Fan Fiction ❯ The Goddess Sagas ❯ Who is the hooded girl? ( Chapter 24 )

Chapter 24; Who is the hooded girl?

Lena sat in her room, breathing hard, sweat dripping from her brow, her hot face resting in her trembling arms. She was

afraid…no, not something as mildly as afraid, she was terrified. If she failed she would die…but that was not the scary part,

what scared her the most was that she wanted to fail. It was very hard to understand, she was a servant of Saiyoua,

but…Ryan. He was the cause of these feelings. Somewhere deep inside she wanted Saiyoua to fail, but also she wanted her

goddess to win. Besides…she did not even know why she cared about Ryan, she supposed she had a crush on him…but

anyway, she had to do her job, not matter what. Her job was the price she had to pay for eternal life and beauty. But…how

would they accomplish their task?

"Lena."

The Great L member looked up startled as Karl walked into her room, a haunted expression in his dark eyes.

"…Are we going to die?"

"No! Did you just come in hear to ask me that?"

"….Ummm…Miss. Lena, I have a plan. It may not work, but, why not we steal the souls from Ryan and his whole group, without them then they can't stand in our way."

"…How are we suppose to do that?"

" We hold a hostage, my girlfriend lives in the town Ryan and his friends are currently stopped at. When they come to save her, we launch our attack, and take them out. This time, I shall stay and battle them myself!"

` Hold his own girl friend hostage? Wait…' "Do you mean, Yuu?"

Karl scoffed. "Hell no! I mean April. Yuu's still at the school, setting around in her breakdown of a wreak after watching Jabora be killed off."

"Hmmm, Ok…we start with the plan then."

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Arisu and Nagisa moaned, shifting their bodies underneath Keith's strong form. Normally the twins would moan in delight, but this time it was in agony and pain.

"Master Keith!!" Arisu exclaimed in a half cry.

"Oh, Lord Keith, please…!! Please stop!" Nagisa whimpered, as Keith's suckled at her nipple like a baby piglet would suck at it's mother breasts.

Keith pushed himself forward, causing the two of them to cry out, before he sat up, sweat running down his face, running his

hand threw his dark hair he panted, tiredly.

"Master Keith…?" Arisu asked timidly, crawling towards him, like a mouse nervously expecting a mousetrap.

Keith had the same reaction the mousetrap would have had and instantly struck her across the face, sending her falling back

with a sharp cry of pain into her sisters arms.

"Leave me alone, you dogs!!" He growled before marching out of the room.

"Lord Keith!!'

"Master Keith!!"

The two voices echoed behind him as the door slammed shut.

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`What's happening two me…I…I'm loosing my memories…I can't remember anything before Saiyoua…I'm I still me?'

`Silly, Keith your still you. You have always been you.'

` You right….Who are you? You've been telling me things a lot lately.'

`….I'm, Keith.'

A smile curved on Keith face, as he ran his hand threw his thick dark hair, chuckling slightly.

"What better person then yourself, to reveal hidden secrets to you."

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"Saiyoua…How are you feeling?" Taromecika asked, bowing in front of the goddess as she stared over the balcony at the moon.

"Weak….I need life…I need power…."

"And so you will get what you need my love, even if I must kill myself to give to you my Magention."

Saiyoua laughed, running on of her small dainty hands threw Taromecika's hair.

"…You mustn't die yet…all the pieces are falling into place…and soon, and soon it will be born…."

"Born?"

Saiyoua turned her head towards him and smiled, a small and evil smile. "Oisa will be summonded as soon as I get the goddess stone, we soon will win."

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Ryan and the group sat in the restaurant, finishing off their soup. The group had gotten use to Lima's new idenity, and had gotten use to having Mara back on the team, and now were one of the few times they were in harmony. Until the topic came up.

"Who do you think that hooded girl was?" Carrie asked, thoughtfully.

"I don't know…she helped get the soul crystals back, quite a few times." Mimi responded.

"Hey Ryan? The little machine thingy you use, it's called the T.P.R.A. right?Lima asked.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"I saw the hooded girl use it. Does that mean anything?"

The students from Marlo magic school jumped out of their seats.

"YES!!" Mara exclaimed, eyes wide. " Only students from Marlo magic school has the T.P.R.A!"

"Then, The hooded girl, must be from our school!!" Genki concluded.

"But who do you think she could be?" Ryan asked, with a frown.

The group became quite, none of them coming up with an answer. Luckily they were saved by the silence when a nineteen year

old girl with long curling dirty-blonde hair, blue eyes and glasses ran up to them, face shining.

"Oh!! You are just perfect!"

The group blinked at her confused as she poked all around them, checking them out.

"Why does it strangers always do that?" Genki looked at the other's confused. "The boat, the movie and now this! What kind of trouble will she get us into?"

"We only can guess..." Alex trailed off.

"Oh yes! I was right, please say you will model for me!! I'm an artist you see, and I was looking for models I could use to start

my career with. And you guys look just perfect! I can't pay you, but I can let you stay at my house, you can sleep and eat there

for free! What do you say!?" The blond girl said hurriedly, a pleading look in her eyes.

