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Prologue

"Another one?!" Exclaimed someone. "There is no way there's another one!"

Wherever this place was, it was dark, and 10 people were having a meeting there, if you could call it that. Gas, codename for one of the people in the meeting, urgently asked for a meeting, but when all the members were brought to the mysterious-looking room they were already used to by Summon, another member, they couldn't help but bicker. Luckily, Silence is also a member, so he got them to shut up, albeit not using a good method.

"Yeah, there's no way that there's another one of us. X can't be that sadistic." Noted Wink. However, Scan was quick to disagree. "I wouldn't be so sure. We're already 10, and X is already tied to the same fate as us, sure wouldn't hurt for him to add one more."

As the topic got more serious, they couldn't help but want the bantering from a few minutes in the past back. A specific member, known by the Code Name Question, couldn't help but question what Gas what thinking about. Should he? Or is it too extreme, he wondered. Use of his power came with a price after all, so he decided against it.

"Hey Question, what's with all the fidgeting?" Eye was quick to call his fellow member out, use of his power being obvious. Question, however, was quick to reply. "Hey Eye, stop using your power without having any need to, will you? It's absolutely useless."

Eye was ready to retorn, but he felt a little tap on his shoulder and saw Tap's smile. While adorable, it was also intimidating, as that little tap felt extremely invasive once you knew what it was for. "Let's all stop fighting, alright hyungs?" Tap quickly glanced at another member, Liar. "If you keep up, he'll get involved, and you hyungs know that is not a good idea.

Silence was the official leader of the bunch, and while he was a great leader, Liar couldn't help but hold an extreme amount of power, although not by his own choice, he is probably the most powerful out of the members. An unwritten rule was to not mess with Liar. Chameleon suddenly made his presence known by putting into words what everyone else was thinking.

"But Gas, how do you know that there's another one of us?"

"Has my gut ever failed us?" Proudly said Gas, quickly interrupted by a salty Summon. "Thanks to your gut Eye was almost crashed by a car you made me summon because you thought you had finally found X." Gas's smile quickly turned into a look of disappointment

"But this time is different! Trust me, I'm not lying, in case you couldn't tell I'm Gas, not Liar. Looking at you, Question, wear your glasses please, making yourself think you can see doesn't make it so that you actually see, it just makes you clumsy." With a glare from Question, Gas stopped mentioning his sight.

"Anyway, it's not just my gut. I had a dream. Remember the one I had about Wink before we found him?" They all nodded and Wink spoke up. "Don't make me remember, it's not nice you saw me trying to gauge out my own eyes in your dream..." That sentence was left uncompleted, considering Chameleon was a really squeamish person, and you never knew if he was eavesdropping or not.

"Yeah, well, let's just mention this one was way worse than that. Not only that, but that kid, whoever he is, is definitely young, or at least he looked young from what little I could tell. Definitely younger than Tap. The thing is, and this is what worries me, he looked really familiar. I swear I've talked with him before. We need to find him, we've all experienced first hand what he's about to, and it's horrible without help."

The group all silently agreed and they decided to end the meeting with the promise of finding whoever that was. After all, they were not losing another one. Not after what happened.