Pai prepared for the final strike Zakuro was going to throw at him but a weird feeling flowed through him, he felt as though he was going to throw up right then and there he held his stomach and leaned forward looked down in an attempt to keep all his stomach contents in his stomach.

Zakuro stopped and noticed that Pai was going to be sick, but why? Did he eat a bad egg? Can aliens even have food poisoning? Pai was not known to just throw up when the going gets tough. Zakuro knew that something was up.

"Zakuro why are you holding back?!" Mint asked looking up at her role models confusion covered face.

"Look at what Pai's doing, have you ever seen him do that before?" Zakuro asked her sight never left Pai, then she noticed that the other two looked as thought they would throw up as well.

"So what? He just ate something rotten. Look now their all doing it! Wow that must have been one bad burrito huh?" Mint said making a funny. Zakuro didn't laugh or look at her, her eyebrow raised in confusion.

"I don't think it was caused by a burrito Mint, look." Zakuro said pointing to the aliens once more.

Kish felt horrible his head was spinning and his stomach is turning. At first he thought the tension was really getting to him but then he looked over and saw his brothers all doing it as well. Kish knew that this was not normal for them to all off a sudden feel sick like this. What is going on?

Tart looked down at his hands, they were all sweaty and he does not feel so good! He feels like he died and came back to life as a zombie. Then much to his surprise his hands started to glow whitish yellow, then his whole body started to glow! He looked at his brothers in panic and saw that they were glowing as well!

This all seemed so familiar with Tart he just could put his finger on it…Then his brothers grew smaller by the second, he did as well! Then it all came back to him.

"Oh NO! No WAY can this be happening again! I thought it was over!" Mint shouted in frustration and anger as she stood up and threw her bow down on the ground by her feet angrily like football players would do when theres a touch down.

Zakuro rubbed the area above her nose this was getting harder and harder by the minute.

Somewhere downtown.

People who started the day with a nice walk in the park where now screaming and running from un human creatures they had spotted.

"Ya know, I think humans are the weakest creature in the galaxy other then cosmic dust bunnies. All they do is eat sleep and run away from every thing that is scary to them. I mean, look at this little guy!" Tsumi said picking up their most recent chimera anima. It was a large black snake as that was as long as a six foot guys leg. It has enlarged fang hanging over the edge of his bottom lip and blood red eyes. It also had a weird mark in the middle of its forehead. Tusmi snuggled it close to her face.

"Is he adorable?" Tsumi said, small red and pink anime hearts were flying then disappearing from both hers and the snakes head.

"Well sure Tsumi-Chan, but it isn't something I would want to find under my bed in the middle of the night." Ikiru said looking tentative with a finger on his lips. Tsumi and the snake gave him a death glare.

"Did you just call me Tsumi-CHAN?" Tsumi asked getting ready to sock him in the kisser. Ikiru shivered with fear.

"N-N-N-No! No! Of course not Tsumi-Chan! I mean Tsumi yeah just Tsumi." Ikiru said Tusmi moved a little in a quick motion and Ikiru flinched them covered his head with both arms like a shield. Tsumi walked casually by him.

"At least you learned a lesson." Tsumi said while looking strait ahead. Ikiru moved his arms and looked up to see the snack giving him a death glare then with out any warning of any kid it whipped him in the nose with its tail.

"Ooooow! That hurt mister snake! Bad snake! Bad!" Ikiru said one hand was covering his bleeding nose and the other waving a finger in front of the snakes face. The snake tried to bite him but he managed to pull his finger away just in time.

Tsumi looked back at him to see him holding his nose and counting the fingers on his other hand.

"You shouldn't have called him an 'it'." Tsumi said Ikiru glared at Tsumi then the snake. The snake stared back at him then turned his head closed his eyes and made a pouting noise. This surprised Ikiru for he didn't know snakes could pout. However, he shook it off and followed Tsumi to the last place they saw Shinu before they were ordered made all the humans leave the park with the chimera anima.

They hiked for only five and a half minutes then their feet started to hurt.

"My gosh how do humans stand this 'walking' thing?" Tsumi said.

"Hey look there's Shinu!" Ikiru said placing a hand on Tsumi's shoulder and pointing in front of them, Tusmi looked at him in question as to why he was touching her but that was quickly forgotten when she looked to see what he was pointing at and saw Shinu with tweezers and a magnifying glass as he looked into a hole in a tree.

