Disclaimer: I do not own Klonoa, but Kuroi or Ame and OCs are mine. You can't steal them unless you ask. X3

Chapter 6: Chiffon, a Childish Partner

I was walking through the halls with Rozen a black top hat on my head. I was angry, very angry. I had just become a Rozen Maiden and I was already getting ready to be deployed and Rozen was told to stay here for some reason I didn't give a damn about. He was just escorting me to the meeting room where I would meet my new partners for the whole war. I wasn't guilty at all when he kept staring at me with his guilty face.

"What are you hiding?"

"None of your business, old man," I replied simply and quickly.

"It's about what happened back during the world war, huh?" he asked sadly.

I turned to him with a flamed glare.

"If you would have come home with your wife instead of wasting your time with alchemy, then we wouldn't have ended up here." I growled at him.

"Then why didn't you evacuate?"

I narrowed my eyes, why didn't we? I remember they would announce air raids, but we didn't leave like we usually do. What was it...? I looked at Rozen, who was looking at me worriedly, only to scoff at him angrily and quicken my pace.

"Anna," Rozen called "it wasn't your fault Maria and Maryann had to suffer, it was all mines. You shouldn't have chosen this type of life if you would have known that it was for the best. At least think about yourself for once."

I turned to him almost having the taller man crash into me.

"Listen here old man, as of now, I'm no longer the daughter you had back in Germany I'm the rarity cadet signed to you to fight in the war, nothing more, and if you want to try and get our family back together, tough!" I growled before turning around only to bump into a wolf clan boy.

"Oh, Rozen, what is she doing here? I thought you were bringing our new leader here." The boy greeted looking up to Rozen as the tall man grasped my shoulders.

"Actually Jakunen, here she is." Rozen smirked pushing me toward the young wolf boy.

We both looked at each other taking in each others' feature. Hmm, black hair, golden eyes, red uniform, wolf clan insignia, and sergeant major badge. By the looks of it, he seemed to be at least twelve-years-old. He had a six star birth mark on his eye lid and it always glowed whenever he would smirk. I raised an eyebrow when Jakunen grasped my furry ear. He rubbed it with his thumb making me irritated because he was doing it roughly and I hate it when people do that to me.

Then what happened next angered me more. Suddenly, Jakunen tugged my ear making me irritated then I swiped him off his feet with my leg making him yelp in surprise before crashing to the floor on his back. Rozen grabbed my shoulders in shock as Jakunen sat up looking at me amazed.

"This kid is our leader!" Was the first thing he asked in incredulous anger.

"She isn't just any kid. She's one of the rarity cadets and the new last resort wea- I mean fighters." Rozen smirked patting my head just soft enough to keep me calm.

I grumbled a little relieved my 'father' didn't say weapon. Jakunen looked at me again before smirking toothily patting my head the same way Rozen did. I relaxed a little as the older wolf-boy commented me.

"Well, now I see why we were recommended a leader like you, you sure have the bronze of one." Jakunen smirked teasingly leaning down to me.

I raised an eyebrow before turning to Rozen. He flinched when we made eye contact with one another. I gave him a small hint of a grin then turned to let Jakunen show me to our partners. When we were a few meters away from Rozen he yelled to me something that made me think it was true.

"Shippuu, when you're older I'll be sure you're a big sisters, I'm tired of seeing you as a little one all the time!" he called.

Jakunen stopped and turned to Rozen as I just walked past my new partner trying to ignore his words. Why did he say that? Was he going to get married again or something? Maybe, he did say to me earlier he was going to get married to the reincarnation of his wife. I don't see what much people see in him though, all I see is a useless jerk using alchemy just to get by and to create new weapons like me. He even went passed the laws of alchemy and ended up here.

Unlike me I chose to, but why did Kohaku asked me to come here? Was it because I was an alchemist or was it something more important? I shrugged the questions out of my head when Jakunen and I entered a room filled with three other people possibly from the three other clans besides mines and his.

They looked at me with raised eye brows before turning to Jakunen. Knowing what they were thinking they would be asking in their heads, is this little girl our new leader?

"Jakunen, who's this?" A fox clan boy asked.

I raised an eyebrow taking in his features. He had orange hair with ocean blue eyes with a thunder bolt-shaped birth mark on his right cheek. He was wearing a light blue uniform with the fox clan insignia and a badge indicating he was a 1st class private. By his stature he must be a good able bodied boy, maybe strong enough to hold someone three times his size maybe.

"This is our new leader, Kitsune, don't you think she's the best of stature for us." Jakunen smirked patting my head again.

"What battle system are you?" A girl with brown hair and scarlet eyes asked me, she was of the cat clan.

She seemed kind of slender and had almost visible curves, which made sense since she kind of looked like a twelve-year-old like Jakunen. She wore a scarlet uniform with a badge indicating she was a First Class Sergeant along with the cat clan insignia. She had brown long hair tied into a bun with scarlet eyes that glimmered into ruby when a light hit it, and a flame shaped birthmark on her left cheek. In the military we are given battle system numbers indicating by our powers how powerful and agile we are to be accepted into wars like this.

Usually we can indicate whose battle systems are who's just by their name. Luckily, I was of the low numbers that were under fifty, those with the lowest numbers were known to be the strongest. Since I was a Rarity Cadet and my middle name was Mizu, I was Battle System 32.

"32," I replied simply only to hear gasps around the room.

"H-How old are you?" A girl with purple hair and sky blue eyes asked in an unbelieving stammer.

