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Anna glared at the red head. "Don't pretend that you know me," she hissed out. "Or my situation. And don't preach to me when you don't even have the full story. You don't think I know all that? Unfortunately, I'm not that simple and I don't fit nicely into those standards." Something was wrong. Not considering anyone else, yelling without any real reason and now this back talking and not listening. She wasn't acting like Anna what all.

((Wow. Did not intend for Anna to turn out this brat-ish after this whole situation. Darn those characters and the minds of their own. If she didn't have an excuse, I'd spank her. I still might. But right now I think it's Merlin advice time. It's your turn new power.))

"You... How... What..." Anna tried to say something, but no words seemed to be the right ones. Frustrated, she let out a scream and punched the wall. Another blinding light emerged from her and she could feel herself being sucked in. She looked around her. She was alone this time, and she knew this location well.
"Anna?" came an aged voice from behind her. She quickly looked around.
"Merlin!" she cried with glee.
"What are you doing here? Where are the others? What's going on?"
"The others are fine," she explained. "In Twilight Town. I'm not exactly sure how I got here. Things have been kind of crazy lately."
"Crazy?" he questioned confused. "How?" Anna sighed and explained what had happen. "You yelled at them?" he asked surprised. "For what? Making sure you were alive and safe?"
"I didn't want them anywhere near that place. They should have known I could have taken care of myself."
"They knew that you could have ended up hurt, even dead. They were just trying to make sure you were alright. They were trying to protect you."
"I was trying to protect them!"
"How?" he boldly questioned. "By leaving them? You and I both know that you don't protect people that way. The only way you know how to protect people is by being with them, and fighting what ever is trying to harm them."
"Well, what about Halloween Town! There are only so many places that I don't have enemies in. I couldn't stand by and let that one become part of my collection."
"And what makes you think they would blame you?" Merlin looked at her confused. "It wouldn't been your fault, and they would have understood. That's also something you know. And here's another; you knew they would come to save you. There isn't a doubt in your mind that they wouldn't. So, Anna." He looked at her very seriously. "What's the real reason?"
"Oh! You just don't understand!" she said in frustration. He studied this girl claiming to be Anna for a moment.
"You're scared," he finally said calmly. Anna looked shocked.
"Terrified," she admitted. "Ever since Sarah uncovered A. What if they took all of you away from me? I don't think I can function without you guys. And what if-" She completely lost her breath for a moment. "What if they forced me back? How many lives would I hurt again? How many families would I destroy? I think I would kill myself. And my fear, it just kept growing as everything just kept getting more complicated, until..."
"Until you didn't know how to deal with it anymore," he finished for her. She nodded.
"I've never been so terrified in my life."
"Yes you have," he corrected. Anna looked at him confused. "Remember when you joined the Heartless?"
"Yes," she said, still confused. "I remember that my first training session, they made my kill my opponent. And when I tried to question it, they almost took my life. I was... terrified... Beyond belief."
"And what did you do?"
"I let go of all my emotion. I couldn't take how they made me feel, so I buried them deep inside me and numbed myself." Merlin nodded his head.
"But you know you can't do that anymore," he explained. "You know how that makes you, what you're like when you do that, and you never want to be that way again. So instead you came up with another defiance; anger. But when you couldn't aim it at your enemies, you took it out on the only ones with you; the ones you care about." Anna shook her head and place it in her hands.
"You're right," she admitted. "Oh dear. You were all right. I've been such a brat. A selfish brat. How could I let myself just let my emotions completely control me?"
"Anna," Merlin tried to comfort. "The majority of you're life you buried your emotions away. You have no idea how to deal with them."
"So?" she protested. "That's no reason. I know better than to take out my emotions on people. I know better than to treat people like that, especially the ones I care about. I know better than that." Merlin nodded, and smiled. Anna was returning. She looked into the other room. "How's Leon doing?" she asked. He followed her gaze.
"As expected. He's healing, but it's a slow process." Anna just stared into space for a moment.
"Do you..." she started. "Do you think I could heal him? With this new power of mine?" Merlin blinked at her, surprised.
"You just got it. Trying something that big could seriously harm you." Anna shook her head.
"I'll be fine, and Leon deserves to be perfectly healthy when he slaps Hotaru over the head. He's dealt with a lot of crap." Merlin didn't know what to say, so instead he just led her to where Leon was resting. She sat down next to him and sweep some hair from his face.
"Here goes nothing," she whispered to herself. She placed both her hands on his chest and closed her eyes, trying to tap into that power without all the anger and frustration and fear. Then the light came, brighter than any other, but yet it wasn't blinding. It was warm and comforting, like a mother, soothing a child. When it came there was this feeling inside of Merlin that he just couldn't explain. The light faded back into Anna and she looked down at Leon. "There," she whispered. Merlin looked Leon over.
"It's amazing!" he exclaimed. "He's completely healed! It's almost as if he was never hurt in the first place! Anna! That was wonderful! It's like a miracle!"
"Merlin," she said softly, grabbing his arm to calm him down. "It was nothing like that. It was just something I should have done anyways." Merlin looked at her shocked, speechless and Anna looked back down at Leon.

