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"I'm hungry..." Yuki whined.

We all ignored him and kept walking, "How far away is this place?" Takeru asked.

"We should be there in a couple more hours." Alan said.

"Guys..." Yuki said again.

"This better be worth going to." Akari said with her arms crossed.

"Oh it is, the town is amazing!"

"Is it small like those towns in the Wizard of Oz?" Akari asked.

"What?" Ben asked.

"She means, are the houses super small and stuff?" I asked.

"Guys..."

"Oh no, I don't think so..." Ben said.

"Unless you guys live in mansions and think of a sprites living as pour." Collin said.

"No." Takeru said "I wish we lived in mansions though..." Me mumbled.

"Guys!"

Akari whipped around and hit Yuki in the head "We heard you the first time!"

"Well then I'll say it again! I'm hungry!"

"Good for you! Why should we care?"

"Because! Can't we sit down and have a break?"

"No! We don't have time, it won't be safe!"

"Can you two stop yelling?" Takeru asked, holding up his hands.

After I finally returned from out little adventure, I told the others what had happened. The Harvest Goddess said it would be good for us to get sent to Harvest City which is full of sprites like the rangers. I guess it would be okay, though we would stick out like soar thumbs.

Yuki screamed "If I don't eat soon, I'll eat that wolf right there!" He pointed at Roki.

I punched him "Don't even touch Roki!"

Roki growled at Yuki who was now on the ground. Yuki groaned "I want food! I'm starving!" His stomach growled "See!"

We heard another grumble and we stared at Akari who was now blushing "Uh..." She started.

Takeru sighed "Looks like we should find some food."

Roki whined and nudged me probably saying he was hungry too. I sighed and said "Alright..."

We found some bushes not too far away, I blew my whistle and some cows came by. I looked down at Roki who was wagging his tail. While the others were eating the berries, I milked one of the cows and dismissed them. I poured the milk in a little stone that could be used as a bowl and Roki started lapping it up. I smiled as I watched him "I wonder what I'll do when it is time for you to eat meat...? Hopefully your dad will be back to normal by then."

He looked up at me and barked for more. I sighed and poured the last of it "When you are finished you will have to wait till we get to the city for more food."

Takeru walked over and handed me some berries "Here... in case you are hungry..."

I smiled "Thanks." I popped a few of them into my mouth and ate. They were good, and I was hungry so I guess it was worth the stop. I looked over at Takeru who sat next to me, watching Roki "It is kinda sad about what happened to his family..."

I nodded "I'm sure we will get them back to normal, until then he seems okay with us."

Takeru nodded then he said "After this whole thing is over we will need to keep in touch."

I laughed "Yeah, I might need your info so I can call you guys and make sure that this all isn't a dream."

He suddenly pulled out a little piece of paper and a pen I blinked "You carry all that around, you seem pretty nifty."

He blushed and wrote down his email and handed it to me "Make sure you don't lose that."

"Right." I put it in my rucksack, next to my ocarina. "We should probably start heading on our way again."

"G-good idea..." He said and got up too.

I turned to Roki "Roki, let's go!"

Roki barked and followed me, the others got up once we came over and we were on our way again.

"What were you two doing?" Finn asked, nudging me.

I glared at him "Nothing, he came over to tell me we should get going."

"Then why did he give you that piece of pap-Gah!"

I stomped on Finn and kept him held in place with my boot "This is what you get for spying." I said while he was screaming.

"Get off! I'm sorry! Gah! I'm sorry! I won't- Gah! Do it again!"

I let go of him and said "He was giving me his contact info so we can keep in touch once this whole thing is over."

"So you guys can go on a date?" Finn mumbled.

My head snapped over at him and held up a rock "Repeat that?"

"Nothing..." He said shaking slightly.

As we got closer, I got chills and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck.

"Alan..." I whispered.

"I feel it too..." He responded to me.

"What?" Yuki asked in a mumble.

"One of them is following us." Finn said.

