C.A.: Yikes this chapter is big for this story!
Flamed: You stuck to together again didn't you?
C.A.: Well yeah but I also added a page and a half thanks to Dark Elf attacking me after reading one of the reviews. *Sweatdrop*
Indigo Tantarian Yeah their being nicer to heart now but She and Chaos dropped a big bucket of Angst on the story for later chapters. -_-
Fluffy Kitsune Why can't you have a pet Fox? Foxes are cute. ^_^ And so are sugar highs!
Melanie I think they'll all be scared out of their wits after all the items holders are gods to them, well save for one, I think they first see them next chapter.
fani90 FFnet have been giving me problems too, no problem I'm just glad you like my writing.
ShadowFire Well not all my stories have chapters in reserve but I feel more comfortable when they do. because I can't seem to write at a steady pace, ether I write lots like three chapters in one night or nothing for a month. So I just keep the extra back for when I get writers block. ^_^
Koriku After Dark Elf read your review she insisted on rewriting the start of this chapter, which is a good think because I think it's much better now. Just one way how reviews help ^_^
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams You gave yourself sugar again didn't you? ^__^ They see the others next chapter I think but I'm not sure when they'll met for real. Why they don't meet now is hinted at in this chapter.
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"So what happens next?" Hope asked.
"Well you see all this time they had been working together for a goal, Freedom. And now in this new world, the world of the Item Holders they have it, Now they just have to learn how to live here. But first they need time to catch their breath and heal their wounds. Wounds of the Body, heart, and mind."
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CHAPTER 9 - THE INEXPERIENCED SPY
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The Dark Elf sat at the cave entrance of the cave that had become home for the past two days. Everyone else was getting back to normal, save for Heart who still hadn't woken up, but Dark Magician had looked at her and didn't seemed worried, unlike Harpy Lady Dark Witch and the Magician of Black Chaos.
It was night time now and everyone save her was asleep. They were safe now after all right?
Of course that meant they were all board out of their minds.
Dark Elf sighed.
They were free bit they still had to hide from the humans. Dark Elf got up and went for a walk in the woods.
She had walked for a long time when she heard something.
"Jenny don't go to far from the car dear!"
Dark Elf turned to run but stopped. There was nothing wrong with watching the humans was there? As long as they weren't seen. She climbed a tree and watched.
There was a man woman and a child. The child was the one called Jenny. They placed a blanket on the ground and placed food on the blanket.
"Okay!" The man shouted. "We'll rest here for half an hour before driving the rest of the way to the caravan park. David! You finished yet over there?"
A boy came out of the bushes the woman gave him what looked like a damp cloth to wipe his hands with, then the four started eating. David was eating with one hand and holding a something in his hand with voices coming out. Dark Elf couldn't quite make out the voices out but the boy didn't look happy.
"Aww man! Rex Raptor lost the championship!" He complained. "That creepy bug boy won."[1]
The family kept eating David talking about an announcement some guy called Pegasus had made about a Duellist Kingdom. Pegasus, that name sounds...by Ra! That's the name of the Releaser! The new age's holder of the eye!
After a while the man told them to get back in the car. The 'car' turned out to be the red metal...thing...behind them. It made a horrible noise which scared Dark Elf so bad that she all most fell out of the tree and then moved off.
After they were gone Dark Elf climbed down from the tree. On the way back Dark Elf passed a stream and looked at her reflection. She frowned at it, then took of her head dressed and the shoulder armour. Now she almost looked like the woman in that family, maybe she didn't have to hide. She knew what direction the city was and she started walking.
Maybe an hour later she found her self on the city borders. There were more cars even louder and smelly too. People was looking at her hair and clothes oddly, apparently even without the shoulder armour and head dress her clothes stood out, we'll it was night time so there shouldn't be that many people to see her, then again the amount she was seeing was enough to make her think that maybe humans were nocturnal. Still wandering she found herself at the docks, there was a ship waiting and there were children getting on board.
