Chapter 4

'This is all happening so fast! Now I'm with my old friends, chatting as if nothing happened and now we're leaving. Camping.'

Zick stood in the garden, the atmosphere was frantic. Lay was hugging her family, Johanna was holding on to Teddy, never letting go and Greta was throwing everything Zick needed into a small camping bag. Alison, without any parents to slow her down, was folding everything she need neatly in her rather large camping bag.

Zick noticed Elena standing alone. She was not coming with them and she felt alone. Zick dragged his feet towards her, half of him feeling that he shouldn't talk to her, the other half longing to be her friend once more.

He stopped abruptly near Elena. "Hi," he said weakly.

Elena, still looking away from him, just nodded.

Zick, frozen to the spot continued, "Elena, I'm sorry I stopped speaking to you after Sinistro…… I shouldn't have done that. Could you forgive me?"

Elena didn't reply. Zick noticed her hair grew longer, tied back in an elegant ponytail, and even after a long time, she still look…….no other word then beautiful.

Zick turned around and walked away only to be tackled by Elena. She started crying, "Zick, it's going to be dangerous out there."

Zick surprised, hugged her back, "Don't worry Elena, I've been through tougher times before."

Elena sniffed and slipped her bracelet onto Zick's wrist, "Zick, you have never been to Oldmill valleys before have you? On the way to the mountains? Those people living there, they positively hate Tamers. Just take this, and promise me you'll come back."

Zick looked down at his wrist, now holding a beautiful aqua bracelet with a tear drop charm. He looked at Elena, "Don't worry. I'll come back."

Teddy looked up from his packing. Alison stood alone staring at the sunset. Teddy looked uncomfortable and walked slowly towards her and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Hey Alison?"

Alison jumped as if she had been touched by cold ice. She turned around, saw Teddy and relaxed.

"Oh, it's you. What do you want?"

Teddy was shocked by the coldness of her voice. "Nothing, you just looked lonely."

Alison nodded and continued to look at the sunset. Teddy shuffled his feet, "So…how's school?"

Alison turned and looked at him, "I got the strangest call on Valentine's Day….."

Teddy froze. Oh god he remembered, He was drunk that night, trashing the town with Jonathan but the only clear memory he had was picking up the phone and dialing Alison's number….

"Oh really? And what did the call say?" Teddy asked trying not to look at Alison.

"Well, it said, tell Alison that I love her." Then she looked at Teddy as if waiting for him to confess.

Teddy blushed, "What? You thought that call was from me? No way girl, I was totally wasted that night. I couldn't have made that call!"

Alison looked at him and Teddy felt his heart melt, "Well it sounded like you. Are you sure it wasn't something you did when you were drunk?"

Teddy shook his head furiously, "No Ali."

Alison walked away and Teddy sighed. 'Why are cute girls so hard to talk to?'

Zob was checking. Last minute preparations..… "Ok everyone. Let's make things clear. Everytime you sleep, your defenses are lowered making it easier for you to simply explode. Try not to sleep as much as you can and make sure you get to the top of the mountains by the end of the week. Travel to the valleys, where you will fly across on Flyvans, it will make your trip much easier."

Zick glanced at Elena who was biting her fingernails. "Isn't there people living in the valley?" he asked, thinking this was the villagers that Elena was talking about.

"Last time I checked now go!"

Zick turned to look at Elena who gave him a weak wave before setting of to her house. "I promise I would come back Elena. " Zick screamed and Elena smiled for the first time today. Zick felt a lot braver and ran after Teddy, Alison and Lay.

A/N WELL! That was indeed, very pleasant to write considering I am a huge Teddy/Alison fan. Alison you might have guessed is my beloved OC that I have featured in almost every single project to do with Monster Allergy. Except my videos.

If you wanna see what Alison looks like go here. (http://)cartoonartist[dot]deviantart[dot]com