Hello folks once again!It's been a really really long while and I'm really happy to say that I could manage to come back for more stories! Sorry for the long wait but school just got me like everyone else. (However, in the passed two days, I read all of the previous chapters and corrected some awful/stupid errors! I hope the reading will be more pleasent for those who are new to the story or those who want to re-read it.[if there is someone like that, you are unbelivable! Thanks lol!] )

So, as you can see, I am all fired up for some Bixanna Friendship/Teamwork/Romance/Fluff and stuff!

Hopefully, this story will end this summer, if not, I really don't know what I am going to do because next year is my senior year at highschool and I really need to study HARD. Even more than this year ;3; God help me please.

Specially for Bixanna. Whoever reads the manga weekly must have seen the Raijinshuu + Lisanna teamwork thing. Which I was looking forward to.

Anyways guys, Have a good read! :)

To Forget to Remember

Chapter 10:

All about the Kind and Rescue

"That was the last one," Bixlow said. Another nest had been taken care of.

"Are you all fine?" Fried asked to the second group, a group from the Jeanmarinie Fall Guild.

Lisanna huffed as she transformed back into her human self. Staying in her deganor form this long was sucking out her magic power very quickly. She sat down onto a rock she found suitable to rest for a while.

"It seems the nests are located around the center in a circular manner," Yeva was informing Fried through telepathy, showing him the most possible overview of the nests and the tunnels.

"Sooner or later, all of you will meet at the exact point; this is good for safety,"

"Yet we still couldn't find the queen's nest," Fried added as he sighed.

"Maybe they don't have a queen-" Bixlow's voice was suppressed by a noisy explosion as they and the rocky walls around them were shaken. Dust lift up as the group quickly got cover for the unexpected.

Visitors.

There was three of them, and without losing a second, they swished out of the dust cloud towards to the group of mages. These beings surely were of the deganor kind, but unlike the ones that the mages saw, they were double in size with much heavier and sharper armor.

The acute cry of the three echoed in the dead nest and the ground underneath once again was shaken with their weight.

"What are these?" Ordu, a mage from Jeanmarinie Fall guild asked to Lisanna.

Lisanna was speechless.

"Fall back!" Fried shouted.

"Bixlow, the one at the very left! Try to shoot it!"

"Roger that!"

He took a study stance, shouting out a formation name as his right hand straightly aimed for the target.

"Line Formation!"

His babies immediately obeyed the command of their master and fired away a green, energy crescent from their wooden bodies.

"Dark Écriture!" Fried unsheathed his sword; his wrist moved swiftly as he wrote some runes and charged them at the bugs.

The two forces combined in air and hit the targeted deganor.

"Could we…?"

The deganor bulled towards the group even more angrily.

"Damn! It didn't even take a scratch!" Bixlow snarled under his breath.

"There are three of them and we can't even guarantee whether we will be able to defeat even one. We must not run out of magic power," Fried explained as they kept running.

Lisanna's blue eyes were wide open. She tried to make up her mind about what they should do next. They were nearly at the bottom of their magical energy. Even if they attacked; there was no response for their victory. Another question was getting louder and louder in her mind.

Were they going to be able to make it?

She shivered when she saw the one at the very right. It was getting closer and closer.

Could they really make out of its attack?

Her mind didn't know, so her instincts responded defensively.

Something needed to be done.

"My turn!" Lisanna boosted her magical energy to build up her deganor body.

"Lisanna! Get back here!" Fried shouted. Before they knew, she assaulted and the ground beneath them quaked with a seismic wave.

Bixlow saw a crack above their heads when he looked up to see small and big pieces of rock falling down.

Great, they were going to be either drilled by those nasty bugs, or the wrath of this unstable ceiling. But still, those could wait consideration. He was still up on his feet, and there was something more important to be taken care of.

Lisanna.

"Distract the others away from her!" Bixlow shouted. He targeted the other bug and blasted a beam of green energy.

Their battle was desperate and they were usually sent back to harshly toss into the ground many times without an outcome. Their views were blurred when they all tried to collect themselves to stand up from their misery. The draining sensation of their magical energy didn't motivate them much either. Deep down somewhere, their wills were slowly being swallowed up by despair.

The dust cloud raised by the fall of the smaller bug alarmed them.

"Lisanna!" Fried cried out when he finally managed to stand up.

The dust cloud had become transparent afterwards, clearly showing the smaller bug being pushed towards the giant wall by the other deganor. The pressure must have been really intense that she was cracking up a dent in the wall. Her insect legs trembled as she wept in agony.

