"So, when is Babbit going to wake up?" Gennie asked.
"Oh anywhere between and hour and three days, she did after all use up more energy than she should have. Plus, she's been over working herself," Eva answered.
"Well at least she'll recover," Erica said.
"Yeah, ever since we got here, Salt has been feeling sick," Vegas said.
"Hm that sounds quite different, but I guess it might just be something he did," Eva said thoughtfully.
Continuing on their search, Vegas noticed footprints, and if there were footprints, then there were people nearby. And just as she had thought, there were people. In fact they had found the Patch Village, which was more like a Patch City. There were many types of shop, and even more different types of competitors. Almost all of them looked stronger than all the girls combined. And in the middle was Hao. Vegas was going to charge at him, but Eva stopped her. She did see the logic in Eva's action, since attacking someone this early would get them unwanted attention. For now they were to stay as unnoticed as possible, but being very well the only children there, it did attract quite a lot of attention.
Vegas had gotten quite scared after seeing one particularly menacing competitor, so to give her comfort she grabbed Eva's hand and held it tight. Eva didn't object, she never did, she didn't because she knew that she had promised to always protect Vegas and keep her safe. Vegas was grateful for the comfort that she always got. But when they were leaving for Earth, Eva had put her hand on Vegas' head and told her that she wouldn't always be there for protection. Vegas didn't get it then, and she still hadn't figured it out, but maybe, just maybe she would find out when Eva decided to show her the meaning of it. But for now she was content with being the baby and getting attention.
"Why does it seem that I always have to babysit?" Eva asked nobody in particular.
"Eevee, would you please take me here?" Vegas asked.
"No Eva! Take me here," Gennie said.
"Eva! You have got to take me here," Erica exclaimed.
"We'll just leave you with them and we'll go look for a place to stay," The boys said as they ran away.
"Great, could you girls please go shopping for your next outfit without me? I have some work to do myself," Eva requested.
"Fine, we'll go on our own," Vegas said.
So as all the girls were doing what they had planned, Hao was sitting watching Eva as she laughed with Babbit. Sighing, he thought about how pretty she was, after all these years she still hadn't changed. Five hundred years had passed between them, but Eva unlike him was immortal, and she had always been one to stay at the same age. Even though she looked like she was between thirteen and sixteen, she really was over five hundred. Vegas was also quite cute, her unrelated sister. But knowing Eva, she had probably closed her heart, but she might still let him live. Last time they had met, she had tried to kill him. Well what could he do? She had always hated him, but now she only wanted to kill him…
"Eva! C'mon we got to go and eat something!" Vegas exclaimed.
"Sure, let me just finish this page," Eva said. She was fully engrossed in the newest book she was reading, she had read Elric at least ten times in the last year.
"You've been saying that for the past hour and a half, if you don't put that book down now, we will leave you behind," Ren stated.
"I think even Vegan would have gotten it by now," Eva retorted.
"Are you saying I'm an idiot?!" Vegas exclaimed.
"No, I'm saying you're thick, and an incompetent the size of Russia," Eva said very plainly, as if she was talking about the weather.
"You're very cruel to your sister," Vegas cried, with rivers tears coming from her eyes.
"Sister!" everyone exclaimed.
"Yeah that would be about right," Eva said.
"Eva being sisters with this idiot?!" a very surprised Ren said.
"Eevee, they're being mean to me!" Vegas said as she ran over to Eva with even larger rivers of tears coming out of her eyes.
Vegas sat whimpering next to Eva, while Eva consoled her while still reading her book. Vegas was hugging Eva so hard that Eva felt the very breath coming out of her.
"Okay let's go eat," Eva said as she finally put down her book. But instead of leaving it open, she closed it without even using a bookmark, "I'm done my book, what?"
"Yahoo, food here I come!" Horohoro exclaimed.
"Yeah, calm down buddy," Vegas said as she grabbed him by the collar.
"M' hmm," Eva, Ren, Yoh, and Lyserg said. When they looked at each other, they burst out laughing.
When they were all sitting at the restaurant, Vegas had to keep disciplining Horohoro, while everyone else looked at them strangely. Eva had ordered fried sole, while everyone else had pizza, or in Ren's case, he had Chinese food. They all had Eva's favorite desert, raspberry cheesecake. And when it was done, Yoh fell asleep, causing Erica to poke him several times.
"Well I'm going to do some work that I've delayed for some time now, so see you all in the morning," Eva said as she walked out the door.
Walking down the street she noticed a strange presence in the air.