"Open your eyes."

Leon could hear a voice, and he was unfamiliar with that tone, nor the place he is right now. It's like they're all in his mind. It was blank, just him and the place was smoky and creepy pitch black. He looked around, seeing that there was no one around the place. He can still feel his head aching.

"Do you have any simple thoughts about what are you doing here?"A disembodied voice asked.

"Who are you?" Leon asked the voice. The voice only chuckled.

"My, my. Aren't you an impatient one? I was about to introduce myself." The voice answered. "My name is Samael."

"Samael?"Leon repeated. He can feel his body shivering slightly from the fear. He was getting curious and alarmed at the same time and it was actually making him crazy.

"I believe your name is Leon."

"How did you know about that?"Leon looked around; there was no other person aside from him. The place is still pitch black.

"Let's say that I know everything that I've taken interests."

Leon looked around and run, the place seems to be endless darkness. His heartbeat is starting to rise.

"An exceptional warrior, I heard." Samael continued. Leon gritted his teeth. He was getting mad at this whole place, especially that Samael knows every little thing about him when he has no single clue about the man.

"What do you want from me?" Leon asked in an uneasy tone.

"I was about to ask you a question, Leon." Samael answered. "What is the object you truly desire for, Leon?"

The question made Leon's brow furrowed in inquiry. He had never asked that question to himself. He thought of the things he wanted the most: kill Mundus, create a better world, and be powerful enough to protect the one he truly love.

"If I tell you... what are you going to do?"Leon replied. He heard the other one laugh.

"Of course, I will help you." Samael answered. "I would never ask someone what they want if I am not going to give them my aid."

There was a long pause. Leon thinks about the answer to Samael's question: 'What is the thing I truly desire for?' Suddenly, there was an image of a nine year-old Lucy, smiling at him so brightly. From that moment, he remembers why he wanted to be strong, to make a better world, to kill Mundus.

"I just want Lucy to smile brightly again..." He mumbled. "I want... to be able to give him happiness."

He can see his own image when he was nine, running his way towards Lucy and reaching for the tiny hand. As Lucy was about to reach for his hands, the younger Leon was beginning to be a dust. He can see Lucy's eyes widening and desperately reaching for him. Leon stood frozen, watching the entire scene. The younger Lucy's eyes were beginning to water, he heard Lucy sobbing. Leon slowly walked towards the crying boy to comfort him. He was surprised when it suddenly changed into the current age of Lucy, crying like the younger one.

"Lucy..." Leon was about to comfort Lucy when he heard Samael talk.

"I'll give you time to think about my helping hand, Leon." Samael said before everything became blurred to Leon's vision.

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Just like what Lucy had told her, Anima is watching Leon, seeing if the man will gain consciousness while the crossdresser is gone for a while. Anima adores the man's face. His eyelashes were long, and the shape of his eyes seems to be sharp almost like Nero's. The nose was perfectly shaped and so are his lips. There are still some qualities Leon have in his face that he and Nero are quite different. From afar, they're not actually noticeable. But when you look closer, you can see some faint differences between the two. Anima noticed bits of small freckles under Leon's left eye that he found cute.

Suddenly, Anima paused and thinks. She eyed Leon's face curiously.

"Could it be that this guy is a half-incubus or something?" Anima thought out loud. She had read somewhere in Dante's books that incubus and succubus are attractive creatures. Notable traits about them for the incubus are sharp eyes and perfectly shaped nose. But, she can't be so sure about that, for she had also read that they have a mark. The full-blooded incubus' mark is different to the half ones.

"Hmm... Dante's attractive, but he's not an incubus." Anima said to herself. "Maybe this guy is born attractive."

"Hey," Nero was standing against the doorway. "So, how's Leon?"

"Still not good." Anima made a defeated sigh and laid her chin down the bed. "Still unresponsive. Whatever I do, he's not even moving an inch."

Nero sits down beside the soul.

"Whatever happened to him, it seems to hurt him badly. He can't even heal his wounds normally." Nero said as he's looking at the wounds of Leon. Few days have passed and the healing is so slow.

"But, I found something!" Anima added excitedly. She pointed at the freckles. "Look at those cute, little dots, Nero!"

Nero did, and he spotted the small freckles in Leon's face.

"Oh... Freckles, huh?" Nero just nodded at the soul. "Well, at least you have something that could point out who's Leon, right?"

