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A/N: Hey there readers! it's been a long time since last chapter, for that I apologize, you know with school and the like one doesn't have the time to write or correct mistakes. Once again I'll like to thank my beta WIllowwhip for having the patience of revising, correcting my mistakes and for making me see them. So once again, read, enjoy and review.


Chapter 6

The Night of the Red Full Moon

"RONAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"'Hi' to you too Elesis. It's nice to see you again." With a chuckle to Elesis' reaction, Ronan explained why he was in the gorge, "I was on my way to Serdin to get you. Lady Karina has summoned you. She found out that you joined the Grand Chase, and wants to talk to you."

"So, you know Girly-Boy, 'leader'?" Not letting something as juicy as this to escape from my grasp, I dug deeper into the knuckle head.

"You know I'm right here," the boy pointed out.

Elesis shrugged it off, "Ehh… not really… I was just surprised to see how well-cared his hair is…"

"I would like to know that too." Seeing Ronan silky hair made me wish mine was like that too. Snapping out of my thoughts my mind returned to the topic at hand, I won't let Elesis change the topic like that.

"Hey! Don't change the topic!"

"Let us leave the beauty tips for later, I would like to know how you know Girly-Boy too."

"Once again I'm right here! You can see me right?" an upset Ronan asked Ryan, trying to make sure he really was there.

"Eehh… Right."

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you." Seeing that she was cornered, Elesis finally told us how she met Ronan.

"I'm a citizen of Kanavan, a kingdom well known for the famous melee warriors it has produced. Ronan and I have known each other all our lives, my father taught both of us the basics of how to use a sword."

"Anyways, Lady Karina has summoned you Elesis," before any if us could ask anything else, Ronan stated the reason of his journey.

"So I'm in trouble?"

"Most likely, she looked quite angry when she gave me the mission to look for you."

"Damn it. Just What I needed…" Elesis slapped a hand to her face, a frustrated look now on her face.

"Say Elesis… How've you been?" Ronan's voice now caring; forgetting his business like tone.

"I've been well" Ronan's caring tone made our red-head leader to get a little red on the cheeks.

"It's just… I didn't expect you to run to Serdin after being demoted…"

"It was something I needed to do, I needed to grow up and become stronger."

"Ok since our leader is flirting with Girly-Boy, I'm gonna catch some sleep so goodnight all." The mushy atmosphere was getting to me, and I wanted to get out of there; seeing Elesis flustered face was kinda rare, and it only happened if she was embarrassed. Seeing her being flustered around Ronan gave me the perfect opportunity to get back at her for her many remarks about Ryan and me.

Finding a nice spot, I started to put my tent and prepare myself for the night, once I was ready I fell on my makeshift bed soon to be emerged on my dreams.

Loud noises woke me up from my slumber, I tried to ignore them but the noises wouldn't stop. I quickly got out of my tent to put a stop to the noises, not finding anything I walked to the Stones that were surrounding our camp, only to find Ryan fighting a monster.

Noticing I was awake he called to me while dodging the monster attacks, "Hey sleepy head, had a nice dream?"

"I had until your fight with that thing woke me up"

"Ha ha ha. Sorry about that, apparently this boy wants to get back at us." Dodging and counterattacking, Ryan seemed to have the situation under control, yet his statement made me wonder, why would this monster try to get back at us?.

"Huh? Why?" Wand at hand, I stepped closer to where the fight was taking place, seeing a giant bee like creature that looked very familiar, but my still-sleepy mind couldn't process yet the information.

Swinging his axe to keep the monster at bay, he answered me, a little of sarcasm dripping in his voice, "I dunno, maybe it was the fact that we ate one of its kind?"

"Huh? But all we ate was a dri- Oh shit!" Realization finally made its way onto my mind, now indentifying the monster to be a Drillmon, but not any Drillmon, but a giant one.

"Ha ha. That was also my reaction to when I found who was attacking us."

"I'll go wake the others before that thing gets reinforcements."

