A Needed Hero

Fade's p.o.v.

I woke up to an empty bed and sat up trying to recall last night. Oh my gawd, Thomas and I fell asleep together after I told him I wasn't ready for....that. Where is he? I got out of bed and walked out the room and went down the hall slowly. Did I dream up last night or something? I walked up to the living room and caught Thomas and Alexander in the middle of a really deep kiss. I stepped back and almost fell down the stairs but was quickly caught by Soul. I whimpered and ran off going upstairs quickly when I seen the three look at me. I ran into the girls room and to Noire and mine's bunk and grabbed the blanket and pillow hiding up under the bed, luckily there was no one else in the room. I covered up and curled into a ball and pulled out my phone texting Kid for Noire to text me about a billion times. DAMN IT ANSWER! I heard the door open and someone walked in. "Fade? Are you ok?" I heard Black Star ask. How did he know I was in here. "Where are you?" He asked and I seen him walk over to the closet and I curled up tighter. Oh god don't let him find me like this. I bit my bottom lip and that's when he walked over and bent down looking under the bed at me and his face was priceless with anger. AH WHAT DID I DO?!? I backed away and he reached up under the bed showing worry in his eyes. I backed up more but he got my shirt and tugged on it pulling me out from under the bed and into his arms into a tight hug. "Shhhh. It's okay you can cry in my arms." I looked down and whimpered.

"I wasn't cr-" I sniffle. "Crying."

"It's ok....Thomas is leaving right now. I asked him to go for your sake. He won't be coming back and neither will Alexander." Black Star hugged tighter and tilted my face up to look at him and he wiped away some of my tears. "Shhhhhhh."

"I told you I wasn't crying." I closed my eyes quickly and looked away.

"No one is going to do that to you again." Black Star said.

"How do you know?"

"I plan to tell the guy not to do it so you won't suffer another one night stand." I winced. One night stand... that's what people call it? I pulled away from him and crawled into the bed and curled up.

"Leave me alone..."

"As you wish my goddess....I'll come back later...." Black Star looked sad as he went to the door. I got up quickly and caught his wrist pulling him into a hug.

"Don't leave me."

"Never." He hugged me back. "I'll stay as long as you want."

"Why are you guys jerks." I looked down and then laid down in the bed waiting.

"I don't know. I try not to be one." Black Star smiled a little.

"Oh." I got into the floor with the blanket deciding to hide again and crawled up under the bed.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" He asked softly. "I just feel so helpless watching the only girl that I ever loved like this crying under her bed."

"I don't know what I want right now..."

"Fade! Are you okay?" I heard Maka yell running into the room and a few other footsteps.

"NO YOUR GONNA RUIN BLADE!" Liz yelled and I realized the shippers had followed her.

"Can you all go? Now is not the time to be a shipper." Black Star said dangerously.

"C-cold, he really is pissed." Tsubaki whispered and they all backed out even Maka.

"Maka was fine. She can stay." Black Star said casually.

"Wow, someone is bipolar today." I whispered.

"N-no it's okay...I will come check up on her later." The door shut. They left me?

"What? Did I scare them away?" Black Star took a step to the door then stopped and turned to the bed. "Sorry Fade!"

"You probably did." I climbed out from under the bed and sat down in the bed.

"I KNOW! There is always something that cheers you up! I can go find it if you want! I know where it is!" He smiled.

"Hmmm? My kitty is here?"

"YEAH! He is! I was talking about Noire though! Here." He picked up a familiar fur ball who was blending in with the blanket on the bed next to mine and handed him to me.

"Thomas!" I pulled him into a tight hug and smiled into his fur. "Your getting a new name."

"That's probably a good idea...." Black Star said quietly. "Where is Noire anyways? I haven't seen her or Kid up yet."

"They must be still asleep." I checked my phone and bugged Kid again.

Kid's p.o.v.

I woke up hearing my phone go off and set up seeing Noire passed out by me. I checked my phone seeing Fade had texted me good morning texts and was asking for Noire. I looked over at Noire and gently shook her. She just stayed still and didn't move at all. I frowned and got on her and kissed her slowly and when I got nothing in return I got up quickly and panicked then took off the handcuffs and ran out the room to find Stein and Spirit. The house was quiet, too quiet. I found them in the kitchen making breakfast. I caught my breath. "Stein, it...it's Noire."

"What about her?" He turned around from the stove and looked at me.

"She wont wake up."

"You sure she isn't playing possum?" He waved me off and went back to flipping pancakes.

"IF SHE WAS PLAYING I WOULDNT BE UP HERE!" I stormed over to him and grabbed his Lab coat and pulled him towards the door by it.

"SPIRIT TURN OFF THE STOVE AND SAVE THE PANCAKES!" Stein shouted to him.

"I can cook you know." He shrugged it off. Stein tossed the spatula to him.

"THEN COOK WHILE I GET DRAGGED SOMEWHERE!"

"Okay love, have fun being kidnapped." He blew Stein a kiss after catching the spatula.

"I will try...." Stein said and followed me. "So what's this about Noire not waking up?"

"She wont move, she wont smack me away, she will not respond at all." I told him.

"Sounds like she died." He mumbled quietly.

"She is still breathing." I walked into the bedroom and over to Noire. Stein came in and looked at her as he walked over.

"Yeah....she's alive alright." Stein laughed a little.

"What is wrong with you..." I muttered. Stein picked Noire up and walked out of the room with her calling for Spirit. I followed as Spirit came running down the stairs.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"Spirit, our daughter isn't waking up." Stein looked down at Noire in his arms.

"What..." Spirit checked Noire's pulse.

"I can tell she's alive, but it's so weird.....Noire would have woken up by now...." Stein said quietly. "She's a light sleeper too....."

"What should we do..." Spirit pulled out his phone. "I will ask Lord Death."

"He won't know....." Stein whispered.

"What are we gonna do!" I yelled dropping to my knees.

"Well first....I'm taking Noire to Fade because Fade will watch her probably...Fade knows Noire better than us...." Stein looked at me. I nodded and Black Star appeared at the top of the stairs and ran down to us.

"What's going on?" Black Star asked.

"Where is Fade." I asked.

"In her room on her and Noire's bunk bed. I need Noire ok? Fade is having a rough morning and Noire usually cheers her up."

"Oh uh...Do you think it is good Kid to give your sister Noire? She might not take this very well if she is having a bad morning." Spirit pointed out.

