To Live Again, Part I
Brooklyn: You should be happy you are still alive.
	[Lexington growling at Brooklyn]

"Previously on Gargoyles..."

To Live Again, Part I
Alex: Bad.
	[Alex pointing at Brooklyn's statue]
Not Bukin.
        
Lexington: Coldsteel had me captured and sort of held me ransom.
	[Lexington's statue wrapped in Coldsteel's coils]
Fox: He threatened to kill him unless Alex transferred Coldsteel to Brooklyn's body.
	[Brooklyn/Iago grinning evily]

Coldstone: Iago is still hiding within Brooklyn!

Brooklyn/Iago: Whatever you do to me, you do to your precious second-in-command as well.
        
Iago: Does something harboring kill an entire clan of gargoyles. [Brooklyn/Iago shooting Goliath]

Brooklyn/Iago: Now you are going to die.

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To Live Again
  Part II

	Brooklyn/Iago bent down next Goliath and waved the ray gun around in front of Goliath's face.
	"Hmm...where would it be most painful?" Brooklyn/Iago grinned. The clan began to inch toward 
him to attack, but he noticed.
	"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Brooklyn/Iago said. "Not even the mighty Goliath can survive 
a direct blast in the face from this close up." They stopped moving, growling. 
	Brooklyn/Iago looked down at the blaster he was holding. Goliath, not moving because Brooklyn 
would shoot him if he did something stupid, watched him through half-opened eyes. 
	"This is really an amazing device. Stole it from a proto-type lab," Brooklyn/Iago said, grinning 
again. "A place called Xanatos Industries." Fox gasped. 
	"How did you get in there, though?" she said.
	Brooklyn/Iago, not taking his eyes off Goliath, said,"Simple. I asked Xanatos if I could 'see' some 
new technology because I was bored."  He smiled once more. "Isn't it ironic?"
	"DONCHA THINK!?" came an angry voice from above. Everyone looked up. There, holding 
onto the Coldsteel robot, which was hovering, was Elisa. 
	She pulled out a remote and pressed a button. The robot suddenly started diving straight at 
Brooklyn/Iago. Elisa leapt off the robot and landed on the ground. 
	Brooklyn/Iago stood up and started firing at the robot. He missed, and the robot rammed into 
him. He was knocked backwards into the wall, unconcious.
	Elisa flinched.
	"I'm sorry, Brooklyn," she said softly. Goliath stood up and ran to Elisa. 
	"How did you know?" he said. 
	"Alex led us to Lex and the Coldsteel robot during the day," she said, casting a glance at the 
unconcious Brooklyn/Iago. "'Brooklyn' made the mistake of leaving the remote there."
	"But now what shall we do?" Angela said. "The Evil One refuses to leave Brooklyn's body."  
	Elisa looked at Fox, then at the clan. "Can't Alex or Puck just put him back where he belongs?" 
	Lexington shook his head. "Puck said it takes voluntary  participation. That's why Coldsteel held 
me captive, and why Owen made the robot so advanced. He needed the Evil One to want the Coldsteel 
robot."
	Goliath walked over to Brooklyn/Iago and picked him up. "I guess he wanted to be free of cyber-
space," Fox said, looking at Brooklyn's face in sorrow. 
	"So we will keep him captive, at least until it convinces him that being in cyber-space will be 
better then jail." Goliath looked down at Brooklyn's body sadly. "But where to keep him?"
	"How 'bout the Labyrinth, where we kept Demona?" Broadway suggested.
	Goliath considered this. "Yes, that would be a good place." He sighed unhappily. "I do not like 
doing this to Brooklyn, but we have no choice."
	Elisa came up next to him and put a comforting hand on Goliath's arm. "It's not Brooklyn, it's 
just something that looks like Brooklyn. We all have to remember that." She looked at Brooklyn/Iago and 
then frowned. She reached out and wrenched the blaster from his hands. She then went to the balcony
and threw it as hard as she could to the next level of the castle. Fox ran forward just in time to see it 
smash to pieces. Elisa crossed her arms angrily. 
	Goliath began walking to the edge of the castle, preparing to take off. "We should get him to the 
Labyrinth as soon as possible. We don't want him waking up before we cage him."
	The clan quickly agreed, although none of them liked it. They glided off in the direction of the 
Labyrinth.