"Well…I guess we could use some rest…." Ryan began.

"OH YEAH!!!" The girl cut him off before he could finish. "You wont regret this! You'll be works of art!!"

"…..Funny….I'm already regretting it…." Alex mumbled, as Lemon gave him a playful nudge to the side.

"Hey, Alex, you mean, `the perfect Solider' can feel regret?"

Alex looked at the cheerful boy with his normally empty expression, except a strange glint in his eyes, which was quite hard to place.

"More so, then you think."

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"Kim…" Amy sighed, as they sat in a café, sipping some herbal tea.

"Hm?"

"What do you think will happen to us…you know after our mission is complete?"

"I guess we go back home…."

"And?"

"We live…without having to worry about killing an innocents for their soul…."

"Could you Kim? Could you kill someone?"

"Amy, You know me better then that. I don't care who I have to kill, just as long as we complete our mission, and save the worlds. One life is worth nothing when it comes to millions of others."

Amy looked down at her feet, her bangs hiding her face in a shadow. A soft breeze blew past them. Kim became worried as Amy did not respond and reached an hand out to hold her shoulder.

"Amy?"

"Kim…what if I were to have a piece of the goddess stone…."

Kim stared at her confused, not understanding what she was saying.

Amy looked up at her, eyes clear but also burning, burning into Kim's very heart and soul. Engulfing her in the tanned pools of Amy's eyes.

"Kim….?" Amy slowly reached forward taking Kim's dark hands into her creamy pink ones.

The short haired girl blushed, and could feel herself trembling as, Amy leaned forward, eyes looking at her almost tearfully.

"If I were to have a piece of the goddess stone…would you kill me?"

Kim drew back shocked, but then allowed herself to relax.

"Amy…yes…yes I would…."

The purple haired girl smiled, holding her hands tighter.

"That's good to hear…."

"Amy…."

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Ryan and Lemon sighed, as they struggled to keep their pose. The girl drew them as quickly as possible, but they were both

still tired. Ryan had already had his picture done with Mara, but now, Lemon had talked the artist into letting have their picture

drew together. Needless to say, Lemon's game to make Squall jealous was still on. Of course Mara was filled in, it was bad enough the man she loved, loved another woman, she did not have to think that Ryan had dumped her over a man on top of that!

Squall was almost fuming , and Carrie just stood, with a look that said.

`I told you, you should have acted sooner.'

"Ok! You can stop posing now!" The girl smiled, looking at them from over her canvass. " It's soon dinner time, go get

something to eat, and then rest up. I'll finish the drawings tomorrow, the art fair is the day after that, I sure hope you stay to see

if I won."

Ryan and Lemon stood happily, stretching their sore muscles.

"Wow! That was the longest I stayed in one position in my whole life!!" Lemon exclaimed.

"I know!" Ryan sighed, wiping sweat from his brow, the lights the girl had shining on them as she drew was hot.

"So, what's you name anyway? You never told us." Genki asked, curiously.

The girl slapped her forehead.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, my name is April! April Canvastaberg."

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"Karl, are you sure, April is just going to welcome you into open arms? Perhaps Yuu e-mailed her and told her what you've become?"

"Lena, Yuu hated April, she was always jealous, that April had me and she didn't, Yuu would not give a damn about what happened to her."

"Ok then…so, why are we waiting outside of her house? Why don't we just go in a grab her?"

"Lesson! We can't rush this! We'll wait for the best time. I know April well, she always takes a long walk late at night. She always does for aspiration, she finds the moon and the stars beautiful. But most of all, she loves looking at the sky from the hill top, I want her death place to be her favourite place, because, I do love her."

` The why are you going to kill her? But then again….why I'm I trying to kill Ryan? I guess....I guess this is what alowing the darkness control does....it makes you heartless.'

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The dinner was mouth-watering, homemade stew with bakers bread and freshly made butter and the whole group ate until they felt like their stomachs were going to burst. The house was big, so the rooms was big enough for pairs. Genki obviously wanted

to share a room with Mimi but was to shy to ask her and so was stuck once again sharing a room with Alex while Mimi and Carrie took a room. Lima took a room by herself as seeing everyone else was already pared up.

"Hey….Rya, I think Lemon should drop the act…you know, I think he and Squall should just come out and say it. So lets

share a room tonight." Mara whispered in his ear. Ryan blushed and became to stutter.

"Don't worry…I wont try anything, I know your heart belongs to Ruto."

"Ok…Mara, thanks."

Turning towards the remaining group Ryan spoke loudly.

" Mara and I will share a room."

Lemon looked at Ryan shocked, before casting an evil glare at him, for running their act.

"Omae O' Korosu…."

Gulping as Lemon's eyes flashed red he and Mara dashed off towards their room. Turning towards Squall Lemon smiled nervously.

"Well! Guess we are roommates!"