Hotaru was leaning back against a wall. "Same reason I know what to actually call ya. I just happen to prefer phantom." He shrugged and looked around. "Leave it to that brat to have the ability to teleport when she's pissed....." He smirked. "Anyways, maybe now would be the best time to go back to being Z, and then have her question Italia.....or you could venture a guess as to which of us three told the others.....You have me, Italia/Axel, they count as one person, or Z. Hopefully you wont have a hard time figuring it out."

"I wish I could stay until he wakes," Anna whispered. She stood in the dark, in the other side of the room as Leon with Merlin.
"You could always stay and wait," Merlin tried to offer. Anna shook her head.
"No, I need to go back and try to... try to say something." She gave Leon one last look. "Let him know I said goodbye." Merlin nodded. "And Hotaru," she added after a moment. "Let him know Hotaru says goodbye too." A strange look played with Merlin.
"Did he say that?" He questioned. Anna shrugged.
"Not to me. But it's always nice to know that someone you care about wanted to say goodbye before they left."
"This is Leon," Merlin reminded.
"I don't care. It doesn't matter who you are, it's nice to hear and nice to sa-" Merlin eyed her.
"You can't blame yourself for their deaths forever." Anna gave a quick little smile.
"No, I suppose not. But the time I do isn't over yet." Merlin simply sighed and shook his head. Anna gave one last sigh before turning to Merlin. "Goodbye," she whispered. Merlin gave a warm smile to her.
"Goodbye, dear." There was one last exchange of looks before Anna sighed. "Here's to trying to teleport on purpose," she muttered. She closed her eyes and envisioned the grave-like patch of live on the floor of the basement. In a bright flash of light, she was at the edge of the grass, looking everyone over. She wasn't sure what she puffed into, but she knew she couldn't dwell on it long. Her mouth hung open as she tried to find the right words until she finally just stuttered something out. "I'm... I'm sorry," she offered. "I know that doesn't change anything, but I also know I have to say. I should have never blown up at guys, especially when you guys were trying to safe me. It's just- No, there are no reasons or excuses. Beside, those are only for people who don't want to fess up to their actions. I'm sorry." She started walking to the stairs and when she passed Hotaru she stopped and tried to gave a soft smile. "I thought you might like to know that Leon's completely healed. It's almost like your fight with him did no damage. He was still asleep when I left, but if he was awake I'm sure he would say something like 'I'm waiting to slap you' or something like that." She gave another soft smile and then started climbing up the stairs. "I'll get out your guy's hair. I'm going to train. I can't exactly tell you where, I don't remember the city that well, but if you need me, just call, I'll come." When she was at the top of the crumbling stairs she looked down at the patch of grass and flowers. "I'm sorry," she muttered. 'I'll come back to visit, I promise.' She looked up and left to change and find some place to try and get an idea of this new power. 'You were right.'

((Darn it! Chaos posted when I was typing mine up. I'm so done with time consuming post for today. And now I have no idea how to edit... Mmmm... Ugg. I'm sorry but I feel WAY too horrible to try to figure this out. Maybe later if no one's posted a reply yet.))

((Yup. I gave my dad the stomach flu a couple months ago so he decided to give my the regular flu. We're just a sharing kind of family... or payback kind...))

Hotaru looked around at everyone, and watched Anna leave. ".....fantastic. Nice that you all have your own bodies. Congrats." He focused on Phantom. "That means I don't have to worry about Z's body anymore. We train. A lot more. Screw everything else. I want to be in full control of all my powers. And I want to bury them all."

The redhead wasn't listening. Her grey eyes locked with Axel who stood calmly stareing back. "Who are you?"

He lifted one brow at her slowly. "Come on Em, you know the answer to that one." He said softly.

She growled softly, somwhere between hurt by the idea and insulted. "That isn't possible."

"You're here aren't you?" He aske smoothly. He sounded like he was familer with this bristling attitude. Which was good because no one else had a damn idea what was going on. He allowed himself to look her over, taking her in for a maoment. "Exactly as I last..."

"Thats diffrent." She hissed not allowing him to finish the statement. "My heart didn't get torn from my chest." She murmured softly.

Italia noticed a subtle twitch in Axel's shoulders, unnoticable to anyone who hadn't spent the better part of a year with him inside their mind. "And yet thats how I'm here." He replied equally softly. She glared her respose. He sighed. "Give me a chance to prove it."

She cocked her head suspiciously at him. "How?"

"Like this." In two quick strides he closed distance between them, took her face in his hands and kissed her.

[>3 Really happy I seperated him from Talia before that happened XD;;]