Disclaimer: I don't own Blood, Ariel, Kleude, Rose, Bian, Nate, Aqulla, Pooly, Mari, Baal, Pooly's grandfather, Kleude's mother, Kleude's brother, Kyoko and Lemuria they belong to Tamsoft, I own everyone else though

Warning: A bit of cursing, violence

Pairing: One sided Ariel/Blood, one sided Kleude/Blood

Note: Just like Gunrock this will be split into three segments

Story

They saw another fort in front of them and another path.

They headed for the fort, descending down the stairs.

"Wow so many baby dragons…" said Ariel.

"Be on your guard Ariel, they might be dangerous" said Rose

Ariel nodded, lifting her rods up.

Pooly looked at all the lava around the fort "Oh gees I feel like I'm burning up!"

"Yeah… for some reason it's hot in here without touching those red water…" said Ariel.

"They are called lava" said Rose.

"Oh."

They went past the baby dragons to get out of the fort.

There were moving platforms with another area below them.

"Rose you go first" said Ariel.

Rose jumped to the platform while Ariel and Pooly waited for her to jump on another platform.

"I want to go next!" Pooly cried.

"Sure" said Ariel.

Pooly let out a high pitched cry jumping on the next platform, Rose already went past the second platform when he went to the second one.

Ariel took a deep breath and went on the platform however her timing was off and she fell to the lower area.

She collided on her stomach with a painful smack.

"Oww… she groaned, the girl got up to find a dragon nearby "Uh oh…"

"Damn we need a key to get past this gate!" Rose yelled.

"Key?" Ariel braced herself to the dragon, striking it with her rods to distract it, she crept behind and triped it down, making it drop a key.

She picked up the key and climbed up the stairs and headed back to the fort to attempt jumping back to the platform again.

She smiled at Rose and Pooly showing the key she got, heading to the gate to unlock it.

Inside the room was a large red dragon blocking the entrance of another fort.

"Wah it's huge!" Pooly cried.

"Just like a dragon in a fairy tale…" said Ariel.

"Get out of the way!" Rose cried.

"Huh?" the dragon was ready to breath out fire, Ariel dodged, sending a water barrier to dilute the flame heading to her direction.

Pooly and Rose tried to stop the dragon for her but it's skin was tough.

The dragon flapped itself to throw the other two out of it.

Ariel panicked at her friends struggling to stay on, throwing one of her rods at the dragon.

The dragon flinched a little from the strike, she casted a water spell to weaken it.

The dragon began to slow down as it was drenched in water.

"Get off the dragon!" Ariel yelled.

Rose and Pooly jumped off as Ariel summoned icicles at the dragon.

The ice stuck to the dragon as it cries in pain.

"Finish it!" Ariel cried to Pooly.

Pooly drew to twice his size, kicking the dragon, sending it through the wall as it lets out a blood curdling wail.

They looked at the corpse, Ariel letting out some heavy pants.

"Tired?" Rose asked.

"Yeah…" she looked at the sky "It's evening already…"

"Huh?" Pooly cocked his head.

"We won't be able to get back to the ship today, we need to rest in a safe area once we find the crystal."

"Where do we sleep? We didn't bring any sleeping materials."

"I guess we have to sleep the ground."

Everyone stared at each other.

Suddenly Pooly began clutching his stomach "I'm hungry…"

"I'm sorry Pooly… I'm hungry too…" said Ariel "Shall we sit down for a while for some snack?"

Pooly began to clap his hands as Ariel got down their food supply.

She opened a tin of sardines, removing the lid.

"Here I hope you don't mind" she said.

Pooly smiled, eating the fish, only glad to have some food.

"Don't eat so fast or you'll choke" said Rose.

She said it a bit too late as the boy began choking.

Ariel got a container to fill with water, handing it to the boy.

He quickly drank the water and recovered.

Ariel giggled as she got two more tins of sardine for Rose and herself.

"It's been almost two months since our journey started…" said Ariel, she thought about the time where she was attacked by a black wisp, she wondered if Rose ever encountered one before their first meeting…

"Rose what happened before you ran into us?" Ariel asked.

"My sister was kidnapped" said Rose "I thought you know about that."

"No I meant just before you met us, did you ever encounter a black wisp before?"

"I did, they would have killed me if I didn't manage to get away from the forest and head to Tabitha."

"Oh…"

"I wonder how is Mari…"

"What will you do if she…"

Rose began shaking at Ariel's words, she didn't want to think that Mari might die…

"I-I'm sorry Rose if I-"

"Don't say it!"

Ariel shut her mouth, she didn't want to upset Rose.

"Hey don't worry!" Pooly yelled, Ariel backed off, what if Rose snaps? "We'll surely save her and-"

"Shut up!" Rose yelled.

Ariel panicked at Rose's tone, turning around, hunching over.

"Aww but…"

"Don't talk about Mari right in front of me unless you want me to…"

"Hey don't be so sensitive we could save her and-"

However before he could finish Rose punched him on the face, giving a visible bruise on his cheek.

"Aww that hurts!" he cried.

Rose leaning on the wall of the fort with a very deep scowl on her face.

Ariel looked at Pooly, pressing a hand on his cheeks.

Pooly cried at the pressure.

"I'm sorry Pooly…" she said in a low tone so Rose wouldn't here "But we should keep quiet about Mari when Rose is around…"

"Why?"

"She's afraid that something bad might happen to her…"

"You mean we can't ask if she's-" Ariel put her hand on Pooly's mouth to keep him shut.

"Okay shall we continue our journey?" Rose asked.

Ariel nodded, getting up.

Pooly also got up to enter the fort.

To be continued