"…..Hn!" Squall remarked bitterly, entering the room without so much as a look back at Lemon.

"….Eh? Squall…..?" The Dampier blinked confused and hurt.

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"Genki?"

"Yeah?"

Alex turned towards him. "You have probably been to `Anglican' the town just outside of the snow pillars of `Angeles.' Have you ever met a Koh Frighenheights or a woman named Samantha"

Genki blinked for a moment. " Samantha? Hey, yeah, I heard of her! She's says she's a `fallen angel' and she fights against evil, and protects the people of Anglican. She's like a superhero, and an idol mostly among little girls. Koh…I never

heard of him."

"Hmmmm…."

"Why you ask?"

"Not your concern."

"Awww! Come on!!"

Alex gave the hyper boy a hard glare. " Don't ask about matters that do not concern you!!"

"Fine! GOODNIGHT!!!" Genki retorted, pulling the blankets up around himself in an attempt to fall asleep.

` Samantha….you were always into a super heroine stuff….Koh…what happened to you? When I get their though, I will keep my promise though, and protect both of you….' Alex thought as he mindlessly typed away at his computer. The pounding

of the keys being the only other noise in the room besides Genki's loud snoring.

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"Mimi…." Carrie began, eyes towards the floor.

" What is it?"

"I remembered, when I spoke to you once, you mentioned that you were hiding something from us…It's been bothering me…your such a nice person, what could you have to hide? And why should it affect you relationship with Genki?"

Mimi froze before putting down her hair brush. She was silent, and Carrie figured she wasn't going to get any response until she heard a small sob. Alert she jumped from the bed over to Mimi's side in an heart beat.

"Mimi! What's wrong? I'm so sorry I didn't mean to make you cry!"

"…..It's alright….I'm not crying over what you said…so don't feel bad…"

"Mimi, what's going on?"

"…..Carrie…..The reason why I wont date Genki or anyone, is because I'll just leave them….Carrie, I don't really have that much longer to live…five maybe six years…"

Carrie's eyes widened in horror, and she fell to her knees shaken. "How come….?"

"I was born with a cancer. When I found out that I was going to die, I joined the magic school, because I wanted to do

something important before I died…I wanted to live normally, my mother and her family had went to that school, and I figured

that if I was well they would have sent me there as well. I want to live like I have a long time left, but to fall in love and have a boyfriend…. I don't want to hurt Genki, by leaving him behind…he deserves a girl he could live the rest of his life with….not

someone who will die soon after he marries her, and a girl that cannot even have children. You know…I think that hurts me the most, I'll never be able to have a child, Children are a persons path to immortality, people live on in their children…even if the

children do not belong to them…that child will always remember them, and the parent will never really die, as long as their children, grand-children and all their family after that, still holds a memory of them. I guess, very soon after my death, I will be forgotten."

"Mimi, please don't say that!" Carrie cried. " None of us will ever forget you!"

"Hmmmm….."

"Mimi…."

"Yes?"

" You said even if the child don't belong to them, right"

"Yes, I did."

"So Mimi…" Carrie looked at her feet shyly. " If you really want a child….you could adopt me…after all, my family is dead…after this adventure, I'm probably going to end up in an orphanage. I would prefer to be able to stay with my dearest friend…"

"Carrie…" Mimi smiled, lifting Carrie's head up with her hand. " Alright, I would be happy to adopt you."

The young girls face brightened as she threw her arms around Mimi, with a small smile on her face.

"Thank you, so much!"

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"Hey Rya! Look at that star, isn't it so beautiful!?" Mara squealed pointing up at one of the glowing golden dots in the sky as they sat by each other on the balcony.

"Yeah." Ryan agreed with a smile, while Mara continued to look up dazzled.

This had been their favourite thing to do as children, to stare up at the sky, at the stars and at the moon and the earth that hung in the never ending darkness. Mara would always go one and on about how much she enjoyed it.

"Hey Ryan, remember that song I use to sing when you first arrived?"

The memory was blank, and he thought hard about it, but was not able to remember it.

"You know, the song, `The biggest star dreamers.' You helped me write it."

FLASH

A very young Ryan and Mara sat side by side, writing something on a piece of paper.

FLASH

"Oh yeah, now I remember, it was shortly after I arrived at the school."

Mara smiled at him. "Yeah that's right. We would write songs together all the time. Lesson, you might remember more of it if I

sang it again…"

"We are the biggest Star dreamers,

Staring into the never endless sky,

Making wishes on the glowing diamonds.

Maybe they will come true,

Maybe they will never happen,

But we can hope, wish and believe,

And then perhaps our prayers will be answered

Oh, the biggest Star dreamers ,

Gazing into the sea of stars,

Making wishes, making dreams,

Hoping they will come true.

We are the biggest star dreamers,

Whispering our prayers to the night,

Will they come true?

Only the stars can tell,

but they remain silent,

As silent as stars….

But we still are the biggest dreamers,

Never giving up on our dreams,

Always dreaming, always hoping.

