Goodness... It's been SOO long since i've updated this story. Sorry peeps, but i keep getting writer's block with this one, so... I'm not going to be working on this story very much. Besides, i alreayd have two other's i'm working on and one that's on hold. But this one's not on hold, be aware of that. I'm just not gonna update it as frequently as others...

OK! Now, i s'pose that you don't really want to listen to my rambling, do you? Ya just wanna get on with the story. Alright then! Here's the next chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Zatch Bell. If I did... well... let's just say i don't and end it there. However, Fae, Nokimo, and Noru are MINE. HAHAHAHA! MINE I TELL YOU! o.O

Chapter 10

Inconvenience

Another week had passed since the appearance of Nokimo. Brago and Sherry went back to how things normally were and continued to raise their baby girl, Fae. Currently it was afternoon, and the family of three was out of the house.

They were out in the park on the sunny day. Although it was getting closer to dark, the sun was still shining brightly upon the area. Sherry sighed happily and sat down on a park bench after a walk.

"It's a great day to be out," she said. "Don't you agree?"

"Hn, I suppose." Brago personally didn't care too much about whether it was a great day to be outside or not, but he just shrugged so Sherry wouldn't be unhappy. He glanced down at Fae, who was in his arms. Both Brago and Sherry had taken turns in carrying her either with or without the portable hand-held carrier.

The mamodo sat down next to his wife and let her hold onto the baby for a while. She gladly took the child in her arms and smiled upon the infant. Fae was asleep, but soon slightly woke up as she was transferred to different arms.

"Oh look who just woke up." Sherry grinned. The blonde held the little girl closely to her and then smiled up at Brago. He only smirked and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. Sherry switched her gaze from Brago to the surroundings around her. "You know what?" she asked.

"What?"

"I think we might be the only ones here…" Sherry said, turning her head side to side. "I don't see anybody around here. Do you sense anyone?"

Closing his eyes, Brago concentrated on the area around him. "Yes… but it's just one person, though." he said.

"Ah… I suppose in a way we are the only ones then."

Brago nodded, but then suddenly the mamodo's eyes opened up quickly with a strange gleam in them. "Wait… no… that's not right…"

The blonde looked at him. "What?"

This time Brago looked at her. "That's not a human… I sense a mamodo."

Sherry's eyes widened. "Are you serious? Who could it be? Nokimo, perhaps?" The dark mamodo shook his head. "Then who?"

"It's a fairly powerful level," commented the mamodo. "It could be Zatch… but it's not strong enough. It can't be him. I don't think it's one of his friends, either."

A puzzled look crossed Sherry's features. "Then… if it's not one of them, then that means…"

But before she could finish speaking, a person jumped out of nowhere and smacked her right in the head with his fists. She let out a screech and fell forward, twisted around and landed on her back so she wouldn't land on top of Fae. The baby started to cry and Brago jumped up.

"Noru, you bastard!" he shouted, now seeing who it was. Indeed it was Noru who was there. His greenish-yellow eyes scanned the scene and he smirked.

"Well, well, well… What do we have here?" he said in a taunting voice. "One little, two little, three little idiots…" He laughed as soon as he said that. "Three then. Interesting. So I see that the bitch finally gave birth?" A sinister laugh escaped his lips and Brago just glared. Sherry, now slowly sitting up, turned around only to face Noru.

"Oh no, not you!" she said with a frown. "What do you want?"

Noru frowned. "Last time we had an encounter I had a mission but I failed," he began and his evil grin enlarged. "But now that I have failed, I have a new mission. I was to kill last time… and I'll kill again this time."

Sherry gasped and held onto Fae, who was still crying. Noru jumped and Brago blocked the punch. The fight was on yet again.

"Sherry, you and Fae need to get out of here, now!" he commanded and sent a fist right into the other mamodo's stomach. Noru staggered backwards and gave a cough. He dodged Brago's next assault just in time by jumping to the side.

The blonde nodded and stood up. A bolt of pain shot right through her head where the psychic mamodo had slashed her, and she put up a hand to her head. "Ow…" With a small stagger she started forward, trying her best to keep her awareness up and hold onto her daughter at the same time.

Noru's fist collided with Brago's face and he took a step back as his hand flew to where he was hit. The dark mamodo removed his hand from his face quickly as he saw Noru swing a clenched fist at him again and blocked it.

He ducked and Noru ran a few more feet ahead than planned. Turning around, Noru's eyes widened as he got tackled by the other mamodo.

They fell to the ground, Noru on his stomach and Brago with his foot on the other's back. Both glared at another and Brago managed to speak.

"Why are you here!" he shouted and the other grinned.

"I already told you. I have a mission."

"Revenge?"

The other did not respond, but just let out a laugh and managed to remove a hand that was under him and whack Brago in the face. He let out a yell and fell down on his back just as Noru began to attack again. Brago quickly rolled over as Noru's foot landed on the grass and he cursed under his breath.

