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Yachi

I wake up in a prison cell and I have a cell mate this time. No collar on me also? I must look pretty ordinary.

"Hey, you're that chick who aged back the entire prison right?" My cell mate asks.

I nod not really looking at her. I am already aggravated by her friendly tone, "If you want me to do it again, forget it. I lost my power. Someone took it." I explain showing how I don't have a collar on me, "People like me wear collars around here."

I have been trying to change the view of the time vault, it's harder than I thought it would be, like, it's even harder getting in, somehow becoming impossible. Like I am getting locked out each time.

Reminds me of when those kids mentioned that they have to be invited into the time vault, without a time power they cannot get in on their own. Eventually I will suffer the same fate.

Lately every time I close my eyes Rei is there. I think it's a figment of my imagination. I must be putting her there, she actually killed me that one time, I guess my plan worked after all, if she's not a figment of my imagination.

I try to use the vault to escape again and I am finding it so damn hard, dammit, was hoping I would use the rest of my life wisely. Why does that damn Rei get a happy ending anyway?

Screw her, I really wish the was a way to screw her up so that when Toya wakes up, she's not the same. I can't give them their happy ending, no way in hell, I refuse for things to happen this way.

I accidentally jump into the time vault. Every time I come here Rei appears, and those twins are there. They ignore me like I'm not here, maybe they can't see me, meaning I'm getting close, maybe my thinking is the problem. I can change the view of the time vault.

"You a deep thinker in general, or plotting escape?" My cell mate asks.

"I can't escape yet. I will once I figure it out."

"Well, you should take me with you."

"Sorry girl. I don't do friendships."

I hope Magenta's alright. I managed to get in touch with my informant for information. He will talk to her and she can tell me what she knows. I know she will.

I'll see you soon Magenta. I promise you that.

"Hey, if you tell me your plan I can help you out." My cell mate again breathes and it's bugging me, can't the girl take a hint? Geez.

"Yow, I said, butt out of my business, what you deaf?" I turn to look at her, and my eyes widen.

It's Ise bitch sister, she's the one that killed Kaiya.

She laughs in my face, "Aww, finally feeling like pretending to be a good mommy, are we?" She mocks sitting up straight, she was lying on the top bunker the whole time facing the ceiling so I couldn't see her face.

"Like I would ever help you escape." I'm going to kill her in her sleep.

"Oh come on, I know you're not out for revenge, not seriously, because your daughter is still alive. How can you grieve someone who is not dead?" She lies on her side, her head propped up by her palms smiling at me.

"I will kill you for what you did, regardless." I glare at her.

She laughs again mocking me, "What? You trying to do what Rei would do now? You got in her head to mess with her, but it may be that she messed with yours instead, maybe if you and her were friends in a different life you would be a great mother to Kaiya."

I jump on the top bunker and punch her in the face, I am more then my power, with or without it I can still be me, I will kill her for those words.

She kicks me off of her and holds up a strand of my hair, smiling sadistically, "These weak collars are not strong enough to hold my power, all I have to do is swallow this and I will have you as my puppet to do my bidding. I can have a lot of fun with a toy like you."

She glares me down.

Bitch please, you need me for something, no way in hell are you going to use a puppet with hidden knives, it could stab you accidentally. We grew up together, sure we were never friends, but you never failed to tell the world just how your power works.

As long as she does not know how to use my power she cannot make me use it, and her puppets are mute, so I won't be able to tell her how to use it either.

I smile back since it's my turn to get on her nerves now.

She clicks her tongue, rolling her eyes, "Alright fine, you got me, I was bluffing. I need your help and I need you to tell me how to use your power. I can puppeteer you and make you use it, whatever you cannot do, when you're my puppet I can make you do it. So, we need each other."

I laugh, "And why would I want to be your puppet?"

"Because my puppeteerism is only temporary. That's the flaw with my power, I cannot puppeteer someone forever, so, after we escape I will eventually lose my grip on you, I also cannot swallow your hair all over again and make you puppet, you'll be temporarily immune to my power giving you enough time to get away or kill me."

She dangles my strand of her, "I need one that has the hair roots intact, this won't do. Your blood is a better option, of course."

I roll my eyes and ignore her, I will kill her for ever hurting my daughter.

"I could unlock the hidden reserves of your power, every power has a nature to protect itself, so, you might think it's gone when really there is still, one last speck of dust left. That one speck of dust could multiply into something more. I can help you out with that."

I turn around and sigh, that's an offer I cannot refuse, "Fine, I'll give you my blood. We get out of here, and if you dare betray me, you will regret ever giving me my power back, no matter where you are I can find you."

I hold out my hand and she takes a drop of blood, she has really sharp teeth, wow.

~

I look around and I am in the time vault instantly. I can feel her forcibly looking for that one speck of dust and it hurts so much. I start walking against my own free will and I find exactly one dust particle.

I look around me and I am surrounded by heaps and heaps of ashes. These are dust particles from my past, ones I have already used. She can use my power however she wants to, even in ways I never thought to imagine.

What a terrifying power.

I take the single golden dust and turn all the other dust particles into power I could use. Everything then is completely black. I feel frozen, I cannot think, I cannot move, I just see the darkness around me, and I am so sleepy.

I close my eyes and sleep, waking up on an Island with Magenta in front of me.

I close my eyes again, I can see all the dust particles leaving my body. My power is flowing to Eri again.

No! I have to do something. One more Midnight push.

I can have my life back. This is not the end of Yachi Ichika.