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	Demona stared in amazement. Goliath was holding an unconcious Brooklyn, looking rather 
angry. Coldstone was there, standing next to a gold robot of a gargoyle. ~Sister?~ she thought confusedly. 
	She turned her attention back to Goliath. She had come to check on her daughter, as she did once 
every week. She did not let herself be seen. But when she came this time, she had seen Goliath holding 
Brooklyn and heard him talking sadly, but still angry.
	"We should get him to the Labyrinth as soon as possible. We don't want him waking up before 
we cage him." Demona gasped in shock. 
	~Has Brooklyn betrayed the clan?" she thought. 

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	Talon's jaw dropped when Goliath brought Brooklyn in. He was speechless. Maggie spoke for 
him, however.
	"Goliath? Why have you brought Brooklyn here? Is he hurt?" she said, running up to them.
	"It is not Brooklyn," Goliath growled. 
	Talon finally regained his composure. "What...what...do you mean?" 
	Broadway answered. "Basically he's been taken over by an evil spirit that does't want to leave."
	"Huh? So... why bring him here?" 
	"We were hoping we could keep him in one of your cages until the spirit decides to leave," 
Goliath said.  
	"Umm...sure," Talon said. "We love having gargoyles possessed by evil ghosts-" He was cut short 
by a pain-filled moan that came from Brooklyn. 
	"We had better hurry. We want to get him caged before he awakens," Goliath said. Maggie and 
Talon looked at each other worriedly.

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	Fang, laying on a bed, sat up as they brought Brooklyn in. He watched as Talon opened the cell 
next to him. He banged on the glass shield. 
	"Hey, yo, Goliath!" he yelled. "What's the crime on the Brooklyn Bridge?" Goliath growled 
slightly, but ignored him and set Brooklyn down on the bed within the jail.
	To Famg's surprise, a gold robot spoke up. "We should keep him here until Iago comes to his 
senses."
	"Iago?" 
	Talon looked at Fang. "Believe me, we don't know what's going on any more than you do."
	Goliath moved as to leave. "We will discuss this elsewhere."
	"Oh, sure, don't let me in on my cell-mate's crimes!" Fang yelled as they left.
	Next to him, Brooklyn began to wake up. Fang looked over at him. ~Maybe now I can get some 
answers.~
	Brooklyn opened his eyes. He took a moment to focus on his surroundings, then leapt up, 
growling.
	"Oh, this _is_ original," he muttered. Talon banged on the wall that seperated the two cells. 
Brooklyn turned quickly to face him.
	"Uhh, don't mind the cliche, but...what're ya in for?" 
	Brooklyn raised an eye ridge, then smiled. "Oh, the usual. Capturing Lex, trying to kill Goliath, 
being who I am..."
	Fang raised a hand. "Hold on. YOU tried to kill Goliath? What happened to, 'Oh, we're all one 
big happy clan?'"
	Brooklyn grinned so widely, Fang thought his beak would split. "We still are."
	Fang crossed his arms. "Yeah, right," he scoffed.

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	Demona listened to Lexington tell the others what was going on. She watched from the shadows, 
waiting. 
	When Lexington had finished his tale, Demona was shocked. "By the Early Hatcher's 
covenant...~ She thought hard, then remembered something. She smiled and left undetected.

