Melody hugged Kaori and nodded.<br/>"I was never allowed to be happy before the radiation."  She spoke softly, shivering a little.  Requiem glanced back at Kaori and Melody for a brief moment, they meant her no harm and so she dismissed their presence there for now.<br/>"It's not that I'm corrupt."  She spoke.  "I am the very nature of what you people would call humanity's will...I know everything each of you know and have seen what human nature is all about.  Raising me up to be an adult is out of the question since I'll become one before this day ends...I already have more knowledge than any single adult here, what more can I learn?"  Requiem actually half laughed slightly then looked back to Shade.<br/>"I was born to wipe this world clean of the dark nature of humanity and create a utopia where there are no more wars, no more death, no more suffering....just eternal peace and servitude."  She looked at Shade then smiled.  "You must be from my future and since you can adapt to block my abilities then...what'll happen when I do this?"  Her hair wavered around and formed into a long metal spike which shot towards Col's chest in a blinding flash.<br/>"No, Requiem!"  Melody cried, jumping out in front of the spike a the last moment penetrating her abdomen.<br/>"Why did you get in the way mother?"  Requiem spoke.  "Don't you see what he is?"  The girl, Requiem may have had the knowledge and ability's of everyone she'd been near, but she had no idea of how emotions really worked.<br/>"I couldn't let you kill Big Brother Col, he's important to me...like big sister Kaori and little brother Leet...and most importantly you, my precious Requiem."  She spoke with a few tears running down her cheeks.  "Please is there no other way than to fight?"<br/>"Why should you care about these people mother?"  Requiem asked, removing her hair from the wound which sealed itself up in a matter of seconds as her body regenerated.  "They'll all destroy each other and then there will be nothing left...at least my way will change the very nature of humanity itself...my world can provide the happiness that Kaori so desperately seeks, though even she is not innocent...you're all full of the corruption of human nature and because of that, I've become infected by it too."  She turned to look at Shade again.  "So, was it Kenji who brought you back here to this time or was it my mother who sent you?"<br/><br/>((I'm not even sure where Requiem's path is going to lead anymore...I'm thinking maybe it'll end up with two groups of people, one trying to change the world...the other trying to make the best of what the world has become.  Part of me deep inside is finding it hard to make her seem evil because part of me deep inside really wants her and Melody to bond...I guess that's how I would feel if I became a mother.  ;p))