"Are you planning to dress up like him?" Anima asked curiously. Nero patted her head.

"Nah, I'm comfortable with this, thank you very much." Nero answered. He stood up. "I'll be downstairs, just go down if you need anything from me."

Anima gave approving thumbs up and nodded as she's smiling as Nero left the room. When Nero got downstairs, he saw Dante with a serious look. Nero was curious, he seldom sees Dante in that kind of face. Usually, it was the cocky, airhead-like one.

"Dante?"

"I can sense Argosax."

Nero's eyebrows twitched. His curiosity began to rush.

"Argosax? Who's that?"

"Uh, some demon I fought back then."

"And?"

Dante started walking towards the couch as he's starting to feel uncomfortable.

"I don't know, I can feel him once again." Dante answered as sat down. Nero sat beside him, wanting to know more.

"Hey."

"Hmm?"

"Who's Argosax? Where did you guys meet?" Nero asked. Dante turned to him and started telling the story. Nero was listening that he didn't notice Dante was slowly creeping his face in front of his. He suddenly blew an air in Nero's left eye.

"Hey!" Nero slightly pushed the older man away, he found Dante chuckling softly, seeing how his prank succeeded. Nero frowned, wanting to punch the older hunter so bad.

"That is not funny, and I want to stab my Red Queen in your eye, Dante." Nero warned. Dante stopped chuckling but there's a sheepish grin pasted on his face. Nero glared at him to make Dante be afraid of him, but it turned out that the elder just found him adorable.

"Go to hell." Nero spat. Dante scoffed at him.

"Trust me, kid. I almost took a visit there." Dante replied. Nero made a sarcastic smile at Dante and proceeded in watching the TV. Few minutes later, the door flew open. It revealed Lucy who's in a rush in going upstairs. Dante and Nero followed him with their eyes. A couple of seconds later, Lucy got out of the room wearing his usual outfit.

"Shit's gonna blow up." Lucy told them in a serious tone. Dante and Nero sat straight.

"What?" Dante asked. Lucy's demon senses were far more extreme than his that's why he believes him whenever he says matters like this.

"Argosax is back, and I believe he had gotten stronger than before, Dante." Lucy replied. "I don't know, but I think he's cooperating with someone."

"Who's that other demon?" Nero asked. Lucy was starting to feel dizzy, he unused his DE and turned his head on Nero's direction.

"I have no idea about that. One more problem, the leader of the Order knows I'm Lucy."

"What?!"

The atmosphere turned tense. Nero was in deep thought. Dante was becoming serious and Lucy started walking back and forth. They stayed in that state for a couple of minutes before Anima called out Lucy's name.

"Lucy." Anima called out softly. The crossdresser walked his way towards the young girl and followed her going to his room.

"What's the matter?" He asked. Anima stayed quiet for a couple of seconds, picking up the courage to say her idea. Finally, she let out a sigh.

"We have to sabotage that ceremony." She blurted. Lucy's eyes widen.

"Are you out of your mind, Anima?" He asked, surprised. It was unlikely for the ghost to suggest something like that.

"Look, a demon is a demon, and I think they will be happy to see a holy ceremony getting crashed." The girl started explaining. "We could lure out Duisternis' demon side so we can show the whole world how horrible he is and proceed in killing him."

"I-It's not making any sense."

"I heard everything, Lucy. Just because I'm far away from your conversation doesn't mean I can't hear everything."

"Then, why are we going to kill Duisternis?"

"I believe there's something about that guy that is connected to Argosax. Maybe we could have an idea about Argosax or Mundus." Anima explained. Lucy started thinking; it was not a bad idea at all.

"That's not a bad idea." Lucy grinned. He raised his hand on her. "Give me a high five."

Anima happily obliged.

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Author's notes: Wow, sorry, guys. The summer school is beating my energy too much TT^TT I wanna throw my printer at them, grr...

Anyway, even though it's short, I hope you'll still like this ^_^

SirenaLoreley: Well, let's just wait for Leon wake up and let's see what happens! Ah, I want to make another episode with Nero drunk again and blurting out he likes Dante so much that he's jealous at Trish and Lady *Blue Rose clicking here because Nero's going to shoot my brains out*

Cielshadow17: *O* *Glitters everywhere because I'm feeling fabulous XD* Thank you for cheering me up for that summer classes and I hope you continue liking this story ^_^