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	"The third night has passed and Iago still refuses to leave," Coldstone said. Coldfire sighed.
	"Let me talk to him. Everyone but me has had a chance," she said.
	"But...very well. But take care- he is tricky," Coldstone said. 
	Coldfire turned back to him. "Are you saying I am easy to trick?" She said angrily. Coldstone 
waved her on.
	She walked into the jailing part. She looked at Fang who was sleeping on his bed in the cage next 
to Brooklyn/Iago. 
	Brooklyn/Iago was laying on his own bed, staring up at the ceiling, a contented smile on his face.
	"Iago," she said. Brooklyn/Iago looked at her and raised an eye ridge.
	"No condolence calls, please," he said. "Why are you here? Trying to convince me to leave 
Brooklyn's body, as everyone else has?"
	"Iago, his body does not belong to you," she said. "You have lived your life, let him live his!"
	"He is just wasting his life. I am giving it back to him."
	"Brooklyn is an innocent warrior..."
	"Oh, Brooklyn is far from innocent."
	Coldfire glared at him, giving him as much as emotion as her robotic face would allow. 
Brooklyn/Iago continued.
	"Did you know he betrayed the clan?"
	"Yes, while you were controlling him!"
	"But before this. He helped Demona," he said, sitting back.
	"You are lying. Brooklyn hates Demona so much..."
	"But that's why he hates her. He let himself be seen the truth. He stole the Grimorum Achinorum 
for her. He led Goliath to a quaint little place called the Cloisters..."
	"I don't care about Brooklyn's past. What he chooses should be his own path, not yours!" Coldfire 
growled. Brooklyn/Iago closed his eyes. 
	"Don't you feel chained, Desdemona?" he said softly, almost passionately.
	"You are the one in a cage..."
	"Ahh, but at least I am alive. You are stuck inside a metal shell, cut off from the real world..."
	"I do wish to speak to you anymore," Coldfire said, turning to leave.
	"Oh, come on, Desdemona," Brooklyn/Iago snapped his eyes open. "I have no one to talk to. 
That...thing..." he guestured to Fang, "Refuses to talk to me. He says it's my fault he's in there." 
	Brooklyn/Iago shook his head. "The poor fool still believes I'm Brooklyn."
	"Goodbye, Iago." Coldfire opened the door and stalked out, leaving Brooklyn/Iago glaring after 
her.

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	"Hey, Bridge!"
	Brooklyn turned to face Fang. "My name isn't Bridge."
	"Enh, what's the difference?" Fang said. 
	"The difference is that a bridge is something that goes over a river. Brooklyn said angrily. "Either 
that, or bridge is a card game that _humans_ play."
	Fang raised an eyebrow. ~Since when did Brooklyn start hating humans?~ he thought. ~He 
sounds like Demona.~

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	*Iago.*
	*Yes, my poor young fool?*
	*Are you planning to spend the rest of your life in my body?*
	*Perhaps.*
	Brooklyn's soul, trapped in his own body, not being able to do anything about what his body was 
doing, was getting frustrated. 
	*Iago...*
	*Stop pestering me.*
	*That's immposible. This is my body, remember?*
	For once, Iago had nothing to say.

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	Demona snuck into the jailing room without being detected. Brooklyn/Iago was laying on the 
bed. 
	"Brooklyn," she whispered, not wanting Iago to know that she knew the truth. Brooklyn/Iago 
looked up.
	"Demona...what-" he asked, curious. 
	"I am going to get you out of here, now that you have come to your senses," she said, pulling out 
a lock pick.
	Brooklyn stood up, grinning. "My, my, even after all that I've done to you?"
	Demona didn't look at him. "It's by the covenant."
	Brooklyn/Iago blinked and then smiled once more. Fang was watching with peaked interest.
	"Hey, how `bout me?" 
	Demona ignored him. There was a click as she got the lock. The door swung open. 
Brooklyn/Iago stepped out. Demona and he peeked out the door to the room.
	"I'll tell if you don't let me out!" Fang whispered. 
	Brooklyn/Iago looked back at him and mouthed, "Sorry." He didn't look sorry at all.
	"Come on!" Demona said, motioning with her arm. They ran out.

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	"Talon!"
	"Talon!"
	"YO! DERRICK!" Fang yelled, getting desperate. Talon finally came in and saw the broken-out-
of cage. 
	"Oh, no!" Talon yelled, then ran back out of the room. "He escaped!"

