Morg: Heyo!

Ikuto: This is rather quick.

Amu: I'm actually agreeing with Ikuto. Why the quick update?

Morg: Some people seemed to be a little confused so I'm here to set the record straight.

Ikuto: So you are a bad writer.

Amu: Another reason I'm glad she doesn't own us.

Morg: No! I just-

Ikuto: Save it.

~Guardian of Light~

Amu ignored the fact that she was rather bored and continued to congratulate herself on her recent victory. The blonde girl wasn't stupid. There was only one reason for Ikuto to bring back a human girl and Amu had rather put a damper in that plan. Now the girl was sleeping in Amu's room instead of Ikuto's.

The brown haired girl shifted quickly before sitting up while gasping. "Wh-where am I?"

Amu sat up as well with a large smile on her face. "You're in the Angel of Darkness' castle. Do you remember now, Alice?"

Before the girl had fallen asleep, Amu had brought her to her room and let the girl cry. She'd been too frightened to do it before so Amu just let her bawl. Afterwards the girl had stuttered that her name was Alice. Amu introduced herself as well before coaxing the girl to sleep.

Alice looked around the dark room before letting her eyes land on Amu. This place wasn't as scary with the blonde around. "I-I remember."

"I also told you not to worry about a thing! Ikuto only brought you here to play with me for a while before he sends you back to your home!"

The girl nodded her head before hugging her knees. "Wh-what are w-we supposed to do?"

Giggling lightly, Amu shrugged. "It is still night time so if you want to sleep more than you can. If not, I can give you a tour and show you around. There will be some scary looking creatures, but they won't hurt you. Plus, I'll be there to protect you."

Tensing up, Alice hugged her knees tighter. "What are you?"

"Me?" Amu couldn't help but laugh at how worried Alice looked. "Don't worry, I'm human too! Ikuto brought me here a couple of months ago. I know! We should go visit Rima!"

"R-Rima?"

"Yep! She's a dragon. Ikuto captured her the same night he brought me here. She's really nice."

"A d-dragon!?"

"Alice, do you stutter all the time or are you just nervous?"

Smiling despite her blush, Alice mumbled into her knees. "I c-can't help-p it."

"So it's a speech impediment?"

"I've al-always st-st-stuttered."

Amu smiled as she patted the frightened girl on the shoulder. "Don't worry, Alice. I'm sure that you'll be able to speak normally someday. You have such a beautiful voice."

The brown haired girl blushed again as she allowed the blonde to pull her off the bed and towards the door. "Th-thanks."

Without saying a word, Amu nodded and began the process of tugging Alice down the hall towards where Rima stayed.

Halfway down the hallway, a black panther and a tall blonde with pigtails emerged from a room while talking. They both paused as they saw Amu coming towards them with the other human girl. "Hello, Amu."

Having met the panther briefly before, Amu nodded to Yoru. "Yoru. Have you met Alice? Alice this big cat is Yoru. I'm sorry; I don't know your name."

"Utau."

Alice gave an extremely weak smile to the two creatures before hiding behind Amu.

Amu only smiled brighter before nodding to the two before her. "Right, well, we are going to see Rima. Nice to have met you, Utau."

The taller blonde just scoffed before walking off.

Amu looked to Yoru to see the panther rolling his eyes. "Did I do something wrong?"

"No, that's just how vampires are. See you later, Amu. Alice."

The blonde waved to Yoru before continuing on down the hall.

Alice couldn't believe that Amu had taken that meeting so well. Utau and Yoru had scared her more than she already was, and the blonde pulling on her hand hardly seemed disturbed that she'd just met a vampire. Not to mention the talking panther.

All thoughts were pushed from the young human's mind as she entered a room with an extremely large yellow dragon in it. "Th-th-this?"

Amu nodded before letting go of Alice to hug Rima. "Rima! How was working with Nagi today?"

The large dragon yawned before looking down at the girl she was protecting. "Fine. Who's your friend?"

Turning with a large grin on her face, Amu took Alice's hand and brought her forward so Rima could sniff her. "This is Alice! Ikuto just brought her down here."

Knowing what that meant, Rima turned to look at the blonde girl. "Amu…"

"Don't worry, Rima! Alice is here to be my friend."

