Chapter I

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
-John Wesley.

Jade Curtiss gave another bland sigh, turning in his chair to file a piece of paper he had just signed. Being a General was a troublesome thing, he had never wanted to be one in the first place. But when his mentor had (expectantly) died on them, the king found himself in need of a new General, and honestly, who better then Jade? The man suspected the king had done this too just to torture him. Jade turned back to the paperwork on his desk and continued to sign in a tired motion. Of course, not many could tell he was tired, but the man hadn't been getting any sleep lately as Dist tended to make a racket that could wake up the entire city.

The dark haired man blinked when there was a light knock at his office door and Jade narrowed his eyes, expecting Peony but a light linger of shock passed through his eyes as Guy Cecil walked in with a stern looked upon his face. Immediately Jade felt there was something wrong, and judging by Guy's stance, that something wrong had to do with Luke. Guy was always predictable in his behavior when it concerned the redhead. It had only been a year since they had discovered Luke, long hair and a bit strange behavior that seemed to act like the Luke they had all come to love, but with a little hint of a temperament that seemed to come from Asch.

Luke had explained to them (after being surrounded by questions that would have made Jade actually glare at them all) that during the falling of Eldrant Asch's body fell for him to catch the body, then Lorelei, fully released and full of the energy of the fonons basically melded the two together. The reason Luke had been gone so long was because of this fusion between the two took a lot of time and pain. Luke had also explained that the celestial being was inside of him as well as Asch to use his powers freely and keep the world in a balance that would leave it living for a long time. Jade had been worried inwardly about that comment, as the military man wondered if Luke would live from that power for many generations in the future. However Jade did not question, just glad that Luke had come back (with Asch temperament and all).

"Jade." Guy started, walking over to the new general's desk and placed a paper down unto the desk. Jade scanned it momentarily and frowned. "What do you think this means?" Guy voiced his question after seeing the faint twitch in the general's face. Jade looked up at the blonde haired man and gave a speculative stare. "What?" Guy asked, not feeling well underneath that red-eyed stare.

"I honestly do not know what this means." Jade simply replied, disliking the fact he didn't know and stared down at the paper again, practically hearing the slight worried report from Tear Grants. Guy gave a loud sigh and pulled a chair to sit across the dark-blonde and gave him a determined stare.

"Do you think it has anything to do with Lorelei?" Jade gave a dismissal shrug. Lorelei was the number one suspect at this sudden disappearance of the redhead hero. However, Jade couldn't help but think there was something more to this then was showing. Guy gave another sigh, his brow looking slightly like a mother hen worrying about her egg. Jade couldn't help but think it slightly funny, as he found amusement in every situation that most would panic and worry about. "Luke couldn't have just gone missing for no reason." Jade agreed but said nothing, thinking more on the matter. There was another knock at his door though and the two turned to the entering figure, a simple fonist in training.

"Sir!" The fonist toughened up and saluted the man of whom's room he came into. Jade gave an annoyed sigh in his mind, but he outwardly gave his normal pleasant smile (though those who knew Jade would say it was not pleasant at all),

"Yes?"

"The prisoner is acting up again!" Well that wasn't any new news. Dist was always acting up. However it must be an annoying silent like racket if a solider that was guarding over said prison come to make sure Jade to shut him up. Not that Jade could, in fact, Jade noticed that whenever he came Dist would make even more of a racket. But no matter, if they wanted to believe Jade had control over the man's mouth, let them. Besides, this little interruption could give him a few moments to think on the matter. Tear's letter had been like a report, which Jade had expected but it also had the maturing lady's tone to it. Tear had been precise of the time and last place that Luke had suggested he had gone to last before he disappeared.

Poor Tear, after having to deal with the love of her life's thick head with a slightly new temper, he just up and disappears! Jade, though normally emotionless and not very good at being empathetic, couldn't help but sympathize for the poor brown-haired woman. Though Jade hadn't really seen how she developed over the year, as he had been in Malkuth the entire time while Tear was spending time with Luke and his family in Kimlasca. Jade stood up and excused himself from his guest (who rolled his eyes at the thought of Dist, then looked like he was pondering something for a moment after the action) and walked nonchalantly to the prisons. The soldier was almost gladly following him like a lost puppy, which annoyed Jade slightly.

