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SIX. Who are you?
Megaman ZX
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The screaming had stopped.

The bushes rustled as a small brown-haired child, no older than five at most, hesitantly crawled out, the knees of her pants torn and bloody. She looked around fearfully, the tear-tracks visible in her smudged and dirty face, with tears still threatening to spill from her green eyes, but she had stopped crying for now. She had cried when she was thrown into the bushes, but the manical laughter among the screaming had silenced her.

"Mama?" she called out. Her voice seemed to echo in the seemingly abandoned amusement park. In the background was the rumble and clanking of a roller coaster, and balloons were released periodically every five minutes. The distant music of the Merry Go Round was heard, but that was all. There were no screams or laughter, just the whirrings and clankings of machinery and rides set in place by a program, a program that would continue everyday without fail until the parts are worn away and the wiring burnt out.

"Mama?" the girl calls out again, shakily. It seems that she's the only one left in the amusement park - or at least, the only one alive. A few feet away from her lies a man, blood-like fluid leaking from the gashes in his chest. The exposed circuitry and red triangle on his forehead mark him as a Reploid, but the grimace of terror on his face is human enough. With a cry, the girl stumbles backwards, away from the body, and turns away too flee - but then spots a familiar figure slumped across the ground.

"Mama!" she shouts, racing over to shake her mother, lying facedown on the ground. "Mama, mama, wake up, this is scary, I want to go home," she pleads.

Her mother doesn't stir at all, and then she realizes that she's kneeling in a pool of blood.

"...Mama?" With a final shake, she rolls her mother over, and sees the the wound in her chest, her open, sightless eyes, and her mouth hanging slightly open with a trickle of blood leaking from the corner.

Screaming, the girl falls on her rump and scoots away, unable to take her eyes off her mother's body, her pants covered in blood. Mama's going to get mad at me for getting my pants dirty, the thought flies giddily through her head, as she screams and screams and screams.

However, no one appears, not even the one who murdered her mother, and the screams gradually dissolve into sobs and hiccups, with snot flowing from her nose.

And then a low, gentle voice from behind - "What's wrong?"

The girl turns around, but the sun is angled right behind the stranger. All she sees is a dark outline surrounded by long gold hair, golden like a halo, and the red triangle on shining on his forehead.

All can do is point to her mother's body. "M... Mama..." she sobs.

The stranger says nothing for a while, and she continues to howl. Finally, he asks "What about your dad?"

A wave a terror grips the girl, which stops her sobbing. "Nuh... no dad..." No mother. No father. Who did she belong to, then?

The silence stretches on.

"You can come with me, then." The stranger breaks the silence and stretches out a hand. "What's your name?"

The girl stares at the outstretched hand and then, timidly, places her blood-smeared hand into his.

"Aile."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ending's kinda half-assed and this probably isn't really a 'drabble' anymore, but it's the first piece of... well, it's something that I actually sat down and intended for people to read, other than school essays or RP.

Anyways, this is my interpretation of how Giro met Aile from Megaman ZX.