Our dreams are going to last forever,

Until the day they become reality.

But what if our dream is not to come?

What if our dreams are left to die,

To wither like flowers, that has,

Been denied water, so the petals,

Could never, ever blossom,

Past the small, little seed.

The biggest stars dreamers….

We're is our fairy-god mother?

Will she come and make our wishes true?

Like how she granted Pinocchio's dream,

When he wished among the stars?

But no matter what happens,

we are the biggest dreamers,

the biggest dreamers to ever dream,

among the glowing, golden stars,

and someday….our dreams will come true…."

Ryan smiled. "Yes, I remember it now. Parfait was still a baby at that time, we would sing it to her as a lullaby."

The cat girl smiled back at him. "Yes, Ryan, that's right! You do remember, I was hurt when I thought you have forgotten. We worked so hard on that song together."

"Yes, it was a memory I cherished."

` No it wasn't, you did not even remember. And that's because it never really happened, not to you.'

` What are you talking about? Of course it happened! I remember it so clearly.'

` Only after Mara told you. The mind can do things like that, it can make you remember things that never really happened.'

` I KNOW this happened.'

`Really?'

` Who are you? Saiyoua?'

` I am you, the real you, lesson to me, it did not happen, not to you. It NEVER happened.'

` LIAR!!'

` Believe what you will….'

"Rya…are you alright?" Mara asked concerned at the zoned out expression on Ryan's face.

Ryan snapped out of his daze, and smiled at Mara reassuringly.

"Yeah, of course I am."

" That good."

The two of them looked back into the sky, but one sentence echoed threw Ryan's mind, a sentence he could never forget. It was something that Keith had said to him.

` Ryan are the only things you remember are the things that Mara and Parfait told you?'

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Lemon sighed drearily as Squall refused to even look at him, in was so bad, that Squall slept on the floor of the one huge bed room. It was lonely laying hear all alone, it reminded him too much of the days before he met Marie-Maya, or rather Ruto, and

of the days he had been corrupted and had worked for Lounaru. Of the days he was known as the `God of death.' He did not want to be alone anymore…

"Squall….why wont you even talk to me?"

"……"

"What did I do?"

"………"

"Whatever it was I'm sorry…"

"Shut up Lemon, go share a room with Ryan or something." Squall replied harshly.

Lemon felt tears sting his eyes.

"Squall…."

"Don't speak to me."

Lemon bit his lip and quietly cried in his pillow.

Squall glanced at the boy, feeling remorse, but quickly looked away from him. He could not bare to look at him, he did not

know why…it was not that he cared about him….was it? Then why was he so angry every time Lemon clung to Ryan?

"….Squall….There is nothing between Ryan and I…." Lemon protested softly, threw his sobs. Squall knew that Lemon had not meant for him to hear, but the Dampier had forgotten about Squall's wolf like hearing.

"Then, why are you always around him lately?"

The Dampier jumped, surprised that Squall had spoken to him, and was actually looking at him, his eyes shining in the darkness.

"…..I wanted to make you jealous…I thought that…if you were to feel that I might have taken an interest in someone else

that….you might open up your threw feelings to me….it was a stupid idea huh?"

"Lemon? Why is it, you feel for me?"

The Dampier hunched his shoulders. " I don't really know, there is just something about you Squall, something about you that I just can't help but love…"

"I don't love you Lemon…I can't be yours…"

"But that's not true! Your just in denial."

"What makes you say that!?" Squall asked sharply. He did not mean for it to be sound so mean, but he did not want to admit any feelings for anyone else. He had loved Ganderdof, but his heart had been broken…he did not want it broken again.

Besides…he had promised Ganderdof he would never love anyone else…but then again, Ganderdof had promised him that he

would always take care of him….Anyway, what right did Lemon have to say if he was in love with him or not! He did not know or understand his heart!

" Squall, remember when I almost died because I did not feed?"

"Yes."

"And I said, that only someone who loves me, I could feed from. They had to love me in someway, any kind of love. And Squall, you feed me…when I was about to die, you feed me and saved my life…meaning…"

Squall's eyes widened in disbelief. " That since you was able to feed from me, I had to have been in love with you someway…"

Lemon nodded, staring at his feet. "Yes…I wanted to find out which way…which way you loved me. Ruto had loved me as a

friend, Lounaru loved me like a.... little brother…believe it or not, he often said I was almost like brother to him…and You….how do you

love me, Squall? I want to know how."

The man beast walked over to the bed to set down beside him.

"I don't know, Lemon. I did not feel any of that kind of love for a long time. Since Ganderdof…I loved no one but my `sister' Angie, and her, I only loved as a sister."

Lemon laughed almost bitterly. " Your starting to sound like someone else in our group, but unlike Ryan, your mind and emotions hasn't been messed around with beyond repair. You own yourself. "

Squall was confused. "What did you mean by that Lemon?"

"….That's, a secret. But anyway, tell me how you feel, Squall. Right now, tell me what your thinking."

