○Aalia's P.O.V○

"Nhn" sun rays hit my eyes and I opened my eyes slowly. They burned so I immediately closed them.

"look! Sleepy head woke up!" I heard Yumi yell.

I sat up and rubbed my eyes then opened them.

"Good morning. Huh?" I looked around and saw the guys weren't there. "Where are the guys?"

"They went to get food. I hope it's not fish again" Yumi said looking annoyed.

"Hehe. So you're not a big fan of fish huh?" I slightly laughed at her.

"Don't laugh at me. It's not like I don't like it, I just haven't eaten real food for so long" she laid down on her back and stretched.

"Hey!" Junior and Ryuuji walked into the cave.

"Where is my food!" Yumi said looking like she would go crazy if she didn't eat.

"It's right here" Ryuuji said holding a stick with chicken on it.

"Yay!" Yumi and I said in unison.

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○Ryuuji's P.O.V○

"Ah, that was delicious" Yumi laid down.

"Hehe it was. It's been so long since I had chicken." Aalia said, giving me a closed eye smile.

We sat around the fire and started talking.

"I have a question Junior" Yumi sat next to him.

"What is it?"

"What are your powers?"

I saw Aalia lean in to hear his answer clearly.

"I'm a demon shapeshifter!" He said while clenching his fist and smiling.

"Ooooo wow!" Aalia said slightly smiling.

Yumi and Junior started talking, I noticed Aalia didn't look well.

"Are you okay? You look pale" I asked her while putting my hand on her back.

"Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine" she gave me a smile, but it was a smile full of pain.

"You sure?"

"Yeah don't worry"

○Aalia's P.O.V○

My stomach hurt really badly. Did I need to eat human flesh again?

I only ever tasted it once. I didn't want to face the fact that I had to eat it, so whenever I got hungry for it, Cindy would put me to sleep and feed me.

But now, I don't have someone to do that. I either have to kill someone, find a dead body, or die from starvation.

I shuddered at the thought of eating human flesh.

Even though I had a different DNA now, I knew I was still human, but if I eat it, I won't be human anymore.

I felt myself go pale, I hope no one noticed.

"Are you okay? You look pale" I felt Ryuuji place a hand on my back.

"Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine" I tried to smile, but I was in so much pain.

"You sure?"

"Yeah don't worry"

Ugh! I got a sharp pain in my stomach again. I picked up a piece of chicken to try and calm my stomach, but it tasted rotten. I forced it down, it was horrifying. I guess when I'm hungry for human flesh, human food tastes rotten.

"Uhn!!" my head started hurting really badly and my vision went blurry.

"Aalia! What's wrong?" Yumi looked at me with a worried expression.

I tried to speak, but it hurt too much. I just grabbed the sides of head.

"Aalia. Tell me what's wrong?" Ryuuji kneeled down beside me.

My vision went blurry and I passed out.

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I opened my eyes and I was surrounded by darkness, I couldn't see anything.

"H-hello?" There was no answer.

I looked down at myself. I was wearing a white long dress and I had no shoes.

"Where am I?" I looked around, but I couldn't see anything.

Suddenly everything went white and a woman stood infront of me.

"Hello" she smiled and looked at me. She had long, dark red hair and her eyes were ghoul eyes. She was smirking and had a black smoke surrounding her.

"W-who are you?" I said frightened.

"Hehe, my my, you don't know me? What a shame" she smirked.

"Tell me who you are!" I raised my voice.

"Hmhm, I'm Alex. Doesn't ring a bell? Here I'll explain. The DNA for your ghoul side is my DNA. Since they killed me and gave you my DNA, I was living inside you. I keep trying to take over your body, but you keep fighting me. But now I have you at a weak time and it's easy" she looked at me, her eyes glowing.

"Huh? I will never let you take over my body" I frowned at her and clenched my fists.

"Oh sweetie" she walked around me and stood behind me.

"It's no use, you're hungry and you can't fight me" she whispered in my ear. "If you don't eat, you'll die"

"No, I don't want to eat human flesh." I looked done at my feet, a tear rolling down my cheek and onto my foot.

