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You wake up from your sleep thanks from the chirping of the birds and something that is munching your dress. You look up to see the golden golem, Timcanpy and another one. You swear you've never seen it before. It has the same features as Timcanpy but colored silver and a little more cute.
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"How cute!Wahh!"you squeak and hug the poor silver golem.
"I see you've met your golem."
"My golem?" you wonder for a minute.
"Ah! My golem! The one I've asked you!Thank you Papa!"you instantly hug Cross from delight and gratitude.
"*sigh*.Just take care of it and name it." He says, looking at you.
"Name?...hmmmm lets see….I know! Since we have Timcanpy, then….Kimberly! Her name will be Kimberly, Kim in short! YAY!" you again squeak as you hug the said 'Kimberly'.
"Her?...a golemn? Why a she?" Cross asks. Well it is not THAT of a big deal to him in the sexuality of his golem especially with Tim but for you to 'sort out' a female from male as a golem. That enough is shocking.
"Well. She is as I say 'cuter' and more like a sister than Tim. The color is a difference which may suggest that tim and this golem have a classification such as she and he. So, it is Kim!" you said with a grin. Cross looks bewildered at first and he suddenly laughs so carelessly.
"HAHAHAHA! You really have me there! You are smart your age! Haha"
"Ofcourse Papa! I am your daughter anyway! I must be since you are smart too!" That earn you a pat in the head. He looks very 'fatherly' to you.
"Ha! Then I'll train you and make you as a great exorcist then! You must prepare yourself. I won't go easy on you just because you are my daughter." He said as he look directly in your eyes. He seems to be searching for some reluctance if there is any.
"I'll accept! I'll obey you Papa! Because I love you!" you seriously and 'innocently say. Even if you are a kid, you possess great intelligence and understand what does he means by training. You are not afraid. You know that this is something you must do. If you cannot go back to your memories then you just need to go straight and continue walking, right?
"Then let us begin our training, Alice."
You 'trained' with him for two years. It is not that much actually. All you do is watch over him study and travel everywhere for accommodators or Akuma in the way. You also know about the fact that he is a 'womanizer' but you just dismissed it at first. But you grew suspicious of him and asked him.
"Papa, why are you with other women? Doesn't you like mama?" you ask innocently and somehow near for tears.
"Eh?...well you see…*sigh* I-"
"Don't you love me no more?"you cut him off. Tears are now evident and ready to fall from your eyes.
"Ofcourse, I love you Alice. It is not what you think. Now listen… I love you and your mama but I need to look for a suitable mama for you…you need to have one so I am just searching."
"Then, you want to replace mama! Pap-"
"No! I'm not going to replace your mama! I am just searching for someone to take care of you. Don't you want another mama? Don't you want papa to be happy?" he says a little uneasy from your question and the fact about his 'womanizing days' might end now. It is still too early for him. Not NOW.
"Hmmm….Then….." you say.
"Then….what?" he gulped. This could be really the end.
"Then just find the most appropriate mama in the WHOLE world! I want a mama now! Promise me you will find one, Papa!" you say pouting. It seems there is a long pause until-
"OFCOURSE I PROMISE! I'll search every crook of this world for a woman to be your mama! HAHA!" he sweatdrops. He is lucky enough and for the first time, he thanks the heaven. This is really not the end yet…
However months after that, there was a sudden attack of akuma. You and Cross are separated from each other. You are currently hiding in an abandoned house with Kim. You do not know what to do. In training, you only got to know basic martial arts, hand to hand combat and flips. But that is not sufficient enough to destroy an Akuma. She needs to invocate her innocence which is still dormant. She needs to call for his Papa or else she'll be dead meat. There is rustling behind her until-
"I see. What do we have here? A cute little human brat? Hahaha! You are so unlucky aren't you?" the Akuma said. It looks like it is a Level two( Cross told you of this). He seems to have other companions with him.
"You are right. But really so so poor of you child!" the other Akuma mocked you in a childish manner.
"Still a child hiding here…You must be an idiot left alone here to die. Don't worry. We'll end your misery!" the moment he said that black vines started sprouting from the ground. It then instantly wrap itself around you making you cringe in pain.
"Let me go Akuma!" you say with full defiance. You must live. You wanted to do more things in your life.
"Is the little girl going to cry? HAHAHA!" the other to says as they watch your pitiful state.
You cannot move anything. They've got hold of your wrists, ankles, and neck. You also notice that you are near from passing out from the pain of the vines as it suck your energy out. You wanted t live but you do not know what to do. You still are not able to invocate your innocence. You focus but there is nothing. It looks like this is your very death. You feel lightheaded and finally you passed out.
"Haha! Look! The brat is no longer resisting. She's unconscious!"
"Then kill her already!"
"I want to be the one to kill her with my hands!"
You feel strange. You already passed out but you are standing with no vines and Akuma. You are in a place of void. Nothing is around you. Only you and darkness. Wait. Darkness? What is this place?
