Disclaimer: I don't own anything besides the Aurahex. Well, things are going to wind down for the next couple of chapters (that's not to say no one will die though), but we do have to get through some important stuff. Hang in there!

Mayu was on the beach, depressed. Being a runaway, she had no where to go but this poorly-made shelter. Although two nice people were giving her food recently, she felt like a burden just taking food from them. Her only company for these long and cold nights was a puppy she called Wanta. She prepared for a long and cold night.

The masked Atomix was walking along the beach. He had something to get, and he might as well take the scenic route. As he walked along the beach, he noticed a girl sitting in what looked like a make-ship pile of beach trash shaped to for a crude shelter. He was reminded of.... he shook his head, clearing his head of the image. He started towards the shelter. As he got closer, the girl looked up. He could now see the puppy she clutched as if it were he very soul.

"You live here?"

"Um…." The girl placed the puppy closer to her.

"Relax. My place is not much better then this." He sat down next to her. "Why did you leave?"

"I didn't like my new dad…" She said this very softly.

"Can I ask you something? If you could tear apart that man just by thinking about it, would you do it?"

"I hated him, but I would have to hate myself if I did that. Then even Wanta would not like me. No one deserves that."

"I'll be off then." The masked man stood up, and started to walk away, and then he turned around. "What's your name?"

"Umm, it's Mayu."

"I see then." Incendo would have liked to drag the conversation on longer, but the child was quaking from more then just the cold. He knew the feeling: someone turning you in and forcing you to go to hell again. "Mayu… You are kinder then me then…"

Helen was killing time, like the rest of the Aurahex was. Incendo had nothing else for them to do, so they were free to do whatever they wanted to until they had to come back to the shelter. Well, everyone besides Raigon that is. He was forced to stay behind and hack into the island facility's computer system via stolen laptop. His power allowed him to crack computer systems with ease. Anyway, Helen was wondering though the city of Yokohama, when she heard voices from an alleyway. She saw a man slap a little girl.

"You Bitch! So you aren't going to be a good girl? I'll make you one yet!" The man started pulling the girls clothes off. Helen intervened and threw him against the wall. She then dragged him into a rotting doorway. There were sounds of screaming and flashes of white light. Helen emerged from the doorway, and turned to the girl.

"Go home now. And don't look in."

Without another word, Helen ran off; the screams were attracting people. The girl could only just sit on the ground and stare off at Helen's retreating form. And thus the man formerly known as Mayu's stepfather perished.

Marco had finally gotten a nice meal and had nothing better to do then relax. There was one thing on his mind though that he was interested about though. After that battle with Lucy, he followed her into the forest. Only in the middle of it, she started acting funny and started saying "Nyu". That's when he could not sense her at all. What was even stranger was that she gone to this inn, and she got accepted in by the occupants, but that didn't make sense: Lucy killed any human that went within two meters of her. Who was that guy who could charm Lucy like that? 3 Well, short of coming up to their front door and asking questions, he wasn't going to get answers anytime soon. He decided just to sit at the restaurant table for a while and just relax for a while. As he was doing so, he saw the guy that Lucy was with come down and ordering food! Marco smiled. It was time to get some answers.