Last Chapter of – Her Light Will Never Die Out

Written by- Appleblx

OwlCookies feels sad pressing the 'completed' button. Thank you all for reading this far!"

Ariel's POV

I somehow (metaphorically speaking) bumped into Kid and Tsuki.

"HI!" Tsuki greeted us in her inhumanly squeaky voice. Just before any of us could respond, an explosion... exploded just a mile away from us.

"Damn," I commented. "What's with all these stupid bombs? Now I can't even even find Shiroi! … Or anyone..."

"I can't find Sa-chan either..." Tsuki declared with a tilt of her head.

"Uh... Maybe we should find some shelter... somewhere nonexplosive?" Kid suggested.

"How do you expect to find that when everything's destroyed and explosive? And besides... eww..."

Kid and Ariel turned to Tsuki."What?"

"The naked cannibal is eating the market-shop owner!"

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Shanon's POV

"Kimblee! So you're behind this!" I absentmindedly dropped Kuromi in my rage and clenched my fists as tight as I could. Possibly tighter. I scowled, disgusted, as the crimson-alchemist blew up another poor guy with his alchemy.

"Hah!- No, it was your cat! What did you expect?" He blew his hands off, and straightened himself, as if he was waiting for me for something.

I gritted my teeth and started to charge towards him. As I gained up to him, he dodged my runs like they were nothing.

"You coward! You can't even battle an unarmed little-girl!" I sneered as I turned back around in his direction.

"Who said I couldn't?" Kimblee started to swerve towards me, lowering my hands, about to hit me with them, getting ready to blow me up with his alchemical runes. I luckily dodged this attack at the last second.

Damn... that was close... I thought as I ran towards Kuromi and picked her up.

"Oh! Who's this coward now? You need a weapon to defeat an unarmed man with a few marks on his hands?" Kimblee laughed, dodging my slices of Kuromi's blade aimed at him. "How ironic."

Then... he did something to aggravating me even more! He was facing me with his FRIKIN' HANDS IN HIS FRIKIN' POCKETS! WHILE I WAS FRICKIN' FIGHTING HIM! "BASTARD!"

I started to stab at his direction more fiercely and faster now, making him smirk even more.

"Dude! Shanon! DAMNIT! SLOW DOWN!"

Kimblee jumped a distance away from me, and froze, as I stood there, panting.

"You should listen to your partner," The former state-alchemist grinned, looking down upon me. "As you may have heard, a common weakness is irritation. While you are calm and cool, I admit that I have to watch out for your attacks. But now, your attacks are easy to read." He finished by taking a stick out of his suit pocket and stuck it into his mouth to chew on.

I paused from my panting. So that's why... The bastard!

Kimblee suddenly jerked and stopped his chewing for a moment abruptly, causing me to flinch. On his face, he put on this creepy, toothy, grin. "They're here..." That smile kept on getting more maniac-like by the second.

"W-what? Who's here?" I stammered, turning my head around. Simultaneously, Kuromi and I gasped.

Kimblee's face had gotten to the point where it could never get any more horrifying. "The mannequin soldiers of course!"

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Ariel's POV

More of those 'naked cannibals' started appearing, causing Tsuki and I to start to freak out.

"No! OMG! What if everyone except us has been eaten... w-what if w-we're next? No! Sa-chan! Sha-chan! Kuri-chan! Blai- No, not her. She's a perv... BUT SHE"S A KITTY! NYA~! But..." She continued on in an in-understandable rant or protest, or whatever. That's Tsuki. Not like anybody could ever understand her.

"W-What about Shiroi?Ashlie? Ryu? OHMIGOSH! They couldn't be eaten either...No! N-"

"SHUT. UP." Kid got our attention, causing us to stop flailing around, and look at him. "Okay, these 'naked cannibals' couldn't have been here that long! Or else they would be surrounding us!" He had a point there...

"N-NO! Monsters! What if we get eaten? No! I wanna live! Let's go Kid! We have to get away from those monsters!" Liz said, apparently in the process after losing her mind. Patty just giggled at the demon-weapon's hyperventilation.

"No, Liz, we are not going to get eaten. I promise you that none of us will." Kid calmly reassured her, looking around.

"Why don't we just call them cannibals?"

