I'm listening to Broken right now...Wait, this chapter seems easier to write now! Yayness! Lol, this chapter contains Zatch X Tia *epic face* Not a songfic.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Zatch Bell, it can't belong to me, it belongs to Makoto Raiku, which I highly doubt is me.

Title: Suffer
Rating: T
Words (Without A/N): 834

Zatch felt hot tears spill out of his eyes in overwhelming amounts as he leaned over a lifeless body. "Tia! Hey, get up!" He cried. Droplets of salty water slipped off of Zatch's cheeks, and onto the girl's face.

Kiyo and Megumi exchanged looks of horror, they rushed forward, and knelt down to Tia. Zatch hugged his close friend's torso. "Tia...Wake up..." He whimpered, wetting her sleeve. He felt a tugging sensation, and saw Kiyo put his fingers on Tia's wrist.

Megumi was beginning to cry, trying to choke back sobs, but they came through as high pitched whimpers.

The male teenager bit his bottom lip, and his eyes darkened, he let Tia's wrist drop, and his shoulders began to tremble and shake.

Zatch widened his eyes, and looked at the young, female mamodo's face. He realized with complete horror, the spell had hit too fast for the book to kick in it's defense mechanism. Tia was dead.

The book in Megumi's arms was beginning to fade agonizingly slowly, the color, as well as its appearance. "No! Tia!" She cried.

Zatch rose, leaving Tia on the soft, silky sand to be greived over by Megumi, he sent a hateful glance towards he murderer. "Do you know what you just did?" Zatch growled loudly enough for his opponent to hear.

His opponent grinned maliciously.

The lightning blonde looked up, pure hatred in his eyes. "Why did you betray us, Karudio? Sauzaa? I thought we were friends!"

Karudio neighed, his eyes squinting deviously.

Sauzaa smirked again. "Because, Zatch, I never liked you or any of your friends, taking you out one by one is fun and time consuming." She translated for Karudio.

The ice mamodo threw himself upwards, rearing, and pounded his hooves back in the snow, soon they were charging forward again.

Zatch saw Tia's lifeless body again, and felt betrayal and hate rise up quickly like vomit.

Kiyo picked himself up, and their book glowed sharply. "Zatch, we're going to hit them with all we got!" He cried.

The boy didn't look like he was listening, as he was narrowing his eyes angrily at the horse mamodo.

The teenager felt his heart energy build up fast, anger used to keep it together, until he thought he would burst, he opened the book, and looked at their strongest spell, yes, they had powered it up enough, just enough. "Bao Zakerga!" Kiyo had screeched the words so loud, that his vocal cords stung and broke.

The lightning blonde's mouth was forced open wide, as a gigantic golden dragon made of pure electricity exploded out of the boy's mouth, growing in size as it got farther and farther from Zatch, and closer and closer to Karudio and Sauzaa.

The dragon roared mightily, it's eyes gleamed the color of blood, all the emotion that the two boys had recived during Tia's death stored into the Bao. It roared again, as it charged quicker and quicker towards the pair.

"Goku goridio Goruko!"

But before the spell from Karudio could take effect, the dragon crashed into them, engulfing the pair.

Even before the spell was finished burning the book of Karudio's, Zatch whirled around, and took to Tia and Megumi. He skidded to a stop, once he reached them, and collapsed on his hands and knees, the adrenaline disappearing.

As well as the book, Tia's body was almost completely transperant. He began to cry so much, that his cheeks burnt white hot. "T-Tia..." He whimpered.

Zatch held her hand, it was ice cold, as though she had been dead for hours. "Tia...I never got to tell you this...I...I..."

He felt Kiyo's hand on his shoulder.

"I... L-love... Y-yo-you." He stammered, both from depression and nervousness.

Megumi looked at Zatch with a look of sympathy. Zatch's bottom lip trembled, and he bit it into submission. He took Tia's hand closer to her eyes, and pressed it against his lips softly, then he let it drop.

But her hand didn't get a chance to touch the ground, as she disappeared, along with her book, all that was left was a pink watch on Megumi's lap. The lightning bonde felt his emotions drown him, and he took the pink watch in his hands, and began to sob uncontrollably. "Tia!" He sobbed. "Why was it you?"

Megumi was crying as well, a sorrowful looked crossed over her eyes, and Kiyo pulled her into a soft hug, and let her sob on his shoulder, as he let tears fall too.

Zatch clutched the watch tighter. "Why was it you?"

"Do you love me?"