"It's been a month of peace and serenity, nothing could beat this." Tiger stated as he layed down in a grassy field, his jaws opened in a large yawn. "One of those lazy days, huh, Tiger?" Grey Wolf said. Tiger purred his response, his face relaxed in a smile, "nothing better to do, ah, lazy days are the best." Grey wolf layed down beside his brother and closed his eyes too, "the best, huh? I guess I'll hafta join you then." Tiger and Grey Wolf stretched out, the rest of the group lazily strewn about the grassy area. After the great battle between Moo and the Pheonix, peace was restored to the monster world and all lost disks were remade into monster disks, waiting for the chance to be unlocked again, Tiger, Hare, Suezo, Moochi and Golem also came back after the fight, their spirits and bodies returned much to the joy of the others, Granitine also split back into Pixie and Big Blue. Since then, Genki hadn't been seen, and his presence was missed, but even when peace and quiet was available at all times, you still had to take advantage of it.
There was a great flash in the sky, Moochi stirred and his eyes opened, another flash and he was up on his feet yelling "The sky is exploding, Chi!" The second flash had also gotten Pixie and Big Blue up, the others were still asleep. "what do you suppose it was?" asked Pixie, this question was soon followed by the appearance of a small figure and a faint yelling of something, the figure grew closer and the yelling louder, but still no recognition of what it was. Then Moochi yelled ecstatically "It's Genki, chi! Genki's back!" The figure of Genki continued to fall, down and down, and he landed.. On Tigers back.. "OW! WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR YOU LITTLE RU-" he started, thinking moochi had jumped onto him for some odd reason, "Genki?! Is that you?" by now everyone was awake from Tiger's angry outburst. Holly rubbed the sleep from her eyes, "Genki? You're back!" sleep forgotten she got up ran over to him and hugged him, Genki's cheeks reddened noticeably, "We knew you left after the battle when we couldn't find you, we thought you'd fallen off of Falcon and died, but you didn't you're alive and." Holly cut herself short, she had tears of happiness welling up in her eyes, it was as if it was the first time in years they had seen each other, but it was obvious he had been missed by all. Even Tiger seemed genuinely concerned about Genki's well being and had completely blown off the fact that Genki used his back as a pillow for a safe landing.
Genki smiled at them all as they were re-acquainted with each other. Genki suddenly remembered why he had even come in the first place, "guys, there's something I've got to tell you, it's really important," and he plunged into the story of his vision.

*time passes*

"So... if there is a new evil, and they're after the stone, that means we'll be seeing more baddies soon..." said Grey Wolf "so long, peace and quiet" said Golem, the others nodded their agreement. Hare's ears perked up, "Hmm, Tiger, was that you?" "Me? I thought it was you?" meanwhile Grey Wolf shook his head and the others looked on, besides Grey Wolf, Tiger, and Hare, no one else could hear this sound, but Hare and Tiger had begun fighting again, drowning out everything else. "Stop fighting, concentrate, what did you hear?" Golem said as he picked the two up off the ground, one in each hand, both still yelling at one another from the space between them. "Will you two be QUIET!" yelled Grey Wolf, Tiger and Hare immediately stopped bickering and looked down at Grey Wolf, his ears perked "I can hear it now too, they must have come for the stone..." "YAAA!" came a cry and ten evil hares jumped up from behind the rocks in the grassy field, the captain stood ahead of all of them "I don't know how you, boy, knew of our masters plans, but even you are powerless to stop us" "Oh, yeah?" Genki shouted back, startling the captain Evil Hare and pulling out his rollerblades, "Just try me." Captain Evil Hare just smirked, "your ignorance will be punished, you will be wishing for death soon, little boy..." The Evil Hares scattered, the captain running away from the rest, the remaining nine taunted the others, making fun of Seuzo's eyes, Hare's fur colour, Tiger's anger problem, Golem for his size, Moochi because of his pink-ish colour, and even Holly for being a powerless master of the stone. Once the teasing began, Genki shouted at the captain Evil Hare "Get back here and fight coward!" with that he was off, chasing down the captain, back with the others, Tiger was getting thoroughly annoyed at the two particular hares dancing around him and dodging attacks sent at them, even poking and prodding tiger and bouncing back to avoid getting their fingers snapped off. They too, eventually ran off, Tiger chasing them into the woods, the opposite way Genki had run. Another Evil Hare picked up Moochi and ran off with him, Hare got into a boxing match and backed into the woods flurrying his opponant, no punches seeming to actually hit. Eventually, only Seuzo, Golem and Holly were left with five Evil Hares. "They split us up! It looked like we were winning, but... they, they were in control the whole time!" The Evil Hares smirked and charged full force at the three of them, Golem bent over to protect holly, but wasn't fast enough, an Evil Hare tore the stone from the necklace hung around her neck and another kicked her into Seuzo who fell over, both of them tumbled out of the clearing, two of the Evil Hares followed them as they rolled. "GOLEEEEEM!!" Holly yelled before she lost sight of him. Holly and Seuzo reached a small clearing, they could hear laughter, seemingly all around them, the two Evil Hares emerged from the woods on either side of the pair, they were definately in trouble. The Evil Hare to the left of Holly held the stone in his paw, "We got the easy job" he said "finish off the Seuzo and the girl, look at them! They're helpless!" He grinned evily, then the other piped up "which one do you want? The girl, or the Suezo?" "I'll take the girl, heh, she looks like more of a challenge." "HEY! ARE YOU SAYIN' THAT I'M WEAK???" "Yes, actually, thats exactly what I'm saying." Rage filled Suezo's eye, "we'll settle this later, but you're really in for it now" "Running? Where to?" "No, not running, TELEPORT!" And in a flash, Holly and Suezo were gone from the clearing. "We have the stone, thats al that matters, lets go."

*** Holly and Suezo up in the treetops heard every word the Evil Hares said, this was getting serious, Evil Hares didn't usually work so well together, and none of them had crests, which meant they were doing it all in free will. "None of this makes any sense..." Holly whispered to Seuzo, the two Hares only now leaving the clearing, "We'd better check on the others first, grab on Holly... TELEPORT!"

***

"What a dirty trick" Genki yelled at the top of his lungs, which was very loud indeed, "splitting us up like that so they could steal the stone from Holly." "Well, maybe if some people didn't start running off..." Suezo started, "No fighting, I'm sure Genki and Tiger just got a little riled up, thats all. Hare and Golem didn't mean to leave us, they were pressured." The others silently agreed and there was an awkward pause. "What do you think will happen now?" asked Grey Wolf "We have to follow them, I don't know what they would be doing with the stone, but whatever it is, it can't be good." said Hare, the all informative. "Well we knew that one genius, besides that what should we do?" said Tiger "Well, we have to figure out what they're going to do with the stone, and then we have to stop them from whatever they are going to do with it, because I'm sure it isn't for the good of the community." This time Holly spoke, surprising the others, she was never really one to suggest things when they all put their heads together, but everyone agreed with what she said. "Then what are we waiting for? Lets get going gang!" Suezo muttered under his breath, "doesn't he ever get tired of saying that?"

____________________________________________________________________________ __ End Chapter 1. Well? well? What didja think? I know, still a bit short, but I promise I'll make a really long chapter that'll make you go "is it over yet?" it'll take ya an hour to read it ^^; (Don't worry, I don't have the time or stamina to write that much ^^)