"Kay!"

While I sighed, trying to hope Kid's words were true, I could slightly see Tsuki's eyes widen. Or maybe they were already that wide, I mean, she's like a kiddy midget. And those have big eyes. Yeah... Kid too! Wait, Kid's not a midget! Mmm...

"Yeah? What is it?" I started to growl.

The midget started to glance at me worriedly."Arie-chan...um..."

"Run! Get out of there!"

I looked behind me. Oh shit! No wonder! The monster! Damn-damn-damdamdamn...It was too late to run now. The thing had chomped onto my hair!

" Help! Ohmigod! SOMEONE! Please..." I moaned desperately, flailing, trying to get the brainless demon off. I t kept a firm hold. "GEETTT OOFFF!" I yelled. I then screamed as loud as I could.

Suddenly, I felt the cannibals being knocked off me.

"K-kid..!"

"Run! RUN! DUDE! REALLY. RUUNN!" By now the cannibals had totally mauled the poor guy, leaving him no chance to escape. I knew staying there would just make it worse, so I just looked back once more with big, frightful eyes, and followed Kid's orders. Running as fast as I could, I tried not to think about what just happened.

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Tsuki's POV

I admit that I was just standing there too... Damn! That girl can scream! Almost as loud as Shanon! So... LOUD! I was left stunned.

When I finally snapped out of it, Ariel was gone. In place was a pretty gory scene with the cannibals crowding around.

I then heard someone shout at me. "Tsuki! Catch!"

Out of nowhere, the two twin pistols had been flung to me, and I ALMOST caught them. I flailed my arms around for them, and I think Patty landed on my face, and I accidentally flung Liz away with my arm. I quickly caught them before they dropped to the ground.

"Whe- where's Kid and Ariel?"

I could tell if Liz wasn't in gun form, she'd be looking at me with a look of fear and the WTF-how-could-you-miss-that face. "D-dude...! Kid just got... eaten... and Ariel ran away!"

"LOLWUT?" I shouted, horrified. Kid was... and I knew Ariel was a coward! (JK!)

Somehow, I felt claustrophobic. I turned around slowly, clutching the guns tightly to my chest.

"Dude! Run!" Hearing Liz' voice made me flinch, and I started racing away, leaving the not yet full cannibals chasing after me, with trails of blood left dripping from their mouths.

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Liz's POV

I couldn't help but worry at Tsuki's pace of speed. "HEY! This is no time to be jogging along! Run faster!"

"I- huff - 'm running – as fast as I...-huff- can!" She retorted.

"Well, you are a desperately slow runner!"

"I'm a weapon! Not a meister! What do you think? And the weight of holding two weapons I've never resonated before is dragging me down as well!"

Oh yeah. I remember, when Black Star had tried to pick up Soul, having never resonating with him, they kinda had... troubles... Now I felt a little sorry for Patty knocking the kid on the face.

I looked behind us after a minute, and saw the freakishly familiar, one-eyed faces, just about ten meters behind.

"I...huff... can...an't... r-run... anymore..." Tsuki groaned. "T-too... tired..." She started slowing down.

"No! You can't!" Patty cheered her on. "You'll be nude-food!"

I felt relieved when she started pacing faster, but then she tumbled on the ground and landed on her back. She faced the sky with a frustrated look on, tears starting to bubble in her eyes. "I can't run anymore! Stop it! I can't! I don't care about being eaten! I can't run!" After admitting this, she bit her lip and closed her eyes tight, apparently bracing herself.

"But what about us? We'll be eaten too!" Patty coaxed her, unsuccessfully.

Tsuki began to look worried. "Y-you can protect yourselves in weapon form..."

Suddenly, an idea popped in my head! I remembered, once, someone poked Tsuki in the stomach, and she was laughing, flailing desperately, making the person pinky promise not to 'tickle her' again. (A.N. I'm guilty... they didn't dare tickle me again, since they were afraid I might actually die from it) "Hey... Tsuki... when they come.. what if they tickle you?"

"!" She quickly got up to her feet, and sprinted fast away. Unfortunately, she had limits, and the cannibals were slowly catching up to her.

"N-no! Get away!" she shouted while running. "Don't tickle me!"

