Poor Phillia....let's lend her support!!! Woot!

Chapter 13: Surviving Foe

Akito sat alone in his dark room thinking of the words Phillia had just spoken. 'I love you Akito' No one had ever said those words to him before. They kept playing over and over in his head.

" Phillia....please." He sobbed, "come back." His quiet sobs turned into yells. "Phillia! Come back!" He yelled looking at his window, expecting her to come back. She never did.

Hatori sat smiling and crying outside his room. Momiji walked in and joined him. "Hatori? What's the matter?" He questioned.

"Phillia..she came back."

"She did!? Why didn't you tell me!? I wanted to see her." Momiji pouted.

"She went away to fight Beeru, and get Ritsu back." Momiji looked confused. He told Momiji what Phillia told him. Momiji's eyes softened.

"Poor Phillia. Well, when she gets back we should have a big party for her! Treat her really good!"

"Yes Momiji, we should....when she comes back." Both of them stared at the stars in the midnight sky.

Phillia flew as fast as she could straight up. Beeru lived inside a star, and it was hard trying to get into it. His place was rigged with traps, and they weren't easy to get passed. Phillia found the star. It was the biggest one that laid just on the earth's atmosphere. She flew into it and found her herself in a meadow. In the middle of it was a ring of trees with a dark castle in the middle. Phillia always wondered why Beeru kept it so happy looking here. Slowly, she flew to his castle. When she got above the trees, red lasers started shooting at her. She dodged them, but they wouldn't stop shooting until she destroyed them. She tried to find a place to hide, but since the trees were in a ring, there was no place she could hide. She figured the castle would have more surprises waiting for her. So she flew into the trees, avoiding branches, trunks, and lasers. She searched frantically for the source of the lasers. She found them; there were four, but they were near impossible to get close to. She would have to gather some energy to fight through the lasers and destroy the core. She flew to the sky and gathered as much energy as she could. When she reached just above the laser's core she shot out a blast that made its way all the way through the shooting lasers and destroyed the source. The blast spread out and destroyed the remaining cores....and the trees.

"Oops, guess I over did it." Phillia laughed. Her laugh was covered by Beeru's evil laugh.

"Good job Phillia! I didn't expect you to make it past those lasers."

"Give Ritsu back!" She yelled. Beeru appeared outside his castle.

"You want him! Come get him!"

Phillia, blinded by her anger, flew straight for him. He stood there waiting. She was about twenty feet away from him when something flew out of nowhere and attacked Phillia. She hit a large rock and fell on the ground. The creature disappeared.

"Oh yes...I see you've just now met my master."

"Master?"

"Yes..he's quite powerful and....has a taste for royal Hinotian blood."

"Start making sense Beeru. I'm not a Hinota and I'm not of royalty."

"You're half Hinota which is bad enough. And there are many secrets that even you don't know."

"Beeru! Kill her!" A deep voice screamed from no where.

Beeru grumbled something, but Phillia couldn't understand him. He ran towards Phillia and pulled out a sword that was made of gold and silver. He swung at Phillia but she dodged him. Phillia took flight and summoned another storm. From the clouds a thick mist started to pour; one that helped Phillia to become like a ghost.

"Beeru..use your new sense of smell." The same voice bellowed over the thunder.

Phillia was confused, but before she could start asking questions, Beeru came out of nowhere and tried to stab her. She took his arm and bit it as hard as she could. Beeru cried out in pain and hit Phillia with his free hand. He lowered back to the ground. His wound was deep. He grinned and lifted his hand. Phillia, from a distance, was watching. A small bubble appeared and inside was Ritsu, curled into a ball and he was crying.

"Oh Phillia...don't make me kill him. Surrender yourself, and he'll go free."

Phillia flew back to the soggy ground. Beeru couldn't see her, but he could hear and smell her.

"Let him go....or I'll kill you." She said in a low voice. Beeru laughed.

"You? Kill me?" He pulled out a dagger from his pocket. "You've got ten seconds....1....2..."

Phillia began walking towards him. The mist stopped and Beeru could see her clearly. Her eyes were closed and her fists were clenched.

"Give yourself up!"

"Never."

"Have your way then." He lifted the dagger, as he did Phillia opened her eyes. They blazing red. Beeru was about to strike, but the dagger left his hand and was under his throat.

"Let Ritsu go." She said in a very serious tone of voice. Beeru couldn't talk cause the knife was so close to his throat. When he didn't do anything Phillia inched the knife closer to him. The barrier around Ritsu vanished and he ran over to Phillia. Phillia took her mind off the knife and it made a loud thud as it dropped into the mud. (Hey that rhymes!) Beeru fell to his knees and covered his neck.

"Stupid Hinota!" Beeru said.

"Stupid Beeru!" The unknown voice said. "You are worthless. I give this knew power to beat her and you are stupid to forget about her mind abilities."

"No master! I will kill her!" Beeru yelled.

"I've given you more than enough chances to beat her! It's time you join me...and help me beat her!" Then the creature appeared again and devoured Beeru. Ritsu and Phillia covered their eyes. When he was done Phillia looked at him and gasped. The creature laughed.

"No...you're a...you supposed to be dead!" Phillia stuttered.

"That's what you think. Hinota's were never a very smart creatures. Especially when I disguised myself as your brother, and the others couldn't tell the difference." He laughed manically.

Phillia's eyes widened. She thought back to the time the voice spoke to her. Then the dream she had.

"Now you'll die!" He cried out.

Phillia quickly fired two fireballs at him. He made them explode before they reached him.

"You think that is supposed to kil-........where did you go?" The smoke cleared and Phillia and Ritsu had left. The creature cried out in anger.

"Damn you Hinota!"

Phillia could hear him scream as she carried the very tired Ritsu to safety. She would take him home then return to kill that creature. She flew as fast as she could back to the Sohma estate. She didn't know what he meant by 'her brother'. She didn't know how he had survived. She didn't know why he wanted her dead so desperately. All she knew was that he had to be destroyed....the last Hanot was still alive.

Beeru was easy to fight, but the Hanot will take longer...big fight scene. More secrets are revealed in the next chapter. Dun dun dun!!!! Oh no! Anyway... Please R&R! Next chapter soon to come....hopefully!!!!!!!!!