Sherry had just gotten near where the car was when a sudden dizziness came over her. She let out a moan and fell to her knees. Fae was still crying, and she tried to soothe her by talking baby talk, but the fact that her head hurt like hell wasn't helping her think.

The blonde was now sitting down now. She just didn't have the strength the stand up and get in the car. Suddenly she heard Brago calling her name, so slowly the woman turned her head around only to see Noru charging right after her.

Her eyes widened in fright and she shut them tight and held onto her daughter tightly, expecting the pain from the contact to arrive any second now. But it did not come. Instead, all she heard was a muffled cry and she decided to see what happened.

Opening her eyes Sherry saw Noru being thrown down onto the pavement head first. His face was turned in the opposite direction of her, and Brago had just kicked him to roll over with a gasp.

Brago turned his attention to his wife. "Sherry!"

"I… I'm alright…" the blonde murmured. Noru managed to get Brago away from him for just a second and spat at her.

"Not for long." He charged at her again, but was kicked away as the dark mamodo attack him to keep Noru away from Sherry.

While the other two were off throwing a volley of punches and kicks at each other, Sherry tried to stand up again and open the car. Unfortunately she found that she could not. Her legs just wouldn't move and she felt immensely tired.

Fae continued to whimper and Sherry mumbled to her. "Shh… stop crying…" But her feeble attempts to make the baby stop failed.

Brago threw another punch right at Noru and hit him, sending him to the ground. He laid there and coughed, and glared up at the dark mamodo before him.

"Give it up, I'm stronger than you." said Brago as he scowled down at Noru. He only grinned peevishly and laughed.

"Never…"

"Hey Brago! Sherry!"

All three heads spun around only to see someone in the distance. With a quick glance, Noru recognized who it was and cursed under his breath. He shot a look to Brago and then Sherry in the distance and mumbled.

"Again, we'll deal with this later." Noru said coldly. "We'll meet again soon…"

With that, he stood up and ran as quickly as he could into the distance behind some trees. Brago didn't bother to go after him, but just walked over to where Sherry was on the ground.

"Are you OK?" he asked and she nodded.

"Yeah… I just have a really bad headache." She gave a weak smile and then looked back down at their daughter, who was beginning to hush a little more but was still crying. Then both Brago and Sherry's attention was drawn to the person walking up to them.

"Brago, Sherry! Long time no see!" said the other who was now walking up. The others looked at him and noticed who it could be. It was Zatch Bell.

"It wasn't that long…" Sherry mumbled.

Zatch only shrugged. "Well… to me it is." his said and his attention was draw to a fairly sized gash on Brago's forehead. "What happened to you?" he asked, pointing to the injury. "Did you get in one of those street fights? Kiyo's told me about them."

Brago rolled his eyes and gave a huff. "You could say it was one… But seriously, you think I'd waste my time with a bunch of humans?" At this remark, Sherry glared at him and he noticed. "Err… what I meant was… fight humans?"

"I swear, you still need to work on that, Brago." the mamodo's wife commented. This time it was Brago who glared.

Zatch only shrugged and then his attention was drawn to something else. He looked down at the infant in Sherry's arms and smiled. "Oh look at the baby!" he said, pointing to Fae. "She's cute!"

He walked up and leaned forwards, placing his hands on his knees for support. Zatch looked at the child in the woman's arms and then looked over to Brago.

"She has your eyes, y'know." he said with an immature giggle. The dark mamodo glared and huffed, though he couldn't help but well up a strange feeling inside of him when they were talking about his child.

Zatch laughed again and then turned his attention back to the child. "So… This is your child?" It was more of a statement than a question and the others didn't really respond to him. "What's her name?" he asked.

It was Sherry who answered him. "Fae."

"Oh, that's a pretty name." Standing up, the mamodo king looked about. "Well, I guess I should be going now. I was going to visit Kiyo again." He was about to walk off, when he remembered something. "Oh, I almost forgot. How did you get those scratches?"

Brago gave him a dull look. "Believe it or not, but Noru was here."

Zatch's eyes widened. "But that's… that's impossible." he said. "Noru is back in the mamodo world. He couldn't have been here. Besides, I'm the only one who knows how to get others in and out of the mamodo world." With a laugh and a shake of his head the lightning mamodo began to walk away. "You're so weird… Well, I'm going now. Bye!"

He ran off after that last comment and disappeared to go find his old human friend, Kiyo. Brago and Sherry looked after him, wondering what that was all about.

If Noru was back in the mamodo world… then who was it that Brago had fought?

The dark mamodo looked down only to see Sherry rubbing her head again with her hand. He bent down to help her. "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Mm… It's just this headache… Very painful…" she mumbled. "Noru sure packs a wallop."

The sun began to set on the skies of the park and Brago helped Sherry up to her feet. He walked her back to a park bench near the car so she could regain her strength. He held onto Fae as she leaned against him. In one arm he held Fae while in the other he held Sherry.

