Haku awoke first, the merest presence of conscious thought shattering any remaining memories of the night's dream. He looked down at the strange blanket over him and remembered that he was alive, in another world, and- apparently- in the midst of this worlds 'conception'. Destiny had begun explaining it to them the night before, after they found someplace safe to rest at the hospital.

The world had come to an end, in all but the literal sense- perhaps even that; the only people left alive were people at the hospital when it happened, except for one strange man. Destiny had been at the hospital because of his teacher, who was used by a ruthless man to engineer the conception- or rather forced its occurrence. The world had retracted as far as Haku could tell, fallen apart in other places as it pulled together around Tokyo, becoming nothing more or less than a womb for the next world to be born from. Whoever made it to Kagatsuchi and presented him with their reason first would be able to create their ideal world. Destiny had already defeated the only people he knew could do that first- that had included his two best friends along with the man who caused the conception. As far as Haku could tell, the group was preparing not to take on Kagatsuchi, their next battle, but Lucifer himself, who had been the one orchestrating Destiny's ordeal with the fiends and who was preparing not to remake the world, but leave it stagnant and in its present, incomplete, form.

Haku was suddenly amused, this man called himself Destiny, yet struggled to make his own- not just for himself, but the entire world around him. Destiny had learned he was merely a tool from Daisoujou, a powerful tool, like himself, but he sought to be more.

"Puzzling it through," Gabriel asked, as she moved over beside Haku and closed her wings, careful not to disturb Zabuza or Naruto. "Metatron tried to warn Valson before, and in their final confrontation he only just began to get through to him when Metatron was slain. By the time he re-made Metatron he had already heard most of the story from Daisoujou and Trumpetor. Metatron filled in the last pieces, but it was too late, Valson has been made demon in heart now as well as body. I'm truly amazed at the strength of him- to retain some shreds of humanity after all he's been through."

"And what of yourself, and Metatron, you were slain by Destiny, and remade somehow?"

"Remade in demon form, but our memories are the same, by fusing the right demons together, it summoned us back to this world, like the fiends, except they also require the power of a Deathstone to be summoned by fusion."

Zabuza chuckled, clearly having been awake for long enough. "Like us then, dead, but returned in some form, apparently it was Demon blood that brought us back, maybe even a fiend if I caught enough similarities in Naruto's description to the three over there."

All looking over at Naruto, all he did was turn over in his sleep and start to snore again loudly…

With a sigh of dismissal Zabuza sat up. "So how does one prepare to take on THE Devil- Lucifer?"

"To be honest I think it's also part grief that keeps him from battle."

"His friends who he had to kill?"

Gabriel nodded, "In some part I think he held some hope of redeeming them, but was forced to abandon the idea each time as they merged with their Avatars."

Zabuza smirked, locked in a memory for a moment, "At least he found the strength to do it, would hate to have ended up in this place if he'd have let one of his pals turn this place into their own little utopia."

"There is no fault in their reasons, merely the reality of imperfection."

"So their reasons are incomplete, not allowing for imperfections, thus their just another loop of the same game, different name."

"But Lucifer intends to leave the world as is, unborn, and eternally incomplete."

"What does Destiny want?"

"He hasn't told us his reason yet," Gabriel admitted.

Zabuza looked around as Black Frost mumbled something in his sleep, the early morning light having shined into his face before he turned over. "Say, where is Destiny?"

"Valson-" Gabriel looked around as well, "hmm- seems he's with Pixie again this morning."

Haku noticed the absence of Pixie as well once Gabriel mentioned it, "What would he be doing with Pixie?"

Gabriel lowered her head a bit, "I'm not sure it's for me to say."

Black Frost jumped up at that point, having obviously caught enough of the end of that conversation to realize what they were talking about, "Pixie's looking to grow big like I was- well, comparably, Hee-Ho! Destiny and Pixie have a thing together, but they can't do anything about it since she's so small, can't even really cuddle- but it's amusing to watch them try when they think nobody's looking Hee-Ho."