"You don't have a choice" she laughed and her kagune came out. They were tentacle-like appendages. One of them came in my direction and went right through my stomach.

"Ugh!" The pain was excruciating and blood came out of my mouth.

"Haha now time to eat"

My eyes opened, but I couldn't control my body, Alex was controlling it.

"I smell food" she said in my mind.

"Stop it! Give me my body back!" I tried to tell Ryuuji to move away from me, but I wasn't in control anymore.

"Aalia you're okay. I was so worried." Ryuuji said while holding me in my arms.

I felt myself smirk and my eye changed.

"Well isn't that sweet" Alex used my body to punch Ryuuji, the force sent him flying out of the cave.

"No! Stop!" I begged her, but she wouldn't stop.

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○Ryuuji's P.O.V○

"Aalia!" She passed out and I caught her in my arms.

"Oh no. What's happening?" Yumi kneeled down beside me.

"I don't know"

It felt like 5 minutes had passed and I saw her eyes open.

"Aalia you're okay. I was so worried" I said looking at her. She had a wierd expression, I had never seen her like this before.

"Well isn't that sweet" her eye changed into the ghoul one and she smirked at me.

"Aali-" she punched me in the face which sent me flying out of the cave, causing me to scrape against the floor.

"Aalia what's wrong with you?! Why would you do that?!" Yumi grabbed her by the arm.

"I'm sorry, but Aalia isn't here anymore. You are now talking to Alex" Aalia said turning to face her.

"Huh?" Aalia then kicked her and she fell down.

"Something has possessed her! Stop her immediately!" I got up and ran back to them.

Junior tried to punch her, but she was too strong.

I fell on my back and she walked up to me.

"Oh so pathetic. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to eat." She jumped over me and started running through the trees.

"Ryuuji are you okay?!" Yumi and Junior ran to me.

"I'm fine. Something has possessed her. We need to stop her before something bad happens." They nodded and we ran to find her.

○Aalia's P.O.V○

"Stop it! You hurt my friends" I screamed at her in my mind.

"I don't care, I just need food"

She ran through the trees and bushes. I could smell human blood and I felt my stomach rumble.

"No! This can't be happening" I wanted to cry so badly.

"Well too bad, cause' it is." We finally saw a few men in the forest. My hunger grew stronger.

○Third Person P.O.V○

"Who the hell are you?!!" One of them yelled.

"That's not important" she pounced at him and he fell to the floor, she sat on top of him and smirked.

"Now, a snack" she felt her teeth sharpening.

"No!" Aalia tried go fight back, but she couldn't do anything.

She used her teeth to bite the man's neck and the blood flowed into her mouth. Tears started rolling down her cheeks as Alex kept biting him.

"ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!!" He yelled trying to push her away.

Alex let him go and blood splattered all over her, he laid there, lifeless.

"Ahhhh!!!" The other men started running away.

"Where do you think you're going?" she had a creepy smile snd cracked her knuckles. She punched at them, but was stopped by a spike hiting her hand.

"Ah!" She fell to the floor holding her hand.

"Stop!" Ryuuji, Yumi and Junior ran up to Alex and surrounded her.

Alex growled "Go away!" She gritted her teeth and opened her wings.

When she possessed Aalia her wings turned black.

She spread her wings and shot the crystals at them.

Junior pushed Yumi down to protect her.

Ryuuji then ran and kicked her in the jaw.

But what he didn't know, is that Aalia could feel all the pain.

Alex got up and ran towards him, using her foot to trip him. He fell over but quickly caught his balance and pounced at her.

Junior held Yumi in his arms, she was too scared to see what was happening.

Ryuuji flew into the air and blew fire at her. This caused her to drop her guard and he attacked. He pushed her onto the floor and pinned her arms by her head.

"Wow dragon boy, you sure are strong" she smirked at him.

"Shut up and give me Aalia back! You can't have her!" He yelled at her.

"Haha I won't ever let her go! I can use this body and I can eat all I want now." Alex smirked and laughed.

