Disclaimer: I do not own Oban Star Racers. OSR is (C) SAV! The World Productions.

Nor do I own +Anima. That belongs to Natsumi Mukai and Tokyopop.

Chapter 4

"Mommy!" Eva shrieked as she woke from her nightmare. After catching her breath, she looked around. 'Why am I back in my room? I remember standing next to Aikka when Rick crashed then…then I collapsed from pain.' The pain came back immediately and she fell off the bed and curled into a ball.

"Molly! Are you alright?" Stan yelled as he ran through the door with Kekke and Koji close behind.

"Here, drink this." Koji said and he began passed Eva a cup of some type of purple liquid.

"Ugh, it taste horrible!"

"That's because it's medicine. Koji, can you pour her some tea to drown out the taste." Stan and Kekke then helped Eva stand up.

"What happened?"

"Well," Koji began, "after you passed out from the pain, Aikka and Sarabi took you to the hospital. We saw him entering a room with Sarabi, so I ran up to them and he explained what happened."

"So what did the doctor say?"

"It's a phase normal for animas, it's when their memories come back to them." Stan explained, "It should only last a week, the doctor said to drink a cup of Sonium (A/N: a special medicine for animas) once every six to eight hours. And that if we make it to the finals, come back to get some more. Also, you have a check up every day, here's the times, and it shouldn't interfere with the races luckily."

"Thanks guys." At that moment, Sarabi ran in, jumped on Eva and started licking her face. "I'm okay girl, you can get off me now." Sarabi then got off of Eva and she then stood up. "So, how's Rick?"

"Well, um" Koji tried to think of the right words to say, "We're not really sure let. Don is going to have a team meeting, we'll find out then."

"Oh, Koji I'm so sorry. I was supposed to cook dinner last night."

"It's okay, really."

"Um Molly," Stan coughed, "Your appointment starts soon. You really should get going."

"Right. Hey Kekke, you want to ride with me." Kekke nodded.

"I don't care what happened yesterday!" Jordan shouted. "There no way I'm going to let Molly hang out with the lap dogs of the Crogs!"

"The Nourasians are no ones lap dogs." Aikka shouted back.

"JORDAN, shut up already! If it wasn't for Aikka, who knows what would have happened to me yesterday." Aikka expression changed drastically when he saw Molly.

"Molly, are you feeling better?" He asked in a calm caring tone.

"For the most part. Hey Aikka, I have a doctor appointment really soon. By any chance would you like to tag along with me and Kekke?" Aikka looked sympathetically at the boy.

"Will it be alright with Kekke?" Kekke then nodded agreeing. "Kekke, I really hope you will soon learn that not all Nourasians are the same."

"Don't worry Aikka," Eva grinned, "if he isn't worry about you tagging along, than he must be starting to like you. This will be a great experience for him. Now come on, if we keep standing here, I'll never make my appointment." The three then seated themselves on top of Sarabi and were off.

"Here we are, princess." Aikka smiled as he assisted her, and then Kekke off Sarabi.

"How polite, prince." Eva giggled. The four walked inside the small hospital over to the check-in desk.

"Name, and business please." The blue, pointing ear, alien nurse asked.

"Molly of the Earth Team, and I'm here for a special check-up." The nurse nodded knowing full well that the reason behind this check-up must remain top secret.

"If you would please walk into room nine-eight-five. Doctor Hino will be there in just a moment."

"Thank you." Both Aikka and Eva answered before they walked to the room. (A/N: the room is just like your typical Earth hospital room.) A nurse greeted them over there and assisted that Eva should sit down on the bed, so not to cause further damage. Eva reluctantly agreed. Aikka then walked over to her, and started petting her hand.

"You're nervous." It wasn't a question, "Please, tell me why. It might help."

"It's about Rick. I want to know if he's going to be alright."

"I'm sure you can ask the nurse at the check-in desk if you could pay him a visit." Eva smiled at him; she was about to kiss him when Doctor Hino walked in.