Naruto groaned at that moment, Black Frosts loud signature laughter woke him, as well as a few others. "'s not Christmas time- what's with the black snowman?" Naruto asked dumbly before he'd remembered last night's events- "WAH! Demon!- ah- sorry," Naruto had bolted strait up as he half remembered his ordeal, calming as he remembered the rest. "Where's Destiny?"

Zabuza quirked an eyebrow as he turned from Naruto back to Black Frost-

"Over here," Destiny interrupted. Pixie sat comfortably on his shoulder- noticeably scooting away from being right against his face. "Good Morning everyone. I was just got back from Nyx Lounge, Loki told me he heard some Hua Po who got herself into some serious fire-power, no pun intended."

Destiny realized the three newcomers obviously didn't realize the un-intended pun by their lack of reaction; he looked over at Black Frost and nodded to him towards them.

"Oh- Hee-ho, Hua Po uses mostly fire attacks anyway, hee-ho," he explains to the three of them.

"But, I figure we should check out any demon gathering large amounts of power, after all, they can't all be Black Frosts," he smirked at Black Frost who growled for a bit.

"Hee-ho, it's all funny now, but I was lord and emperor, if I'd have fond a reason, we'd be on opposite sides right now, Hee-ho." Black Frost crossed his stubby arms and turned away. However quickly cooled off and bounded over beside Destiny.

"If you three don't want to come I'll understand-"

"What else are we gonna do," Zabuza asked only a little more harshly than he meant to. "We're stuck here, so we might as well follow the power, and you seem to be it."

"And besides, you said when you finish you might help us get home," Naruto said.

Destiny remained silent for a moment before looking to the others, "We'll see, I may be unable to help you in the end anyway."

"So where is this Hua Po?" Metatron asked.

"Ah, that's right, she's made herself a huge temple out of a library." Destiny looked to everyone in a motion of 'let's go'. Dante was up first, slapping his sword over his back and grabbing a small bag of essentials to his waist. Next Pale Rider mounted his deathly horse, Trumpeter got on behind him. Black Frost bounded over behind Destiny, beside Beelzbub. Daisoujou rose with a mystic grace, levitating himself in the air by force of will. Ongyo-ki and Sakahagi fell in behind, and Metatron and Gabriel took the rear.

Naruto ran up and caught up with Destiny, Haku and Zabuza fell in behind Beelzbub and Black Frost. "Hey- hey, what do you mean you might not be able to help us?"

"I mean quite simply it may be impossible. The Amala Worlds are vast, probably endless, and you come from a wholly different one than anything either I- or even Dante for that matter, are familiar with. Tracking down a whole other world within the Amala Network is like trekking all five Kalpas of the Labyrinth in one pass," he paused again when he realized he'd made another inside joke. "It's possible, I grant that, but a needle in a haystack is cakewalk compared to what you ask."

"There are many monsters lost within the Amala network. Like the one that drew you here."

"But with that terminal thing you traverse the Amala network in a flash- bang, no monsters?"

"That's a point to point system, you have to know where you're going, and it has to be linked to the network."

"But we got in through one, we must be able to come out of it again?"

Destiny sighed and put a hand to his forehead. "I've made too many promises already, I can't guarantee you anything. Can't you accept that at face value?"

"No, 'cause it's face has no value!"

Destiny opened the door out into the world, they'd never been to the library before, so they'd have to walk there first.

AN- This story is going on a bit of a hiatus until Naruto Dusk is done or almost so, in talking to one of my friends who's been helping me with Naruto Dusk I realized near to the end or at the end of the story Naruto has to return Zabuza's sword like he does at the beginning of this story, and I decided that Naruto Dusk according will be Naruto's background in this story- which may also later lead to revisions of the first two chapters. Also, sorry this chapter is short and little more than exposition, but I wanted to get that much out, I really had too much fin plotting the Pixie-Destiny relationship and when I resume this story I should have it fully plotted in my head too, so it will be fun. I had the slight idea originally of pairing Haku and Naruto, but with Naruto Dusk becoming the history for this story- that can't really happen, read Naruto Dusk as it comes along and I'll eventually make it clear why.