"Ikiru!" Tsumi said looking at him like she was going to kill him, she made a fist and Ikiru jumped a mile. Tsumi giggled and punched his arm lightly.

"You were right for once." Tsumi said Ikiru rubbed his sore arm and laughed half-heartedly. Tsumi leaned over and set the snake on the ground in front of her then she lightly touched the symbol on his forehead. Ikiru watched as the snake turned from Chimera anima into a regular Habu snake.

"Bye!" Tsumi waved to the snake as it slithered into the bushes, her other hand holding one of the devices that turn regular animals into beasts from outer space.

"Yeah and good riddance!" Ikiru called, Tsumi punched him in the arm again then and made the chimera anima device disappear into thin air.

"Come on, let's go see Shinu, judging by all the equipment laying around he has found the blue aqua." Tsumi said as she levitated off the ground and flew to the tree Shinu was working on. Ikiru followed of course while rubbing his arm.

"So Shinu! Did you find it?" Tsumi asked. Both she and Ikiru landed gracefully on the ground directly behind him.

"Yes I did. I almost have it give me the container." Shinu said as he reached behind him, his total focus never left the small piece of blue aqua that was stuck in the tree. Tsumi snapped her fingers and made a small glass bottle appear out of thin air, as it fell to the ground Tsumi grabbed it out of thin air and placed it in Shinu's hand.

Shinu put the glass bottle in his palm close to his side as he gently slipped the small piece of mew aqua out of the tree and into the bottle.

"We came here just for that tiny little thing? Pheh! That's pathetic you would think deep blue would want us to collect a big one!" Tsumi said angrily.

"You should be thankful we got any at all." Shinu said closing the bottle with a small cork. Tsumi watched as he did his work, she pouted at his words but then an idea came to her mind and she practically skipped to Shinu's side. He looked at her strangely.

"Soooo Shinu-Kun, when we teleport back to the ship do you want to get lunch or something?" Tsumi asked, once again Shinu looked at her strangely.

"What?" Shinu asked in a cold tone.

"When we get back to the ship, wanna cook lunch with me? I can always use the help." Tsumi said trying to look cute.

"I'll help you Tsumi-chan!" Ikiru said giving her a large hug. Tsumi wiggled free and slugged him in the face.

"That was for the chan comment and Im not talking to you, moron! Im talking to Shinu kun!" Tsumi said. She made a cute face again and looked to her side to see Shinu was missing. She looked behind her and saw Shinu packing the equipment he brought along to remove the blue aqua from the tree. Tsumi skipped in front of him.

"There you are Shinu kun!" Tsumi said happily. She bent down to look at him face to face.

"Did you think I left?" Shinu asked in a cold tone.

"Well…no I was just wondering where you went." Tsumi said.

"That's stupid I was right here the whole time and you wondered where I went. Pretty pathetic of you know what I mean." Shinu said.

"Well yeah but…hey when we go to the ship do you want to study the human race together?"

"No."

"Dissect a dead earth frog?" Tsumi asked as she stood up strait and put her hands on her hips.

"No."

"Exercise?"

"No."

"Experiment with stuff?"

"No."

"Read together?"

"No."

"Listen to music?"

"No."

"Play a game?"

"No."

"Are you going to anything when we go back to the ship?!" Tsumi asked desperately. Shinu looked he in the eyes stood up and picked up the suitcase with all the equipment in it, which he just finished packing by the way.

"Well," He started, "Nothing that has to do with you anyway." He said then he pushed passed her then teleported to the ship Tsumi stood in the same position for almost a minute her mouth wide open and her face clearly had 'shock' written all over it.

"Tsumi-chan?" Ikiru asked.

"What do you want?" Tsumi said turning her back towards him and crossing her arms.

"I'll play with you when we get back to the ship." Ikiru said in a small voice. He walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. Immediately she flipped around and smacked his hand off.

"Get away from me you loser!" Tsumi said then she teleported to the ship. Ikiru's ears dropped until they touched his neck and he looked down at his red hand. He sighed.

"Tsumi-chan…" He whispered sadly.

Later on that night

Ryou walked along the central parks cold cement walkway his eyes wide as he scanned the area for the one person he was supposed to meet. The air is cold and the only thing lighting his way were the lampposts.

