"Arg!" Ariana screamed out in frustration as she slammed her head against the keyboard.

Raven looked at her and laughed. "Didn't that hurt?"

"I am immune to pain." she replied very flatly, angered and extremely annoyed that she couldn't find the bug in her computer system. She had been working on it for nearly the entire afternoon and could not find nothing amiss.

Pulling out a dull knife he carried with him Raven held it against Ariana's milky white arm, applying just the slightest bit of pressure. Feeling the blade, Ariana's head flew up as she jerked back, holding her arm close to her. She watched as a small stream of crimson blood trickled through her fingers. She stared at Raven, dumbfounded he would do such a thing.

"Guess you aren't immune to pain after all." He stated smartly.

"Haha. You think you are just so funny." She looked to her new wound, but seeing it made it hurt even worse so she covered the cut with her hand again. "You weren't supposed to test the theory!

"I was teaching you a lesson."

"Where you now?" Ariana said sarcastically. "If so, then what I am supposed to learn from all this."

Raven smirked. "First off, don't you ever say anything that isn't true to me. You can never know when I will check to see if you are lying. And second, it pays to wear clothing that is a little less revealing and might actually serve as some."

"Are you saying I have bad tastes?"

"No, but I am saying you need to go shopping soon. And preferably get something that has sleeves and a back instead of just some criss-crossed straps. It could prove wise to your health." He popped on of the thin pink straps as he spoke.

Ariana glared at him for a moment, not knowing quite how to make her comeback. "Well, I'm usually wearing my sweater too."

"And I'm still trying to figure out how you can move properly with how oversized it is."

Ariana again glared at Raven. They had argued so much he had begun to figure out her ways and was winning more of their quarrels. "Arg you." She muttered as she began to wrap a clean cloth around her arm.

"Argue?" Raven replied.

"No dumby." Ariana sighed at having to explain something else. "Arg you. Like 'Arg' and then 'you.' My own little way of saying curse you I guess."

Raven made no reply. He simply watched the girl bandaging her wound for a little.



"You know," he said at last. "If you think that's bad cut, you'll be doomed as a warrior."

She nodded. "Yeah I know and I think I was making more of it then I should have. You just....surprised me is all."

Raven smirked and said nothing.

When Ariana was done wrapping her arm she turned to Raven and pulled up her pant leg. It showed off a rather large burn scar on the side of her leg. "See, now something like that is painfully."

Raven looked at the scar for a minute and then to her. "That does look painful. How did you manage to get it?"

"The DeathSaurer." She replied calmly, like it was a normal topic.

"I thought you told me earlier you had never been in those parts of Zi, that you where a Republican and until now had never been in Imperial soil." He looked at her, a very confused look on his face.

"I did. This was from the first time the DeathSaurer was around."

"That's impossible, the DeathSaurer first apeared over a hundred years ago. There is no way you could still be around."

"Huh?" Now it was Ariana's time to be confused. She had certainly been around then and there was no confusing the DeathSaurer with another zoid.

Ariana was to hear no reply. Raven was too deep in thought to be aware of anything else at that moment. The only was anyone could still be alive and have survived the DeathSaurer would be.....



A/N: Ooooohhhhhhhh Cliff Hanger! Can you guess what's going on? Can ya? Can ya? Well don't tell anyone if you can lol. Sorry I didn't write in a while. I guess everyone gets writers block once in a while....