Chapter 14

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Odd stood in the midst of forty-two monsters (mostly blocks). Aelita had made a funnel thing, kind of like her rock bubbles only this stretched about sixty feet into the gray sky. The tower was somewhere north of where she was now. That was about all she knew right then.

Odd had a block on each side of him. Right when they were about to fire he jumped and landed outside their little huddle, letting them kill each other instead of wasting arrows. Doing a back handspring, Odd caught two hornets where his ankle curved to attach to his foot and forcefully shoved them into the laser of one of the blocks, killing all three of them as the stingers injected poison into the block. A Mega Tank rolled over and aimed. Odd shot an arrow and let it hit kind of off the target, hitting a block and making the Mega Tank spin, hitting more then ten of his opponents. Odd had to smile. Thirty-seven of his attackers were dead and Odd had only fired three shots.

Here come the crabs. Odd jumped onto one of their backs, copying Adain's favorite moves, stuck an arrow in the target, and then jumped to the next crab. This went on until there was only one left.

"Crab v.s. Odd." Jeremy sat back, smiling at his friends hidden intelligence. "Who will win?"

Odd fired the last of his arrows. One to block the oncoming laser, and another to graze over the eye on the crab's back. It exploded.

"Ok, Princess! Work your magic!" Odd called to Aelita as he sat down to rest. "Wow. Tricking monsters into killing one another is hard work!" Odd could hear Jeremy snicker. "Hey! What you laughin' at, bozo?!?" Odd yelled at the sky as the return-to-the-past program started working. All that got him was more snickers.

"Guys. I don't think I should be in the Talent Show." Adain and Yumi and Ulrich and Jeremy and Odd and Snake were all standing there in the park after Fan Toss. Adain, Yumi, and Ulrich were sweating heavily. Yumi tilted her head to the side in confusion.

"Why not?"

Adain smirked, "Because I'm too good for that." Snake smiled and shook his head. Adain had not changed. He doubted that she ever would. Or, that's what he wanted. Adain jumped into a tree near them. Snake climbed up with her. They used to do this all the time, just sit in a tree and watch the sun move around the sky. Side by side in complete silence, not awkward silence, just an aura of calm.

Again Yumi herded the boys away from the two, but sat down on the porch. She was basically trying to sort out all the thoughts in her mind. It had been a full two months since Ulrich and Yumi had confessed about being in love with one another, but they had only kissed once. What if Ulrich changed his mind What if he doesn't like me anymore What if he never liked me in the first place and Yumi forced this thought out of her mind. It wasn't like that. I hope.

Ulrich sat down next to her, the setting sun turning all his features a deep crimson and his shadow cast over Yumi. It made her shiver. He sat down next to her, knowing what was going on inside her head as looks of anguish, anger, confusion, and sorrow passed over her beautiful face. It looked like she was about to cry. She looked into his eyes and couldn't look away. Neither of them noticed the ball of bluish silver light enveloped them as they kissed. It took them forever to realize they loved each other more than a brother loves a sister, which is what they acted like, and just tell each other the whole entire truth. But it was as easy as a kiss and all their problems were solved. Who'da thunk it?

Adain turned to lay on her back with her head in Snake's lap, staying perfectly balanced on their own high tree branch. Snake gazed down at her smiling face. He couldn't take his eyes off the beauty that was on the inside and outside of Adain. She watched the sun set with her deep hazel blue eyes, not a care in the world. Or that's what it looked like. Her mind was racing. Why was Snake smiling like that? What was going on inside his head? She shifted her head and found herself staring into his perfect eyes. She inhaled deeply, so as not to forget how to breathe. Her heart was pounding seven million times a minute. How long were they just gonna stare at each other? Adain sat up and opened her mouth to speak, not even knowing what would come out, when she couldn't. Speaking was out of the question now that Snake's lips were blocking all possible ways of communicating to the outside world, if she had wanted to.

Adain just relished the moment. Not knowing what she was doing, she returned the kiss. Passionately. If you gave her one wish at that very moment, she would probably wish that the moment would never end. She just relaxed and let Snake pull her into his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck. It was all too perfect. Way too perfect. She broke the kiss only for the amazing need of oxygen. Placing her head on his shoulder, she sighed and curled up even farther into his protective grasp, knowing that it would have to end sometime.

It did when Yumi came to check on Adain and Snake. She climbed up to find Adain asleep in Snake's arms and Snake stroking her hair. She smiled inwardly and tapped him on the shoulder silently telling him to come with her, and to bring Adain. He stood up on the branch and jumped down, landing so lightly that Adain didn't even move. He carried Adain up to her room and tucked her in. Kissing her forehead, he left her to sleep.