Mana still seemed a bit tense but her arm was nicely bandaged. Lunch was made of sandwiches. Eva's was made and eaten probably in less than 2 minuets. I was shocked and Mana just made sure she sat there while everyone else finished. I felt something on my leg and looked down to see Nami looked up at me with the cub slightly behind him. I rose an eyebrow.

"Is it natural for wolves and bunnies to get along?" I asked.

"Well not normally but Aiya seemes ok with Nami, and Nami doesn't seem to notice that Aiya is a wolf" Mana chirped. I tore off a small piece of my sandwich for both animals and tossed it to each of them. Nami took the peice of meet and ran off to a corner to naw on it. The wolf just swallowed it whole.

Dinner went by slowly but cheerfully. Eva excused her self from the table and never came back. Mana, the old couple, and I continued to chat till Eva came running into the area, panting but a huge smile spread across her face. "I just....found something....awsome...." She panted.

"What?" Mana asked.

"You wanted to find something out about the demons, no?" mana nodded. "Then you –might- want to follow me."

"Excuse us" Mana said and stood. I stood also. Eva grinned and led us out of the house.

"Well.. i was down by the cursed part of town... and found something out..." She paused for a breath. "I know this is going to sound so stupid... but there is a demon ghost haunting one of the houses...and he said the oddest thing..." She looked down at Mana and grinned. " He said, 'oh, your one of us, come, listen to the story', at first i was clueless to what he ment... but...i listened, and what he said was a little more than odd...." She stopped as we came closer to the cursed section. She led us into a house.

A ghostly figure appeared and growled. Eva looked calm, "Its ok, they are friends of mine.." The ghost didn't seem to satisfied but looked at Eva.

"Why did you come back?" It asked. Eva grinned. I has a sick feeling about this... "You want them to know too don't you?" Eva nodded. The ghost huffed but settled down onto a chair, how i shall never know. "Fine, you two, what are your names?"

"Sereg" I answered slowly. mana followed shortly after.

"Are you aware of what happened hear years ago?" It asked. We nodded. "Well, it is rare but i was lead into a trap and killed, there fore i have stayed here. Now beware i am only telling you this because i dissagree with what the demons have done." I nodded. "Long ago demons were just a race, living peacefully with others, we just prefered darker, colder places, but we traded with normal people and looked a lot alike them. But one small demon tainted the name. He decided he was going to do everything he could to make people fear him. But in his journey to do this, he gathered people to help him, and in no time... he had a rather large following. They recked havok on towns, forests, anything they could get their hands on. And after a time.. they made it so that all people feared demons, so we had to become vicious so we could survive people trying to kill us. But i never thought it right to attack instead of just trying to dissapear. Some demons who managed to pass for humans, lived amungst them, and even married normal people...only problem was that the child was born with a unnatural lust for blood, when the towns people found out about the demonic child they often tried to kill the child, but mostly attacked the parents. Few normal demons still roam, and because they are seen as trators by others, they are often sought out and killed. Sadly anyone who knew about them were killed also." The ghost paused for a moment. "Sorry, i have gotten a little off track, but as you see, the demons you seek are truly evil, they need to be taught a lesson...so i shall tell you where to go...Go to the mountains that are in the west, there you will find a cave along the easter side of the mountain range, the demons reside there..." Eva grinned happily as the ghost finished. "I hasten you to move, this problem needs to be taken care of, good luck." With that the ghost fadded from sight.

"See?! cool or what?" Mana looked slightly terrified and happy at the same time, i was just glad to see that we may have the chance to get out of here.

"Well, thats one way to figure out where were going...now...how to get there..." I mentioned. Eva grined and pulled out a map.

"Ok! so from here we go along this trail that leads through a frew more towns then to the mountains, then we go over the mountains and search for the demons..." I nodded slowly.

"Thats going to take forever..." mana commented.

"Are yall still up to it?" Eva asked. mana and i exchanged looks before nodding. "Good, we start out tomorrow."

-

I waved to the old couple as we left the house. They were so kind to help us. Nami hopped behind Eva's feet as she led the way, and Aiya stayed between Sereg and i. I was happy enough to be on the road again, but the fact that we might run into more bandits or demons, was not comforting.

It was still early in the morning and the breeze held a tinge of coldness to it, and the fresh, cool, air felt good on the skin. Eva seemed to bounce along and Nami had a hard time keeping up. Aiya ran ahead and ran circles before coming back and repeating the process. I was happy and Sereg seemed to enjoy the weather too.

Senery passes slowly as we exited the other side of the town and continued on the leaf ridden trail. The mood cheerfull, i decided we should have a little fun. Picking up a stick i tossed it over Sereg's head and called for Aiya to fetch.

Aiya being a dog, followed only the stick and ignored the person. Aiya planted all four onto Sereg's back and yelped and Sereg toppled followed. As Aiya jumped off his back Sereg rolled over and glared at me and Eva, who was cracking up.