"Good morning." He beamed as he walked over to the sink to watch his hands and put on a fresh pair of gloves. He then walked over to Eva and began checking her pulse on her neck, chest, and wrists. "Molly, have you experienced any returning pain since you woke up this morning?"

"Yeah, almost immediately. Then Stan rushed in and gave me the Sonium and I felt better."

"Well I am glad that the medicine helped you. Did you cough anymore blood?"

"No."

"Well that's defiantly good news, but I sadly think that you will soon. Molly, would you please follow me to the x-ray room." Eva followed him. (A/N: I'm not going to go into her x-ray procedure because either 'a' you've already had an x-ray, 'b' you know someone who has, or 'c' you are someone you know will have one eventually.) Eva walked back into the room were Aikka and Kekke were still waiting.

"So what did Doctor Hino say?"

"Nothing really, he said that he would return with the x-ray pictures soon." And he did.

"You shouldn't worry about this too much Molly." The doctor began, "As you have already been informed, this is a normal process for animas that had lost their memories when they received their abilities. Things will defiantly be different for you once the process is complete."

"Different how?" Eva asked concerned.

"Well for starters, you will have all your old memories back. You will more than likely gain some knew abilities. You will become stronger and faster physically and mentally. And your body will mature, at least physically. When it is done, you will technically be a full grown anima, you might still grow taller though, and your hair will probably grow longer unless you cut it."

"So it's pretty much like puberty for animas."

"Yes, exactly like that. Since you are no longer human, your body still must find away to mature. It is more painful than the human process, but you become far stronger than any human when it is over. You will probably continue to have pain and coughing up blood from time to time afterwards, but if you like, I can look up the name and addresses of different hospitals and clinics that are qualified for the needs of animas on Earth and a few other planets."

"Thanks that'll help a lot. Have a nice day."

"You as well."

Eva, Aikka, and Kekke had just got permission to visit Rick.

"I wonder what new powers you will gain once it is over." Aikka whispered. Kekke was riding on top of Sarabi, Eva and Molly were walking side by side with his arm was around her waist.

"I'm not sure."

"Knowing you, it will probably be something really powerful but easy for you to use." An unknown voice to Aikka laughed. He turned to find a red hair female Crog a bit older than him, and a blue hair male boy a bit younger than Molly, standing next to her. Aikka immediately went into a defensive position in front of his Molly.

"Shima, Mura! It's okay Aikka there friends of mine." Aikka wasn't sure how to respond, "I know for a fact that they are not working for them." Aikka then nodded and stepped aside. Eva then ran to the two and gave them both a hug. "I've missed you guys so much. You have to tell me everything that has happened since you left."

"Don't worry, we will. My, how perky and no longer antisocial you've become since we left. But how about we say hi to that friend of yours and introduce us to these ones while you're at it."

"Right, Shima" Eva pointed at the blue hair boy, "Mura" she then pointed at the female Crog, "this is Aikka," pointing at Aikka, "and Kekke" pointing at Kekke, and vise versa.

The five, and spirit fox then walked over to Rick's room. He was watching the races for that day when they entered.

"Hey guys," Rick smiled. "I'm pretty sure she's not an enemy if she's walking with you. Aren't you going to introduce me?" Eva repeated the earlier pointing process. "Well it's nice to meet you all. So Little Mouse, how are you feeling? Stan and Koji told me what happened yesterday."

"Oh, I'm fine. The doctor said it is sorta puberty for animas." Eva blushed.

"Well it's good to know that it's normal."

"Yeah. So how about you?"

"The doctor said I'll be out for at least a week. But enough about me, tell me how you met Shima and Mura, I could use a good story."

