I say bye to Sips that was already snoring and I run out and head to the Jaffa Factory. I go in the Jaffa Factory and look through the chests. I took out a sword, my bow and arrows, some bread, and a leather cap just in case. I look at Spike and smile.
"Oh yeah, my promise," I say as he barks at me. I run to a chest with wool and found some black dye. I also grab some leather which I combined with some black dye. I smile as I pull away from the crafting table and look at Spike holding a black collar.
"Here you go Spike," I say as I slip on his collar. He licks my hand and wags his tail happily. I smile at him and I walk out the Jaffa Factory with him and close the doors. I then make my way to a swampy place to find Rythian.
I smile as I see Teep outside the castle looking around for something.
"Hey Teep!" I shout and he turns around aiming at Spike.
"Teep no! This is Spike, my dog!" I explain holding Spike close to me. Teep nods and smiles at me and I run over to hug him. He hugs me back and points at the castle nodding which meant I could go inside.
"Thanks Teep, love ya," I say smiling and he rolls his eyes as I walk in, Spike at my heels. I knew where Rythian slept, but I didn't want to barge in because he could be naked, kill me, or just plain doing something with Zoey. I shiver at the thought of what they could be doing. I walk through the hallways like it's my home. I smile when I find the kitchen. Spike then runs back outside seeing something and I laugh. I walk to a cupboard and take out a plate and a glass cup. I set them on the counter in the middle of the kitchen and walk over to the fridge milk jug. I take that, leaving the fridge wide open as I put it on the table. I walk over to the storage cabinet and pullout some cookies and smile. I walk back to the table and poor some milk in my cup and then put it back to the fridge. I then get out 6 cookies and put the cookies back. I jump onto the counter sitting criss-cross munching on cookies and drinking milk that gave me a milk mustache.
"Who's there?!" I heard someone scream and I jump as Rythian comes out with fire in his hands and he sighs.
"Making yourself at home?" He asks and I smile.
"I got hungry and I was bored, so I came here because things always seem to happen here," I explain finishing my cookies. He shakes his head and then takes my plate putting it in the sink.
"Go wash your face, you have cookie crumbs and milk all over you," He say laughing a bit taking my glass cup. I nod.
"Okay." And I rush upstairs to the bathroom washing my face. He comes up and gives me a quick hug.
"I have business to finish with Zoey," He says smiling and I make a face wrinkling my nose.
"Ewwww…you didn't have to tell me that!" I say and he laughs opening his door and then slipping it in closing it quietly.
"Where have you been? I was worried," a voice from Zoey says smoothly and I crack up laughing as I hear Rythian mew like a cat. I run downstairs to Teep after washing my face and I tell him and he smiles and shrugs.
"So what do you want to do?" I ask as Spike comes back panting a bit. Teep smiles and grabs my hand as we walk up his tower and he gives me a bow pointing out the window.
"A shooting contest?" I ask and he nods eagerly.
"You are going to win, but sure," I say smiling as I draw back my arrow pointing at a nearby tree. It hits the smallest branch and he nods. He then aims at a farther target and hits a leaf off.
"Wow," I say amazed and then I get another arrow and take a breath closing my eyes. I let go and I heard a cry and I opened my eyes to see I hit a bird. I smiled seeing I hit him in the heart and I looked at Teep who smiled nodding patting me on the back.
"Beat that," I say joking around as he gave me a look and I laughed.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. It was pure luck," I say giving him a kind smile. Spike barked and ran out and a minute later he brought back the bird which Teep took.
"You can have it," I say and he smiles putting it in one of chests.
"Well, I'm going to see Duncan, I guess." I say knowing Duncan would be at his castle now and he nods. I give him a hug goodbye but then he points at Spike as Spike stayed by his feet.
"It's okay if you want to be with Teep, I wouldn't mind. I will come to visit you if you want." I say and he barks licking Teep as Teep hugged me giving me a really happy face which meant he was showing me his thanks. I smile and wave bye and head down the tower. I huff and walk through the swamp. I smelled its disgusting scent and I hold it in. I wonder how I can put up with it that long. I avoid the nasty looking water and finally made it out. I head to where Duncan's castle is and run for the fun of it. I stop for a break after about 15 minutes and pull out some bread to munch on.
I see Duncan's castle and smile. I walk over to it to notice the force field and sigh. I still can't believe they are still going on about their little war. I mean yes, Zoey got injured but she's better now. Yes, Sjin stole from Duncan but it didn't mean Duncan had to attack him next. I wondered how I was going to get in. I touch the force field expecting a zap but I gasp in shock. My hand goes straight through the force field. I pull it back and I look at the force field. How can that happen? Aren't force field's invincible? I put my arm through again and step into Duncan's property. My eyes widen. How the hell can I do that? I try to touch the force field again but this time it stung me and I jerk my arm back in pain.
This can't be right. I couldn't have just walked through the force field like that. It's impossible! I shook my head. I should just forget about it. I'll just tell Duncan he left it off so I came in turning it on. He would be too tired to remember hopefully. I open his doors in and close them stepping in his unlit castle. I roll my eyes and ignore all the machines and head upstairs. I turn right by a hallway and find his bedroom door. I knock with no response and I open it and something almost hits my head making a hole in the wall.
