I had turned on 10 minutes ago, and Yuki was still hugging me, asleep. "Yuki!!" I hissed for the 5th time.

"Mmmm..?" She mumbled. She opened her eyes, and saw that she was hugging me. I must have looked really awkward.

She let me go and yawned. "Mornin" she said as she stretched. I glared at her. "You alright..?" She asked.

I turned my head away from her and rubbed my eyes. "I'm fine." I said. She must have seen my red eyes

"Hmm." She shrugged.

"So, wheres Angel?" I asked.

"She's in a tree with Calcifer." Yuki said. "We should go get her now... Hopefully Calcifers still there..." She went off towards the tree.

When we got to it, we found Angel face down in the snow under it. "Uuuhhh.... Angel?" Yuki said. Yuki poked Angel with her foot. No response. "Aaaaangeeeelll.... You ok?" Yuki said, poking her again.

"Is she dead?" I asked.

"I dunno." Yuki replied.

Angel popped her head up sneezed on Yuki. "Oh! Uhh, ew. Angel, you alive?"

"I fell..." She said, and stuck her face back in the snow.

"I can see that. Can you get up?" Yuki asked.

"Yeah..." She said. She got up slowly.

"What's wrong?" Yuki asked.

"I woke up and I was alone... Where did you go? I tried to climb down, but I fell. And I was sad, so I didn't move." Angel pouted.

"Something, ah, bad happened to Alice." Yuki said.

"Hm? What?" Angel asked.

"She doesn't want t talk about it." Yuki tried to shush angel up.

"Why not?" Angel asked, turuning to look at me.

"Well... Someone I liked is gone." I said.

"Gone? Will they come back?" She asked, confused.

"No, he's never coming back." I said.

Angel was quiet for a second. "Did he die?"

"No, he's not dead. Or more like, he died a long time ago, and he came back to visit because he didn't get to say goodbye. He's gone now." I told her.

"Oh. I don't understand... But ok." She hugged me tightly. And that's how I almost died being smothered by hugging.

"Aakk! Help! Dying! Aaakk!" I said, my voice smothered by her hug. Yuki was standing off to the side snickering. "Yuki!" I hissed.

"Sorry, I don't think there's room for me!" She said in between giggles.

"Ok, ok! That's enough! Thank you for the hug Angel..." I said, shoving her off me.

"Heheh! Ok!" Angel chirped

I sighed in annoyance. "What were we planning to do? School? Should we try to do that now?" I said.

"Oh yeah... Yeah, we should do that!" Yuki turned to angel. "You want to go to school right?"

"Oh yes, there was that, wasn't there?" Angel nodded.

"Well, give me that map that dumb zombie gave us." I said.

"Calcifer?" Angel said.

"Yeah that." I replied as yuki handed me that paper. "Ummm... How do you read this?"

"What? Lemmy see that!" Yuki snatched it back. "Oh. Oohhh.... Can... Can he even spell? This is... Bad..." Yuki winced at the crude map.

"I don't think he drew this... But then who did?" I said.

We all stared off into space dramatically for a few seconds, then yuki broke the silence. "Oh well, let's try this way!" She walked off, angel holding the back of Yuki's shirt.

I ran to catch up to them. "So, where are we going?"

"On an adventure?" Yuki shrugged. "Oh!! Ha!! Total deja vu moment!! Yes!"

"That's a good thing...?" I put my hand to my face to block some of her stupidity. "Why am I following you if you don't even know where your going?"

"I don't know. Why are you?" Yuki looked back at me.

I avoided her gaze by looking at the forest floor. She continued to walk.

******

Hours later, there we were in the middle of the Forrest lost. Following this stupid dog was a horrible decision. And angel was blinded by her... Her... I don't know, Angel just really liked her!

"Yuki, not only are you the worst robot fixer ever, you are also the WORST MAP READER EVER!" I shouted in frustration. Calcifer had showed up a little while ago, and was floating next to Angel. He was lost as well.

"Well, someone I know made the map... I don't really get it either." Calcifer said.

"What?! Then why did you give it to me?!" Yuki shouted.

Calcifer put his hands up in defeat. "Hey! Hey! Its not my fault!"

Yuki swiped a hand through him. "Ggrrrr...." She growled at him.

"Bad wolf! Bad wolf!" Calcifer shouted.

"Mm! No! Stupid dogs and dumb zombies are NOT ALLOWED TO FIGHT!!" I yelled.

"STOP YELLING!!" Yuki and Calcifer yelled.

"WHY?!" I shouted back.

"Yelling isn't nice..." Angel whispered.

We all stopped yelling, and glared at each other. Angel ran away. "Wha? Angel! Wait!" I said.

We ran after her. She brought us to a clearing, with a large rock. She looked at the rock. "Yuki... Have we, been here, before?" She said.

Yuki closed her eyes tightly and put her hands to her face. "Oooowwww!!!" She said loudly. She opened her eyes again, and looked up at the sky. "Hey!! Memory attack!! Angel! I saw you!" Yuki yelled.

"Me? Really?" Angel seemed interested. Calcifer looked like he wanted to know as much as she did.

"Ok, so it was only for a second, but I saw you angel! Looking down in this.. Cavey place? Or something like that, it was dark. and you weren't in a facility dress, and you were much younger, like, 12? Or 6, as a human would say... So your sitting there with your head in your hands, all scared and stuff, and ten you look up at me, and in the cutest little high-pitched voice you say 'hello? Who are you? I'm scared...' And then you start crying!!" Yuki finally finished her ramble.

"Your getting your memory back? Good. That's good." I tried to fake a smile. They bought it.

Yuki jumped up and down repeatedly "if I keep getting them back, then maybe I can remember where I came from! There were others like me at the facility, there must be more!!" Yuki's jumping lifted a lot of dust, and we saw a wooden floor. Wood? Wait, where did the snow go?

Crack!!!

The next thing I knew, I was falling. The light above me was quickly getting smaller, darkness surrounded me. I saw Yuki and Angel falling with me, slowly drifting farther away into the everlasting black.

*****

"Hey Alice, get up!!" Calcifer whispered.

"Mm? What? What?! Where-" I said. He put his hand over my mouth.

"Ssshhh... Angel grabbed Yuki, so I grabbed you. I dont know where they are, by this place isn't good. Look." He pointed through some bushes.

I looked, feeling skeptical, but saw what he ment. It was a huge underground cavern, miles and miles wide it seemed. The roof of the cave was so high, and there were glowing crystals on the ceiling. It made the Place look like it had a sky of stars.

"Oh... My..." I said. There was a castle, and a large village. The castle looked cold and unforgiving. "We have to get them out of here. Where are they?"

"I don't know! And we have to whisper, guards went by a few times while you were knocked out. They looked like-" he shushed up and two guards walked by. They had... Tails... Like Yuki!!

"So let me get this straight... Yuki and angel are lost, we're stuck underground in some crazy dark animal girl kingdom, we jhave absolutely NO idea where we are, and I'm stuck here alone with you!!" I hissed at Calcifer. "This couldn't get any worse..."

Yuki's back story arc is next