Why are they going away? The elf wondered as she crept closer. Then she saw a blond boy in a green Jacket struggling with some body guards, then a smaller boy, Dark Elf couldn't make him out clearly since she was so far away and a few people were walking between the Elf and the children. But their worlds carried on the wind, something about trying to get on board the ship to take part in a contest. There was nothing here to really interest Dark Elf so she started to make her way back. Only stopping once. At a closed clothes shop. If she and the others were going to come back, they should be dressed the part.
"Rod Blade!" Dark Magician shouted when Dar Elf walked back into the cave at dawn. "Where have you been!"
"Dar language!" Harpy shouted clamping her hands over Dark Witch's ears. After all 'Rod Blade' was a strong curse to use around children.
Dark Elf was about to give a scathing answer since she didn't appreciate being shouted at the second she got 'home' but her reply vanished when Dark Magician swept her up in a hug and kissed her hard. Celtic Guardian, Neo the Magical Swordsman, The Magician of Black Chaos and Even the Red-Eyes Black Dragon wolf whistled at them. The Magician of Black Chaos then turned back to the still sleeping Change Of Heart. In the after noon, Dark Elf, Dark Magician, Celtic Guardian, And Neo the Magical Swordsman went to the town. When they came back Dark Elf was laughing so hard she couldn't breath, all she managed to gasp out was something about Dark Magician and Neo the Magician Swordsman Blowing up a car because they walked onto the road when they shouldn't have.
Those in the cave didn't have a clue what she was talking about.
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Change of Heart woke up to find the cave empty of everyone save the Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
"Your finally awake? You've been sleeping for a days." The dragon told her. "We were getting worried."
Change of Heart tried to stand only to fall back to her knees. The Black Dragon swung his tail around to catch her and lower her gently to the ground.
"That fight really took it out of you didn't it? How many monsters did you take over?"
"The Dragon Knight and the Magical Ghost. I almost had the Empress Judge again but she was too strong." Answered her two voices. She winced.
"What's wrong?"
Change of Heart looked closely at the Dragon only now seeing that the Magician of Black Chaos was laying back against the spike on his head.
Change of Heart shook her head and looked away.
"Don't try telling me it's nothing Heart, is your wing hurting?" The magician asked.
Change of heart blinked and looked at her demon wing, it was completely healed.
"You forgot it was broken didn't you? How did it happen anyway?"
"The Empress Judge...she didn't like the fact I used her to get into the Castle." Change of Heart admitted. "And no my wing doesn't hurt."
"Then why did you wince?"
Change of Heart looked down and Magician of Black Chaos knelt down by her. "What is it?"
"I'm an outcast..." She stopped when she heard laughing, the dragon and the magician were laughing at her!
"Where did you get an idea like that?" The Magician asked.
"Your all powerful monsters but I'm just magic...I...exactly what did I do in that last fight? Took over two monster and nether one of them made a big difference to the fight." Change of Heart Complained, her gentle voice becoming high pitched and her demon voice becoming dangerously low, she sighed. "Ring Points, Even Whitey a torn card done more for us than I did."
The dragon growled in disagreement. The Magician lifted Change of Heart's face so their eyes met.
"Don't be silly, you proved your worth when you broke into the castle and when you found Whitey, and, Puzzle Pieces, haven't you noticed the other incredible thing about you?"
Change of Heart shook her head.
"You haven't been fighting to the rules."
"I don't understand...."
The Magician of Black Chaos stood and walked back over to the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and lent against his side crossing his arms.
"You haven't noticed? No matter how hard we fight we still can't defeat a monster that is stronger than us unless we have some spell or item to make us stronger, we've had to fight using the rules of the Shadow games, Neo bent the rules using the Book of Secret Arts to summon the Magical Hats...But you...since we've started running you've taken over three monsters, two of which were within the same battle, that's one rule you've broke and I'm sure that when you took over The Empress Judge it was for longer than what could be considered a turn, that's both rules of your card that you've broken."
