Sting happened to hear his name and a warm smile came across his lips.

"Sting." Kaede said a second time before he snuggled herself in his vest. Sting felt his cheeks become a little rosy when he noticed that.

'It must be the vest,' he hypothesized 'It happens to be soft, but I guess she's just comfortable in my arms...'

He looked at Lector and the others and the rosy pigment he had on his cheeks from Kaede faded. "I am going to help Kaede with her clothes." he told them and saw that a little snicker came from Lector in the background.

He released himself from the hug, causing Kaede to look at him with confused eyes. "Nyu?"

The blonde Dragon Slayer beckoned her to come with him and so she did. Yukino decided to follow in case Sting needed help or not.

Kaede walked up the stairs removing the skirt from her head and held it in her hand. However, before she went up the last step to the top, she fell and tumbled down the stairs falling onto the floor.

"KAEDE!" Yukino shouted out before running down the stairs towards Kaede. Sting did the same thing.

Rogue walked up to Kaede too, as well as Lector and Frosch. Rogue knelt down next to the unconscious Kaede and lifted her up.

"Fro wants to know where Rogue is taking the pretty lady?" Frosch asked the Shadow Dragon Slayer.

"To the infirmary, Frosch" Rogue replied to his exceed.

"Fro thinks so too" Frosch said and followed Rogue into the infirmary, which was on the first floor of the guild.

Lector, Yukino, and Sting also followed them. Rogue laid Kaede on the bed and checked her for injuries. "Other than a few bruises she should be fine"

Sting let out a sigh of relief that he had been holding in.

"You really care for her" Lector said, looking up at Sting.

"You can say that. Even though I just met her yesterday I have this strange attachment to her." Sting replied.

"I'll go get her clothes and change her" Yukino said as she left to get Kaede's T-shirt that was upstairs in the room and the skirt that was on the staircase.

'I wonder what Kaede is dreaming about?' Sting thought as he sat by her bedside in the infirmary.

(Kaede's Dream)

It was dark and the lights were out in the train. A young Kaede was peering down at the two dead bodies she had just brutally slaughtered. They were the father and younger sister of her best friend, Kouta.

"W-why would you do this to me? I thought we were friends?" Kouta asked, which made Kaede give him a confused, but cold look.

"What are you talking about? The reason why you're still alive is because we are friends" Kaede answered.

Kaede stared at Kouta for a few more seconds before turning to leave from the train that was currently moving. "Next is that stupid girl"

"Girl?" Kouta said, confused, but he finally came to a realization of the girl Kaede wanted to kill. "Yuka"

Kaede took a few more steps away from Kouta, but stopped once she heard footsteps rushing towards her.

Looking back behind her, she saw Kouta come and tackle her to the train's floor. Her head hit the ground as well as her body. Before she could react to the situation, Kouta began banging her head into the floor by grabbing her shoulders.

"Stop it! Stop it now!" Kouta yelled out continuing to beat her head into the floor. Tears were flowing out of his eyes as he begged her to stop with the senseless killing. "Please! I'm begging you to stop!"

Kaede could feel tears streaming down her face as well. They were tears of guilt and sadness. 'I only wanted to be hugged by Kouta that's all.'

(End Dream)

A tear escaped from Kaede's eyes as she finally awoke from her nightmare. She looked confused as to why so many people were in the room with her. 'Stupid humans. How the hell did I get here?' Kaede thought.

She sat up in the bed, she was currently in. She noticed that she was almost nude and covered herself up with the blanket.

"Kaede, are you feeling well? You looked like you had a bad nightmare" Sting asked, concerned for his new friend.

Kaede didn't give him a reply though, just a look of confusion. 'Who is he?'

"That's right. You can't really answer me" Sting said while smiling.

"What are you talking about, you stupid human?" Kaede asked, which shocked him.

"Sting." Rogue said, getting his friend's attention.

"What is it, Rogue?" Sting asked.

"There is something strange going on with Kaede" Rogue answered.

"Yeah" Sting said with Lector and Frosch just staring at Kaede. They weren't sure what was happening.

Kaede saw the two exceeds and began summoning her invisible arms known as vectors. She was getting ready to kill Lector and Frosch, not caring if people were watching. They rushed at the exceeds, but stopped inches away from them as she heard Yukino come into the room with her clothes.

"Here are your clothes, Kaede. Let me help you change" Yukino said and noticed Rogue and Sting were still in the room. "But first let us get these boys out"

"Come on, Frosch it seems that we aren't wanted here right now" Rogue said to his exceed as the two went out of the room. Sting and Lector followed the two, although they were worried for Yukino. They knew something was wrong with Kaede, but they just couldn't place their fingers on it.

