Chapter 10
The Light of an Angels Wing's.
The day had just come over the hills. The bright rays from the sun
came over the hills like a million rays of fire striking the Earth. The
forest's canopy slowly gained light on it. Peace was over every piece of
land, but on the edge of the forest Katie had been starring at the sunrise
in silence. Her arms were at her side and her feet were attached to the
ground, well her head stayed to the sky, not moving just concentrating.
The sun's light slowly rose on her being, it hit her eyes, and her pupils
began to shrink.
"Today." she said whispering softly "Today we start and today we
never look back." She turned her head slowly and looked back at the cabin
that looked like a toy from her distance. She smirked to herself and then
looked down at the ground. The ground had been ruffled up, new dirt had
been placed where not even a sprout of grass had grow yet. But on the end
of one side had a small wooden cross, made out of two sticks and a string
wrapped around it like the beginning of a god's eye. She smiled to herself
and a tear filled her eye, but she repressed the tear before it could even
leave "Leon I'm sorry he had to hurt you. If only I had jumped in the
way. It would of stopped everything." She whispered. She looked back at
the sky. "Today. I will not back down from my fears." She slowly turned
around and starred at the house. She couldn't believe that everything had
to of happen and now it was going to get a whole lot harder. And she had
no doubt in her mind that it would.
Marron stood in the living room hunched over one of the couches. He had been looking at one item at a time, examining it, and then placing it in a bag. Beside him he had a purple hard covered book, a wrinkled piece of paper, and a compass. He picked up the purple book in his hands and flipped it onto the back of it to analyze it, followed by placing it in a brown animal skinned bag with two arm straps. Tomohoma slowly walked into the room through the hallway. He was checking off things with his hand, placing one finger out at a time. "Ok lets see tents, blankets, food, and money." He listed well flicking one finger out at a time. "What else." He placed his hands down at his side and looked around the room. "We don't need anything else, except for our weapons. And I know everybody will bring those. Maybe you should relax." "Yeah I know." He walked over the couch and plopped himself down and rest his arms on the back of it. "But all you've been trying to figure out for the past ten years is that damn legend, it's finally happening and from what I've heard we need to be ready." He looked at Marron and he went quiet. "We will be fine. We don't need much, if we need anything else I'm sure towns will be nearby and we have money." Tomohoma sighed "I hope your right." Katie opened the door. Slowly walking in; her sword attached to her side and a red shirt and jeans. "Katie, your back." "Yeap," She walked over to the couch and plopped herself down next to Tomohoma and took one long sigh. Tomohoma just starred at her, she had been in a concentrated state well looking down at the floor and staying completely silent. "You ok?" She looked back up at him and she moved her hands down to her knees. "Oh, yeah I'm great. I went to go visit Leon's grave and I wanted to see the sunrise before we left. Besides I was ready when I got up this morning." He looked at her for a second. "You sure you're ready?" "Yeah, All I need is my sword, my cloths, and some food. Not to mention you guys. Why do you ask?" He put his elbows on his knees and rest his hands on them. "What are you bringing for supplies? Hmm?." She looked at him and put her hand to her chin. "Well isn't Marron carrying all his magic stuff and your carrying the planet mars? With how worried you are you might even be caring the world's supply of food." She pointed at a huge backpack in the corner. Marron laughed but kept it to himself well he packed an item after the next. Tomohoma looked at it and then looked down at his feet, he moved them around in frustration as his cheeks flared up with red. "So I'm more prepared then you are. At least I'm actually thinking about what might happen." She kept laughing to herself. "Oh and what do you have in there exactly?" He began to yell at her furiously "It just so happens I'm caring everything will need!" He was leaning over her just a few inches from her face. She blinked and began to push his head back. "Whoa, back up there. I never said there was anything wrong with it." He leaned over again. "Then what the hell were you saying?!" She had begun to get scared to answer because the expression across Tomohoma's face. "I'm only saying that you worry too much. I mean I don't see why you have to be so cautious. It's not like were going to be able to drop off are stuff and come back and find it later. This is England were talking about, you know somebody's going to take it. Besides Trowa and I didn't carry everything on Cleo's back for six months, we pretty much picked up stuff where ever we could." His eye began to twitch. "Why don't you calm down and relax I mean I would if I were you, your about to have a heart attack." He took one last look at her and sat down and crossed his arms and legs. "So I'm more cautious. I don't care I'll survive." Katie giggle under her breath but made sure Tomohoma couldn't hear it. 'Funny Trowa and I survived for how long on just water, food, and gold?' The thought broke in her head when the back door opened. They all lifted their heads in the direction of the noise. Trowa slowly walked through the doorway and looked at all of them. He had a dirt smudge on his face but nothing more as he took his right elbow and wiped it across his head. "You guys ready to go? Cleo's ready." Katie shook her head at him. "Wait you guys are just going to say come on lets go we have to go now?" Tomohoma yelled standing up. Katie stood up and looked back at him as she walked to the door. "You've never been on a road trip have you." "No I haven't! Is that such a big deal?!" "Well then follow us and throw everything off except for your bow and arrows and some food and tents oh, and maybe some dishes." Marron walked over to the door and out the house following Katie. "Hey wait for me!" He yelled, he began to run to the pile on the floor. He threw everything else out of the bag except for what she told him to bring and put the backpack on.
Katie stood out in front of Cleo, her arms at her side along with her sword. She took one last look at the beautiful scene around her and smiled softly, then the wind began to blow at her side and her hair flew in the wind. She took her right arm and put some of her hair behind her ear. Trowa walked up behind her. "I'm more ready for this then I'm ever going to be." He looked at her for a few seconds, she turned back at him and smiled. Trowa smiled at her as well. He was happy that she was happy even though on the inside he wouldn't admit it. Marron walked through the wooden door slowly and looked at them standing close to each other. 'Those two have something going on between them. I don't think either of them are realizing it.' He thought, Trowa looked at him and smiled. "So how long is the trail to the mountain? Either way I think she's excited." Marron's eyes stood up and he starred at them. "Well," Tomohoma walked outside and went by them. His backpack was filled but not as full as it had been. Marron took off his backpack, first from the right shoulder and then the left and he lowered it down to the ground and opened it up. He then dug his head slowly around and pulled out a few wrinkled pieces of paper. He kneeled down to the ground and put his hands on each end of the paper and pulled it out until it was flat. "We are currently here." He pointed at the map and looked at all of them. "According to what we must travel through several areas, through several places before reaching The Crystal Islands. The only way to get to the dock that is closest to the island is by first traveling through the Lipio Mountains, from there we are good for a while, we then hit the Verella Forest. After that there's an even longer journey I'll tell you another day. But if I'm correct this all leads us to the dock, because right in the middle of the ocean is the island. Everyone who's ever gone has never returned but it's a risk we must take if we want to find the sword." "How come they've never returned?" Marron looked at Katie well her arms were crossed together. "I don't know." Shacking his head at her. "Well, will just be cautious and prepared when that happens." Trowa said. They listened to every word carefully, staring at the paper. Katie looked up at Marron looked him directly in the eyes. "Marron!" He looked up at her "How far is the Lipio Mountains." Marron pointed behind him. "About twenty-eight miles that way." She looked at him then smiled and got up slowly. "Great, I'm taking the reins." She went onto Cleo's back, Trowa walked over to her and she helped him on. "We can all fit on her." "But wouldn't it be strenuous. I mean I know a place around here where there are tons of wild horses but it wont be for a while." Marron said. She grabbed the reins and turned Cleo's body from and made her slowly walk around. "No, that's ok she can handle it, I know it." She lowered down a hand to help on Marron he blinked at it and looked back at the house for one last time. 'All those years ago. And I plan to never return. Funny how much things can feel empty even before there gone.' He then turned back around and grabbed Katie's hand and got on Cleo's back Trowa grabbed Tomohoma with his left hand and helped him on. She grabbed Cleo's reins and turned Cleo's head in the direction that Marron pointed. "Say good bye everybody, because once we leave we are never returning." She starred at all of them, but turned her head back in the direction of Cleo's head. "YEAY!" She yelled. Cleo began to gallop as fast as she could. 'Today we leave.' Leon began to appear in front of his house. He had been a figure that could just be seen through, but a full figure was surely there. "And I will stay here." He said as his hands were at his side "My soul remains but I'm sorry I can't join you Marron." The wind began to blow side ways again and his hair began to flow. He put his right hand close to his chest. "Take care. My friend." He then turned around slowly and disappeared.
