I have to find out what's in that room… what's so important that I can't go in there and see it for myself?

Next time I bring a flash light and make sure I have lots of time.

I watched from the house as the boys were trying to figure out where and how they were going to build the house and shed.

I sighed. "Give it up… it's not going to work… it was a nice idea while it lasted."

"Aw Come on Moon. Let them try, it's kinda fun to watch them bicker." Someone said from behind me.

I turned to see a tall brunette with pink eyes. I blinked.

"Uh…"

She smiled. "My name is NyghtFyre… But you don't remember me do you…?"

She was just like the rest of them… They all knew me but I didn't know a single one of them…

"No… I don't remember…"

She sat down on the chair in front of me and stared out the window. "I suppose you wouldn't… it was a horrible experience…" she whispered.

"What was…?"

She turned to look at me. "We use to be best friends… so I won't keep anything from you… How you lost your memories… how the accident happened… It was all at that tournament…"

"What tournament…? They said it was an accident…"

She smiled sadly. "So that's what they wanted you to believe… I guess it's better than what really happened…"

"What are you talking about…?"

"Do you ever wonder why these people know you…? Why there's so many…? Why this house is so big for one person…? Who you really are…?"

Wow she hit the nail on the head.

She smiled. "You're still my best friend… I know you to well to not know what questions you want answered."

"O….kay… can you read my thoughts…?"

"Ha-ha! No… your face gave it away." She smiled while laughing.

As she got up she walked over to me and held out her hand. "Let me show you the beginning… Just like your guardian did before the 'accident'."

I nodded and took her hand. We walked outside the back door and she changed into a huge bird.

I gaped.

"What are you…?"

You'll see soon. she answered in my mind.

I climbed on.

Suddenly we were high in the air, the wind rushing around us as she flew.

This feels so familiar… Like I've done something similar to it… There was even someone with me as we flew…

I grabbed for the person I imagined was there only to realize I was grabbing at air. No one was there… No one was ever going to be there…

Why did that hurt me so much…?

I closed my eyes against the coming pain I was feeling. It's just the baby… that's all… I'm not hurting because of something I'll never remember… It's…

We landed and I slid off the huge bird.

As she changed back I looked around the ruined city.

"This place feels so familiar… Like I've been here before…"

"You're been here several times… you were born here…" NyghtFyre walked away so I followed her, silently looking around at the ruined city.

She stopped in front of a building that looked like it had taken less damage than the others.

"This is your home… It's where you were born…"

I walked up to the door frame and stared into the dark abyss inside the home.

"My… home…?" Carefully I walked inside and looked around. It was small and quaint. There was a room that looked like it was once the kitchen, there were still some cabinets. There was a table in the small room off of the kitchen. I could almost picture a small family eating and laughing there…

I turned and left the kitchen and saw some stairs. I climbed them slowly, hearing each groan and protest to my foot fall.

Up stairs I could tell there were at least four doors. Carefully I walked to the first one. As I opened the door I could feel the whole room almost take a breath, as if it had been waiting to be opened.

But there was nothing in there but a large bed and a closet. The room looked like someone had ransacked it. The bed was over turned and what I figured was the other furniture that made up the room had been completely demolished. I walked over to the closet and looked inside.

There was a box lying on the floor, so I picked it up.

'To Our dearest Daughter.' The little card on the top of the box read.

And then I saw it.

It was beautiful. It hung in the back still sparkling as if it wasn't hanging in a ruined house but a house of someone who cherished it. It had to be hers… there was no other way around it…

It was my mother's kimono.

I lifted it gently, afraid the silk would fall about in my hands.

Oh god… It was gorgeous…

"Isn't lovely…?" I heard NyghtFyre ask behind me.

"It's beautiful…" I murmured.

she held open her hands. "I'll carry the box and the kimono for now… make sure you check the whole closet… Your mom and dad had a hidden compartment somewhere… Don't forget to check the other rooms too…" She turned to leave. "I brought a basket to carry anything home you found here. These items are yours now. You deserve to have them and cherish them…"

She left.

I scanned the whole closet. I checked every wall.

Nothing… There was no hidden space… no fake wall…

I got up and carefully moved out of the room, shutting the door behind me.

The next door was a bathroom… Or it use to be… I could still see the sink and tub. I closed that door too.

The third room appeared to have nothing in it at first then I began to notice lumps in the corner.

I went over to one and touched it, a hand rolled out.

I almost screamed then I saw it was a doll. Just a broken doll…

I went to the closet and began searching the walls and floorboards like the first room. Still nothing.

I stood up and looked around.

This was my room… These were the walls tat had been painted pink and purple just like all little girl's rooms were painted…

I swallowed the lump in my throat and left the room, closing the door behind me.

The last room, I took a deep breath and opened the door.

I started crying.

I had a little sister… and her name was Jenny…

The big letters over the cradle were still there, they still said her name.

Everything in the room looked like time had stood still. The paint, though faded, was still visible. The wooden baby furniture looked nearly brand new, minus the dust.

Time had never touched this room… Jenny had never seen what she would have been raised in…

Did she die before she was born…? Did this village get attacked before she had a chance to know this life…?