"Please do mage-girl; I'll try to distract it"

Running to where the other tents were. Not wanting to awake the others one by one, I quickly made use of my recent alchemy teachings to cast a bomb and detonated it. The sound of the explosion was loud enough to wake the others.

"Where's the fire?" A still asleep Lire stepped quickly form her tent.

"What the hell is happening?" Ronan too stepped out of his tent, struggling with his belt.

"Oh aside from a giant Drillmon trying to kill us nothing much."

Finally waking up, Lire exclaimed, "What! Where is it?"

"Ryan trying to fight it but we fear he'll call for reinforcement so we must hu-" A roar filled the sky and soon we could hear the flapping wings of various Drillmon going to where Ryan was fighting, "Ok scratch that, we must hurry to help him."

"Wait a minute, where's Elesis?"

"That red headed moron must still be asleep," not wanting to leave Ryan there fighting alone with all the Drillmons, I took the best course of action, "you two go help Ryan, he is around the boulders surrounding us. I'll go wake up our knuckle headed leader."

Running to Elesis' tent, I found her calmly sleeping despite all the ruckus that was going on outside., I prepared some mana for a 'light' magical wake up call, "Shock Stunt!"

"AAAAHHHH!" Screaming from the electrical shock, Elesis finally woke up, "Hey! Don't go electrocuting people for no reason."

"Actually, Leader, I have a reason." Finally getting some revenge on Elesis, I smiled a little.

"And that is?"

"One, for fun," Elesis angry expression made me smile more, as she tried to go for her sword, but I quickly voiced the second reason, "Two because there's a horde of Drillmon out there and you are here, SLEEPING!"

"WHAT! And you are still here too? Let's go already," Quickly dressing and taking her sword she followed out the tent.

With knuckle head leader finally awake we went to where the battle unfolded.

"Nice to finally see you here Elesis."

"Had a nice dream 'Leader'?"

"Ehh... yeah let's just get these Drillmons to back off for now," Flushing a little Elesis quickly made her way onto the fight.

The fight went on and on, Lire firing arrows every way to stop the Drillmon from reaching us, Elesis fending back Drillmons with her sword, Ronan and Ryan fighting with the biggest one and I was casting supporting spells when I could, not letting the Drillmons get any closer with my black magic.

"There's no end to them."

"Damn they are tough."

"Just hold them back while we take care of the leader," Ronan yelled at us, making his best to injure the Giant Drillmon.

"We are trying! There's too many of them," As I said this, the Drillmons cornered us against a cliff.

Guarding against an attack form the Giant Drillmon, Ryan swung his axe to the ground, lifting it with enough force to make the earth shoot up, creating a temporary shield with it, "Damn it! Ronan go save the girls I'll try to distract this guy!"

"But…"

"No buts, go save the girls, we can let them die here. I won't let them!" Yelling to Ronan, Ryan stepped out of his temporary earth shield and resumed his fight with the Giant Drillmon.

"Alright then," Making a dash to where we were, Ronan jumped as high as he could, landing in front of us, turning to face the Drillmons, he slashed his sword to make them back a little, "You girls needed a knight?"

"Just shut up and help us Ronan"

"The same old Elesis." as Ronan said that he produced a ball of mana in his hands, I could feel and enormous amount of mana in that orb, he thrusted his hand forward, making the orb in his hand float forward in a slow manner. "Lunatic Force!"

As soon as the orb made contact with a Drillmon it exploded with icy energy, making all the Drillmon surrounding us freeze.

My eyes almost fell out of its sockets, seeing a knight perform magic was unheard of, at least as far as I was concerned, "Ice Magic… You can use Magic!"

"That's right," Falling to his knees in exhaustion he rose his head to answer me. "I'm Ronan Erudon, member of the Magic Royal Knights squadron"

"Arme! It's not the time to be fascinated with that, let's go help Ryan," Lire once again being the voice of reason made me came back from my train of thoughts.

"Right."

We hurried to where Ryan was fighting, only to see his axe fly away from his hand, now at the mercy of the Giant Drillmon and some smaller ones.

"Ryan!"

Before I could go to his side to help him, Ryan held his arm up, "Stand back! You won't like to see this."

