver?" Twilight asked as Lunar looked at him in curiosity.

"Werewolf girl took it, and I guess you a mermaid or is mermen universal for both genders?" He asked as he took the driver from Twilight.

"Mermaid for us, just so you know this is a test to see where you currently stand, she'll give you the driver back eventually just be prepared for hell as she was one of Allister's regular sparring partners," Lunar said as she gave him a smile.

Zen nodded as he put on the driver and took the Ixa Knuckle from Twilight and continued to put distance from him and the water. Moments later the wolf girl shot out and chased after him, muttering about how Doran new she didn't like getting dumped into the pool.

"That's Riza by the way, now follow me to the library," Lunar said as she led Twilight away.

Back with Zen and Riza, they ran until they ended up in another empty room. With a quick spin, Zen prepared to fight again. He hit the Ixa Knuckle into his left hand and then slotted it down into the driver. But instead of the transformation, he expected he was given.

"Incompatible user, DNA Lock currently active."

"WHAT THE HELL?!, The DNA Lock was only in Gaim, and most other drivers where more species locked then DNA locked and the IXA Driver was definitely not one of them, especially with how many people actually ended up using it," Zen complained. As he did this, he didn't notice Riza rushing him and hitting him in the gut sending him flying. But instead of hitting the wall he crashed into an object which seemed to just appear in the room. It was a blue and black sword stuck in a stone.

He turned to see the sword he crashed into and sighed. "Really this is how I get it…wait why am I complaining I need it now" He said as he turned and quickly grabbed the hilt and pulled the sword free. As he did, he felt a large electric charge flow through his body, and his mind began to fall into unconscious. But as the last bits of his mind began to fade into unconscious something within in him began to stir. His body straightened up and turned to Riza his brown eyes now looking empty, and a glowing purple slowly began to filter in. He sprinted forward and struck her with the dull edge of the sword sending her flying and causing her to drop the ooos driver. His arms shifted to something else, his hands looked more monstrous and now sported purple claws.

The fallen driver glowed and began to rise as the core medals that were in the driver where ejected. The driver then placed itself on to his waist. From his chest, three purple medals flew out and were about to enter the driver when a blue figure appeared and shot some sort of energy at Zen knocking his body out. The medals froze in mid-air before re-entering his body.

"Note to self, remember to remove electric charge to prevent Riza messing with next time, as it caused the instincts to form his medals to awaken as an attempt to protect him. And of all the ones he had to get partnered with it had to be those ones. Riza, I know you're still awake. Come grab the new king and bring him to the library so we can all talk." The figure said as she turned to leave. A giggle sound filled the air as the figure turned into a young woman with dark black hair and blue eyes. she wore a blue coat over a darker blue dress. In the coat pocket, a small light blue rectangular object poked out.

"Yes Mezool" Riza muttered as she pulled herself from the destroyed bookcases she was thrown into form the strike. She quickly grabbed Zen unconscious body and slung him over her shoulder and took the sword with the other. The two headed down the hallway until they reached a large set of double doors. Mezool clicked her fingers, and the doors swung opening revealing a large library. In the centre of the room, several chairs were set up all of which were occupied except for three of them. Aspen and his men along with Twilight and lunar all drinking tea, while a still unconcise Cadence lay in one chair while beside standing guard was a tall woman in a white dress. She had light red hair which covered her eyes, though a golden metal horn coming from her forehead split her bang in two.

Beside her was another individual. In contrast to the other residents of the house, he was male. He had dirty white hair and electric yellow eyes. He wore a messy lab coat with several patches on it. Under it was a plain black t-shirt. On his shoulder shat a bat similar to the Kivats. Its main body was a snow-white colour with a golden colour for the highlights of its body.

"What happened?" Twilight asked in worry as she noticed the unconscious Zen.

"Mezool forgot to unplug the electric defence on the sword" Riza answered with a smirk.

"It was an honest accident" Mezool muttered as a small blush appeared on her face.

Meanwhile, with the two new individuals, the man held out his hand as the tall woman reluctantly placed a red gem in his hand while mumbling something about a stupid sheep. It was at this moment Zen stirred and as if on instinct replied. "It's not stupid sheep, it Mad Bastard Electric Sheep or otherwise known as the MBES."

"I'm not a bastard Omnes, though mad and electric are accurate" the male retorted.