"Is that a bad thing?" Change of Heart asked.
"Ra No!" The dragon answered. "We don't want to be part of the Shadow games so the rules mean nothing to us, but what Chaos is trying to say is that your stronger than us."
"Me? But I don't have any attack points at all."
"Look at us monsters." The magician said. "Some of us use muscle some of us use magic, but you...you are magic."
Now Change of Heart was totally lost.
The Magician of Black Chaos smiled at the look on her face, the dragon might have been too but it was hard to tell. "Here, Neo said you can borrow it, he used it to summon the hats maybe you can do more."
Change of Heart looked down at what the magician had given her. It was the Magical Swordsman's Book of Secret Arts.
"Where is everyone?"
"Neo, De, Celt, Magi and Dar have gone to the city, they've been there for a couple of days since they can pass as humans, they're trying to find away for us to live in the city, since as much as I like the country, I'm kind of sick of sleeping rough." Magician of Black Chaos explained. "Myst, Red, Baby Itch and Lady are out hunting."
"Wish they'd hurry up I'm Hungry." Red-Eyes Black Dragon complained.
"Your always Hungry." Magician of Black Chaos complained.
Change of Heart read the book seeing the spell Neo had used to summon the Magical Hats. She turned a couple of pages and tried something else. She closed her eyes and held out her hand and muttered words under her breath, her double voice making it imposable to understand her. Her hand glowed with a green-white light and an Ancient Telescope appeared in the air a clattered to the cave floor.
"What did you summon that for?" Black asked.
Change of Heart shrugged.
"Your going to spy on the city?" The Magician of Black Chaos asked.
"Guess I will." Picking it up. "I want to help."
The magician took it off her. "Your are still tired, read the book I'll use this new toy After all I don't want to make a fool out of my self like Dar and Neo did. Ask Dark Elf what they did to the first car they saw."
"Chaos." Heart waited for him to look at her before finishing. "What's a car?"
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"So what does one do when they live in the Human world but don't quiet look human? Well if you have Magic you simply make your self look human, But sometimes looking human isn't enough, which is why the Runaways studied the town they had found themselves near." Carl sighed. "One by one they mixed and joined the Human race, hiding what made them monsters, what made them, them."
"That sounds sad." Hope said.
"Maybe, but that was what they had to do to survive. Yet they would never quiet forget. They acted human but they would never forget what they were...or would they?"
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They had been in this world for weeks now, the monster had learnt a lot about humans but there was still a lot to learn, however, the Dark Magician Girl, who had borrowed the Book of Secret Arts off Neo after Change Of Heart had made an interesting discovery.
She could rewrite the doppelganger spell to make all the spell casters appear humans.
So now the Mystic Elf, and the Magician of Black Chaos looked human too.
Neo and the Dark Elf didn't bother they looked human enough anyway, especially with the clothes that the Dark Elf had 'borrowed' from a place called the mall.
The Celtic Guardian just needed a hat to hide his ears and he was okay too.
A few days after that the Dark Magician managed to make a dark green gem that when Harpy Lady Dark Witch or Red Archery Girl held it made them appear human too.
There were just two problems with it.
Red Archery Girl couldn't walk since she only looked human when she was really a mermaid, and therefore couldn't make her legs work.
And it didn't work on Change of Heart or the dragons. The Dragons were just to different from Humans and they didn't know why it wouldn't work on Change of Heart.
So now it was just her and the dragons in the cave. Black would hunt at night for both him and baby, you could say he had taken the younger dragon under his wing.
Dar had gotten a job at a place called Kiabacorp, De was trying to be a singer and doing well, it seemed that her dark skin and purple hair was attractive to most humans. They had already gotten enough money to get an apartment. Magi were living with them had been enrolled in school much to her despair.
They had taken on a last name now too, they were the Caster family, as in Spell Caster. Heart had tried really hard not to laugh when she had first heard it.