They entered the 'prison' door and Jade told off the two guards so he could have a private chat with the white-haired childhood friend. Dist looked as sour as usual, pouting and slightly twitchy in the hands. The blonde remembered faintly this was because Dist hadn't tinkered with anything in over two years.

"Must you be so annoying?" Dist seemed happy for a moment that Jade was here and talking to him, but gave the man a sour look in reply.

"I am no such thing!" Like he hadn't heard that before. Jade sighed and just placed his hands in his uniform, giving Dist a dull glare. It was strange, only Dist could bring this side out of Jade, not even Van could get this disdained stare of a nature between hate and annoyance. Dist gave a glare at Jade's actions and moved his hands around in slight hatred, wishing to make some sort of impact in the blonde's stance. He failed though as Jade just continued staring, demanding to know why he was 'being annoying' as Jade had so eloquently put it. "How much longer do I have?"

"A life time."

"Oh right." Was that all? A slight hand twitch in his pocket, but the man standing outside the cell did not show any movement or change in his face. The one who was in the cell though, groaned and gave up for the moment. Had he succeeded? In so little time? 'It must be a record.' Jade thought sarcastically, however that changed as Dist looked up to Jade with a speculative look. "Is something wrong?" Jade could feel himself twitch a little at the question. If Dist could tell, then who else? How annoying.

"Oh there's nothing that can't be handled." A lie, but Jade didn't lie often, and nobody could really tell if he lied or not. However Dist persisted,

"I bet it has something to do with that huge fonon reading yesterday." Jade felt a lack of muscle control over his face for a moment and Dist grinned at the momentary frown that crossed Jade's face. "It must have been such a huge disturbance if I could feel it in here." Jade let another frown cross his face for a moment. It was true there had been a massive reading of a gathering of fonons, but the weird thing was none of the machinery could tell where it had came from or where it had disappeared.

"Oh? You believe something like that would worry me?" Dist's grin quickly turned to a distinct frown and he glared at the blonde.

"Yes! Yes I do!"

"Hahaha, that's an amusing theory." Dist growled at him this time, not liking Jade's nonchalant attitude. It was one of Jade's ways to make a wall, and it was extremely impressive and impossible to get through.

"Don't laugh at me!" The prisoner yelled at him childishly and Jade's laughter just increased, but not in volume just how long it lasted. Dist threw his fists up in an angered motion and gave Jade his nastiest of all glares, which didn't faze the man one bit, and commented, "I bet it has something to do with that replica too!" Jade stopped laughing at this. Dist felt a light bit of fear enter his subconscious as Jade truly glared at him. The white-haired fonon master was a little angered by the fact that the sheer mention of Luke could bring an emotion on Jade's face. Sure the replica was a perfect isofon from its original, but it wasn't that special.

"Funny you should say something like that." Jade made a low tone with his voice, which sounded very much like a hiss. "That 'replica' as you put it, has seemed to have disappeared." Dist's ears perked at this information that Jade willingly gave to him. The replica had just...disappeared?

"So do you think his bonds actually dissipated back into the fonon belt?" The scientist came out and asked the question out of pure curiosity, remembering two years ago talking to Jade about something like this possibly happening. Jade shrugged,

"Perhaps, perhaps not."

"You can't just say something and not talk about it!" The man whined and Jade gave a slight groan with his limbs.

"I don't have the time to spend just chattering with you, no matter how much you may want it, Saphyr."

"WHO SAID I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Dist snapped and the general just gave another sigh and turned. Dist went sour again, only silently with a visible pout upon his face. So the replica had disappeared? Strange things were happening, Dist was sure, and Dist knew that Jade had to know as well.

