Mr. Arigold had just returned holding a Gray Cat Girl in a white dress, Her hair is gray like mine but longer. He drops her on her back, and she looks around until we lock eyes.

The Girl stands up, and approaches me, everyone else is mesmerized by their own clones

The Girl is a little pale, she’s wearing a White Dress that goes down to her Knees. On it’s Rims are Black Lichtenberg Patterns She must have sewn it herself. Her Shoes are just like mine, and she has that same Triangle Pattern separating her Hair from her Forehead. She has 3 lines on both of Her cheeks. Her Hair is the same color as mine, but it reaches down to her hips. Her Shoes are like everyone else’s, nobody ever really cared about their shoes anyways. She’s also wearing White Gloves, that separate into strands of cloth that wraps around her arms until they reach her Elbows. She has a white hat, it blocks most of the sunlight from touching her skin, I guess that’s why her it's so pale.

The Roof opens up and the floor begins to rise. Oh, Mr. Arigold must have activated the Elevator.

Me and the Girl are now face to face, she just stares at me, until She says something. “H-Hello, who are you?” Right. “I-I’m Lexis. Lexis-Cordial-Genesis, it’s… Nice to meet you.” She takes a look at my clothes, and winces. “I-I’m Vexalan-Genesis, what happened?” I look away, I can’t say it. “Mr. Arigold… He’s what happened.” She looks over at Mr. Arigold, he’s giving Orders to some of his Soldiers. “He doesn’t seem so bad, he carried me all the way here when I got tired…” I shake my head, and she holds her hands to her chest. “He’s the reason I’m covered in Blood like this, if he felt like it, he would kill anyone at any moment. You should stay away from him.” Vexa looks away, she doesn’t seem to believe me. “I-I mean, the Blood’s there, but I haven’t seen him do it, and I’m not sure if I can trust you.” I sigh, and I think for a moment.

I guess you can’t convince someone you just met that easily.

“I understand, just, listen, he’s a bad man, you should really avoid him. My Siblings are probably telling Your Siblings about this exact thing.” She looks at me again. “I-I guess I’ll at least l-listen to you, I’ll try to avoid him.”

“Why is the Dragon not moving?” I hear from behind me, I turn around, and everyone turns to look at Mr. Arigold. As I walk up to him, I say. “He’s sad over Mother, Mr. Arigold.” I’m sure he’ll give us enough time to at least get over Mother. “When will he be willing to?” Damnit! I look over at Calvin, and yeah, he’s not moving. “He’s sad, he won’t be willing to get up for a week, or unless you find a way to make him.” Mr. Arigold just stares at Calvin, most likely thinking of killing him.

I was about to walk back over to Vexa, but I feel a horrible pain in my Body, and I went limp for a moment. I try to scream out the pain but the paralyzing pain overtakes me. I guess I can try to use this... Once I come to my senses, I speak. “C-Calvin, I’m sorry, I couldn’t-” I begin coughing up blood, it hurts. “He’ll- Just listen to him Calvin- He doesn’t care, he’ll do anything to get his way…” The Weapon is finally taken out of my Body, and I fall to my hands and knees, coughing up more Blood. Vexa runs over to me, and holds me up. “I-I told you, Vexa, he’s a terrible, horrible, murderous man, he’d kill you the moment he felt like it!” As I say this, Mr. Arigold continues. “You should be more careful with what you say, Lexis. And if anyone decides not to listen to me, I’ll either kill you, or I’ll hurt Lexis here.” Everyone nods, and he puts his damn Weapon away. Thank god, we got him to calm down…

“It’s already morning, I guess we should get moving.” Oh come on, I’m bleeding out here… A Woman who looks like some sort of Wizard walks up, and convinces him to let us stay for a while. Thank god… Vexa holds me in Her arms as I lay here and bleed out. Flare floats up to me, and says something to Vexa. Oh, I think I’m dying… I can’t even hear what they’re saying. Vexa pulls up my Shirt, and Flare Cauterizes my Wounds with her Flame Powers. I barely feel the pain, but I somehow manage to hold on to consciousness. Vexa holds me close, as I feel my body dying, and She starts purring. My Body vibrates to the rhythm of her Purrs, and it starts to feel a little better. It’s surprisingly effective, it’s no heal spell, but I’m starting to feel a little better, and I can feel my energy return.

Maybe we should try this too, I forgot our species even has it.

Yeah, I guess, I’ll analyze it for a while.

Static starts to erupt from my Body, and I purr along with Vexa, as I begin to finally lose consciousness.

I’ll name this one Static Frequencer for you.

Yeah, thanks man, good night…

Goodnight.

I awaken once again, Vexalan is purring next to me, She’s asleep, but there’s something different, static is erupting around her body while She purrs, I can feel the Static keeping me warm, I was freezing and I didn’t even realize it, I had lost so much Blood.

I wish I took the time to develop some sort of Healing Spell, they’re just so complicated. I look around, everyone’s asleep, it’s Night. I look over at Mr. Arigold, I can’t see his face. Is he also asleep? Vexalan is fast asleep, I try to stand, it’s hard, but I can do it.

I walk over to Mr. Arigold, he’s just lying there, looking off in the distance. “Hello, Lex. Your Siblings fell asleep waiting on you. I decided I would just wait until morning.” I was surprised to see he’s still awake, I guess He never sleeps either. I calm down. “I see, thanks. Do you never sleep?” I was hoping we could get away while everyone was sleeping... “I do, every once a month or so, when they’re willing to be quiet. I think my record was about 10 Years or so?” As monstrous as expected, I bet he sleeps like a Log when he does get to Bed though. “Did… Did you have to stab me?” It’s silent, I pull up my Shirt and look at the wound. This thing’s definitely gonna’ scar, it still burns like hell… “No. I didn’t have to, to be honest, I could probably just drag that Dragon with us, it’s still pretty young, so it wouldn’t take much effort. Really, stabbing you to threaten the Dragon was the first thing that came to Mind, and I decided I wasn’t going to deal with it.”

