Hot damn! It's been a LONG while since I added a new chapter. I've been extremely busy lately, but here it is, chapter 4! (I made it a bit longer, too)

Disclaimer: (Chinese accent) I no have Zatch Bell. You know now, so no can sue.

Last time, the guys found out who kidnapped the girls, but only Kiyo and Eido could go save them, and without their mamodo either! While going back to Megumi's mansion, the mamodo met up with a celestial mamodo who gave them each the power to use their spells without a spell book, and warned of eight mamodo who came back from the mamodo world either by chance or escape, and they also gained this power, too. Well, three of those mamodo showed up, either to attack Zatch or to protect him, plus he even meets up with an old friend!

Somewhere near the park

"It's you," Zatch said. "It's really you."

"Yep, good to see you," they replied.

"Kolulu!" Zatch yelled as he tackled the girl to the ground, forgetting that was her other self.

"Alright, alright, get off me!" Kolulu (other form) replied. Zatch stood up and so did she.

'It looks like her other self has changed,' he thought. It really didn't look like her other self had changed; she still had her long, spiky pink hair, she still had all pink eyes, and she still had her claws, but Zatch could tell that her personality had changed, like Kolulu had been able to control the other her. Just then, he sensed something.

"Juron!" came a voice. Vines then emerged from the ground and targeted Zatch and Kolulu.

"Jeez..." Zatch muttered. He then grabbed the vines in his arms, stopping them. "Enough of hiding already, show yourself!" A mamodo with a green tent-looking hat and the same kind of clothes as the hat (tent-looking, except the clothes were light green) came out from behind a tree.

"So, it is Sugino," Zatch said to the mamodo.

"Heh, did you expect a yellowtail on wheels?" Sugino replied. By then Tia was regaining consciousness and looked up.

"I guess I can tell which mamodo you're fighting with, can't I?" Zatch added. The mamodo who was attacking with metal-based attacks emerged from the shadows.

"It's Maruss!" Zatch and Tia exclaimed. "How'd you come back to Earth!" Zatch yelled.

"I escaped and got this power in the process," Maruss replied. He then looked left to see Tia standing up. "So Tia, I see that you're still in the battle to become king."

"Yeah I am, is that a problem?" she replied. "At least I stayed in longer; You were just too weak."

Maruss wasn't too happy to hear that. "You'll pay for that!" he yelled. "Giga Garanzu!" a large drill appeared in front of him and he pushed it in Tia's direction. "DIE, TIA!"

"Jikirga!" A blast of wind shot towards the drill, blasting it to bits. Maruss looked to see who it was.

"Did you forget that I was here?" Hyde pointed out to him. Maruss was now really pissed off. "Screw this!" he yelled. "Ganzu Garon!" he then shot spiked balls from his hands, but they were bigger and faster than the ones he shot at Zatch. They were all flew in Hyde's direction, but unforunately two of them flew in other directions, one hitting Tia hard in the chest, who coughed out blood and fell to the ground, and the other one hit Kolulu who tried to block it, but it still hit her really hard and she collapsed to the ground unconscious and reverted back to her normal form. It would be way too obvious not to know that Zatch was even more pissed off than Maruss was, and before Hyde could raise his arms in front of him to attack, Zatch ran so fast in front of Hyde that it looked more like Zatch teleported.

Maruss had an evil grin on his face (like he always does). "So, you're gonna die with him then!" he exclaimed. He really shouldn't have said that, because as soon as the metal balls were almost close, Zatch started to rapidly punch them, breaking, no, shattering them. Maruss was shocked. "That's impossible! No one's ever been able to stop that attack without using a spell, let alone break them!"

Zach had a look on his face similar to Zeno's, but Zatch's face looked much meaner, and much colder. "Nobody hurts my friends, Maruss. Got it?" Zatch coldly said. Behind him was a huge plant.

"You're dead!" Sugino yelled from behind. "Raja Jugaro!" a giant plant behind Zatch then fired several large seeds at him. The way Zatch was at that time, it was a really bad idea; he was way too quick, and he seemingly disappeared. "What! Where'd he go?"