Not very long after, about 10 seconds, the things were surrounding her. "Pl-please... don't tickle me..." She started crying. After dropping me, she held Patty up to one, eye level. Her eyes looked like they would burst from fright. (See Winry about to shoot Scar XP)

Kl- Klii-i-i-i-

Kli-

After trying desperately to try and pull her trigger, Tsuki fell to the ground, a defeated look on her face. "I-it... won't pull..." She made her body go even more limp. "No... I'll be..." pause. " Too late..."

Thankfully she passed out before being... 'tickled'. I could see one of the things chomp on her left arm while she silently squealed.

"Ts-Tsuki! Dude!" I never felt so helpless. I couldn't help my meister, and now I wasn't able to help a little, naive, weapon girl. Speaking about my meister, I thought about Kid being eaten again, and felt even more hopeless. Wasn't the weapon supposed to save the meister? Why hadn't I done that... I just stared... And Kid broke his promise! That jerk... Why does everyone keep making promises they can't keep?

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Shanon's POV

Ha ha! That idiot. Telling me my weakness. Good thing I kicked his A.S.S.! Kimblee was on the ground, drawing his last breaths after I had composed myself and kept my face completely emotionless. I looked down at him, and he looked back up at me. How pretty. The only thing hat perturbed me was that smirk still plastered on his face.

Now was the time to put my full emotion in my face. "WHY WON 'T YOU JUST STOP SMILING, YOU BASTARD?" I hissed.

"What good would that do?"

I thought about that for a minute. "Give me a feeling of accomplishment?" I suggested with a thoughtful smile on.

He weakly looked up at me, as the humanoids crowded ravenously around him, ready to eat him away, eyes wide. "You foolish girl... feelings will get you nowhere..."

Moments later, as he was gone, I frowned. "How could you say that when your feelings of hate towards people killed you?"

Kuromi turned back into human form, as if to see the scene herself. "Forget him, Shanon." I just shrugged and we turned around to see the horrible scene in front of us.

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I opened my eyes wide. "Wh-where is everybody?" The sky had a red tint, thanks to Kimblee blowing everything up. The sky had that bloody tint to it. The laws of evaporation were creepy in Death City...

You could see bloody corpses of people half eaten, and the mannequin soldiers everywhere with blood lining their mouths.

"Shanon! Watch out!" I heard my partner yell as a mannequin soldier was about to chomp on my head.

"Woah! Kuromi! I! Choose! YOUU!" I yelled as Kuromi face palmed and jumped into weapon form as I caught her. That seriously takes practice, I tell you.

I chopped it's head off, and ran off.

"Uhh... Shanon, it's head reattached..." Kuromi proclaimed while I ran fast.

"W-Whaaah? S-so..? I'm running off, see?" I reassured both of us. "Why do you have to tell me very unuseful information that could slow me down?"

"Sorry, just saying."

As I ran, I saw a crowd of the mannequin soldiers crowd around someone. Out of my good heart, I decided to at least try to help that person. I slid down the tiny hill I was on to the lower land mass.

"Let's see... " I mumbled as I quickly drew an alchemical circle below me. I then clapped and slapped the circle as spikes appeared and knocked the soldiers away from the person. I could see blood gushing from her left shoulder.

"Tsuki!" I shouted.

"Finally, help arrived!" I heard Liz shout in weapon form.

"What... happened?" I asked as Liz was about to shout something at me. " Actually, I think you can explain on the way there..."

"...Good idea." She turned to weapon form picking up the tiny girl and her sister in gun form.

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Sara's POV

It was pretty tough waiting in a single room with most of the townspeople and Shibusen students. Especially when the people you were waiting most for weren't there.

Around me, I could see Soul and Maka leaning on Soul's motorbike. Ariel was sitting wide-eyed, being hugged by one of her friends, and spoken to by her partner. She wouldn't tell me what was wrong, so I decided to ignore her. A pet shop owner was hugging a few scrambling kittens and a big, whimpering dog.

I decided to hug my knees- I didn't have anything else to do. Where is Shanon, Kuromi, and Tsuki? I couldn't help but wonder that the whole time. I looked at the entrance to the Death Room, where we were all staying in. I was waiting for the door to open. Suddenly- it had opened!