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A scream filtered through the air at the Fabre mansion, which was shortly accompanied by a body falling to the floor. Fear ran across all the maids' faces as they had discovered the note that had clearly been left by a thirteen-year-old Luke fon Fabre.

"What are we going to tell the madam?"

"I'm scared for my life!" One of the maids clung to an older maid, who was staring at the note with a furious twitch.

"How the hell did he escape in the first place?"

"You know, Guy had been acting funny earlier..."

"You don't think...?" Gasps came from the servants and some of them even blushed at the thought. Obviously they were thinking the wrong type of things while the more sensible maids were trembling.

"Well there's going to be a guard here soon. He can tell the madam and sir."

"Yeah right, when had any of the guards actually had the backbone to talk to any of the lords in the first place?"

"I don't want to die!"

"QUIET!" A loud yell took place and the maids looked to the open door and stared hopefully as Van came in, looking a little more testy then usual, but that was okay! Surely he could find Luke!

"Commadant!" One of the maids cried happily and Van felt a headache starting to build up. However he looked over the situation. There were at least six maids in this room, one of them on the ground, two of them crying and holding their superior.

"What's going on here?" He asked, a quiet tone could be heard in his voice. The maid holding the letter looked down as she handed the letter to Luke's teacher. Van read over it, almost slowly and frowned. The basics of the letter was targeted towards Luke's mother, and told her not to worry, he knew what he was doing and he would see her again real soon. However it made no mention where the copy decided to disappear to, nor did it leave an explanation why. Van gave a distinct frown and the maids trembled still, expecting the commandant to be able to fix this problem quickly.

"I-I'm sure he couldn't have gotten far..." The eldest of the maids said softly, hoping that it would quell the man's frown. Van turned to the woman, still for a moment and simply nodded towards this.

"That is true." But WHERE could have Luke gone? It should be impossible for the boy to have even escaped from the mansion, let alone wonder around Baticul without anyone noticing the vibrant red-haired youth. So where could the boy have gone? Van, even though he was called a genius many a time, he was confused by this matter. Van then sighed and simply nodded, "Do not tell any of the lords until I come back. I will inspect the town and see if he is around." The most logical thing to do at that point. The maids nodded rapidly and Van let the six maids, who immediately resumed their duties of cleaning Luke's room.

Van went down the elevator and scrutinized the guard waiting on the bottom, asking him who had passed through and Van only got the description of Guy as an answer. The commandant of the oracle knights wandered in the center square, asking patiently the many people around the gathering place if they had seen a young teenager with vibrant red hair. Van got no answer that made him feel relieved. So Van went to the port, and had been slightly shocked to get an answer from a doddering old man who had only saw Luke for a few moments before the teen put on a cloak.

Van asked the old man what had happened exactly and the old man seemed crazy as he described Luke's entrance as a pure glow of light, scared the dog but the dog calmed down and sat near Luke as though as a protector. The old man continued to say that a blonde man came up to Luke, and Luke had said something about resonance (Van surmised that the old man's hearing was not the best in the world) and Luke put on a cloak to cover his appearance and the two bought a ticket on a boat. Van grew alarmed over this and frowned, thanking the old man, Van slowly went above to tell the bad news.

So Guy helped Luke escape huh? But what was this about a glow of light with the word 'resonance'? Van had seen only two pure glows in his lifetime, one was when he was younger, used as a device to fulfill the Score and when he had kidnapped Asch to make a replica. Van came to the rapid realization that Luke could possibly know about his inherit ability that he got from his original, who received his powers from his genes? That shouldn't have been possible at all! So Van shook that theory off and had found his way back into the mansion with a grim face. Van knew immediately if he mentioned the blonde man that escaped with the heir, the blonde would hunted until he was skinned in an ancient fashion scalping.