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	"WHAT!?"
	Talon flinched at Goliath's yell. "He escaped. I don't know how, but..."
	"Perhaps Fang will know," Goliath said, turning towards the jailing room. He walked in and saw 
the empty cage next to Fang.
	"Fang."
	Fang looked at Goliath. "Yeah?"
	"How did Ia...Brooklyn escape?"
	"Oh, Demona came in and said something about him finally coming to his senses," Fang said. 
"She's the one who picked the lock."
	Goliath gasped. "No...it can't be." He ran out of the room to get the rest of the clan. 

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	"Demona-where are we going?"
	Demona glanced back at Brooklyn/Iago. "You've been there before. The Cloisters." 
	"Why there?"
	Demona didn't answer and continued gliding. Brooklyn/Iago followed behind her.

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	"She must not know," Elisa said. "Fang said something about Demona saying that Brooklyn 
came to his senses. She must think it's Brooklyn."
	"I agree. But now the question is where did they go?" Goliath said, looking up at the sky. 
	"I suggest we split up," Coldfire said. Goliath nodded. 
	"Everyone go on the same routes as before. Angela, go check the way...Brooklyn had been 
going." Goliath noticed Elisa's perplexed expresssion.
	"Elisa, would you like to help?" She smiled and nodded. "Well, then let's-"
	"Goliath, if you don't mind, I'd like to go with Angela," Elisa  said. "Does anybody mind?" 
Goliath raised an eyeridge, but nodded for them to go on.
	Elisa put her arms around Angela's neck and they took off. As they were going on, Angela looked 
back at Elisa.
	"Why did you come with me?" she said. 
 	Elisa smiled. "I have a feeling that you are going to find them."

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	Brooklyn/Iago looked around the Cloisters, unintrested. He turned around, sighing. "Demona, 
why did we come here?"
 	No answer. Brooklyn/Iago turned back to where she was standing. 
	She wasn't there. "Demona?" he asked the air. "Where are you?"
	"I'm still here, Iago." Demona's voice echoed through the Cloisters, making it impossible to 
pinpoint where she was. 
	"You knew!" Brooklyn yelled, eyes flaring up. "You knew the whole time!"
	"I did." 
	Brooklyn/Iago echoed Brooklyn's rarely heard battle cry and began breaking everything in sight. 
"WHERE ARE YOU, YOU BITCH?!"
	"Language, Iago, language." Brooklyn/Iago turned quickly to spot Angela. Elisa stepped out from 
behind her.
	"Leave Brooklyn's body alone," Angela snarled at him, eyes flaring up red. 
	"Ladies, he volunteered for this..." Brooklyn/Iago said sweetly. 
	"Yeah, because you were going to kill Lex if he wasn't!" Elisa yelled.
	"My dear, I am doing him a favor. I am a true gargoyle, and the longer I stay in Brooklyn's boyd, 
the more he becomes like me."
	"You are not a true gargoyle. You never were, and never will be," Angela yelled.
	Brooklyn growled and advanced at Angela. She dove out of the way and hit him on the back. 
Brooklyn/Iago growled again and dove into the shadows. 
	"Where did he go?" Angela yelled to Elisa, who shook her head. Angela began to run into the 
shadows.
	Elisa's eyes widened when she saw Brooklyn/Iago come out behind Angela. ~She doesn't see 
him!~ she thought, and ran at Brooklyn/Iago.
	She ran into him with the full force of her body. He staggered, and Angela swirled around to face 
them. Brooklyn/Iago grabbed Elisa around the neck.
	"Not one more step, Angela, or your human friend dies," he said viciously. Angela stopped 
moving.
	Brooklyn slowly moved up to a higher level of the Cloisters. Elisa began struggling and finally 
managed to kick him in the leg. He roared and let her go. She immediatley started running, but 
Brooklyn/Iago grabbed her ankle. He stood up and roared at her. 
	 He grabbed her around the neck and then let her hang over the side of the building. Angela 
started running forward, with Brooklyn/Iago still occupied.
	He dropped Elisa. 
	Angela ran, but Brooklyn/Iago stepped in front of her and growled. Angela tried to push past 
him, but it didn't work.
	"ELISA!"

