Book 3 ~ The Puppet Master

11- A fresh start

When we finally came out of that dreaded portal, I was shocked about what I saw.

Our new home was a custom built home, customized for all of our different personalities.

"I'm so happy we left." I breathed to Gakupo, who nodded his head in return, obviously shocked by our surroundings.

"Alright this is it guys." Amber stated looking very accomplished at the house.

"Lily, Axle, your rooms are to the right. They are connected because I assumed by how much time you two spend together you would want it that way." She teased.

Gakupo and I only nodded and turned right, to our new rooms.

"Wow" Gakupo breathed when he set our stuff down.

He insisted on carrying my stuff saying it was the gentlemanly thing to do.

"Wow is right" I replied with a smile

The room was huge- Gakupo's part was on the bottom with everything to his liking.

Mine was on the top- it had three white walls the fourth was just windows facing the east all along the wall.

With a door in the middle which connected to a huge terrace that looked out to a beautiful ocean to the bottom and jungle to the right.

There was a good sized fan on the ceiling along with a thermostat and lightswitch by the door.

Our rooms were connected by a trap door in the corner of my room, and was big enough to fly through but it also had a rope ladder just in case.

I flew down into Gakupo's part of the room.

"I love it!" I decided

"Me too." He replied.

I grabbed his hand and yanked him into the cellar, and he followed me (not like he had any choice).

I smiled and proceeded to clean the dusty place out.

As I was carrying a wooden crate inside to use as a seat, there was a loud thud above us, and I heard things breaking, followed by screams.

I dropped the crate and shot upstairs, with Gakupo not far behind me.

I reached the living room, and saw Rose staring at a boy who was bleeding from a large gash in his side.

And Dawn was right above him.

Amber yelled a war cry and charged Dawn, and successfully wrapped her whip around her kakuja.

I ran to the boy, and started to drag him away from the fight.

Gakupo ran over to Rose and yanked her out of the way.

Sparrow hissed, and charged Dawn.

Trace came over to help me, and Stone grabbed Rose from Gakupo, put her in her room and locked the door.

He then ran over to Sparrow and Amber, then attacked Dawn.

Sparrow was flung to the ground, and Dawn threw herself at her, prepared to kill.

Then, out of nowhere, a girl jumped at Dawn and unleashed her own kakuja.

She growled like an animal, and Dawn flung herself at her.

The girl simply ducked, then stabbed Dawn in the thigh.

She howled in pain, and the girl only grinned and flung her to the ground, then stabbed her again... and again... and again...

When I was certain Dawn was dead, she unsteadily got to her feet, and said the worst words I could ever hear.

"The Future sings, the List writes. The song will tell, and the Wind will cry. The monster unleashed, the world will end." She grinned, then coughed up blood.

The girl only sighed, and to my horror, decapitated Dawn.

She turned to look at me, then gave me a smile.

"Oh, don't worry. She'll be up any minute now."

Madness was dancing in her eyes, and I was afraid.

"They... always... get.. up..."

With that, the girl collapsed in a pool of blood.

The boy I had been dragging was not awake, and he screamed.

"SORA!"