Music of Choice: Paradise - Vanessa Carlton, Gotta Go My Own Way - Vanessa Hudgens/Zac Efron

Warning: There may be some MAJOR OOCness and MarySue tendencies coming up very quick. Please bear with me. I greatly apologize about this beforehand.

I'd like to thank XxxRazorBladeRomanceXxx, Loosenings, and SapphirestarXD for sticking with this story as long as you have. All of your comments have been greatly appreciated and hope you stick with RoA till the end.

Chapter 16 - Premonition

As darkness quickly steals the light that shined within her eyes
She slowly swallows all her fear and soothes her mind with lies
Well, all she wants and all she needs are reasons to survive
A day in which the sun will take her artificial light...her light

"What?" Kia asked, feeling her heart skip a beat. "Tomorrow?"

Yamato nodded his head gravely. "Yeah, I know."

"Shit!" The girl stood up and started to pace, confusing the others there around her. So many thoughts ran through the poor teenage girl's mind she couldn't hear someone trying to get her attention. She was being shaken by Yamato, who was currently trying to bring her back to the real world. "I don't have time for you all right now, I need to think of something!" she snapped at the teenage boy.

"We aren't fighting."

Kia's eyes widened. "Huh?"

She felt someone put a hand on her shoulder, and she turned to face Murayama. "We aren't going to fight the Evil Douji like they want. Our goal is to stop the Hyakki Eikou and capture Dunstan."

"Dunstan? Tansen's grandfather?"

"So you have met him!" Kia turned to the sudden yell and was tackled to the dirty abandoned hospital floor. Bright yellow eyes and blue hair with blue eye gaurds met her vision, and she thought she could see blue gauntles with little flower designs upon them. The Douji stood up, and Kia thought this must have been the first female Douji she met.

Indeed she did have blue eyeguards in the shape of a bow, and her gauntlets were a light blue color with flower designs on them. She wore a crop top shirt with a light colored hakama and a white sash. Upon her identification cloth was two light circles merged together with circular cutouts.

"Hi, my name's Service!" she greeted herself cheerfully, even giving a slight bow to her.

"K-Kia," the teenager managed to say, rubbing her now sore stomach. "You must have so much trouble, then."

Service's eyes widened. "Whatever do you mean?"

"You're a girl, so you must have a lot of trouble dealing with all the boys-" Kia was interrupted by Service's bright laughter. Everything about this chick seemed bright.

"Oh silly, I'm not a girl. I'm a boy!" she told her, a huge smile appearing upon her face.

"Uh..." Kia felt as though her brain just died.

Golden eyes stared up at the ceiling, ones lost away in thought. The evil Douji had surprised K and Jealous when he walked in drenched. He simply discarded the wet clothing and replaced it with his normal attire. When questioned on the whereabouts of Kia, Vice merely replied "safe." K didn't drop the subject but was silenced with a death glare from the green Douji.

"You said something, didn't you?" the pink and blue embodiment of envy asked Vice when K stepped out of the apartment.

"Does it matter?" he replied, eyes slowly moving from the ceiling to Jealous. "She isn't here and that's all that matters."

Jealous cocked an eyebrow. "Then why do you feel so guilty?"

WHAM! Vice slammed Jealous against the wall, shattering some of the plaster around them. "I'm. Not. Guilty," the epitome of evil growled, deep and threatening.

The other Douji clawed at Vice's green gauntlet, attempting to scramble out of his tightening grasp. Dropping him on the floor, his eyes flashed with dangerous intent.

Despite the murderous vibrations emanating from the green Douji, Jealous could still feel small shivers of longing and sorrow. It was downright unnatural for Vice to feel emotions like those, and it quite honestly freaked the shit out of him. Nevertheless, he didn't speak a word to anyone else, much less to the other evil Douji.

Vice fell back onto the couch, wrapping himself in the pink comforter. Jealous could almost see the thoughts of Kia floating through his mind and decided it was best to let him be.

Leaving the small apartment quietly, Jealous sighed at the situation those two had put themselves into.

Dante walked silently through the streets of Farmless City, studying the small sheet of paper in front of her. "Sparrow Manor has to be around here somewhere - I think?" she wondered, scratching her head.

"What do you need?" the Doll heard someone ask her, and she whipped her head to face them. If it was another one of those perverts, she swore to god-

"Dante?" Jealous asked.

"Yo," she replied to the Douji, waving her hand. "Looking for Kia. Do you know where Sparrow Manor's at?"

The pink and blue Douji nodded his head. "Yeah, but she isn't there. Vice said she might not be coming back."

Dante's pink eyes widened. "He what?"

Jealous merely gave her a shrug of his shoulders. "I don't know either. Something happened and he won't say anything. I'm not picking up any of her heartvibes anywhere either."

"He didn't kill her, did he?" the girl panicked.

"No no no," Jealous said, putting up his gauntlets to calm her. "He just said she left. He wouldn't say anything more than that."

Pinching the bridge of her nose, Dante sighed. "I swear, if he did something stupid, I'm gonna-" She froze in mid-sentence. Her eyes glazed over as she stared of into the distance. Jealous waved a hand in front of her face, but her gaze didn't falter. Dante was seeing something.

"Hello? Dante? Hellooo? Anyone home?" he muttered. Almost instantly, she snapped out of her trance, and it looked as though something along the lines of fear or distress overcame her.

"Oh no," she sighed. Turning on her heels, she ran away from the Douji and ran fast.

"Wait!" Jealous yelled, flying to keep up with her. "What happened? What did you see?"

Dante turned to him and replied, "Don't worry, it's all under control. The Hyakki Eikou is tomorrow, and you need to act like nothing's wrong. If someone asks, you didn't see me!"

"Dante! What's going on?" he hollered, not understanding her one bit. In his mind's eye, he could see a small bit of what she saw. Kia lay on a cold floor, panting. It seemed as though her life was being drained out of her. She couldn't keep her eyes open, and he watched as the life faded from her.

Jealous stopped, wondering. Very rarely of what Dante saw came true, but there was the equal chance that it was going to happen. She knew the Hyakki Eikou was going to happen tomorrow, and every fiber of his being could feel it. Only one thing he knew was uncertain.

Was Kia going to die?

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