Come on man… He did that because he’s lazy?

I guess he did… Let’s kill him the first chance we get.

That’ll take forever, and he’d probably kill me before I get strong enough.

Good point. Let’s conceal our Strength until we’re strong enough. We’ll have to show it off a little of course, so he doesn’t kill us for not improving quickly enough.

I guess we can try that. I just wish we could escape…

“I’m… I’m gonna’ go lay back down, see ya’...” I walk away as Mr. Arigold waves. I sit back down next to Vexalan, who has stopped Purring.

We will. We just need to become strong enough to do so, and strong enough to bring everyone with us.

I couldn’t save them…

Demitallis was doomed the moment Arigold entered, his presence was too much on a newborn Puddle Kid. Even if you could catch them, they would have died to exhaustion anyways.

I know… I just, I’m so powerless…

Then let’s get stronger, I’ll try and make a Plan while you sleep, we’re too exhausted for both Minds.

Alright. I’ll do that. Goodnight.

Goodnight.

I curl up next to Vexalan, She’s also curled up, we’re the only 2 Cat Demi-Humans here, I guess I just feel comfortable next to Her. There’s Lion and Leopard Demi Humans too, but the closest Cat to Me and Vexa is the 2 Servals over there. Besides, everyone’s buddied up with their Gender Counterparts. Even Calvin is sleeping next to the Solar Dragon Girl. Right, Sleep, I should get to sleeping…

And with that, I fade once more.

I snap awake and find that Vexa has woken up. “Oh, Lex, are you okay?” She helps me up, I’m still healing. “It turns out you were stabbed through in a non lethal spot. Their Doctor said you would make a full recovery as long as you let the wound heal.” Oh, so that’s how it was. “I see… So I wasn’t going to die?” She looks at me and nudges an eyebrow. “Oh, n-no, he said if we had let it bleed out, it might have become Lethal, but no, it probably wouldn’t kill you.” Mr. Arigold approaches the Group. “Alright, now that everyone has rested, it’s time to get going.” While looking around, I notice that we’ve been surrounded by Soldiers.

“How many did he bring…”

“They got here earlier.” Vexa says, surprising me. “Oh- huh? Yeah, I guess they must have. How long have you been awake?” I decided to ask, I was thinking She woke me up by accident after having woken up herself. “Oh, I was kind of on and off with it, I heard their Footsteps and their Talking, it woke me up. But I was too sleepy to stay up.” Ah, so that’s why. I pull up my Shirt, and check my Wound. It’s still covered in my and mother’s Blood, there’s a burn mark, and I see tears stretching outwards from the thin hole that separates my Body. “It looks bad, I should have listened to you from the start, I-I’m sorry…” I lower my Shirt, and I look at Vexa. “No, it’s nobody’s fault. Besides, I’ll be fine, won’t I? If it means I can show everyone how horrible he is, I’ll suffer.” Vexa smiles at me, and She helps me walk with the rest of the Group.

“Hey, um… I hope it isn’t too much to ask, but do you by chance know where Mother is?”

My Eyes widened, after I realized that She had no idea. I looked at her, she wasn’t sad, she was just worried. I looked at everyone else, they’re all in a deep pain over Mother. “Have you… Have you asked anyone else?”

“No. No, I haven’t, you seemed like you were the most knowledgeable, so I wanted to ask you first.” That’s good, I don’t think anyone could bear talking about it… Anyone but me, who had watched Her die. “I’m sorry… I should have told you, this Blood Stained Shirt… Please stay quiet, I’m sure everyone else already knows, they won’t want to talk about it…” Vexalan’s eyes widen, and the tears flow once more.

“I… I see…” Vexa continues to hold me up as we walk, continuing to cry. Our Siblings that were close to us backed away, I guess they’re trying to give Vexa space. “I’m sorry. If you ne-” Vexa interrupts me. “Did you see it? Did you see how it happened, Lexis?”

I was surprised, but I decided to answer her. “Y-Yes. I… I did. I saw exactly how it happened, I watched Her die. I could tell you how it happened, and her last words if you like.” She shakes her head. “No, not yet, once we’re safe, then you’ll tell me.”

I looked at Her with surprise once again. I simply nod, and we continue walking. “Did anyone else die?” Oh, that’s right, we lost Demitallis too. “Demitallis, they died the day they were born, they couldn’t handle Mr. Arigold’s presence, they activated this HDR thing and tried to escape… Mr. Arigold said that it would have killed them with Exhaustion. They were this thing called a Puddle Kid.”

“So that’s why he asked- Oh, right, Arigold asked if we had a Puddle Kid, I had no idea they existed until then.” So he was looking for Demi’s counterpart, I guess he had hope for his Armor. “I’ve… I’ve been working on a Plan, a Plan for us to escape…”

Vexa looks at me with hope in her eyes. “R-Really? What’s your Plan?” We continue walking, and I look at Vexa once more.”I have other People to tell, I’ll gather you and them when we get to Mr. Arigold’s kingdom.” Vexa nods, and we simply keep moving.

So, what’s your plan?

Heheh, you’re gonna’ like this one.

End of Chapter: 2√C “Innocent Eyes could never realize their Egress.”