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Chapter Six: Confront

Guy swore and steadied me. The monkeys chasing me had mixed with the monkeys chasing him, and more had come to join them. We had quite the swarm upon us. "Damn it, Scarlett," he muttered, drawing his dagger.

I pulled mine from it's sheath and stood beside Guy. "Sorry," I muttered. He scoffed but said nothing, so I continued. "I mean, I'm sorry for everything, Guy."

A monkey pounced and I stabbed it in the chest. It fell in front of me. Guy swiped at three who were all coming at him at the same time, slashing one across the face, and then backed up to where I was.

"I mean it, Guy. I was just-" I kicked a monkey back from me, "-scared to go through that again."

"Not now, Scarlett!" Guy snapped, jumping over monkeys to get a better angle of attack.

I ignored him. "It's just that, before this happened, just before I met you-" I killed the two monkeys coming at me from different directions with well-aimed kicks, "My boyfriend cheated on me with my sister."

"And?" he asked, finishing off the last of the monkeys, and then moving to stand in front of me. "What does that have to do with me?"

I took in a breath. "I was afraid of falling in love again."

His expression softened. "You in love with me, Red?" he asked. I nodded weakly, and he smiled. "Good."

"Are you in love with me?" I asked.

He grinned. "Madly."

My lips had just brushed his when we heard monkeys howling and their claws clattering. "Damn it," Guy muttered, and we both ran.

We stopped after seven or so minutes of running.

A tree had grown over the temple wall. Guy studied it, and I grinned and climbed up it. "They can't get us up here, and we need some rest."

"No promises on the rest part," Guy said, following me up.

I laughed. "You're disgusting." Guy settled in beside me and stretched, casually draping an arm around my shoulders. "Classy," I muttered.

He smiled and pressed a lingering kiss to my lips.

"So, Dangerous, let's see this idol of yours," I said. He unclipped his bag and pulled out a wrapped bundle. He handed it to me and I let the covering slide off.

The idol was made of solid gold, with a face etched onto the face of it. I weighed it in my hands again, I hadn't gotten a very good look at it when I had carried it. It weighed more now that I was sitting, though I doubted it had weighed less when I had had it. I turned it over and inspected the carvings on the back, odd lines and circles.

My hand brushed something carved onto the bottom, and I turned it over.

The writing there was the same as the words I had found on the old parts of the temple. If the way you seek is never ending, take to the air. But, this time, it continued. The way of escape is neither left nor right, but up and down.

"Guy," I whispered, still staring at the idol.

He quickly grabbed it from me and covered it up again, as the monkeys were surrounding the base of the tree, but unable to climb it. "What?" he asked.

"I know how to get out of here."

A/N: Dun dun dunnnnn! I sincerely apologize that this chapter is so short, but I was at a complete block. *Jenna Marbles face* It is just over 600 words, this chapter. Gah! I'm SOOOO SOOORRRYY! D':

Congrats animaniacslover7, you guessed right! You get a ... cookie. *hands virtual cookie*

I still need to figure out how to incorporate Barry and Zack... they haven't appeared yet. :| Humph. Oh well, they'll arrive soon!