"What's wrong with Noire?" Black Star looked at her and tilted his head. "I don't see anything wrong with her....."

"What's wrong with Fade?" I tensed up thinking the worst had happened.

"Thomas gave her a one night stand last night and she caught him kissing Alexander this morning. I kicked them out of the gang already." Black Star spat out.

"Great now I have three guy's asses to kick." I cracked my knuckled. "Noire wont wake up."

"WHAAAAAT? No! She's gotta wake up! Fade needs her cheerful Noire!" Black Star faced me.

"Take Noire to my sister and watch over them Black Star, I have to go do some witch hunting with Liz and Patti." Black Star took Noire from Stein holding her gently.

"You got it bro." He nodded to me.

"I trust you keep them safe, far from anyone besides us." I gestured to everyone in the little circle.

"So only Stein, Spirit, and you are allowed in the room with Fade and Noire?" He checked making sure. "No Soul or Maka?"

"I am afraid not. They will have to wait to see them."

"Ok. I will protect them with my life. What about Tsubaki? She's my weapon."

"If she don't say anything shipperish then yeah she can go in." Black Star nodded.

"Don't worry. I've got this!" He smiled at me. "Fade won't be too happy....." He looked down at the sleeping Noire in his arms.

"I know..." I shook my head and then went upstairs calling my dad. Black Star walked past me to Fade's room and went in.

Fade's p.o.v.

Black Star walked in with Noire who was still sleeping and shut the door behind him locking it and then walked over to me and laid Noire next to me in the bunk bed. I looked at her, she looked real peaceful. "Noire?" I whispered. "Why didn't you wake up in his arms?"

"Um....." Black Star rubbed the back of his neck. I let Thomas go and then shook Noire fearing for the worst.

"Noire?!?" Noire didn't respond at all, not even a twitch. Black Star sat down on the edge and stared at Noire.

"Kid wasn't lying.....She really won't wake up...."

"What do you mean she wont wake up?" I started to cry and whimpered looking up at him. He winced.

"Kid tried to wake her up, but he failed too. Stein even picked her up, but she hasn't moved or acknowledged anything we've done. She won't wake up at all.....She's alive though. She's still breathing but it's like she's been put in a coma and can support her own life still. Well....coma may be a little dramatic. More like she's trapped in sleep."

"From the witch....Or...James...Most likely both." I mumbled and then laid down by Noire and wrapped her into my arms and held her close hiding my head on her. I don't know if it was just me but I heard Noire whimper a little. Black Star stood up quickly.

"You heard that too right?" He asked me.

"Y-yeah." I sat up and looked at her. "What is he doing to you?" I knew she wouldn't reply but it was worth the try. Black Star pulled out his phone and texted someone giving them an update. I watched as Thomas laid down between Noire and I and Misty showed up and laid down with him purring. Misty licked Noire's face and paused her eyes growing wide and she looked at me and meowed at me worried. Thomas (Who will soon get a new name when I find one) looked up at Misty and meowed at her. What would they be saying right now? I smiled softy thinking about it. Black Star looked at me after looking at his phone again.

"Kid wants to get Noire to make more noise." Black Star sat down on the edge. "What do you think?"

"Tickle her feet." I sat up quickly. Black Star nodded and grabbed one of her feet and started tickling Noire. Noire stayed blank. I tried her sides to see what she would do.

Noire's p.o.v.

I fell over laughing and held my sides as the wolves chased me a few meters away. Adrian stopped and had to jump over me to miss running into me and he turned and watched me. "GET UP, THEIR COMING WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!" I giggled standing up and tried running but I fell again laughing. It feels like someone is tickling me!

"Ad....Adrian! He.....help me!" I held out my hand to him laughing. "I can't help it!"

"What is wrong with you, what did James do to you?" Adrian got serious.

"I feel like someone is tickling me!" I giggled and sat up trying not to laugh.

"Tell them to stop!" Adrian jumped over me and got low getting ready to protect me if needed. I gritted my teeth and stood up trying not to laugh and keep my face straight. I summoned some knifes and threw them into the wolves' heads that were closest to us and they fell immediately as the sharp knifes went through their skulls into their brains. I conjured up two more and turned Adrian into a falcon and ran to the wall climbing up out of jumping reach again deciding to wait this out and let Adrian get out of danger too. I held on for dear life as the tickling got worse. Adrian flew up and to a hidden hole in the wall a couple feet away from me above my head. I looked down at the wolves that James had created to get me again. "Come on, transform me into something useful to help you get up here I see a path way, this is big enough to crawl through." I transformed him into an ape and looked up at him.

"Now your a monkey." I laughed from both what I did and the tickles. He reached down for me and was able to get a couple inches from my hand.

"Almost there, come on," I looked at the wolves below and climbed up a little farther to Adrian. He grabbed me and hauled me up to him and into the hole.

"Got any requests on what you want to be now?" I asked him.

"A panther." I did it again and smiled at him.

"You make a good panther Adrian."

"Thanks Noire." He led me down the tunnel.

"Where does this go anyways?" I asked him following him. The howls faded away and soon I couldn't hear them at all. The tickling had stopped to. I sighed in relief. "The tickling stopped....What the hell is up with that?"

"I suspect someone tried to wake you."

"WHAT? I'm not waking up? How long have I been asleep?" I asked him.

"I don't know, I am not that far connected to you."

"You didn't even feel the tickles...." I muttered. "Whoever tickled me if it was one of my friends is going to apologize for almost getting me killed in this game of James's."

"Funny, I only felt really happy when you was laughing and stuff on the ground." He told me and we came to a small opening to a hole in the wall and it was at the ground. He crawled out and looked around. "A new side."

"Oh great....just what I need." I got out and stood up stretching. "What happens when James catches us?"

"Who said he will? He will probably put us in another endless nightmare since he has trapped you here."

"I bet they are planning my funeral." I mumbled. "If it's already been a day.....James is going to get it." I looked at Adrian. "Man...you are actually a pretty good friend now that you are like this...."

"If I am mean you will lock me away."

"Oh? Is that why you are being nice?"

"No, I missed you."

"Aw! I forgive you for mommy!" I hugged him around his neck.

"Sorry I got a bit...selfish?" He purred.

"She's with daddy now...." I got down on my knees so I wouldn't have to bend over and hugged him tighter and buried my face into his fur.