The maids crowded around him as soon as he stepped through the mansion's large doors. All of them looked at him with piercing hope but Van gave a somewhat loud sigh. "I'm afraid Luke has run away." The maids reactions were immediate. They all fainted. Great, that means he would get the lovely chore of telling Suzanne and Luke's father. How unbearably pleasant. Van went first to Luke's room, looking around the room for any hint whatsoever, however it just looked like there were very few things missing and rummaged for a journey and that strange letter that Luke had left for his mother. That was a clue, in a way, the dark-haired being supposed. Luke was extremely different at that moment.

Last when Van had left him, Luke was snotty and bratty as a three-year-old, just with a rapidly improving vocabulary and determination to prove he was better then everyone else. The commandant recalled the small attitude he saw just that morning. Luke seemed to be polite, carefully guarded somehow, as though he knew more then he was letting on. ...Did he know more then he let on? Was that even possible? Van remembered through the experiments that his God General Reaper (though he constantly complained to Van to be changed to the title Rose)(Which made Van question often why he had recruited Dist instead of Jade, but remembered that Jade seemed loyal to the Malkuth empire, even by Dist's negative descriptions) had said that Luke was a perfect isofon from his original.

Could it be possible for memories to pass down with those fonons and genes that Luke shared every inch with Asch? Even then, Van thought, it shouldn't have been this effective or change Luke's nature so rapidly. Nor should Luke know any of those abilities just by memory. Van frowned once again and took the letter that was written just for Luke's mother and relooked at it, not seeing anything that could be deciphered as a hint within the note. So Van walked towards the lady's chambers (as the duke was out, talking to his brother-in-law, no doubt about military tactics) and Van was introduced as the lady stayed silently in her bed, looking a little more tired then usual. The guard stood at Van's side as Van alerted the lady about the alarming news he had discovered.

Of course Suzanne stared at him idly for a moment, but then started to breathe nervously. Her nervous breaths became more rampant and tears started to surface in her dark eyes. The guard ran out to alert the doctors that Lady Suzanne needed medication and said lady covered her face in anxiety with tears running clearly down from her face to her rich blankets. Suzanne's voice shrieked into the air and she struggled to get up from her sheets, but her grip was extremely weak as she tumbled down on the ground. She cried so loudly and Van actually felt remorse as she continued to cry for her baby, and she hoped to dear Yulia that he was going to come out of this okay. That he was going to be okay, that he was going to live.

Van wanted to say that the mother was overacting, but he supposed this was just a trait of a loving mother. Doctors with a few nurses passed Van's place and they all helped Suzanne back into her bed, but she tried swinging at them, demanding them that they let her go. That she had to go and try to save Luke, because she was his mother, and she wasn't there last time to save him. Luke needed help, couldn't they see that? Van looked away as they wrapped the grieving dark-haired woman tightly into her blankets and administered a medicine that forced her to fall asleep. Van supposed he should have given the woman the letter before admitting the truth.

"Is it true?" Van nodded and the guard nodded back, and went off to support the dramatic issue that had happened during that afternoon. Van gave one last glance back at the sleeping mother, and frowned as tears seemed to keep pouring from her eyes. It must be a sad thing, being a mother. Especially a mother who seemed to love anyone unconditionally.

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Guy marveled how long Luke seemed to stare at the sun and ocean water, even though the redhead said he really disliked the way the boat moved on the ocean. Guy asked him what he had to compare to from the future and Luke almost considered telling him, but then shook his head rapidly, telling Guy that he would become the fon-machine geek he was if he even mentioned what he compared to. This made Guy extremely curious, but he made no move to ask the teen anymore. Of course that's when it pieced together now that the two had time to think. Luke really was from the future! There was a slight bump from the small boat as the ocean crashed on the side of it in a different current. Guy looked to see how Luke was getting along, and the boy seemed unbelievably steady.

"WHOA!" However that was not true with their other passenger. The boat was really small, so small that it could really only fit three comfortably. The other guest was young too, and worse, she was a female. Guy was alarmed as the girl almost fell but Luke instinctively reached the back of her shirt and pulled her back. The girl rolled on the ground of the ship and grunted as the strange doll on her back maneuvered around her stomach to lie itself calmly on her front. "Hey!" The girl yelled, getting up, her dark hair almost blinding at the sun's rays. Luke just gave the girl a huge grin.

