CHAPTER 12!!!
Hey Folks. Put a lot of talking in this one because I just wanted a change. Plus I introduce two new characters!!! YEY! Hope you like it! ^_^
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A figure sat in the shadows of the tree tops, a wisp of long black hair falling across his face. Suddenly a black and brown creature, half spider, half hornet flew towards him with an unholy air of determination.
The figure held out his hand calling to the creature, and the miniature beast flew to its masters hand eager to report. It buzzed once than replayed the recent events it had witnessed in holographic form.
". . . A fluke, an X-Ray fluke." The creature buzzed again and than ended its recorded memory.
The dark figure smiled, but did not show teeth, "It seems the Chosen are not as strong as their made out to be." He paused, "They'll be easily crushed." The figure clenched his hand with sickening intent, smothering the ignorant creature than snapping it's bones. The creature squealed for a moment, drawing its last black breath, than succumbed to the fists power.
The figure reopened his hand and looked at the creatures remains with a face of disgust, than thru the lifeless mush to the ground.
He looked towards the direction the now deceased creature had come, "Sleep now Chosen," He smiled this time showing his teeth, "And in the morning, we'll play."
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"What do you think it was?"
"I don't even wanna guess." Tai said shaking his head.
"Tonai, have you ever seen one of those things?"
Tonai shook her head, "They are of no creature that I know."
"Alright, than what is it?"
"Correction, * was * it." Matt said tapping his sword.
" I still don't want to guess."
"Well that doesn't help us, Tai."
"Hey, * you * wanna take a guess at what the hell that thing was, be my guest, but I doubt you'll do any better than me."
"What do you mean 'do better than you,' you didn't do anything. In fact, you didn't even take a guess at it, you said you 'didn't want to.'"
"Yeah, well * you * try guessing at what it was."
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS!"
"YEAH, WELL THAN DON'T YELL AT ME!"
The two stared at each other for a long moment, both frustrated. Tonai took a cautious step between the two angry friends. "Please, we shouldn't fight over this." She said worried.
"We're not fighting." Matt said with a distracted shake of his head.
"You could have fooled me." Tonai said.
The two friends looked at each other than sighed, "Sorry Matt, I'm just frustrated."
"Same here, and dido on the sorry." They stood for a moment than Matt continued, "Its just that, everything is happening so fast that," He exhaled, "I just. . . cant make sense of it anymore."
Tai smiled sadly, "I can relate."
Matt continued, "And with this reading minds and X-Ray stuff-it just makes it even more confusing." Matt brought his hands up to rub his eyes.
"Hey man, I totally understand, and I feel the same way." Matt and Tai looked up at each other than they both smiled and shook hands than pulled each other in to a hug, ( no not a girly hug, one of those manly-man hugs guys do ::glares::)
"Thanks man," Matt said pulling away from Tai, "And uh sorry again about yelling at you."
Tai smiled, "Eh, don't mention it, brought back old memories-good memories I might add."
Matt laughed, "You call me yelling at you 'good memories?'" Tai laughed.
Tonai cut in, very confused, "-Wait a minute, reading minds? X-Ray? When did this happen? And what is an X-Ray?"
Matt and Tai turned towards Tonai sheepishly, "I guess we have some explaining to do."
Tonai nodded strongly.
Matt scratched his head, "Yeah. . . "
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"Izzy, how long is this gonna take?"
"Give me a second will yah!"
"We did." T.K said a hint of annoyance on the edge of his voice, "And we gave you many seconds, in fact we gave you two hours worth of seconds."
"Hey, I never said this was going to be easy."
"Yes you did. I believe your exact words were, 'It's easy, the Internet code.'"
"Ok, Ok so maybe I did, but give me a break here. Hacking into AOL is not exactly preschool work. They have fire walls everywhere."
"Wait wait wait" Joe said waving his arms in the air, "You hacked into * AOL *? Do you know how much trouble we could get into?"
(Yeah I know AOL American On Line but I didn't know if Japan has like JOL Japan On Line so I didn't want to just create my own internet thing. ::sweatdrops:: Tell me if you have any info on this.)
