"And the other part?" Gothica asks curiously.

Don grins, "Your little split personality. Oh, but we both know it's much more then a simple spilt personality. A simple voice in your head that you wouldn't call your own. It's someone else, with a physical body, isn't it?"

"You're half right." Gothica says with a smirk.

"Oh?" Don raises a brow as he puts down a pink crystal and picks up a purple one. "Then why don't you educate me?" He says as his amusement increases.

"While I do hear another voice and there is another personality sharing this body with me. I'm not the original individual."

"Ah and there it is. I figured there was another person but for the alternate personality to be dominant for nearly a year? Very fascinating.~"

Vector is becoming a bit jealous that Don is giving all his attention to Gothica.

"I'm only in control because he wants me to be. He finds it easer to deal with his problems that way."

"Ah a coping mechanism."

"You could say that."

"Hey Don, are we gonna finish that potion?" Vector says trying to get Don's attention back.

Don claps in hands together, "Ah yes, I nearly forgot!" He says with a smile.

"Sounds like someone's jealous." Gothica says to Vector with a smirk.

Vector sticks his tongue out at Gothica. Gothica who is feeling playful, sticks his tongue out back at him. Don chucks and cups Vector's chin adoringly.

"No need to be jealous my pet."

Hearing this makes Vector blush.

"Now now children. Vector grind up some of the white vest for me. And put on some gloves."

"Yes Don." Vector replies happily and goes to do his task.

"Gothica, do you see that burner over there?"

Gothica looks around the room for a moment to find the burner then nods, "Yeah I see it."

"Bring it to me."

"On it." Gothica says and brings the burner over to Don.

As Don, Vector and Gothica finish the potion, Dumon's absence in Barain World hasn't gone unnoticed. Don and the remaining emperors try to find Dumon but are unable to. They can't connect to Dumon's lapis since it changed color when Gothica took over. So they can't track him down, which makes them think that Dumon either isn't wearing his lapis or that it's been damaged in someway.

Back in the World of Corruption, Don infused some of the crystal dust with his own chaos to activate the crystals. He carefully slides them into a beaker to heat up with some toxic water. Vector feels something off, which is Dumon's emperors and Don trying to contact Dumon but he brushes it aside as the odd energies of his world. Gothica watches to see what will happen to the crystals but he doesn't feel any kind of call. The crystals melt but not before cracking and popping.

"Gothica do you have access to any powers?" Don asks as he stirs the mixture so the melted crystal dust dissolves in the water.

"I've always thought of myself as a human but I think I have some demon abilities."

"Oh, care to share?"

"I can try."

Gothica puts his hand over the breaker to see what happens, the color of the potion changes to a deep purple color.

Gothica turns his head to look at Don, "What does the change in color mean?"

"Congratulations, you have abilities." Don says with a smirk.

"But what does that have to do with the change in color?" Gothica asks confused.

"This potion is reactive to dark energy, and I can use this dark energy as fuel. So thank you for that~." Don says in a dark playful tone, taking this new dark liquid and transferring it into another vial then capping it with a stopper to seal it.

"What are you going to use the fuel for?"

Don playfully tucks the vial away and responds, "Oh you know, this and that."

This still left Gothica confused but he didn't question it any farther. Don on the other hand starts tinkering with the liquid Gothica made with internet.

"Well if you need me I'll be in my room playing the violin." Gothica says and goes to leave to go back to his room.

"Have fun." Don says as he tinkers around with the dark liquid.

Gothica leaves Don's room and goes to his own, Merag sees him on the way back to his room. "Hello again." She greats him.

"Oh hello there." He greets her back.

"Did you have fun?" She asks happily.

"Yes actually, I got to help Don and Vector make firecrackers." He says back happily.

"Well that's tame of them."

"I was just on my way back to my room to practice the violin, you're welcome to come and watch if you want."

"I'd be happy to." Merag says in delight."

Gothica leads her back to his room and greets his gargoyle Shadow as he walks into the room. Merag takes a seat on one of the chairs in the room.

"How long have you been playing?"

"A little over a year now." Gothica says as he gets his violin out of its case.

Merag looks at him curiously, "So around the same time you were allowed out?"

"Yeah pretty much."

"I'm sure you play wonderful music."

"The person who taught me how to play said that I was to good to be a beginner." He says as he begins to play the stings version of the Evanescence song Tourniquet.

Merag listens appreciatively, Gothica plays with skill, grace and beauty.

"This sounds wonderful."

"I'm not really into cheerful songs, I listen to whatever dark and depressing things I can't find online."

"There's nothing wrong with that." She says with a warm smile.

"Do you play any instruments?" Gothica asks as he finishes playing.

