Why do things get more difficult when one is trying to do things fast and well?... it doesn't matter! Here's another chapter. Chapter 13... whoa.... bad luck... let's skip it. ;)... Just kidding. I don't believe in those things... but I'm not saying that you shouldn't if you do... Anyway... I did promise that things would get worst. And I have a gift for always looking at the worst side of things... Mwahahahaha... Let's end the drama and start the chapter.

Making his debut... The Tragic One (TTO) will read the disclaimer of this story.

TTO:Disclaimer, there isn't anything worser than a story with monotonous disclaimers. Author glares evilly at TTO But that doesn't mean this one is. Prepare yourself for another... monotonous thing. The author owns Ztal, SsAnImE owns Kiomi, Coga owns Viktor, Anerkey owns Rayne, Mediciner owns Stricken (Strike), leirbag10 owns Zeph, yawns and Bushi Tenshi Katsumi owns Nanta... I guess that covers it... Oh.. Aisler doesn't own FF:CC... nor anything of it.. except his great ideas of making a sequel until another person steals his idea... but intelligent people think alike... maybe that's why I don't think like BTK... oh well... Enjoy the chapter!

A "Rayney" day:

"I was the one supposed to go away... not them" said Zeph bathed in tears.

All of us were silent, and I thought of giving Zeph's family a funeral. We didn't bury the bodies since we had not found them. Instead, we buried the eyeglasses and a ribbon Kiomi had found. After, we prayed for the spirits journey, and it started to rain. Then, at the most important part of the prayer, someone's elbow touched me.

"Not now" I whispered, but the person continued to hit me with his/her elbow. After, the impacts got stronger, I decided to look at the annoying and insisting Nymph. I was about to ask her what was wrong when I saw the Blue Gemini (Stricken had gotten rid of the Red One at Althena). I took my daggers fast and yelled that there was a huge problem. I dodged the giant blade and attacked the Gemini at the waist... nothing happened. We had to get rid of its armor. It hit me with a punch and I was sent back flying and landed on a bed of flowers. I knew it was Nanta's doing and I had to thank her, but it wasn't the precise moment to do so.

"Kiomi! Melt his armor!" I yelled not knowing where she was. I looked at my right and saw that Ztal was knocked out cold and the monster was about to finish him of. All of our attacks didn't harm him at all. Maybe that was the end of Ztal... but it really wasn't his time to go. The giant's sword was stopped by unnatural forces. A blast of light blinded me but I sure did feel an aura around me. Maybe it was Zeph's doing. I had noticed that he always had a pure energy coming out of him. I got my vision back and noticed that the Gemini's sword was behind Ztal. I was stronger. This time I could slice a part of the Gemini's armor. Little by little he had no armor left. I couldn't help stabbing my daggers in his body, as Zeph and everyone that had a bladed weapon did. Viktor did the last shot. He and everyone else focused their magics in his shot. And a phenomenal attack finished the Gemini.

"So that's what they call Ultima" said Viktor falling to the floor.

We finished the prayers and continued to go back to Awrya... I had never heard of that town. Oh! We took the Gemini's armor and sword since Kiomi's and Ztal's parents worked with weaponry in their own special ways. I looked at Viktor and noticed he was happy. I think he is happy because he can rest now. Nobody will be following him... but what about the person that ordered those Gemini's to follow him? It doesn't matter anymore we're seven people in a caravan. Fulfilling missions and bringing hope is our job... I never thought I had such a great value in this world. Ha... just a few more days to continue my new life.

We camped at Althena town next to its remaining crystal and nature. We needed some wood for fire and for setting up our tents. We only needed two. one for the boys and one for the girls... simple fact of life. We got the wood we needed and settled. The sky was beautiful. Not a cloud in sight. The moons blessed us with it's light. The protectors of Moona, the moons. There have been a lot of legends according to the origin of our planet. According to one of them, three beautiful women were born at an eclipse of a moon. They always ran around when the moon was at their sights. But, one day a solar eclipse turned them into moons... and the moons showed how they had been in their lives. The moon that shone brightly that night was Marya, the pure and hoping one. It was a yellow light that pacified anyone that was touched by it. Selph, a girl that had her balance. She was half good and half bad. No one could believe how well-balanced she was... even though they sometimes wished that she was like her older sister Marya. She didn't listen to them. That's what helped her reach her goals. She was the blue half moon. The sister that was in the middle, Waleska, was the evil one. She never did anything serious, but anytime there was a mischivieous action, everyone knew who to accuse. Waleska, the obscure red (almost black) moon, her powers are unknown to this day. No one ever researched that moon. They still think that, because she was the more evil one of the three girls, the moon wouldn't be doing any good things for us. So it was better to not know than to be worrying because of the power. I don't think that way. Now, Waleska is the moon that comes out every five years. And Marya comes out every three months. The other nights, Selph wanders the land guiding good and evil. But... no one has ever seen the three moons at the same time... I wonder what would happen.