Izzy shrugged, than Sora asked suspiciously, "Just how exactly did you do * that * Izzy?"
Izzy gave a wild grin, "You'd be better off if you didn't know."
Joe turned green.
"So. . . how much longer?" T.K asked casually.
"T.K" The group moaned.
"What its almost nine!?! I have a right to know!!!"
Izzy was silent for a moment than-" SUCCESS!"
The group jumped backwards in surprise by this sudden excitement. "You got it?" Kari asked excited.
"Yup," Izzy said a proud smile on his face.
Sora patted his back, "Don't know how you did it Izzy, but I'm glad you did."
"Well don't thank me yet. It still has to work." Izzy began typing on the key board than sat back. "Ok we talk into this," he said pointing to the speaker.
"But it's a speaker."
"Yeah so?"
"You rigged the speaker to be a microphone?"
"Yeah," Izzy said innocently.
"How-"
"--Better left unknown. What should we say?"
"-to Matt and Tai?"
"Yes Matt and Tai!!! Who else would we be talking to?"
"Well it was kind of confusing."
Izzy sweatdroped, "Whatever, I'll just say something. . . Tai? Matt? Can you hear me?"
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"So you think that the weapons have something to do with you having your powers?" Tonai asked.
"Well, it's the only way to explain it. I mean I would have noticed if I had these powers before than wouldn't I?"
"I guess." Tonai nodded.
"Well than, why do we have them?" Matt asked to no one in particular.
"To fight the Dark Lord." Tonai said excitedly. "You must be the ones from the legend!"
"Excuse me," Matt said dubiously, "The 'legend'?"
"Yes-the elders used to speak of it, they'd teach it to the young in my village."
"Well. . . what'd it say?"
"I do not remember the words exactly, but I remember it spoke of a time when our world and many others would be in darkness. It was said that two warriors who could wield light as a weapon would come to vanquish the Darkness and free the worlds that are captive."
"Sounds like us." Matt said under his breath.
"So ok, where does, reading minds and seeing thru things come in?" Tai asked.
Tonai spoke, "The elders said that the two warriors would have great powers in the senses, which could suggest your abilities to read minds and see through things."
"Hearing and sight."
"Exactly."
"Does the legend say anything else?" Matt asked, "Like maybe how we're supposed to go about destroying the 'Darkness' cause that would make things a heck of a lot easier."
"No I am sorry-It did say that the warriors would be swift as the wind, and aided by many friends."
Tai took a deep breath and let it out, "So that's why we were sent here? To kill the Dark Lord."
"If you are the two warriors from legend, yes." Tonai answered.
"Great." Matt said sarcastically, "Least we know why we're here." Matt rubbed his eyes, he was so tired.
~Tai? Matt? Can you hear me?~
Matt froze, than took a shaky breath and said, "Did you just hear that?"
"The 'Tai. Matt. Can you hear me?'"
"Yeah."
"Alright than yes."
Matt let out a sigh of relief. "Good, thought I was having another mind reading * thing *."
~Hello? Can you hear me? It's Izzy?~
"Izzy-Izzy!!! Yes we can hear you!" Tai yelled.
"Whose Izzy?" Tonai asked confused.
~Matt or Tai if your there please respond.~
"-He cant hear us!" Matt said desperately.
"Where the hell is he?" Tai said looking around, than he turned towards Matt. "I think his voice is coming from you."
"Me?"
"Yeah, just listen."
~Matt Tai please say something.~
"My digivice!" Matt exclaimed. He ripped his shirt up revealing his digivices latched on to his belt.
"YES! I KNEW THOSE THINGS WOULD COME IN HANDY!" Tai cried excitedly.
"I must have put it on this morning-or that morning-or who cares I have it!" Matt pulled his digivices off and started talking into it, "Izzy-Izzy can you hear me? It's Matt. Tai's here too. We're-"
~If your there please answer me.~
"He still cant hear us!" Tai said desperately.
"NO! NO IZZY! WE'RE HERE! WE'RE HERE!" Matt shouted along with Tai.
