The Zoids Continuum: Transform Organoids

I'll try not to sound to bored. It's late, too. Or at least I'm tired. I guess I should have learned by now no to leave everything to the last minute.

Disclaimer: I do not own zoids. I do own my characters though.

Chapter VII-The Journey Continues

"Citri! Citri!" she heard the voice calling from far away. Slowly she let it pull her into wakefulness. She slowly opened her eyes. She was so tired.

"Let me sleep." Citri said.

"You're alive! Oh, Citri, you're alive!" Ambient shouted with joy.

"Yah, and so are you. So let me sleep." She said and closed her eyes again.

When she woke next it was night and Ambient was watching her from across the fire.

"Awake at last, sleeping Beauty?"

"Yah." Citri said and rubbed her eyes. She looked around. There were the two sleeping forms of Lika and Brian on her right and left. "What happened?"

"You tell me." He said. "The shot pierced your zoid to the core, you know. I thought for sure I had lost you."

Citri noticed the tears in his eyes. She crept around the sleeping form of Brian, who was snoring uproariously, and reached Ambient. "I'm right here."

"Then your Liger started to glow and was enveloped in an energy ball, then a great gust of wind came and the energy swirled off, leaving a Blade Liger there instead, as if it was just made. Then it's blades came out and it slashed the two remaining Foxes in half, but though it folded its blades back, it continued to run. I followed it, but keeping up with that thing at full throttle isn't easy. When he finally stopped, he opened his cockpit and set it down on the ground. I saw you were either unconscious or dead. I jumped out of my Zaber, and patched up the cut on your head."

Citri touched her head. She felt the bandage.

"That's about when Lika and Brian showed up. They took one look at my Zaber and your Liger and then you with your head in my lap and asked what happened. I told them just what I told you now. But, god, Citri. I thought you were gone. I thought that I had just found my love again and then I lost her. "Citri, promise me you'll never--ever--do that again."

"I promise." Citri said, and kissed his lips for the first time. Slowly they parted and Ambient put his hand to his lips. Citri smiled and lay down. Ambient lay down and curled around the love of his life.

Citri awoke alone and thought for a horrid moment that everything was all a dream. Then she saw Ambient cooking breakfast and Brian admiring her new zoid while Lika looked over Ambient's Zaber.

Citri crawled over to Ambient and sat next to him, staring at the fire flickering in the morning light.

"Don't wake up and leave me alone. I think I'm 11 and in the forest again." She said. Ambient looked down at her. "I'll never again." He said and kissed her. Then Brian walked over.

"Did you know that beside the cockpit top, the blades are also silver?" he asked. Citri smiled. "Well, it was my organoid part that modified the core and my organoid is silver."

"I wish I had the parts to fix your zoid, Ambient, but we didn't think to bring any extras." Lika said, walking over.

"It's OK, Zaber will be in top condition, I can see to that." Ambient motioned for Lika to take over the breakfast cooking and he got up. He walked to his Zaber Fang and put his hand on it. Slowly a forest green glow spread from his fingers, and everything it touched it fixed. When the whole zoid was covered he took his hand away and the green sank in, fixing any internal problems.

"I could do it during the next battle, and faster with less energy wasted, but I need her for running."

Citri smiled. "How bout a race, just you and me?" she asked slyly. Ambient smiled slowly and jumped into the cockpit. The external speakers came on.

"To where?" he asked. Citri's smile got bigger. He had no clue how fast Liger went with boosters on. All he saw was with no boosters. But Lika knew and she giggled.

"One hundred miles, to the ridge," she said and jumped into Liger's cockpit. The silver top closed over her and Liger gave a challenging roar. He was answered by another roar. Lika got in-between the two in her Saix and raised the cannon to the sky.

"On my signal," she said. "One, two, and three!" At the count of three she fired one of her cannons. They were off, head to head.

"If that's as fast as you can go, you're in trouble!" Citri said. Then Zaber started to pull in front. Citri smirked. "You asked for it!" Citri pushed the booster up to full and blasted away from Ambient. She got to the end point and turned around, passing Zaber as she went by. "See yah later, slow poke!"

She skidded to a halt ten feet away from the camp and ended up right by the campfire. She walked her zoid to his previous spot and got out just as Ambient skidded to a halt behind her.

"Jeez," he said, "You are fast!"

"Not as fast as an organoid." Came a voice from the shadows.

"No way!" Ambient whispered. A boy with black hair and purple eyes came out from the shadows, in an Imperial uniform!

"Well, it's nice to see you again, Ambient." The boy sneered.

"Crow, what're you doing here?" Ambient asked.

"Did you not realize where you are? You're in your own home territory. Maybe if you take your zoid against these three jokes, then maybe I'll say the pilot in the Zaber Fang they were chasing wasn't you." He said. Ambient growled. Then the boy Crow noticed who the girl was behind him. He frowned. "Ambient, you said that the other one wasn't your friend and you would have nothing to do with her except to kill her. Was that why you ran away from me? For her?" he was starting to get mad, and his eyes started to glow.

"Oh no." Ambient whispered. Citri didn't notice the boy's eyes, just the words. Had Ambient really meant it? Was he really ready to kill me? Or did he just say it as a bluff? But Ambient never denied saying it! Citri looked up at the handsome man she had fallen in love with. Was he really who she thought he was? Or did she kiss the enemy. All these thoughts whirled in her mind as Ambient shouted, "Don't look at his eyes!" Citri wondered what he meant by that and as she looked into Crows glowing eyes, she felt her vision waver, then blacken. She fainted, or al least her mind blacked out. Ambient looked back at the camp to see that Brian and Lika had turned their backs on the glowing eyes of Crow, but Citri! Her eyes were glowing purple! "No, please god no."

Citri got up and walked to Crow. His eyes stopped glowing. "Looks like I caught your girl." ---

I do pretty long chaps, and it makes a really long story. Guess you've guessed that. Till next time!

~*DarkDragon*~