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The Unexpected

I had to be the most uncomfortable person in the world right now… or worlds. I know I sound crazy but I'm not really, I swear! I just got a history lesson from Kenny about how it was possible to move between worlds and how it was possible that there was more than one world in the first place! Apparently there is though, and I can't argue against what I've seen with my own eyes.

"Hey, Kiwi!" I felt a nudge in my ribs and almost fell off my tree branch, I grabbed onto the tree trunk with both hands and glared at Mila.

"Since when do you call me Kiwi?" I rolled my eyes as she mocked glared back at me.

"Since everyone else has started to call you Kiwi, I think it has become your official name!" She grinned happily at me as I groaned. Someone shushed us and we giggled quietly. We had never spent time together before, we were so different from each other so we always ended up arguing. Now though we seem to get along better, maybe it's because we are older?

I couldn't help but feel a little giddy as the expected hour approached. I found out that Kai, Ray, Max and Tyson were the 'leaders' of this organization in another 'world.' I'm still not really sure what there goal is but oh well, that's a puzzle for another day. I seem to be off topic again… oh yah! Tala and his goons, as I have so dubbed them, are going to be coming soon. They have to pass through this part of the forest too since everywhere else is impossible to get through.

We're all hidden in the branches and down on the forest floor with weapons at the ready. Mila and I had our bow and arrows and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, I mean they expect us to kill people with them and I've never done that before. Mila shifted awkwardly beside me and tugged at her new belt, it had all of her weapons on it even though we couldn't see them. It reminded me of my new belt with all of my weapons on it; it was a little heavy right now.

Some one gave a bird call, I think, and Mila tensed beside me. She put her bow string on and set up an arrow. I followed suit and we became silent and still. We have to wait for the signal before we could attack. So I waited, unknowingly with a feral grin on my face.

A dark shrouded figure moved silently through the scattered wagons that made up the camp. The figure glanced up, light falling across a pale face with two bright red strands of hair hanging down. Tala quickly drew the hood further forward hiding his face yet again from view. He slipped from shadow to shadow, keeping out of sight. He came to a wagon that was out of the way and guarded, Tala kept back for a moment to assess the situation.

In a blur of motion two darts shot out of the small gun Tala had pointed at the guards. They toppled over in a matter of seconds and Tala moved forward swiftly, entering the wagon.

Lily was sitting on her cot when a cloaked figure entered her prison. When he took down his hood Lily glared and practically hissed, "Tala!"

He flinched back slightly before moving forward with a determined look in his eyes. When she lunged towards him trying to punch him across the face he grabbed her arm and pulled it up behind her back. She was about to fight back when she heard a 'click' and the collar around her neck fell to the floor, followed by the chain that had attached her to the wall.

He gently turned her around and unlocked the manacles that were around her wrists before stepping back.

"What are you doing?" Lily asked; her tone confused and wary. Tala just motioned for her to be quiet and to follow him. He threw a black cloak at her and slipped out the door. Lily covered herself up and followed him outside, unsure if she should trust him or not.

They wound their way through the wagons silently and snuck past the guards that surrounded the camp and into the nearby woods. When they were far enough away Tala stopped and turned to face Lily.

"You have no reason to trust me, but please, just this last time. You have to keep heading North-east for the rest of the night and as much as you can during the day then hide. In a couple of days you will come across a lake. Whatever you do, don't go near that lake. Get around it and you'll come across a village, head towards the castle and show them this. They will let you in and then tell them who you are."

Tala handed her a compass, a golden pin, and a belt. He demonstrated how to use her new belt by showing her how to bring up different pouches of food, water and other useful things. Also on it were several different weapons that could come in handy in difficult situations. And then he left giving her a goodbye kiss that he knew would be his last.

A whistle pierced through the air and arrows began to fly to start off the rescue mission. Mila was shooting off arrow after arrow beside me while I did the same, though a little bit slower. I never was really good with these things; they feel like we're cheating, I liked to get right into the fight. So as soon as Mila ran out of arrows I shoved the rest of mine at her and jumped down. She yelled out after me but I went deaf for a moment so couldn't respond.

The fighting was now in among the wagons so I pulled out my double blades (AN/ which are two swords) and entered the fray. I immediately came upon a small group of the enemy and had to hop around quite a bit to defend myself until help arrived.

I blocked an axe with one of blades then chopped at another person wielding a spear. I turned and finished the axe wielder. I continued blocking and slashing until I felt something heavy falling on me. By the time I struggled out from underneath a… body? Ew, I gave myself a shake and looked around, everyone was gone, moved on while I had been stuck. I noticed a wagon with a lock on it; not that that was too strange, every wagon had a lock. Just not on the outside of the door.

With my heart beating wildly I inched towards the door and reached my hand out to the lock. It was a pretty bad lock, one twist of my wrist and the lock was broken right off. I glanced around again before hopping up into the wagon.

It was dark in the wagon so my eyes were taking a while to adjust but I could make out a lump on a cot in the corner. I sighed in relief and hurried over to her, "Lily, Lily get up, we have to get out of here now."

"Sounds like a good idea to me." I jumped back in shock but not fast enough as the person in the collar and manacles rolled off the cot and landed on top of me, bring us both to the floor. I looked up in shock at the beat up face of… "Tala!"

"Well where did she go?" Kai was pacing back in forth in agitation underneath my tree. I rolled my eyes and swung down, hooking my knees over the branch so I was facing him upside down.