There were no clouds on this cold night and everything in sight was black, pit black, it was almost like he was in some sort of horror film. A cold wind blew green leaves off the trees and he stopped to watch them dance in the wind.

He had to admit that the things around him were very scary and had gotten to him but the peaceful sound of wind chimes in the distance and the Sakura blossoms, which were sprinkled lightly on his path calmed his nerves down. He pulled his hands out of the pockets of his leather black jacket.

He closed his fist into a cylinder kind of way like he was holding a staff and wrapped the other hand around it, and then he raised his hands close to his face as he blew warm air into them. Its unusually cold out here tonight, it's the middle of September and things aren't supposed to be so cold here in Japan.

When he was walking on the way here it was not this cold, the only place it is freezing is here in central park. Odd. Then the lights on the lampposts flickered and dimmed until they were completely out Ryou was now going crazy with fear but once again he was trying to hide it.

He saw something move swiftly out of the corner of his eye, he turned so fast some would have thought he broke his neck but thankfully, he did not this time. What he saw was a small streak of light then he saw it again out of the corner of his other eye he turned but again only saw a streak of light. Then a little org just like the one he saw in the kitchen earlier flew under his legs and in front of his face.

"Oh it's just you." Ryou said taking deep breaths. He watched as the orb circled his head and flew around a couple of trees then…it was swallowed by a man with long black hair gold eyes and wearing a long brown coat sitting on a bench close by.

"What are you…?" Ryou asked softly.

"Im not human if that's what you are thinking." Deep blue said. "Glad you could make it."

"So, you are deep blue?" Ryou asked pointing at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Why of course, did you honestly think that I was that little orb scout?" Deep blue asked as he lifted himself off the bench and walked towards Ryou.

"Hey, watch it." Ryou said crossing his arms.

"Well Ryou the real reason I wanted to talk to you here tonight is because now we can talk in private, your café was filled with people (Lie) that could have over heard our conversation but now we are in a forest long after the park has closed."

"Then why did you turn out the lights."

"So that no one can see us of course. So, Ryou, master of engineering. Have you made your choice?" Deep blue asked. Ryou wasn't sure if he should help them or not. Deep blue saw his hesitation and clapped his hands together, the park had disappeared, it's like they were sucked into a different dimension of some sort!

When the area around him stopped moving they were now on a different part of the planet, it was the most beautiful place he had ever seen, wide landscaping, green covered mountains lush plants and a lake in the middle of the valley with the sun peaking over the mountainside.

"So Ryou human of Earth are you going to help my people live in peace and happiness?" Deep blue asked.

Then the scenery changed again when the area had stopped moving Ryou was no longer in a beautiful place, he was now in the most horrible place he had ever seen. The landscaping was dull and the dirt was pitch black and covered in ashes. You could hardly see a hand in front of your face because the earth was covered in a fog. The only thing you could see in the distance was black wilting trees with no leaves.

"Or…are you going to let us parish?" Deep blue said acting like he was very sad and desperate. Ryou could hear faint screams of agony in the distance. It was all too much for him Ryou was sweating and his mind racing this was his enemy but would he really do that to them all, do this? Ryou closed his eyes and rubbed the area just above his nose.

When he opened them, he looked deep blue in the eyes. Deep blue raised an eyebrow.

"Deal?" Deep blue asked holding out his hand.

"Deal." Ryou said shaking his hand. When Deep blue let go of his hand Ryou looked down and saw a small letter in his palm with a weird looking seal on it. Ryou looked up and saw Deep blue fading.

After that everything went by so fast! I was almost like something passed through him, he felt sick and his head spun. He collapsed to his knees. When the room had stopped spinning, he slowly rose to his feet.

Then when he looked around and saw that he was in the park, everything looked the same as before he met deep blue, Sakura blossoms sprinkled the white cement path, the lampposts were on. Everything was quite…

Ryou looked at the bench, Deep blue was gone. Everything had gone back to normal there was only one difference now was…

The wind was warm once more.

A/n: OMG I loooove snakes! Thats how I got the idea for Tsumi's pet. I hate spiders, they creep me out but snakes are AWSUM! My mom used to call me the frog queen when I was a kid becuase my favorite past time would be to catch huge bull frogs in a pond.