"Right here," Zatch replied behind him. As soon as Sugino started to turn around to glance at him, Zatch kicked him so hard that Sugino was sent flying right into Maruss, knocking him over, but they both stood up a couple of seconds later. When they stood up, the first thing they saw was an angry Zatch.

"You'd think that you both would've learned not to mess with me after the first battles I had with you," Zatch said.

Double Flashback

"Raja Jugaro!" A large plant fired large seeds at Zatch and Kiyo.

"The second spell, Rashield!" An electric shield erupted from the ground.

"How could they still have so much power left!" Haru exclaimed as the seeds which were fired got stuck in the lightning wall for half of a second before being fired back with an electric charge. The seeds nearly missed Haru and Sugino, but the spell book was burned. "AAAAAAHH!" Sugino yelled as the last remains of his burning book burned into ashes, and he disappeared back into the mamodo world.

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"Okay Zatch, give him everything you've got!" Kiyo exclaimed as Zatch grabbed Maruss' shoulders while in front of him. "Zaker!" Zatch blasted Maruss at full power with a giant blast of lightning and Maruss yelled as his clothes were being burned off leaving him only in his pants (burnt and charred) and shoes. As soon as Maruss got up, Zatch was right in front of him. "And this is checkmate! Zaker!" Kiyo read as Zatch blasted Maruss again who was hit so hard that his spell book that Rembrandt was holding started to burn. "NOOOOOOO!" Maruss yelled as the last of his spell book burned to ashes as he disappeared and was sent back in the mamodo world.

Zatch was really pissed off now. Random sparks of lightning began to be visible all over Zatch. His hair also began to spike up.

"If you two ever hurt my friends again," Zatch said in a voice so cold that it would give even a demon the chills, "you'll regret the day you ever met me."

"Heh, good point," Sugino replied as he and Maruss jumped in different directions into the air.

"The only thing we regret is not burning your book!" Maruss added as he aimed his hands toward Zatch. "Now die! Ganzu Garon!"

Sugino added an attack. "Raja Jugaro!" A barrage of spiked metal balls shot towards Zatch from one direction while another barrage of seeds shot towards him from the opposite direction.

Without warning, Zatch shot wide blasts of lightning from his hands in each direction, incinerating the approaching attacks. Maruss and Sugino landed and were stunned by Zatch's sudden power boost. They both approached each other quickly and prepared for a final attack.

...or so they thought. Zatch was sparking with lightning more and more each second, until...

"This is for all the good mamodo sent back because of mamodo like you two..." Zatch began to speak. "For hurting my friends!" The ground beneath him started to break. "For being the persistent bastards you are! Bao Zakeruga!" Zatch fird a huge lightning dragon from his mouth into the air, which then came down and targeted Sugino and Maruss. Zatch then approached them. "I know who's doing this, and when you meet up with him again, tell him this..."

Zatch finished his sentence right before the dragon hit both of the stunned mamodo.

"...your screwed...you bastard."

As soon as he finished his sentence, both Maruss and Sugino were hit head on by the lightning dragon, engulfing them in a blast of lightning, who were yelling in pain. The blast was so hard, they flew back at least forty feet and crashed into a nearby wall.

White lightning began to spark under both of the charred mamodo. "Looks like we survived," Sugino wearily said.

"You may have won this time, Zatch," Maruss added on. "But we'll be back!" The lightning below them shot upwards, engulfing them, then it dissipated, and Maruss and Sugino had disappeared. Zatch had now stopped sparking and had turned back to normal, besides all of his battle scars. He had now approached the half-conscious Hyde and Brago.

"Let's go," he simply said as he picked up Tia (bridal style if you must know).

"Zatch, you're too worn out," Hyde chimed in.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine." After the first few steps, he collapsed.

"Idiot..." Brago muttered.

"Now what do we do?" Hyde questioned. "There are two of us, but three of them." An idea then popped into both of their heads. They looked at each other and nodded. They gathered all three of the knocked out mamodo beside thtem and tried their plan out.

"Gravirei." Brago aimed to the ground and created a dark gravity board that floated upwards with all five mamodo on it. "Jikir!" Hyde pointed his hand opposite of where they were supposed to go and blasted wind from his hand, and they were off.

"Well, at least this worked," Hyde said.

"Yeah I guess," Brago replied.

