PianZoe: Hee, hee, hee, I just remembered something about Georgia's jacket... hee, hee, hee, it has one sleeved rolled up and one normal length, just like Jet's jacket. I didn't even noticed that until a few minutes ago... Heh, ok, so it isn't that funny, but oh well.



Serap-89: Well, I thought it was funny too, so at least one person besides yourself thinks you're funny.



PianZoe: oh, you're so comforting. *rolls eyes*



Serap-89: *smirk* I know. Hee, hee, hee...



PianZoe: oh, this is Serap-89, another one of my cousins.



Serap-89: I'm the more cheerful one of us two. Wouldn't you agree?



PianZoe: now I wouldn't say that...



Serap-89: oh, and PianZoe doesn't own Wild ARMs 3!



PianZoe: neither do you.



Serap-89: DON'T REMIND ME!!! *scowls*





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As Maya told Georgia what she knew about her parents, Anthony was plotting a way to escape the two females. He thought that if he was going to stay with them any moment longer, he was going to explode. He slowly began to walk down the stairs, but suddenly, he felt a tug on his jacket. He looked back, to see Kaitlyn standing there, smirking at him. He continued scowling.



"You don't think you're actually going to leave this easily?" she asked, and Anthony growled, crossing his arms. "You are going to be quite an important part in this quest Georgia started, and I'm not letting you go this easily." she said, making Anthony rolls his eyes, and begin walking back up the stairs. Kaitlyn really didn't like the fact that Georgia wanted this guy on the team, but oh well, she was becoming best friends with the silver haired maiden, so she figured she'd go along with it. Plus, from what Georgia was talking about that morning, it sounded as if she slightly liked Anthony.



When Maya finished telling the little bit of info she knew about Virginia and Jet, Georgia began giggling. Anthony raised an eyebrow at her, then she turned to him, and poked him, like she did before. "It sounds like my dad had an attitude like yours! Hee, hee, hee!" once she finished her small sentence, she returned to her giggle fit. Anthony just stood there, staring at her as if she was crazy. Then he shook his head, and began walking back down the stairs towards the door.



"Come on, bimbos, let's go," he said, then suddenly felt someone jump up onto his back. "HEY!!" he shouted, then looked up to see a few silver braids in his face. "What do you think you're doing!?" he exclaimed, trying his hardest to shake her off. She had amazing strength for a 18-year-old girl!



"I told you I would do something drastic if you called us bimbos again, and now you have to carry me out to the horses." she said, making Anthony sigh a long hard sigh. She laughed, and tightened her grip, making him snarl.



The three (with Georgia on Anthony's back and Kaitlyn giggling about it) walked out to the horses, and when they got there, Georgia jumped off of Anthony's back, then poked his shoulders with both hands. "Thanks!" she said, then hopped up onto Khalil. Anthony walked over to his horse, and hopped up onto it, then looked over to Georgia. She was looking at him strangely. He raised an eyebrow, and Georgia just shook her head, then looked forward, making Anthony roll his eyes. Kaitlyn giggled when she saw the two, and she began thinking of how she remembered Virginia and Jet being. Just like her two teammates.



They took off, and soon encountered a strange monster, that Georgia hadn't ever seen before, but Anthony and Kaitlyn both had. Georgia drew her ARMs out, and shot the monster, but it seemed like it barely scratched it. It tried attacking her, and she tried dodging out of the way, but not soon enough not to get a scrape across her arm. "Ooooowww!!" she cried, clutching her bleeding arm. She looked down at it, and noticed it looked like if she didn't wrap a cloth around it, it would get infected. So, she did just that, and wrapped a piece of cloth she found a little ways back on the wound.



Anthony aimed one of his arms towards the monster, then his fist shot out at it, hit it, and came back, making a sound like a zipper, to snap back into place. At first it shocked Georgia, then she remembered that when she first met him she saw that he had a bionic arm. The monster cried out in pain, but it didn't collapse yet. But it looked like one more good hit would kill the thing. Kaitlyn was completely stunned at Anthony's arm.



The monster attacked again, with a fiercer attack, this time at Kaitlyn, who held up her ARM, to block the hit. Anthony was shocked when he saw what a large ARM Kaitlyn had, for being such a petite woman. It was a long rifle like gun, that was about as tall as Kaitlyn herself (Gungnir HAG35). The monster fell to the ground, then backed up a bit. Kaitlyn aimed the large ARM right at the monster's head, and shot, killing it immediately. Kaitlyn looked to Anthony who was staring at her in shock. She just raised both her eyebrows at him and half smiled.



"You shocked me with that arm of your's, and I shocked you with my Gungnir HAG35, so I guess we're even now, Anthbern." she said, then walked back a ways, and hopped onto Mehri (they had gotten off their horses so they could have rest before the monster attacked). Georgia walked over to Anthony, and looked at him, with a smiled.



"Cool arm," she said, pointing to his bionic arm, and he began walking away. She slightly furrowed her eyebrows, and chased after him. "Hey, Anthony, what was that move you did again? It was cool! I mean, your fist shot out and wham! You hit the monster strait on! That was SO cool!" she exclaimed, and Anthony shot a look at her that she couldn't quite fathom. She stopped talking, and he continued walking. "Sorry, I was just..." she trailed off, and watched as Anthony hopped onto his Appaloosa. She walked over to Khalil, and hopped on, looking at Anthony, who was scowling more than usual.