Harpy Lady, was now Miss Lady Rose, a model, making just about enough money to rent a flat for her and Whitney Rose, But everyone still called 'Whitney' Itch.
Celt had gotten a job as a bouncer at some big night club and got paid over the odds since it was night work. He was living with Myst in a bed sit, she hadn't found a job yet but she was looking hard. They were the Evans.
When they had asked Chaos to live with them like a son he had agreed, the down side was he had to got to school too.
Neo was working as a nights guard man for the Mall. He called himself Neo Archer. He rented a small flat.
Red Archery Girl was in a river somewhere fishing.
Change of Heart stood in a tree, her back against the trunk, her Rose whip and Myst's Fairy Bow resting on the branch at he feet. She was using the telescope. Chaos, no, he had changed his name to Carl Chaos Evens. He was supposedly being Fostered but Mr and Mrs Evans. He and Magi were in school Magi laughing at something Chaos had said. Change Of Heart sighed and jumped out of the tree.
She knelt when she landed to save her knees. She had been spending a lot of time alone now, usually 's using Myst's bow to hunt deer for Black, Myst didn't need it anymore, everyone was too caught up with the human world.
That meant she had a lot of time to herself to practice manipulating the magic inside her. She walked over to a clear still pond. It's surface like glass. She knelt as if to look in it but her eyes were closed. Her body took on a green-white aura, all the shadows the one side of her vanished leaving her skin and hair with only one tone. She opened her eyes and inspected the feat she had just achieved. She smiled and closed her eyes again, now as she began to glow once more, she winced this hurt, her wings became perfectly straight quivering as if some invisible hand was trying to pull them out of her back. Sweat began to form of her forehead and she grit her teeth against the pain. The wings quivered more violently before melting into her back.
Change of Heart smiled. She was already wearing human clothing. A backless red halter-top and tight brown jeans.
Now for the next step.
"My name is Heart." She frowned and focused her magic on her throat as she again started to glow. "My name is Heart."
She picked up the Bow, Whip and Telescope and threw them in the bag she had left at the at the bottom of the tree. She then pulled out a Mobile Phone.
"Hi! It worked so I'll guess I'll have to start calling you Aunt."
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Chaos finished school for the day, really it wasn't as bad as Magi would make out. He didn't like the teachers much how ever, and he didn't like leaving his staff behind, Magi didn't like that ether, after all Magicians were connected to their staffs. Magi being a year younger than Chaos, Magi needed her staff more than him, she went right home. Chaos could bare the nagging pull in his soul for a while longer and decided to go to the mall, like he did every Friday, there were other students there, heading for the arcade and clothe stores most likely, Chaos wouldn't be however.
Chaos's black hair which was usually lose was now in a braid, He had been wearing it like that since he had seen a boy with his length ware it like that in a show called Gundam wing. It whipped around when he looked around himself, he was sure someone was watching him.
There!
There was a fountain outside the mall. And on the edge there was a girl, she was pretending to read a book, it looked like a Sailor Moon book but he wasn't sure, he just saw the eyes watching him unblinkingly. She looked amazingly like Heart but it couldn't be here could it?
"Excuse me, but do I know you?" Chaos asked.
The girl looked at her a small smile on her face.
"My name is Rose."
Chaos sighed, it wasn't heart, she sounded nothing like Heart.
"Miss Heart Rose, I just moved in with my Aunt, Lady Rose and cousin Itch." Heart smiled wider. "Do I look that different as a normal person?"
Chaos laughed, picked her up in a hug and twirled her in a circle. "That's great!"
"Chaos your suffocating me!" Heart complained. "Listen, Aunt Lady gave me some money to pay for my school uniform and some other things for my room, care to give me a hand?"
"Sure, if you don't mind me getting art supplies while we're at it?"
Heart shrugged. "I don't mind."
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[1] Can you tell I don't like Weevil Underwood?
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