"You're welcome, Anise."

"I didn't say thank you!" Guy recalled for a moment of when Luke boarded on the ship and Guy remembered that the boy seemed a little shocked by seeing the girl's face. With the tone of familiarity, Guy was sure that Luke had met this person in the future. Guy wondered what was so special about her though, not seeing anything but a cute young nine-year-old with a strange doll that could change shape.

"You're right, I'm sorry."

"Well I'm saying it now!" The girl replied back in a frustrated like matter, blushing as Luke handled her like the age she was. Guy felt a sigh escape his mouth, seeing as the girl was safe from the almost dangerous tumble off the ship. This Luke seemed to have unbelievable reflexes, and it was as though Luke didn't seem to forget of Guy's fear of touching women.

"What's a young girl like you doing traveling around the world for, anyway?" Guy asked, naturally curious about the reason the girl had given for being on the boat in the first place. Anise put a finger on her lips for a moment then grinned mischievously,

"I'm going to become a Fon Master Guardian!" Guy looked at Luke, expecting him to look confused, but instead Luke seems to smile at this and understand exactly what Anise was speaking about. 'Don't tell me Luke met Fon Master Ion!' But that would mean that this girl did become a fon master guardian. Or was Luke just along the ride, pretending he understood the conversation? Guy didn't know.

"That sounds like fun." Luke commented, but tilted his head slightly, "But wouldn't you have to train to be an oracle knight before you could become a guardian?" Anise nodded, a little surprised that Luke seemed to know that little fact. Luke did have that little no-brainer look on his face at the moment, so it was a bit understandable. Anise then replied to Luke's question with a bright cheerful smile,

"Yes, but I've mostly completed my oracle training, what I'm doing now is traveling the world to complete a missionary mission. I'm training myself to adapt to all situations and learn more about the past that is written on the fallen fonstones." Luke nodded at this, not expecting Anise to have made this journey at such a young age and time. What an extremely huge coincidence! Luke couldn't help but feel a little better, seeing the young fierce fighter. It was hard to imagine this dedicated girl turning into the older teenager with curly hair. This Anise still had dark hair and dark eyes and a moving Tokunaga, but her hair was surprisingly short and only curled at the end of her neck. Anise also wore oracle knight armor that was suited in a breastplate manner.

"That's amazing, didn't you have any escorts?" Guy asked and Luke wondered the same thing. Anise shook her head,

"Nope! This is my duty!" It was hard to imagine this girl as a greedy spy (though not on purpose), so Luke delved into his cloak's pocket and drew out one gald as Anise was still facing Guy with a curious look because Guy was subtly trying to escape the girl's range. Luke then flipped the gald piece and it landed on Guy. Luke sighed as Anise's eyes had watched the gald fly through the air and land on Guy. Immediately she jumped on the blonde and emerged victorious with the one piece. Guy shrieked and demanded Anise get away from him at that instant. However Anise ignored him, staying straddled upon him and staring at the piece with careful consideration.

At least until Luke lifted her off of Guy and set her far away from the frightened blonde, who looked very much like wanted to break out in tears. Anise then noticed the strange behavior of Guy's and frowned darkly. "What? You've never seen a real woman before or something?" Luke snickered underneath his breath and Guy shook his head rapidly.

"I-I'm s-sorry. I just freak out when a girl touches me." Anise rose an eyebrow, skeptical of Guy's confession and yelped slightly as the ocean crashed against the boat again. Luke caught her again and Anise coughed, blushing as she straightened herself out.

"Seriously?" Guy nodded and Anise frowned again, then just shrugged. "That's really weird."

