Well... I guess I can't have more errors since the Strike-is-supposed-to-be-a-girl-but-you-can-do-what-you-like thing and changing Zeph's name to Zyph... and... well... I'm hopeless. A small chapter, chapter 11. I hope you like it... even though it's short.

Disclaimer:Every person that created a character knows that they own it... but for precautions... Mediciner-Stricken (the male and female versions). leirbag10-Zeph. Nanta-Bushi Tenshi Katsumi. And the others... you already know.

Kiomi, back to her friendly way:

"Awww... I'm sorry Zeph, I didn't mean to ignore you so much. It's just that... I was too occupied fighting monsters" I told him trying to cheer him up.

"No worries. I wasn't mad at you. I just met you" Zeph answered sticking me five.

"Hey, Zeph! You forgot this" said Strike throwing an item towards him.

He caught it and I saw that it was a Daeva's chain bracelet.

"Guess you're really lucky" Rayne said since she was listening to everything. "He doesn't treat most people like that".

"I kind of noticed" answered Zeph, not perceiving the message Rayne was sending to Strike, or as she calls him in a vexing way, Stricken.

I've been wondering... are those two in love or something? I mean, they're always fighting, complete opposites... they just seem to have broken up or something. It'd be real cool to try to get them in love... Oh! What a great idea. Fairy-cupid-Kiomi is on duty... just after we get the drops of myrrh we need for our town...

So we got to the myrrh tree and Ztal took the drop of myrrh. We decided to take a little break. It wouldn't hurt us to relax once in a while... So I convinced Viktor to play some music with his flute (yes, he plays the flute... and in a cool way too!) and I would start to dance. The festive break began and I started to do my dance, forgetting about everyone else around me, only listening to the music. I noticed that Ztal began playing his instrument, the xylophone (yet, it was a small portable one). I opened my eyes and to my surprise Rayne was dancing at my side. Strike remained quiet under the shade of a tree, while Zeph was enjoying everything. I closed my eyes and stayed having fun for about fifteen minutes... then the music stopped.

"Kiomi, watch out!" yelled Ztall.

The party got ruined, I opened my eyes and looked behind me. There was a Marlboro. He opned his big, stinky and nasty mouth. I was petrified, I didn't know what to do. Then the monster took some breath. Everybody else took cover but I couldn't do anything... I was just too scared. Then I felt that someone pushed me to a side. I fell to the floor, and saw the horrible attack of the monster. After he finished I saw Viktor on the floor. He had saved me, but the bad breath had gotten to him. I was so mad, he was always helping me and I couldn't do anything for him. I elevated and my hair got up. The others told me that my orb was completely red. I didn't notice really. I just remember me burning into crisps the marlboro. Then something fell on my head. It was a Marlboro tiara... a really rare item (it didn't stink, thank goodness). But then I remembered Viktor...

Viktor was on the ground, cold and sweating a lot. He looked more pale than the normal. Even his lips had a different color. They had a venom-like color... they were lavender. We had no more antidotes and he couldn't be cured by Ztal's bracelet because it only protects, doesn't cure. There were some medicinal herbs around and we gave them to him. They wouldn't cure him, but wouldn't let the toxic move through his body... More than it had already moved.

We were about to go out and continue our journey to the next tree of Myrrh. I knew that by the road there had to be someone selling antidotes. But then, we heard a screech. We stopped doing everything. It looked like someone could need our help. I didn't want to leave Viktor alone... so I stayed with him and Rayne kept me company. Poor Viktor, why do you always save me?

Ztal tries hard:

I left the girls and Viktor, and searched for the whereabouts of the scream. We had to cross the small lagoon and we heard another scream.

"It comes from underwater" said Strike taking a deep breath and going underwater.

I followed him putting my wings in a position so they wouldn't make me drown. I did notice that Zeph was on the shore, and fell. I got out of the water and saw a nymph sitting on a rock. She was crying.

'It's said that fairies and nymphs get along very easily... I'll go look fo Kiomi' I thought while flying silently and giving signals of silence to the others.

I found her and told her where the nymph was.

I waited patiently, and then she returned.

"So...?" I asked.

"She wants to get away from this place the fastest way possible... because of something she told me that I cannot tell to anybody else" answered Kiomi.

"Oh, okay... so that means she's coming with us, right?" I asked.

"You know it" said Kiomi helping the Nymph go into the caravan.

"Why do you even bother?" asked Strike.

"You know? I think I'm starting to understand you..." I said after a sigh.

We returned to the road and after an hour we got to our next destination, Syot Mountain. An easy task for me and Kiomi since we both have wings... and can use them to fly. Unlike Lilties and Yukes.

"Well, Kiomi, you have to come. This time we need you more than ever" I told her.

"It's okay but... who'll take care of Viktor?" she asked really worried, forgetting that there another six persons around her.

"I'll do it" Rayne offered herself. "You just get that last drop of Myrrh".

"So, Zeph and..." I left unfinished the sentence looking at the Nymph.

"Nanta" answered the bare-footed Nymph. She had brown eyes, dark brown hair that looked red in the sunlight, which had several lilak and violet braids, braided with ribbons. She wore a lilak and purple dress with a triangle-like strap at the waist that showed her skin by a diagonal cut. She also wore a violet coat with a hood, that she wasn't using at the moment.

"I should go with Kiomi, I'm smaller and weight less, no offense there Nanta" said Zeph.

"I agree" I said.

"I disagree, I feel safer with Kiomi. Please, understand my plead" Nanta said and I just couldn't say no.

We started flying towards the peak of the mountain. There weren't too much monsters... only flying monsters like Ahrimans, Bats and Stone Dragons. After Zeph defeated some with his ability of multiplying lances and Nanta by throwing her arrows, we were almost at the peak. I rapidly sensed the lack of oxygen, but I didn't feel the cold.

"It's freezing up here" yelled Zeph and I doubted that Strike didn't hear that.

"Just calm down, it's a normal temperature" I told him.

"Y-y-ou're a-a-a drag-g-goon... You c-c-can with-th-thstand-d-d-d this t-tempera-tu-tures" Zeph stuttered.

I couldn't help but laugh... after all, it was true. We kept going up and I noticed how everything went silent... But what worried me the most was that Kiomi hadn't talk since we had started to fly.

"Kiomi, are you okay?" I asked but had no answer.

I just felt it. Yeah, Kiomi's energy was all drained up. I saw her completely pale. Her wings stopped moving. She had given up trying to arrive at the peak since she was too tired. She started fall. I stayed in shock, but Zeph made me go back to my senses and I dove to try to catch both girls. I don't know how, but I made Zeph hold to my left leg, then I caught Nanta and she did the same, but Kiomi was falling too fast. But then I caught her thanks to the others weight.

I got a chance to breath and started flying upwards. But, I didn't move, I just had too much weight on me... I kept trying until I couldn't keep up and let go. I started to fall with the others. I looked at Kiomi's face... and then closed my eyes, cursing my lack of sthrength... and the moment I decided to give up.

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Hey, good... but small chappie right... or is it short but good?... well, you decide! How may Viktor be cured in time? And what about Zeph, Ztal, Nanta and Kiomi? Will they perish? How may they be saved? That in the next chapter... (I had the comic-book-narrator thing again...)

Cheers!