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Chapter IX: Introduction of Ebony

3rd person P.O.V.

Rose has woken up after an hour of sleeping. ' What the hell is wrong with me? I really need more sleep…' But she didn't mind this fact too much, for she doesn't want to dream the memory again. ' Still it's strange that I feel refreshed after only one hour…' She got up and noticed that her companions have gotten in the room while she has been sleeping. She slowly walked around them and sat on the bed, wanting to wait for everyone else to go to sleep before she goes to the seats out there. She didn't want to be with anyone right now. ' I had always hated company at times, and this is one of them.' Then she found faces she knows pass her eyes.

Coalar Lee Drake… she has disappeared for a year, though her mother insists that she is with her father, but Rose knew that wasn't the case. Jackie Thomas…. She has disappeared for 6 months now, and no one knows where she has went. She was adopted by Rose's cousin's, Penny and Will. Kaisume Karamaru… she has also disappeared, ran away actually. Her father says that she did something incredible, but she ran after that. We don't know why, though. Ebony L. Foreman… she's still around as far as Rose knows. Ebony has always stuck by her side, one of Rose's best friends. Most likely, Ebony has heard of what happened. Kiley M. Casters… She's in Alabama. Rose visits whenever she could in the summers, since Rose has moved. Devon Z. Sherlly… she is also in Alabama, always the trouble maker! She's one friend you'll ever want anyway. Jenny Kolemon… she lives in the same state as Rose, Rose met with her when she first met with Jackie. The one who is the sensible, smart one. Perfect friend and the one to shut Jackie up when she rambles on and on. Anthony T. G…

Rose paused on that face. She has always stayed in touch with him, but she wondered if he has heard of what happened to her family. He may live in Alabama too, but that doesn't mean that the news didn't spread throughout the whole United States. Even the world, if it was found to be worth it. ' I mean, come on! The murderer haven't been found and there was no clue of what happened…' Tears began to form once again. She blinked them away, for her only family could smell them if Rose could. But what was weird is that her tears doesn't smell of salt. She discovered that the other night. But she didn't care about that then.

Rose's P.O.V.

' Is everyone else gone now?' I got up and stretched. Sitting on the bed for hours can be tiresome, so yeah, I was sore. Slipping quietly out of the room, I found that everyone is gone from the seats. Grabbing my forgotten bag from beside the door, I headed to the front of the seats. Sitting down beside the window, I watched the clouds. Leaning against the window, I sat there thinking. Thinking of all that has happened to me, the good and the bad. About my family's death…. About when I had went to high school for my first time… at the school dance. That was the first time that me and Anthony danced… oh, happy days that was. You know, not a care of the world, all you had to worry about is homework… change that. I'll fight this guy, this Malshano instead of doing homework. Only the nerds would love doing homework (Don't take this as an insult anybody!).

' Why me?' I thought as I watched the clouds some more. ' What did I ever do to the world anyway?'

Hours passed as I watched the clouds. Soon, it was beginning to light up outside. ' Day 2 on my new life.' I thought.

" Rose?" I turned my head to whoever it was. It was Marik.

" Yo." I turned my head back to the window. Marik sat somewhere behind me. " When do we land?"

" In about an hour." From the tone of voice he's using, he was surprised that I talked to him. " So, why are you awake?"

" Couldn't sleep after I have woken up."

" Ah. I know what you mean." I smiled a bit. There's no doubt in my mind that he is like this. And what he probably has nightmares about, memories, he wasn't the one that did the stuff. It was his Dark side. " What woke you?"

" ……"

" Don't want to talk about it huh? It's okay with me." I leaned against the seat. My neck is starting to hurt…

I sang very softly to myself, a song called 'Life's Like A Waterfall'. At this moment, I was just bored. And it happens that the song is my favorite.

" Rosie!" Melody bounced up into my lap, startling me from my thoughts. " Why are you out here?"

" Uh…" I sort of glanced at Marik, who was just smiling at the whole thing. Darn cat for bringing attention and smiles from him… " How about that I wanted to sit out here. Got a problem?" I asked while putting her onto the seat beside me.

" Nope! Can we play? Canweplaycanweplaycanweplay!"

" Eh he…" I can just imagine that I am sweat-dropping anime style. " sigh. Maybe some other time Melody."

" But Rose-!" I glared at her and she shuts up.

" You have quite a little hyper kitten Rose." Marik said, petting Melody on her head. She instantly starts to purr.

" Uh, yeah…" I look back outside. I could see Marik from the corner of my eyes beginning to play with Melody with a piece of string. Heh, she can be easily amused most of the times.

" I got it! And I just missed…" Melody sort of kept saying these lines as she plays.

I pulled out a book from my bag. This book has a title called ' The History of Life and It's Protectors'. Sounds like an interesting book, ya know? I began to read as Melody took another swipe at the string.

In the Beginning

" In the beginning of the worlds, the beings, and Life, the creator of the universe's and dimensions, is God. God, or Life, has also brought forth the Keeper and Watcher of Life, Laxirin. Laxirin was to watch all Life and help with the beings in need. The opposite of Life is Death. Or otherwise known as the Devil. Death wanted total chaos of God's creations and children, so he brought forth his Warriors of Chaos. His top rank warriors, Cosmos, Chaoxen, Yami, and Yorgon, all ruled other Chaos Warriors. Yami has ruled one of the Demon Realms for centuries, as his brother Yorgon has taken control of the second Demon Realm. Cosmos works with Yorgon as Chaoxen works with Yami. As for the two most strongest Chaos Warriors, they do not follow orders by any of the four leaders. Even Death couldn't control them. The two Chaos Warriors are brothers, created by the so-called Professor Hojo-

' What in the hell!' I continued on reading with interest and horror.

