Chapter 3
"I was wondering where you were!" Kiki laughed as Antonio came up.
"I'm sorry, I ran into a bit of trouble," he replied.
"Monster trouble? I saw what happened after the Moogers came out."
"You-you saw that?"
"Yeah," she said causally. They stood there for a few awkward moments.
"Come on, let's look around some more," Antonio suggested, breaking the awkward silence.
"Okay." They chatted and walked around.
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After a while, Kiki started feeling funny.
"I feel funny," she told Antonio during a short rest.
"Are you feeling sick?" She shook her head, clutching her stomach. {Nighlock poison,} Kiki thought.
"Is there a, is there a place called the Shiba House?" she asked shyly. He nodded.
"Take me there. Please?" she begged.
"Um," said Antonio nervously.
"Nighlock poison," Kiki whispered.
"What?" Antonio asked.
"Nothing. Can we go?" she answered quickly.
"I don't know..."
"Please." He looked into her deep blue eyes. They were showing two things: pain and something he wasn't sure what it was.
"Alright, I'll call Mentor." He pulled out his phone.
"Ji, I have a friend who is in a lot of pain from something physical but I can't tell what. She may have been hit by the Nighlock's attack from earlier, because she saw us fighting that Nighlock. I was wondering if I could bring her to the Shiba House," he said. Ji said something and Antonio hung up.
"Let's go."
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A little over halfway to the Shiba House, Kiki felt like she was about faint. She felt queasy, had a headache, and was slowly feeling weaker and weaker.
"Antonio, I don't feel like I can go on much longer," she weakly told him.
"We're almost there, Amiga. Just a little farther," he answered. He draped her arm around his shoulder for support. She smiled gratefully before stumbling. He helped her up the steps when she fainted on the front porch.