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	Elisa remembered Goliath's promise.
	*I'll always be there to catch you.*
	She didn't blame this on Goliath. It was her choice to go with Angela. 
	The fall seemed to last forever. The wind rushed past her and she waited for the final blow. 
	Suddenly, there was a jerk at her shoulders and she was slowly lifted up. She tried to see who it 
was, but she couldn't. They finalluy landed on the Cloisters ground. She looked back to see which 
gargoyle it was. When she turned, she couldn't believe her eyes. 
	It was Demona.

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	Iago gaped at the sight. He began to get angry, and Brooklyn's eyes began to glow brightly.
	"Oh, so _now_ you start protecting humans?" he yelled. He hit Angela with the back of his hand 
and rushed Demona. 
	*I guess you aren't on her good side anymore, are you?* Brooklyn's soul said. 

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	"Shut up!"
	Angela heard Brooklyn/Iago yell at nobody. 
	"I never was!"
	~Who is he talking to?~ she wondered. She then noticed that Demona's eyes seemed to had 
glazed over. She looked like she had fallen asleep standing up.

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	*I never was on her good side!*
	Brooklyn's voice crackled throughout Iago's head. *This is my body!*
	*Not anymore!*
	*It is, Iago, and you know it.* Iago looked up and around at the sound of the new voice. 
	*Demona? How are you...*
	*I managed to hide one thing from you, Iago,* Brooklyn said. 
	*Early Hatchers can communicate like this,* Demona continued.
	*So, what good is that going to do?* Iago yelled, mentally and vocally. 
	*Make you leave.* 
	Iago didn't know which one said it, but he suddenly felt a tugging, and a pushing. 
	*No! I can't leave! There is too much to be done!*
	*You had your chance when you were alive, brother,* Demona said. 
	*I can't leave!*
	"You're losing control. I want my body back, and I am going to get it,* Brooklyn said.
	*But I didn't volunteer! I'm not willing!*
	*You don't need to be,* said Brooklyn. *I am.*
	*NOOOOOOO!*

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	"NOOOOOOO!" 
	Elisa, despite herself, ran up to Brooklyn/Iago. She put a hand on his shoulder. Angela pulled her 
back. 
	"We don't know what's going on!" Angela insisted. Brooklyn's eyes lit up and a pure blue light 
shot out of his mouth. The light seemed to have a life of it's own. Brooklyn's body collaspsed to the 
ground, as did Demona's. The light began to speak, of some sort.
	"No. My life..." The blue light faded and finally dissappeared.
	Demona managed to get up and stagger over to Brooklyn. She knelt beside him and flipped him 
on his back.
	"Brooklyn?" she asked, concerned. Brooklyn opened his eyes halfway and moaned. He took a 
moment to focus, then coughed.
	"Demona...I..." Brooklyn stuttered. Demona shushed him. 
	"Don't talk. Save your strength," she insisted. Elisa and Angela ran up next to her.
	"What happened? Is he back to normal?" Elisa asked, looking at Brooklyn, who smiled weakly. 
Elisa smiled back and took off her jaket and out it under Brooklyn's head.
	"It's me. We got him," he said. He looked back at Demona and cringed in pain. "Demona...I need 
to say this." Demona looked at him.
	"What, Brooklyn?"
	"Thanks...and...I'm sorry," he said. 
	Demona's eyes filled. "I'm sorry, too, Brooklyn. I shouldn't have used you."
	Angela looked at Elisa and mouthed at her, "What?!" 
	Elisa waved her off and gave her a look that said "I tell you later."
	Elisa looked up and saw Goliath and Hudson circling, getting ready to land. They landed and 
rushed up to them.
	"Iago!" Goliath yelled. Angel rushed up to stop him.
	"Father, no! It's Brooklyn. It's really him!" she said, smiling. "He's back."
	"But how?" Goliath said, looking down at the weakened Brooklyn. "How did you achieve this?"
	Brooklyn and Demona looked at each other with pleading eyes.