I stood there breathing heavily and laugh.
"Geez, couldn't you wait until you saw your attackers first or is it attack first then ask questions to you?" I ask as he smiles.
"I guess so, and how did you get in here?" he asks as he puts his glove machine thing down.
"You left your force felid off, so I turned it on for you." I say hoping it would work and he shrugged looking at me like he didn't believe me.
"Okay then, so what do you want?" He asked as he walked out the room and I followed him down the stairs.
"Nothing much. I have a question though," I ask and he turns around at the bottom of the stairs.
"Y-y-yes?" He asks and I smile.
"What the hell do you guys do that tires you out that badly? Do you do three-somes?" I ask joking and he hits me in the arm as I laugh.
"What the hell? No we don't. We have a party, we keep telling you that. We don't take you because we may get drunk and we don't want you to get hurt," He said as we made our way in the kitchen. He pulls out some chicken and hands one to me. I shake my head and he takes it for himself.
"So, are you up to something then?" I ask and he shrugs.
"I don't know what I'm planning to do. I want to build a cannon, but I might start tomorrow on that one. I feel like really tired, so I might sleep. You can watch T.V here, I don't mind. Just don't use magic around here too much. Thank god Rythian got rid of your ears from last time though. They looked strange, like you." He said and I rolled my eyes.
"Ha ha," I say and stretched. I noticed it was beginning to get dark so I yawned.
"I'm going to crash here tonight, if you don't mind," I say and he smiles and heads upstairs as I fling myself on the couch and turn on the T.V and watch some cartoons. I yawn as I slowly blink and start to drift into sleep.
"Nikkiii, Nnnnikkkiiii," I stir in my sleep as I hear someone call out my name. I jerk my arm back as I feel someone pull on me.
"Nikki! Nikki! NIKKI!" Someone yells and I open my eyes slowly.
"God Damn it! What?" I ask angry that I got woken up. Duncan stood there crouching looking at my face.
"Get up! You've been sleeping here for quite a bit now." He says smiling and I sigh.
"So?" I ask as I sit up stretching.
"Simon and Lewis are looking for you. They said they need my help and some more help." He said smiling as I stand up.
"Well, considering I left my shoes on and everything on me is still clean, I'm ready to go." I say as he nods and turns off he's force field. I yawn one more time and follow him out. As soon as we were out of the perimeter, he turns it back on.
"Come on! Are you guys still at it?" I ask and he shrugs.
"Can't be helped. We simply can't trust each other anymore." He said and I roll my eyes.
"I guess I have to stop trying then," I say and he smiles.
"Well, let's hurry a bit up." He said pulling out his flying ring and he puts it on.
"Why can't I be trusted with one?" I ask innocently and he laughs.
"You with a flying ring is worse than Sjin and Sips with a nuke!" He says laughing and I smile and shrug.
"Not my fault! I just have a bit of imagination," I say and he rolls his eyes as he grabs me tightly.
"Hey, watch where you grip!" I say as he sighs and lowers his hands a bit to my waist.
"Better for you?" He asks slightly annoyed and I nod and he pulls me tight and we lift off speeding through the air. The first time I had ever done that, it was a bit scary but now I was used to it. I see the Jaffa Factory and he screams, "Drop off!" and I scream louder as he lets me go and catches me again and we fly off to the ground. Simon and Lewis were already standing there.
As soon as we got to the ground and he puts me down I kept hitting him.
"DON' . .AGAIN!" I say in a shaky voice. I then cross my arms over my chest and stomp off as he snickers. I walk to Simon and Lewis who were also laughing.
"It's not funny!" I say whining and I turn to see Sips and Sjin laughing as well.
"Ughhhh!" I shout and stomp off into the Jaffa Factory as they laughed even louder. I roll my eyes and sigh. It was kind of funny but if he missed at catching me I could have died! I stomp down into the quarry and see if the machines needed fixing. I knew how to do this stuff now since I lived with them quite some time now. I sigh as I turned them on and fight off some mobs.
"Hey," I hear a voice and turn around to see Sjin whose face is now red.
"What?" I ask harshly, since I was in a bit of a bad mood.
"Sorry, for laughing. I know it wasn't funny because you could have gotten hurt but since you didn't and the expression on your face, it made us laugh." He explains as he walked towards me.
"Still, it was scary. I know, I should have lightened up a bit, but I mean it was terrifying!" I say as he hugged me. I then sit by the ledge of the quarry and sigh. I watch it as it mines up all the stuff and I lay down, my feet hanging over the quarry.
"So, umm what do you have to do?" He asks and I shrug.
"I seriously have no clue," I say and he smiles.
"Me neither, come on. Let's go see if Lewis needs anything." He says and I stand up following him almost falling in the quarry. We climb up the ladder looking for Lewis. We see him fly past and Sjin grabs my arm before flying after him on the freezer level.
"Hey Lewis, need anything done?" He asks and Lewis turns around smiling.
"Actually, yes,"