"Haha...Yeah..." Guy was disheartened by this and Luke just felt himself smile slightly, understanding for once why Guy had seemed so sad about this. Before Luke would have just mocked and thought it just as strange as Anise. However, Luke knew he couldn't even bring himself to act upon the idea anymore because of the fact he knew the truth. Guy looked over at Luke for a moment, somehow feeling confused that Luke did nothing about his gynophobia. Guy always remembered that the old Luke always sighed or made fun of it, but this Luke somehow seemed to know something about the reason he had it in the first place. Guy definitely needed to ask questions of what Luke knew about him, even if it may effect the future.

It wasn't like they weren't already making big differences in the future anyway! At least, that's what Guy got from the gist of hints Luke gave about the future and himself. "Hey Luke-" Guy started but Luke turned abruptly because of a shadow overcastting the waters. Guy and Anise stared with shock and a gapping motion as a monstrous mutant splashed above the waters. Luke recognized it immediately from the caves of Sheridan and the time of Asch slaughtering it with the help of Natalia, Anise, and Jade came to mind. Crap.

"GET DOWN!" Luke commanded with an unseen maturity. Anise followed his words immediately as the ship rocked, throwing Luke high into the air and out into the seas.

"LUKE!" Guy yelled, but that yell followed as a yelp as the ship pushed forward as odd-looking jellyfish encumbered the deck. Guy pulled out his real sword and frowned, blocking the stings and trying his best to stay steady. However that ended as he landed on his butt from the combined force of the ocean and monsters. Guy growled, and swung his sword fluidly, "DEMON FANG!" It cut two as they had been close together and Guy frowned, seeing Anise in deep trouble. The only thing protecting her was the strange doll swinging its plush arms around, confusing its enemies. "Anise!"

"Guy! Help!" Anise yelled, keeping her head covered and whimpers surfaced from her mouth as she sustained damage from the jellies. Guy threw his sword, slashing through one of them and Guy took the chance to jump over the nine-year-old's body, protecting her, despite he could feel in the back of his mind a trembling of fear. However that fear was overcome with the stings of pain from the little enemies. Soon though the stings seemed to pause as a loud yell filled the air. Guy let his head lift up as he saw Luke bleeding deathly like, but he was surrounded by five of the strange creatures. Guy stared in an awe nature though, as Luke back stepped relentlessly and Guy was surprised that the boat wasn't shaking as much anymore.

"Demon Fist!" Luke called out around five times, swirling around to bring amount of energy into the air from the ground and disturbing the balance the pulps had made. Guy dare not move as Luke rolled and grabbed his sword, the teenager coughing almost randomly as he called out one final technique to finish a line. "Sonic Thrust!" At that the pulp's bodies lay, all dead and Luke fell to the ship's deck, breathing hesitantly and with pain filling his chest each time he breathed. Guy wasted no time in getting up and grabbing Luke's item back, giving him an apple gel. Luke twitched momentarily, but absorbed the gel like Guy had wanted him to.

"How...How are you alive?" Anise asked, her eyes wide and Guy wondered the same thing. Luke stayed still where he laid for a moment, filling dizzy from the battle. There were way more of those things then that time in the future, but then again, that monster had just showed up and disappeared. Probably back into the dankness of the caves, where it would hide out a little longer. Luke coughed again, extremely grateful that he was still alive at all. There should have been no way he could have defeated them...but he did.

"Luke?"

"I'm fine...I just need to...rest for a moment." Luke breathed again, extremely grateful for having mastered over Angel Call. Otherwise he would have died drowning from following that stupid monster, Ancylopolyp for even a moment.

"Luke, how are you alive?" Anise asked again, almost demanding the answer, frowning for a moment. Luke wasn't going to answer, as he felt a tired waved wash over him from the overuse of his technique points.

"Hey, are you all alright out here? What the hell happened!?" The captain seemed to come out, finally. Luke let his eyes rest, knowing that Guy would take care of the rest for now. However as he drifted to sleep, he couldn't help but think for a moment.

'Did this happen when Anise traveled the world?' Because...there should have been no way she would be alive in the future if it did. Right?

"Umm...well we got attacked." Guy bluntly replied to the somewhat enraged captain of the boat. The captain stared around and frowned in a somewhat distressed state.