"Bet you never expected to do this to your mom's killer."

"Nope....I planned to forget about you again. I can't now though....Sorry about not being able to go on that date with you when you showed up the second time in my life again, and for leaving you when I discovered I was a weapon and I got enrolled in DWMA. Glad you came a few years later and found me there as a meister." I felt a tear roll down my cheek. "I should have just told Lord Death that I had something important to do instead of just blindly obeying him and having a sit down in his study with Fade and Kid with him."

"You did so don't grieve over it, okay?"

"You wouldn't have killed mommy if I had gone on the date instead of doing what Lord Death told me to do. Then you wouldn't be dead right now."

"I am not dead I am very much alive in you, literally."

"Well that's a little creepy. Let's be friends ok? I don't want to be frenimies." I sat back on my legs letting Adrian go and wiped at my eyes getting rid of the tears.

"Hmmm...okay, friends." He laid down by me. "This is such a weird dream."

"No....it's more like a second plane of existence that only you, me and James have access to."

"Tr-" He shut up and then got close looking into my eyes and squinted his eyes. "Well that is weird."

"What?" I tilted my head a little and looked into his eyes wondering what shut him up.

"I see Fade...She is holding your eyes open...This is creeps as hell. Can she see me to?"

Fade's p.o.v.

I curiously had opened Noire's eye lids and looked into her eyes and they was glazed over a bit and I seen a fuzzy black animal looking back at me and leaned in closer and I widened my eyes and gasped. "PANTHER! YOU ASS! YOU SICKED A PANTHER ON MY NOIRE I AM GONNA KILL YOU JAMES!" I yelled and Black Star pulled out his phone and updated Kid again. He looked up at me.

"Kid said that you should go to sleep since how you are hallucinating." Black Star curiously looked in her eyes as well and shrieked backing off. "OH YOU'RE NOT HALLUCINATING!" He texted Kid again. "He says we are insane and we both need a nap."

"I am not insane." I closed her eye lids and then laid back down by her.

"Poor Noire....she's got a panther right in front of her in her dream....." Black Star grabbed Noire's hand and squeezed it. "My poor friend."

"Poor Noire indeed." I agreed. Misty sat on Noire's face and laid down on her and looked at me like she was challenging me to move her. I grabbed her and pulled her off of Noire and sat her by Thomas. Misty came up and laid on my chest purring. "Good kitty." I whispered.

Noire's p.o.v.

I stared at Adrian. "You serious?"

"She went bye-bye." He laid his head down low and then ran off down the maze. "Come on!" I stood up and ran after him.

"HEY DO YOU THINK I MIGHT BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM TOO? I MEAN THIS IS A DREAMSCAPE!" I shouted to him. He stopped and waited.

"Probably only into a weapon."

"Well that's sad...we could turn into mice and scamper into a hole and hide." I muttered looking at the cracks in the wall big enough for a pair of mice to hide in.

"You should try to transform." He encouraged and watched me. I closed my eyes and thought about a tiger for myself not wanting to be a mouse in front of a really big cat. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that my eye level was the same as his and I jumped back a bit and landed on four paws.

"HOLY CRAP." I looked at my paws.

"Awe, I expected a panther." I looked up at him.

"Oh really? The black duo?" I laughed a little.

"Yes, we should be the black duo." He laughed and then we heard wolves howling nearby. I tensed up going feral and hissed my fur standing on end. "Awe so cute!" He looked around for a hole. I turned around to fend off the wolves in case they were closer than we thought while he looked for a hidey hole. "There!" He jumped up a few feet and landed into a hole and disappeared as he walked away to the left. I jumped up there with him and looked down at the wolves as they came into view. My instincts kicked in and I hissed and yowled at them threatening to come get them. Adrian watched me and shook his head.  "Come on! There is too many."

"O-ok." I looked at him and nodded for him to lead the way. He walked down the tunnel cautiously. I followed keeping my senses on edge for anything abnormal. He walked out onto a rock that was surrounded by a pool of water and hissed. I looked at the water and spat at it as I came out next to him and brushed his shoulder. He tensed up and looked around.

"CURSE YOU JAMES THIS IS NOT FUNNY!" I laughed.

"No, this isn't funny." I turned Adrian into a fish and smacked him into the water and jumped in turning into a fish as well. He swam around me and then to the other side of the pool of water. I followed speeding past him and turned into a panther and got out quickly shaking my fur out and helped Adrian out by turning him into his favorite form as well. He hissed and got out soaked and spat at me then the water. "Hey, I was at the edge of the water as a fish. Where were you?" I looked at him and shook out my sleek black fur one more time to get all the water off.  He glanced around and then jumped into some bushes and came back with a mouse in his mouth. I stared at him and went to the edge of the water and caught a fish that was lazily swimming by and smacked it out of the water and ran over to it and picked the flapping body up and looked at him. I win. He dropped the mouse and laid down with a grin on his face. I laid down and bit the head of the fish instantly killing it not wanting to eat it alive and started eating it watching Adrian. He was watching a bird and stalking up on it. I roared at the bird and laughed when it flew off in fear.

"HEY!" He glanced at me then at it. "You scared it away."

"You were too slow." I laughed and took another bite of my fish.

"Too slow?" He got up and ran over to me pouncing on me. "I THINK NOT!" I rolled over onto my back and used my hind legs to push him off of me and got to my feet grabbing my dinner. "Great idea, let's get out of here." He ran off and threw a patch of vines. I quickly finished my meal and caught a bigger fish and chased after Adrian and when I caught up to him, I dropped the fish in front of him and pawed it over to him.  "Thanks." He ate it in a few bites.

"Ok....what now?" I stretched out my paws in front of me.

"We could keep going to the middle."

"But what is at the middle is the question." I looked at him. "James might be there, and I reckon he hasn't found out about my ability yet."

"I think he is gone right now."

"You mean left the dreamscape?" I tilted my head.

"Yeah, I don't feel him like I did before."

"Why am I still here then?" I looked behind us and started walking forward.

"I don't know..." He looked up at me. "Well...let's make the most of this precious time we have away from James." I glanced at him over my shoulder and smiled. I turned around and put my paw on him.

"TAG! YOU'RE IT!" I giggled and started running down the maze. He chased after me and laughed.

"I'm gonna get you!" He yelled and sounded close. I looked behind me for a second and saw him right on my tail. I started running faster.

