A/N: I don't own Gakuen Alice. If I did, recent chapters would have gone much differently T^T

Prologue

I was born at midnight, to a sickly mother and an absent minded father. I was small, smaller than a baby carried full term should be, I was skinny, and constantly shaking, even wrapped inside of my swaddling clothes. My mother held me quietly in her arms as I struggled to survive, not knowing that every breath I breathed I was taking directly from my mother's dying body.

With my coming into the world, she was being taken out of it, and she knew it. She smiled at the man tending to her, her childhood friend, and my godfather, and she handed me to him. I wailed, not wanting to leave my mothers arms, cold and thin as they were.

"Her name…" she wheezed through cracked gray lips.

"Is Mikan, and she will make me proud." These were her last words, before she died.