Soon as she regained her strength, which hopefully wouldn't be too long, they would head back home. But as for now… she wasn't there yet. Brago watched as both of the two girls, Fae and Sherry, rested. At least the baby had stopped crying and was asleep again… He looked up into the sky, wondering what was to happen next.

There ya go! I told you this chapter would be longer:)

Oh, and has anybody realized that they have changed the time schedual for when Zatch Bell airs? I don't know about some of you... but for me it's now showing at 8:30 on Saturdays. No longer 9:30. Ugh, they really need to make up their minds on when its coming on. -.-

Now on to my reviews!

anonimize: Cool, so you might join the site? If that's you reason, then that's pretty much the same as mine. THIS SITE ROCKS! XD ..Er, 100 year old woman? Not very common... o.O

Soul's Eclipse: Here's the next chapter.

Yamia Ishtar: Oh that's alright. I forgive you:)Brago's been very pissed off lately because i'm not the only one who's been teasing him for it. So ya might wanna be careful when attempting to annoy him. XD This is my 2nd story with him being a father n' all... I have one other, A Gift from the Dark, but i think that's going to draw the line for Brago-fatherhood for a while. I'll try to update soon!

Computerfreak101: Oh dear... I can't imagine what Brago will do to you if you break your oath... Brago: Seriously maim her? Me: o.O Now why would you do that? Brago: I dont know... I'll maim you too if you keep talking. Me: (looks around) CF101, he's saying that if i talk he'll hurt me. Does he do this to you often? Brago: You're talking... Me: Hm, well, i'll deal with you later, Brago, i have to respond to a reviewer. Brago: (rolls eyes) Me: (temporarily ignoring Brago) Well, you've seen Noru already. Richard won't appear in this 'cause... well, he's dead to put it simply. XD So how's it going with Brago's pink fluffy, glitterly, girly dress? Brago: ... Me: I think he's embarrased, ne? Oh yes they must hook up! I wonder if there'd be anybody daring to call up the creator of Konjiki no Gash Bell saying that Brago and Sherry need to hook up. They'd probably earn a strange look from them, that's for sure... -.- You can't kill Noru yet. I'll tell you when... around the end of the story, but that won't be for a while. Heheh, you'll find out what's up with Brago and Nokimo soon!

Crying White Wolf: Nokimo will appear again.. that is for sure. Hm, sisters. Well, i guess you learn something new all the time:)

Wolf of the Blue Moon: Here's the next chapter. Sorry it wasn't soon! -.-

Blood of the Wolf: I like the chocolate ones! Actually, it's just any truffle with chocolate to tell the truth. I LOVE CHOCOLATE! And so does Brago but we really don't wanna get him worked up... Like that one time when he came barging into my house looking for oreos... o.O You remember that? XD I like peanut butter filled... Oh, and if Sherry's conversation is completely innapropriate for younger readers, then i suppose Brago is one of them considering he can't understand her? Wait.. what am i asking... he is younger than her. o.O Nevermind! XD Brago: You babble too much. Me: Yes i do! Blood, d'you ever babble too much? Haha, i'll try to update soon. You'll find out what's up with Nokimo sometime later... (snicker)

PsychicLunar: Well, i hope that this longer chapter makes you happy! I loved that episode of Teen Titans! The catfight was hilarious! N' it was pretty funny when Starfire was going on and on about how Robin accepts the prom date while she thought it was a duel. You know how she removed her glove and slapped Kitten? Her hand was still on the glove and was also still connected to her arm at the same time. o.O What's your favorite episode of Teen Titans? Mine's either The Prophecy or the one when they get sucked into the TV...

Sara: Hey, Brago, i don't like crickets either! As a matter of fact i just don't like bugs in general...DIE BUGS! O.O About anything with six legs is an enemy... and although they don't have six legs, spiders are the worst of all...N' so are snakes... I guess Brago really did think there was fish in there. (starts laughing too) HAHA! Ok, here's a camera, Amber! (hands camera) Although i'm sure it'd be too late to use it now... Anyways, i'll try to update soon. Oh, and i have a question: i got a review from sarasmith117, is that you? I know, probably a dumb question but my brain is fried from school and i don't want to think correctly at the moment... -.-

OK people! Again, sorry for the long update! But you're just going to have to deal with it on this story now considering i'll be taking my time with it! Hope this chapter was satisfying!

Ugh... I tried to download an episode of Zatch Bell yesterday (Thursday), but the stupid computer wouldn't allow it! I come back later today (Friday)in the morning and it still wasn't downloaded. And THEN i come back again later in the afternoon AND IT'S STILL NOT DOWNLOADED! Pisses my off... gr... and it was an episode with Brago and Sherry in it! (cries) EVIL COMPUTER NOT ALLOWING ME TO DOWNLOAD THINGS! (cries even more)

(sniff) OK, i'm done. I'll still be working on this story just won't update it as frequently as the others. Plus, i still have a few bugs i wanna work out that i have for in future chapters. So, until i update another story, see you all later!

Twilight Memories has now signed off.