Swirls of pink, purple, blue, and green swayed around the clouds. Clouds far above the ground, ones that the Earth it's self will never see. Out in the middle of the clouds a girl kneeled down. She had extremely long black hair all brought up in a ponytail with a red hair tie, with bangs the flowed down at the side of his face, red rosey lips, fair colored but smooth skin, she had a fairly decent chest with a well shaped body. She was kneeled down with her foot on the ground and her left knee on it as well, her right hand holding the handle of a sword that was stabbed into the ground. It had been a samurai sword with a long blade that curved at the tip, and the handle was long and black with a material on it, and the cross-guard was a black shiny metal that laid wide at the blades shoulders. She wore a cloak that was tied at the waste with a red bow and it had a red strip running around her neck line, down the insides of the cloak, trimming the bottom and then connecting there. "You wanted to see me my lord," she said with a calm voice. Silence came upon her until a smooth calm voice interrupted the silence. "I fear the four cannot do a quest so great by themselves. I ask you to please help them." Her head looked up with shocked eyes. "But sir. Forgive me for asking, but why me?" "The strength of a warrior and the softness of an angel will help them succeed. They cannot do this mission alone. You know that, we all know that, they will be destroyed easily by Genity if they are not helped. I want you to go with them. I don't think they've realized the strength this man has." She lowered her head again and shut her eyes. "Yes sir." "These four are the fate of the universe, if they fail, the universe fails. I trust them to try their best, but I'm afraid it's not enough. Valerie I need you to go and help them." She kept her head down and listened closely to her instructions as closely as possible while being silent.
Katie looked up at the canopy of a forest. She began to squint her eyes as the light hurt her eyes. She put her hand on her forehead to create shade over her eyes. She began to stare at the green silk like leaves that filled the top. "The sun is getting pretty high," she turned back to look at Trowa, Tomohoma, and Marron who were sitting on Cleo beside her. "Yeah and I'm getting hungry." Tomohoma said "You want to stop for lunch?" They all looked at each other for a bit and Trowa looked down at his stomach. "Yeah why not. We've been going for hours. We should have a break." Katie jumped right off of Cleo and landed on her feet. Soon all of three of them followed, but immediately she began to build a pile of wood. She looked back up at them as soon as she got a stick in her hands. "Well are you guys going to help?" she smiled "I can't do this alone you know." "Yeah" Trowa picked some wood and began to put it into a pile as well. Then followed by Tomohoma, and Marron got out the ingredients for the food. It took them about fifteen minutes, but Katie and Trowa were able to collect enough wood from just the ground, Marron lit the fire with a spell, and Tomohoma was able to catch some fish by a near by lake. They sat close together as they cooked the fish, the smell increasing by the second as it filled their noses with a smell like no other. "That smells great!" Katie stated as she drooled over the fire. Marron sat on one side of the fire well Trowa and Tomohoma both had there legs crunched up by there chest, Katie kneeling right next to them with her elbows rested each on there shoulders. Trowa looked at her and smiled. "It's done." Marron said well poking at it and so he lifted it off the fire, he placed it down on a plate and sliced it into four parts and put each piece on a plate. "Alright," She grabbed the plate and grabbed a fork with her other hand and began to push it down into the fish. Just before eating it she stopped and looked over at the bushes. Her instincts were bothering her she felt as if someone had been watching her. "Something." she whispered. "Something's there." The other three weren't listening, they were busy talking and enjoying their meals to even notice. As for Katie she kept watching, but then a bird flew right out of the bushes and away. Katie turned back her head to her food and ate again. 'I guess it was just that bird.' Everything was peaceful for all of them until finally she looked back at the bush with a half piece of fish in her mouth and became shocked. "Everybody look out!" She yelled and jumped as a thick purple beam went straight for them. The beam hit right into the fire and created a huge explosion that went out as a sphere and sent everything on the outer part of it flying. The sphere became huge and wouldn't stop growing everything that had been in it way was being pushed out by the ball. Marron, Tomohoma, and Trowa were thrown several feet and soon were caught as it kept pushing them further and further. Katie landed on her feet with her back away from the scene. Cleo ran up right beside her with fear, but Katie was too busy to notice the scene around her. She looked straight back, the purple ball growing, still coming for her with no bounds or ends. Creating a force like no other not allowing anything to get in. She looked back at Cleo and she jumped on her back "Go Cleo go!" 'What the hell is this thing. IT NEVER ENDS!' Marron looked at the ball with wounds all over his face. He was getting pounded into several things at once. 'I must.' He became completely focused as his body was squashed, but he slowly put his hands up to it and rested his palms right on it. His hands began to glow blue as he muttered something to himself softly and finally screamed. "Oppose all magic that is in my way!" The screams filled the air and the ball finally stop growing. All three of them stopped and fell to the ground on their backs with massive wounds. Cleo came to a sudden halt, Katie had been on the opposite side of them so she wasn't sure where they were exactly. She starred at it making sure it wouldn't grow again. "It stopped. But is it stopped for good?" She whispered, about a minute had passed and she slowly went over to it, leaned, and poked at it a few times. "This material is weird, it's as hard as steel, but somewhat see through." It budged moving in, and Cleo stepped a few feet back. Katie grabbed her reins tightly and tried for her to calm down "Cleo I know you're scared. I am to but this is no time to show it." The ball became smaller and smaller more rapidly by the second. Trowa, Tomohoma, and Marron stood up ready to go limp at any moment. Marron had his right arm clear across his body holding his left arm hunched over on his left side with scratches and bruises all over him. He looked relieved at the ball getting smaller and smaller and smaller. "Destroy the evil that has been made!" He shouted. The ball went down to the size of a marble, went in flames, and disappeared. Katie looked at all three of them. Marron and Katie looked at where the ball had been and began to walk over to it. A huge circular crater was made in the Earth from where the ball had touched and left it's mark. "Come on Cleo!" she forcefully stated. Cleo rode off quickly galloping. She slid down the side of a crater without expecting it. She screamed and grabbed onto the reins and held her back. She then moved around her head and looked at the scene. She was in the middle of a crater that at least was a five hundred feet in radius. "Whoa. That ball created this." She became quiet until a thought struck her. "Oh my god!" She rode up the other side of the crater "Trowa! Marron! Tomohoma! Can you hear me!" She yelled. "Were over here." She turned her head in the direction of the noise. All three of them were standing up. Battle wounds and gashes covered their backside and scratches covered their front sides. She jumped off of Cleo and ran towards them examining them closely for wounds "Trowa, Marron, Tomohoma." she whispered "Who. Who could of done this," she turned her head. When finally she moved her eyes in a direction. "AH!" An arrow went straight for her body. She rolled out of the way and pivoted her right foot well hitting the ground and smashed her left foot into it. She took out her sword and her guard went up. There, right next to her landed an arrow that was completely made of ice. The arrow began to crack down the middle and broke like glass. The frozen water surrounding the area. "Damn it, so close!" All four of them watched as a figured jumped out of the bushes. Katie stepped back as the figure came into focus. She stood in front of all of them. She had been the woman that had been talking to Genity. She stood straight up and put her hand on her hip as her cape swayed in the sunlight. "Who the hell might you be?" Katie yelled "And why did you send that damn ball!" Trowa yelled well weak. "Oh. I'm just one of Genity's helpers. My name is Shina I will be the one who kills you. Now bow down and except your fate because you must die" She said sassy like. "Sorry lady, but I don't want to break it to you. One slip and your history so I really wouldn't get in our way. Because right now I'm more pissed then I've been in a long time." Tomohoma yelled. "Oh believe me sexy, you wont even have a future when I'm done." "Sexy? You think he's sexy?!" Katie yelled "HEY!" "Hehe," she put her hand behind her head and began to nervously laugh "Just kidding." "Either way I'd prepare all the defenses you have because you are about to be murdered. Just don't forget to tell them it was me when your in heaven." She put her hand her hip "I really do hate it when I don't get the recognition I deserve." Marron looked at her with a shocking calm look "Ice pillars!" She screamed They all starred down as the ground as it began to shack under them softly. Each of them knew it wasn't something good and tried to move but had little time to react as huge ice spikes came up under their feet. All of them looked down at the tormenting site and tried to jump. Katie, Marron, and Tomohoma made it out, but Trowa had been caught between several of them like a prison. The three of them rolled around the ground and then were able to grab their stance and get up. The two young men turned their heads in the direction of a scream of pain. They suddenly were shocked as they noticed it had been Katie doing the screaming. "My. My. My arm!" She starred at it in shock. One of the pillars had gone right through her arm and blood rushed down and dripped off her fingertips like small streams. "It.. It was one of those pillars. It slashed right through my arm without hesitation!" Marron lowered down to the injured solider and looked at it. Katie looked up at her pain and saw Trowa caught. "Oh my god! Trowa!" Shina stood in front of all of them and laughed. "Looks like you under estimated the power I have. As by now you've figured out that my main source of power is ice, but my second that just happens to be poisons and acids." "What?!" Katie looked at her arm as it began to glow a bright purple color and finally began to burn with agony. She began to yell with absolutely no control. "Ahhhhh stop it that's like fire! Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Shina began to laugh again. "And I control how much it burns and for how long! Don't you just love the things you can do with magic!" "Ahhhh then why don't you just make me pass out you bitch?!" Trowa watched in the prison near by holding a pillar with each of his hands like prison bars 'If I could only do something!' he thought well grinding his teeth and getting upset. "Hmm, let me think about that. Oh wait no it's more fun just to watch you suffer!" Her eyes began to flash red again and Katie screamed and she froze completely. "Stop it! Your killing her!" Tomohoma yelled. "Exactly the point." The pain began to grow stronger and heaver in Katie's arm. Tomohoma squeezed his fist at her screams. "Stop it!" He grabbed his bow from the ground that had landed when the ball stopped growing. He picked it up, picked up the closest arrow and rested it on the bow and before he could even aim it he fired. Shina became shocked as she jumped back and it landed where she was standing. Immediately Shina broke her concentration and Katie's pain disappeared. She fell to her side and pant heavy with her eyes shut. Shina looked at the arrow for a few seconds. "You brat! I was thinking about sparing your pathetic life but now it's going straight to hell." Katie opened her eyes again and stood up slowly, very slowly and looked at her in the eyes well trying to keep herself awake well the blood poured like a stream. "You have to beat all of us you witch." Her voice sounded weak but determined "And I swear I won't let that happen!" "You barely even have an arm you idiot! I mine as well finish you off!" Then a thought finally struck her mind. "Or I could just toy with you for a little longer." She pointed in Trowa's direction and Trowa's eyes went up in complete shock. "Huh?" All four of them began to panic. "Leave him out of this!" Katie screamed and Shina raised her arm. Trowa tried to jump from the frozen slippery water, but found he couldn't. "Trowa you have to jump!" "I. I can't it's too slipp-" His voice was broken off as an icicle shot right up under him and shot through the right part of his chest and shot him straight up in the air. His arms and legs shot straight out as the icicle kept growing. Blood poured out of his mouth and splattered below him and blood rushed from the horrifying wound that was now placed upon him. His arms and legs went completely limp, and his eyes slowly shut as he hung from there. Blood continued from his mouth and chest like a stream of blood that looked as if it would never end. Katie's eyes went up in complete shock as she gasped. "T. T. Trowa!" She screamed "Trowa! Trowa! No! Trowa!" A tear crystallized in her eye and finally fell down her face and off her cheek in the gentle breeze as Katie ran for the pillars. Marron looked at Shina with full of anger and hatred. "YOU BITCH!" Shina just smiled and moved her eyes to Tomohoma who was grasping his bow tightly, standing there with his eye's shut, ready to cry but holding all his tears back. It was obvious to anyone that they were all ready to go for her neck. She smiled at the thought with complete happiness, moving her eyes around to each person. "If your going to fire then I wou-" Her voice cut off when out of no where out as one of them ran up and POW! A fist landed directly in the middle of her face. Shina flinched at the pain and put her hands over her mouth with her eyes clamped shut. "That was for Trowa!" She squeezed her eyes at the pain and then slowly opened them. There standing in front of her was Katie with a limp arm, her fist up, and an aggressive look across her face. "Argg.. You stupid slut!" "I still have one good arm Shina." She began to charge at her with full force. "And believe me when you hurt Trowa I'm not afraid to use it!" She punched her right across the head before she could flinch. Shina landed on her side and put her right hand up immediately. There in her hand an ice arrow appeared and before Katie could even tell what it was it fired right for her. The arrow ripped through the air, nothing stopping it's path, until another arrow going another angle smacked right into it. The young swordsmen starred at it in shock. The ice arrow broke in hundreds of pieces all over the ground, and the arrow that had hit it landed in front of Katie's feet. "Who do you possibly think you are?." They both looked at the arrow that had crashed in the ground and turned their heads. "Tomohoma!" Katie yelled, he was standing a few feet away from them. He had his hand holding the string of his bow back as he aimed directly at the iced witch. "Move and I fire!" "Fire and watch what I do." Tomohoma became hesitant at the comment. He wasn't exactly sure if she was bluffing or not. Katie looked back and forth at the two as Tomohoma stayed still. She blinked a few times and looked right at Tomohoma. "Tomohoma! What are you doing fire!" He didn't want to listen but he knew he had to. He released the arrow aiming for Shina. The arrow ripped through the air like fire. Faster and faster it got to her, each millisecond making it closer and closer, until it finally it came just a foot away from her and it stopped. Shina was now leaning on her left arm with her right arm stretched out in front of her and a purple shield protecting her. Katie gasped well starring at her. "No way! That can't be possible!" Tomohoma starred in shock. The arrow stayed there in mid air hitting the defense shield at full force. She then got up to her feet and starred at the arrow in front of her. Right away she grabbed it with her right arm and began to giggle to herself as she flung her arm way back and then flung it forward releasing the arrow and top speed. "Tomohoma move!" Katie yelled. Tomohoma was just frozen in shock. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. His body locked into place, he was completely paralyzed. It came screaming at it him until out of no where a blue energy blast flung and knocked the arrow into a far distance. "Marron!" Tomohoma said. Marron smirked with his hands in a praying motion with his two index fingers point straight and his legs seperated. Shina starred at all of them with hatred. "God, can you idiots be anymore annoying!" Katie just looked at her and screamed as loud as she could. "And you think your not you stupid slut!" Katie was furious and it was obvious to all of them. All four of them starred at her with hatred for a second or two ready to kill her. The hated state was soon ended as their ears lifted to a sound. They all turned their heads to Trowa that was hanging on the pillars. He was coughing terribly, barely even alive, holding on to every ounce of his strength. "Trowa. he's alive!" she whispered "Trowa hold on!" Tomohoma yelled. "How can that damn boy still be alive?!" Shina yelled, Katie looked at him and began to run up to the ice pillars but found her arm taken hold of. "AH Marron stop it that's not funny!" She said with her wounded arm being held with intense pain. "What are you doing?" Marron whispered. "What's it look like? I'm not going to leave him there well he's in pain." She said full of anger. "You can't do that, your to injured, you shouldn't even be fighting." She kept grinding her teeth in pain. "And I don't care now let me go!" Shina looked at the injured boy and smirked. "Well I guess I'm going to have to kill him a different way." Everybody starred at Shina with shock. "He's too unconscious to even feel the poison." She bent her knees and put her hands parallel to each other. Another purple filled her hands. "So I guess I have to kill him another way." Katie looked at her and then back at Shina. "Leave him alone!" she let go of Marron's grasp and ran for Shina at full charge. "I'll kill yo-" Her voice was knocked off when her whole body ran into a shield that had suddenly appeared and sent her flying back. "AHHH" She landed on her back just a few feet away from Tomohoma and looked up with even more pain. Shina laughed as the energy ball in her hands became brighter and brighter and brighter. 'Damn it I can't even get close to her.' Katie thought. "Say goodbye to your friend!" She released the energy ball from her hands. Katie starred up in shock as she leaned on her arms. "Trowa!" The ball went roaring through the air with nothing stopping it at all. All three of them watched in horror with the word 'Please no' repeating through Katie's head. She jumped on to her feet and jumped into the air. "Trowa!" she screamed as she jumped over the pillar. The ball of energy collided with her injured arm as she was able to grab Trowa with her other arm. The pain ripped through her head at miles a minute. Her thoughts screaming in terror, the pain went racing through her flesh. She completed her jump and landed on the other side of the pillars. Tomohoma and Marron ran over. Katie was lying on her stomach with Trowa right next to her lying on his side. She was breathing crazy and had sweat running down her face. Tomohoma ran over to her and went down to his knees and right next to her. He looked at her and the pool of blood began to surround his knees. Marron ran up right next to her and kneeled down in the sea of blood. He grabbed part of his cloak and ripped a portion of it off and tied it around her arm. "Marron you didn't have to do that." They both looked at her. She was barely awake, she didn't even have her eyes open and she was mumbling slowly. They both looked at her in shock. "Well except it as a gift for now." Tomohoma said as he tended to her and Marron tended to Trowa. "Is he ok?" Katie mumbled they both stopped and looked at the half dead Trowa. "Well is he ok?" Marron looked at her closely at her sweat dropped face. "He'll be ok." She smiled weakly and finally rested her head and slipped into an unconscious. They both looked at her, Tomohoma became furious and turned to see Shina. "Hey don't even look at me, she's the one who got in the way." Shina stated. Marron looked over his shoulder with his eyes squinting. "You bi-" "You bitch!" Tomohoma's voice was cut off by Marron as he turned around. His arms swung together in an X and then swooshed a part. Right out of his arms a phoenix appeared and flew straight at Shina. She soon looked at it in shock and jumped out of the way to dodge it. Tomohoma then grabbed an arrow and shot at her as quick as he could. The arrow when ripping through the air as Shina's back was turned and hit her right shoulder. "AHHH" she landed on her stomach again and looked at the arrow and cringed at the pain. "We got her!" Marron shouted. They ran over to her as she cringed at the pain terribly and grabbed the arrow out of her shoulder. Tomohoma grabbed another arrow and placed it on the bow and aimed it right at her. "Don't try anything tricky or I fire." They looked at the wound on her back and watched her carefully. 