"I'm not Omnes, I'm Regale you dumb Sheep keep your kings from being mixed up, Allister had dark purple hair I have dark brown" Zen replied.

"Am I the only one who finds this weird?" Twilight asked as she watched the exchange.

"No, but with Stein we've gotten used to this kind of bizarreness, and I can chalk this up to the Kings' memories in the kid and also the fact I think Stein soul is a parried soul with the old king so it likely that he had a counterpart the soul heir new from before he was summed" Mezool replied.

"A parried soul what's that?" Twilight asked as her curiosity was sparked by the new topic.

"Nothing really that special, it is rumoured to happen sometimes with reincarnations mainly but can happen other ways as well, but most commonly it is when two people's souls are linked together in such a way that they would always end up near each other if reborn or be attracted to each other. It also sometimes cause past habits or shared behaviours of other lives to appear or show true, like what is happening right now. Though I don't know why that caused him to regain consciousness, if you're interested I can show you a book about it later" Mezool replied.

"If you two are done talking I'm dropping the Newbie King," Riza said as she tossed Zen into an empty chair beside Twilight with him giving an indignant hey.

"Yes, we're done, and Doran you should also create a golem to join us," Mezool said as she and Riza took the remaining seats. It was this moment Zen finally saw Mezool properly and like when he entered the castle and met Bramble a tingle passed through his body.

Just then form the door a little girl entered. She looked around four or five and was wearing an oversized orange jumper. It was actually a bit comical as the sleeves were so long that you couldn't see her hands and the rest of the sleeves drooped. She had long orange hair and properly the strangest feature where her yellow reptile like eyes which quickly shifted to some bit more normal looking ones.

"Doran is here, now which seat has daddy," She asked cutely. Though as she spoke Zen noticed that she sounded like the voice which called out to him in his fight with the wolf girl, who was apparently called Riza.

Doran quickly made her way over to the chairs and her eyes locked on to Zen and in a blur of movement she vanished and reappeared on his lap.

"Daddy's lap is always the most comfy," Doran said childishly as she snuggled up against Zen as she made herself comfortable. Zen attempted not to react and to allow her to do what she wanted as he quickly figured out she was either an avatar Doran the castle created to interact with them or possibly a human Shoo Doran. Though he once again felt the same tingle, he got when meeting with bramble and coming into the castle as she sat on him. The others looked at this scene in a variety of ways. Stein was cackling his head off, Twilight, the tall woman, Mezool and the King looked at them in a mixture of fondness and a bit of amusement at Zen's obvious awkwardness. Riza was indifferent. Cadence who had sensed the love Doran was giving off began to stir and wake up.

Doran then tilted her head towards Twilight and looked at her for a moment. She then turned back to Zen and then back to Twilight. She did this a few more times before turning her head forwards and tilting her head back to look at Zen. Then raising her arm and pointing to Twilight and asked in a completely innocent way.

"Daddy, is she my Mommy?"

Silence fell in the room as both Twilight and Zen blushed, and nearly everyone except for the tall woman, Aspen and the just waking up Candance burst into laughter at the twos reaction especially when Twilight began trying to explain that she wasn't Doran Mommy.

Though it got even funnier when Doran questioned her.

"Don't you want to be my Mommy?"

"Well…not that I…. I mean we just met and all… and I think I should give it more time…" She stuttered to respond as her blush grew a bit deeper. Zen let out a small chuckle but that soon changed when Doran once again looked up at him and spoke.

"Daddy, don't you want her to be my Mommy as well?"

Zen didn't respond only sat in silence as his face also grew a deeper shade of red. It was at this moment Cadence finally regained consciousness.

"Why do I feel like I just missed something good" She muttered as her eyes adjusted as she took in where she was.

"Nothing much, just Zen has a daughter, and she has proceeded to embarrass him and Twilight" Stein causally replied.

Cadence paused for a moment before glancing over towards the still blushing duo. She then looked back at Stein. "Adopted I assume."

"Sort of. It'll be explained later with another topic. Now then I assume some introductions are in order, and the best way to do that is to use the turnip" Stein said as he sat up and pulled a turnip from one of his pockets. Said turnip was about three times the size of the pocket so how it fits in there with no clear bulge confused most of Zen's group.