Sereg grabbed a stick nearby and tossed it at Eva. She ducked and grabbed a stick of her own. happy about being left out of this i found a nice place to watch. Sereg and Eva exchanged a few words, both having sticks in hand.

Suddenly both looked at me and threw their sticks. I let out a 'eep' before ducking. laughing i stood and ran from them. I didn't get far when Eva tackled me, sending us both into a mound of fall leaves.

I shot from the leaves, laughing. "AHHHH" I suddenly screamed as Sereg jumped over us and into the leaves.

"CAWOBUNGA!!!" He yelled before a colorfull aray of leaves exploded. When he popped his head above the leaves i tackled him, Aiya jumping on him too.

Everyone participating, we started a leaf fight. How? I really dont know. It was like a mixture of tag, and foot ball. One person was it and whoever tackled them into the leaves first was saved and whoever was left out was now the target to tackle. Hours passed as we sent each other backwards, sideways, and flipping into the leave pile.

"That...was great" Eva laughed as she sat on the ground, tugging leaves out of her hair. I was laying on my back trying to catch my breath, with Aiya snoring softly next to me. Sereg was on his back also, catching his breath.

"Very, kudos to whoever came up with that..." I breathed.

"Nami.. come 'er" Eva said softly. "Sorry bout running around so much, you understand we were only having fun." I tuned her out.

After everyone was rested and preened, we moved on. The next town was more than a days walk, and we had wasted a few hours. though bruised and sore, we move on, still happy, and chatting.

"Hey eva?" I asked quietly after a while of walking. She looked at me. "Were surounded..." She whipped around and surveyed the area. Quietly and quickly she drew her sword. All around us were bandits. Without knowing, i think we wandered into bandit territory.

Sereg drew his sword also. I picked up Nami. "Alright..." Eva looked at Sereg and grinned. "Lets play" They both took off in seperate directions. I let out a small eep as i realized i was left alone.

Though alone, it was interesting to watch the two styles of fighting Sereg and Eva had. Eva was more sneaky, ducking, jumping and weaving in and out to get the best position for a one-hit-kill. Sereg was more straight on, using skill to disarm the bandits before be-heading them. Despite their fast killing techniques, some bandits got through and saw me as fresh meat.

Four bandits were in a small circle around me. Scared beyond belife i was about to scream for help when Nami jumped out of my arms. Landing on the ground i watched and black started at her nose and spread down along her back and between her ears. Then she started to change, her legs and body getting longer. Then a cat like creature stood in front of me, bearing a strong resemblence to the little bunny who was in my arms seconds earlier.

It growled at the bandits before leaping on one, jaws locked on his neck. He screamed and everyone halted and turned. The bandits still around me ran, the others took head not to go towards me. Sereg and Eva took advantage of this and slaughtered the rest of the people.

When done, both came over to stare at the strange creature. Eva was covered in blood and happily lapping it up. Sereg took one look at the creature before happily exclaiming, "I KNEW IT" Everyone stared.

"They day the demons attacked i saw that...and then when i met you and your bunny, something was so familiar about it, and now, its back, and no Nami!" Eva thought for a second before petting the creatures head.

"Nami?" She asked. It nodded. "Wow...." was her only word. Sereg smiled. I was still a little creeped out about it, but...it was Nami after all.

Despite my protesting we sat there, amongst all the dead bodies and blood, talking. Eva was still cleaning herself from the blood, and Nami was still in its other form. "Well...what is nami then?" I finally asked.

"Some demonic creature maybe?" Eva sugested.

"We could go back and throw her into the cursed area... see what happenes.." Eva glared at him. "Just kidding."

"Well, its not like we have anything to fear.. Nami has obviously been like this forever, so i think we should just continue on, she can stay like that so she can keep up, but other than that, around people she has to go back into bunny form, hear that Nami?" Nami nodded.

"Sounds good to me...same nami right?" Eva nodded. "Ok, lets move out then" I said standing.

-

Around 8 at night we stopped and went a little bit off the road so no one would run over us during the night. After dinner Sereg and Mana fell asleep. I stayed up and scaled a tree. Coming close to the top i stopped. Holding out my two fingers a blue line shot out about a foot in length. Swiping it across the trunk of the tree i waited. Seconds later, the upper part severed and fell to the lower canopy. I sighed and sat on the newly cut trunk.

It was getting colder, and we were still in short sleeved, and thin tunics. When we went into the next town, we were going to have to buy new clothes. My clothes could stay, i could stand the cold, but for Mana and Sereg we were probably going to have to get some clothes. That in mind i fell asleep, balanced on top of the tree.

The next morning i quickly scaled down the tree to meet Sereg and Mana already awake. "Sorry for sleeping late" I apologized.

"Its ok, lets get moving ok?" I nodded.

"Hey when we enter this next town, we need to get some colder weather clothes..."

"But that means we need something to carry the old clothes for when warmer weather rolls around..." Sereg mentioned. I nodded to that.