It was getting late... I got into the tent and tried to sleep. I was asleep in less than two minutes. I was completely exhausted because of our work.

Nanta's fixing the land:

This was one of those nights I couldn't shut an eye. And there was a lot for me to do. I looked at the town. It was so sad. Only some bushes were alive. I couldn't stand it. I went towards the small lake surrounding the crystal. I put on the hood of my cape, since it was cold and then put my hands in the water. I felt how my energy went out of my hands to the water. Fastly I noticed how that cherry blossoms got more life. The dry land was starting to get green and the dry spots got filled with crystal-clear water. Tree grew, flowers bloomed... it was a rebirth of the place. I got my hands out of the water and dried them.

"Impressive" I heard someone say.

I turned my back and found Viktor.

"Don't you ever sleep?" I asked him.

"Never could... never will" he said with a smile on his face. He did really look at peace.

"I see you've got the power to manipulate nature... That's something unusual to see. But not in a Nymph" he told me.

"I'm not so sure about that. There's only one Nymph that can control nature every fifty years. I had luck to have this powers. Unlike the other great Nymph's that have this power, I can't control it. It just pops out when it is needed".

"What if the power takes over you? You know it has happened" Strike's voice was heard.

"Well... I'm not the one who's going to worry about that... yet I'll try to control the powers so I won't cause any problems" I answered in hopes he wouldn't ask me another of those questions. And I was right...

I heard a yawn and looked at the sleepy Rayne.

"What are you guys doing at this hour?" she asked after another yawn.

"Talking Rayne, can't you see it?" Strike answered rudely.

"You don't have to be that way, we just woke her up" I defended the selkie.

"Whatever... as if I cared" said Strike taking a seat.

We all sat on the ground and looked at the stars and at Marya. Then the question just came out of nowhere.

"So... do you guys have any family alive?" asked Viktor. The word alive kept repeating itself in my mind. The guilt entered into my mind until someone answered the question.

"I haven't heard anything about them for five years. I don't know if they're alife... and really don't care if they are" Rayne answered. I thought her answer was cold... but I could notice that from deep inside her heart she was freeing a lot of pain she had kept for a long time.

"My father was and alcoholic" she continued. "As so was my mother. I only remember Saphire's love towards me... that's the only family I'd care for" she said looking to another place. Her heart was tightening itself... she had pain... but I didn't know why."What about you Viktor?"

"My family... My mother died when she gave me birth... and I don't have any brothers at all. My father died in what was our bar. The... the... Gemini's... they took care of it" he said while closing his hand into a fist. "But I finally revenged my father's death... even though it was a case of survival".

Another moment of silence went by...

"What the heck? Everyone is talking so I'll talk" said a not normal Stricken. "Yes, I still have a living family. but they don't accept me. I'm not a full blooded mage. But it's not as if I'm a mutant or something... I still don't know what is my other half of blood. But I don't have that urge to find out which it is" Strike answered calmly. I noticed that he had already surpassed it and that the moment I didn't want to come had arrived.

"What about you Nanta?" I heard Strike ask.

"My parents are dead... never met them..." I answered panicked.

"So who raised you?" asked Rayne.

"My brother..."

"And where is he?" asked Viktor this time

I panicked once again. The word "alive" and "killed" ran freely around my mind. Dark memories came back to me... I couldn't hold it... so I... I shouted it.

"I killed my brother!"

I couldn't help to run away and hide inside a hollow tree. I didn't want to know the way they'd react to a killer... but I think I should have said it was in self-defense before running away... now it is too late.

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End of a great and hard-worked chappie... Nobody, except BTK, expected that of Nanta... (I forgot the pesky review readers... I've got to put a notice... NO READING REVIEWS IN THIS STORY OR THE SURPIRSES WILL BE SPOILED!... thank you)

TTO: Way to go chief...

Me: Nobody asked you... and keep cleaning the mess I did while trying to get ideas for this chapter. As for those loyal readers... keep reading! I promise I will finish this story... But I still don't know how long I should do it... so tell me.. should I keep writing a lot of chapters or try to end it the fastest way possible? (it doesn't matter.. I'll still write chapters... but anyways... It's good for me to know your opinion).

Cheers! (this not geeky... BTK!)