Disclaimer- I only own Dawn and the name of the town.

Author's note: I'd like to thank my two reviewers, Ryu Gunslinger (Don't worry I'll make the chapters longer) and Crow Magnum (thanks for the rule I didn't know that, heheh I'm pretty new to and don't worry about Ryu I was planning that anyway)

Enjoy!

Paths of the heart

Chapter III: lurking in the shadows

"I got em." Said a shadowed figure, talking into a mobile phone.

"Are you sure it's them? the boss doesn't want any slip-ups Dawn." Said a monotone voice from the phone.

The woman named Dawn replied "How many guy's wit' blue hair an' angel look-a-likes are there Bolt?" she said sarcastically.

"Shut up! Just watch them, don't let them out of your sight!" Bolt spat.

Dawn rolled her eyes "Kay, Kay, whatever, keep that mop you call hair on." A growl was heard at the end of the line, but no more was said. Dawn shoved the phone into a large pocket of her white trench coat, and brushed away a strand of loose jet black hair behind her ear with her gloved hand, as she slid into the shadows nearer Ryu and Nina, to spy.

"Yeash! Look at all those lights, that's one big town!" Nina said half in amazement half in shock. Ryu nodded in agreement, but then narrowed his eyes and pointed to the shadows in which Dawn lay. She herself then started to sweat, realizing she'd been caught.

Ryu plodded over to her, eyes still narrowed, with Nina trailing him, and glared at Dawn for spying on them.

"What are you doing here?" Nina asked naively.

"J-just just staying in the shade it's sure hot out today, eh?" Dawn said quickly coming up with an excuse, it didn't fool them, seeing as the sun was setting. Ryu certainly didn't look impressed, she, seeing that her excuse had failed made another.

"Actually… you folks looked lost and I wanted to help ya… uh but ya know I thought it would be more polite ta wait for you to finish talkin' ya know"

They fell for it.

"oh! That's nice of you… actually we are we are lost, maybe you could tell us the name of this town, and country and maybe… the planet?"

Dawn was puzzled, 'aliens maybe? Now dat would be intrestin' hm…" she thought, Nina noticed and quickly made up something, this was soon becoming the war of lies.

"I have amnesia… and so does he!" Nina said.

Dawn blinked but answered anyway " yer' in merspring in England on da planet Earth."

"Earth eh?" Nina said, Ryu too had his finger on his chin in thought.

"Well bye!" Dawn said abruptly, eager to leave, and promptly ran off.

"Uh well… that was odd. Hey Ryu what she said, were on the planet earth, How?" she asked.

Ryu looked deep in thought then strangely enough spoke. " Fou-Lu has thrown us though a portal that he summoned to another dimension, though he most likely planned only me to come here, I wonder why?"

Nina's mouth literally dropped "you-you can speak, I thought you were mute, why didn't you say something before?" she choked out.

"Strange… you remember when in battle, if I cast a spell I shout out the name of it, hm?" he chuckled

"Well I had to concentrate on the enemy, not you, no matter how good you look." Nina said, then she realized what had slipped out of her mouth "uh-um" she stuttered blushing and trying to cover her red face from Ryu, fortunately he didn't notice what she had just said, or was it unfortunately?

"You seem not to notice many things Nina, like me transforming to a dragon in battle at the start of our quest." He said arms folded, no expression gracing his face.

"Oh yeah… well, nevermind, but why didn't you speak out of battle?"

Ryu shrugged "I'm not a rather talkative person, or rather not a talkative dragon." He said a small smile on his lips, as the sun disappeared under the horizon, leaving them in soft moonlight.