I raised an eyebrow at her. This girl looked different from the other new faces I had seen today. Why did she have this angelic face? Why did it look so familiar? All I saw before was an eleven year old girl with purple velvet hair tied into long pigtails with ocean blue eyes that mixed with sky blue. She wore a light blue uniform with the butterfly clan insignia and a badge of a private. I think she was a year older than me by seeing how young she looked.

"Ten," I replied with a mere shrug.

"What about you?" I asked all of them.

Kitsune was the first to reply.

"Kitsune of the fox clan, I'm battle system 98 and a 1st class private."

And then the cat clan girl introduced herself.

"I'm Koneko of the cat clan. I'm battle system 95 and a first class sergeant."

Then Jakunen spoke with a monotonous voice.

"Jakunen of the wolf clan, I'm battle system 92 and a sergeant major."

Then the girl with purple hair spoke in a childish, cheerful voice.

"I'm Chiffon of the butterfly clan! I'm battle system 100 and a private!"

I dropped my mouth then turned to the side thoughtfully. She's named after a frilly dress... Figures, she's so happy-go-lucky and the way she acts was kind of like me before I enrolled in this damn militia. I guess I should be jealous it was because I was too trusting that I ended up here and like this. Before I could think anymore the intercom came on with the bastard's voice sounding off.

All squadrons with leaders 24, 32, 57, and 0 to 10 report to the first deployment meeting. All your partners must be present, no exceptions that is all.

I growled at the sound of his voice only to flinch when I saw all of my new partners stare at me questioningly. I shook my head then turned to the meeting room in the middle of the building we were in. I wanted to at least put a sword through his stomach or a hammer to his head, but that would have to wait. Right now, this war was of importance and I heard that someone not from our world was caught up in it and I would have to track that person down before our enemy did.

Although this wasn't any person, I heard that it was a princess who goes by the name of Seed, a seedrian from the plant planet. If the enemy got close to her they would be able to use her as a weapon by using her powers to strangle and crash our forces with plant life. Unfortunately during the meeting, I was told that the other leaders, including my Rozen maiden sisters, and I would be the ones to locate her and we would have to refrain from eating and drinking leaving a small fair amount of rations for the young princess.

I thought it was outrageous at first, but when he mentioned the princess I had no choice but to agree. Our enemy was very strong and they would never waste rations on someone like the princess. Those bastards letting her suffer like that. Afterwards we were told that we would be doing a surprise attack first before tracking down our marked refuges. All of our squads would be spread through out the battle ground and would be throwing an air raid by falling off of our air plane and attacking the enemy from above. Then I was told that I would be the only one who was not aloud medical attention unless I was badly injured for any useless reason.

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I grunted against the strong gust of wind as I held onto the handles of the battle ship I was on. My partners were behind me holding on to their handles for dear life, we were getting ready to be deployed and I was all pumped up for what was coming to me. I was hoping that Kisho's guidance would be of great help to me.

Then it happened. I was adjusting the steel mask over my eyes when I heard Chiffon yell, I turned to see that she was slipping off the ship. We weren't even there yet, we were still flying overseas and if any of us fell overboard they might desert us. I gritted my teeth as I let go of the handles and fell down to Chiffon grabbing onto one of the handles she was grasping then reached down grabbing her wrist.

I pulled her up and helped her grasp onto the other handle, she and the others looked at me disbelievingly as I turned trying to see our battle field. Suddenly, I saw a gun coming from the cockpit we came out of and it was pointing at me. Before I could do anything I heard a gun shot, and the last thing I remember was a very bad pain in my head and my body growing limp. Damn that bastard Dokyoo...

"Shippuu!"

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I opened my eyes slowly surprised my head didn't hurt as bad as I'd expected, then as my vision focused I could see... wood? Wait, was it another dream again? I turned my head to the side to see that I was still in the cabin regarding the sink and the small furniture.

I looked back up towards the ceiling trying to remember what I did yesterday. Oh yeah, that's right, I went to bed about a few hours before Suppi came back. I grunted in pain as I sat up, stupid Kira Suishou and her crystal sharp swords. I looked down to my right side where my old wound was.

I remember when Chiffon was the first to treat it for me. She used her old bandages to help heal mines. She was very childish even though she was older than me, I was happy I was her friend and partner because she showed she truly cared about me besides the others and Rozen.

I sat up and stretch gracefully to loosen my stiff muscles then got out of bed grabbing my long-sleeved dark blue shirt and dark brown cargo pants. I looked out the window to see that the sun had just risen. I should better bring Klonoa some breakfast before waking up Suppi. I yawned scratching the top of my head, then indolently pulled my boots on a little sluggish from the constant aching. Walking out of the cabin quietly, I made sure Suppi was still sleeping doubting that she would be as a light a sleeper as I am.

As I began walking to the village an unusual thought hit me. Why did I care about the others now that all of these memories of my old friends and family are returning? Then I smirked with a hint of happiness as I placed my mask over my eyes.

Now I remember...

I was lonely... I wanted to be with people again, and I didn't want to use my killer's eyes anymore. I guess you could say, I'm happy now, I have friends who care, I can live without the dread of facing those who would like to kill me, and maybe, just maybe, I can live longer.

Nya: Yes, Chiffon is named after a dress, although I think she fits well into it. She's very hyper, kind of like Spinal when he eats too many sweets. X3 I'll put up the next chapter soon so just be patient. X3