"NO FAIR! YOU'RE A GUY!" I laughed. "YOU'RE PROBABLY STRONGER THAN ME WHICH IS HELPING YOU CHASE ME!"

"You should've thought twice about starting the game then!" He laughed.

"What happens when you win?" I asked speeding up and jumped up into a hole I saw and flicked my tail watching him.

"You have to let me haunt your dreams forever!" He laughed in a joking way.

"Man it's gonna suck for you when I kill James and these dreams end." I laid down and watched him from above.

"Yeah.." He jumped up to me. "Make room cool cat, your it!" He landed on my back and rushed off from me. I gasped and chased him down the hole.

"GET BACK HERE SO I CAN TAG YOU!"

"NEVER!" He chuckled. I bit the end of his tail gently.

"YOU'RE IT!" I giggled and backed up to run down the hole the other way. He flipped around and pounced on me with one jump and laughed.

"Gotcha!"

"Aw! I'm it again!" I pouted and looked up at him.

"Sorry chicka!" He backed away quickly and took off running. I gasped and chased after him and when I caught up I jumped on him and held on.

"YOU'RE DEFINITELY IT NOW!"

"I think not!" He laughed as we tumbled out of the hole together. I giggled as we hit the ground and I stood up and backed up a little. He got to his feet and leaned down getting ready to take me down. I spat at him playfully and took off running before he could get me.

"TOO SLOW!" He chased after me and ran past me playfully as his tail hit mine.

"Too slow?"

"NOOOO! I'M IT NOW!" I giggled and moved a lot of my power into my back legs and leapt at him to tag him. He dodged me and I hit the wall and he laughed taking off down a hole. I rubbed my nose with my paw and sat up and glared down the hole. "I'm going to get you." I ran down the hole after him and caught up to him and tagged him with my front paw and giggled. "Guess who's it now?"

"ME! RUN NOIRE!" He turned around and got low to the ground shifting his weight. I screamed and took off running down the hole.

"AHHHHHH! HE'S GONNA GET ME!"

"I am gonna get you!" He yelled and chased me out the hole. I ran though the maze not taking any turns or holes and let the wind blow through my fur. OH MY GOSH BEING A CAT IS COOL!  He chased me being a bit slower then before. I looked at him over my shoulder.

"What?" I stopped and looked at him. "Is something wrong?" I sat down and tilted my head a little.  He chuckled and didn't slow down but started to speed up as he tagged me while running by.

"See ya!"

"OH WHEN I GET MY PAWS ON YOU!" I shouted after him and sped after him and launched myself at him and landed on his back and I lightly put my claws in him to hold on. He slowed down and then bucked me off and froze up looking around as we stood in a meadow.

"This is so messed up."

"What? It's a meadow." I rolled around in the grass sneezing when it tickled my nose.

"Yay! turn into a bunny and let me chase you!" He got up.

"NO! YOUR KITTY INSTINCTS WILL KILL ME!" I sat up and chewed a little on the grass in my face.

"Fines." He rolled around in the grass and then chassed after a grasshopper. I conjured a brown bunny for him to play with and watched him. He chased after it all around the meadow. I laughed and looked around.

"Bet this is the middle of the maze...." I looked up at the sky and then back at Adrian. He leaped at the bunny but the bunny moved and he face planted a stick. "NEEDS A LITTLE BIT OF WORK SWEETIE!" I shouted at him and stretched. He got up and chased after the bunny again. I'm glad I'm not that poor bunny. I licked my paw and cleaned myself for a few minutes and then looked up to see if Adrian caught it yet. He was stalking the bunny in the high grass. I shook my head. It's been 30 minutes and he hasn't caught it? I started stalking him and got low to the ground hiding in the grass and padded silently towards him and rocked my weight back and forth getting ready to pounce on him and leapt at him and knocked him over. I spat at him playfully and didn't get off of him. He hissed and pawed at me pushing me off with his back feet and got up pouncing onto me. "AHHHHH! I'VE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE SLOW POKE!" I giggled and smiled at him then sat up and licked my paw. He laid down by me and purred as he bit at the flowers in front of his face. I laughed at him and continued licking my paw and started washing my face with it. He rolled over onto his back and watched. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye and licked my paw one more time and looked at him fully and licked his face. "You had a little bit of dirt on you." I mumbled and laid down. He closed his eyes and rolled over onto his side.

"Hmmm...is this me or are you also tired?" He looked up at me. I looked at him.

"This is a drea-" I yawned. "Dream. We shouldn't be tired."

"Wow...didn't know you could-" He yawned. "Get tired in a dream."

"It's because this one is so life like probably and we've been running all over the place."

"Especially me." He stretched out.

"Zombie Fade though." He chuckled.

"Zombie Fade!"

"Had no idea what was going on!" I laughed. "That look on her face was awesome!" I rolled over on my side to look at him better.

"Where the hell is James?"

"Who knows.....OH! You're brother Kaleb says hi." I said remembering him telling me to tell his brother hey when I see him after James kills me.

"He did! He is so sweet!"

"He helped me get away from James the first time. This is the second time he's gotten me sort of...."

"Oh. It is like him to do something like that, he is a nice boy."

"Yeah he is. He scared me at first because he looked so much like you."

"We are twins...Pretty cool right?"

"Yeah! He's really nice. Poor guy got punched though when the gang showed up to rescue me."

"Who punched him?"

"I think it was Fade...."

"Ha! That would've been funny to see."

"I don't know about that." I giggled. "Fade angry must be really scary to see."

"The Death Twins angry must be scarier to see."

"They are both mad at James right now." I pointed out.

"I bet they found James and woke him up and that is why he is gone."

"Whelp.....guess we are stuck here forever...." I looked around and then back at him.

"Well, eternity in a maze chasing or running from you wont be so bad."

"True, that was fun." I laughed. "Guess this is my eternal rest."

"Being annoyed by the first soul you ate?"

"You aren't that annoying." I laughed. "Not anymore."

"Thank you!" He closed his eyes. I watched him for a few seconds then took a cat nap as well soaking up the sun. When I woke up, I went over to the small pond in the meadow and looked into the water and drank some then came back to Adrian and sat down next to him. He was snoring away and his paw was twitching. I poked him with my paw.

"Wake up....I'm bored."

"Take a cat nap."

"Already did." I flopped on him and put all my weight on him.

"Oh...how about we try to find a way out then."