-Professor Hojo, who has discovered Jenova, a dormant Virus that Death has created, but could not be controlled by him. He has sent 'her' to a Planet to let 'her' wreak havoc on the Cetra's, or the Ancients as they are more commonly named as. The Cetra's were at that moment one of the most threatened to Death and the Chaos Warriors. More of Death's Warriors were sent to different worlds to conquer those first before anything else. The Chaos Warriors have stayed there for hundreds of years, waiting for something. At this moment, we do not know if they have been able to start their plans…

' Hm… end one chapter in this book-' My arm has some claws dug into it! But it's odd… it doesn't really hurt, it just surprised me. I turned my head to see Melody has her paws on my arm and looks like she's scared to death when she realized this. And I could see the string underneath her paws. And Marik just looks like he has swallowed a chicken bone.

" Uh, Melody? Just take the claws out, I'm not going to kill you." She removed her claws and find that a small, steady stream of blood going over the side of my arm.

" Opps. Sorry Rose." Marik said. I shrugged.

" I've had worse than that." They relaxed a whole lot. Soon, they began playing again. ' They looked like it was the end of the world…' A very small smile crept onto my face. It was completely funny that they feared me, who hasn't even hurt a living being, animal or beings. I looked at my arm again and wondered that if I should go clean it.

My mind started to feel like it was slowly being emptied as my eyes were focusing on my scratches.

' What… is… going on…' My thought became distant as everything else faded around my arm. Suddenly, a silvery substance appeared in my sight and it floated onto my arm. The thing of liquid wrapped around my arm. Then just as suddenly it came from over my head, it went back up and disappeared. Everything snapped back into focus, finding myself a bit tired as though I have taken a lap around the track at the park.

" What the heck just happened?" I asked myself. I caught sight of my arm and found that the scratch marks are gone!

" What did you do Rose?" I found that Marik stopped again, as it probably was impossible to not notice that.

" Simple! She can heal with her horn!" Melody said joyfully. I raised my eyebrow at her. Marik just stared at her. " What! That's one of her special abilities!" she said as she looks at me, then Marik, then back again at me. " Stop looking at me like that! It is true!" I only blinked and turned back to the window.

' This is just getting weirder and weirder…'

It was about an hour later that the jet began to descend to the ground. Looking down, I could see my home in the woods. But it was the opposite of what I was expecting to feel. Instead of feeling happy to be almost there, I was beginning to feel extremely depressed. Maybe it is because the house is just full of memories, you know? ' It's not like that I'm going to stay there anyway if I need to save the universe.'

" Yay!" Melody yelled as she just noticed that the jet is heading down. " We're almost there!" I looked at her and just blinked at her. " What? Aren't you excited to be home?" I sort of smiled at her cute voice when she asks a question.

" Only a little Melody."

" But why only a little bit?"

" It's just that," I began as I turned my head back to the window, " It is hard to go back to somewhere where there is full of memories." I stopped talking and just stared out the window.

Soon, the jet touched the ground. Everyone was getting up at the blaring of the pilot's voice. I got up and just moved to the my room again to make sure that my companions are up. From what it looks like, they were scared stiff by the booming voice because they were like on top of the bed and Kate was literally on the ceiling. "Hey! Are you scared of the big, bad voice guys?"

" Oh shut-up!" replied everyone. I exited the room so I won't get mauled by them if they are pissed at something. I went to the seat section to find that everyone is there. They filed up and exited the jet. I waited until everyone is out and I also exited the plane with Trila and the others, but after I hid my wings and horn. My animals did the same for their wings. I just wrapped my tail around my waist and now it looks like a fuzzy belt.

" Alright guys, we're heading to our house. Let's say bye to Isatho, Marik, Robert, and the others."

They began mopping as we headed over to the others. I guess they were attached to them a little.

" Rose. I'll take it that you are leaving?" Isatho asked. I nodded. " Well, I hope that everything will be well for you and your companions."

Melody ran up to Isatho. " Bye Isatho."

Isatho smiled and bent down to pet her. " Bye little one." The other animals walked over and Isatho is now petting them all. " Bye to all of you." She gets back up and my companions goes over to Marik, who has bent down to pet them.

" Bye to you guys too." Scratching each one on the chin, he gets back up. Now the animals ran over to Robert, who has also bent down to pet them.

" Bye guys. Hope you take care of Rose." I gave a small 'Hmph' to myself as he gets back up. Trila and the others are now heading to the other people like the pilot. Isatho, Marik, and Robert walks over to me. " See ya sometime Rose." Robert said as he took my hand and shakes it. I smiled a bit and nodded.

Robert lets go of my hand and Isatho was shaking it now. " I hope your journey will be safe."

" I hope so too. I hope I can see you again." She smiles and nods. She lets go of my hand. Marik takes it and shakes it.

" You just do your best, alright?"

" Sure!" I said. He lets go and now my group of animals comes back. " Well, bye guys! See you around!" I said as I walked off with the others following.

Approaching the house….

" Yay! We're home!" Melody yelled as she ran to the house. The house is like in the middle of the woods that is part of the property. A driveway leads from the highway to the house, so it's not really all that secret.

" Let's get inside guys. We got to prepare for our journey." We headed to the door. But before we even touched the doorknob, it began to turn. And the door swung open and there stood Ebony!

" R-R-Rose! But, I thought you were dead!" She yelled as she hugged me tightly.