Cold crimson orbs flicked open; it was morning. Kai sat up and looked around, it hadn't been a dream, they were all still here, he sat up and looked around; the sun was only just rising. To his left lay Tala who still sleeping, Kai stood and stretched his arms looking around the rest of the group; they were all still asleep. Kai walked to the edge of the river, the sun shone through the gap in the trees on the horizon, its golden light glittered of the water that flowed slowly between the grassy banks.
Hardened ice blue orbs snapped open; it was morning. Tala sat up shaking his head lightly only to find Kai was no longer asleep beside him. Now standing, Tala could see Kai stationed by the river, not moving, but very much on the alert, however, Tala also noticed that they were not the only two to be awake at this time.
Rei and Kenny were also up and it was Kenny's idea to wake the others for an early start to find the remaining crests and after some disagreement from Tyson, they were once more walking along the riverbank. They had only just reached the end of the river and were debating whether to cross the desert or not.
"Huh, hey guys, I think my crests around here some where, "Rei said taking the necklace and pendant off from his neck and showing it to the others, it was glowing and as it turned out so was Mariah's pendant though only very dimly.
"I think mine leads into the desert," She said noticing that the glow got brighter when she went towards the desert.
"Well that clears things up then," Kenny said sitting down on the edge of the forest .
"What do you mean clears things up, clears what up?" Hilary asked, moving to stand in front of Kenny.
"Where we're going next," Kenny said, "After Rei finds his crest we'll have to go into the desert to find Mariah's" he told her, "and hopefully once that's done we'll be able to find away back to Japan, I've tried emails but there's no real connection here and I haven't seen any other forms of life around yet," he added.
"Oh I get it now," Hilary said, before sitting down beside Kenny,
"You guys can stay here and rest, I'll go search for my crest, it shouldn't be to far off," Rei said about to leave
"Wait! I'm coming with you!" Mariah said, hopping up off the ground from where she had been sitting in the shade of a tree.
"We'll see you guys shortly," She said, as she and Rei headed along the forest line.
Kai looked around where the forest line directly met the desert before walking among the trees in the opposite way to which Rei and Mariah had gone. As the tree he had spotted loomed up ahead, Kai glanced back over his shoulders, no one had followed him though Tala wasn't with the group. Sitting beneath the tree Kai pulled out his crest from within his shirt and watched as it lay in his hands,
"If Tyson has courage and Max reliability then what would I have," he mumbled. Kai stared ahead out into the desert before shoving his pendant into his shirt and pulling out his device, it had been beeping. Kai looked at the small screen a bleeping dot seemed to be moving towards him, Kai glanced back down towards the others the sight of Tala confirmed his suspicions; the devices could pick up others. Tala sat down beside Kai and neither of them said anything, neither had spoken since Kai had left the Demolition Boys.
Meanwhile Mariah had stopped to sit under a tree for a break while Rei searched for his crest, when she looked up Rei wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Rei?" she asked standing up and looking in and out of the trees,
"Rei! REI!" She yelled and yet still no reply,
"Yeh?" Rei questioned emerging from somewhere within the trees.
"Where have you been?" she asked clearly not in a good mood,
"Finding my crest," Rei said smiling as he lifted up his pendant, Mariah stared at it and sure enough there was a crest inserted in its centre like Tyson's and Max's, it was a light yellow-orange colour and looked like a sun sitting on top of some stand.
"Five more until we can figure out how to use them to get home!" She said happily, " we better get back and tell the others," she added, as they headed back to where they could see their small group.