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	Brooklyn heard Goliath ask the one question he hoped he wouldn't ask. 
	"How did you achieve this?"
	Brooklyn's eyes went to Demona, who's eyes went to him. 
	*We can't tell him. The covenant...* Demona said.
	*I know, but what are we going to say?*
	*We have to make up something.*
	*And hope Puck doesn't say anything. We've kept it a secret this long, even as enemies...* 
Broooklyn trailed off.
	*Just say it was sorcery.* 
	Brooklyn silently agreed.

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	Goliath looked at Brooklyn and Demona. They almost seemed to be communicating silently.
	"How did you get Iago out of your body, Brooklyn?" he repeated.
	Brooklyn's eyes went to Goliath. "Demona did it. It was a spell. Iago's gone for good."
	"Demona? But she helped you...him escape!"
	"I knew it was Iago," Demona said, standing up. The spell had to be cast out of doors. And I 
knew you wouldn't just let me walk in and take him." She turned around and began climbing up the 
nearest wall. Elisa ran up to the wall and looked up.
	"Demona!" Demona looked back and glared at Elisa. 
	"What?" Her eyes flared up.
	"Brooklyn got to thank you, but I didn't."  The red light in Demona's eyes died down, but she still 
looked angry.
	"Don't think this changes anything, _human._" She snarled, but then smiled. "But you are 
welcome." With that, she turned around and glided off, leaving a smiling Elisa and a stunned Goliath. 
	"What did she do?" He asked Elisa. 
	Elisa turned to Goliath, still smling. "Brook...Iago tossed me off the side of the building and she 
caught me." Goliath looked even more stunned, and now Huson did too. Elisa smiled. "That's what I 
thought."
	They went back over to Brooklyn, who was trying to get up. 
	"You seem better," Elisa commented, helping him up. 
	Brooklyn staggered to his feet and took a few uncertain steps. "I was trapped in my body so long 
it took me a while to get used to gravity again," he said, regaining his balance. He turned back to Goliath.
	"Can we go home now?" Goliath smiled and nodded. Goliath picked up Elisa as they scaled the 
wall. 

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	Before they left, Brooklyn looked back in the direction where Demona had glided.  
Concentrating, he thought out to her, *Thank you.*
	There was a snap in his mind, soundless, weightless, and as powerful as a thunderbolt. *Your 
welcome.*
	*Maybe someday you could rejoin the clan...*
	*Someday.* With that, she exited Brooklyn's mind. 
	"Brooklyn?" Brooklyn looked at Goliath.
	"Sorry. I'm just really happy to be here..." Goliath cut him off.
	"There is no need to explain. We're leaving now," he said. Brooklyn was the last to take off.
	~It's exactly the same as it was before,~ he thought. ~Ignoring me, ordering me around...~
	Hudson glided back beside. He put a hand on Brooklyn's shoulder. "Welcome back, lad." 
Brooklyn looked at Hudson's face. 
	"I...thanks. I'm glad to be back," he said. "But I don't think I'm ever going to be the same." 
Hudson looked at Brooklyn curiously.
	"What do ye mean, lad?"
	"Hudson...how can live with what I...what Iago did with my body?" Brooklyn said. "How can I go 
on living my life like I did before?"
	"Ye won't go living on like ye did before. Ye will adjust to the new life that he gave ya, and 
always live with a good heart."
	"But..."
	"Hush, lad."
	Brooklyn looked at the moon, which they seemed to be heading straight into. ~I'm not going to 
turn out like him, I won't!~ He told himself.
	~I swear I won't turn out like him.~


THE END



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Coming Soon!

Echoes of the Future

A vistor from the future shows up, claiming to be a decendent of the clan.
She needs to stop something from happening, but if she does, she could wipe
her entire exsistence away.