Day: 350 as a comrade

I paved around my room with my wet hair still drying from my bath. "Who shoved a stick up your ass today dear sister," Solara giggled. "You seem irritated." I stopped clean in my tracks. "If you could just shut your mouth for a freaking minute maybe I wouldn't be," I snarled through clenched teeth.

"No, seriously what's wrong," Solara asked more considerately this time.

"I have this bad feeling," I decided to tell her and of course she took it like a kid.

"Allen's gonna break up with you?"

My face got hot with a mixture of rage and embarrassment. Not a good combo for me. "Could you take this seriously? And there's nothing between Allen and I!" I screamed. Then I was glad that the walls in my room were soundproof.

"Not what it seemed like yesterday sis. A date on Christmas? Snowball fight? Watching the stars while holding hands? He even tried to kiss y-"

"ENOUGH!" I interrupted. "Solara, you know you're lucky that you don't have a physical form. Or you would be sprawled on the floor and dead."

"Whatever, so what's this little intuition of yours. Please fill me in."

That was Solara. Joking around on this thing, serious on that. Enough to drive the most peaceful person on earth in to a sadistic state. And trust me, I'm no peaceful person. Far from it.

"Can't quite put my finger on it, but somebody's looking for me."

"So who?"

"Now Solara, if I knew that maybe I would've told you already."

"I'll give you a hint." Solara said. "Luxembourg."

"A level 4? Wait no," I thought about it. What did the demon say before? No wonder the Earl's interested in you. "The Earl," I gasped.

"Jackpot!" Solara cried.

"You already knew this? How could you not tell me? Why is he after me?" I asked.

"Too many questions at once! Yes I already knew this, you're basically the 15th so why wouldn't he come after you? You look like me, he's not after you, he's after me. You just happened to be my twin sister so now he thinks you are moi. How could I not tell you? Too lazy. And I already explained why he's after you. Now how did I do with answering your questions?"

"Whatever," I sighed. "What is he obsessed with you or something?"

"Eh, maybe. You know he can change form right? The first time I met him he definitely wasn't in his earl form. Lot younger."

"That memory of you chasing after Aaron wasn't the first time you met him?"

"No, there was this one day where he picked me up from school in his young form, like teenage. About as old as Aaron was. He claimed to be one of Aaron's friends so I followed him. I didn't find out he was the Earl until Aaron came screaming down the street and tried to kill him for taking me. He called himself Adam. He didn't seem like that bad of a guy back then."

All of a sudden Lavi rudely walked in to my room. I screeched in shock and he quickly threw his hands over his ears. "What the hell!" I cried at him. "That's my line!" He cried back.

"Knock the next time you come in! I could've been changing when you walked in!"

"Well that would've been a sight to see wouldn't it."

My blood boiled and my heart beat in my ears. "You stupid lech!"

"just joking. Just here to check in on how you're doing," he smiled.

By how I was doing, he meant how Solara and I were doing. He wanted to know just about everything. Making sure I was kept safe, and that my secret was kept a secret. That's what he told me. "We're fine," I answered.

"That's good," he sighed. But I knew that that wasn't the only reason he was in my room. There was always something else. "What do you want," I asked.

"You were out all day with Allen yesterday weren't you," he said and I blushed madly. Just the mentioning of his name made me remember last night when he tried to, well never mind you already know that.

"So I was right. You were," he said.

"And what is it to you?" I snapped but turned away from his glance because I knew if I looked in to his emerald eye I would end up spilling everything to him.

"Is there something going on between the two of you?" Lavi was sounding a lot like an overprotective boyfriend, or brother. However you would like to put it. "Of course not," I said with the most serious face I could pull. Lavi was being extremely nerve-racking right now.

"Aaaaw Seph, do you love Allen?"

That was when I couldn't even stop my blush anymore. Love Allen? Of course not! "I don't," I told him. Then I turned to face him finally. Lavi folded his arms and gave me a smile that I had a bad feeling about. It was like he was planning something. "Oh really?" Then one of his hands grasped my chin and held it in place. "If you really don't then maybe you wouldn't mind me doing this." His head leaned forward, and his red hair tickled my face. His eyes were shut as he got closer to me. Then my blood went cold. I didn't know what to do. I opened my mouth but words wouldn't come out. Lavi's lips were so close to mine that I could almost feel them now, and then…

Solara:

"Get away you lecherous beast!" I screamed, pushing him a couple feet back. "S-Solara!" He seemed very surprised. "Damn straight it's me ginger! And what in the hell do you think you're trying to do to Sephiria?" I snarled.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhm…" he was out of words.

"Huh?" I can't seem to hear you very well, speak up!"

"Don't get the wrong idea or anything! I wasn't actually going to kiss her. I was just trying to make her admit that she loved Allen," Lavi protested.

"Oh really?" My voice was colder than death itself.

"Honest," was his reply.

Something that I'd learned over my years of living was that Bookmen never lied. "Fine, I believe you." I told him. His eye lit up with happiness, but I put out that smile like fire with my words. "But if you ever try to pull something like that off ever again I swear I'll have your head." I drew I line across his neck with the nail of my finger, he shivered. "Got that?" He shook his head up and down like I scared little child. I patted his head. "Good boy." I laughed to myself, then took a couple of steps back.