And... a little girl and her mother came rushing in, crying.

That's not them... I thought, disappointed.

Soul's bike suddenly started tilting over in my side. I stood up, about to slap it away with my hands "Agghhh!"

Thankfully, Soul caught it. "Sorry 'bout that." He answered coolly. I huffed, and sat back down, frowning at him, while Maka gave me an apologetic smile, and a disapproving look to Soul.

"Sa-chan!"

"Gyaaagghh!" I screamed... again. "Shan... YOU"RE HERE! OH EM GEEE! I was worried sick and -" I rambled on.

Liz came and dropped Tsuki. "Saa-chhaaaa! I was almost tickled to death by a naked cannibal!" She cried in my shirt, hugging me with her right arm. I then noticed her left arm. It was all limp and bloody. But, I decided to save that story for later, no matter how worried I was about that.

I then noticed Liz and Patty... alone. "Hey, where's Kid?" I casually asked. In the corner of my eye, I could see Ariel looking back at us, more scared-looking. I could kinda tell this wasn't going to be good.

"Uhh... well... he..."

"HE GOT TICKLED TO DEATH BY THE TICKLE MONSTER!" Tsuki frowned. "And I'm only putting it lightly."

"Oh..."

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Shanon's POV

Kid getting tickled? Uhh... I thought. Then something suddenly crossed my mind. Tsuki was almost eaten by the mannequin soldiers, and she claimed she was almost being tickled to death. So if Kid had gotten 'tickled' to death, that would mean...

"Oh woah, wait... HE WAS EATEN?" Sara yelled loudly, and the whole room started to look at her for a second, and go back to what they were doing.

I could hear Ariel whimper. Tsuki nodded her head.

"Woah... indeed..." I stammered, shocked.

"It's my fault... I got distracted... and... he saved me..." Ariel stammered.

Wow... I've never seen her like this... I thought. Did she... like him? Woah... Eww... Romance...

I then turned and saw something that could help us... hopefully.

Yes... perfect... We could save Death City with this!

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Kuromi's POV

"WHAT? You want to take my bike out there and RUIN IT?" Soul yelled.

"Please... either you lose your bike, be stuck in here forever until you all starve to death, or have everyone eaten alive AND lose your bike." Shanon convinced him.

"Well... I guess... You know what? I come from a rich family. Fine. Wreck it all you want. It only cost about, like, two thousand dollars."

"Th-thank you Soul!" We both exclaimed at the same time.

We then turned to Ariel, Sara and Tsuki.

"Sha-chan... be careful..."

"Don't worry about us! And when we're done, don't worry about us, because we're going to go back to where we came from. Shanon's parents are expecting us... Real soon."

"B-but..." Tsuki looked down.

"Don't worry. We'll come back... someday, I hope." I reassured her.

"Someday... Hopefully?" She looked back at us, wide-eyed and clenching on to us with her right hand. "N-no... DON'T LEAVE ME!" She shouted, crying. "Please... You're my two first friends... I wouldn't be who I was without you... You can't leave me and hopefully come back!"

Shanon bent down to her level, since she was sitting on the floor. "Don't worry, I won't forget about you. Never." She reassured her. "I promise."

Tsuki tried her best to get up, and clenched her into a hug tightly, still crying. "You better not, stupid. Don't you EVER forget about me! I won't forget about you either! Neither will anybody here! Have fun!" She fell, smiling. "Ahh...My legs still feel like jello... sorry," Tsuki stammered.

Shanon grabbed the motor bike and smiled back. I climbed on and held tight, waving to the trio watching us leave.

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Shanon's POV

I looked at the school building for one last time. Goodbye, everybody. I plugged in the keys to the motorbike, and cranked it up. We were at the far end of the city, and we could see the the nude maniacs clumsily searching around the town, about fifty meters away from us.

"Shanon... I know this is kinda a little late to ask... but why do we need Soul's bike to save Death City?" I heard Kuromi ask in weapon form as I held her.

"Remember Amestris?" I asked. " I remember Dad telling me that that whole country had an activated alchemy circle around it..."

"Shanon..."

"So, if a circle that big could be activated, so could Death City, right?"

