Hypothermia chapter 8

Mannen slowly opened his eyelids after sleeping against the tree all night. The morning sun shown in his eyes and stung them slightly. Everything was peaceful and spring-like he thought while a wind blew passed. It was then when he noticed something different. He looked over to his right side and there next to him, curled up, was Reki.

'Wow, she's cute.' He thought then thought about it some more coming into the realization of what was happening. "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Mannen jumped away out of nervousness while blushing and looked at Reki from a distance as she slowly awoke to his yelling.

"You were warm." She said while now sitting on her knees. Reki said it so innocently. She tilted her head like a confused dog, which only made Mannen blush more.

"Um...Why don't you show me that place you were talking about yesterday?" Mannen suggested, trying to get away from the topic, which he was embarrassed by the way he was handling it. He mentally hit himself.

"Can you walk?"

"Yeah, I'm better today thanks to you."

"Okie dokie!" The fox-girl said while jumping up and grabbing Mannen's arm and they began to run.


Kei was in a Leafanian town somewhere. It looked like a futuristic version of a medieval village with Leafanians. Some of the Leafanians looked like humans, some looked like part human part animal, and other looked like animals. Others looked like mythical creatures. Leafania was different from the human world. It was more entwined with nature.

Kei sighed out of frustration.


Mannen and Reki had reached their destination, Reki's treasure hold. The girl moved some rocks that held down a large wooden board. She then dragged the board away to reveal a large hole which held many items.

"I found all these." She said, looking up at Mannen who looked down at the items. Some looked like junk that had been discarded on purpose while other items looked like they had been lost involuntarily that looked cool.

Before he could look around more a Leafanian monster tried to attack them unexpectedly. It was huge and dark as though it was encased in shadows with glowing red eyes that pierced through the shadows. It was hard to see much of the shape but it was easy to notice its' long arms with big claws with which he attacked the two with. Mannen pulled Reki out of the way but the claws smashed right into Reki's treasure hold.

Reki was saddened and angered at what the monster had done. She rushed forward to try and attack the monster.

"Reki! Don't!" Mannen grabbed her hand, which then gave off a blinding light then faded to reveal a fox-like ice prétear.

'You're a prétear?' Mannen yelled from inside Reki. Reki looked around trying to find Mannen.

"Where did you go, Mannen?" She asked while looking at the clothes that had appeared on her. "And what is a prétear?"

"I'll explain later! Just attack the monster!"

"Ok!" Reki ran toward the monster at an incredible speed jumped above the monster then froze it accidentally then kicked it and made it shatter. They unpréted and stood next to each other.


Go had heard noises that sounded like a battle so with Hajime and Shin now awake they searched to find the source of it.

"What do you think it was, Go?" Hajime asked.

"I'm not sure but it might have something to do with the others so we should hurry."

"Right." The two younger boys nodded in agreement.


Hayate and Himino had also heard the noise and were also searching for it. They were running through the dense forest.

"Hayate, do you think that someone is fighting?"

"Probably. But I'm not sure if they need our help or not. Leafania is full of both weak and strong monsters as well as civilians."

"I see. I haven't seen much of Leafania. I was never here much until now." Himino said while slowing down to a walk. She was breathing hard from all the running. Hayate held out his hand to her.


"Are we lost?" Takako asked Sasame.

"Maybe just a little."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Takako looked at him but their conversation was cut short when a bright light lit up the forest. "What was that?" She asked when Sasame picked her up and flew above the trees just in time to see the wind prétear fly by.

"Himino!" Takako and Sasame said together. Himino stopped and flew back toward them.

"Hey guys!" Himino said happily. "We heard something and were going to check it out. We think that the others may be there." She was a little more serious now. "Fallow me!" She said while flying off again now with two others fallowing her.


Mannen had explained the prétear to Reki and at the moment she was looking at her destroyed treasures. Everything had gotten destroyed when the monster attacked but she still looked for anything that was still fine. Mannen was standing behind her and stepped forward only to step on something. He looked beneath his foot to see a bracelet that was probably something Reki had found that did not get destroyed. It was a silver circle with small gold leaves on a gold vine that rapped around that silver circle that was the base of the bracelet.

He picked it up and walked over to her. Mannen took one of Reki's wrists and slid the bracelet on. She smiled then jumped and hugged Mannen. Mannen blushed once again but also smiled.

When they broke apart they began to walk away from the battlegrounds. They walked in silence side-by-side for a while until Reki noticed another scratch on Mannen's upper arm.

"Mannen, you are bleeding."

"Huh? Oh. I must have gotten it from the monster."

"I know a town near by. We should go get supplies." Reki said now knowing that almost everything she had collected was gone. Mannen nodded and they continued on their way.


-Back at the battle site-

Go, Hajime, Shin, Himino, Hayate, Takako, and Sasame had all met up at the source of the noises they had heard. They looked around to see nothing but damaged land a pieces of junk everywhere.

"Do you think Mannen was here?" Sasame asked the others. Hajime and Shin were looking around at the junk.

"I hope he's ok..." Himino added.

"We all do Himino." Go added.

"Hey guys!" Hajime called. "Look what we found!" Shin was holding up something shiny.

"We don't wanna see junk you found right now!" Go called to them.

"But Go! It isn't junk!" Shin called to him.

"Yeah! Come look!" They decided to see what the two had found that was so important.

"What is it?" Go asked them. Shin held up a piece of ice. The all gasped. "Mannen!"

"Look here!" Hajime pointed to a rock that had small spots of blood on it. Their eyes widened.

"We should find him fast." Sasame put in and they all nodded.

"But which way did he go?" Hayate asked the group. No one said anything; no one knew.

Just then, the green typi sat on Go's head and Go tried pitifully to look at it. The typi soon fluttered off and onto the ground then began to walk again.

"I wonder where our typi went." Shin said.

"Last time he was at the mansion before Mannen got sick." Hajime answered. "Maybe he got sent to Leafania too."

Awayuki Mansion-

Typi is sleeping on one of the mansion's beds in a quiet room.

Back to the forest of Leafania-

"I think the typi knows where he's going. He did before. Let's fallow him." Go told everyone.

"Great...following a typi." Hayate mumbled.

"You say something?" Go turned to him.

"N-no." He stuttered back while looking away. He didn't want to get on the fire knight's bad side, especially not now. With that fight avoided, they fallowed the typi.

To be continued-