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Chapter 2 - Voices, What are they good for?

Katt and Ryu had been traveling for several days now. They had long since left Township and Gate. At first it was a new experience for both of them. Having only the two of them made things more interesting. One was the fact that fighting was a bit more strenuous for both fighters. Neither had fallen but the damaged mounted up more steadily then when the others were with them.

Another difference was in camping. Before no one really cared where they bedded down. However with only the two of them the tent seemed much larger and the space was more then what either of them had been used to. However neither of them was too surprised or even that disheartened about it. So things remained the same except the Katt and Ryu slept nearer the fire for a change. Guard duty was no longer as fun for either of them however. It meant spending half the night awake. And the second shift was the killer one.

They had only left the Snow Cave a short time before. It had been a short passage through the cave as neither wanted to stick around to long. Upon exiting the two set up camp for the night. Ryu was out gathering wood as Katt setup the camp area

"You like him don't you?" A voice within her mind said.

"Yeah I guess. who was that?" Katt looks around startled trying to locate the source of the voice that invaded her private thoughts.

"You really have to guess." A slight deeper voice said within her mind.

"Huh?" Katt still is trying to figure that out when suddenly within her mind the images of the Demon and Holy Shamans appear.

"Well it does stand to reason you like him; after all the two of you have been through." Shin, the Demonic Shaman says. "I'm glad to see it."

"You go for it Girl. Get a nice piece of that hunk." Sana, the Fire Shaman, says with much enthusiasm.

"But how . I mean you two had never spoken before. Why all of the sudden start now?" Katt was getting a little antsy from this. Both the voices and her thinking on the subject itself was causing a major headache to form and that's the last thing she really wanted right now.

"Easy is this is the longest any of us has been fused with any being so that when it happened things began to slowly change." Shin says. "The only other exception is Seso combined with that Tree Sprite Spar."

"Meaning we're here now and we're going to have a part in getting you and that cutey Ryu into the same sleeping bag." Sana replies in her low pitched voice. Katt inwardly groaned. Things weren't going how she wanted it to, how she had hoped they would go.

"Please don't interfere. I want Ryu to like me for who and what I am. I hope he does like me already. But . but I don't want him to think he's everything to me. Cause I mean He does mean a lot to me but well it's just ." Katt was at a complete loss for words and was blushing furiously when Ryu returned with the wood for the fire.

"Who were you talking to Katt?" Ryu asks innocently as he begins to build a fire for the night. The two stilled used old methods of flint and steel to build fires despite their spells. No need to waste precious AP for such a simple task.

Katt blushes worse and slips inside the tent before he gets to asking too much. "Just myself, nobody else is here to talk to anyways."

"I resent that." Both Shamans say at once within Katts head. She winces and deals with the nattering the two are doing so long as Ryu doesn't find out that the two Shamans are more awake then usual.

"Well you have a point about that." Ryu says setting the spit up to cook a wild boar he had caught earlier in the day. "Come on and eat Katt. We have a long journey ahead and who knows when we'll eat next."

"I know Ryu its just sometimes I wonder what would happen if the Shamans become sentient within me." Katt says ducking out of the tent and plopping down to the war fire. Reaching a hand back she removes the hair tie and lets her hair fall down to the ground. Purring softly she picks her hair up and begins to brush at it absent mindedly.

Ryu looks at her thinking for a moment how innocent she is compared to the harsh things she is capable of. One of the most powerful fighters in the world who makes a living out of kicking butt and taking names is currently sitting on the ground brushing her hair. "I don't know Katt. But if such a thing does happen I'm sure we find a way to stop it."

"I hope so too Ryu." With that Katt reaches one hand out and pokes the roast with a claw. "Is this ready yet? I'm starving." Katt says the same moment her stomach growls.

Chuckling to himself Ryu sits down and begins to carve at the roast with a dagger he had picked up. "Sure lets get this thing eaten before the smell attracts animals or a few monsters." With that Ryu takes his knife and cuts a big chunk out of the Boar for himself.

Katt looks at him and nods before ripping the two legs closest to her off of the dead beasts and ripping into it with her fangs. As the two sat and ate, the darkness seemed to draw closer to the fire then before.

CHAPTER END

A/N TIME

The disk died and I lost the note