"I know what you're thinking, Shanon. If you were going to disintegrate some materials or even change them, wouldn't it do that to the humans too?"

"Well, since they don't have souls like we do, I heard there was this new element in the Philosopher's stones used to make them. It's called Vivorium. You know, 'cause viva means life, and it was found somewhere in the hispanicy part of our world? Don't know what it's called there though,"

"So, since humans have souls, this Vivorium takes place in them instead?"

"Yeah. There's only a teensy weensy bit in them, but it's their source of life. It's in other animals and insects too,but in Death City, animals have souls, thanks to Lord Death's magic. An example would be Blair. Plants don't have it 'cause... they're plants."

"Oh... I get it. WHY DIDN'T YOU EXPLAIN THIS BIT OF INFORMATION TO ME BEFOREHAND?"

"Sorry... Heeheee!" I laughed back. "Let's go." I then used alchemy to place Kuromi at the bottom end to the bike so it could leave marks and hold her still. We then drove off, me driving as steady as I could, an almost perfect roundish line.

Cruisin in the motorbike was actually more fun than it looked. My hair was flowing below my kitty hat and cool wind in my face.

Unfortunately, my partner had to interrupt. " Shanon... Faster!" I looked in the mirror beside the steering rod thing. Sure enough, about fifteen of the one-eyed imbeciles were after us. I pressed the gas pedal harder, and hoped weapons didn't feel physical pressure.

Thankfully, we lost them, and an hour later, we finally finished the circle. Now for the details! How fun! Now to dodge those funny, little, harmless mannequin soldiers.

Yes, if you were that dumb, I was being sarcastic.

I thankfully memorized the right transmutation circle, and was able to trace it in about two hours. "Destruction alchemy..." I murmured.

"Alchemy that could break down one element and change it to another." Kuromi added, while turning into human form with a flash of blue light.

"Right." I knealt down, ready to finish what I've started- put this foreign city to peril, even taking away one of it's best defenders along with it. We've caused nothing but trouble here, and made even more trouble to the people by leaving. " No regrets, right, Kuromi?"

"None. None at all."

A flash of red light appeared, and all the nude monsters collapsed to the ground, slobber and blood dripping from their mouths.

"Let's go home now."

XXX

I drew the alchemy circle, and I activated it, using a combining alchemy to drag Kuromi along with me.

"You again. You're back. I expect you want to get back to your world, ehh?" Truth laughed.

"Yes."

He smirked at me. "What are you going to give now? You haven't payed the toll for about four times. What do you expect me to take now?"

I looked back at him, horrified. "Not to mention your friend over there hasn't payed for what traveling she's done, either."

"I.. I.." No... Don't hurt Kuromi... "My memories. Memories from this world. They are the most precious to me. If you take my heart or brain, or my full body myself, it wouldn't add up to the memories here. Even if you take anything twice, all these feelings, they would never add up to my friends... and... Justin too..."

"..."

Did... Did I give him enough? Too little? Oh please, no...

"Very well." Truth sighed as my face brightened. "But, to make it fair, I am taking something away from Kuromi."

"N..no... NO! Bastard!"

"Her memory of this trip is all I want."

I looked back at him. "Th- thank you... Truth..."

"Never come back. Ahh, but you won't remember this!" Truth said laughing, and everything went black.

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Kuromi's POV

I found myself transitioning from Shanon doing her alchemy to a place in Central.

Whoah... did she do it by us just getting here? I thought as I looked around.

"Sh- shanon!" I stammered as I found her beside me.

"Huh? Kuri-chan?" She looked back at me. I just blinked.

"How did you do that?"

"Do what?"

By now, I felt just as confused as her. "Get us here without paying a toll."

"What toll?"

"Uhh... If we didn't have to, did you use a different type of alchemy to get us here?"

"Alchemy? For what? Last time I checked, we walked here together."

"Shanon?" I stared at her wide-eyed. "Are you alright?"

"Kuromi, I could ask the same with you. What kind of toll are you talking about? It'd not like we used a train to get here or anything," She tried to give me a reassuring smile.

"Dude... Did you... loose your memory?" I asked, horrified.

"Umm... no? Did you hallucinate or something?" She said with a sarcastic smile.

"Shanon... What about Tsuki, Sara, Ariel? Don't they..."