"……Hn…..Lemon, this is stupid, I can't tell you everything that I'm thinking right now. Everything in my head is mixed into one."

Squall's eyes widened shocked as Lemon pushed himself forward, his soft, rosy lips closing around his. He was frozen and

couldn't move, as Lemon's closed his eyes, savouring the taste of his mouth. The man-beast could feel the others thoung enter into his mouth, not forcefully, but searching and gentle.

For the life of him Squall could not understand everything he was feeling, only a few emotions was actually nameable. Surprised, exposed, nervous, but most of all longing. The longing to return the kiss. It was then he realised his emotions. He was in love with Lemon.

Slowly Squall closed his eyes, and turned the searching kiss into a passionate one. Warping his arms around Lemons slim waist, he slowly entered his thoung into Lemon's musky moth, brushing against Lemon's perfect white and sharp little teeth. The kiss

lasted only a minuet or so, but to the two that were kissing it seemed to last forever. Slowly the two of them pulled away, opening their eyes at the same time. Lemon smiled at him tearfully.

"Squall, I guess that kiss, gives us both our answers."

"…..Lemon."

The Dampier leaned against Squall closing his eyes.

"Squall, this is a really special night…I can feel it…Squall?"

"Yeah?"

" In our war, we never know what's going to happen….we never know if one of us is going to die….can I give myself to you? Incase that one of us dies, and we are never able to express our feelings?"

"Lemon, I will protect you, I promise, but, I agree, we never know what will happen."

"Squall." Lemon smiled, holding his hand, softly in his.

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April yawned as she finished painting one of the pictures.

"Hmmm, perhaps I will go out for another one of my walks. The moonlight is so beautiful from the top of the hill."

Packing away her artist supplies she left the house, unknowing that this action may turn out to be her biggest mistake.

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Lima sighed, leaning against the window.

"….I don't know why I told my friends everything...I just felt as though....I needed to talk about it. When I became part andoird I became smarter, is my brain mine? Or is everything I'm thinking programmed thoughts? Lima Waterflower, the once stupid elf

of the elfin village, was able to trick everyone, even her family into believing she was still stupid. I wish I were though…that way, I would not see the harshness of reality, ignorance is bless. Hmmmm, I'm still not that smart. The only difference between `Stupid

Lima.' And `Android Lima' is that I don't talk as funny, and I'm not as clueless, also a little more demanding. But many of the things I

did, like the cooking while in that creepy cursed doll place, and the other stuff were really my thoughts…hmm, so really I'm

stupid…hmmm…at least I'm not to stupid to admit it though. Pai-Pai, you were my best friends, without you I would never have been able to become a cop after our village was destoryed by criminals. We both became cops for revenge, to track those people down, but because of me, you got fired. I'm ashamed of myself, because of me you were kicked off onto the streets, and because of me, you , your boyfriend and brother Ryo died. I wonder why, even as you died you asked me to take the `orb of love.' Did you feel like it was a blessing to have, that it was a gift? Or did you feel that it was a curse and asked for it to be given to me so I would have to fight in this painful war? If it was the later, Pai-Pai, I don't blame you. Please forgive

me, my friend. I will get revenge on Taromecika for you, as away to make up for causing your death."

Things were silent for a moment until Lima heard a door opening, looking outside she watched as April walked down the path

to her house.

`Were is she going?" Lima wondered absent mindly, fallowing the girl with her gaze.

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`Such a beautiful night." April sighed dreamily, as she walked down the gravelled path. She heard a ruffling of the bushes and

stopped. Their was no wind, but yet one, and only one of the many bushes was moving. Taking a step back fearfully, she brought up her courage to call out

"Whose there!?"

"Hey, April! Long time, no see."

"KARL!!" The artist exclaimed happily, throwing her arms around him. "What are you doing hear!? I'm so happy to see you!"

"Cherish, it will be your last time…"

"Huh? What?" April pulled away confused, before she was stuck on top of the head, passing out in Karl's arms, who grinned down at her, stroking her curls.

" Just like Yuu, You should have known better then to fall in love with me."

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"Oh April!" Lima exclaimed, as she watched the on goings from her window. "I've got to tell the others!!"

"Not so fast, dumb blonde!"

Lima turned around, and gasped, backing away slightly. "Lena! What do you want!?"

" Karl is taking April to the hill. Ryan, you, and everyone else in his group are to meet up at the hill in one hour, or else, we will kill this girl, and destroy this whole town! If you come even just one second early or late then everything dies!"

Lena disappeared, leaving Lima to dash of towards the room Ryan and Mara were sharing.

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Lemon moaned as Squall licked his chest, leaving a smooth wet trail among his skin with his ruff thoung. Warm hands wrapped

underneath his back, while the other one rested on his cheek. Lemon had never felt this way before, it was painful yet beautiful and comforting at the same time. Titling his head to the side, he playfully nipped Squall's neck and began to suck out a little

blood. He was delighted when he heard Squall moan and felt him shiver as he held him close.