"But isn't this meadow the middle of the maze or is it just another area?"

"It's just another area."

"Oh.....ok." I stood up and went to the other side of the meadow and found a hole and crawled into it following the tunnel. He followed me through the hole. I got out when I saw a hole out of the tunnel and looked around the maze. "How much farther till the middle?"

"I don't know..." He shrugged the best he could.

"Then how do you know that wasn't the middle?"

"It's not big enough."

"For what?"

"For something like a castle I seen."

"There is a castle here? He's definitely getting called Goblin King now....What does that make me? Sara?"

"Hi Sara."

"EWWWWW! THE GOBLIN KING WANTED TO DO NASTY THINGS TO SARA! DON'T CALL ME THAT."

"Wait...he did....EWEEEE!"

"I don't wanna be Sara!" I whined.

"Poor, poor, poor, poor you."

"You won't let him right?" I looked at him.

"I guess not." He thought it over. "Nope, I wont let him."

"THANKS" I gave him a hug and stood up on my hind legs to do it.

"No problem!"

"Ok, let's go burn a castle or two."!

"Or two?"

"I don't know....it sounded funny." I shrugged and started walking. Then I stopped and turned Adrian human and turned myself into a little black kitty. "Have fun two legs!"

"Ah!" He tripped and face planted the ground. I turned around and looked at him.

"You ok?" I giggled.

"No, my face hurts." He stood up and looked at me.  "Why'd you turn me human?"

"To watch you fall on your face and get a little laugh out of you." I laughed and turned him into a little black kitty like me.

"Thanks, but how about you turn me into a bird so I can stretch my wings. A crow would be nice." I turned him into a blue bird and pounced on him gently.  "AHHHHH WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. MOMMY HELP ME!"

"Ok I've had my fun." I let him go and sat back on my haunches and watched him.

"Thanks, watch this!" He flew away. I gasped and turned myself into a bird and followed him.

"GET BACK HERE ADRIAN!" I laughed and caught up to him.

"No! Try to keep up girlie!" He took off in a faster speed and I noticed he was heading towards a castle.

"BUT JAMES MIGHT BE THERE!" I sped up not wanting to be left behind by the only other person in this place that was decent to me. He stopped as the clouds began to darken and it began to rain. He flew down to the ground and waited for me. I quickly closed in my wings and dove to the ground snapping out my wings when I was about to land and tumbled into the dirt. When I righted myself I transformed both of us into panthers again and headed to a hole to get out of the rain. He ran in with me and curled up licking his paw. I laughed and looked at the rain clouds. "Does it snow here too?"

"It can if you want it to, well if I want it to." James said as he walked towards us. He wasn't even getting wet, the rain was avoiding him. I spat and hissed at him backing up into the hole farther and started growling at him. Adrian tensed up and hissed at James and hid me behind him. James looked  confused and backed up when Adrian started getting ready to pounce. When Adrian did pounce James quickly dodged him and Adrian disappeared behind James. My eyes widened when I realized that James got rid of my protector and I backed up into the hole farther flattening my ears against my head and hissed again. He tisked. "You two are not going to be seeing each other for a while now. Ive got an idea, if you do want to see him meet me at my castle. Oh and Noire. The sky is a bit windy and wet. I wouldn't fly today." He turned around and started walking away and the holes entrance started closing up. I gasped and started running through the hole looking for the other exit and when I found it, I shot out of it and shivered when the cold rain started pelting me.

"WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU JAMES YOU WILL WISH YOU NEVER WERE BORN!" I started running through the maze at top speed heading to where I saw the castle and eventually reached it after a few hours. I transformed into a small mouse and found a way in besides the door and scurried through the walls listening for any signs of James or Adrian. I heard James talking to himself after a couple of sharp turns. I poked my head out of a little hole in the wall and looked at him listening in on his conversation with himself.

"Why is Adrian on her side? I was the one that took him in and let his butt live with me and I even let his brother come to. I thought we had something! WHAT IS WRONG WITH GUYS WHEN THEY MEET A GIRL! Bromance has been ruined, ruined! Over a girl. She kills my Adrian then takes him away as a friend to. Gawd I hate her, but yet if she killed me then I probably never would have had any of this happen. That cant be the real Adrian because if it was then he would be on my side right? Right." I slowly turned around and went to the room right next to this one and came out and transformed into one of his wolves he likes to sick on me so much and went through the door to him and nuzzled him and whined trying to seem like a nicer wolf than the savage beasts that chase me all the time. "What? Why aren't you out there with the other wolves chasing Noire or Adrian like I ordered." I gave him puppy eyes and whined again nuzzling him and licked his hand. He pulled me closer to him and sat down in the floor and buried his head into my fur. I licked his face and started wagging my tail and barked happily a little. I've got your attention and you have no idea who you are giving it too!  He laughed and then pushed me away. "Leave me." I whined and stood up and hung my head low looking at him. "Mind your Alpha." I licked his face one more time and ran to the door barking like I was gonna go chase Noire. "Good girl!"

"Bu-bye James!" I ran out of the door laughing and ran down the hall away from him. He came running out quickly after realizing I was me. I giggled and looked at him over my shoulder as I ran then looked in front of me and sped up then turned into a mouse and went into a nearby mouse hole and waited for him to catch up. He ran up and got to his knees looking at me.

"NOIRE!" He reached out to grab me.

"What? Want to shake?" I backed up into the hole father giggling.

"Get over here! How'd you get in without me knowing!" He reached into the hole about to grab me. I bit his finger and charged out of the hole turning into a wolf again and took off running down the hall.

"That's for me to know, and you to find out!" I shouted back at him.

"I AM GONNA GET YOU!" The hall seemed to get longer and the end got further away. I stopped and looked back at him.

"Seriously? You are gonna make this harder on us both?"

"Yes!" He caught up to me and tackled me. I growled and laid my ears back and showed my teeth threatening him as I stood up and let my hair stand on end letting myself look like a real wolf. He laughed and watched me. "You don't scare me." He crossed his arms. I lunged at his throat growling viciously like the wolves outside. He laughed and dodged me and when I landed a hole formed under my feet and I started falling into an abyss. I screamed and looked up to the opening of the hole.

"DAMN YOU JAMES!"

"Love you to darling!" The entrance of the hole closed up and I fell into a room that had only a window, bed, dresser, and a window seat in it. I transformed into my human form and hugged my knees looking around wondering where I was this time and started crying.