He was collapsing while she was being crushed down.

Maybe it was because of his magical energy being sucked out of him until its last drops.

No, he still felt a small fire inside of him, and he felt that fire grew warmer and brighter as he was on his knees. His aura was now visibly seen.

Maybe it was the worry that overwhelmed him?

He knew his heart beat got faster as he heard her shriek. But still, worry didn't belong with his personality much.

He heard her pitched shriek once again. He sweated.

Yes, it was the worry.

It was his fault.

He gritted his teeth.

Damn it.

Back at the Tenrou Island, he took care of her the first time. But, it wasn't like that. She was pinned to the ground back then too, but it wasn't like this one. Back then, he didn't worry about her much. Mostly, he didn't at all. It was the whole group he was concerned. But still…

That little brat, was her effect over him was that powerful now? And was he welcoming it like a fool?

Guess he did.

He shouldn't have brought her with them. He shouldn't have trusted her about not getting herself into trouble, nor should he have trusted himself enough to protect her decently.

There was one thing for certain though; he wanted to protect her not because he thought she was weak. She was definitely not weak. Probably she saved their lives two or three times that day. Without her, they would have been probably lost or wrong directed. Without her attempt to protect, they couldn't have handled three giant deganors at a time. She took one on her own, only to get them time.

Nobody had to say, nor did she. He knew it was the truth, her main purpose.

"Fried," Bixlow mumbled and collected himself. He didn't waste his time thinking anymore. He spread his arms wide to each side as he focused all of his magic power in the center.

"Help me!" He growled. Like in Baryon Formation, his babies took the position of a pentagonal pattern. A large whirlwind was produced while magic was being generated from latter's hollow center.

Fried and the others understood what he was up to.

Casting their own spells, the mages directed their attacks to merge them with Bixlow's.

"Unison Formation!"

He used all his might to direct all that magical force to the right spot. The blow hit the deganor's front legs, making its grip to loosen over her, and then she fell onto the ground.

"The other two is approaching!"

"You two go and save her! We'll take on!" Hallenia, another mage from the Jeanmarinie Fall guild shouted.

Fried's runes gathered to form his wings and he charged into the air.

"I'll write runes around them! Get Lisanna out of there!"

Bixlow ran towards the cracked dent, only to find Lisanna's attempts to stand up. At once, he stood her up with a strong grip on her arms.

"Are you insane? What were you thinkin'? Tryin' to take that one out on your own? " Bixlow raised his voice, his grip tightened around her elbow. She understood that he was angry with her, and her failure. Little did she know was his eyes, which were telling another story that his mouth didn't speak. He was scanning her body with concern, hoping that nothing was wrong with her, hoping that it was not too late to save her.

"I had to… A- And I learned something," Lisanna's voice trembled, both because the way Bixlow was talking to her and the fact that her body was fragile because of the damage she took. She also tightened her grip on Bixlow's arms, seeking for strength while trying to find her stability.

"Bixlow, you and Fried must get through the tunnel they have dug in, take some others with you. We'll buy some time for your escape,"

It couldn't be helped, she was driving him crazy.

"What the hell you talking about? If we're gonna get out of here, there's no way that we'll leave back people to save our tails. You'll stick with me! "

"Bixlow…That's not it,"

"Watch out!" Fried shouted.

"Tome man war dance!" Bixlow pulled Lisanna closer and covered her defensively. His babies were now spinning around the two to form a shield zoned by his Seith Magic.

"Then what's it?" Bixlow asked as the two ran out of the sight of the huge creature.

"That tunnel they came from leads to the nest of Queen, and those three are of the soldier caste of the Queen. I got her scent from their bodies. They are here to wipe us out!"

"If we don't wipe the floor with them first,"

"There are times that nature overpowers the magic. If we keep pushing our magical energy to its limits, we might not be able to make it,"

Fried landed nearby them as he wrote the final runes. The bugs stuck in their places. They weren't able to move around at their will anymore.

Lisanna told her observations to Fried as well.

"Then it's decided, all of us are going to pass that tunnel,"

The teams gathered once again. The group ran towards the gate as fast as they could. There was still half way left to the gates when the bugs inside of the ruins started to dig the ground underneath them.

The ground was shaken by the massive force. Cracks opened under the bugs and crept under the feet of the mages and the walls.

The ceiling started to collapse upon them when the floor beneath them crumbled.

"Faster!"

Lisanna and Bixlow were running at the very front of the group while Fried and the others were not too far away from them. Boulders were falling down.

"Bixlow! Watch out!" Lisanna's rabbit form had saved Bixlow from crushing beneath an enormous boulder.