The digivices went dead and no more sound came out. "No God Damnit. Izzy! Come back!" Matt said shaking the digivice in frustration. After five minutes, he slumped to the ground. "Its no use," he said laying his digivice on the ground. "We can hear him, but he cant hear us."
Tai slumped down next to Matt, just as frustrated.
"Who is Izzy?" Tonai asked, now very confused. "And how did that thing speak?" She asked pointing to the digivice.
Matt hung his head, "It's a digivice."
"A what?"
"It doesn't matter anymore," he said sadly, "It didn't work."
"Maybe he'll talk again." Tai said hopefully.
Matt let out a sigh, "Well what good would that do? He still wouldn't be able to hear us, so he'll have no way of knowing we're * here * wherever * here * is."
"We'll find a way." Tai said optimistically.
"Well what if we don't?" Matt asked, "What if we're stuck here forever."
Tai was silent. He had no answer.
Tonai licked her lips. "Well would that be such a bad thing? I mean, you could always travel back to your village. I could arrange for a horse-"
"No. . ." Matt sighed, "Thanks Tonai, but you don't understand. We're not from here."
"Yes, I know but you could always travel back to where you came from."
"No, I mean we're not from * here *" Matt said making a hand motion.
"I do not understand." Tonai said confused.
Tai took a deep breath, "Tonai this might seem a bit. . . strange but. . . we're not from this * world *."
Tonai's eyes grew wide. "You are not???"
Tai exhaled uncomfortably, "No. We're not."
"Why did you not tell me?"
"Well," Matt looked at Tai for help, but Tai was just as clueless to the answer as he, "we just. . . Well we tried to tell your father but. . . he wouldn't listen. It's probably why he thought we were demons."
Tonai was silent for a moment than she spoke, "Than this must be very out- of-sorts."
"That's one way of putting it."
"Than I hope. I hope you are able to contact your friend again." She said with a hint of sadness.
"Wait," Matt said, "Your ok with this? I mean, your not scared?"
Tonai shook her head. "No, I have heard much stranger things in the last three years, and besides it said in the legend that you would be form a different world, and it has been right before, so why would it prove false now?"
Tai smiled, "Yeah, I guess that makes sense." Tai continued after a pause, "Anyway, our dinners ruined, and its getting dark, plus I'm beat, so if there are no objections I'm going to bed."
"Bed, haha I laugh at that." Matt said feeling the hard ground beneath him. Tai made a face than stretched out on the ground. "Whose taking first watch?"
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Boran stood before the elders, "You can not stop me from saving my daughter." He said hotly.
"In that you are wrong, Boran." The lead elder said in a calm and indifferent voice.
"She has been stolen by demons! We can not let them get away with this!"
"She has made her decision Boran, and we have made ours. Under no circumstances are you to send a search party after Tonai."
"But their demons!!!" Boran flared.
"That has yet to be confirmed."
Boran growled in rage and his eyes shadowed in hate, "Why. Why do you torment me so?"
The elder only turned his back on Boran and made for the door. He stopped half way however and said, "Its for the good of all Boran. Trust in our words." And than he flung the tent flap aside and walked out.
Boran banged his fists into a near by table, shaking the objects on top of it violently, "Damn you, damn you demons." In a swift movement he swung his hand over the table, sending the objects finally tumbling to the ground.
"DARNACK!!!" Doran screamed. A tall man in his early twenties walked in through the tent obediently. He was covered in armor and held a great bow at his side.
"Yes your Excellency?" The man said raising a fist to his chest in a salute.
Boran breathed heavily through his rage, "I don't care what those bastards say, find my daughter, and kill those demons."
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Is Darnack a new threat? Who is that dark figure in the trees? Why couldn't Matt or Tai talk to Izzy? And the most important question, will our heroes survive the night? Its all in the next * exciting * chapter of Merge.
::theme song comes in::
::sigh:: yes I know its short but I had put as much as I could into this chapter and it just seemed to come to a natural close. ^_^ Please don't hate me! Heh ^_^ K see yah all soon, and oh yeah VOTE FOR ARNOLD!!! Or should I say ARRRR-NALD. ^_^
bye for now!
Sit Ubu Sit.