"I'm never going to get out of this dream am I?" I realized something. HEY! A WINDOW! I ran over to the window and inspected it further wondering if I could fly out of this. The window had no way to open it, it was just all glass and overlooked the maze. I went over to the bed and took the bed sheet off and wrapped it around my hand a little then went over to the window and busted it out then looked down and climbed up on the windowsill and leapt off letting myself free fall for a bit then transformed into a bird and soared upwards. "Hahahahaha! He thought he had me...." I flew to one of the walls surrounding the castle and landed on it turning into a black house cat and licked my paws. A hand grabbed me and pulled me off the wall into a bag and I ended up in the same room again. I looked around the room again and went over to where the window was before and met a brick wall. "Well hi there brick wall." I turned around looking for another way out. I didn't find another way out but I seen an awful familiar kitty, Adrian. He was on my bed in panther form. I leapt up onto the bed not bothering to transform out of my black house cat and laid down on top of his paws stretching out. "Hi there."

"Hi!" He licked my head. "Come here often?"

"Yeah. I've come here twice through portals. Awesome right?" I licked his paw and laughed.

"I only came here once, when I was thrown into a bag after getting to the gate of the castle."

"I got here first and messed with James but he put me in here then I busted out his window and flew off landing on the wall surrounding the castle and became this gorgeous cat but I got man handled into a bag too." I looked up at him seriously.

"Ouch." He laughed and started purring. I looked around the room again and then at him and started purring with him.

"So why did he put us in the same room? I heard him oversay he was pissed that you liked me over him and teamed up with me."

"I wouldn't know." He got up and ran over to the dresser and pushed it aside revealing a door.

"So that's where the door is...." I got to my paws and followed him over there and sat down looking at the door.

"Yes, this is the door." The door slung open and Adrian backed up as James walked in with a bag and smiled.

"Noire lets play a game!" He slammed the door shut and it disappeared. I backed up and got low to the floor scared.

"What kind of game?" I looked up at him from my pitifulness on the floor.

"Chess, winner gets whatever wanted from the loser." James smirked and Adrian looked at me.

"What would you want from little me?" I took a step back keeping low to the floor.

"Hmmm....I don't know...Your soul."

"But my real self is in a very safe spot..... Or are we talking about you keeping me here forever because this is basically my soul anyways....or at least it's my consciousness." I took another step back from him.

"Yeah that is what I want, if you win...I will let you wake up."

"So it's a gamble of staying here forever with you or waking up and trying not to fall asleep again to stay away from you?" I brightened up a little.

"Yes." He nodded. "Let's play." He walked over to the bed and got out a chess board from in the bag. I hopped up onto the bed with him and looked at the chess board. I've gotta win.....I've gotta win. I looked over at Adrian and smiled at him then looked at my challenger.

"I hope you are prepared to let me go wake up." I laughed.

"I think not, oh and if you win...You do realize you cant stay awake forever."

"I'll write my will while I'm gone and spend my last waking moments with my gang and when I fall asleep, I'll find another way out." I looked at the chess board and picked black wanting to see how he would move first. He made his first move and watched me. I stared at the piece he moved then looked up at him and down at the board. "Dang.....that's a good move...." I moved my pawn somewhere just guessing on what to do. He laughed.

"That's your move?"

"Hey, leave me alone about my moves. You're going to have to deal with them until I win."

"Fine, we could play checkers if you are clueless...HOW ABOUT MONOPOLE?" I looked up at him and took it into consideration. I've had years of managing money for groceries.....BRING IT ON YOU JUST CHALLENGED THE DEATH TWINS PROPERTY! I'm the one who does all the shopping for the houses and cook and all that stuff.....kind of like....we shall not name what it's like. I nodded.

"Monopole."

"Wise choice." He changed the game quickly.

"You just lost automatically." I laughed and picked the ship and put it on the start. "Adrian come be banker!" I looked over at him.

"Okay!" Adrian got onto the bed and James laughed picking the dog. I turned Adrian human to help him be a better banker and kept myself as a cat and licked my paw watching them. Adrian dealed the money out. I stared at James.

"I'm going to win and it's going to be so funny." I transformed into a human and took the dice making the first move and moved my piece.

"Oh really?" He took his turn getting ahead of me and landed on land buying it immediately.

"So greedy...." I laughed. Plan ahead and go for the better land instead of the cheap ones at the beginning. Go for the blues!

"I am not." He laughed.

"Sure about that?" I took my turn and landed on the property right in front of him and tilted my head. It's part of the set he bought...Ok.....I handed Adrian the money for it and took the land card.

"NOOOO!" James cried out and Adrian laughed handing me the card and a few dollars back.

"So very very spoiled too." I smirked and looked at him.

"I am not." James crossed his arms.

"That's what you keep saying but you think you are going to get what you want in the end Goblin King."

"Oh I plan to get what I want." He chuckled.

"You won't. The Goblin King loses in the end."

"Or did he?" He started laughing evilly.

"No, he definitely lost to Sara. He didn't get what he wanted from her and she didn't become his queen." I folded my hands in my lap.

"That don't mean I wont win this."

"The world has a way of favoring me." I smirked and watched him.

"What do you mean?" He chuckled.

"I got away from you the first time, watch me get away from you the second time."

"I bet she gets away a third time to." Adrian said and James narrowed his eyes.

"Adrian....not helping. He might decide he doesn't want to gamble with me and just keep me here anyways."

"Great idea but I will have to diss that because I want to gamble with you Noire."

"I need to shut up now...." I stayed quiet throughout the rest of the games and had a few close calls almost losing to him but in the end I got the blues and hotels on them and he landed on them going bankrupt. "Your greed was your undoing Goblin King. Now you have to let me wake up." I smirked and pushed the board into the floor.

"Dang it!" He groaned. "You won, you can wake up when you want now, I wont stop you I am a man of my word for now."

"So.....you won't invade my dreams again?" I smiled and grabbed Adrian's hand.

"I never said I would stop doing that." James smirked evilly. I shivered and looked down.

"I'm going to come back here eventually aren't I?"

"I am sure you will." James said and got up and smirked. "When your ready."

"Ok." I looked up at Adrian and gave him a hug. "Bye Adrian." I stood up and looked James straight in the eye. "Alright, now keep your word."

"You can wake yourself up, just fall asleep on the bed and you will wake up."

