Finding the Chosen Ones

Chapter 5: Full Moon tonight

A/N Sorry it took so long. I was so busy. Please don't hurt me!

The group walked in relative silence, one of the few moments of peace. Cye was not use to walking on the ground so White Blaze took on his burden and let Cye sit on him. For once Anubis and Mia weren't fighting, they were concentrating on walking.

Ever since the dragon incident Mia was on edge, she just couldn't believe she didn't sense the dragon before hand. Anubis was silently cursing as he walked on, somehow a pebble found its way in his shoes.

Ryo walked thinking about his sore feet, when he joined the group he never knew there was so much walking involved. Sage was still flipping from tree to tree, but something was nagging him in the back of him mind.

'I didn't see the dragon, I didn't hear the dragon' he silently contemplated, 'there was no way to know it was there'. He flipped to another tree.

'Then how did… I mean I'm an elf, I have better senses then Mia, how did she know? Maybe I'm just paranoid- maybe I-'

There was a loud crash as Sage fell through the trees when a branch snapped.

"You OK Sage?" Cye asked smiling as if it was the funniest thing in the world, obviously underwater things don't fall. It all must be new to him.

"Who cares," Anubis snorted but Mia elbowed him in his chest. Obviously he hasn't forgotten the whole thief thing.

"As good as an elf can heel after he falls from a tree," he said grunting and getting up. Elves were fast recoveries, him especially. It made him weird that way.

"It looks as if it hurts," Cye said innocently as he leaned on White Blazes soft fur, which he loved doing. They didn't have fur underwater either.

"It does," Ryo said warningly, "Don't think about doing it Cye." They found it a regular thing to teach Cye simple things. Shoes are supposed to be tied, You must wear clothes all times, don't eat the leaves, Don't touch that fire.

One amusing time was when everyone was asleep Cye had climbed a tree and was calling out for help. After they got him down Cye explained that he was trying to catch the light bugs in the sky. It took them awhile to realize he was talking about the stars.

It was difficult to keep calm with Cye. As a merman he was interested in the little things that no one else cared about and often got him in trouble.

"Oh good, a town," Mia said smiling as she spotted a house nearby, "My feet are sore."

"And not a day too soon," Anubis said as if he was relieved.

"Why's that?" Cye asked.

"It's a full moon," Sage said and when he noticed how confused Cye looked he explained, "The moon has mysterious powers on some of us land dwellers. It can turn people in to dangerous monsters."

"Really?" Cye asked curious.

"Like… werewolves or-" he began but Ryo went into a coughing fit, "You ok?"

"Yeah," he said looking a bit pale, "Just tired."

"Well that makes it doubly good we are at a town doesn't it?" Cye said bubbly obviously excited to be in his first town.

"Well we will make quite the strange crowd won't we," Anubis said eyeing Ryo, Sage, and Cye. Mia stiffened. Anubis knew she liked to keep a low profile and she knew that a poor beggar, an elf, and a merman would definitely attract more attention then she wanted. She had not expected the chosen ones to be this different. White Blaze was hard enough to keep under wraps as it is.

She spent more then an hour trying to conceal any strangeness they had. She ordered Anubis to trade their items they had picked up in the forest for some decent clothes. When he came back he got an earful from Mia for taking so long, and Anubis grumbled on how ungrateful how she was.

First Ryo. She wet a rag with some water and scrubbed him as hard as she could trying to make him cleaner. He couldn't help but turn red as she grew slightly aggressive. But to tell you the truth- he sort of liked the closeness. The thought made him turn redder then he already was. She scrubbed so violently until Anubis yelled at her that he was going to rub him raw. They fought a little while as Mia began to comb his long black hair which he refused to cut. Ryo was glad when she stopped- he never knew hygiene was so painful.

Next was Cye. However after watching Ryo writhe in pain he decided he didn't want to be clean and Mia had to chase him for an half an our waving a brush around. She finally managed to catch him and he let her clean him up. Cye was relatively clean- because lets face it. He spent his entire life in water. His hair- also somewhat long was very silky and had almost no tangles. Mia dressed him- and before you ask no she didn't se 'it'. In place of normal…ahem… gender identifying… things… was scales- and those scales are there until he reaches adulthood which wasn't for awhile. Mermaids live a life expectancy way above the normal land dwellers. So even though he was 16- he in mermaid years was about 9. Hence his maturity level.

Thankfully because of the lack of water he was breathing he was not blue and his gills looked like faint scars. Cye obviously liked the grooming and wanted her to keep brushing his hair and when she didn't he sniffled and looked as it he was going to cry. Mia sighed and made Anubis watch after him. Anubis didn't want to so they fought for awhile until Mia slapped him on the back of the head and then he finally agreed.