"Where am I?"You say hoping for someone to answer you back.
"You are with me, now come in my guest."
"Eh? Who are you? Why is-"
"Just come in."
"O- okay." A door suddenly appear out of nowhere. You found yourself in a room with red and black tiles and walls. There is also a piano in the middle. 'A piano? Familiar.' A guy around 15 approached you. He is in a suit (a tux) and smiling towards you.
"Finally you found me, master."
"Who are you? And Master...?" you asks. You want an answer right now.
"You are agitated, wants reassurance I see. Well let me introduce myself." He took hold of your hand and look directly at you. You also look at him anticipating an answer. He does not look like an Akuma to you in a way so it is ok. But he does not even look like an actual human although he looks like a regular teenage boy.
"Alice Marian, my master. I am your Innocence, Soul Eater."
"Soul Eater? My innocence? But how? You-"
"Calm down." He says motioning for you to sit in a couch with him. Even if you are a kid you are still wary of things.
"I am the innocence. The darkness. You are focusing your invocation in your body. But I am not in your body."
"What do you mean? I am a parasitic type." You said eyeing him carefully.
" Well, I am with you but not as a body part. I am your shadow, the darkness. I am always backing you up and supporting you in anyway but you do not notice my presence."
"Darkness? Isn't darkness evil?"
There was a long silence but he broke it up with a sigh.
"You humans must be thinking that everything that is black is evil and everything that is white is good. No….Darkness is just void. Nothingness in short. No hate and goodness exist in it. Only itself is enough. It is just like the Innocence, it is pure and not tainted from the factors that may affect it. That is why darkness and innocence are just like the same."
He is right. You can now really see the similarities. The truth about their difference is nothing and all lies. You really need to look deeper into their meaning.
"I see. Now if you are really my innocence Soul, then I must go back and save everyone out there and be an exor-"
"No, not yet Alice." He said
"But why? I should-"
" I need to ask you a question. What do you want to do?"
"Isn't it obvious? I want to go back and-"
"What do you want to DO!"
There was a long silence.
'What is it that I really want to do? Do I really like to be an exorcist because my father is one? Do I like to kill Akuma? Save people? Want friends? Friends? Well I really have none since we always go place to place that I am not able to make friends. Do I want to have my memories of my mama back? What,' Then I smiled. 'Now I know it. Just like the darkness and innocence, I've found my answer.'
"I- I want to find my existence, my importance just like this darkness, my existence in living even how empty it is I want to find my purpose. I may be too naïve as a child full of innocence.I- I want to find it."
There is a pause.
" I see…then," He offered you his hand and in an instant you noticed that your shadow and him turned into one and changed. Now infront of you is a scythe, a beautiful and deadly black scythe.
"I accept your answer, Alice."
"Now die little kid!"
In the meantime when you are knocked unconscious, Cross arrived and saved you from the Akuma. There is a fight going on and more and more akuma are approaching him. He then brought you down in a corner and go back from the battle. It does not last long until the Level two found you. It immediately have you as his hostage. That situation made Cross in a tight situation. He must save you but he cannot be unarmed or else there is a great chance they'll start firing and will kill you anyway. He is contemplating until there was a light no, black light? Darkness?
"WAAAAAAAHHH! WHAT IS THIS IT IS AHH!" The akuma who is previously holding you turned into dust.
"Hey what is that! That brat!" the other akuma says.
"Oi! Alice!" Cross calls you. There is this dark fire and he found himself staring into your eyes which are now blood red. And what surprised him is this black scythe in your hands. The scythe is about 10 feet long and with a long sharp blade. He can tell how small and deadly you look with the scythe. Then you suddenly charge into the other akuma with great speed and power. You slash through them. They started diverting their full attention towards you and attack you. The two remaining level two's shot black vines towards you but you just evaded them and slash them. Cross cannot believe this is happening. For a seven year old kid really, what in the world is happening?
"Goodnight and sleep Akuma, WITCH HUNTER!" The scyte's blade turned like the crescent moon and grew deadlier and powerful. You slashed through the air with great power and deadly black blades came cutting everything. When every Akuma is gone. You finally slumped in the ground. Cross came to you hurriedly.
"Are you okay Alice?"
"*breathe* I-*breath* I am okay. *breath* just exhausted papa."
"Good. Then tell me what is that scythe? Is that your innocence? But how?" he asks serious.
"It is. Its name is Soul Eater. It came from my shadow."
"Your shadow?"
Then at that instance. The scythe move on its own accord and shape itself as your shadow and go back from being your shadow. There was a long silence. Cross seemed to be contemplating on something.
"I see…then congratulations for invocating your innocence for the first time."
"Yes...finally."
"We need to get going now. Can you be able to walk?" he said avoiding my gaze.
"I think…. I can papa. But where?" I asks as he got me up in my feet and look at him. He looks grim.
"….To the Black Order Headquarters."
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