"The Paradise Keepers, what?" Eli asked, as he was confused. 'Oh yeah, that's right.' I thought to myself. I had only used the term with Blackout, and none of the others had known what this term meant...

'I would say my quote: 'Anime Backstory.' Right now, but, I've hurt too many people with that quote... It lead to even more things than I could of ever imagined... I never want to hurt anyone again.' I reminded myself. 

"Yes, that's right," I stood by the others, whilst Blackout joined me. 

"The Paradise Keepers." 

I referred to all of us... For we were the main protagonists in this story...

"Ohh, so we're the Paradise Keepers." Conor had confirmed... He caught on fast. He had to, if he was ever going to figure out who I am... Or what I was... Which, I didn't plan on him figuring me out... And if he did, I would have to run off to somewhere... 

The last test, I suppose...

To see if he would actually run after me and stay by my side like he had promised. I honestly doubted it, though. No one would come after me, I already knew it. 

"Well, we should probably get going..." I looked off into the distance, as if to see something. I turned my back to the others as I stared off into the distance. 

"Where to?" Evelyn asked. 

I turned to her, and with a gleam in my eye, I spoke to her.

"Paradise." I smiled brokenly. Evelyn didn't know where we were going, most of them didn't. I had only shared a few pieces of information with the others about this plan... I had shared it with Blackout, Crystal and with Conor... Those were the only three who knew. 

"Let's go!" Blackout excitedly said. 

...And with that, I lead the way. For, I was the only one who knew where I was going... Somehow, my paws just lead me to where the portal to Paradise was... The true portal. For I was the Lunar Flower, the only one capable of letting creatures into Paradise... The only one who unlocked the portal to Paradise... I could only let in creatures whom were not fully poisoned or humans. For humans or fully poisoned beings could only create a Paradise of darkness, and if they tried to enter, their essence would break and their soul would be killed.

They would disappear...

Forever...

I wanted to save everyone, but the truth was, I couldn't. 

And that broke me.

...But, I would still try. No matter what.

I was like that.

...That was why I was INFP. The healer, the dreamer, the one who helps the underdog and defends the weak. That was me, alright. 

I walked on and on, getting lost in my thoughts. I just let my soul, my paws, and my heart guide me. Blackout padded up to the front to walk by my side.

"You know, you didn't really have to introduce me to them. I already knew all of them..." He muttered, but then laughed. I felt so stupid... I totally forgot that both Blackout and I talked through the borders of Fantasia all of the time, and so, he knew literally everything. He even helped me to unpoison them.

"Ohhh, yeah... Heh. Sorry." I laughed at how stupid I had been. I then looked further to where we were, and I decided that where we were currently would be a good base. 

"Alright, this will be our base for now." I alerted everyone, and they nodded. The place we had ended up had some trees here and there, but it basically was just an opening of land. Of course, it was lightly covered with snow, but that was to be expected. It was December, after all. 

I sat down in the snow, away from everyone else. Blackout was still by my side, though. 

"Did you contact Rainpack?" I asked Blackout. He nodded as he looked into the sky.

"Yep! That howl went to all of the packs we are in contact with... Except for Thunderpack and Bloodpack. They can't know our intentions." He pawed at the snow, as we had both been in wolf form ever since we departed. "Paradise is in reach." He looked at me and smiled.

He then padded off to go and talk with the other Paradise Keepers, while I sat alone in my thoughts. I unfolded my wings, and I let them hover over the sides of my body. I sighed as I thought of everything that is going to happen/has happened. Everything was going to collide at once...

Everything that the humans have ever predicted for the world ending would come true, and even more than that as well... It was all going to collide into each other at once, and we had to escape just in time to reach Paradise... But that also meant one thing... One thing I couldn't get off of my mind...

I looked down at the snow...

That thing would be...

"Hey, Shadow." Conor had actually used that name instead of the name that he had called me ever since we had met. The name that everyone knew. ...Improvement, I suppose? Though, I didn't mind the name Morgan... It actually made sense of why I was named Morgan..

For I was the Celtic goddess of war, The Morrigan. (That's why wherever I go, wars happen around me. It makes sense now, doesn't it?) Being The Morrigan was one of my past and my current lives. I know that doesn't make sense right now, but it will. 