Roki growled, his hackles went up on his neck. "Continue walking..." I said "Be a bit quiet too, I want to listen..."

We all kept walking, Akari and Yuki made up a conversation while the rest of us listened. Suddenly I heard a popping noise and Yuki yelped and went to the ground. "Something hit my arm!"

We all got down "They have guns now?" Akari yelled.

I looked at Yuki's injury, it looked like something grazed him "Shoot..." I muttered. Takeru pulled up some rocks so we could hide I looked over "You are pretty good at that now."

He grinned "Tons of practice."

Roki walked up next to me and crouched down Akari crawled over to Yuki "Let me see your arm."

As she was healing it, I tried to peak over the rocks to see where the thing that hit Yuki came from. "There is an alien behind those trees..." A voice said, one I didn't recognize.

I looked around "Who said that?" I asked.

Everyone looked at me "Who said what? We didn't say anything." Takeru said.

"A said that!" A voice whined "Down here."

I looked down at Roki who was looking at me. I stared at him for a minute "No way..."

"What?" Akari asked.

Roki wagged his tail and said "It looks like only you can hear me."

"I can too!" Finn said.

I glanced away and sighed "Great... I can understand animals now too..."

Suddenly another pop went off and the huge rock in front of us chipped. We all sunk down lower, "Alright, so what were you saying Roki? We can talk about the whole... talking thing later."

"There is an alien behind one of those trees over there." He pointed using his nose, I peeked up and saw two tall trees about two yards away.

Finn got on my head and looked "One of us needs to go over there and surprise the enemy."

Yuki grinned "How about we throw one of them over there. One of you guys needs to volunteer though."

We all thought for a moment then most of us, even the sprites, looked at Collin and Edge. They looked at us, Edge quickly moved behind Collin and he gulped "I am not doing it!" Collin said quickly.

"Alright, how many of you think Collin should go?" Everyone raised their hands "Majority rules." He grabbed Collin and chucked him in the direction of the trees "We solute you brave sprite!" He yelled.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah you idiooooooots!" He screamed. He disappeared into the bushes and suddenly he came jumping out with some sort of item, I'm guessing was the gun. He came scrambling over to us and threw it at me "There... you... happy..." He puffed.

It did look like a gun, though it looked like one of those ones you would see in a cheesy old sci-fi film. I got up and held it at the trees "Come out!" I shouted.

Hamil came out, arms raised. "Shocker..." I muttered "It might have been a good idea to bring more back up Hamil."

He smirked "You don't even know how to work that device."

I looked at it for a moment, it had the same details as a regular gun, I quickly pushed in the rest of the ammo and heard a click and shot at a tree, a loud pop came out and bark flew from the tree. Hamil looked like he was going to pee himself. I smiled slightly "They have things like this on our planet."

He sighed and pulled out something that looked like a pen "Looks like I do need backup..." He clicked it and a light shone from the top.

"Shit..." I mumbled.

Suddenly he let out a yelp and I knew why, Roki had bitten his leg, and wasn't letting go. He ran around "Get this thing off me!" He yelled. He dropped the item and Finn quickly grabbed it. He tossed it to me and I quickly clicked it again and it turned off. I snapped it in half and tossed it aside. "We need to get going!" Alan snapped.

I looked over "Roki! Come!"

He let go of Hamil who was on the ground and ran over to me. Suddenly a black thing zoomed in front of Roki and he let out a yelp and flew backwards.

The black wolf laughed "Pitiful... If this foolish creature would have listened to my spell, this would have not been the end of his life."

Roki got up and growled "You aren't dad, he doesn't talk like that..."

The wolf glanced over at me, then I heard some popping noises.

"Hikari! Get down!" Takeru tackled me to the ground and some rocks quickly shielded us. I looked over and saw Gilligan holding up one of the gun things.

