After the sick sensation in my stomach passed, I was able to open my eyes, expecting to be in Katie's room with a surprised brother behind me, and a angry pair of parents.

Instead, I'm still wearing Kilinco's necklace, or gem since that's what he calls it, and I'm standing next to Katie. In...my attic. Well, for some reason, I know it's my attic in my house, but I've never been up there in...well, ever. It's off limits, specifically from the kids, including me and my siblings. I look at my surroundings and smile at who I see.

I see a small doll that I used to have when I was five years old, but for some reason when I brought it here, I lost it instantly and I didn't know what to do. The doll was pretty, too. It had red hair, like me, but it also had blue button eyes, and a green and lavender dress, but the colors faded from the dust and the constant sun hitting it. It also had pale white skin, since we couldn't get any cream cloth for it. The odd thing about it is the large, black, and glossy button on it's chest, as well as a needle sticking up it's arm, as if someone was going to sew something to it, but forgot to take it out and left it like that.

"Where are we?" Katie asked in a slightly nervous voice, which is great because I hated the voice where she was very calm, and it all seemed foreign to me. I still remember Katie as the shy, quiet, nervous girl you hang around with because she is the only one who enjoys your jokes at the time. She's mostly an optimist, but that's on special occasions, not that usual. "We're in my attic. For some reason. Kilinco, why did Reaper bring us down here? Er, up here?" It was mostly silent, I thought he was gone or sleeping, but then I hear his voice, just barely.

E, I thought that there wouldn't be much trouble, considering that E has been a bit excited at your arrival, but when he saw you, he was disappointed at how weak you two looked. He also seemed to sense something, he told me. He did a mental sigh. I was still curious, Why did he attack? Or, who attacked if he didn't? A pause.

He attacked because he sensed a great power in you, well, thought he did. And as a power hungry demon, he tried to kill you so he can gain it's trust.

Wait, what? So what, I got some magical soul in my heart or something? 'Oh heeey! Look at meee, I can grant you three wishes if you kill this human!!'

I can feel the sarcasm in his voice, Ha, and ha. I mean Dioxi, he sensed that she dream-jumped you, and wanted to impress her. As a higher level demon, she can easily annihilate all of humanity.

But she's a rabbit looking thing! How can she do much damage!?

What was that saying that you humans say...? "Don't judge a book by it's cover?" Well, here it's the opposite, "Don't underestimate your enemies." That's a better one to say for Dioxi. She may be small, but she nearly, and sometimes successfully killed you in your past lives.

That thought struck me for a moment, and it did to Katie too, but on a smaller scale. I thought about it for a bit, to myself, although I can hear Kilinco still making comments on my thoughts, so I said, "Please stop reading my mind. I want to have some of my thoughts to myself right now." He chuckled, Me? Reading your mind? Please, if I could, I would stop, but you are wearing my gem, not only that, but your thoughts are straying out by themselves. If you want me to stop commenting on your thoughts, then YOU have to train for them to stop becoming rampant. I sigh in frustration. I then hear another voice, this one sounded familiar.

Well, I don't know what to think right now, other than I'm glad that Jackie can't hear me at the moment. But the look on my face clearly said otherwise. I laughed, "I heard you Katie, I heard you." Her face went a deep red, and I giggled some more, eventually I can feel impatience forming in Kilinco's gem. So I apologies and think harder about the idea of Dioxi, then I had a thought, Why don't we go to the library? I'm sure we can find something in there! 

The thought seemed so brilliant at that time, that I'm not sure that another plan could sound better. I started toward the ladder, and for some reason my body freezes in place. I couldn't move, so I looked around and saw why. There was a knife that was thrown inches from my feet, and the direction that it was thrown from was the doll. My favorite, red headed doll with blue button eyes has thrown a knife, at me.

"K...Kilinco?" I ask nervously, and the doll took a step forward with it's chubby legs. Jack, back up slowly to Katie, and don't panic. The fear will only make it worse. It was a little too late for that, my hands were already shaking and I wanted to run to my parents and they would hug me and say that it will be alright, but I doubt it since I've gone away for hours. How did I not feel that!? Well, for some reason inside the house, there were no negative feelings until Narko arrived, or the lights were out. I wasn't even scared of Raven, and she was a large talking, insulting bird. A bird! Now I feel panicked, and all I wanted was just some hot cocoa with some marshmallows.

That's it, calm down. Think about food while I disable this thing... His voice disappeared as I started thinking of what's for dinner. I skipped lunch since I fell asleep and came back from the police station, and my parents are probably at home...well, here, thinking where the heck I could of run off to. Wait, why am I thinking about food when a doll is going to kill me at the moment? I turn around so I can see Katie.

"Jack, look out!!" She yelled.

This time, I turned around just in time to see a knife flying straight toward me, and I couldn't move at all...

That is until Kilinco formed in front of me, and hit the knife with his tail, making it land on the wood beam above us. Then, it seemed as if it was slow motion, he jumped to the doll and gave it a shake, then ripped off it's arm that didn't have a needle, and then dropped it as if it was made of fire or something. The doll landed on her back, then jumped back up, still standing, with only one arm on.