"And you think I know because…?" He stopped in front of me and stared into my face. I raised one eyebrow and he turned around and snorted. I couldn't help but laugh at him, he was too cute!

"Mila, Kai! We have everyone we can out looking but most of our people are still trying to find the few pockets of resistance that are still fighting. For all we know Kiwi could be in any of those areas we still can't reach." Tyson came running up to us with a frown on his face and still muttering into his communicator every once in a while.

"Thanks Tyson, you sure know how to make people feel better," Kai replied with sarcasm. I just shook my head and flipped myself down landing on my feet.

"Come on guys, why don't we go help the searchers, the more people searching the faster we'll find her!" I smiled happily at them and grabbed both of their arms. They both groaned as I dragged them off giggling towards Kenny who would give us instructions.

Our mood sobered up pretty quickly when we passed the infirmary where Mariah was holding Ray up as he moved among the injured. He looked pretty tired but just kept on moving, bandaging, stitching, and healing where it was necessary.

We moved on and found Kenny and Max giving out orders to people who needed things to do. Max was being his usual bouncy self, just a little dampened because of the situation. Kenny was in a panic again because everything had gone awry and he was trying to figure out the casualties while getting enough people to do the jobs that are needed right now.

When Kenny saw us he almost cried in relief. He instantly ordered us to one of the pockets of resistance that was really bad. We trudged off with a small group of men and reinforced the ones that had been fighting.

Since these people were desperate they soon launched an attack against usand fought without much thought. In the middle of the battle I glanced up from the fighting for just a minute and could have sworn I saw Kiwi with… "Tala?"

I stumbled slightly before righting myself again; glaring at the boy I helped walk beside me. His was a complete and total mess, cuts and bruises covered the skin that could be seen. This was actually quite a bit because his clothes were ripped and torn almost entirely off. I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him, but I pushed that train of thought out of my head and frowned at him.

"What are you laughing at?" I hissed at him angrily. After I had frowned at him he started to chuckle quietly to himself.

"Myself actually, for some reason I'm trusting you with my life and you hate me because I kidnapped your best friend. Ironic isn't it that you're even helping me?" He started to chuckle again which then turned into a coughing fit which meant we had better stop and rest unless I wanted attention to be brought to us.

I moved us forward into the forest away from where Kai and everyone else would be. I knew there were guards around the forest but I was pretty confident that I could maneuver us around them and into the safety of the deep woods. I found a cave nearby and decided this was where we would stop for a couple of hours, no longer or people who were probably looking for me would find us.

I laid him down gently and gave him my cloak to cover himself up in. I sat down across from him and frowned at him again, but this time in puzzlement. I could not for the life of me understand him! He kidnaps Lily but then lets her go when they had almost reached their destination. I opened my mouth to ask him but he raised his hand to stop me.

"I can't explain right now, I'm sorry. I really need to sleep, maybe when I wake up?" He looked at me questionably and I sighed and nodded.

"Only if you let me treat your injuries right now though." He sighed and nodded, smirking at me because he just did what I had done. I rolled my eyes in response and went over to sit by him.

I helped him out of his shirt which was now no more then rags and then he stripped his pants off as well leaving him in only a pair of boxers. I couldn't help but laugh which made him glare at me.

"I'm not laughing at you," I reassured him. "It's just that right now I'm living in a world that has stuff from the past and present. We're fighting with blades and yet we have clothes from now a day. Not to mention our superb medicinal supplies and food. It's just a little weird." While I was talking I had pulled out a clean cloth and a fold up bucket that I filled with water from one of my water bags.

I opened a package of herbs pouring them into the water and then dipped the cloth. I started to wash his back gently, ignoring the sharp intake of breath Tala made when I went over a bad spot. I continued to wash his entire body before wrapping up the worst of his cuts and smearing a soothing cream on his bruises.

After I had done this I moved up to his face which I had left till last. I had been questioning myself up to this point but when I stared into his eyes I knew I had made the right choice. He looked sad and tired, but most of all as if he was in emotional pain. I smiled at him and cleaned up his face, smearing more cream over his cuts and bruises.

"Well, from what I can see you're going to live. You have no broken bones and there doesn't seem to be any internal bleeding. You just have lots of little painful cuts and bruises that should heal up in a couple of days." I gave him another small smile which he surprising returned before raising an eyebrow at me.

"That is all very good but are you going to give me any clothes to wear? I know I'm hot but I won't cheat on Lily." I rolled my eyes at him and went into my wonderful belt yet again. I pulled out a pair of black baggy sweat pants and a big baggy dark green shirt to go with it.

"These are actually my pajamas but there the only things I have that are big enough for you to wear." I went packed up my stuff as he changed and then leant back against the rock wall while he settled down to sleep. I would wake him up in a couple of hours and then we could start heading North-east.

I smiled as I heard Tala start snoring, yup, I was going to work withLily's kidnapper to go afterher and make sure she gets back safe and sound. I knew I could trust Tala somehow, even if he had stabbed me before. I then began my long watch over his sleep, plans going round and round the inside of my head.

Well there you go, I hope you enjoyed it. I spent longer on this one so I hope it's better thenmy previous chapters. I also want to point out thatthis is my first story and so I know my plot has holes in it all over the placebut I'm hoping to fix them all up as I get better at this. Just giving you all a heads up! Now if you would please review as you head towards the exit giving advice, pointing out errors or even if you just wish to tell me how much you love (or hate) my story, thank you.