Sephiria:

I stumbled back and screamed putting my hands in front of me to block my face and cover Lavi's mouth. When I realized there was nothing there I opened my eyes to find Lavi standing a yard away from me laughing. "Wh- what?" I stammered, feeling completely confused. "Now that was the expression I wanted, now I know you like Allen," Lavi snickered.

"H-how'd you get over there?" I said still shocked.

"Don't you remember? Solara took over your body and pushed me," Lavi explained, but I didn't recall any of what he was saying.

"Solara took over my body?"

Now it was Lavi's turn to be in utter confusion. "Yeah, just a minute ago. Don't you remember?"

"No, I never gave Solara permission to take control of my body."

Lavi's eyes widened. The both of us knew what that meant. If Solara could take over my body without even asking. Just because she wanted to, whenever she wanted. She was- "Solara's soul is getting stronger." Lavi said looking at me fearfully. "Sephiria, you could-"

"Disappear," I finished for him. I would disappear, and Solara would replace me. That was what would happen to the host's soul. Somehow I wasn't scared though, was that a normal feeling to feel? I mean Solara was my sister, my sister that never lived her life up to it's full extent. Never finished anything she wanted to. This was her second chance at life, and most likely the end of mine.

"Sephiria, don't worry. I promise that I won't let that happen to you." Lavi reassured.

"Thank you Lavi." I smiled. "Right now I'm busy though. I have to train with my general."

When I arrived at the training grounds I found that I was a little too early. I sat down on the ground and thought about everything. Unfortunately that everything included Allen's failed attempt to kiss me. Which I didn't really want to tell Lavi about. I didn't want a thing so trivial to affect me and my training though, so I punched it out of my mind. I curled up in to a ball and my head lay nested in my arms. "What would Aaron say to make me happy right now?" I asked myself. I thought up a response and giggled to myself. Just thinking about Aaron always lifted me up. Even knowing that my feelings for Aaron had originally came from Solara didn't stop me from liking him. Anyways I had begun to remember a little bit of Reina Lightsworth, my true former self's feelings and I still felt the same. That made me wonder, if I ever saw the Millennium Duke what would I do? Aaron's murderer. Would my heart shatter? Would I go out of control? Solara and I wouldn't have died if Aaron hadn't been killed. It was all the Duke's fault. If there was anyone that I loved it would be Aaron, not Allen. I was just the host of the girl he really loved though. That didn't mean I couldn't help him destroy the Duke.

"I can almost sense your bloodlust from outside of the training ground Sephiria, you're going to scare people off," I heard Zokalo say. My head snapped up to see my general standing above me. "Use that bloodlust for training. You'll need it for today."

"What are we doing?" I asked excitedly.

"Come here Sephiria," Zokalo ordered you and you obeyed. All of a sudden Zokalo invoked Madness and shattered the ring on my right wrist. I looked down horrified. "General! What are you doing!" I screamed.

"Activate your innocence," he told me.

"How-"

"The Bloody Joker (*note: Sephiria's innocence isn't name Bloody Joker Princess anymore. I've shortened it to Bloody Joker) isn't in the rings. She's in your blood. I want you to invoke using the blood in your bloodstream."

I was gaping like a fish. How was I supposed to do that? Cut myself? No way, I was not a masochist. "Invoke Bloody Joker!" I cried. As I had expected there was nothing. Even worse, it felt as if my innocence had left me.

"Of course," Zokalo sighed. "We'll keep at it. Let me break the rest of them first though."

"After you break them you have to fight me. If I feel no threat I won't be able to invoke. You told me that a long time ago."

Zokalo grinned, "glad you remembered."

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I gasped and fell to the floor I was covered in cuts and sweat. It had been hours and I had made no progress at all. Without being able to use innocence I almost felt like a normal human again. A weak defenseless human. My speed and strength were still heightened, but I couldn't invocate. I began to stand up, but then pain shot through me and sent me right back down. I knew what was about to happen. "Sorry general," I said, then my ankles burst. My wrists were next, and finally my neck. Pain exploded in my body, it was the same as the first time my innocence had revealed itself. This time I was stronger though and was able to stay conscience, but I didn't know if that was a bad thing or good thing. The blood that had begun to pool around my body began to crystallize and reform the rings. Then the pain was no more.

I carefully got up in to sitting position. Tears brimmed my eyes, the pain that I never wished to feel again had come back. "Let's go again," Zokalo said raising Madness. "General Stop!" Somebody cried. I saw Allen rushing towards me, so I tried to stand, but I ended up falling to the ground. "General, can't you see she's had enough?" Allen said. "Please end the training for today."

"Ordering a general huh? You've got some guts." Zokalo replied walking away. "We'll continue tomorrow Sephiria, go the infirmary." I nodded in response.

When he finally was gone Allen got to his knees next to me. "You okay Sephiria?" I nodded. "You look really pale, what kind of training are you guys doing?" Allen asked me worriedly.

I laughed, "the kind where a suffer a huge amount of blood loss. What are you doing here Allen?"

"Oh me?" Allen asked. "Well I was looking for you. Lavi told me you'd be here. Good thing I came too, you might've been killed if I'd come any later."

"Don't underestimate me," I pouted. "I've got to go to the infirmary now." I got up on my feet uneasily.

"Let me walk you Sephiria," Allen offered. Remembering what had happened yesterday I quickly declined. "I can walk myself thank you Allen."

You're not in love with him Sephiria. You love Aaron. I told myself.

Solara (she has brown hair by the way)