Conor sat next to me in the snow. ...He must've noticed that I was alone. Hence the reason why he came over to me. 

"Greetings, Conor." I greeted, using my quotable line. "Why are you not hanging out with the others? They probably miss you." I avoided eye contact at all costs.

"Why can't I hang out with you?" He asked, looking up at me. (More like looking down at me... I am so short. 4'2, to be exact.) 'Why would you want to hang out with me, of all people?' I thought.

I went silent. ...There was nothing I could say that would be meaningful. ...Nothing I could say except for silence... Silence is the most meaningful words you could ever speak. ...I was a professional of silence. 

"Why are you not by the others?" He asked, yet another question. I was used to it, though. I actually loved to answer questions... It's just... I get shy and I'm not able to answer questions through talking. I can't even properly express my emotions through talking... All I can do is write or draw, and that's the only way for you to truly see my emotions. ...It didn't help that I always stuttered and had social anxiety. ...That only made it worse, as you could probably imagine. 

...Plus, the people who I wanted to talk to most, I was the most shy of. Lucky me, right? Heh, and those to people were Conor and Paige. 'Yay me.' I thought to myself. 

"Because I want them to be happy." I quietly said, but that silenced the both of us. There was nothing but silence. I then realized that talking in my wolf form was probably super weird to him, so I just transformed back into my human disguise form. 

I pulled my knees closer to my chest and I hugged them. All I wanted to do was to be alone... But to not be lonely. I hated being lonely. Loneliness would kill me. Yet, I hate being social and I always want to be alone... Being with people tires me out. Though, of course, when I'm super tired and I want to go to sleep, I can't because I'm an insomniac. 

Hnngg.

"C-Can I ask you a question?," I turned to him. He looked at me and nodded.

"Why don't you believe in magic?" I had always wanted to bring it up, but I was afraid something would go wrong if I did... So I just ran away from the question. I looked to the ground so I would avoid any possible contact.

I could tell that he was thinking about it... He wanted to give the right answer... He was always like this. Logical, analytical, the typical Virgo.... Though, I wasn't stereotyping him at all. I actually adored Virgos, they are good people. ...Gemini would always be my favorite zodiac sign, though. I don't know what it was about both Virgos and Gemini, but they just had this aura to them... 

"Because you can't se-" I cut him off right then and there. 

"Do you have any proof?" I asked him, using his own almost-quote against him. I stood up and looked down at him, as he was still sitting. "The only way for you to truly figure me out is to believe in magic." I stated, and then walked off without turning back. I went over to a tree, climbed it, and sat on the tree.

I loved trees. I could go on and on about how much I loved trees, but that is a whole other essay for another day. 

The day was beginning to turn to night, and I was still up in the tree. I could tell that Conor had thought about what I had said, but he went back over to the others. Speaking of the others, Crystal and Karla were really getting along... They talked about their favorite music, and a lot of other things. I was glad.

Blackout had formed this video game group which had included Xander and Eli... It could've been a full on demon squad if Conor had joined.... But I suppose, things aren't always going to work out as I hope for. They never do.

I knew that I wouldn't be falling asleep tonight... I never did. Unless someone in particular hugged me, I wouldn't fall asleep. The hug would only work on nights where I couldn't fall asleep, other wise it didn't work at all...

...So, you couldn't use it to your advantage to get me to fall asleep. (That would be a pretty cool power, though.) Only two people could do this, though. This power only flowed through two people. Those two people were Conor and Paige. 

...It also only worked on me, for some reason. It was weird. Their hugs... They had the power to hypnotize me, but it only made me black out, they couldn't use it to their advantage, yet again. This was the ONLY way to hypnotize me, so, other than that, I was immune to being hypnotized along with being poisoned, mind controlled and brainwashed. Blackout had the same immunities. (So yeah, don't get any ideas...)

I looked up at the moon, and I realized that the moon was beaming it's moonlight on me. I really loved the moon, the galaxy, the night and everything... I just felt so connected with it... Not to mention, I was the actual queen of the galaxy. Galaxy was also one of my elements. 

I sighed.

"Shadow, I'm ready to have the correct mindset." A voice from below reached me.