The feeling of Lemon suckling at his neck was wonderful. It was hard to describe but the mere feelings of it made him go hard.

Slowly Lemon removed himself from the man-beasts neck, and kissed his lips. Squall savoured the taste of his own blood on

Lemons mouth, and slowly licked them clean, while Lemon's hand brushed it's self against his flesh.

Lemon moaned loudly, it was so painful, yet he did not want it to stop. He felt his nipples had gone hard, as did other parts of

his body, but he did not care as he threw his head back as Squall pushed himself forward, their bodies rubbing against each

other.

Squall, bent down to taste of Lemon's body, it was a sweet taste, like strawberries and cream, and as he sucked tenderly his lips became covered with the

sticky substance as was his hands as he leaned forward, placing a deep kiss on lemons lips. He could feel Lemon lick the

substance clean from his mouth, much like he had done with the blood on Lemon's lips. He looked down at the boys face, to see him smiling, face blushed, and sweat running down his face, but still smiling. Eyes twinkling with life and love. A warmth he

never had directed at him before, not even by his first love, Ganderdof.

Lemon sighed passionately, as Squall lifted him up in his strong hands into a setting position, and his sticky hands began to

massage the warm sticky substance into his skin that laid always red and sore between his wings. The feeling was so smoothing

that Lemon could not help but lean his head tiredly against Squall chest closing his eyes, sighing softly in approval.

Squall smiled as he watched Lemon's reaction. Nuzzling his head on the side of Lemon's neck, he whispered softly in the

others ear.

"….Do you like that Lemon?"

"Yes…"

Squall kissed the boys neck, tenderly, yet rapidly, hands still massaging the boys skin.

"Oh…Squall…I'll love you forever."

"Me to, my Sweet N' Sour, little lemon."

Lemon turned his head, slightly, to look into Squall's eyes and tenderly kissed him, both of them, wrapping their arms around

each other, never wanting to end this embrace. In each other they had both found someone, someone they knew would love them forever, and never, ever leave them for another. It was funny how faith worked. When they first meet it was on the battle

field, fighting each other, the second time they meet, they spoke, one looking for understanding, warning the other the he would

have to kill him, if he stayed in the village. The third time, it was on another battle field, and they tried to kill each other. But

after the battle because of Squall, Lemon lived and returned to his true state, and slowly love blossomed between the two. Two

that were suppose to be enemies since the day they were born, had fallen in love. Never before had a vampire and a were wolf

cared for each other, they were the first of a love that they wished others of their race could feel.

"Lemon…What is your dream?" Squall asked, as he pinned Lemon on the bed, the boy smiled up at him, thinking quietly.

" I just dream about not being alone…I just want to be with someone who I love. I would be happy to cook for that person, and do stuff for that person…I know it sounds kind of like a home-maker, but being with someone I love, would be what truly made me happy."

Lemon closed his eyes as Squall played with his long blonde hair, brushing his bangs back as if he were petting a cat. It was a

smoothing and comforting feeling, that caused the Dampier to swoon.

"Squall, what's you dream?"

The man-beast smiled.

" I don't really know, but I would love to be able to have a little house in the woods, and be able to come home to a

family…and have someone, I really love, like you, waiting there for me."

"Squall….we can grant each others dreams."

"We can…And someday we will…"

"Do you really mean that Squall!?" Lemon Exclaimed excitedly, face beaming happily.

"Yes I do….After this war is over…our dreams will come true."

"Squall….I can't wait…now I have another reason to want this war to end."

The two boys leaned forward, to kiss each other once more, when the door opened Both turned surprised and embarrassed towards the person who had opened it.

Lima, red in the face, covered her eyes with her hands, pointedly looking away.

"Um…There is trouble….ah….Lena and Karl…has….err…attack April….ehhh, get dressed and meet us outside….Ohhh

boy, thank goodness I got you guys instead of Carrie…" 'I knew I never had a chance...oh well....'

The two boys turned towards each other with sheepish grins.

"I guess, the whole group is going to know about our relationship…" Squall commented.

"Ah, well, I don't think we would have been able to hide it long anyway." Lemon smiled playfully, giving Squall a small little kiss before pulling on his robes.

Squall watched with a soft smile as Lemon got dressed.

` Lemon….someday, no matter what happens, someday, I'm going to marry you.'

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"Now, isn't this a beautiful work of art?" Karl grinned madly, as he tied April, onto a cross that sunk into the dirt on the top of

the dark hill. It was pitch black, and as if too add to the effect of the darkness that was about to take place, streaks of bluish white lightning split the sky, accompanied by a strong wind.

"Hmmm."

"LENA! You've been quite! What's wrong?" Karl laughed mockingly.

"Nothing…"

"What? Are you getting second thoughts? You better not have, because if this plan fails, baby, you wont be the only one to die!!"

" I know that! Don't forget Karl, I'm the lead one in this mission, not you, so don't talk to me like that, or else I'll see to it that you die even if this mission is a success!"