Then out of nowhere, an arrow hit the back of the doll, popped off the button and it fell forward, dead. I didn't really hear what happened, but then I looked up to where that arrow came from. I see Sophie with a bow and taking deep breaths as if she's run a marathon. I'm glad that she took archery in her summer time. I thought that was just a hobby! Never thought it would be useful... I thought as she looked at me, then Kilinco, who is still formed, the doll who is dead, and Katie, who is shocked, if not, even more shocked than me.

"Come down, and keep an eye behind you." Sophie said, her voice void of any emotion. She then climbed down a ladder, at least, that's what it sounded like with her bow on her back. When she made it down, I got down with her, then Katie went down cautiously, and I was wondering how Kilinco would make it through, but that was a second before he just jumped down, clearly not phased about my sister's random appearance.

She then walked down the hallway, without warning, she shot another arrow at the end, and she shot another doll that was hanging on a rope there. I am shocked about what is happening with all of this going on, but something confused me the most. "Kilinco, how come Sophie didn't freak out about you? Unlike Henry, who called someone else when I fainted when you gave me the memories!" I ask. He doesn't even look at me, "Ask your sister. She can tell you." So I did, and she didn't answer herself, "Wait until we get mom, dad, and Cathy together. With your friend, of course." She says. "What about Henry?" I ask. "You'll see." She replied.

I then got frustrated, so I stop walking, expecting everyone stopping because I did. Instead Kilinco used his mouth to grab the back of my shirt and carry me that way, because I was 'moving too slow' for him. After I had a couple of swears leave my mouth, I was silenced again when Sophie started talking...ish. She kept saying words I couldn't even understand. And then Kilinco replied. Clearly it's some sort of language, but it sounds...melodic, rather than just another language. Like it can be powerful, but still can cause harm if used incorrectly. I wonder how Katie is reacting to this as well. But considering that Reaper helped her, and she was really calm about the attack, makes me think that she has a secret she's been keeping as well.

We made it down stairs safely, and into the basement, which for some reason, was another 'banned' place, so I've never seen it. I've always thought of the basement as just a creepy dark place, with dripping water from the pipes, and rats that somehow got in just feeding on bugs and stuff. Kilinco let me down at the end of the steps. I gasped. It was filled with shelves of jars (with some things glowing inside), staffs with floating rocks around the end, a cabinet dedicated to some blue piles of dust, and most intriguing of all, weapons such as bows, small daggers, swords (although who would need them?) and some others.

"WOAH! Was this here the whole time!?" I asked, amazed. Sophie nodded, "Yup! I collect them with mom and dad, and sis as well." She then pointed to them, they were at a table, passing each other necklaces, but when they noticed I was here, they smiled and waved, not really surprised at Kilinco or me or Katie.

"Wait....how come you guys knew, and never told me!?" I raged, "And why is nobody questioning Kilinco, why didn't anyone tell me!? And where's Henry? I need to have a word with him!" I am so shocked and confused, but then something happened. My anger sizzled down and I felt a bit tired, Kate noticed this and took a hold of me...why did she do that? I'm just a bit tired.

"What did you do to her!?" She asked, afraid. I don't know why she's afraid. I just want a nap, and dream dream dream about fun stuff, like kittens and puppies...isn't Kimbu a puppy? A fox and some doggie puppy thingy! It's really fun to think of it like that. "We just kept her calm, if she was too angry, E can easily track the anger down to here." My mother said flatly. Who is E...? Oh wait, it's that doll that was kinda mean. I don't like mean people, maybe if I give him a hug, and some chocolate, then he'll be nice to everyone! And then everyone can have s'mores and ice cream. "Heheh....doggie puppy and thingy rhymes..." I mumbled to myself, as I yawn. Katie looked at me with worry on her face, I don't know what she's worried about. "Wanna take a nap? No? Okay then, just me...." I said again, before passing out.

~Time Skip~

I didn't dream about anything, but when I woke up, Katie seemed worried. And instantly I remembered. And I was so.......what? I'm still calm about all of this. Oh, now I'm getting angry. I shot up, before getting that similar tingly feeling. "OKAY, WHAT IN THE NAME OF HECK HAPPENED TO ME!?" I ask, before getting shushed by the whole family plus Kilinco. "Okay, then. What happened and why was I having a thing....and what is all of this??" I ask. My parents look at each other, before lifting up their sleeves and showing their skin.

I nearly gasp, since they rarely show their skin, they always have long sleeved shirts, no matter how hot it is. I looked at their forearms, and just below the elbow was a sign of some sort. It looked like a heart, surrounded by angel wings. The heart had a line on the bottom, and shot up the arm to the shoulder. On the shoulder, there is a spiral shape, that thickens in the center surrounded by a burn mark of an oval. They both had it, and both on the same arm. It looks identical to each other, the only difference is the size of the burn mark.

"A...Tattoo and burns?" I ask. They shook their heads, and mom answered, "No. Bond Mark."

"What's a bond mark?" Katie asked.

Dad explained. "When you and your Guardian have trusted each other, you can bind yourself to the Guardian even when they are in the guardian realm, and get a Bond Mark. You don't have one, since you just met your guardian in this life, but..." He hesitated at the next part, "Once you do have a bond mark, you cannot live on earth. Not without being in great danger."

Suddenly, a knock from upstairs echoed throughout the house. And a deep voice echos too.

"Martin? Jiana? Are you two in here? Your son want's to talk to you."

Soon a very tragic thing might happen....

You should be careful...especially when it deals with magic.