Reion
08/26/03
Hey Folks. Put a lot of talking in this one because I just wanted a change. Plus I introduce two new characters!!! YEY! Hope you like it! ^_^
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A figure sat in the shadows of the tree tops, a wisp of long black hair falling across his face. Suddenly a black and brown creature, half spider, half hornet flew towards him with an unholy air of determination.
The figure held out his hand calling to the creature, and the miniature beast flew to its masters hand eager to report. It buzzed once than replayed the recent events it had witnessed in holographic form.
". . . A fluke, an X-Ray fluke." The creature buzzed again and than ended its recorded memory.
The dark figure smiled, but did not show teeth, "It seems the Chosen are not as strong as their made out to be." He paused, "They'll be easily crushed." The figure clenched his hand with sickening intent, smothering the ignorant creature than snapping it's bones. The creature squealed for a moment, drawing its last black breath, than succumbed to the fists power.
The figure reopened his hand and looked at the creatures remains with a face of disgust, than thru the lifeless mush to the ground.
He looked towards the direction the now deceased creature had come, "Sleep now Chosen," He smiled this time showing his teeth, "And in the morning, we'll play."
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"What do you think it was?"
"I don't even wanna guess." Tai said shaking his head.
"Tonai, have you ever seen one of those things?"
Tonai shook her head, "They are of no creature that I know."
"Alright, than what is it?"
"Correction, * was * it." Matt said tapping his sword.
" I still don't want to guess."
"Well that doesn't help us, Tai."
"Hey, * you * wanna take a guess at what the hell that thing was, be my guest, but I doubt you'll do any better than me."
"What do you mean 'do better than you,' you didn't do anything. In fact, you didn't even take a guess at it, you said you 'didn't want to.'"
"Yeah, well * you * try guessing at what it was."
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS!"
"YEAH, WELL THAN DON'T YELL AT ME!"
The two stared at each other for a long moment, both frustrated. Tonai took a cautious step between the two angry friends. "Please, we shouldn't fight over this." She said worried.
"We're not fighting." Matt said with a distracted shake of his head.
"You could have fooled me." Tonai said.
The two friends looked at each other than sighed, "Sorry Matt, I'm just frustrated."
"Same here, and dido on the sorry." They stood for a moment than Matt continued, "Its just that, everything is happening so fast that," He exhaled, "I just. . . cant make sense of it anymore."
Tai smiled sadly, "I can relate."
Matt continued, "And with this reading minds and X-Ray stuff-it just makes it even more confusing." Matt brought his hands up to rub his eyes.
"Hey man, I totally understand, and I feel the same way." Matt and Tai looked up at each other than they both smiled and shook hands than pulled each other in to a hug, ( no not a girly hug, one of those manly-man hugs guys do ::glares::)
"Thanks man," Matt said pulling away from Tai, "And uh sorry again about yelling at you."
Tai smiled, "Eh, don't mention it, brought back old memories-good memories I might add."
Matt laughed, "You call me yelling at you 'good memories?'" Tai laughed.
Tonai cut in, very confused, "-Wait a minute, reading minds? X-Ray? When did this happen? And what is an X-Ray?"
Matt and Tai turned towards Tonai sheepishly, "I guess we have some explaining to do."
Tonai nodded strongly.
Matt scratched his head, "Yeah. . . "
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"Izzy, how long is this gonna take?"
"Give me a second will yah!"
"We did." T.K said a hint of annoyance on the edge of his voice, "And we gave you many seconds, in fact we gave you two hours worth of seconds."
"Hey, I never said this was going to be easy."
"Yes you did. I believe your exact words were, 'It's easy, the Internet code.'"
"Ok, Ok so maybe I did, but give me a break here. Hacking into AOL is not exactly preschool work. They have fire walls everywhere."
"Wait wait wait" Joe said waving his arms in the air, "You hacked into * AOL *? Do you know how much trouble we could get into?"
(Yeah I know AOL American On Line but I didn't know if Japan has like JOL Japan On Line so I didn't want to just create my own internet thing. ::sweatdrops:: Tell me if you have any info on this.)