"Who shall ever hold the turnip shall have to the right to speak and introduce themselves. I'll start. I am the great and mad alchemist Stein von Sheepinstein; I will be running maintained on your weapons and drivers for the future. Also, the little guy on my shoulder is Motobat the 18th, or as I like to call him Yugi, he doesn't speak much. Nice to meet you" he said with a smirk before lobbing the turnip towards Riza.

She quickly transformed her hand to catch the turnip before glaring at the sheep. "What have I said about throwing things at me sheep." Riza Grumbled.

"Not to make them sticky, that my dear fraulein is a solid turnip with no sickness" he replied

She grumbled as she turned to address the rest of the group properly. "I am Riza Wolfen, personal trainer of the old multi king, last of the Wolfen tribe and the Knight of Kiva," she said before passing the turnip to Lunar.

"So, I'm next then. Nice to meet you all I am Lunar Mer the last of the mermaid's, the underwater specialist of our group and the Bishop of Kiva" she replied with a smile as she passed the turnip to Mezool.

"I am Mezool Abyss, I am one of the king's special guards and was given the fifteenth advent deck of the Abyss. Also due to her habit of not speaking much, I'll introduce our last member she is Fran Oga, the last of the Franke and the Rook of Kiva." Mezool said as she gestured towards the tall woman by Stein and Cadence.

"Okay, then I'm Zen…" Zen began, but he was stopped by Mezool putting up her hands.

"We already know all of you, Doran was given the ability to read people's memories to make sure they are safe to let in when they passed through her door as a safety measure. So, she already informed us of all your names. Now we have some business to get onto. I would like you to lend your drivers to Stein, so he can do an inspection of them to make sure nothing unwanted was added to them, and while he's checking them, I believe the young king might want to see his room" Mezool explained.

"My room?" Zen asked in confusion.

"Yeah follow me, though lord Aspen and his men might want to go with Stein, I believe he has finished something which your ancestors requested be made so that they could be of more assistance to the king if he should return" Mezool said as she began to lead Twilight, Cadenced and Zen away while Stein took the drivers and led the others away.

Doran, Riza, and Lunar followed Zen's group. With Doran getting a piggyback ride form Zen. Fran and Stein led Aspen and his men out a different door.

Mezool led her group through several different hallways. As they walked, Twilight began to question Mezool. "So how did the castle change to separate it?"

"Doran just shifted Doran body mommy" Doran stated from her spot-on Zen's shoulders.

"What do you mean by your body?" Twilight asked

"Doran here is just an avatar for the castle to interact with us, where inside her true body" Riza explained as she pointed to Doran.

"Wait where in her body, I never read anything about a real living castle," Twilight said as she looked at the little girl in amazement.

"She's not a living castle she a dragon which was turned into a castle," Zen added in causing both Twilight and Cadence to look at him.

"Wait a dragon turned into a castle, how and why a dragon?" Twilight asked

And almost in unison Mezool, Riza, Lunar, Doran and Zen all spoke. "Of course, she's/Doran's a dragon. What other creature would be awesome enough to be made a living building then a dragon/ Then Doran."

"That was weird" they all muttered, except for Doran who was just smiling as she sat on Zen's shoulder. The continued on their way with Mezool trying to explain a bit more on how a the turned a living dragon creature into a castle and also explaining how Doran was actually a member of a different species of dragons then the ones Twilight knew of.

They eventually reached their destination which was a normal size white door which was familiar to Zen. Mezool stepped back and allowed him to walk forward and open the door. As it creaked open the inside became visible, and it sent a chill down Zen spine. The room inside was his bedroom form his old world, the one which was meant to have been burnt down during the bastards last attack on his family.

He glanced around and saw his various books, games, movies, and toys all where they were in his old room. The main difference was they were a bit more spread out as the room itself was a lot bigger and the window that sat at one end of his room wasn't there anymore, which makes sense since this wasn't the exact same room.

He also found that the other movies and games his family had own where also there in new selves. He noticed that his My little pony items and comics were missing. He suspected there was a reason, but he decided to leave it for now.

His eyes glanced around and saw his posters stuck to the wall. But as he looked along the wall, he spotted something which stirred the emotions he had tried to run form since awakening her. Cadence sensing the sadness turned to see what was going on and found Zen looking silently at a wall of frames. Tears rolling down his face. The first thing she caught sight of was a white frame with a crossed stitch picture of old movie monsters, such as Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster and his bride, the invisible man, the creature from the black lagoon and the mummy. She didn't know this, but this was the last Christmas gift Zen had gotten from his older sister before they died, it hurt even worse as she had handmade it for him due to his love of monster's movies. Besides that were several pictures of a group of people at varying ages, all standing together in different backgrounds. Each photo showing them at different ages, but each photo was always the same people with some new ones appearing it what would be the later picture.