"Well if we each carried a small pack...." I mentioned.

"It could work" Mana agreed. "And i still need some sort of weapon."

"Yeah i know...i know" We had gotten loads of money from the bandits, but i wasn't sure if it would cover all we needed.

When we finally reached the town, we spread out. Mana went off to find food for our animals, and Sereg went to find out information on the surounding area. I went to go find clothes.

One shop caught my intrest and i walked in. "Good day." The shop keeper greeted. I nodded in return. "May i help you?"

"Yes, i need quite a few things..." I grinned.

"Like what?"

"A pair of pants, three cloaks, three packs, and one long sleeved tunic..." He rose an eyebrow. "My friends are wandering around town." He nodded.

"Alright what color pants?"

"Brown" He folded a pair of pants and put it on the counter. "Green tunic" he shuffled through a stack before setting that on the counter. "Now on cloaks.."

"We have some hung up over there, just find the ones you want." I nodded and walked over. A particular green/black Celtic dragon cloak caught my eye. Finding a few that i thought Mana and Sereg would like i pulled them off the rack and proceeded to the counter. The shopkeeper had three bags sitting along with the clothes.

"Heres just some nice, normal bags that are great for traveling" he said pointing to the sacks. I nodded and set the cloaks down.

Luckly all of it combined was cheeper then i expected. That paid for i left and proceded to see if we coudl buy some simple food items and drinks.

I bought a few variety of drinks that are ok warm, and a few non perishable foods. After i was done shoping i found Mana. She was carring around small jars. I gave them a quizical look.

"Food for the animals, said to be get for them" She happily proclaimed. I just nodded and handed her the pants, and her pack. She put the jars in the pack along with the pants.

"And knowing how cold you can get.." I rummaged through the three cloaks and pulled out one. Seeing it as mine, i threw it around my shoulder and picked up Mana's. It was just a plain black cloak. I tossed it at her and grinned.

"Danka!!!" She yelped. I nodded and directed her towards a park bench close to a tree. I sat down and directed her to do the same. She sat and happily pulled the cloak around her shoulders.

We sat happily for a while discusing what was bought, why and what was next. We decided that later we were going to go try to get her a small dagger of some sort. In the mean time we were going to stay put and wait for Sereg to get back.

Sereg showed up about an hour later. "Sorry that took so long" He apologized. I just nodded in acceptance. Mana tossed him a pack with his cloak and food in it. He curiously opened it and pulled out the cloak, long sleeve tunic and food that was in there.

"Injoy carring that around.." I commented. He looked at me funny. "I can have Nami carry it!" I chirrped. Sereg and Mana both glared at me. I just grinned.

"So where are we going now? I mean we just got here, bout lunch time, are we going to hike on...or stay the day?" Mana asked.

"I say we keep moving" Sereg said stuffing everything back into the pack.

"I agree" I said nodding in aproval.

"then lets get moving....again, this is getting repeditive.." Mana commented standing. I mentally agreed. "Which way?" She asked.

"mmm left" I said picking up my stuff. Slinging the pack over one shoulder i dug in my pockets and pulled out my gloves. I pulled them on and streached. "Lets go then.. i am sick and tired of roaming around...so if you don't mind.. i shall be practicing sword fighting..." I said throwing my cloak around my shoulders.

"May i ask with what?" Sereg asked. I shrugged.

"Anything that moves, in short i am going off to find some bandits..."

"ohhhh ok, just dont get too far ahead or behind" Mana said walking past me.

"Dont plan on it" I hissed. She just smiled at me.

-

While Eva was litterly jumping from tree to tree, Mana and i walked along the path, utterly bored. "Is there ANYTHING we can do?" I asked. mana shook her head.

"No.. i know.. its sooooo boring but i dont know what to do! i mean i think we have exsausted every subject out there.. and its not like we have the energy to run around like idiots.." She said leaing down to pick up Aiya.

-

I knew they were bored, they had to be. But i was running. Again. Its stupid, and i shouldn't be running, but to tell the truth..if Sereg wasn't here, i wouldn't need to run. This always happens when someone new shows up.. i am used to Mana now...but to be thrown into a situation where i have to travel with a stranger i barley know? Its too much to take.

Grabbing a branch I swung under it and launched to the next tree. I grabbed the branch to swing up onto it so i could go up, but that didn't work out as i had planned. My grip faultered and i fell to the ground with a hard thump. I groaned and rolled onto my back. "Oh mom.. i wish you were still here" I whispered.

Sitting up i rubbed my back and head. Looking around I found that my sword had freed itself and sat on the grass not to far from me. A smile graced my lips as I reached for it.

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Ryan- -yawn-

Alya- -throws a pillow at ryan and curls back up into a ball on the couch- go to sleep dangit and stop writing on my story

Miya- yeah all that clicking in annoying me!

Ryan- you're the ones that invited me over...

Miya- oh just shut up and go to bed....