Izzy shrugged, than Sora asked suspiciously, "Just how exactly did you do * that * Izzy?"
Izzy gave a wild grin, "You'd be better off if you didn't know."
Joe turned green.
"So. . . how much longer?" T.K asked casually.
"T.K" The group moaned.
"What its almost nine!?! I have a right to know!!!"
Izzy was silent for a moment than-" SUCCESS!"
The group jumped backwards in surprise by this sudden excitement. "You got it?" Kari asked excited.
"Yup," Izzy said a proud smile on his face.
Sora patted his back, "Don't know how you did it Izzy, but I'm glad you did."
"Well don't thank me yet. It still has to work." Izzy began typing on the key board than sat back. "Ok we talk into this," he said pointing to the speaker.
"But it's a speaker."
"Yeah so?"
"You rigged the speaker to be a microphone?"
"Yeah," Izzy said innocently.
"How-"
"--Better left unknown. What should we say?"
"-to Matt and Tai?"
"Yes Matt and Tai!!! Who else would we be talking to?"
"Well it was kind of confusing."
Izzy sweatdroped, "Whatever, I'll just say something. . . Tai? Matt? Can you hear me?"
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"So you think that the weapons have something to do with you having your powers?" Tonai asked.
"Well, it's the only way to explain it. I mean I would have noticed if I had these powers before than wouldn't I?"
"I guess." Tonai nodded.
"Well than, why do we have them?" Matt asked to no one in particular.
"To fight the Dark Lord." Tonai said excitedly. "You must be the ones from the legend!"
"Excuse me," Matt said dubiously, "The 'legend'?"
"Yes-the elders used to speak of it, they'd teach it to the young in my village."
"Well. . . what'd it say?"
"I do not remember the words exactly, but I remember it spoke of a time when our world and many others would be in darkness. It was said that two warriors who could wield light as a weapon would come to vanquish the Darkness and free the worlds that are captive."
"Sounds like us." Matt said under his breath.
"So ok, where does, reading minds and seeing thru things come in?" Tai asked.
Tonai spoke, "The elders said that the two warriors would have great powers in the senses, which could suggest your abilities to read minds and see through things."
"Hearing and sight."
"Exactly."
"Does the legend say anything else?" Matt asked, "Like maybe how we're supposed to go about destroying the 'Darkness' cause that would make things a heck of a lot easier."
"No I am sorry-It did say that the warriors would be swift as the wind, and aided by many friends."
Tai took a deep breath and let it out, "So that's why we were sent here? To kill the Dark Lord."
"If you are the two warriors from legend, yes." Tonai answered.
"Great." Matt said sarcastically, "Least we know why we're here." Matt rubbed his eyes, he was so tired.
~Tai? Matt? Can you hear me?~
Matt froze, than took a shaky breath and said, "Did you just hear that?"
"The 'Tai. Matt. Can you hear me?'"
"Yeah."
"Alright than yes."
Matt let out a sigh of relief. "Good, thought I was having another mind reading * thing *."
~Hello? Can you hear me? It's Izzy?~
"Izzy-Izzy!!! Yes we can hear you!" Tai yelled.
"Whose Izzy?" Tonai asked confused.
~Matt or Tai if your there please respond.~
"-He cant hear us!" Matt said desperately.
"Where the hell is he?" Tai said looking around, than he turned towards Matt. "I think his voice is coming from you."
"Me?"
"Yeah, just listen."
~Matt Tai please say something.~
"My digivice!" Matt exclaimed. He ripped his shirt up revealing his digivices latched on to his belt.
"YES! I KNEW THOSE THINGS WOULD COME IN HANDY!" Tai cried excitedly.
"I must have put it on this morning-or that morning-or who cares I have it!" Matt pulled his digivices off and started talking into it, "Izzy-Izzy can you hear me? It's Matt. Tai's here too. We're-"
~If your there please answer me.~
"He still cant hear us!" Tai said desperately.
"NO! NO IZZY! WE'RE HERE! WE'RE HERE!" Matt shouted along with Tai.