I went to the crib and saw the little stuffed bear that would have been her's to sleep with.

I wanted to take the furniture with me… Use it for my baby… But it was best to leave it here in the house that had protected it for years…

I took the bear instead… Maybe it would be for my baby to sleep with, but it will be with a baby like it was meant to be…

I went to the closet and began to check half heartedly; until I felt the floorboard under my fingers shift.

There was another box, bigger this time… This didn't have a note on it; it was just hiding under the floor boards. I pulled it out and placed it in my lap and checked again. I pulled out a beautifully designed sword. I checked again; nothing this time. I put the boards back and stood slowly. I took one last look around the beautiful room and left.

"Did you get what you wanted…?" NyghtFyre asked putting the box, the sword, and the dusty teddy bear in the basket alone with the kimono and the small present.

"I got items… not memories…"

She nodded and sat down next to the basket. "I could tell you stories… if that would help…"

I sat down and looked at the other buildings. "Why did this happen…?"

"Someone became jealous of how the gods and goddesses lived inside their high walls; always protected by their guardian savior. So he made a prophecy. He said that if the day marries the night and the night bares a child of the heavens that the village would fall into chaos when she became of age to take her first day of flight… Ever since then the gods and goddesses of the day and night were separated. Only the day could marry the day and night lived only with night. The river that ran trough the village is where they decided to draw the line that separated them.

"For centuries the gods and goddess of the night and day lived separately. They never hated one another. They just feared for their survival. But the day came where a god of the day saw the mystical night goddess fetching water from the river and fell in love. His name was Akeno meaning 'in the morning' after the time he was born and the beautiful color of his hair. She was called Maki, 'new moon' for the time she was born and the darkness of her hair and wings, like the black sky when there is no moon.

"Akeno loved Maki instantly and went to the river everyday just to see her. One day she saw him too and loved him dearly. They began to meet one another. First on one side or the other of the river, but that became too hard for their love was forbidden. So they began to meet on the small island in the river; they claimed that it was the land 'in between' for the island was not to one side of the other but exactly in the middle of the river and there fore their love was allowed there.

"The elders were furious. They said the love was banned everywhere, that the day could not marry the night; but the two lovers never cared. They stayed there and lived together in a small hut that Akeno built for them. Finally they married against all the protests of their family and friends and birthed a child. As the elders approached the baby they saw she had no wings like the rest of the gods and goddesses, therefore her day of flight would never come. Their village was safe and their love was allowed to flourish.

"They moved from their tiny hut into the home you saw and raised their daughter with all the love they had. Though the village children picked on her, calling her a half breed and laughing at her wingless back her parents never showed any disdain for their daughter being wingless.

"But the happiness didn't last. The demon that had forged the prophecy found out that there was s child of the heavens in the village and how her day of flight would not come for she had no wings. He was outraged and swore to the village that before the young child could harness her true powers. The village fell into chaos.

"The happy family quickly left the village hoping that if they left that their home would not be attacked, but they were too late.

"Though they were able to escape the torment their village suffered the demon followed them. For years he watched them silently from the shadows tormenting the young girl with nightmares and making her jealous of her lovely little sister how had wings of her own.

"As the day arrived that the littlest would be able to fly with her parents the elder child's nightmares began to truly torture her. She watched her family murdered in front of her eyes as she did it herself. Her parents began to worry and didn't know what to do for their first child.

"On the littlest one's day of flight the elder was no where to be found; she had run away the night before, afraid she would hurt her family or her beloved little sister.

"But the demon came anyway.

"As the eldest sat in the forest near her home she heard the screams. She ran to them, to her own death.

"And she saw it… the red mess all over the clearing that the young one was going to take her flight in. Blood was everywhere. Her sister lay motionless; half her body was missing, her beautiful golden here stained with blood and thicker things. Her mother lay next to her as if she had tried to protect her; there was a hole in her chest.

"Then she saw her father. Missing his lower half he was crawling towards her trying to tell her to leave until he finally collapsed. Still standing there the eldest child now saw the creature that had done the horrible task of murdering her beloved family; a dragon demon.

"The creature was all skeleton, no muscle or flesh on the bones, no organs inside, but he was still moving. His bones looked as if they had just had the flesh ripped from them, blood running down all sides of him.

"He came after her, ready to kill the last remaining goddess of the village he hated so. As his claws pierced her chest something inside her released and the demon was thrust back and away from her body. The energy cocooned around her forming a protective layer of light and the demon was forced to leave, but not without leaving a piece of his bone lodged deep inside the child's body.

"And now if the girl hurts herself in anyway the demon feeds from the pain she has inflicted and grows stronger as he waits for the time to strike again."

I sat there silently for a long time; I couldn't find my voice.

"Wh-What happened to the girl…?"

"She removed most of her memories of her family and her past to keep her from going mentally insane, but some weren't easily removed and she had to live with the loss of her family and the knowledge that the demon was residing in her own body…"

"Is she alive…?"

"She's you Moon…" NyghtFyre touched my arm. "You're the little girl, the only surviving goddess and the only one ever that was a goddess of both the day and night; you are the one and only goddess of the heavens…"