"What kind of prank are you trying to pull on me?" Shanon looked concerned now. "Either this is a game, or you need some serious mental help."

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Spirit's POV

"Lord Death, did you hear about your son?" I asked him.

"Hmm... what do you mean?"

"Oh... You haven't."

"Nope."

"Then I'll let someone else tell you." Lord Death stared at me. This time of the night, all of the naked monsters had suddenly disappeared, and I hoped it was because of the weapon-meister team that had vanquished them.

"Actually, tell me now. What happened?" The shinigami tilted his head to the side.

"He got eaten by one of the naked things outside to save one of the DWMA students..." I tried telling him as lightly as I could.

"That's a bother."

"That's a WHAT?"

"I said, that's a-"

"I knew it! You really are a heartless father! I would never say something like that after the death of my beloved-"

"MAKA-CHOP! You idiot! Don't you know that people greive in their own way? You... How could you be so insensitive to Lord Death?"

"Maka's right. My... best friend was one of the girls in the team that went off to rid of the nude humanoids. She claimed she may or may not come back, and she hasn't come back. Even if she provided that excuse, what am I supposed to think?" A certain priest came into the conversation.

I looked ashamed. "S-sorry... but... still. It seems hard to loose a child, so I wanted to help, but he isn't giving me any oppurtunity to..."

"Here's an oppurtunity, Spirit. Why don't you entertain our guests, in a non-perverted way? Every one seems so gloomy today~."

"I-ll try."

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One Month Later

Sara's POV

"Do you think Sha-chan's goina write anytime soon?" Tsuki asked for the billionth time.

"I don't think so." I answered for the billionth time.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

We had gotten on with our life just fine, except every one was required to help clean up the city. It was pretty scary, considering the ground was covered in blood and the monsters' corpses were scattered everywhere.

Tsuki still checked the mailbox everyday, since, to her, being remembered was sent messages to announce that she's still in mind.

"I- I just want to check... just in case! What if she sends me something, and I don't respond for a few months? It would show that I had forgotten about her and don't care anymore!"

"If that was the case, don't you feel forgotten that she hasn't sent anything to you?" I asked, being logical.

"No,"

"Then she wouldn't feel forgotten if you didn't respond. She and Kuromi promised they'd remember you, so all you've gotta do is keep remembering them, right?"

"I guess you're right." She looked at me. "They promised they would remember us, so they would. Remembering someone isn't to hard, right?"

"Uhh... yeah..." I stammered. "Unless you have short term memory loss, I guess.

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Shanon's POV

Kuromi was always being illogical. Even my parents were playing along with her, too. The month was filled with this silly game.

"Shanon, why don't you believe me?" She asked.

"I swear, Kuromi. This month, you've suddenly turned into a brilliant actor."

"I'm not acting. Please... believe me... You promised everyone then that you would,"

"I didn't promise anyone anything." I huffed.

"I think... it had to do with the toll..."

"For the thousandth time, what toll?" I laughed.

"Never mind. Let's never talk about this again..." Kuromi said, with a really sad look on, and turned away and walked on.

I started chasing after her. "Kuromi! Please... stop... Are you really okay? Are you really feeling this way? Tell the truth! Please!"

"If I told you, you'd only believe me if I said I was joking. But I've been telling you the truth this whole time. Please... let's forget about this... They'll... be so disappointed..."

"Who?"

"I told you. Ariel, Justin, Tsuki, Sara-"

"STOP IT, KUROMI! I can't take it... fine... forget about this... Please, don't play this game on mr again..." I said, slumping on the grass below me.

"That's what I've tried to do," she said, helping me up.

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Kuromi's POV

Shanon wouldn't understand. I'm pretty sure this was because of stupid Truth... but why couldn't I remember being there like before?

I guess we'd find out later... And Shanon, I could only hope she could remember our old friends as soon as she could, and we could reflect on our feelings and memories later.

For now, she wouldn't understand.

"C'mon, Shan! I'll race you back to the house!"

"Ha! I'm going to beat you!"

"Did you get enough water this time?" Her mom asked.

"Yeah," We said at the same time, handing our buckets to her.

"Okay. Thanks, We'll make stew tonight."

"Kay!"