"How do I know you aren't tricking me into the bed to do things to me?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Because Adrian is gonna be here protecting you, right?"

"Right." Adrian smiled.

"Ok..." I looked at James one more time and then got into the bed next to Adrian getting under the covers.

"Nighty night." Adrian said and waved at me. I smiled at him and closed my eyes going to sleep.

My eyes snapped open and I shot out of a bed but tripped when I started running on the floor and face planted. "Noire your awake!" Fade yelled and ran over to me getting to her knees and turned me over. I looked up at her and stared at her for a few seconds.

"OH MY GOSH! FADE!" I sat up and pulled her into a hug. "You're not zombie Fade!"

"I am not a zombie." She assured me and giggled hugging me tightly and we fell over. I giggled and looked around the room and saw Black Star standing up with wide eyes and when I met his eyes he pulled out his phone quickly and called someone.

"Hey, you need to come home, like, right now....Just come home and come here. There has been a change in the situation...I don't wanna tell you. You might go crazy with emotion...Bye!" Black Star hung up and smiled at us. "I hope your ready to see your boyfriend again!"

"Kid!" Fade sat up. "Where is he?"

"He went on a witch hunt after Stein, Spirit, and Kid gave me Noire to give to you." Black Star shrugged.

"Oh." Fade rubbed tears off of her face and then pulled me back into a tight hug. "Yay! I have my Noire awake."

"I'm glad too!" I giggled and hugged her back. "I'm not going to sleep for a while....."

"I wouldn't blame you, so what happened this time? Why didn't you wake up and what is with the panther I saw?"

"Well.....This time I was in an abandoned city and James caused a zombie apocalypse and you were a zombie but I didn't shoot you.....Then he put me back in the maze again and I had fun with Adrian and turned him into a panther then discovered I can change my forms as well in that dreamland and found the middle after a while then James locked me in a tower and had me play a game with him. The winner would get what they wanted from the loser, but lucky me, I won monopole and he had to let me wake up instead of blocking me." I summarized. "Apparently he can keep me in the dream if he wants too."

"I see that." Fade pouted. "We need to go witch hunting now."

"I don't have 99 Kishin souls though....." I pouted. "I only have two, so a witch soul wouldn't be of any use to me yet."

"Fine, we will need to go hunting for James instead then."

"Well.....we could just hold on to the witch soul....." I tilted my head. "And we definitely need to find that guy....I think he's getting a sick twisted kind of love...."

"Ewe." Fade giggled and got up.

"Yeah ewe is right. He was probably thinking about doing things to me if he won because he said that if he won, I was gonna have to stay in the dream forever." I stood up and stretched.

"Well thank gawd you won." Fade smiled at me.

"Yeah!" I smiled at her. "Those skills I picked up from managing the manor really helped."

"I thought they did." She grabbed my hand. "Let's go sneak downstairs and get something to eat." She whispered into my ear.

"Uh huh." I whispered back glancing at Black Star. "Isn't he our guard dog though..."

"We could bribe him or something."

"With what?" I whispered.

"Money."

"You could just kiss him. I don't think he wants money." I giggled.

"I don't want to kiss him." She paled.

"Aw.....watch this." I looked at Black Star and smiled. "Black Star? Can we go get something to eat out of the kitchen?"

"S-sure, but then you have to come back here. Okay?"

"Mkay. Thanks Black Star!" I smiled at him and dragged Fade to the door and left the room with her. "Ok, let's go!"

"Okay." She pulled me down to the kitchen and hid her face when we ran past the shippers. I got a burst of energy and ran past them as fast as I could.

"AHHHHHH! SHIPPERS IN THE MORNING! Oh wait.....I MEAN AFTERNOON!" I screamed running to the kitchen.

"AHHHH!" Fade yelled and laughed. The shippers stared at me confused for a few seconds then Liz and Patti's eyes got wide and they followed us into the kitchen. 'Oh no their on to u- AHHH IT IS KYLE AND CORI RUN NOIRE!" Fade stopped as she pointed them out. I grabbed a big bag of chips and ran out of the room back to the room I woke up in and hopped into the bed with my bag of chips I got away with. She came in with drinks and hopped into bed as Black Star closed the door. I smiled at them and handed the bag of chips to Fade.

"At least we scored something."

"Yes." She handed me a drink, which was a coke and smiled and giggled. "Sorry Black Star I will just have to share with you." I giggled and looked over at Black Star.

"Awwwwwww." I watched his reaction. His eyes lit up.

"Ok!" He smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed. She opened up the drink and took the first sip then handed it to him. He took a sip as well and I cracked mine open and took a big sip of mine.  Kid busted through the room and ran over then fell to his knees at the edge of the bed and took In a deep breath and then paused. He glanced around and his eyes widened when he seen me.

"NOIRE YOUR AWAKE!" Kid yelled and climbed up onto the bed and tackled me into a hug. I gasped and tensed up a little.

"K-Kid.....you.....you're here....." I smiled and buried my face in his neck.

"Yes sweetie I am here." He hugged me tightly and kissed my head repeatedly and then kissed my lips and smiled. I giggled and then froze and looked at him.

"Kid?"

"Yes?" He tilted his head.

"Thanks for chaining me up last night to you in that really comfy bed so I would FALL ASLEEP." I glared at him. I would have been wandering the house if you hadn't have done that.

"I am so sorry." He pouted. "But I love you!" He kissed me again and deeply. I kissed back gently and then pushed on his chest lightly. He pulled back and then glanced at Fade then at me, then towards Black Star. "YOU LET THEM OUT OF THE ROOM!"

"S-SORRY."  Black Star backed up. "Noire gave me the puppy dog eyes."

"Hey, don't blame me for that." I pouted and looked at Kid.

"As long as your safe." Kid whispered then kissed me again. I kissed back fully this time and leaned into the kiss, pushing Kid onto his back and sat on top of him. He smirked up at me and kissed my neck. I leaned down and kissed him again and tilted my head a little deepening it. Fade kicked us both off the bed into the floor and giggled.

"You two go get a room!" I looked up at her.

"This is a room."

"Eweee." Fade climbed out of bed and ran over to the door with the blanket and drink. "JUST EWE!" She ran out quickly. Black Star chased.

"TAKE ME WITH YOU!" He shouted after her.

"AHHHHHH COOTIES ARE CHASING ME SOMEONE HELP!"