The boulder which was about to hit Bixlow smashed the ground and left a huge pit between the group and the two.

"Fried!"

"Keep running!"

Bixlow and Lisanna could manage to enter the gate with no harm.

"Come on!" Bixlow yelled to Fried and others.

Suddenly, the unstable floor entirely collapsed down and the entire group.

"Fried!" Lisanna cried.

Bixlow realized that they had been too, still in danger. The cracks reached out to the entrance of the gate. He grabbed Lisanna's arm and pulled her deep inside the gateway.

"They'll be fine but we gotta hurry up before this place is no longer safe."

Lisanna understood what Bixlow was talking about when she heard the sound of the opening cracks. They had run deeper into the gateway until they thought their surroundings were safe and stable.

"Rest," Bixlow commended when everything was quiet. They were still in a huge tunnel.

"We don't have time," she refused.

"We've at least some minutes. So rest." Bixlow was broad as he was still standing. He was staring at the gate they ran from for a time now.

"You need to gather your energy. We're gonna need that more than anything now."

She knew he was right, so she sat down and rested her back against the rocky wall.

"What are you going to do?" she asked.

"I'll check on Fried and the others." He said.

When he saw the questioning worried eyes of her, he made himself clear.

"No worries I'm not gonna leave ya. I won't check 'em myself. My babies will for me."

"How?"

"Watch."

Bixlow's babies' movements slowed and they got into hibernation mode as each one of them landed on the ground.

"I don't understand,"

"Patience's a virtue Zoo, just a sec and…"

His babies didn't move, but a faint glow appeared and got brighter and brighter around their wooden bodies. Bixlow made a motion with his hand, and the green glow started to fly around him.

Lisanna blinked.

"This pretty glow is the pure essence of the soul in those dolls. When the soul doesn't have a body to possess, it pretty much looks like this."

"Can one soul be in different bodies?"

"Yea. It depends on my preferences. You see? I can divide as much as I wanna. But the more I divide it, the more it becomes harder to gain control of the soul pieces."

"So, your maximum limit is 5?"

"Well, I usually prefer to divide it by 6 the most, the more becomes hard to me to handle."

"6? Don't you have only 5 dolls?"

Bixlow looked at Lisanna with confusion, but then, he chuckled and his tongue started to wag.

"Ya forgot to count me." He said.

Lisanna's eyes got wider.

"You say, this thing is a part of your soul?"

"Yup. Seith Magic's main material is the souls, and here, the main goal is to develop a proper way to use a soul for your own benefits. Well, I use a part of my soul for my benefits. I know it doesn't sound as simplistic as those of combat magic, but I think you've got my point."

Lisanna nodded. So, that was the main reason why his babies could reflect their master's thoughts and emotions that perfectly.

"What are you going to do with it?"

"Oh, I'll send our hellos to him with it. It's not gonna be a real message though, just a signal of that we are fine and I'll feel his presence as well." He said and directed the essence towards the path it had to follow. In a matter of seconds, the tiny soul piece disappeared out of the view.

"It's the advantage of the souls. They can pass through anythin' in just a matter of seconds. Now we gotta wait for it to possess Fried's sword or coat buttons."

"That's pretty cool. Your magic."

"You think so?"

"Yea. I do," she smiled at him as she hugged her legs to herself.

He wanted to thank her. Not for the complement he received, but for something more vital than any other thing could be.

"By the way, I'd like to, uh …thank you a bunch for savin' me back there." His eyes gazed on the ground first, and then he had the courage to look at her.

"Oh, you are welcome." He had nothing to fear, she was smiling at him politely.

But then, her eyes also fell onto the dusty ground.

"And I'm so sorry about trying to take that deganor out on my own. It was pretty careless of me."

"Nah. You don't need to apologize 'bout that. You've done nothing wrong." He rubbed the back of his neck.

"You think so? Back then, you were quiet mad at me," she said as she hugged her legs tighter. When he didn't respond back, she felt nervous. Was it a fault to come up with that?

Then, his visor turned at her.

"Ok, that was reckless… but, I'd be a liar if I told you your act was stupid. Honestly, you saved all of us today. Guess we do owe ya. Big time."

Lisanna looked up at the man who praised her. She couldn't help it and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.

The two stood there quiet for a while until Bixlow felt something.

"I've just felt Fried's and others presence. They feel fine." After just some seconds, the tiny part of his soul returned back to his babies and made them start flying again.

"Good to hear," Lisanna said and stood up.

"Shall we go ahead, then?"

"Lead the way,"