Megumi's mansion

They finally arrived at Megumi's mansion after a long night, and the window was open, so they flew right in. Hyde and Brago both took Zatch and the other two girls to seperate bedrooms; Zatch in a guest bedroom, Kolulu in another guest bedroom, and Tia in Megumi's room. Brago managed to get all of the shards of the broken window in Megumi's bedroom together and, "Gravirei." pressed them together to make another glass covering to fit into the window. He left her room along with Hyde to sleep sitting up on the wall near all of the bedrooms for security reasons; they were too tired to fight off any more mamodo.

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About twenty minutes later, something woke up both Hyde and Brago. The door to Megumi's room began to open. They both used a spell to float in the air, Hyde using Jikir and Brago using Gravirei.

"I wonder why Tia's up," Hyde whispered. She looked in five different rooms, then stopped at the room she found. Hyde and Brago, of course, followed her to see what room it was. They both peered in to see what she was doing, still hidden out of sight, and then saw that it was the room Zatch was in.

"Zatch," Tia quietly said. "I never got the chance to tell you, but thanks for saving me." Even though it was dark in the room, a bit of moonlight poured into the room from a window to brighten the room a tiny bit. Then they saw Tia lightly blush as if she was going to do something. "You already know that I like you as a boyfriend, but..." Hyde and Brago were listening and watching fully now. "I actually like you more than that. I'm..." Her blush deepened and almost rivaled that of a tomato's color. "I'm actually... actually in love with you," she finally spat out.

'Man, who knew she liked him that much?' Hyde thought.

'How could she be in love with someone if she halfway kills them all the time...?' Brago thought. Then came the slightly unexpected; she bent down and kissed him on the lips. Brago raised an eyebrow while Hyde raised both eyebrows and smirked, then a random cash register sound in his head rang. 'Cha-ching!' Tia then got up and walked towards the door as Hyde and Brago quickly flew back into the air to avoid being seen.

"It looks kinda romantic how the moonlight hit them when she kissed them," Brago told Hyde who was still smirking. Brago saw this, then asked "Why are you smiling?"

"Because she kissed him," he replied. "Which means that you owe me!"

"What the hell are you talking about...?"

"So you don't remember? Then think back."

Flashback

"Ten bucks says she kisses him on the lips before we crash," Hyde said to Brago.

"You're on," Brago smirked as he shook Hyde's hand.

"Fine..." Brago said as he paid the ten dollars that Hyde was due.

"How 'bout another bet?" Hyde asked.

"Hmph," Brago smirked. "If Kolulu doesn't kiss Zatch within five minutes, pay me twenty dollars."

"If she does, pay me forty!" Hyde replied with a small anime vein.

After four minutes, notihing happened as they floated in the air.

"Looks like you'll lose," Brago said. A second after he said that, Kolulu walked out of her room to the open door leading to Zatch's room, who also approached his bed.

"Thirty seconds left,' Brago thought with a smirk. Kolulu started to quietly speak to the sleeping Zatch,

"Thanks a lot Zatch for protecting me." Just like Tia, she started blushing too, but only slight. "I never even got the chance to say how much I loved you; you're just a really good mamodo, and really cute too."

'Three... two... one...' Hyde thought. Then right after he thought that, Kolulu kissed Zatch on the lips, but a lot deeper than Tia.

'What!' Brago thought. 'Why her too? And why do I keep losing these damn bets?'

As soon as she left the room and closed the door behind her, Hyde said to Brago, "I'm gettin' paid tonight! Yes!"

"Damn you!" Brago replied with an anime vein. Brago paid Hyde thirty more dollars and their spells wore off as they landed on the ground. They walked back to their spot on the wall with Hyde smiling and Brago with a sweatdrop.

'Forty dollars! Hell yeah!' Hyde thought as he sat against the wall.

'When am I gonna stop losing...?' Brago thought with a sweatdrop.

Yes! I'm finally done with yet another chapter! Now because it's summer, I'm gonna update as often as I can! Oh yeah, in about a week, I'm starting a Code: Lyoko fanfic. If i have enough time, it's gonna be a fanfic trilogy! Oh well... review please! Also, no flaming. If you do, I'll just use them for my family barbecue this Saturday. Ribs and steak and chicken! Woo hoo!