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MissKagome.

Katsume jerked her head up out of the water in time to see the shuttle like space ship catch fire from the ignition, as part of it hit the rocks.

She knew that the other part wouldn't hit them directly in the water, but it was going to be pretty close.

Frantically looking around, Katsume caught Cheza's gaze as Katsume realized that Cheza probably couldn't swim.

Just to be careful, Katsume quickly swam over to Cheza, to help her get into the shallow end of the large pool of water for safety.

As Katsume was swimming over to Cheza there was a giant splash and drops of water went spraying everywhere.

As they both lay, breathing heavy with nervous excitement from the whole adventure, Katsume looked over to Cheza and asked,

"Are you alright?"

Cheza smiled and replied,

"This one is fine."

Katsume smiled back and felt a bit proud of herself. Maybe after all she was starting to act like what Flower maidens should act like.

"We should find the others." Katsume said intently as she stood up.

Cheza nodded and they started to walk away, once in a while looking over their shoulders for any sign of Darcia.

It was a peaceful day, except the sky was a bit ash blue colored from the looks of a storm which never came.

A slight breeze tugged at the roots of Katsume's hair, pleading to be free and fly away through the wind, but instead her hair just lapped at the sides of her face.

A little while later they had met up with everyone again.

They were eager to listen to their story of being held prisoner for a bit by Darcia.

Hige patted his growling stomach and said,

"I'm starving. Say, when are we gonna get some chow?"

"Chow? Oh you mean food. Yeah, I'm hungry too!" Toboe piped in.

"You two are always hungry!" Tsume sighed.

"I'm kind of hungry too." Kiba said softly, making Tsume groan as he realized that meant having to find the nearest little town to get some food.

As soon as they found some place to eat, they were back out in the open walking again.

Now though it had gotten pretty dark, and everyone was getting tired.

So they stopped near a small running lake full of lively blue little fish, and lots of oak trees to lie under.

Katsume walked around the area a bit in the dark, getting a feel for their surroundings, because she was always a little afraid of unwanted attention coming at her when she was asleep and un guarded.

Something crunched softly under her feet.

It sounded like glass.

As Katsume kneeled down she noticed it was broken glass, a eerie light reflecting off it from the moon.

She carefully leaned her hand in to touch it silky softness with one of her fingers, because like all people she could not resist shinny objects.

But just as she did a sudden female voice broke into a quite and bitter sweet melody, making everything around her fade away so she was kneeling in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hues of blue.

Then suddenly the figure of a woman appeared before her.

(Cliffy! Sorry it's short. Very busy. Thank you and goodnight.)