Chapter 13

The town was breath taking. Lush green grass covered the hilly town. Smoke rose from a few chimneys, and there was a lake on the far side. As we walked though town, everyone was cheery and greeted us. We smiled and exchanged hellos and names. Sereg and Yoshida went off to find shelter for the night while Mana went to go find some place with food.

I roamed town alone. I was surprised by how many demons there were. It was a little less than half the people I saw, and they all lived happily together. One demon saw my bunny and asked if he could see its other form. I was a bit shocked, but allowed Nami to change. He threw complements at her, saying how clean and glossy her coat was, and how she was so sweet.

I finally went down to the lake. It was so blue, and the water was so calm. I looked around to see if anyone was watching before slipping into the water. Nami swam in also. The only sound was the wind, the chirp of birds and the soft splashing made by swimming. I got out to around the middle and floated on my back, enjoying the scenery, the day.

"EVA!!!!" I heard a chorus shout. I looked towards shore and saw Mana in the water swimming already and Sereg and Yoshida ridding themselves of their shirts before canonballing in. I blinked a few times. Mana reached me and hugged me.

"Ahh!" I yelped as she pulled me underwater.

I opened my eyes and could see the guys as they swam up. I smiled and shot to the surface. Water droplets flew as I exploded out of the water. Grinning like and idiot I took a breath before diving underwater. I twirled and looked back up towards the water. Mana suddenly dove underwater. I epped and started swmiing.

I did a twirl and turned to the left before gradually heading towards the surface. Mana grabbed my foot. I yelped and took in a bunch of water. Kicking free I shot to the surface and coughed.

Mana showed up in front of me. "You alright?" I nodded. "Ya sure" I coughed one last time.

"Yeah I am sure" I shook my head as I treaded water. Nami appeared next to me looking like a wet dog. She barked before swimming back to the guys who were holding dunking wars. Mana turned around also before ducking underwater and heading back towards the center of the lake.

All of a sudden it felt as though someone was watching me. I turned around and gasped. There stood a demon in full glory. Red mist curcling around him, horns sticking out of his head and his evil grin fit in perfectally. I growled.

"Oh come now, like tahts going to scare me? My boss is scared to death of you, and I don't see why… " He said scanning the lake. His eyes snapped back to me. "So you will be coming with me" He hissed.

"Fraid not" I said and did a back flip into the water and swimming away. I broke the surface to see him still standing on the edge of the lake. I smirked. Two huge wings unfolded around him and in a second he was air born. I gasped. He soared over me and dove towards Mana and the guys. "WATCH OUT!" I yelled their direction. I was a little too late.

He dove down and grabbed mana right out of the water. I yelped and watched as he flew off towards the mountains. I stayed there stunned. How dare they do this? Using my friends instead of going after me. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS OUT OF THIS YA COWARDS!!!" I screamed at the sky.

Sereg and Yoshida appeared next to me. With their help we made it to the shores of the lake. Sereg just sat behind me arms wrapped around my shoulders. Yoshida sat kind of slouched staring at the ground. Everyone was silent. "cowards.. that's what they are.. going after my friend…" I hissed.

"Old trick…only problem being we were alreading going there!!!" Yoshida growled.

"We have to go get her.. quick, I don't want to know what they are going to do to her" Everone nodded before standing.

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Being snatched out of the water like a fish was a tad frightening, but shortly after that I was knocked unconscious, only to wake up to a bare cell thing. I snorted and glared at the wall.

"So what do we do now? Just wait till those squirts get here?" I heard a voice ask. I followed the sound and found a small vent thingy. I sat down next to it, wanting to hear this.

"Yes"

"Why cant we like torture her or something? Its going to get annoying just having her sit there" I growled at the unseen person.

"Do you really want those three on our bad side? Two are demons, and the other well hes just there..but" I gave a small laugh. They were scared of eva and they thought Sereg was a wimp but that's ok.

"She seemed weak to me sir."

"Yes she does seem weak doesn't she?" he paused, "Shes dangerous though, she has that creature with her, the blood of more than a vampire than a demon, and she has one of us on her side. I am just surprised that nothings happened yet.."

