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Chapter 4: The Rozen Maidens are Born

I was shocked. This man, he looked so much like Maria and he even had the same eye-color as me. Who was this man? Why does he look so familiar? What ties did he have between Dokyoo and the world military?

The seemingly young man walked up to me and gave me a soft smile. His blue eyes glimmered to my sapphire as he held up his hand to reveal a small ruby. It showed the contents of a crystal, with rims of angelic white light surrounding it like a barrier.

"Rozen here is a doll maker and alchemist, like you Shippuu." Dokyoo explained with a dark grin.

"He is the Rose Alchemist."

I looked up to this man as he took my hand and placed the floating crystal in palm. I was mystified by its luminosity as it glowed brightly. This must be what they call a 'Roza Mystica.' It was said that this has one of the many powers the true Alice has.

"This your new power, I suggest you guard it along with your life. Lieutenant Colonel, I'll leave everything to you." Dokyoo dismissed shooing us away.

"What happens if I lose and die?" I asked challengingly.

Dokyoo looked at me with a raised eyebrow and a face of curiosity. He then turned his chair towards the screen behind him while chuckling darkly.

"Then that's one more elemental to lose, right." He smirked.

I growled at my old friend before I felt Rozen grasp my hand slowly shaking his head no. I looked up to my new father and nodded exasperatingly. After saying good-bye to our commanding officer, Rozen led me into an old alchemy laboratory. He told me it was rare for alchemist to work under these types of conditions when a huge war is taking place. In the lab was a huge alchemy circle, glowing dimly as I examined its detail. It looked like it was drawn a long time ago, maybe a century or two.

"Rozen," I called not looking up to him.

"Hmm..."

"Was this the alchemy circle made to create the Philosopher's stone?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, I made this a century ago when I was human. My Wife and I were trying to find a cure for a disease our twin daughters were suffering." He told me taking out a radio phone.

"Did you cure them?" I asked finally looking up to him.

He looked down thoughtfully, his eyes filled with sadness and sympathy.

"An air raid took place before I could even return home to them, then my wife and I ended up here after we had failed making the stone: He told me before speaking into his phone..

I looked to the side thoughtfully. Air raid, disease, and twins, why are these words ringing a bell? Then a memory flashed in my head.

An old doll shop in a small village, where it rained endlessly and the sun would never shine. Even though the weather was gloomy, the village always looked happy no matter how you look it. The doll shop... was where Maria and I used to live. We were twins and our Grandfather was the owner of the shop. I used to help him make them while I was studying alchemy by myself . Maria went to went to a normal school because I had the I.Q. to keep me well educated. I stayed home with grandfather so that his business could keep running. During Maria's vacation I let her in my make shift alchemy library while I made a doll of her with grandfather.

But I never got to finish it...

I had asked grandfather about our parents and I got my answer. I could never theorize my answer, because the air raid had already taken place. That was when I became this, a guardian angel fighting for every living thing. I jolted back to reality when I heard multiple foot steps approaching the room Rozen and I were in. I looked to the side to see four other, older girls enter the room. They were taller than me too. Rozen smiled to me as the girls stood in front of me.

"These will be your new big sisters," he told me grasping one of the girls' shoulders.

"This is 2nd Lieutenant Suitou of the wolf clan." He introduced the girl in his grasp.

By how tall she looked, she seemed to be around thirteen. She was a pale girl with scarlet eyes and long star-light hair tied in a long ponytail. Currently she was wearing a black uniform with an insignia revealing she was from the wolf clan.

"This is 1st Lieutenant Kira Suishou from the cat clan." He gestured to a girl who looked almost just like Suitou.

The difference was that she had golden eyes and her hair was let loose flowing down her back. She was wearing a lilac uniform with the insignia of the cat clan.

"Over there is Sergeant Major Kanahina of the fox clan."

She had silver hair like the other two but it was darker and they were curled up. She had emerald eyes and peachy skin. She even had the expression of a fox clan warrior, the eyes of pride. She wore an orange uniform with the insignia of the fire nine-tails fox, which indicated she was a warrior.

"And this is Private Second Class Suisouseki of the butterfly clan."

I flinched when she and I looked at each other in the eyes. She looked just like me in every way. We had the same hair color and length. We even had the same sapphire eyes. The only differences were our hair styles and uniforms. My hair was in a long ponytail, like Suitou's and I wore a royal blue uniform with the water tribe elemental insignia. Suisouseki let her hair loose and wore a dark green uniform with the butterfly clan insignia which was a pair of butterfly wings. We both looked at each other mystified by one another's features. I was surprised such a person looked so much like me, maybe she could disguise herself as me if she ever found out I was one of the princesses from the fallen kingdom.

"Girls, this is Cadet Shippuu of the elemental clan." He introduced gesturing to me.

They all widened their eyes at me making me flinch uneasily.

"You're a cadet?" Suitou asked incredulously.

I nodded uncertainly.

"But I thought cadets aren't aloud in wars." Kanahina told me uneasily.

"Yes, Cadets, but Rarity cadets are another thing." Rozen told them.

"Now all of you stand on the rim of the circle and don't speak, make sure you have your Roza Mystica with you, okay?" he told us.

We all did what we were told and held up our Roza Mystica, as expected the others had two in hand while I only had one. I was a little jealous of them, but I let it go easily. I was a rarity cadet and I would have to face the facts, a rarity cadet is, of course, at least one of the highest ranks in our military,

"Now girls, when I begin I can't stop until your Roza Mystica stay in you permanently so try and concentrate." He informed us.

I instinctively closed my eyes waiting for this new, unwanted power to enter my body. If this Alice game gets out of hand I'll have to run away.

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I shot my eyes open to see the wooden ceiling of the cabin, that's right I must have been brought here after I had fallen off the cliff. I looked to the side to see Suppi resting her head at my bedside and Guntz sleeping at the table with a large bottle of Jomon water. I couldn't see his face since it was covered by his arms as he slept heavily.

Literally, what was this guy thinking of watching over me? He didn't even tell me what ties he had with Konnichi and Kaguya, I wonder... I looked down to my hand and saw my rose ring, it was glowing dimly. Wait, if its glowing that means... I have a medium? Then that must mean... I turned to Guntz and saw a rose ring on his left hand, on his ring finger.

I growled as I got out of bed to see that from my abdomen to my chest was completely covered in bandages. If you can see it from a distance it looked like a striped white tang-top shirt. I limped to Guntz looking at the glowing ring on his hand, weird I feel way better now. I gritted my teeth as I grabbed the collar of his jacket and shook him awake.

"You bastard, what were you thinking of making yourself my medium!" I scolded shaking him to death.

"I, was, trying, to, save, your, life, Suppi, told, me, to!" He shot back as I kept shaking him.

"Do you know how risky it is if you're my medium?! I don't give a damn if I die. Now you're putting both of our lives at stake!" I yelled as I pulled his face at least three inches away from mine.

"So what, you're my responsibility if you ever met me, that was in their will so don't protest!" he scold at me.

We both flinched when we heard the door open. I looked to the side to see that it was Klonoa, with a priestess in training and the High Priestess. I froze as Klonoa looked at me with a blank expression as the young priestess began to blush a cherry red and turned around.

Oh, shit...

Nya: Forgive me, BadLuckCat, I know how much you love this, so I'm going to put up a new chapter as fast as I can. X3 Thank you for your reviews, you're the best. X3 Anyway to the other readers, look forward to Chapter 5: Guntz, the Medium of the Fifth Rozen Maiden.