"I don't unfortunately."

"I'm sure you're good at something."

"Well, I won't know unless I try."

"That's the spirit."

"At the moment I don't play any instruments though."

"I could teach you if you like."

"Would you? That would be nice."

"I only know how to play the guitar, violin and piano."

"Any of those is fine."

Gothica puts his violin away and gets out his guitar, "Want to try out the guitar?"

"Sure why not?" Merag says happily."

Gothica hands her the guitar and a guitar pick. Merag takes them and experimentally strums the strings, the guitar hums with sound as she strums the stings. Gothica smiles a little remembering when he first tried out the instrument. Merag smiles at the sounds and plucks some cords.

"May I?" Gothica asks wanting to guide her hand to make a simple tune.

"You may." Merag says with hesitation.

Gothica guides her hand to make the opening tune of Halestorm's Familiar Taste of Poison. She follows his guidance and copies what he makes her do, he lets her give it a try on your own. When she tries on her own she isn't very good but that doesn't discourage her.

"You'll get there, all you need is practice."

"Of course."

"Is there any particular song you want to try?"

"I don't know any guitar songs."

"It doesn't have to be a guitar song, it can be any song you like."

"Alright." He tries a simple song with her to see how well she gets it.

Merag pays attention eagerly and Gothica plays the simple tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Start. She doesn't recognize the tune but gives it a shot nonetheless.

"See, you're getting the hang of it."

"This is rather fun, I can see why you enjoy it some much." She smiles happily at him.

"I don't want to hold you up to much from your duties."

Merge sighs, "I almost forgot that I had things to do later."

"You should get to them before you forget."

"I will." She hands him back his guitar. "I'm glad to have spent some time with you Gothica."

"You're always welcome to stop by my room anytime."

"Thank you." She gets up to leave the room to get back to her duties.

"You're welcome." He says and leaves the door partly open and starts playing his guitar. He begins to sing the HaleStorm song Family Taste of Poison.

Merag smiles as she listens to Gothica sing as she leaves, Gothica has a sweet, smooth and intoxicating singing voice. The servants that are around hear Gothica sing and curiosity peek through the door to see what's going on. Gothica doesn't notice the servants and even if he did, it wouldn't bother him that they're listening in.

Lunch time soon rolls around and Gothica goes to eat with the others.

"Are you enjoying you're stay here?" Nash asks.

"I am, it's very nice here." Gothica replies with a smooth smile.

"I'm glad you think so." Nash says happy that Gothica is comfortable.

"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"There's not much else to do right now, unless you have medical knowledge."

"Unfortunately I don't have any medical knowledge." Though he knows Dumon does.

"That's fine."

Something about Nash catches Gothica's eye but he doesn't do anything to really get Nash's attention in that way.

"I was teaching this nice lovely young lady how to play the guitar." Gothica says as he looks at Merag.

Merag smiles at this.

"I'm sure you'll have no trouble teaching her, she's a fast learner."

"Any teacher would want her as a student."

"Oh I'm flattered." Merag blushes.

"You're eager to learn, most people our age are interested in different things. At least from where I'm from anyway."

"I learn what I can." Merag replies.

"We're all like that here, mostly out of necessity." Alit says

"Hard to survive in a rough world without the willingness to adapt." Durbe chimes in.

"I guess life is much different here then it is on earth."

"This world is harsher than any other world, that I can guarantee." Mizael says a bit cold.

Don chimes into the conversation, "This world is full of pure undiluted chaos. It's enough to drive anyone who's been here for more than a few years mad. It's enough to drive the denizens into a crazed frenzy. Only if you are lucky enough to endure, and you're looking at seven of them."

"To be honest I'm not sure where I'm from or if I'm really human." Gothica says honestly.

"I'm assuming you're from your original personality." Don's says with a grin.

"What?" Nash says confused.

"Indeed I was created from my original personality, but I don't know if he's actually human nor where he comes from."

Don mentally scans over Gothica even though he knows what his energy feels like, "Too faint to tell."

"Even for you?" Durbe asks in a bit of shock.

"Believe it or not, there are some things I can't do without Eliphas." He lies to Durbe, he likes watching things unfold without Eliphas's help.

Gothica just watches the others talk with a small smile.

"Well I suppose that it's not immediately important. After all it's still great to have you around." Alit says happily.

"I just wish I could help you guys out a little more since you're short handed." Gothica says kindly.

"That's because of this one," Durbe says pointing at Don, "He keeps stealing them to help with his experiments."

Don shrugs and says happily, "It's not like I'm doing it against their will."

"Well his experiments are fun." Gothica says with a happy smile.

"I'm glad to hear that." Merag says happily.