Sage didn't really need much of anything. Well there were his eyes- all elves had amazing and piercing eyes. His would give his away. Mia combed his blond hair- which was actually, quite spiky and stood on it's end, down over one eye. It helped a little. It also covered his ears which it was about it for him.

"You look good," she said proud of her work. Sages was obviously taken off guard and for the first time his cool exterior slipped and he looked absolutely baffled. Mia laughed and pinched his cheeks, forcing him back into cool mode.

"I think we are ready about now," Anubis said slight agitated, "You didn't have to take forever."

"We would be ready if you hadn't picked up such tacky clothes. What did you want me to do? Make them look like clowns," she snorted back at him. This ended up in another fight. Ryo and Sage shook their head.

"Do they always fight like this?" Cye asked and Ryo sighed.

"Pretty much," Sage said, Cye could see a flick of amusement in his face.

"Guys can we get going," Ryo said, "The sun is going to set soon."

"Fine," Mia said and they walked into town. Finding a room was always hard on full moon days because travelers always went into a town for a hotel but they managed to get in a pretty good one. The price was steep but it was the only rooms left.

"Excuse me," she said as she bumped into a pretty big guy with stony hair.

"No problem small lady," said the big man with a broad smile on his face.

'Small?' she thought annoyed but didn't say anything, just raised an eyebrow.

"What's the matter. Do you find my appearance so lovely that you are struck speechless?" he said grinning flexing slightly.

Mia would find all of this offense but instead thought it was quite funny. Although he was big he wasn't particularly handsome, yet some what cute. He was more of a teddy bear cute, though, and for some reason so instead of her usual tongue lashing she rolled her eyes and said, "Oh you know it."

Then she walked passed him with the other guys behind her.

"My name is Kento if you're wondering!" he yelled to her but she ignored him.

Their actual room was very nice. 'No wonder it cost so much,' she thought bouncing up and down on the soft bed. There was even a tub of water for people there. Cye immediately shed his clothes and splashed into it. Mia guessed he was going to sleep in there.

"The water is a bit stale," he complained, "And the tub isn't big."

"Of course it is. It must have been here for awhile. Do you know how hard it must be to lug a tub of water upstairs from a well. It's not like it is magically pumped upstairs," she said as Sage sat on his bed legs crossed.

"I'm… going out," Ryo said suddenly leaving.

"Why? The sun is almost gone!" Cye said, "What of those… bad things?"

Ryo shrugged, "I can get by. Nice things like this tend to scare me. Don't expect me back till late."

With that he had gone. Cye was splashing the water everywhere and splashed some Anubis. Angry he threatened to make him get out and Cye started to cry. Anubis immediately apologized and told him he was joking. That helped but Sage told Cye that he wasn't and made Cye cry again and now Anubis was pleading for him to stop.

"You ok Mia?" Sage asked noticing how strangely quiet Mia was being, "You aren't fighting with Anubis over anything."

"I'm worried," she said.

"About Ryo?"

"Yeah. Something doesn't seem right. I have a really really bad feeling," she said fiddling with her necklace nervously, "I'm going to look for him."

"I'll come with you just in case anything is out there," Sage said but Mia shook her head.

"I don't need a babysitter," she said slightly offended. She walked out of the hotel room into the night with her head held high. However when she was out it sort of… drooped.

Almost no one was out except from drunks and a few stupid women trying to find a store open to buy something. Almost everyone had sense to stay indoors, well except for herself of course.

It was chilly outside and Mia had brought her arms around her as the wind blew her hair around wildly. Nervousness began to feel Mia up her body.

"Something's not right- something is wrong," she whispered but for some reason she didn't run back to the hotel room.

She heard a strangled yelp from a dog and for some odd reason she ran to check it out. 'This is stupid Mia,' she told herself, 'Run away from the sound!' Her feet didn't obey her mind and she soon stopped dead in her tracts.

"Mr. Kento?" she asked confused at the sight of a bloody dog in his hands. He looked over and she saw he has red liquid running down his chin.

"You… You're a vampire!' she said scared backing up. He looked at her with guilt in his eyes and began to advance towards her.

"Stay back!' she ordered and searched around for something to guard herself with, "Don't you dare try and hurt me!"

"He won't," said a gruff but familiar voice. Slowly a wolf like man appeared from behind her. Mia gasped in realization that she was leaning against a werewolf.

She was between a rock and a hard place. She was trapped- now all she decided is how she wanted to die. She peered at the werewolf for a long time and then realization dawned on her.

That…

That werewolf was…

"Ryo?"

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Yeay! Another chapter- I had fun with this one. I killed two birds with one stone- I was wondering how I was going to fit all all of this in one chap but I did. I'm going to draw this fic a pic. But I want to atleast have Rowen in the fic before.