"Ryan you don't mean… you are using that?"

My question went unanswered as we saw Ryan's transformation take place, his eyes becoming beast like, white fur growing everywhere unlike the orange one we saw at the forest, hands morphing unto claws, his face becoming that of a wolf, with his transformation complete he roared to the full moon. The Drillmon seeing this cowered in fear of the aura Ryan in his wolf form was now radiating, seeing the number advantage they had they decided to attack all at once.

"What the hell just happened?" A very confused Ronan asked.

"Ryan is an elven Druid, one of the few that still remains, the Druids have the power to transform in one of nature spirit," Using use of her Knowledge, Lire quickly explained to Ronan what happened, "Ryan's guardian spirit is a wolf, but this one is different than the one we saw at Elven Forest."

"Different?"

"We met Ryan in Elven Forest, he saved us from a troll using his wolf transformation, but the fur was orange not white" Elesis this time answered Ronan question.

Claw against claw clashed, Ryan's speed while in wolf form made him capable of dodging the multiple attacks the Drillmon were launching at him and at the same time, feinting some of them.

After pondering the reason of his white fur, I suddenly remembered a connection that the wolf had, "Could it be because of the moon?"

"The moon?"

"Yeah. Since ancient times the moon and wolf have had a connection. Legend said that the wolf once saved the moon spirit from being killed, so the moon in appreciation gave the wolf her protection; making his power grow with her presence."

We could only stare at the sight in front of us. Ryan's speed in wolf form made it possible to deal with all the Drillmon, now he was fighting the big one. We were so caught up in watching the fight that we didn't noticed some of the smaller Drillmon waking up and getting closer to us behind our backs, attacking us and forcing us to release our weapons.

"What the?"

"When did they get behind us?"

"That doesn't matter; we need to escape from them."

"Well thank you for stating the obvious Knuckle Head."

Little by little we found ourselves surrounded by the drillmon, our weapons lying on the other side, Drillmons guarding them. Once Ryan saw that, he made a run to where we were, only for him to be stopped by a rock to his back, knocking him to the ground. Once he was down the giant Drillmon jumped as high as he could, pointing his needle to where Ryan was laying. It fell with a sickening sound. Ryan's howls of pain were heard in throughout gorge.

"RYAN!" I screamed.

Ryan transformation began again, claws morphing to hands, fur getting smaller till there was none, slit eyes transforming back to his gentle eyes. With a low voice he managed to say, "Sorry."

Howling in what seemed to be a victory, the drillmon attacked us, making sure that none of us had a chance to escape. The only thing we could do was try and avoid the incoming attacks, but there were too many of them and in the end we sustained some injuries.

Through the flurry of drillmon, an angry Ryan screamed with all he had "NOO! I won't let you hurt them anymore!"

Surprisingly his transformation once again started but this time his fur was not white, it was black; his eyes grew more menacing and started glowing with a murderous red color. With a speed that surprised us he started his attack, and in a flash we saw blood rain upon us. Drillmon started to fall from the sky. Terrified by the sight, the Giant Drillmon quickly made its retreat.

Once the rain stopped we could only spot Ryan, howling to the crimson moon. Blood dripped from his claws and fangs and he held an expression that looked like he enjoyed the slaughtering that he just did.

"Thanks man" Ronan said as he stood up, slowly making his way to Ryan, "That really helped us."

Just as he was to slap Ryan's back in appreciation, the wolf made a violent turn; swinging his claw in front of him; his claws slashing Ronan's chest.

Ronan fell to the ground on his knee and held a hand to his chest, trying to make the bleeding stop.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked.

"Ryan it's alright, they are gone"

Ryan's eyes held a menacing glare; red eyes glowing in the darkness of the night and claws dripping with blood. Not listening to anyone, he slowly rose his hand with the intention of slashing Ronan. He was the closest to him.

Sword met claw, as Elesis managed to block the attack, not letting Ryan hurt him anymore.

"Ryan! What are you trying to do? We won" Elesis tried to reason with him, only for her to be pushed aside quite easily. Using this chance, I rushed to Ronan and quickly cast a healing spell on him.

