"I got it!" came a shout and Rei and Mariah looked down stream to see Max running up towards them his pendant now held in his hand.
"Got what?" Mariah and Rei chorused.
"I got reliability!" Max said happily, skidding to halt in front of Rei and Mariah, who were now standing up and looking quite confused.
"Here look," he said cheerfully, holding up his pendant, the small rectangular section on the front was now filled with a small grey rectangle with the carving of what looked somewhat like a cross.
"It's the crest of Reliability," Max said, "what ever that's for" he added.
"Oh, ok," Mariah said, and it was obvious that she was still slightly confused. They sat down on the grassy bank of the river in order for Max to dry off in the sun.
"So what happened?" Rei asked still slightly confused.
"Well I dived into the river, since that's where my pendant seemed to be leading me to and I was swimming around until I saw this large slab of rock with a larger version of the crest carved onto it and it started glowing as well. But that's not all, there were these strange symbols at the base, at first I couldn't read them then I could! It was written there that this was the crest of reliability. However I had to resurface because I was nearly out of air and that's when I noticed that the slot in my pendant was filled," Max told them excitedly.
"Ok, let me get this straight, we're stuck… here… with these necklaces that lead us to these things called 'crests' which are what… personality traits… so what do the devices do?" Mariah questioned looking down at Galux who was trapped in her small pink device.
"Yeh… well I don't know what's up with that," Max replied feeling that he should say something as he looked down at Draciel.
Meanwhile on the way back through the forest Tyson was in a very cheerful mood and continued to ignore Hilary and Kenny as they hassled him for not sticking together as one group.
"But I got my crest thing that slots into the pendant!" Tyson protested, "Anyway I didn't see you two annoying Kai and Tala about not sticking as a group!" He added defensively as they walked out into the sun.
"Tyson!" Max called out jumping up and heading over to see his buddy.
"I got my thing!" Tyson said proudly showing Max his pendant, crest in place, just as Tala emerged from one section of the forest, Kai came from another, attracted by the sudden noise.
"What crest is it?" Max asked eyeing the orange sun in Tyson's pendant, by now Mariah, Rei, Kai and Tala had approached to see what it was that Tyson had.
"Courage," Tyson said beaming, Kai smirked raising an eyebrow, 'Tyson and courage' he could laugh.
"And why do you have that?" Kai asked, curious about what he had missed out on.
"O you don't know do you," Tyson said before launching into a tail about how he found his crest which left Kai wishing that he hadn't asked.
"So all we have to do is find the remaining 6 crests things and then can we go home?" Mariah asked looking at Rei.
"It never is, is it," Hilary said dryly. Tyson stood up and looked back up the river to the waterfall and then down stream through the forest before looking up at the sky, it was around late afternoon.
"I think we should keep going as far as we can and then stop for the night," Tyson said as Max stood up in agreement, so did Hilary, Kenny and Rei.
"Which way though, the other crests could be anywhere" Marish stated though she also stood up, brushing a few pink bangs out of her face as she did so.
"I say down steam until someone's pendant starts to glow," Tyson said beginning to walk along the riverbank, Max and the rest of the bladebreakers plus Mariah and Tala followed, it was actually a reasonable suggestion.
The group kept following the river through the trees as it snaked in and out of view as it headed for the horizon where the sun was beginning to set.
"I think we should stop now," Tyson, who was at the head of the group, called back to the others before turning and heading towards them.
"The river stops and what is left is desert," Max, who had been with Tyson, told them.
"I think we should see if we can find some food," Rei said standing up,
"Good idea!" Tyson called out.
"We'll see if we can find some fruit or something," Hilary said as she, Mariah and Rei left
After some time Rei, Mariah and Hilary had managed to find some things that resembled fruit, though were a bit reluctant to eat them until Tyson scoffed one telling them that he felt perfectly fine. They divided it between themselves before sitting back to try and enjoy their meal. It was now dark so they wouldn't be travelling again so once they finished eating they slowly fell asleep, saving their energy until they needed it.