'she's not going anywhere with that wound' Tomohoma thought. She looked back slowly at them and then looked down and smirked with quivered lips. "What possibly makes you think you got me." Tomohoma held back the string of his bow even more and grew an even hateful look. "I'm now two seconds away from doing this you whore so shut up!" She went from a smirk to a laugh. They had both been completely confused until she turned around quickly and hail shot out of her hand blinding them both. Tomohoma fired his arrow without control, but he found himself dropping his bow and covering his eyes from the hail. Marron looked up trying to get a better view of what had happened and blinked. He looked at the scene in front of him carefully and soon lowered his arms. "Where is she." Tomohoma looked up in shock gasping. "Where'd she go." They looked around the area for a few seconds. Looking over their shoulders, looking in front of them, looking near, and far, no where, she was no where. "Men are so stupid." They looked over in the direction of the noise as Shina was holding Trowa with her arm across his chest, kneeling down, and starring at them with a hated look. "Let him g-" "Silence!" Shina's voice shouted out. She lifted out the arm that was holding Trowa as her injured one was completely limp at her side. Right out of her hand a sharp piece of sharpened glass like ice formed. She grabbed it soon after before if fell and held the sharp end right on Trowa's adams apple. "One move and your friend is gone." They both froze in fear. She then began to laugh, "It's funny when sacrificing another life stops your enemy." She put her face close to Trowa's face. "Oh trust me I wont kill him, if you do what I say. He's too cute to possibly hurt. But then again there are other fish in the sea so it wont be that much of a loose." She smirked to herself. "What are we going to do?" Marron whispered and Tomohoma heard. Shina began to laugh. "Marron, I don't know." "It's funny how the tables can turn so suddenly." Shina laughed. They felt completely helpless, one slit on the throat and Trowa was gone. Not to mention Katie was completely knocked out and she could turn around and do the exact same thing. Marron and Tomohoma looked helplessly. "Now, I want you to bring me the map and the pieces of the legend to The Moon Light Sword." Now Marron didn't know what to do. "You can't be serious!" "Hey, it's your friends life or the fate of the world. Hard decision isn't it." He thought for a second. He tried to think of the consequences of both sides trying his best to think of what to do. "I. I. Argg.." He looked at her direction. "I don't have all day you know. Come on I have to get my nails done tonight." She held the dagger like object right at his throught. "Have it your way say good bye to your frie-" Her voice cut off as a small white ball slapped her in the head. She fell backwards causing her to let go of Trowa, both of them starred in shock. The ball landed near her feet and she starred at it in curiosity, but suddenly the thing exploded in a thousand flames of fire. Marron and Tomohoma were hurled back as a burst of wind pushed them into the ground. "What is that thing!" Tomohoma yelled over the huge noise. "I don't know!" They both starred in complete fear knowing that Katie and Trowa were in there. But the blast cleared away and soon the whole area was destroyed and a purple ball of light was right next to the start of the explosion. Right inside of it was Shina, she was extremely weak, and ready to pass out. Blood had dripped from different portions of her body and she was wounded badly. But as for Katie and Trowa, there was nothing. Both of them became shocked as they ran over to where the explosion happened. "Please don't tell me there bodies were blown to pieces!" Tomohoma yelled panicing. They ran over to a pile of wood made from the explosion from trees that had fallen from the explosion. They lifted each one off at a time, and throwing it beside them. Each splinter they got, they ignore; each cut they got from the branches they ignored. Shina starred at them and wondered why they were wasting their time. She had experienced the weak part of the blast and now could barely stand up. "You shouldn't worry there with me." All three of them looked over in the direction of a smooth voice. An immense light stood out and it's shadows gave the shape of a figure, but it was obvious of one thing, she had Katie and Trowa. One over her shoulders, the other being held limp in her arms. She began to lay them down gently on their backs next to each other. There battered bodies ready to give out at any moment. "Who are you?!" Shina said grinding her teeth. "Why should you know, your not going to live through this day anyway." She stepped out of the light. She had pale skin, black hair that went up into a pony tail with long black colored bangs, and black eyes with a long cloak that ran down to her feet. She stood there with her sword at her side and her arms at her side just starring at her. "Who are you?" Marron asked. She smirked and lowered her head a bit and closed her eyes. She then tilt her head to the side and looked Marron square in the eye. "Just a light of hope." She began to jump, as she grabbed the handle of her sword with her right hand she jumped far into the air and as she came down she put the samurai sword above her head with both her hands grabbing the other half of the handle with her right and brought it down at full force. Shina waved her hand in the air and the same dagger ice scile that was going to kill Trowa appeared. She put it in front of her quickly and the sword the mysterious fighter was holding smacked against it. A burst of light sprung out of the point where the friction was placed. The bright day around them soon looked dark as the light burst off everybody's face. Shina and the soilder looked at each other in fury. 'When the hell did they get reinforcements?!' Shina thought. They soon jumped back and looked at each other in complete hate. The mysterious girl looked back at the boys as she landed on the ground. "I almost forgot!" she yelled. She then tossed something. "A gift from heaven!" Flying through the air a bright ball of white energy shined like a star. "What is that!" Tomohoma yelled. It hurled through the air until it hit Katie and Trowa and soon disappeared, but their bodies began to glow like a million fires. There body's emulating a light that almost nobody could look at. "What is that thing." Shina said with her arm over her face. The mysterious woman had no problem, she had been looking right at it with a smile the whole time, her arms not at all showing that it was too bright. The mysterious woman just looked at it and smirked and kept her eyes on it like a hawk, but finally looked back at Shina and kept her back completely to the site. "It's gods blessing. There being healed from the wounds you created you beast. And now you'll have the same scars!" She took the sword that was in her right hand, arched the sword back and threw it forward at Shina. Shina flinched and jumped and tried to move as fast as she could and then found metal scratching her left side of her stomach. She fell on the ground like a ton of weights. The mysterious solider walked over to her slowly grabbed her sword and held it above her with her arm. "And now you shall pay for your crimes!" she yelled as she threw her arm down. Shina looked up at the flinging sword and suddenly disappeared into thin air. The mysterious solider pulled back her sword before it hit the ground. She stayed calm and moved her head around. "That's just like you." She smirked and lowered her head down. "You are a coward to run away and go back to your so called master." She then remembered what had happened and turned around to look at Marron and Tomohoma who were looking at the area. Marron walked over to Katie and Trowa who were still unconscious. He stopped and lowered down to tend to them, but his eyes soon rested on the woman. "Who. Who are you?" She turned around and looked at Marron right into the eyes. "I've been asked to join your mission." She said very calmly. "Who sent you anyway?!" Tomohoma walked out from behind the ice pillar with an arrow in his left hand and a his bow in his right hand well his arms rested at his side. "Trust me I will attack if you do not say anything." "Will that be wise?" "I don't know.. Depends who you are. For all I know your working for Genity and you were trying to get us to trust you." "Calm down! This woman saved our lives, why are you being so mean?" Marron said. Tomohoma became upset and his eye brows lowered slowly. "Paranoid. Very paranoid. Considering Trowa and Katie almost lost their lives!" "Personally I don't blame you Tomohoma." She said as the both of them starred at her. ".How did you know my name?" She smiled and closed her eyes. A wave of gold began from the ground and whirled around her. Gold glitter like waves that shined like the stars. It waved up to the branches in a spiral and soon became a ball of gold light. The ball fell soon after and disappeared into nothing. The woman stood there in front of them with giant white wings and a gold tiara that was detailed with green painted of leaves attached to her forehead. She opened her eyes up and looked at Marron in the eyes. "My name is Valerie, I am the leader of the angels. God himself sent me to help you." Marron starred at her for several seconds but he was then distracted by a noise several feet away. "My head feels like I've had one to many drinks." Katie said as she lifted her head up slowly. She starred at the ground, well rubbing her head with her arm. She waited as her eye site came back into focus, and she gasped as her eyes slowly moved up to see Valerie in front of her. She took her right arm and shook Trowa a few times. "Hey, Trowa!" she whispered "Wake up!.. Come on man!" He moaned a few times and opened his eyes slowly. "What," he lifted his head up slowly and looked at Marron but then looked at Valerie. ". I'm dead right?" "No, but I see you two are awake." Marron said. Katie looked at Marron and then back at Valerie. "Who are you?!" She pointed at her "Are those wings! They look real!" "My name is Valerie, I'm the leader of the angels. It's an honor to meet you." Katie and Trowa went silent. "Angel?" Trowa said. "Honor?"
