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Kashi's attention suddenly turned away from the nervous Kakaeru, to the cave entrance.

"No..." she gasped taking a step back away from the approaching figure. The figure slowly stepped into the light, revealing a young girl. She was a very tan blonde headed girl. She looked about 12 years old and wore a pink swimsuit with yellow flowers. Her body was drenched and dripping with water. As she walked she left puddles of water.

The girl looked angry and her neck was obviously broken and her eyes dead. Her tan skin had paled considerably, now looking blue and her wet hair hung in front of her face.

"You..." She stepped forward shoving past Yoru sending him crashing into the stone ground. "Hey! You brat that's not very polite of you!" Kakaeru growled her short swords popping out. She held them out at her, wondering why this girl had Kashi shaking so.

"Shut up! I don't care if I'm polite or not." hissed the blonde, her voice sounding not human. Hame notices as she spoke water dripped out her mouth in large amounts. She held up her hand and flicked water on Kakaeru's neck. "YAH! That's cold!" Kakaeru said shivering but, she stopped, her eyes growing wide. She grabbed her throat, eyes getting larger. She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but instead water rushed past her lips.

She fell on the ground mouth still spewing water. Kakaeru looked like she was struggling to escape some thing, she looked like she was drowning. Hame flung himself in front of Kashi and glared at the girl, as Yoru rose quickly up going to Kakaeru, crying out her name.

"Kashi...you left me behind!!" hissed the dead girl, eyes shining with rage, and betrayal. Kashi seemed to had forgotten what she has said about Hame's brothers and sisters, for she starred at the girl with a look of bitter hope, and sorrow.

"Please leave Kakaeru alone she had nothing to do with this! To do with us!" Kashi begged. Yoru held Kakaeru's wrist his face twisting with anger as she began to still, eyes droop, and her pulse slow. Turning his head ever so slowly, he starred out at the small child.

"YOU!!" He charged for her and she flicked water on his legs. He suddenly couldn't move, water forming under his feet. "What the?!" She turned and flicked water on his neck and out of his open mouth water began to pour. He too fell rolling on the ground, moving as if he was drowning.

"KASHI YOU LEFT ME!!" Hame held his arms in front of her ready to protect her, but Kashi ran forward, pushing past him and grabbing the girl. "NO!! May!" Kashi cried shouting this girl's name, "I didn't know you were still in the water! I thought you went home!! I didn't know you had drowned and snapped your neck, until the next day in the papers!! I swear! May you must believe me!! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU DIED!!"

Hame watched her as she sobbed hugging the smaller girl, begging for forgiveness. While she begged, Kakaeru stilled, only raising her hands now and then, still struggling to live. Yoru had slowed and if he could, he would moan from pain. "Kashi..." he whispered softly looking at the girl he had come to know. He watched her sink to her knees, hugging the girl around her waist, all the while May starring coldly at her.

"LIAR!!" May screamed and a sharpened rock appeared in her hand but, before it was thrust into Kashi, Hame grabbed her, tossing her away.

"Uhh..." He gasped as the blade entered his hip and he fell with it sticking out his body. He turned to look at the teary eyed Kashi. "Remember what you said to m...me..? How this isn't real...? That damed cave is to blame, That is not May. I'm sure the real May knows that you would h..have saved her...I know you would have done it for her...:I: know you would have saved her." Kashi's eyes widened and then narrowed in anger.

"Your right..." She turned and saw Kakaeru was no longer moving except her hand gave a twitch every now and then. Her eyelids fluttered, and began to close just slightly. Yoru was moving slower, and being a fire demon, if he tried any fire attacks it would only cause steam to come out his hands. Seeming to give up, he took Kakaeru's hand as she was beginning to turn cold.

Kashi remembered that day, how the people in her town had found May that day. Dead, eyes wide open, and neck snapped. Two rocks had hooked onto her bathing suit the only thing keeping her from sinking to the bottom. Flowers had been sprinkled over her body and she had been buried. Kashi cried her heart out as her best friend was buried.

The small blonde had talked of adventure and leaving behind a legacy.

The legacy she had left was that tiny waterfall, the children used to play at was now named after her, and fixed to be safer. 'Some legacy,' Kashi remembered the very words she sobbed. She ached in her body, all over, she ached with pain for years. For years she blamed herself and she still did...but not...Hame seemed more important then anything else right now. As did Kakaeru, and Yoru.

Kashi sat up enraged and looked down at May. At this fake May. "You are not my friend." With a swift movement she Pulled the dagger in Hame's hip out and buried it in the girls belly. This image...this mockery of her friend's memory was a disgrace. Kashi knew May...and May would never seek revenge. As the figure disappeared, Kashi closed her eyes feeling empty despite the fact that this was not May.

Even if it wasn't...she felt as if she had seen her friend again...."Good bye May..." Kashi whispered sorrowfully as she disappeared.

As soon as May disappeared Kakaeru's eyes shot open, and she spat out the water all over the ground. Yoru turned his head wearily to the side letting it drain out. He coughed, finding himself unable to roll onto his belly or on his knees. Kakaeru crawled over to him, patting the fire demon's back, trying to help get all the water out.

Meanwhile Hame slowly got up and Kashi grabbed hold of him under his arms. "I'm so, so, so, sorry! Please Hame-" He placed a hand on her cheek and quite seriously whispered. "There's nothing to be sorry about....Nothing at all..." Kashi blushed, captured in his strong gaze. She soon turned unable to look into those silver eyes any longer, a blush painting her cheeks.

Kakaeru, after helping Yoru, now was heaving on the stone floor, Yoru pulling her away from the mess. Sitting back against him, both feeling half dead she murmured, "Do these vision-nightmare-things-WHAT EVER THEY ARE-have a problem with humans or something? 'Cuz it seems to me that I keep getting the short end of the stick here!"

"Quit complaining you baby!" Hame said sounding annoyed, and finally took his eyes off Kashi to roll them. By the time all were on their feet something was heading out of the cave. This something was big, and heavy. The ground quivered underneath them as it walked, and the sounds of rocks being rubbed against each other, a grating sound, fille the air. Other than that there as no noise.

"Oh please tell me your afraid of clowns or something, I can hardly stand and I'm blacking out...please tell me we're not gonna fight again!" Kakaeru moaned. "Even I must admit I'm getting fed up with this..." Hame said looking angry, clinging to Kashi. He swayed a bit on his feet, Kashi holding him up the best her tired body would allowed, eyes in pain from the brutal attacks he'd faced.

Kakaeru was taking in shuddering breaths having nearly drowned from that water attack. Yoru held her up for she swayed on her feet, the blood loss was not helping either. Her still open wounds soaked into Yoru's clothes. He shuddered at the thought of the substance sticking to him.

Kashi had to release Hame so she could lean against a tree, the wound in her gut having lost a lot of blood. She painfully shoved her knuckles through it, clogging up the blood. Painful, but it cleared her vision, and stopped the blood flow for now. Yoru was also blacking out every now and then from his head wound. "I don't know...I don't know what I'm afraid of...I can't think of anything..." Yoru stated surprising everyone. "Well looks like we're about to find out eh?" Kashi grunted as the figure approached the light...

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Yoru's fear is coming, and by far it is the worst.