Chapter 16: Regained Memories It was now morning. Noelle got herself up and looked around her room. The first thing she noticed is that how messy her room was. There were ripped up photos and a ripped up plushie of Dewey the Mammoth. “Wow, what happened last night?” It all came back to her. Noelle broke up with Caleb Cooper over the phone yesterday. With her new found past life memories, Noelle knew that Caleb's not the one for her. He wasn't there for her for many centuries. He wasn't the one Mist Elmbarn married centuries ago. He never went on any adventures with Noelle as Mist Elmbarn, and most importantly, he wasn't faithful to her. Amirani was the one, and now, he was disguising himself as a human when he met up with Noelle. His nickname was Ran, he loved that nickname. He loved it much more than Ami. He hated it when people called him Ami. Noelle knew that for a fact. Noelle remembers everything now: Since she was almost eighteen years old in human years, Amirani decided to re-unite with her once more. There was a deal made between the couple and their subjects. Every time Mist or Amirani needed to take a break from their divine duties, one or the other would be reincarnated as a mortal being from any of the other six worlds. Only one or the other can reincarnate, neither can reincarnate at the same time. When the time comes when either Mist or Amirani reach the age of consent in mortal being years, one or the other will go to that world, and go incognito as a mortal being, waiting for the right moment to re-unite with their beloved. Only in emergency situations were they allowed to reunite with each other before the coming of age of the reincarnated individual. “I get it now!” Noelle said to herself as she walked over to the mess in her room. “Caleb is not worth all this trouble. He can kiss off for all I care!” Noelle gathers the ripped up photos and ripped up plushie and tossed them away in her trash basket. She picked up every piece of paper and stuffing, making sure to leave nothing behind on her room's floor. “Good riddance to bad rubbish!” As Noelle got herself dressed for the day, she grabbed her pencils and sketchbook, and left her room. There, she was greeted by her dad as she made her way to the living room. “Good morning Noelle! How did you sleep last night?” “(yawn) I slept like a log!” Noelle yawned. Then, something sprung into Noelle's mind. “What are you doing home Dad?” “Don't you know....?” Kai Fai explained. “Today is Double Yang Day. I have today off and you have no school.” Noelle puts her left hand on the back of her head and laughed. “Oh ho ho ho! That's right! I forgot about that. Silly me.” Kai Fai rubbed the top of Noelle's head and smiled. “It's okay my dear. I forget things too.” “Yeah.” Noelle said back, smiling. “Thank goodness there is no school!” “By the way, Hideo invited us over to his place to have a barbecue.” Kai Fai told his daughter. “We're going to have sucking pig, dim sung buns, yakitori and some chongyang cakes.” Noelle's mouth started to water at the thought of the barbecue. “Mmmm....yum! I can't wait.” “Neither can I.” Kai Fai said back, thinking of the delicious food that Hideo and his relatives were going to prepare at the barbecue on Double Yang day. “I'm looking forward to it.” “Same here!” Noelle added as she and her father got ready to go over to Hideo's house for today. --- Meanwhile, at the Marco Polo Inn, Doll Grethe's eyes sprung wide open as she sensed something rather odd. She sits up in her bed and is now deep in thought. “Wait, what? No way! That cannot be!” Then, Doll heard a knock on her door. “Hey Doll, are you okay?” “Yeah Leif.” Doll said back, trying hard not to sound worried. “Let me get dressed first, okay?” “Okay.” Leif said as he stood outside of Doll's room. After waiting for a little bit, Doll opens up the door for him. She goes over to Leif and beckons him to sit down on one of the beds with her. She wore a serious and concerned expression on her face. “Leif, I think we need to talk.” Doll Grethe said as she looked Leif in the eyes. “It's about Mist Elmbarn.” “What about her?” Leif asked, feeling concerned for Doll's well being. “I think she might have regained her past life memories.” Doll replied, feeling sick to her stomach. “Therefore, she seems to be a threat to us now.” Leif held Doll closer to her and patted her on the back. “Don't worry so much Doll. We'll have this situation under control.” “Really?” Doll wondered as she cocked her head to the side. “How is this even possible?” “Remember, the fact that Mist regained her memories makes her a slightly easier target for us to track down.” Leif explained as he wrapped his right arm around Doll's shoulders. “If we play our cards right, we can easily track her down, as well as Prince Amirani.” “Then....we can strike back at them!” Doll cheered as she felt a whole lot better about this whole situation. “Leif, you're a genius!” “Aw geez.” Leif sighed as he