Marron stood in the living room hunched over one of the couches. He had been looking at one item at a time, examining it, and then placing it in a bag. Beside him he had a purple hard covered book, a wrinkled piece of paper, and a compass. He picked up the purple book in his hands and flipped it onto the back of it to analyze it, followed by placing it in a brown animal skinned bag with two arm straps. Tomohoma slowly walked into the room through the hallway. He was checking off things with his hand, placing one finger out at a time. "Ok lets see tents, blankets, food, and money." He listed well flicking one finger out at a time. "What else." He placed his hands down at his side and looked around the room. "We don't need anything else, except for our weapons. And I know everybody will bring those. Maybe you should relax." "Yeah I know." He walked over the couch and plopped himself down and rest his arms on the back of it. "But all you've been trying to figure out for the past ten years is that damn legend, it's finally happening and from what I've heard we need to be ready." He looked at Marron and he went quiet. "We will be fine. We don't need much, if we need anything else I'm sure towns will be nearby and we have money." Tomohoma sighed "I hope your right." Katie opened the door. Slowly walking in; her sword attached to her side and a red shirt and jeans. "Katie, your back." "Yeap," She walked over to the couch and plopped herself down next to Tomohoma and took one long sigh. Tomohoma just starred at her, she had been in a concentrated state well looking down at the floor and staying completely silent. "You ok?" She looked back up at him and she moved her hands down to her knees. "Oh, yeah I'm great. I went to go visit Leon's grave and I wanted to see the sunrise before we left. Besides I was ready when I got up this morning." He looked at her for a second. "You sure you're ready?" "Yeah, All I need is my sword, my cloths, and some food. Not to mention you guys. Why do you ask?" He put his elbows on his knees and rest his hands on them. "What are you bringing for supplies? Hmm?." She looked at him and put her hand to her chin. "Well isn't Marron carrying all his magic stuff and your carrying the planet mars? With how worried you are you might even be caring the world's supply of food." She pointed at a huge backpack in the corner. Marron laughed but kept it to himself well he packed an item after the next. Tomohoma looked at it and then looked down at his feet, he moved them around in frustration as his cheeks flared up with red. "So I'm more prepared then you are. At least I'm actually thinking about what might happen." She kept laughing to herself. "Oh and what do you have in there exactly?" He began to yell at her furiously "It just so happens I'm caring everything will need!" He was leaning over her just a few inches from her face. She blinked and began to push his head back. "Whoa, back up there. I never said there was anything wrong with it." He leaned over again. "Then what the hell were you saying?!" She had begun to get scared to answer because the expression across Tomohoma's face. "I'm only saying that you worry too much. I mean I don't see why you have to be so cautious. It's not like were going to be able to drop off are stuff and come back and find it later. This is England were talking about, you know somebody's going to take it. Besides Trowa and I didn't carry everything on Cleo's back for six months, we pretty much picked up stuff where ever we could." His eye began to twitch. "Why don't you calm down and relax I mean I would if I were you, your about to have a heart attack." He took one last look at her and sat down and crossed his arms and legs. "So I'm more cautious. I don't care I'll survive." Katie giggle under her breath but made sure Tomohoma couldn't hear it. 'Funny Trowa and I survived for how long on just water, food, and gold?' The thought broke in her head when the back door opened. They all lifted their heads in the direction of the noise. Trowa slowly walked through the doorway and looked at all of them. He had a dirt smudge on his face but nothing more as he took his right elbow and wiped it across his head. "You guys ready to go? Cleo's ready." Katie shook her head at him. "Wait you guys are just going to say come on lets go we have to go now?" Tomohoma yelled standing up. Katie stood up and looked back at him as she walked to the door. "You've never been on a road trip have you." "No I haven't! Is that such a big deal?!" "Well then follow us and throw everything off except for your bow and arrows and some food and tents oh, and maybe some dishes." Marron walked over to the door and out the house following Katie. "Hey wait for me!" He yelled, he began to run to the pile on the floor. He threw everything else out of the bag except for what she told him to bring and put the backpack on.
Katie stood out in front of Cleo, her arms at her side along with her sword. She took one last look at the beautiful scene around her and smiled softly, then the wind began to blow at her side and her hair flew in the wind. She took her right arm and put some of her hair behind her ear. Trowa walked up behind her. "I'm more ready for this then I'm ever going to be." He looked at her for a few seconds, she turned back at him and smiled. Trowa smiled at her as well. He was happy that she was happy even though on the inside he wouldn't admit it. Marron walked through the wooden door slowly and looked at them standing close to each other. 'Those two have something going on between them. I don't think either of them are realizing it.' He thought, Trowa looked at him and smiled. "So how long is the trail to the mountain? Either way I think she's excited." Marron's eyes stood up and he starred at them. "Well," Tomohoma walked outside and went by them. His backpack was filled but not as full as it had been. Marron took off his backpack, first from the right shoulder and then the left and he lowered it down to the ground and opened it up. He then dug his head slowly around and pulled out a few wrinkled pieces of paper. He kneeled down to the ground and put his hands on each end of the paper and pulled it out until it was flat. "We are currently here." He pointed at the map and looked at all of them. "According to what we must travel through several areas, through several places before reaching The Crystal Islands. The only way to get to the dock that is closest to the island is by first traveling through the Lipio Mountains, from there we are good for a while, we then hit the Verella Forest. After that there's an even longer journey I'll tell you another day. But if I'm correct this all leads us to the dock, because right in the middle of the ocean is the island. Everyone who's ever gone has never returned but it's a risk we must take if we want to find the sword." "How come they've never returned?" Marron looked at Katie well her arms were crossed together. "I don't know." Shacking his head at her. "Well, will just be cautious and prepared when that happens." Trowa said. They listened to every word carefully, staring at the paper. Katie looked up at Marron looked him directly in the eyes. "Marron!" He looked up at her "How far is the Lipio Mountains." Marron pointed behind him. "About twenty-eight miles that way." She looked at him then smiled and got up slowly. "Great, I'm taking the reins." She went onto Cleo's back, Trowa walked over to her and she helped him on. "We can all fit on her." "But wouldn't it be strenuous. I mean I know a place around here where there are tons of wild horses but it wont be for a while." Marron said. She grabbed the reins and turned Cleo's body from and made her slowly walk around. "No, that's ok she can handle it, I know it." She lowered down a hand to help on Marron he blinked at it and looked back at the house for one last time. 'All those years ago. And I plan to never return. Funny how much things can feel empty even before there gone.' He then turned back around and grabbed Katie's hand and got on Cleo's back Trowa grabbed Tomohoma with his left hand and helped him on. She grabbed Cleo's reins and turned Cleo's head in the direction that Marron pointed. "Say good bye everybody, because once we leave we are never returning." She starred at all of them, but turned her head back in the direction of Cleo's head. "YEAY!" She yelled. Cleo began to gallop as fast as she could. 'Today we leave.' Leon began to appear in front of his house. He had been a figure that could just be seen through, but a full figure was surely there. "And I will stay here." He said as his hands were at his side "My soul remains but I'm sorry I can't join you Marron." The wind began to blow side ways again and his hair began to flow. He put his right hand close to his chest. "Take care. My friend." He then turned around slowly and disappeared.
Swirls of pink, purple, blue, and green swayed around the clouds. Clouds far above the ground, ones that the Earth it's self will never see. Out in the middle of the clouds a girl kneeled down. She had extremely long black hair all brought up in a ponytail with a red hair tie, with bangs the flowed down at the side of his face, red rosey lips, fair colored but smooth skin, she had a fairly decent chest with a well shaped body. She was kneeled down with her foot on the ground and her left knee on it as well, her right hand holding the handle of a sword that was stabbed into the ground. It had been a samurai sword with a long blade that curved at the tip, and the handle was long and black with a material on it, and the cross-guard was a black shiny metal that laid wide at the blades shoulders. She wore a cloak that was tied at the waste with a red bow and it had a red strip running around her neck line, down the insides of the cloak, trimming the bottom and then connecting there. "You wanted to see me my lord," she said with a calm voice. Silence came upon her until a smooth calm voice interrupted the silence. "I fear the four cannot do a quest so great by themselves. I ask you to please help them." Her head looked up with shocked eyes. "But sir. Forgive me for asking, but why me?" "The strength of a warrior and the softness of an angel will help them succeed. They cannot do this mission alone. You know that, we all know that, they will be destroyed easily by Genity if they are not helped. I want you to go with them. I don't think they've realized the strength this man has." She lowered her head again and shut her eyes. "Yes sir." "These four are the fate of the universe, if they fail, the universe fails. I trust them to try their best, but I'm afraid it's not enough. Valerie I need you to go and help them." She kept her head down and listened closely to her instructions as closely as possible while being silent.
