Chapter 10

By

Eiki-chan

Raya slumped over a rail as she gazed out upon the vast kingdom of Naurasia. It was peaceful and the day was clear.

"How…boring!" Raya shouted.

It had almost been one month sense the great race had ended and Raya was bored out of her mind. She missed the fun she used to have teasing Aikka and Molly. Pulling herself back up, she carefully walked to her room. Raya quickly grabbed a book from one of the shelves completely ignoring the fact that she had just knocked over a shelf.

"Where are you…" Raya said, "Aha!"

Raya pulled out a dried out plant that she had pressed in the book. "So the Earthlings call this mistletoe."

Raya smiled, it was this that brought back some fun memories. Before the race had become so serious that Aikka had to cut of connections with Molly, she had had some good times.

Suddenly there was gentle knock on the outside of Raya's door. Aikka walked in holding something in his hand.

"I believe this is what you have been waiting for." Aikka said with a smile.

Raya's face was suddenly over taken by a large smile.

"When, When, WHEN DAMNIT!?" Raya cried tackling the prince.

"It's in one month…" Aikka said slightly annoyed at the fact Raya was now sitting on his back.

"Yes! I have been waiting so long for the Grand Celebration!"

"What are you two doing?" Nora asked looking at the cousins.

"I'm sitting on Aikka!" Raya said happily.

Nora let out a cheerful laugh at Raya's honest response.

"I wonder if the Earth team received their invitation yet!" Raya siad.

"Well I'm sure we will find out when we attend the celebration." Nora said as she walked away.

Aikka looked up at Raya. She had a rather goofy smile on her face.

"You're not going to wait are you?..."

"…Duh!" Raya said quickly getting up.

"For once, can you have some patience?" Aikka said standing up and brushing himself off.

"Not on your life!" Raya said.

Raya quickly made her way towards the door. Suddenly she stopped and lifted her hands. She made sure the wall was not in front of her.

"Wall! Today you shall not defeat me!!" With that said Raya ran out of the room, a few seconds later a loud crash followed.

Aikka smiled, "Instead she'll be defeated by a suit of armor…"

"I heard that!!" Raya yelled.

Eva stood outside her school and watched as the other students left. She had been waiting for a rather long time but her father had yet to show up.

"Geez dad where are you?" Eva thought impatiently.

After waiting about an hour Eva gave up and made her way home. It was strange that her father had not picked her up.

"I'm sure he has a good reason…" Eva said to herself nervously.

It was then Eva realized that tears were starting to form in her eyes. Suddenly she started to run. She couldn't stand this feeling of loneliness. Turning the corner Eva saw her father's car.

Quickly Eva ran inside her house and threw her bag aside. Running down the hall she turned into another room.

"Dad, are you here?!" Eva called out.

Eva quickly made her way to the living room where suddenly she was pulled into a hug.

"Molly!...errr…Eva! Nevermind!"

Eva looked up startled, "Raya?!"

"You got it cookie!" Raya said with a smile.

"W-What are you doing here?!"

"I came to see if you got the invitation yet!"

"Invitation?"

"Yes! To the Grand Festival!"

Eva remembered Nora once talking about the Grand Festival. Suddenly Eva looked around and noticed a few more familiar faces. Koji and Stan were sitting on the couch and someone was standing in the corner.

"Rick?!" Eva cried out a smile spreading across her face.

"Hey little mouse." Rick said with a smile.

But before Eva could celebrate the return of her friends she looked around in a panic.

"Um has anyone seen my dad?"

Raya waved her hand, "Oh don't worry he'll be fine…in about an hour…"

"What do you mean?"

"Well your probably wondering how I got here."

Eva nodded her head.

"Well you see I've been practicing how to create portals…" Raya said pointing to the ceiling revealing a large circular portal.

"Unfortunately I'm not very good about location and you see I…well…"

Raya began to twiddle her fingers together.

"You what?" Eva asked.

"Well you see I sort of landed on your dad!"

"Which normally isn't bad but on account she knocked Don out…" Rick said trying not to laugh.

"Shut up! I said I was sorry!"

"After you realized about five minutes later that you had knocked him out."

"I thought he was sleeping…"

Eva suddenly started laughing. Even though the race was over Raya was still as crazy as ever.

"R-Raya, where is the Grand Festival?" Eva asked catching her breathe.

"On Oban!"

Eva looked up shocked. Oban held so many memories for her. She remembered the last time she saw Jordan. Without realizing it she had touched her lips with the tips of her fingers.

"Eva…What are you thinking about?" Raya asked suddenly.

"Huh, what?!" Eva cried startled.

It was then that Eva realized the others had left the room.

"Soooo, you do know when two people kiss their aura's give off a strange color…"

Eva's face became bright red, "Wait you know about…"

"Course I do!" Raya said with a forced smile.

"Um Raya are you mad?"

Suddenly Raya punched a wall…of course with her strength the wall fell down.

"No of course not, what ever gave you that idea?" Raya turned her head towards the area she had knocked down, "I can fix that…"

Eva giggled, "Um Raya is the prince going to the festival?"

Raya turned her head; Eva's aura was a strange color.

"Maybe…" Raya said.

The color of Eva's aura told Raya that she was curious.

"Mol-err Eva, do you have feelings for that guy Jordan?" Raya asked as she lifted her hands.

"Huh? Well I…" Eva thought for a moment.

Raya's hand glowed as the pieces of the crumbled wall started to replace themselves.

"I'm not sure." Eva said rubbing her arm. "I care for him of course but…"

"You also care for the prince." Raya finished.

Eva looked down, this was true. She held feelings for both Jordan and Aikka.

"Well don't let it bother you! In one month we party!" Raya said with a thumbs up.

Eva smiled, in one month she would be back on Oban. She thought of Aikka and her heart started to beat faster. Walking outside she looked up at the sky. She thought of Jordan…

"See you soon partner."

To be continued…

My computer is a butt!! I never intended to update this late but on account my computer is from the depths of hell I've been having trouble getting on!! Starts to cry…Sorry this took forever and a year to update I'm already mad enough that I couldn't update, on top of all that a chapter for this story was deleted! Thats the reason theres a little gap between this chapter and the last one, I tried my best to organize this chapter. Computer why have you betrayed me?! Anyways if you still want me to continue writing this than I will, if you don't have any more interest in the story than I'll call it quits. Well…sorry again this took so long to update.