"They should be coming soon…Lena, remember the plan, go hide up in the trees, don't let them see you. Strike when they let

their guards down."

"Yes….We will, kill them this time."

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Kim and Amy, stood behind the large bushes as they watched Ryan and his group walk to the top of the tall hill. It was not

really a hill, but more like a small mountain that over looked the rabid river below. It was a dangerous place to fight, one trip in the wrong place, and they were dead.

"Should we help them?" Amy asked.

"I guess so, but we'll wait until they remove the soul crystals, perhaps one of them has a piece of the goddess stone…"

A hard wind blew, causing both girls not to hear the footsteps behind them.

"No, don't attack. If you do, it will be a disaster. Let me finish my plan, my plan will work, I will destroy Karl…before he can kill anyone!"

Both girls gasped.

"You're the hooded girl!" Amy exclaimed.

"Show us your face!" Kim demanded.

"You don't know me, it does not matter if you see my face or not. Stay in town, in case my plan fails, you'll need to protect it. Fair well!!"

"Think we should lesson to her?"

"…..Something is telling me we should, even though I think it's foolish we lesson to a stranger." Kim commented.

Amy smiled weakly. "This time, let's fallow the voice in our heads, and lesson to her."

"Alright, just hope, it wont turn out to be a big mistake."

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"KARL!! LET APRIL GO!!" Ryan demanded, as he and the rest of his group got into a fighting position.

"Oh…very well….NOT!!"

Each group member cried out shocked, as suddenly sticky slime oozed up from the ground from underneath their feet, causing

them to be stuck in place, not matter how hard they tried to move.

"Ewwww!!" Mara whimpered trying to pull her feet out.

"What is this stuff?" Carrie asked disgusted.

"I saw this before…it's Sprouting blood. It's a very sticky substance which can be summoned from the ground." Mimi explained.

"How do we get it off!?" Genki asked, Paniced.

" It comes off by it's self in an hour…there is no way to remove it. And before an hour is up, you will be dead. Lena, get them!

Rob their pure souls!!"

April opened her eyes weakly.

"No….! Karl, please stop what your doing!"

"QUITE WOMAN!!!" Karl roared sending a strong punch to the girls face, who cried tears of pain and heart-break.

`Just one move Lena, and they are all dead….come on, what are you waiting for?'

Her eyes brushed against the group, they landing first on Mimi, softening a little, seeing a little girl in the sixteen year old place.

`Mimi…I remember you use to always ask me for bedtime stories when you first came hear, you were always such a shy girl, and sad because of your cancer…I felt sorry for you….'

She turned towards Genki, also seeing the younger version of him before her eyes.

`Genki, you were a live wire, always running up and down the halls, and playing video games when you were suppose to be studying. But still, you always made me laugh.'

She turned towards Mara, eyes softening even more as she saw the younger version of the cat girl before her eyes.

`Mara, you were always the popular one, and you made friends so easily, something I could never do as a little kid, and you always spoke your mind, something else I was to afraid to do myself.'

Finally she turned to Ryan, face softening completely.

FLASHBACK

She had been walking threw the snow deserts, with her group of students on a training mission when one of the students came

running up to her, saying they found blood stains on the snow. She had sent the students out looking for any injured person, but

no one found anyone. For some reason still troubled by the thought someone was out in the snow, suffering she went to look

herself. She found a cave hidden behind a thicket of trees not that far from where they had spotted the blood stain. She

ventured forward into the darkness of the cave and stopped in her tracks as she saw a pair of eyes gazing back at her. It

was a child, she could tell that from the height of a person.

"Hey, come closer I wont hurt you."

"Are you one of those scary people who killed my mommy?"

Lena paused, shocked by what the young boy had said.

"No, I'm a school teacher, I'm hear with some students on a training mission…I wont hurt you."

"You wont hurt Parfait either?"

"Hm?"

The boy walked closer to her, and Lena gasped at his age, he was a very young child and he held a baby in his arms, around

his neck he wore a large red locket. She looked closer, and saw to her amazement, two demon halves. Demons were rare

enough, but these two were half human, half demon. They were probably the only breed out their like that in the whole world. She knew they were half-breeds because they had the human feeling and expression in there faces which normal demons lacked.

"My name is Lena Cameron, what about you?"

"Ryan….have you seen my mommy, she looks like this?"

Lena gasped as Ryan showed her a picture of a blonde woman with blue eyes and blonde hair.

` I know her!!'

"Did they take my mommy's body to?" The boy was about to cry.

"Shhhh, you and your sister come with me, you'll be alright."

FLASH

"Miss.Lena....is he...well he be ok...?" An young Mara quietly asked, tears running down his face, An very young Parfait stood next to her sobbing uncontrollable.

"Don't let my brother die!!"

"Don't worry, he'll be fine." She lied. " I'm just going to go heal him up, all right. It may take awhile but he will be back."

"Really!?" Mara and the little girl exclaimed.