Katie looked up at the canopy of a forest. She began to squint her eyes as the light hurt her eyes. She put her hand on her forehead to create shade over her eyes. She began to stare at the green silk like leaves that filled the top. "The sun is getting pretty high," she turned back to look at Trowa, Tomohoma, and Marron who were sitting on Cleo beside her. "Yeah and I'm getting hungry." Tomohoma said "You want to stop for lunch?" They all looked at each other for a bit and Trowa looked down at his stomach. "Yeah why not. We've been going for hours. We should have a break." Katie jumped right off of Cleo and landed on her feet. Soon all of three of them followed, but immediately she began to build a pile of wood. She looked back up at them as soon as she got a stick in her hands. "Well are you guys going to help?" she smiled "I can't do this alone you know." "Yeah" Trowa picked some wood and began to put it into a pile as well. Then followed by Tomohoma, and Marron got out the ingredients for the food. It took them about fifteen minutes, but Katie and Trowa were able to collect enough wood from just the ground, Marron lit the fire with a spell, and Tomohoma was able to catch some fish by a near by lake. They sat close together as they cooked the fish, the smell increasing by the second as it filled their noses with a smell like no other. "That smells great!" Katie stated as she drooled over the fire. Marron sat on one side of the fire well Trowa and Tomohoma both had there legs crunched up by there chest, Katie kneeling right next to them with her elbows rested each on there shoulders. Trowa looked at her and smiled. "It's done." Marron said well poking at it and so he lifted it off the fire, he placed it down on a plate and sliced it into four parts and put each piece on a plate. "Alright," She grabbed the plate and grabbed a fork with her other hand and began to push it down into the fish. Just before eating it she stopped and looked over at the bushes. Her instincts were bothering her she felt as if someone had been watching her. "Something." she whispered. "Something's there." The other three weren't listening, they were busy talking and enjoying their meals to even notice. As for Katie she kept watching, but then a bird flew right out of the bushes and away. Katie turned back her head to her food and ate again. 'I guess it was just that bird.' Everything was peaceful for all of them until finally she looked back at the bush with a half piece of fish in her mouth and became shocked. "Everybody look out!" She yelled and jumped as a thick purple beam went straight for them. The beam hit right into the fire and created a huge explosion that went out as a sphere and sent everything on the outer part of it flying. The sphere became huge and wouldn't stop growing everything that had been in it way was being pushed out by the ball. Marron, Tomohoma, and Trowa were thrown several feet and soon were caught as it kept pushing them further and further. Katie landed on her feet with her back away from the scene. Cleo ran up right beside her with fear, but Katie was too busy to notice the scene around her. She looked straight back, the purple ball growing, still coming for her with no bounds or ends. Creating a force like no other not allowing anything to get in. She looked back at Cleo and she jumped on her back "Go Cleo go!" 'What the hell is this thing. IT NEVER ENDS!' Marron looked at the ball with wounds all over his face. He was getting pounded into several things at once. 'I must.' He became completely focused as his body was squashed, but he slowly put his hands up to it and rested his palms right on it. His hands began to glow blue as he muttered something to himself softly and finally screamed. "Oppose all magic that is in my way!" The screams filled the air and the ball finally stop growing. All three of them stopped and fell to the ground on their backs with massive wounds. Cleo came to a sudden halt, Katie had been on the opposite side of them so she wasn't sure where they were exactly. She starred at it making sure it wouldn't grow again. "It stopped. But is it stopped for good?" She whispered, about a minute had passed and she slowly went over to it, leaned, and poked at it a few times. "This material is weird, it's as hard as steel, but somewhat see through." It budged moving in, and Cleo stepped a few feet back. Katie grabbed her reins tightly and tried for her to calm down "Cleo I know you're scared. I am to but this is no time to show it." The ball became smaller and smaller more rapidly by the second. Trowa, Tomohoma, and Marron stood up ready to go limp at any moment. Marron had his right arm clear across his body holding his left arm hunched over on his left side with scratches and bruises all over him. He looked relieved at the ball getting smaller and smaller and smaller. "Destroy the evil that has been made!" He shouted. The ball went down to the size of a marble, went in flames, and disappeared. Katie looked at all three of them. Marron and Katie looked at where the ball had been and began to walk over to it. A huge circular crater was made in the Earth from where the ball had touched and left it's mark. "Come on Cleo!" she forcefully stated. Cleo rode off quickly galloping. She slid down the side of a crater without expecting it. She screamed and grabbed onto the reins and held her back. She then moved around her head and looked at the scene. She was in the middle of a crater that at least was a five hundred feet in radius. "Whoa. That ball created this." She became quiet until a thought struck her. "Oh my god!" She rode up the other side of the crater "Trowa! Marron! Tomohoma! Can you hear me!" She yelled. "Were over here." She turned her head in the direction of the noise. All three of them were standing up. Battle wounds and gashes covered their backside and scratches covered their front sides. She jumped off of Cleo and ran towards them examining them closely for wounds "Trowa, Marron, Tomohoma." she whispered "Who. Who could of done this," she turned her head. When finally she moved her eyes in a direction. "AH!" An arrow went straight for her body. She rolled out of the way and pivoted her right foot well hitting the ground and smashed her left foot into it. She took out her sword and her guard went up. There, right next to her landed an arrow that was completely made of ice. The arrow began to crack down the middle and broke like glass. The frozen water surrounding the area. "Damn it, so close!" All four of them watched as a figured jumped out of the bushes. Katie stepped back as the figure came into focus. She stood in front of all of them. She had been the woman that had been talking to Genity. She stood straight up and put her hand on her hip as her cape swayed in the sunlight. "Who the hell might you be?" Katie yelled "And why did you send that damn ball!" Trowa yelled well weak. "Oh. I'm just one of Genity's helpers. My name is Shina I will be the one who kills you. Now bow down and except your fate because you must die" She said sassy like. "Sorry lady, but I don't want to break it to you. One slip and your history so I really wouldn't get in our way. Because right now I'm more pissed then I've been in a long time." Tomohoma yelled. "Oh believe me sexy, you wont even have a future when I'm done." "Sexy? You think he's sexy?!" Katie yelled "HEY!" "Hehe," she put her hand behind her head and began to nervously laugh "Just kidding." "Either way I'd prepare all the defenses you have because you are about to be murdered. Just don't forget to tell them it was me when your in heaven." She put her hand her hip "I really do hate it when I don't get the recognition I deserve." Marron looked at her with a shocking calm look "Ice pillars!" She screamed They all starred down as the ground as it began to shack under them softly. Each of them knew it wasn't something good and tried to move but had little time to react as huge ice spikes came up under their feet. All of them looked down at the tormenting site and tried to jump. Katie, Marron, and Tomohoma made it out, but Trowa had been caught between several of them like a prison. The three of them rolled around the ground and then were able to grab their stance and get up. The two young men turned their heads in the direction of a scream of pain. They suddenly were shocked as they noticed it had been Katie doing the screaming. "My. My. My arm!" She starred at it in shock. One of the pillars had gone right through her arm and blood rushed down and dripped off her fingertips like small streams. "It.. It was one of those pillars. It slashed right through my arm without hesitation!" Marron lowered down to the injured solider and looked at it. Katie looked up at her pain and saw Trowa caught. "Oh my god! Trowa!" Shina stood in front of all of them and laughed. "Looks like you under estimated the power I have. As by now you've figured out that my main source of power is ice, but my second that just happens to be poisons and acids." "What?!" Katie looked at her arm as it began to glow a bright purple color and finally began to burn with agony. She began to yell with absolutely no control. "Ahhhhh stop it that's like fire! Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Shina began to laugh again. "And I control how much it burns and for how long! Don't you just love the things you can do with magic!" "Ahhhh then why don't you just make me pass out you bitch?!" Trowa watched in the prison near by holding a pillar with each of his hands like prison bars 'If I could only do something!' he thought well grinding his teeth and getting upset. "Hmm, let me think about that. Oh wait no it's more fun just to watch you suffer!" Her eyes began to flash red again and Katie screamed and she froze completely. "Stop it! Your killing her!" Tomohoma yelled. "Exactly the point." The pain began to grow stronger and heaver in Katie's arm. Tomohoma squeezed his fist at her screams. "Stop it!" He grabbed his bow from the ground that had landed when the ball stopped growing. He picked it up, picked up the closest arrow and rested it on the bow and before he could even aim it he fired. Shina became shocked as she jumped back and it landed where she was standing. Immediately Shina broke her concentration and Katie's pain disappeared. She fell to her side and pant heavy with her eyes shut. Shina looked at the arrow for a few seconds. "You brat! I was thinking about sparing your pathetic life but now it's going straight to hell." Katie opened her eyes again and stood up slowly, very slowly and looked at her in the eyes well trying to keep herself awake well the blood poured like a stream. "You have to beat all of us you witch." Her voice sounded weak but determined "And I swear I won't let that happen!" "You barely even have an arm you idiot! I mine as well finish you off!" Then a thought finally struck her mind. "Or I could just toy with you for a little longer." She pointed in Trowa's direction and Trowa's eyes went up in complete shock. "Huh?" All four of them began to panic. "Leave him out of this!" Katie screamed and Shina raised her arm. Trowa tried to jump from the frozen slippery water, but found he couldn't. "Trowa you have to jump!" "I. I can't it's too slipp-" His voice was broken off as an icicle shot right up under him and shot through the right part of his chest and shot him straight up in the air. His arms and legs shot straight out as the icicle kept growing. Blood poured out of his mouth and splattered below him and blood rushed from the horrifying wound that was now placed upon him. His arms and legs went completely limp, and his eyes slowly shut as he hung from there. Blood continued from his mouth and chest like a stream of blood that looked as if it would never end. Katie's eyes went up in complete shock as she gasped. "T. T. Trowa!" She screamed "Trowa! Trowa! No! Trowa!" A tear crystallized in her eye and finally fell down her face and off her cheek in the gentle breeze as Katie ran for the pillars. Marron looked at Shina with full of anger and hatred. "YOU BITCH!" Shina just smiled and moved her eyes to Tomohoma who was grasping his bow tightly, standing there with his eye's shut, ready to cry but holding all his tears back. It was obvious to anyone that they were all ready to go for her neck. She smiled at the thought with complete happiness, moving her eyes around to each person. "If your going to fire then I wou-" Her voice cut off when out of no where out as one of them ran up and POW! A fist landed directly in the middle of her face. Shina flinched at the pain and put her hands over her mouth with her eyes clamped shut. "That was for Trowa!" She squeezed her eyes at the pain and then slowly opened them. There standing in front of her was Katie with a limp arm, her fist up, and an aggressive look across her face. "Argg.. You stupid slut!" "I still have one good arm Shina." She began to charge at her with full force. "And believe me when you hurt Trowa I'm not afraid to use it!" She punched her right across the head before she could flinch. Shina landed on her side and put her right hand up immediately. There in her hand an ice arrow appeared and before Katie could even tell what it was it fired right for her. The arrow ripped through the air, nothing stopping it's path, until another arrow going another angle smacked right into it. The young swordsmen starred at it in shock. The ice arrow broke in hundreds of pieces all over the ground, and the arrow that had hit it landed in front of Katie's feet. "Who do you possibly think you are?." They both looked at the arrow that had crashed in the ground and turned their heads. "Tomohoma!" Katie yelled, he was standing a few feet away from them. He had his hand holding the string of his bow back as he aimed directly at the iced witch. "Move and I fire!" "Fire and watch what I do." Tomohoma became hesitant at the comment. He wasn't exactly sure if she was bluffing or not. Katie looked back and forth at the two as Tomohoma stayed still. She blinked a few times and looked right at Tomohoma. "Tomohoma! What are you doing fire!" He didn't want to listen but he knew he had to. He released the arrow aiming for Shina. The arrow ripped through the air like fire. Faster and faster it got to her, each millisecond making it closer and closer, until it finally it came just a foot away from her and it stopped. Shina was now leaning on her left arm with her right arm stretched out in front of her and a purple shield protecting her. Katie gasped well starring at her. "No way! That can't be possible!" Tomohoma starred in shock. The arrow stayed there in mid air hitting the defense shield at full force. She then got up to her feet and starred at the arrow in front of her. Right away she grabbed it with her right arm and began to giggle to herself as she flung her arm way back and then flung it forward releasing the arrow and top speed. "Tomohoma move!" Katie yelled. Tomohoma was just frozen in shock. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. His body locked into place, he was completely paralyzed. It came screaming at it him until out of no where a blue energy blast flung and knocked the arrow into a far distance. "Marron!" Tomohoma said. Marron smirked with his hands in a praying motion with his two index fingers point straight and his legs seperated. Shina starred at all of them with hatred. "God, can you idiots be anymore annoying!" Katie just looked at her and screamed as loud as she could. "And you think your not you stupid slut!" Katie was furious and it was obvious to all of them. All four of them starred at her with hatred for a second or two ready to kill her. The hated state was soon ended as their ears lifted to a sound. They all turned their heads to Trowa that was hanging on the pillars. He was coughing terribly, barely even alive, holding on to every ounce of his strength. "Trowa. he's alive!" she whispered "Trowa hold on!" Tomohoma yelled. "How can that damn boy still be alive?!" Shina yelled, Katie looked at him and began to run up to the ice pillars but found her arm taken hold of. "AH Marron stop it that's not funny!" She said with her wounded arm being held with intense pain. "What are you doing?" Marron whispered. "What's it look like? I'm not going to leave him there well he's in pain." She said full of anger. "You can't do that, your to injured, you shouldn't even be fighting." She kept grinding her teeth in pain. "And I don't care now let me go!" Shina looked at the injured boy and smirked. "Well I guess I'm going to have to kill him a different way." Everybody starred at Shina with shock. "He's too unconscious to even feel the poison." She bent her knees and put her hands parallel to each other. Another purple filled her hands. "So I guess I have to kill him another way." Katie looked at her and then back at Shina. "Leave him alone!" she let go of Marron's grasp and ran for Shina at full charge. "I'll kill yo-" Her voice was knocked off when her whole body ran into a shield that had suddenly appeared and sent her flying back. "AHHH" She landed on her back just a few feet away from Tomohoma and looked up with even more pain. Shina laughed as the energy ball in her hands became brighter and brighter and brighter. 'Damn it I can't even get close to her.' Katie thought. "Say goodbye to your friend!" She released the energy ball from her hands. Katie starred up in shock as she leaned on her arms. "Trowa!" The ball went roaring through the air with nothing stopping it at all. All three of them watched in horror with the word 'Please no' repeating through Katie's head. She jumped on to her feet and jumped into the air. "Trowa!" she screamed as she jumped over the pillar. The ball of energy collided with her injured arm as she was able to grab Trowa with her other arm. The pain ripped through her head at miles a minute. Her thoughts screaming in terror, the pain went racing through her flesh. She completed her jump and landed on the other side of the pillars. Tomohoma and Marron ran over. Katie was lying on her stomach with Trowa right next to her lying on his side. She was breathing crazy and had sweat running down her face. Tomohoma ran over to her and went down to his knees and right next to her. He looked at her and the pool of blood began to surround his knees. Marron ran up right next to her and kneeled down in the sea of blood. He grabbed part of his cloak and ripped a portion of it off and tied it around her arm. "Marron you didn't have to do that." They both looked at her. She was barely awake, she didn't even have her eyes open and she was mumbling slowly. They both looked at her in shock. "Well except it as a gift for now." Tomohoma said as he tended to her and Marron tended to Trowa. "Is he ok?" Katie mumbled they both stopped and looked at the half dead Trowa. "Well is he ok?" Marron looked at her closely at her sweat dropped face. "He'll be ok." She smiled weakly and finally rested her head and slipped into an unconscious. They both looked at her, Tomohoma became furious and turned to see Shina. "Hey don't even look at me, she's the one who got in the way." Shina stated. Marron looked over his shoulder with his eyes squinting. "You bi-" "You bitch!" Tomohoma's voice was cut off by Marron as he turned around. His arms swung together in an X and then swooshed a part. Right out of his arms a phoenix appeared and flew straight at Shina. She soon looked at it in shock and jumped out of the way to dodge it. Tomohoma then grabbed an arrow and shot at her as quick as he could. The arrow when ripping through the air as Shina's back was turned and hit her right shoulder. "AHHH" she landed on her stomach again and looked at the arrow and cringed at the pain. "We got her!" Marron shouted. They ran over to her as she cringed at the pain terribly and grabbed the arrow out of her shoulder. Tomohoma grabbed another arrow and placed it on the bow and aimed it right at her. "Don't try anything tricky or I fire." They looked at the wound on her back and watched her carefully. 