"Hey, how about you step away from her, she is my woman." He said smirking. He fired another round and some dirt flew up right by Takeru's feet. He jumped a foot backwards. The rocks fell back to the ground. I was about to get up when the wolf came right by me, holding Roki in his mouth. "I wouldn't move unless you want the puppy to get hurt."

I flopped back down on the ground, Akari and Yuki stood behind us, not moving either. Gill looked over at Hamil "Thank you for wasting my time. All it took was a little puppy to defeat you?"

Hamil hopped back up "I-I was only pretending."

Gilligan sighed and looked at me "Hand the weapon over."

I noticed the weapon in my hand and looked back up at Gilligan "Or hand it back to Mr. Hamil over there."

I glared at him for a few moments then chucked the gun at Hamil's head. He fell back down to the ground and the gun landed a few feet away from him, broken.

I looked back at Gilligan who stared at his fallen comrade then said "That is quite an arm you have. Then again, you could kick him and he will fall in defeat." He sighed "Looks like I will have to do this on my own." He held the gun back up at me.

I smirked "You are bluffing... as always..."

He held the gun down and knelt next to me "I suggest you be nice to me, because if I didn't turn up that time, you would have been eating blue flames from the Lieutenant."

I frowned when he put a finger under my chin, he smiled again "Next time I'll let her kill you if you keep up this attitude."

Suddenly Roki let out a snarl and bit his dad. The adult wolf howled and let go of Roki in the process. Gilligan mumbled something as he turned back to the adult wolf how was whining now. In the craziness of it all, I jumped up with the others and took off running. "Which way do we go?" Yuki shouted.

"Let's split up!" Akari said.

"What?" Finn said. But before he could object any further we all went different directions. I looked down at Roki "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, dad just surprised me that's all, he didn't hurt me."

Finn zoomed by me "This is a horrible idea!"

"Shut up and run!" I said.

The forest came to a clearing and I came to a halt because of the huge cliff that was feet away from me. "Not good..." I mumbled.

I heard footsteps behind me and saw Gilligan again. Leave it to him to follow me... stalker. Gilligan looked over at the cliff behind us "Looks like you are trapped."

I held up a flame from my hand "Back off!"

"Yeah back off!" Collin said, though he had a gun in his hand.

"Where did you get that?" We both asked at the same time.

"I took it from him when he wasn't paying attention." He loaded the gun and held it at Gilligan "Now say hello to my little friend."

"Collin carefu-" I was interrupted by a bunch of pops.

Gilligan jumped out of the way and said "Watch it! Those devices are sensitive!"

"I-I can't stop it!" Collin yelled and the ammo pelted ever where.

Finn flew higher in the air out of range. I kept my head down. Suddenly some of the ammo came my way and I had to walk backwards to avoid it. Then I tripped.

"Uh..." I managed to say. This felt really familiar, I apparently had bad karma when it came to cliffs.

Next thing I knew someone grabbed me and we were falling. It seemed to last forever then we ended up in ice cold water. I huge current hit me and pulled me deeper in the water. I quickly swam upward until I felt air hit me and I breathed in. I realized where I was, we had fallen in a river many feet below. The current tried to get me underwater again but I continued to stay a float as the river swept us away. And by us I meant Gilligan was with me. I realized this and noticed he was unconscious. I thought for a moment "Shoot..." I was being too nice, he owed me. I quickly grabbed him and kept him afloat with me. I looked around for anything to grab onto on the shores. Suddenly, a fallen tree caught my eye and I used the current to swim toward it. I grabbed onto a branch and held onto Gilligan at the same time. When the current relaxed a bit, I pulled us closer to shore. I relaxed when my feet felt the rocky bottom, I put Gilligan's arm around my neck and dragged him to dry land. I collapsed also from the exhaustion. I looked up, the surroundings were completely different than from before. There were multiple issues with this, 1: I had no clue where we were and how I was going to find the others. 2: I was stuck with Gilligan.

There will be a ton of GillxHikari scenes in the next chapter, you are welcome! ^_^ Please comment!

-00Spirited Away00