Mura started, "I received my anima when I was still an infant. It was from a creature that is the equivalent to that of an Earth's lion, so Molly and me have similar abilities. When I was five, my mother and father were convinced by my uncles to send me to an anima boarding school. I eventually met Shima who is also a lion type. As you probably already know, in the wild, lions join up with other lions and form a pride. So, that what Shima and me did, except we don't mate with each other.

"Molly joined our academy when she was seven, I was nine at the time, and Shima was five. She was very antisocial, she didn't talk to anyone, but she was very strong and reliable. So I eventually went up to her and asked if she would join our pride, she said yes. She really didn't talk much, at least not until Kekke came along. Even though he is more like an Earth's coyote type, he was quickly accepted as a member of our pride. There were others in our pride of course, lets see, there were the Nourasian twins, both boys, a Brysillian girl, a female and male Phil, and a young male Crog.

"Finally, last year me and Shima got sick of the academy and hatched an escape plan. Molly decided it would be best if she stayed behind to cover our tracks, and Kekke goes wherever Molly goes. As for everyone else in the group, even though it was Shima and me who started the pride, pretty much everyone looked to Molly as the leader. I'm sure if she would return it would be the same as before. After we had escaped we traveled to different planets and took in the sites, along with gathering an army."

"A what?!" Everyone except Kekke and Shima gasped.

"I know the Crogs have helped out the animas a lot," It was now Shima speaking, "we need to stand on our own now. Find a deserted planet or something and set up our own society there. Our people have always been where humans, Nourasians and other species lived. I'm not saying we start a war. I'm saying that we should start our own way, not the Human, Nourasian, Byrus, Alwas, Phil, Crog, or all the other creatures way, but our own. Please understand that Molly."

"What Shima is trying to say is that we need our independence from the Crogs, our own culture, and we want you to lead us. We have already gathered plenty of animas and non animas willing to participate."

"Why me? For what reason?"

"For the same reason why everyone in our pride looked to you as our leader. You're strong both physically and mentally. If anyone can do it, it's you!" now everyone in the room was looking at Eva. All thinking the same thing. 'Could she really have all these people behind her? Could this girl be the one to lead the animas away from the Crogs?"

"I don't know. I'm not saying that I'm against this, and I'm certainly not saying that I won't fight but I'm not really sure right now. Could I have some time to think about this?"

"Of course, you need to be able to balance both your heart and mind." Shima smiled.

"Thanks."

The gang, except for Rick, left the hospital with wild thoughts running through their heads. They walked over to Shima and Mura's inn.

"Wait here!" Shima commanded while he ran inside. He then came out with two decorated, large carrying chests (A/N: like the one Harry has in Harry Potter.").

"What is all of this?" Eva asked confused.

"They're presents for you two." Mura answered. "We bought stuff from each planet we visited. Your names are on top. Hope you like them. Bye for now." And the odd pair walked back inside. On the way back to the Earth pit, Sarabi carried one of the chests, and Aikka the other.

"Are you sure it's not too heavy?"

"It's alright, really. Plus how could I live with myself if I allowed a precious princess like yourself to carry such a large object." Eva couldn't help but blush while she giggled. "Here we are."

"Are you sure you don't want a ride to your pit?"

"It's alright, it's not too far from here actually. Have a nice day Molly, Kekke, and of course Sarabi."

"Goodbye." Once Aikka was out of view, Eva looked at the sun's position. 'It's still early in the day. I better find out what's going on with the races then.'

(A/N: The rest of the chapter is the same as episode 3 except that Kekke is there witnessing everything, Kekke stays at the pit when Eva runs off at the end, and that Sarabi runs off with her.)

I hoped you all enjoyed the chapter. The reason why I didn't write the rest was because it is late and I am tired. I go back to school tomorrow at 6 in the morning, and if I am tired I will kill my friends by reading from 'The Book of Yaoi', which I am currently writing, and yes, it will include yaoi pairings from OBSR. BUT NOT AIKKAXJORDAN, sorry but I just think that they would be each other's last choice.! But I love yaoi! XD Please Review.