These especially hit Zen hard, as these where all his family pictures which were taken yearly at their get-togethers. Zen stayed silent as his mind was once more thinking about how he would never see them again and the actual reason for it.

"Who are they?" Cadence asked softly as she moved beside him to try and comfort him.

Zen paused and gulped before taking a small breath. He knew he shouldn't bottle this up and with his current situation this was even more critical, so he decided to at least talk about some of it so that it might lessen the feeling in his heart. During this Twilight had also moved over to them with the other three standing respectfully at the door.

"They're my family, I knew full well before I came here I wouldn't be seeing them again. so for that reason, I made myself a promise for them that no matter what happened I would continue to move forward and use my power to help others in need" Zen said with a somber smile.

Unknown to him Twilight had begun having a little crisis of her own. "when I turned the belt did I drag him away from his family" She thought to herself as panic and worry began to form on her face.

Zen catching this and looked at her. "Let me guess you're blaming yourself thinking you dragged me away from them, right?" Zen asked as some slight hints of purple entered his eyes.

Twilight nodded, as she prepared for Zen to say something about her dragging him away from them.

"Don't worry you didn't there wasn't much left when I was brought here; he made sure of it. Anyway, let's move on from this topic. Is there anything else you need to show us or should we go check on Aspen and his men" Zen asked as he quickly changed the subject.

Mezool just nodded as she led them out of the room. After that, they went down some more hallways until they reached another set of double doors. As they were about to enter she pulled Zen to the side and allowed the rest to go in.

"So, have you lost your senses yet?" She asked as she began to inspect him.

"No, but my vision did flicker after absorbing so cell medals" He replied.

"I see, for now, absorb this, I'll be helping you understand your new senses that come with this and the method the old king figured out to allow us Greeed, to gain proper senses in our case and regain them in yours." She said as she hands him a small blue round cut gem. He inspected it for a minute noticing a faintly glowing number visible on the top. It was the number four hundred.

"what is this?" he asked.

"Well, you see lugging around cell medals got a bit annoying for all of us, so when Gara was still good, he and master Ebulon figured out a way to make them easier to carry. The cell medals are turned into different gems, with the colour and shape depending on the core set the majority of cell medals look like. Blue for the blue set and so and so forth for each respective core set. The number shows how many medals are stored in it. Also, as you already guessed, I too am a Greeed. The Aquatic animal Greeed to be more specific" She explained.

"I see, well at least I have someone to help understand this. So I just will it to be absorbed right?" Zen asked as he looked at the gem in his hand.

Mezool nodded as she watched Zen. A soft glow came from his hand, and the gem vanished into his palm. As the gem entered his body, he suddenly felt refreshed as if he had just had been well fed and had a good long rest.

"Wow, that was something" Zen muttered as he adjusted to the sudden burst of energy entering his system.

"It is, isn't it. Also you don't only have one good Greeed to help you, Doran is also a Greeed, though she is like you rather than me being turned into one rather than created," Mezool said with a smile.

"So then is the tingling sensation I felt."

"is when you meet another Greeed. Though you probably the only one who has it as I believe it happens due to the cores which are you in your body. I sensed something, but that was only because I was paying attention to you after already witnessing the purple medals come from your body." She replied.

"I see, but why was Doran turned into a Greeed?" Zen asked.

"It was done for two reasons; the first was because she was badly hurt after a particularly rough battle against one of our old enemies and in order to save her, Allister used the orange core medals to save her. With them, we would be able to keep her mind safe, and the provide core medals to recreate her body with. The second reason is that we could use cell medals to replace the energy she had normally used to survive, and she could then convert the extra energy from the cell medals to keep the other three well fed due to needing a similar type of energy she needed before the change" Mezool answered.

Zen nodded, and with that, the two entered the lab preparing to see what Stein had for Aspen. With one single thought filling into Zen's head as they walked. If he only got the tingling feeling when he met a Greeed then why did he get it when he met Bramble and that made him start thinking about what Aspen asked him after that meeting.