The digivices went dead and no more sound came out. "No God Damnit. Izzy! Come back!" Matt said shaking the digivice in frustration. After five minutes, he slumped to the ground. "Its no use," he said laying his digivice on the ground. "We can hear him, but he cant hear us."
Tai slumped down next to Matt, just as frustrated.
"Who is Izzy?" Tonai asked, now very confused. "And how did that thing speak?" She asked pointing to the digivice.
Matt hung his head, "It's a digivice."
"A what?"
"It doesn't matter anymore," he said sadly, "It didn't work."
"Maybe he'll talk again." Tai said hopefully.
Matt let out a sigh, "Well what good would that do? He still wouldn't be able to hear us, so he'll have no way of knowing we're * here * wherever * here * is."
"We'll find a way." Tai said optimistically.
"Well what if we don't?" Matt asked, "What if we're stuck here forever."
Tai was silent. He had no answer.
Tonai licked her lips. "Well would that be such a bad thing? I mean, you could always travel back to your village. I could arrange for a horse-"
"No. . ." Matt sighed, "Thanks Tonai, but you don't understand. We're not from here."
"Yes, I know but you could always travel back to where you came from."
"No, I mean we're not from * here *" Matt said making a hand motion.
"I do not understand." Tonai said confused.
Tai took a deep breath, "Tonai this might seem a bit. . . strange but. . . we're not from this * world *."
Tonai's eyes grew wide. "You are not???"
Tai exhaled uncomfortably, "No. We're not."
"Why did you not tell me?"
"Well," Matt looked at Tai for help, but Tai was just as clueless to the answer as he, "we just. . . Well we tried to tell your father but. . . he wouldn't listen. It's probably why he thought we were demons."
Tonai was silent for a moment than she spoke, "Than this must be very out- of-sorts."
"That's one way of putting it."
"Than I hope. I hope you are able to contact your friend again." She said with a hint of sadness.
"Wait," Matt said, "Your ok with this? I mean, your not scared?"
Tonai shook her head. "No, I have heard much stranger things in the last three years, and besides it said in the legend that you would be form a different world, and it has been right before, so why would it prove false now?"
Tai smiled, "Yeah, I guess that makes sense." Tai continued after a pause, "Anyway, our dinners ruined, and its getting dark, plus I'm beat, so if there are no objections I'm going to bed."
"Bed, haha I laugh at that." Matt said feeling the hard ground beneath him. Tai made a face than stretched out on the ground. "Whose taking first watch?"
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Boran stood before the elders, "You can not stop me from saving my daughter." He said hotly.
"In that you are wrong, Boran." The lead elder said in a calm and indifferent voice.
"She has been stolen by demons! We can not let them get away with this!"
"She has made her decision Boran, and we have made ours. Under no circumstances are you to send a search party after Tonai."
"But their demons!!!" Boran flared.
"That has yet to be confirmed."
Boran growled in rage and his eyes shadowed in hate, "Why. Why do you torment me so?"
The elder only turned his back on Boran and made for the door. He stopped half way however and said, "Its for the good of all Boran. Trust in our words." And than he flung the tent flap aside and walked out.
Boran banged his fists into a near by table, shaking the objects on top of it violently, "Damn you, damn you demons." In a swift movement he swung his hand over the table, sending the objects finally tumbling to the ground.
"DARNACK!!!" Doran screamed. A tall man in his early twenties walked in through the tent obediently. He was covered in armor and held a great bow at his side.
"Yes your Excellency?" The man said raising a fist to his chest in a salute.
Boran breathed heavily through his rage, "I don't care what those bastards say, find my daughter, and kill those demons."
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Is Darnack a new threat? Who is that dark figure in the trees? Why couldn't Matt or Tai talk to Izzy? And the most important question, will our heroes survive the night? Its all in the next * exciting * chapter of Merge.
::theme song comes in::
::sigh:: yes I know its short but I had put as much as I could into this chapter and it just seemed to come to a natural close. ^_^ Please don't hate me! Heh ^_^ K see yah all soon, and oh yeah VOTE FOR ARNOLD!!! Or should I say ARRRR-NALD. ^_^
bye for now!
Sit Ubu Sit.
Reion
08/26/03