blushed a berry pink color. “What are we waiting for?” Doll wondered. “Let us brainstorm over ideas to get Mist and Amirani into our clutches!” “Now that's the spirit!” Leif exclaimed. “Come, let's meet up with Matthias and go over some ideas together. It's not you're alone on this.” “Thank you.” Doll said back as they made their way to Matthias' room to brainstorm ideas on getting their revenge. --- Over at the Nozawa residence, the barbecue was taking place. Hideo and his relatives were barbecue various amounts of meat on the spits and grills, while Noelle was inside with Yukio, Saeko and their cousins were inside, watching monster movie marathons on one of the many movie channels on television. At the same time, Noelle was sketching in her sketchbook, drawing a strange and intriguing series of monstrous beings. The first sketch she completed, was a sketch of Prince Amirani's true devil prince form. Yukio looks over at her sketch and said, “Wow, that is one bad ass looking monster you drew here.” “Where do you get all these awesome ideas from Noelle?” Kenta asked as he caught a glimpse of the sketch. Noelle closed her eyes and laughed. “Oh that. Heh heh, it came to me in a dream.” “Wow, I wish I had an imagination as awesome as yours.” Kenta said as he admired the sketch. “Thank you.” Noelle said back. “I think you can have a good imagination if you put your mind to it.” “You mean it Noelle?” “Yes, I do Kenta.” Noelle continued to sketch while Kenta and his younger members of the family continued to watch monster movies. The next sketch Noelle was working on was a sketch of her alter ego, Mist Elmbarn, complete with her wings unsheathed from her back while carrying a huge lance over her head. Saeko looks over at the new sketch, and asked, “Who's that lady? She looks super awesome.” “She another character that appeared in my dreams last night.” Noelle replied. “She is in love with the devil I drew a little while ago.” “Interesting!” Saeko exclaimed as Noelle continued to draw more pictures. Noelle had to try everything she could to hide her true identity from her family and mortal friends. If word of Noelle just being a mere mortal alter ego of an angelic battle maiden came out, she would find herself in a lot of trouble. With both other mortal folk and her enemies, who may or may not know about her whereabouts. But now since Noelle can now control over when she can become Mist Elmbarn once more. However, Noelle had to play her cards right, because she knew one slip up can turn into one big trip up, and she would have to leave the human world for a while. --- Back at the Marco Polo Inn, Matthias was drawing up some ideas on a drawing board that he loaned from the inn, while Leif and Doll took notes and went over some ideas with him. Matthias drew a print of human technology alongside Alerfa technology used outside of the human realm. The human technology consisted of a TV and a DVD player, while the Alerfa technology conisisted of a Crystal vision device and crystal shard discs. In between the two mediums, there was a sketch of a converter device used to convert Alerfa technology to human technology, and vice versa. After sketching the print, Matthias points to the sketch of the converter and said, “You see this converter?” “Yes. What about it?” Leif asked as he and Doll took notes. “We are going to use this converter to make some Alerfa technology accessible to humans.” Matthias explained. He then moves over to his dresser drawer and pulls out oodles of crystal shard discs. “These are discs of a popular children's show called Our Tiny Monkeys. It's used to keep kids to shut up for a half hour or two.” “Oh my gods, not that stupid show!” Doll groaned in disgust. “Isn't that also the same show that lonely, basement dwelling man children with no lives of their own obsess over?” “Yes...I know....” Matthias groaned as he rolled his eyes. “But you guy aren't the ones that are going to watch it.” “We're not?” Leif and Doll asked in unison. “Thank goodness.” Doll sighed in relief. “We are going to convert these crystal shard discs into DVD enhanced with hypnotizing powers.” Matthias explained further. “After we do that, we are going to hand out these DVDs to every school in Hong Kong, so all the students will hypnotized. Then after that....” “...Then we'll nab them!” Leif exclaimed in excitement. “It's as easy as taking candy from a baby.” Doll added. “Yes indeed.” Matthias said, smiling, as they were brainstorming their plans. “All we need to do is pick up on Mist's mind signals, and there, the day will be ours!” “AH HA HA HA HA!” Mathias, Leif and Doll laughed as they plotted their revenge. But little did they know that a bat like creature was spying on them outside their window. The bat was no one other than the succubus Lilith, who was alarmed at what she witnessed and overheard. Lilith flew off, feeling rather nervous and upset. “Shit! I gotta tell Amirani the news before it's too late!”