'she's not going anywhere with that wound' Tomohoma thought. She looked back slowly at them and then looked down and smirked with quivered lips. "What possibly makes you think you got me." Tomohoma held back the string of his bow even more and grew an even hateful look. "I'm now two seconds away from doing this you whore so shut up!" She went from a smirk to a laugh. They had both been completely confused until she turned around quickly and hail shot out of her hand blinding them both. Tomohoma fired his arrow without control, but he found himself dropping his bow and covering his eyes from the hail. Marron looked up trying to get a better view of what had happened and blinked. He looked at the scene in front of him carefully and soon lowered his arms. "Where is she." Tomohoma looked up in shock gasping. "Where'd she go." They looked around the area for a few seconds. Looking over their shoulders, looking in front of them, looking near, and far, no where, she was no where. "Men are so stupid." They looked over in the direction of the noise as Shina was holding Trowa with her arm across his chest, kneeling down, and starring at them with a hated look. "Let him g-" "Silence!" Shina's voice shouted out. She lifted out the arm that was holding Trowa as her injured one was completely limp at her side. Right out of her hand a sharp piece of sharpened glass like ice formed. She grabbed it soon after before if fell and held the sharp end right on Trowa's adams apple. "One move and your friend is gone." They both froze in fear. She then began to laugh, "It's funny when sacrificing another life stops your enemy." She put her face close to Trowa's face. "Oh trust me I wont kill him, if you do what I say. He's too cute to possibly hurt. But then again there are other fish in the sea so it wont be that much of a loose." She smirked to herself. "What are we going to do?" Marron whispered and Tomohoma heard. Shina began to laugh. "Marron, I don't know." "It's funny how the tables can turn so suddenly." Shina laughed. They felt completely helpless, one slit on the throat and Trowa was gone. Not to mention Katie was completely knocked out and she could turn around and do the exact same thing. Marron and Tomohoma looked helplessly. "Now, I want you to bring me the map and the pieces of the legend to The Moon Light Sword." Now Marron didn't know what to do. "You can't be serious!" "Hey, it's your friends life or the fate of the world. Hard decision isn't it." He thought for a second. He tried to think of the consequences of both sides trying his best to think of what to do. "I. I. Argg.." He looked at her direction. "I don't have all day you know. Come on I have to get my nails done tonight." She held the dagger like object right at his throught. "Have it your way say good bye to your frie-" Her voice cut off as a small white ball slapped her in the head. She fell backwards causing her to let go of Trowa, both of them starred in shock. The ball landed near her feet and she starred at it in curiosity, but suddenly the thing exploded in a thousand flames of fire. Marron and Tomohoma were hurled back as a burst of wind pushed them into the ground. "What is that thing!" Tomohoma yelled over the huge noise. "I don't know!" They both starred in complete fear knowing that Katie and Trowa were in there. But the blast cleared away and soon the whole area was destroyed and a purple ball of light was right next to the start of the explosion. Right inside of it was Shina, she was extremely weak, and ready to pass out. Blood had dripped from different portions of her body and she was wounded badly. But as for Katie and Trowa, there was nothing. Both of them became shocked as they ran over to where the explosion happened. "Please don't tell me there bodies were blown to pieces!" Tomohoma yelled panicing. They ran over to a pile of wood made from the explosion from trees that had fallen from the explosion. They lifted each one off at a time, and throwing it beside them. Each splinter they got, they ignore; each cut they got from the branches they ignored. Shina starred at them and wondered why they were wasting their time. She had experienced the weak part of the blast and now could barely stand up. "You shouldn't worry there with me." All three of them looked over in the direction of a smooth voice. An immense light stood out and it's shadows gave the shape of a figure, but it was obvious of one thing, she had Katie and Trowa. One over her shoulders, the other being held limp in her arms. She began to lay them down gently on their backs next to each other. There battered bodies ready to give out at any moment. "Who are you?!" Shina said grinding her teeth. "Why should you know, your not going to live through this day anyway." She stepped out of the light. She had pale skin, black hair that went up into a pony tail with long black colored bangs, and black eyes with a long cloak that ran down to her feet. She stood there with her sword at her side and her arms at her side just starring at her. "Who are you?" Marron asked. She smirked and lowered her head a bit and closed her eyes. She then tilt her head to the side and looked Marron square in the eye. "Just a light of hope." She began to jump, as she grabbed the handle of her sword with her right hand she jumped far into the air and as she came down she put the samurai sword above her head with both her hands grabbing the other half of the handle with her right and brought it down at full force. Shina waved her hand in the air and the same dagger ice scile that was going to kill Trowa appeared. She put it in front of her quickly and the sword the mysterious fighter was holding smacked against it. A burst of light sprung out of the point where the friction was placed. The bright day around them soon looked dark as the light burst off everybody's face. Shina and the soilder looked at each other in fury. 'When the hell did they get reinforcements?!' Shina thought. They soon jumped back and looked at each other in complete hate. The mysterious girl looked back at the boys as she landed on the ground. "I almost forgot!" she yelled. She then tossed something. "A gift from heaven!" Flying through the air a bright ball of white energy shined like a star. "What is that!" Tomohoma yelled. It hurled through the air until it hit Katie and Trowa and soon disappeared, but their bodies began to glow like a million fires. There body's emulating a light that almost nobody could look at. "What is that thing." Shina said with her arm over her face. The mysterious woman had no problem, she had been looking right at it with a smile the whole time, her arms not at all showing that it was too bright. The mysterious woman just looked at it and smirked and kept her eyes on it like a hawk, but finally looked back at Shina and kept her back completely to the site. "It's gods blessing. There being healed from the wounds you created you beast. And now you'll have the same scars!" She took the sword that was in her right hand, arched the sword back and threw it forward at Shina. Shina flinched and jumped and tried to move as fast as she could and then found metal scratching her left side of her stomach. She fell on the ground like a ton of weights. The mysterious solider walked over to her slowly grabbed her sword and held it above her with her arm. "And now you shall pay for your crimes!" she yelled as she threw her arm down. Shina looked up at the flinging sword and suddenly disappeared into thin air. The mysterious solider pulled back her sword before it hit the ground. She stayed calm and moved her head around. "That's just like you." She smirked and lowered her head down. "You are a coward to run away and go back to your so called master." She then remembered what had happened and turned around to look at Marron and Tomohoma who were looking at the area. Marron walked over to Katie and Trowa who were still unconscious. He stopped and lowered down to tend to them, but his eyes soon rested on the woman. "Who. Who are you?" She turned around and looked at Marron right into the eyes. "I've been asked to join your mission." She said very calmly. "Who sent you anyway?!" Tomohoma walked out from behind the ice pillar with an arrow in his left hand and a his bow in his right hand well his arms rested at his side. "Trust me I will attack if you do not say anything." "Will that be wise?" "I don't know.. Depends who you are. For all I know your working for Genity and you were trying to get us to trust you." "Calm down! This woman saved our lives, why are you being so mean?" Marron said. Tomohoma became upset and his eye brows lowered slowly. "Paranoid. Very paranoid. Considering Trowa and Katie almost lost their lives!" "Personally I don't blame you Tomohoma." She said as the both of them starred at her. ".How did you know my name?" She smiled and closed her eyes. A wave of gold began from the ground and whirled around her. Gold glitter like waves that shined like the stars. It waved up to the branches in a spiral and soon became a ball of gold light. The ball fell soon after and disappeared into nothing. The woman stood there in front of them with giant white wings and a gold tiara that was detailed with green painted of leaves attached to her forehead. She opened her eyes up and looked at Marron in the eyes. "My name is Valerie, I am the leader of the angels. God himself sent me to help you." Marron starred at her for several seconds but he was then distracted by a noise several feet away. "My head feels like I've had one to many drinks." Katie said as she lifted her head up slowly. She starred at the ground, well rubbing her head with her arm. She waited as her eye site came back into focus, and she gasped as her eyes slowly moved up to see Valerie in front of her. She took her right arm and shook Trowa a few times. "Hey, Trowa!" she whispered "Wake up!.. Come on man!" He moaned a few times and opened his eyes slowly. "What," he lifted his head up slowly and looked at Marron but then looked at Valerie. ". I'm dead right?" "No, but I see you two are awake." Marron said. Katie looked at Marron and then back at Valerie. "Who are you?!" She pointed at her "Are those wings! They look real!" "My name is Valerie, I'm the leader of the angels. It's an honor to meet you." Katie and Trowa went silent. "Angel?" Trowa said. "Honor?"