Once they were out of the room Yukino went up to Kaede and got ready to change her into some clothes. However Kaede snatched them away with her vectors, which shocked Yukino since she didn't know that Kaede that those kind of powers. She didn't even know what those powers were.

Ignoring Yukino's shocked face, Kaede said "I can put these on myself." Kaede stood up out of the bed letting the blanket fall to the floor. She began to put on the clothes, first the T-shirt and then the skirt.

Once that was done Kaede began walking to the door, but was stopped by Yukino. She looked at the white haired celestial mage and said "What?"

"Tell me, how did you learn to talk like that?" Yukino asked.

"None of your business" Kaede said coldly before walking out the door of the infirmary.

'Sheesh. I didn't know Kaede was so rude' Yukino thought as she walked with Kaede out the door. They then proceeded through the halls and down the stairs where Rogue, Sting, Frosch, and Lector were at.

Kaede began walking to the couch that they four were on. Lector was in Sting's lap while Frosch was in Rogue's lap. That meant there were room for both Yukino and her to sit down too.

Kaede's eyes narrowed as she sensed an all too familiar presence. One that she hadn't felt in a long time and didn't expect to feel again. "I thought I got away from them." she said before heading out the door of Sabertooth.

"Kaede, where are you going?" Sting asked before getting up and walking over to her.

"To teach a stupid girl a lesson" Kaede replied and walked out the door.

"We should follow her" Rogue suggested.

"Fro thinks so too" Frosch said and Yukino, Sting, Frosch, Lector, and Rogue followed Kaede out the door.

When they got outside, they saw that Kaede was face to face with another horned girl. This horned girl has short pink hair and maroon colored eyes.

"Lucy-san" The horned girl said to Kaede.

"What do you want, Nana?" Kaede asked, staring coldly at the young sixteen year old diclonius.

"I've come to take you back with me. The others are worried about you. Kouta is worried about you" Nana said not the least unnerved with Kaede's cold gaze.

"Don't lie to me Nana, I'm not wanted there." Kaede said.

"I'm not lying. Kouta, Mayu, and Yuka misses you. I even miss you. After what you've done to me in the past I shouldn't." Nana said, pulling off her left prosthetic arm.

Kaede looked at Nana in guilt, remembering the day she had mercilessly ripped off all of Nana's four limbs.

"I won't come back, even if you beg" Kaede said.

Nana sighed "I'd known you would say that"

"What is happening at the Maple Inn?" Kaede asked.

Sting, Rogue, Yukino, Lector, and Frosch looked at the two in confusion. They didn't know who this girl was and why she called Kaede, Lucy.

"Wait a minute here!" Sting said, slightly raising his voice interrupting Nana and Kaede's conversation.

Nana and Kaede looked at the five that were watching them. "Lucy-san, who are these people?"

"I guess you can call them my friends"

"Why is this girl calling you, Lucy? Isn't your name, Kaede?" Sting asked talking to Kaede.

"It is" Kaede said to Sting.

"Then why?" Sting asked.

"Let's just say that when I was captured, they decided to call me Lucy" Kaede answered.

"Yes, Lucy-san has done a lot of bad things. She has killed a lot of people in her life and that's why she was captured."

"I see." Rogue said and asked "How did you escape your imprisonment?"

"By killing the guards that held me there" Kaede answered him.

"You asked me before what's happening at the home, right?" Nana asked

"Yes, I did" Kaede replied.

"Well Mayu and Bandou are boyfriend and girlfriend."

"Good for them" Kaede said, happy for Mayu knowing that she had a crush on the ex-SAT soldier. 'They finally got together'

"Well, after that, Kouta and Yuka got married." Nana continued.

"I see." Kaede said and felt her heart break. 'I knew this would happen since no one would fall for their family's killer, but why does it hurt so much.'

"The best news is that they have a baby girl too" Nana said.

"What's her name?" Kaede asked.

"Nyu" Nana answered.

"Is she-?" Kaede asked, but was unable to finish her question.

"A diclonius?" Nana asked then said "No she's not. She's a healthy human baby girl"

"I see. I'm glad for them" Kaede lied, feeling tears drip down her cheeks

"Lucy-san" Nana said going up to Kaede, but stopped in fear of what Kaede would do to her.

Before the crying got worse, Kaede changed back to her other self. "Nyu" Kaede said in confusion, wondering how she got outside the guild in the first place.