"Maybe nothing will"

"She was heading here for a reason, she was planning on something, taking the girl was just to get her mind off of her original plan" I heard a door shut and the conversation stopped.

I leaned back against the wall and sighed. This wasn't going to be fun.

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We were all trying to rapidly dry off. Nami was standing there constantly shaking trying to get the water out of her hair. Eva was sqweezing water out of her hair and using her cloak as a towel. I shook my hair with my hands and the only other thing that was dry was my shirt. We had to come up with a plan, we all knew we couldn't just run in there wet and unprepared, but we couldn't just sit and wait.

"Damn long, wet hair that doesn't want to dry!!" Eva growled. I laughed. She glared at me.

"We still need a plan!" Yoshida said shaking his hair rapidly. I nodded. Eva sighed and sat down on the grass, nami walking over and leaning on her.

"Your still wet!!" Eva yelped falling over. Nami licked her cheek and proceded to do this till eva got up and ran. Yoshida and I stood back watching as Nami chased eva over and around the hill we were on.

Finally it came to a stop when I caught her, put her behind me and stopped Nami. Nami looked miffed but gave up and licked my hand. I laughed and patted her head. "well are we dry?" I asked. Yoshida nodded.

"My hairs still not.. sorry" Eva said causiouly walked around me. I patted her head.

"Your right, well lets sit, come up with a plan and we will leave shortly after that, alright?" Everone nodded. ((a/n: yes miya, we were all playing while you were in danger :P shows how much we care! Lol jk jk ))

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Alls I could hear was the dull 'thud, thud' of peoples feet as they walked overhead, and beside the room I was in. I was going insane, there was nothing to fiddle with, study or anything. So I was becoming very familiar with the wall.

"How long have you been here?" I paused. "I just got here, I feel sorry for you" I placed a hand on the wall. The door to my left creeked open. My head snapped that way and cautiously watched as someone walked into the room. I hissed.

"Calm down.. jeez" The figure said and the door closed. "You're here for no real reason…so we cant purposely torture you, so warning there going to try to get you to do something so they can hurt you.. but in the mean time.. food is served" I blinked in confusion. How many demons were nice when they weren't watched?

"Danka" He looked at me funny. I smiled. He turned on a heal after setting the food down and walked out.

Getting up I walked over and examined the food. Looked like chicken, corn, drink type thing. I shrugged and sitting down munched into the food. Tasted fine too. I looked towards my pack that sat against the wall, nothing of importance had been in there, so I had, forgetting it was on me, swam out with it on. So now it was soaked and sitting against the wall. I sighed.

I munched the corn before hearing a whimper. I looked around and my eyes landed on my pack. The top flap suddenly opened and a drenched little bat flopped out. I dropped everything and ran over, picking up the small black bat. It looked up at me and sqweeked happily.

"You.. followed me?" It nodded and grabbing my shirt climbed up my shirt to my shoulder where it snuggled against my neck and fell asleep. "Thanks" I chirped and went over to my food. What did ya kow? The bat wasn't that bad.

Aya continued to snore on as I ate. And I was rather happy to have that little bit of company. Even a small black bat can keep your sanity alive, at least it made some sort of noise back at me.

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"Has anyone seen Aya?" I asked as I looked though my stuff. "She was just over here"

"You lost your pet?" Yoshida asked walking past me. I glared at him. "Sorry" He appoligized and walked away towards the town.

"Dumb bat.." I hissed before pulling my pack onto my back. Sereg walked up. "We ready?" I asked. He nodded slowly.

"Yup, this is it…we know what were going to do once were there, and havn't a clue how to get there unnoticed.." He stated. I laughed.

"We don't go unnoticed, we go like this, straight up, they baited us, they are getting us. Come on you've got two demons fighting with ya, you cant loose!"

"You lost to a demon" Sereg stated. I glared at him before smaking his arm. "Yikes that hurt!" He yelped before running again.

"HEY!!" I called running after him and Yoshida.

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Alya- extreamly short chapter, I am sorry miya is bugging me to update grrrrr ah well I needed to so I did weee. Oh and watch out ryan, your getting attacked again.

Ryan- what? No!!

Miya- yes!

Ryan- no!

Miya and Alya- YES!!!

Ryan- Ok!!