"I see that...Well, you get the one sleeping into the cabins, you," he glared over at Anise who seemed to pout at the lack of an answer, "come to the captain's deck with me. I don't want any young ladies getting hurt anymore, and we'll fix those scars you have on you." Anise blinked and rubbed the little marks of blood that bleed lightly.

"I'm fine..."

"We'll see about that."

"What about all of these things?" Guy asked, pointing with his head to all the corpses that lay on board, with Luke lying in his hands.

"I'll see if I can sell them at the port. We'll be there in a few more hours, so they shouldn't rot. I may get a profit from their possibly edible bodies." Guy paled at the thought, but whatever will be done, would be done. Guy nodded and grunted slightly as he carried Luke to the cabin they had been assigned at the beginning of the trip. Guy grunted as he tried to carefully slide Luke on the bottom bed, and Luke easily landed.

"You seemed surprised..." Guy commented slightly, noticing how shocked Luke seemed to be when he spotted the monster. Guy remembered that he looked like he recognized it, but he was still shocked nethertheless. Guy then sat down on a small table that was attached to the wall so that it wouldn't move. Guy tried his best in his mind to summarize what had happened, when he realized.

'I touched a girl...willingly...?'

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Anise Tatlin groaned, chasing a once again, overacting Florian. However a smile crossed her face momentarily at the reminder of the young boy's beautiful cheerful smile. The cathedral didn't seem as big as it was anymore, nor did it seem to be dreary or dark anymore with that smile.

"Anise! Bet you can't catch me!" Florian's adorable voice echoed the air and Anise smirked to herself.

"Bet you I can!" Anise laughed, chasing the fon master. Anise wasn't officially fon master just yet, but she was training. All she had to do was go under religious training, since the Score was no longer needed. However Anise tended to ignore that part as she was not particularly the most religious person around.

"Hahaha!" Florian laughed, somehow running faster in his strange dress. Anise ran a little faster, but not to her true speed, letting Florian think he could beat her. Anise chased Florian to the glyphs that transport one who stepped on them and said the oh so magic words. Florian stepped on the yellow one that led to an empty room. Anise followed then frowned as she merged into the room. Florian wasn't there.

"Florian!" Anise yelled, demanding he show himself. Florian's giggle came into the air and Anise sighed, pulling her long sleeves up. "Alright Florian, I'm going to count to-" Ta-Tump, "count..." Anise felt her head grow incredibly dizzy and vague. Something rushed into her mind and she wasn't quite sure what it was and fell to the ground on her knees. Anise felt something rush in her head, but she wasn't quite sure what it was.

"Anise?" Florian appeared, but Anise ended up falling, completely to the ground, not able to fight against the dizzy feeling rushing in her mind. "ANISE!" Florian's voice was blurry in her mind for a moment, and Anise felt something of a swirl of memory forcing its bubble up. A memory of a man covering over her in a ship, while another boy fought to protect both of them. Those were...Guy...Luke? What?

End Chapter I

Lying on my bed are A and D, both moaning and groaning because they try to take over my cold. I stare at them and shake my head, coughing.
"So there's chapter...well one really. I promise to update every week, approximately with these many words. Anyway, I hope this chapter was just as good as the prologue! Interesting I hope. Cliffhanger, slightly. A lot will actually be explained in a bit, like the whole memory thing Anise went through at the end. Guy will go through the same thing soon." I sigh and shrug, "I'm not quite sure what one goes through to be a fon master guardian, but I do know about the missionary thing, so I assume she needs to try and read all of them. I wasn't sure if they were all on Daath or not though. I hope not. Anyway, yeah...here's this chapter for this week. See you next week on Tuesday!" I blink for a moment then recall, "Oh yeah. I just noticed I misspelt Luke's mother's name wrong according the English version of ToA, so if it bothers anyone, tell me right away and I'll fix that error. I also forgot the disclaimer, so forgive me, and be sure, I DEFINITELY DO NOT OWN ToA!" I sigh then nod, finished and satisfied with my little talk.

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