"Thanks," Ronan said to me, as he took a hold of his sword.

"Wait, you need to rest," Gripping his cloak, I tried to stop Ronan, knowing that if he fought, his wound would open again.

Not listening to my advice he shook off my hand and quickly made his way to help Elesis, "Sorry, but I need to help Elesis."

"It must be the curse acting up, quickly we must help," putting her hand on my shoulder, Lire made her way to where Elesis was fighting against Ryan.

"Yeah…we promised to stop him if this happened." Not liking this at all, I also stood up; wand now in hand. I slowly made my way to the battleground.

Ryan's speed made it almost impossible for a single person to stand up against him, so Elesis and Ronan attacked him from the front, while Lire shot arrows to make him flinch a little, giving Elesis and Ronan a chance to either, attack or back away.

"Ryan… I hope you forgive us for what we are about to do," I quickly recited a spell, concentrating my mana in my wand and giving it form.

"Dammit! Hurry Arme! We can't entertain him for long!" Elesis shouted to me, dodging a slash by rolling in the ground.

"Stop interrupting me Knuckle head; just stop his movements for a little while," Finishing my mana's form I unleashed the spell, "ICE TRAP!"

A magic circle appeared near Ryan, missing him as he moved to the side to avoid the spell, as soon as he saw this Ronan quickly locked him in a power struggle.

"Just push him to the circle!"

"I'm trying!" little by little Ronan slowly pushed Ryan to the magic circle; meanwhile I was trying my best to keep the spell form activating yet.

Finally Ronan pushed him to the circle, but there was a problem, the two of them where in the circle.

"Quickly let go!"

"I can't, otherwise he'll just get away."

Seeing this opportunity Elesis readied her sword, running to where Ronan was. Quickly sensing the attack, Ryan made Ronan's sword stick to the ground, holding his claws close to his chest, mana gathering around him, just as Elesis was about to hit him with her sword, Ryan howled, Making the two of them fly away by the immense mana he expelled with his howl.

Seeing this chance I released the spell, ice exploding around him, trapping him in an icicle, guilt making its way to my face, "I'm sorry Ryan".

The ice quickly shattered, leaving Ryan in the ground, his transformation finally yielding, leaving him knocked down, unconscious.

"Arme quick come here," Lire yelled at me, who was by where Elesis and Ronan were.

"Ronan! Hang in there! Arme's on her way!"

"I told you that you should have rested," Quickly reaching to where he was, I signaled for Lire to check on Ryan, quickly chanting a cure spell, "Look at the size of the wound."

"Sorry" that was the last thing Ronan said before he too blacked out.

"Say Lire how's Ryan?" no longer having Ronan's life at stake, I looked to where Lire was. Concern for Ryan rang clear in my voice.

"He is fine, just unconscious."

"Good, that is good to know," Relief washed over me, as we watched the sun rise, saying that the night was over, and the day was just starting.

"We should hurry to Kanavan, their wounds will only get worse if they are not treated accordingly." Once again being the voice of reason, Lire voiced out what we should make our top priority for now.

"Right! Let's quickly pick our stuff up and then get going."

The three of us quickly tidied up the place and carried the boys through the gorge.

After a long silence and time spent in our own thoughts, it dawned on me that I didn't have the slightest idea where we were headed. We were following our knuckle-headed leader. That couldn't be a good sign.

I decided to ask.

"Elesis, where are we headed?"

"Ronan's place."

"Oh…" There was no more talking after that.

As we approached Ronan's abode, I quickly realized that he lived in a MANSION. Lire's mouth was agape. I couldn't resist commenting.

"Wow~" I said, "I know he's a member of the Royal guard...but..."

Elesis sighed, unimpressed, "What did you expect?"

I growled at her, but didn't respond.

After finally arriving to Ronan's mansion and handing over the boys, we were quickly shown where we were to spend the night.

Still not speaking, each of us made our way to the bedrooms. Once my head touched the pillows I fell asleep, menacing red eyes haunting my dreams until I stopped dreaming.