As the team moved on, Georgia kept having thoughts about Anthony's bionic arm and what she had said, then she came to a realization. She looked at Anthony, her eyebrows furrowed and biting her lip. She probably shouldn't have said anything about his arm. Now that she thought about it, it sounded rather mean. It was probably personal, because he had probably lost his real arm, or something. She guided her horse over to Anthony, and looked up at his face, making him glance at her. "Listen; I'm sorry, Anthony. I know I shouldn't have even mentioned anything about your bionic arm... even though I was saying that I thought it was cool. I mean, it's not cool that you lost your arm! That's horrible! I sounded so heartless..." she said, looking down at her horse's mane.



Anthony sighed, and shook his head. "It's fine, you didn't have to come over here and apologize. It wasn't that big a deal, I mean, you didn't mean for it to sound the way it... I guess, sort of sounded. So, since you got that off your chest, you can go ride..." he looked around, then motioned towards Kaitlyn. "... over there."



Georgia blinked, and stared at Anthony strangely. He scowled deeply at her, and she just continued staring at him. It was obvious that she wasn't going to go over somewhere else. He sighed in an aggravated fashion, and shook his head, covering his face with his hand. "Are you going to just sit there staring at me, or are you going to actually DO something? Like, move somewhere else?" he mentioned, motioning towards Kaitlyn again. Suddenly, Kaitlyn cried out, and turned her horse, and when the two others saw why, they followed suit. There, in the road, was a little black haired girl in a purple dress, sitting down.



Kaitlyn jumped down from her horse, and rushed over to the little girl, to see the girl smiling. "Little girl, are you all right? I thought sure I was going to run into you! Why are you out here so late and in the middle of the road? Shouldn't you be home eating dinner with your family?" she asked, and the little girl just looked at her, while continuing smiling.



"I'm just fine. The reason I'm out so late is because I wondered away from my home, and now I am lost. And the reason I was in the middle of the road was because I needed someone to lead me back. I know the way, I just can't get there on foot." she said, looking sweetly at the 3 Drifters. She looked to Anthony, but only for a split second, then examined Georgia, and then examined Kaitlyn. Her smiled widened, and to Anthony, it looked almost like a smirk.



Kaitlyn gasped, looked back to Georgia and Anthony, and then back to the young girl. "Don't worry, we'll take you home." she said, and walked back to her horse with the girl following behind her. The two got up onto Mehri, and they took off again, this time with the young girl giving directions. While they were heading in the direction she said, they heard a low rumble come from a slight ways off.



Georgia looked in that direction, then looked back at the others with a slight look of worry. "Hmm, I don't think we'll run into whatever made that noise. It sounds quite a ways away."



They continued on for a while longer, and it seemed like each step they took, the sound would get louder and closer. It was starting to make Georgia seem paranoid. She didn't like hearing things she couldn't see, and especially things that seemed like they would be threats. Her horse took another step forward, and suddenly, a large cat-like monster jumped right at Georgia, knocking her off her horse, and onto her back on the ground. The others all turned back at the sound, to Georgia on the ground grasping her side, and a vicious monster close to her. It was as big as a tiger, had razor sharp long fangs, paws that were large enough to swipe the head clear off a human, claws like knives, and long green fur all over it's body. It's eyes glowed red.





Anthony jumped off of his horse, and did one of the biggest moves neither Georgia nor Kaitlyn had ever seen, including the same move he had done before at the end of the extremely long move. The cat-like monster let out a large wail, then opened it's mouth and shot a ball of ice at Anthony. Kaitlyn quickly jumped off the horse, and ran over to where the fight was, her ARM all set.



While the 3 were busy with the rather large feline, the young girl slipped away, unnoticed, except by the monster, but it didn't attack her. Georgia, now feeling much better than when she fell off the horse, shot a round of ammunition out of her ARMs, then quickly reloaded. Anthony did the rather long and effective move, and the green feline (that rhymes!) fell to the ground, dead.



The three walked back to their horses, and gasped when they saw that the young girl was gone. Kaitlyn glanced every which way, then looked back at the other two with a concerned look. "Where did the little girl go? Do you think... there were more than one monster... and...?" she questioned, afraid to hear what her teammates thought. Georgia looked at Kaitlyn with a worried look, and shook her head.



"That mustn't have been it! We would haven noticed." she said, then looked to Anthony, who was leaning on his horse with his eyes closed. She poked him, this time just to get his attention. "Hey, you all right?" she asked, and he just sighed.



"Just dandy, except for the fact that those moves take a lot out of me, and that monster was a little rough." he breathed, and Georgia could tell he hadn't caught his breath yet. She thought about it for a minute, then realized that he had done quite a bit. A few of those tough looking moves, and dodging blows. Ouch!



After a bit, they got back onto their horses, and continued on, this time making sure to look around so they wouldn't come across anything more surprising than that green feline.