The dragon could tell that Amu was forcing the friend part. She also knew that Amu was doing what Amu was supposed to do. She was guarding a life. Keeping Alice out of harm in the only way she knew how. Befriending the poor human. "So how long will Alice be staying with us."

The brown haired girl shrugged as she attempted to take in the fact that there was a dragon before her. Being kidnapped to the Angel of Darkness' castle and meeting all sorts of creatures was rather hard to take in, though Amu seemed to be doing alright. "I d-don't kn-know."

Amu only patted the human girl on the back in a form of comfort before turning back to Rima. "I'm sure Ikuto will send her back within a week or two. Don't want anything to happen to my new friend Alice!"

Rima could see it, the worry in her master's face. The girl hadn't quite figured out how to get the Angel to return the human to her village, but Rima knew that if anyone could do it, Amu could. "Most likely. So what are you and your new friend Alice going to do?"

Before Amu could answer, Alice's stomach rumbled. "I guess that answers the question. Come on, Alice. Let's go get you something to eat."

Once again, the human girl found herself being pulled down a hallway in the underground castle. She had no idea where they were going, but Amu moved as if she knew the place by heart. The sight of a man with long purple hair and somewhat purple skin coming towards them made Alice pull a little on the hand tugging her along.

Amu looked back but only smiled before turning around to greet the man coming towards them. "Hello, Nagi. This is Alice. I might bring her by later to show her how you and Rima work together. Would that be okay?"

Nagihiko eyed the human girl before biting back a smile. No wonder Ikuto had seemed to be in a lousy mood. "Sure thing, Amu."

The blonde just waved goodbye as she continued to move down the hallway with Alice in tow. Soon enough they were entering a door that Alice thought looked rather foreboding. Amu barely glanced at it as she led the way inside. "This is where we'll come when you're hungry, Alice. I was told that Kairi is a great cook."

Alice thought the comment weird but ignored it upon the sight of food. There looked to be a buffet of all sorts of different things. Some of it looked rather inedible, but Alice reminded herself that there were more than just humans eating there.

Taking a plate, Amu picked out some foods for Alice to eat that she knew the human girl would like. Amu didn't eat often, but when she did asked for what she was giving Alice. "Try these."

"S-so wh-what is K-K-Kairi?'

"A werewolf."

Alice looked at the plate before her as if decided whether or not to actually eat the food on it. "Wh-whoa."

Amu laughed before nudging Alice to take a bite. "Don't worry, I haven't actually eaten anything that Kairi has made before, but I heard that it's good."

It wasn't as if she was receiving special treatment, but the couple of times that she had eaten, Ikuto had gotten the food for her. Watching carefully, Amu only grinned as Alice took one bite and then another.

Once her plate was clean, Alice pushed away from the table they sat at to rub her now full tummy. "S-so g-good."

Giggling, Amu nodded her head. "I told you it would be!"

The door opened again before Alice could reply. The two girls looked over to see a half man, half goat walk into the room. He took a plate and filled it with some vegetable looking plants.

Amu watched in fascination. She'd heard of satyr before but had never seen one. "Hello."

Alice wanted to hide as the creature looked over at them.

Without stopping his movements, the beast nodded towards the two girls. "Amu, Alice."

"I don't think we've met. What's your name?"

"Kiseki."

"That's a nice name! So can you tell me, did you know my name because Ikuto told you or is it because you're a satyr?"

The satyr sat down a table before scoffing. "Because I'm a satyr. Obviously we're better informed than other creatures."

Smiling, Amu nodded before taking Alice's plate from the table and putting it in a tub at the side of the room. "Enjoy your meal, Kiseki!"

Dumbfounded, Alice was pulled from the room and dragged down the hall. Everything in this castle was crazy.

XXX

Ikuto sighed as he looked at the pleading blonde before him. "Why do I care if she goes insane?"

"Well, didn't you bring her here to be my friend?"

Pausing at that question, Ikuto didn't want to lie, but something told him that telling the truth at this moment in time wasn't a good idea. "Sure. So don't you want your friend to stay longer?"

"I don't want my friend to get all deformed and go crazy and then have you kill her! Take her back before that happens please!"

