Guns blaze as led flies. Tank tracks squeal as footsteps advanced. Shouts and screams as people die. How can this be the place I once lived? Could it be that hell has accended t the surface of the world?

The ship I once lived, the one that I called home after my mother dishomed me burns as it starts to tilt. In the sky above me, airships hang menacingly in the night sky as the mercilessly drop bombs down onto the deck. Everywhere around me I see death and destruction. My friends, the people who are special in my life and my me so happy lay dead around me. Their bodies bloody and mangled, their faces filled with pain and agony. Once again I find myself alone in the world. As I look up and see the bomb fall towards me, I'm not surprised that I feel relief instead of fear. At least I won't be alone anymore. I'll soon be meeting my friends in the afterlife.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

I jump up at the sound of my alarm going with my heart pounding in my chest and a thin layer of sweat covering my body. I'm alive. I quickly get to my feet and roughly threw open the curtains of my room. The relief I feel at the sight before me is a more than welcome sight. A beautiful morning on a ship I consider to be a floating paradise. There is no smoke, no fire, no ruins and no dead bodies on the streets.

I sigh in relief as I sit on my bed. It was just a dream. Just a horrible nightmare that's over now. No ones dead. No ones hurt. I am not alone. I place my hand over my heart that's pounding so hard I may break a rib. Leaving home has damaged my heart, my mother telling me to go left a hole there but it was leaving my sister that hurt the most.

Maho, I big sis, has always watched out for me for as long as I could remember. We were always together whether it was Sensha-dō, training, eating, bathing and we almost always spent our nights together falling asleep in each other's arms then waking up in the same state. We were happy, I have never been able to find that same happiness again. It wasn't until we were torn apart that I realized how much Maho meant to me, we would text each other all the time, but I missed her voice and warmth. Our mother has made it hard for us to see and even speak to each other.

I just feel my wind.

I just feel my shine.

Rise and ride into the sky!

My ringtone always makes me smile; I would use it as my alarm, but I can see myself just listening to the song instead of waking up. The songs called DreamRiser and is perfumed by ChouCho. I fell in love with the song after my friends, and I won the Sensha-dō tournament last year. Someone was playing that song as we rode our tanks back to our ship and home. I can't help myself; I have to listen just a little more.

I knew that these dreams would be vexing from the start

even though I noticed the apathetic winds.

I stretch my fingers out towards the sun and feel their resonance.

I feel its rays between my blinks.

I can't leave whoever's on the phone hanging for much longer. It will be rude of me to listen to any more of this song and leave the other person hanging. So I pick up my phone and answer the call.

"Hello."

"Miho," The voice belongs to someone I recognize even without the aid of caller id I know who the person on the other end of the phone is. "It's me Anzu are you free right now?"

"I'll be free in about ten minutes," I answer guessing that will be enough time to wash my face and get dressed. I can always eat some toast on my way out. "Is there something you need?"

"Will you be able to come to my office as soon as you can?" Anzu replies, it is not something that hasn't happened before, but I get the feeling that going to meet her this time will be different than before.

"Sure I'll be there in about fifteen minutes," I tell her.

"See you then," Anzu says before hanging up.

It doesn't take long for me to walk to the president's office. My apartment is located close to the school, and I know several shortcuts. Once I arrive on the campus, the first thing I notice is the amount of Ooarai students she sees on the school grounds. It is normal for the students to be on campus even when the school is closed like it is today. A few people wave and smile at me and some of those people I exchange a few words with but I continue to walk towards the student council room. I knock on the door as I enter the room but am soon stopped in my tracks. The sight before me, the sight I never thought I would see again outside of battle.

"Maho," Her name leaves my lips without me even realizing it.

I smile as a most welcome mixture of emotions erupt from within my body. Happiness in the presence of my sister. Admirations at her beauty and the way she always composes herself and love for the first person to watch my back. But amidst all those beautiful feelings an unwelcome one joins the mix. Confusion, confusion as to why my sister has come all the way from Kuromorimine to be here.

"Miho," Her lips say my name as I notice the sadness in her eyes. "Did someone already tell you the news?"

"What news?" I ask getting more confused as I feel something wet on my check. I swipe it with my hand and discover it was a tear, and there are more where that came from leaving my eyes. When did I start crying?

"Miho I have some bad news," Her arms wrap around me, nothing has made me feel safer than these arms. "It's about our mother. She's had an accident." Mother. We may not have been close, she may have kicked me out of our family, but I still loved her. My heart sinks as I wait to hear what Maho is about to tell me. "I'm sorry Miho, she's gone."

I feel my body collapse as the news sinks in and if it weren't for my sister, I wouldn't be standing upright. I don't know what caused me to cry at first, but now I do. I cry into Maho's shoulder as she cries into my, we hold each other never wanting to let go. Mother, she's gone.