Ryuuji put his lips by her ear and whispered.

"Aalia, come back to me, don't let her over power you" somehow his words worked.

○Aalia's P.O.V○

"Ryuuji" I wasn't hungry anymore and Alex was weak. I attacked her and she started fading away.

"I won't let this happen next time" Alex soon faded away.

I was controlling my body now. I looked up at Ryuuji and smiled while crying. He got off of me and I stood up.

"Aalia" he walked up to me and hugged me.

I couldn't hold my tears back anymore. I hugged him back and cried into his shoulder.

"Wahhh!!!!" I felt his shirt getting wet with my tears, but I didn't care, I just wanted to let my tears out.

After a couple of minutes I stopped crying.

"Are you okay now?" He whispered into my ear.

"Yeah I'm fine now thanks" I let go of him, but he still held on to me.

"Don't ever scare me like that again." He hugged me tighter. I couldn't help but blush at this.

"Alright, break it up lovebirds" Yumi pulled me away from him and hugged me.

"Never do that again"

I smiled and hugged her back. Since she was shorter than me and younger, I felt like she was my little sister.

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We decided to find a town, we couldn't stay in the forest forever.

Since I still felt weak, Ryuuji carried me on his back as we walked through the forest.

"Wow!" I haven't felt this much freedom in forever!" Junior said.

"We aren't free yet." Ryuuji said with a slight frown.

"Come on, lighten up" Yumi nudged him with her elbow.

Yumi and Junior were walking infront of us.

"How are you feeling" Ryuuji turned his head so I could hear him.

"I'm feeling better. I think I can walk now" I got off his back and tried to walk. I slightly limped, but I used Ryuuji's arm for support.

~A couple hours later~

"Let's rest" Ryuuji said while stopping.

"Finally!" Yumi and Junior yelled.

Ryuuji helped me sit down under the tree. He sat next to me and I put my head on his shoulder.

"Get some rest. You need more strength, we will be walking for a couple more hours." He said while putting his arm around me.

I slightly blushed and closed my eyes.

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I was dreaming about what Alex had done. I tried to search for her inside my head, but it's like she disappeared forever. But, I knew she was still inside me.

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"Aalia, wake up" Ryuuji whispered in my ear while lightly shaking me. "It's time to start walking again"

I opened my eyes and saw Yumi and Junior sleeping next to me. Ryuuji got up and woke them up.

"Are you okay? You didn't sleep did you?" He helped me up.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine" I knew he wasn't, but I didn't feel like arguing with him.

We had been walking for what I'm guessing was an hour.

"There they are!!" We turned around and saw Alexander's men.

"Oh no!" Yumi hid behind Junior.

I just stood there, too shocked to move.

"Run!!!" Ryuuji grabbed my hand and we ran.

"After them!!" I heard them yell, but I didn't look back. I just held Ryuuji's hand and ran as fast as I could.

*gun sounds* "ahn!" I felt two bullets hit my right arm and one hit the side of my stomach.

Ryuuji's grip on my hand tightened and he pulled me so I could run faster. I blinked back the tears that were forming in my eyes.

Soon more bullets hit me and the others. We were struggling to keep running, but we didn't stop. We wanted to be free, we weren't going to get kidnapped again.

We were running on top of a cliff now. A bullet hit me in the ankle and I fell off the cliff. I grabbed Ryuuji's shirt to try and get my balance back, but I just ended up pulling him with me, which caused him to push Yumi and Junior. We all fell down and we rolled down the hill.

When I got to the bottom I hit my head against a rock and struggled to stay awake.

○Ryuuji's P.O.V○

I fell hard on my back. I could hear my ribs break. I looked around and Aalia, Yumi and Junior were all passed out. I tried to protect them, but I was in too much pain to get up. I felt tears form in my eyes.

I saw the guards and thought "It's over"

"Hey!" I heard someone yell. My vision was blurry, but I saw a group of people running towards us. I struggled to keep my eyes open, and soon I fell into a deep sleep.