Rubbing his temple, Ikuto tried to find a plausible argument against Amu's request. He'd been hoping that he'd find a time to snatch the human girl away and use her has he'd intended to, but the blonde was rather fixed to the human girl named Alice. That and Ikuto just didn't feel the urge. There wasn't much of a need for the outlet before. The humans were used for purely sex and pleasure. At the moment, Ikuto didn't actually want to touch the girl. "Fine. She should be alright for another week or so before any changes begin to occur."

"So take her back in one week."

Frowning, Ikuto stared at the blonde on the other side of his large desk. "Have you forgotten that you're just merely human too? You should already be crazy three times over and yet you're fine. Must be that dragon. Anyways, stop demanding things. I won't always give you what you want. I'm still the Angel of Darkness."

Smiling, Amu leaned across the desk and planted kiss on Ikuto's cheek. "Thanks Ikuto!"

With his hand on the spot she'd kissed, Ikuto watched Amu practically skip out of the room. He doubted that anything he'd just said to her in his stern voice had even reached her brain. Shrugging it off, Ikuto went back to working on his journal. Rima still wasn't willing to give him the information he desired.

XXX

Amu had heard rumors from Yoru, not that she trusted that cat much, that there was a Pegasus somewhere in the castle. The winged horse was supposed to be as black as night and just as scary. Amu sort of doubted the scary part. It had seemed like Yoru was trying to frighten her.

Alice wasn't so sure about seeking out the Pegasus, but Amu had insisted that it would be fun and tugged her along for the ride. Not that Alice could ever do much to disagree with Amu. The blonde was just too good at getting what she wanted.

The two girls entered the room that Yoru had instructed that they go to. They found it empty.

"Well this isn't what I expected."

Suddenly, a voice rang out from above their heads. "What do you want?"

Amu looked up and instantly took in the platform towards the top of the room. A dark colored face of a horse looked down over the edge at them. "You must be Daichi. I'm Amu and this is Alice. Yoru said that you would be here and I've never seen a Pegasus before."

The sound of hooves and feathers met their ears before Daichi landed on the floor beside them. "You've seen one now. What do you want?"

Amu couldn't help herself. She let go of Alice to move forwards and touch Daichi's face. "You are so beautiful."

"You do realize that I'm a Creature of the Dark, right? You should be terrified."

Shrugging her shoulders with a smile on her face, Amu continued to stroke Daichi's soft nose. "Do you mind if I touch one of your wings?"

The Pegasus, rather enjoying the attention, shifted to the side so that Amu could see his giant wings. "Be my guest."

Alice was too frightened to move as Amu stroked the glossy feathers. The blonde girl was absolutely fearless. Maybe that was why she was there. Amu must have challenged the Angel of Darkness in some way and was now being punished. Though that didn't explain why the Angel would bring Alice down to play with Amu if Amu was in trouble.

"Come on, Alice. Daichi is really nice!"

Shaking her head, Alice refused to move forwards.

Amu sighed before patting Daichi's side. "Forgive Alice. She's nervous still since she hasn't been here very long. Do you think you could give me a ride sometime?"

Amused by the bold girl, Daichi neighed. "Sure thing, Amu. You'll have to okay it by Ikuto first though."

Waving her hand, Amu laughed. "I'm sure he won't mind but I'll ask first anyways. Thanks for letting us meet you, Daichi."

The Pegasus wasn't used to such politeness, especially while being in the castle. This is why when Amu left while waving and smiling with a nervous Alice in tow, Daichi could only stare at the door for a few moments, trying to understand what had just happened to him. In the end, he just shrugged off the visit and returned to his hay in his loft.

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Morg: There. The girl isn't Yaya. And Amu isn't stupid.

Ikuto: No one cares.

Amu: Not cool, Ikuto.

Morg: Anyways! I told you it would be long, Michelle. I'm sorry for the crappiness of it though. Just way to introduce some other characters.

Ikuto: Characters that don't matter.

Amu: Why are you being so harsh?

Morg: He wants Amuto time.

Ikuto: You bet I do!

Amu: Oh jeez.

Morg: The next chapter will be sort of the same thing though we'll be introducing some of the Light creatures instead! Please look forward to it!