Miss.Lena smiled weakly. " Really." but as she turned away carrying an bleeding and badly wounded boy in her arms she alowed an tear to fall down her face.

END FLASHBACK

Ryan and his sister had been raised at the magic school and as he got older, Lena knew she was falling in love with him…she

did not want anything to happen to him, but she knew of Taromecika and Saiyoua's wishes, and she could not disobey them

But still she had tried, she knew for some reason, that Ruto would be the one that had the goddess in her, she felt it….and that

is why she had told her to leave the school…but it was to late now…she would have to kill Ryan…..

She prepared to steal their soul crystals, staring at Ryan she saw the image of the young boy she saved him and his sister from

the cold, flash before her eyes. Sue she had stolen his soul before…but she knew this time, there was no way that he could

win…

"No! I can't do it!" Lena exclaimed, running away from the hill, tears shining in her eyes.

"WHAT!? LENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The group watched her pass them shocked, but quickly turned their attention back to Karl as he screamed in rage.

"FORGET HER!! I'LL KILL YOU ALL MYSELF!!!" He raised his hand, beginning to summon magic in them.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" The hooded girl cried, dashing onto the battle field, the wind blowing her cape and hood from off

her body, giving her true identity away for all to see.

The group, gasped, the ones from Marlo magic school were stunned.

Karl stood shock, eyes wide in surprise as the figure grabbed him, breaking the spell he had been summoning. Stunned he whispered the name, the name of the hooded girl for all to hear.

"Yuu….!!"

"KARL! YOU DIE NOW!! ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!! " Yuu growled giving him a mighty shove that sent him falling from

the cliff. His hands clung to the side and he stared up at Yuu in disbelief.

"Yuu…come on, think about what your doing…you can't…you can't kill me…you love me…!"

"Once apon a time. The only way I will spare your life is if April says for me too…."

Everyone turned to April who looked at them with tears in her eyes, before she turned to Yuu, with a bitter look on her face.

"Let him fall…."

"BITCH!!" Karl exclaimed, as Yuu turned to walk away, he reached up and grabbed her ankle, pulling her over with him.

With a cry of surprise her finger caught the ledge, but she could feel Karl holding tightly onto her legs.

"Come on, Yuu, pull me up! Come on…don't….don't do anything foolish, pull us up!!!"

Yuu looked down at him, tears falling from her pale eyes.

"Karl…your not Karl anymore…and I must kill you, to let Karl's soul go free….I will kill you, no matter what, even if I die too…."

"What….!!"

Slowly Yuu's fingers let go off the rock and both her and Karl plunged to their watery graves, doomed to never see the sunlight again.

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Lena breathed hardly, as she finally stopped running. She looked above her to see Ryan and his group coming towards her.

`So Karl is dead….' She thought.

"And so will you."

The voice startled her and she turned towards her sisters, Laura and Lexy.

"What?" Lena asked nervously.

"You failed, so we will kill you." Laura spoke harshly.

"Your joking, we are sisters…."

"Yeah! Yeah!" Lexy rolled her eyes. " We refuse to be sisters to a failure! Now die!!"

Lena screamed as both of her sisters used their attacks on her sending her falling to the ground.

"I wonder which one of us will be chosen next?" Lexy chirped.

"I don't know, but I hope it's me!"

"Oh, if you are, your so lucky!"

The two sisters disappeared leaving Lena laying in the grass, tears falling from her eyes.

"At least I had done the right thing in the end…Ryan…." And with that her eyes closed.

The group stopped shocked as they saw what happened to Lena, none of them said anything, but they all knew what the other

was thinking.

`How could someone kill their own sister?'

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"Looks, Like Lena is dead…." Kim commented, unfeeling.

"So is Karl and the hooded girl….so much death….and to think we will have to cause more."

"Who do you think will replace Lena? Whoever it is…we will have a harder job because Lena was the only one in the group that was not totally ruthless."

"I don't know, guess we will have to wait and see…"

"Yeah…."

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The group were sadly leaving the town, today was the day of the art show, but April was not up to going to the contest. Perhaps next time, she had said, but in her eyes, you could tell she given up her love of drawing, for her work was beautiful, and she knew that with a horror of the night, that would forever live in her heart, she would never be able to create anything

beautiful ever again.

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"So…Karl and Lena died…Laura, you are the new `Great L' incharge, and Rex Larox, you accompany your mother."

The two spoken bowed.

"Yes master….we have a better plan then Lena had…we will steal soul crystals…but we will also gather Magention by

destroying the towns and villages after we rob the soul."

"Good…. I hope for your sake you have better luck, remember you have six chances. Don't fail me, or you will share the same faith as Lena and Karl."

"Understood. We wont fail you, master!"

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Lounaru laid in his bed breathing hard.

"When can I fight? When will I be able to fight again!! Why am I hear! WHY CAN'T I REMEMBER!!! DAMN!!! RYAN

NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, YOU WILL DIE!!!"

Hikari smiled, as she watched Lounaru from inside the room. "Brainwashing, complete."