"YOU ALREADY GOT MY COOTIES! DRINK, HELLO?" I giggled after I heard Black Star say that.

"AHHH!" I heard the can drop.

"AND FROM THE KISSES!" I busted out laughing and fell into Kid.

"NOOOO STAY BACK BLUE HEADED POSSESSED DEMON."

"I'M YOUR DEMON! NOW GET OVER HERE!"

"NO STAY BACK IVE GOT A CR-" She was shut up and I didn't hear anything for a few minutes.  "OH NO IM BEING KIDNAPPED SOMEONE HELP ME!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU'RE MINE NOW!" The screaming got fainter and I'm going to take a good guess he took her to his room.....Poor Fade.

"Well...that was disturbing..." Kid muttered. "She moved on quick."

"Huh?" I looked at him not bothering to get off of him either.

"Let's just say...Thomas got kicked out of the group by Black Star and so did Alexander."

"Oh....." I felt bad for Fade understanding that Thomas did something bad to her to get Black Star to get rid of him. "She didn't tell me this."

"You just woke up am I correct? Then she probably was waiting for the perfect time to say it." Kid flipped us so he was on top.

"Yeah....I woke up ten minutes ago....." I looked up at him. "You're such a speed demon."

"I was a few minutes late because your daddies were being slow."

"My dads got dragged into this?" I looked up at him confused.

'Yeah...now that I think about it I forgot to take Liz and Patti with me." He shrugged. "Ops."

"I saw that....they tried to get me for you when I left the room for the chips Fade left with."

"Are you hungry?" He got off me and stood up helping me to my feet.

"A little." I smiled at him.

"Before we left Stein and Spirit made pancakes...I wonder if there still is some." He walked over to the door.

"Probably not." I shrugged and followed him. "OH YEAH! I NEED TO GO SHOPPING FOR THE MANOR!" I paled.

"You really need to?" He pouted.

"Soon.....before the day is over because if I fall asleep again, James might keep me longer."

"Okay, you can go shop for the manor." He smiled. "But you have to come back afterwards."

"Why wouldn't I come back afterwards? I've got an awesome boyfriend waiting on me." I smiled at him.

"You bet you do." He kissed me and then walked off to the kitchen. I followed after him slowly and screamed when I saw Liz and Patti and ran to Kid hugging him. He glanced around and laughed seeing his weapons. "Oh hi Liz and Patti." He waved.

"Hi Kid! We were totally not trying to capture Noire!" Patti said and Liz clamped a hand over her mouth.

"Shhhhhhh."

"Creepy." Kid muttered and then glanced at me and turned putting his arm around me. "Come on silly." He walked me into the kitchen.

"Why are they doing that?" I asked quietly as I picked up a pancake and started munching on it.

"Doing what?" He asked curiously.

"Trying to get me when they don't see you immediately next to me."

"Probably to mess with you or something...Didn't they say something like....their gonna help the guys catch the girls?"

"Y-yeah....they did but how did you know about that? I only told Fade."

"I seen it in her diary."

"Who's a stalker now?" I asked smirking.

"Me!" He grabbed a pancake and ate it.

"Well.....that wasn't what I expected you to say stalker."

"Sorry to disappoint you miss." He bowed making me giggle.

"Aw, it's ok." I hugged him when he stood back up. "Ok...will you drive me to the manor so I can go get the car Fade got me a while ago that I have yet to test out?"

"Sure, you want to go right now?"

"I don't mind. Whenever you feel like it as long as it is today and before dark."

"Yeah okay, lets go." He grabbed a couple of pancakes and stuffed one into his mouth. I laughed and raced outside to his car and waited on him.

"SLOW POKE!"

"AM NOT!" He ran out and got into the car. "Come on sweetie."

"Kay." I got in and buckled up. "Thanks Kid for driving me. I'll try to be fast about shopping for your dad ok?"

"Okay, I will wait on you at the manor. I probably should keep him occupied and discuss somethings with him." He took off at a high speed.

"Uh huh. What about?" I looked at him.

"Oh nothing important. I just have to talk about work."

"I take it you mean James and that witch." I mumbled looking at the arrow on my arm.

"Yep." He mumbled and turned on the radio.

"Ok.....Next time I fall asleep I'll trick James into giving up where he is hiding and try to come back ok?"

"Okay sweetie, great plan." He smiled at me.

"I know it is. It came from me."

"Oh really? I thought it came from me." He joked and smirked holding in a laugh.

"You wouldn't even be able to tell me to do that because you don't want me to go to sleep where a crazy guy can get me and do stuff to mess with my mind."

"Your right, I am going to start feeding you sugar and coffee to keep you up."

"I have to go to sleep eventually though..." I whimpered thinking about what was waiting on me when I did.

"Your right." He watched the road and had tensed up. I stayed quiet bring my knees up to my chest and hugged them making myself into a little ball. He is definitely not to happy about the fact I won that monopole game. There is no way I will get away next time unless he does something stupid again to lose me. Poor Kid and Fade though.....they don't want me to go to sleep but I have to even though I wish I didn't have too. They probably are dreading the fact that I will end up passing out eventually. Next time it won't be too easy to escape. We pulled up at the manor half an hour later, Kid had took his own sweet time. I smiled at him and got out.

"So I'll see you when I get back ok?" I ran into the manor. "LORD DEATH! I'M GOING SHOPPING OK?" I grabbed the keys to the Lamborghini Fade got me.

"Sure! Have fun Noire!" Lord Death yelled from in his study.

"KID IS GOING TO BOTHER YOU UNTIL I GET BACK!" I yelled back to him warning him about it.

"YEAH! WHAT SHE SAID!" Kid yelled from behind me and chuckled as he walked up and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Be safe silly."

"I will try." I laughed and ran out of the manor to the garage and got into my car starting it up. Wait.....I don't have my phone...Kid grounded me.....Oh well. I drove to the store and did all of the shopping making sure to get a symmetrical bag of apples and an asymmetrical bag of apples for Fade. When I put the groceries up in the car, I drove to the store a little ways down the street and went inside to the phone section and got one just like my old one and bought it. I went back out to the car stretching and laughed. Got a phone again, check! Totally not telling Kid either until he decides to unground me from them. I felt an arm wrap around my waist and a hand go over my mouth that is holding a cloth.

"Hello Noire." James whispered as I started to pass out for some strange reason.