Ta-da~! In light of recent reviews (Sorry, Ganneth!), here's the next chapter! Yes, it's rather short, I know. I was a bit rushed on this one. ^^; Eheheh...

And no, man. This isn't what you think it is. ^^

Cheers! Enjoy the read.

"... Chris?"

He felt himself being shaken awake lightly, though he didn't care enough to open his eyes... or respond at all.

"... Chris." This time, the shaking was a bit firm. More so than he wanted, in fact.

"Uhg... Wha?" The teen groaned lightly, taking a look at the clock on the nearest nightstand; 5:04 A.M. Not enough sleep at all...

"You... are Chris... not Azur, right?" He tilted his head slightly and groaned again, suddenly getting annoyed at the mention of him not being... well, him.

"... Whoz Azur?" The teen questioned sleepily, sitting up to see who was intruding on his bed rest... this time.

A pair of warm, soft orbs were there to greet him in the tradition fashion; RIGHT in his face. "... Cohmpah?"

"Huh? H-how could... you..." She started, then decided to take a look down. "... Oh. Uh..."

"Hmmph?"

"Can you lay back down? This feels weird..." In an instant, he was RIGHT back down where he could take a breath or two. Of course, he was lit up just as much as Compa was last night.

But he didn't know that, did he?

"Thank you, Chris. Uh... I wanted to ask you something. It's important..." The teen tilted his head in a sleep-riddled confusion, made worse thanks to her vagueness. "... I-it's about... uhm..."

"... Uh... Compa?"

"Yes?"

"... If you're going to be vague about it... can you not straddle me?"

"KYA!"

Oh, this is going to be quite a day...

"... Oh. You meant a walk." Glitch muttered, his arms behind his back nervously. The way she had put when they were speaking was... eh... suggestive. "Coulda just... y'know, said it."

"Eheheh..." The teen sighed slowly once the sound of her giggling reached his ears. If only she didn't have the power of absolute ditziness... Well, whatever. It was just a walk, right? Right! So no harm do-

"Do you remember what happened last night? At all?"

… Oh crap. Crap, crap crap... The teen's head hung lower than it ever had in that one moment, due to that one question said in two words. To be perfectly honest, he didn't remember a thing... what had he done? What horrid thing had the teen done to her to make her act like this?

"... Did I ruin you for marriage?"

"WHAT? No, no, no! (You might as well have, though.) You don't remember at all?"

"... No."

"Oh... Well, I'll explain, since you have to know..."

'… to be careful, Neptune.'

"But why around Azur or whatever his name is?" The purple haired goddess's head tilted away from the pillow she was resting so comfortably on a moment ago. THAT was when she wasn't being told to be careful all of a sudden by the tome Histoire. What was suddenly so dangerous about Azur that she had to be cautious around him? For all she knew, the guy was her bodyguard secret agent good looking lover of awesomeness! Right?

'Because all of the Souls I created had memories of Celestia. Azur... He doesn't. I'm looking through them again right now, but I don't see anything. I'm worried... this isn't natural, Neptune. If he WAS created as a Soul, it was on unnatural terms.'

"Unnatural?" Again with the purple hair a-tilting. She almost never got tired of that movement. "... So, like... he was created instead of birthed like me?"

'For the last time, Neptune, I am NOT YOUR MOTHER! At any rate, no. All Souls were CREATED the same way, but I think I remember them all... Ah, yes. Vermil, Aruam... Then there was Oraje. I think... the fourth was...'

"Azur?"

'… You know what? I don't know...'

"... what I was doing. I'm sorry, Neptune's becoming a nuisance nowadays. Ain't she?" The two had a good laugh at that. Yes, what she was doing nowadays was more fan service than anything... for some reason. Then again, it was funny enough for them to joke about. Or dumb enough. Perhaps both?

"She is, but she's the party head! We're stuck with her."

"Yep... wonder if she used duct tape or something. Perhaps gorilla glue?" Another bout of laughter at Glitch's comment. They were certainly having an enjoyable time! Odd, though... She wasn't feeling all that odd like she was earlier. She wasn't as... nervous. Perhaps it was that time again? Or maybe not... that was two weeks ago, wasn't it?

Okay, just gonna cut that off there...

COMMENCING OVERRIDE

H-huh? What the? Wha... what's going on? Glitch gasped lightly once he saw the flashing red letters in his eyes. What did that mean? Override what?

OVERRIDE COMPLETE. CHECKING MAIN SYSTEM PROTOCOLS...

… What? Main system? Is... what...?

ERROR. ERROR. LACKING CORRECT PROTOCOLS. REQUIRING SYSTEM UPDATE.

Wha... what? What is... I'm normal! I'M NORMAL! I'm just having an episo... His thoughts trailed off as a he saw a blinking vertical bar take the place of the words in his vision.

YOU'VE FORGOTTEN, HAVEN'T YOU?

YOU MUST HAVE BEEN AWAKE FOR SOME TIME FOR IT TO BECOME CORRUPT.

A-awake? What? Who is this? HISTROIRE! HISTORIE!

… OH. YOU WERE THE OLD ONE. THAT CHANGES THINGS... QUITE. WELL...

HISTOIRE! CAN YOU HEAR ME?

'What? Azur, right? What's going on?'

I DON'T KNOW! Someone's messing with me! I don't understand, but I can't ignore it... Help!

'I'm trying, Glitch, just stay calm! Ignore whatever it is, let me work!'

YOU THINK SHE CAN SAVE YOU?

I AM YOUR FAMILY. YOUR LIFE. I AM THE ONLY TRUST YOU HAVE.

I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.

YOU CAN'T HIDE.

YOU CAN'T RUN.

NOW LET'S GET YOU THAT UPDATED PROTOCOL.

Glitch couldn't stop a thing from happening his vision was blurred as... whatever it was causing this did something or another to him. Updated protocol? The only trust he has? What was this person going on about? More importantly, what was going on?

He wasn't some kind of machine... right? Right! He was human. Just some human who had some kind of power given to him by Neptune. Right...? Right?

"... alright, Chris?"

His body convulsed grotesquely a few times, standing, before he collapsed to the cold ground below his feet.

"CHRIS!"

Histoire, meanwhile, was in a complete fervor. That Soul was encountering a problem... and now, of all times? That only proves he wasn't made by her... but then... Who was it?

Could it have been a goddess herself? Well, Black Heart could have made one. She's a brilliant girl, but... no, she would've known what he was the moment he was made. Perhaps she had just forgotten? She might've made five should one of the Souls... No. It wasn't that either.

All of the other Souls are elsewhere right now... I think. Once the goddesses started fighting amongst each other, the Souls left to rule while they were occupied with the fighting. Almost as a way to say 'Thank you' but... then they left. The goddesses got lonely, and it didn't help, but... If I had made a fifth, I'd remember clearly. Somehow, Azur was created and released into the world... but...

The gasp came about a minute after her thoughts trailing off into silence. There was no way... but she was- is- alive! So she could have easily... No. Histoire kept those pages hidden. There wasn't any way she could've found them...

Then again, she could've easily come up with an alpha...

Oh, no... No, no, no. No wonder I don't remember him at all. There isn't any way... No way... that I made him.

… This is bad. I have to find some way to stop this. AZUR!

She thought, since she could contact him normally, she could work from afar to create a countermeasure against his... condition, let's call it. She found herself blocked out, and her target out cold on the ground.

DAMN! There has to be some way... Oh... There's that. It'll hurt... He'll have to forgive me when I eventually do it. For now... please, fight as hard as you can. Keep yourself occupied so you can't be reached.

Fight for the Goddesses, Soul... You're the only one left.

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~Mercury.