Demons from the Past

A loud crunch could be heard in the distance. Apples from Karakuri are so much better than those that are in the guild hall. I might as well get me a good bit from here. He grinned to himself as he was standing a far enough distance away. Then he looked out to the girl laying down in the village. The closed eyes mage tilted his head as he could recognize the girl. Midisian. His red eyes opened in shock. The scent that flew towards him it was definitely her's. Why though... She's dead. Kyle moved silently between the crowd of people and tried to get a good look, but it wasn't helping him at all. Her voice... I need to hear her voice... Kyle thought. He looked in his pocket and walked away silently. He then found a child sitting on a bench. He sat down next to him and looked right at the boy. "Hey kid... I want you to hand this apple to that girl laying down in the field over there." He gave him a couple jewel and the child nodded and ran up to her. Kyle followed suit and hid behind a near by building so that he could hear this familiar girl's voice.

Foot steps could be heard in the grass as they made their way up to Saeko. "Excuse me," a high pitched voice sounded. "I was told to bring this to you."

Kyle tensed when he heard her voice. Her sweet, sweet voice. However it sounded colder. Yet Kyle could still listen to her for days even months. He tried to place why she sounded so familiar yet so unfamiliar at the same time. What was the difference? Kyle's red eyes opened as he looked at the girl. He couldn't talk let alone breathe. He knew for certain he had sat through watching this girl die right before his eyes. Then finally the name slipped out of his lips, like a whisper that was so strange and yet nostalgic, "Mei..." His voice was so small he seemed to have mumbled the name. Yet he felt that he was thinking. Kyle put a hand over his mouth when he realized he spoke out of the shock and awe he felt. "Ahem..." He cleared his throat and then stuffed his hands into his pocket. He then cocked his head to the side and gulped as he tried to speak again.

The words were so hard to pull out of his mind and into the clear open air. Things just didn't really seem to fit with the reality he was in at the moment. Forced to join a guild. Forced into a position of power where he would be forever stuck in said guild. Then this girl who looked exactly like one of his relatives had shown up. Finally he had thought of what he wanted to say. He needed a look of shock from this girl. Something emotional that would make her upset and feel betrayed at the same time. The look that haunted his memory. This would definitely confirm that this girl was exactly who he remembered her as. But what would he say, what could he say to make a girl feel so shocked and betrayed that she would absolutely hate him for the rest of his life? Then it hit him. A bug. To his face. The bug was a rather large dragon fly. He stared at it for a minute then looked right at the girl. "Hold on." He took the bug off of his face then gently sat it on her shoulder.

That face... Yes it is her. Kyle thought. Then he couldn't control his next sentence as he remembered how he used to gift his sister with a scarab pin every time he came back from a mission. Maybe she was fearful of them and treasured them only to make Kyle happy, or perhaps this girl was a different person altogether. However his hubris got the better of him.

"Strange..." Kyle said looking at her with a rather irritated. "You loved scarabs." Kyle let that slip. He put a hand behind his head and then sighed. Of course she wouldn't remember the many combs and lockets he found with their desert bug family emblem on it. Kyle shook his head in disbelief. How could SHE be alive when he let her die for the sake of saving his own skin. This was exactly the type of ironic twist of fate he had not foreseen. This girl, was Mei. "I'm sorry," came out of his mouth. It was forced out on a more emotional level than usual. However, she did not recognize Kyle. Her own brother. "My name is Lien." He said introducing himself to her. "Do excuse me," You remind me of someone."[/color] It had been a couple years since Kyle last used his real name. His family had usually given him names that were uninspired versions of his targets names. He figured that it would be best in this town, especially around the Eclipse Soul guild hall, to stray away from using Kyle Vay. It was far too close to one of their most powerful wizards.