By the time Gukko an Raven stopped sobbing, the sun was beginning to set.

Raven let out a hysterical, strangled, laugh. "You know what's worse than Giant Ulodonian Leeches?" he asked.

Gukko shook his head. "What?"

"I'll give you a hint. They live in bogs... They like to burrow in your stomach and live in a huge gaping wound in your abdomen... And it's nearly impossible to get them out..."

Gukko thought. "Hejaat's fever medicine?" he asked.

"...And they come out at night."

"What? Don't tell me they happen to be..." Gukko looked around. "Uladon Bog?"

"I'm sorry, Gukko, it is."

Gukko let out a scream. "RUN!"

They beat the record twice over for long-distance sprint. They nearly collapsed at the pub.

"Well... I can say... We made record time..." Raven smiled brightly but tiredly.

Gukko knew that they must be a mess. "Let's get a room and a bath."

In order to save gil, Gukko ordered one small room.

Raven took off his shirt to wash when Gukko, again, screamed. "Raven! Your back!"

Raven looked around. Gukko's face was pale. "There's a leech, isn't there?" he asked quietly.

Gukko shook his head. "Half of one!"

Raven screamed.

Gukko moaned softly. Something was keeping him awake...

"Raven?"

"Mmmph.."

"Raven!"

"Mmmph!"

"Raven!"

"Mmmphh!" Raven shot out of bed. "NO! HEJAAT! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" Raven screamed. "Oh. Nevermind. I dreamed that Hejaat was giving me the fever medicine."

"There's something outside," Gukko said.

"You mean the crazy sadistic nu mou?" he asked.

Gukko shook his head. "I think..."

A soft glow emitted from Raven's hands, glowing like little sun-moons at his fingertips. He began reading the missions sheet.

"Help! Every night, a monster comes and takes away achild. We can't see anyone! Help!"

"Night, eh?" Gukko squeezed his throat.

"Mommy!" he cried in an imitation of his baby siblings. "Dadda! I need water!"

Raven smiled. He too squeezed his throat and began to bawl, trying not to laugh. The window pane opened.

Gukko leaped on the creature! He sat on its back while Raven turned on the light...

The creature screamed at the light. Gukko saw it briefly, looking much like an unclothed viera, only with a pair of horns in front of the ears and the forearms elongated to the size of its legs. It screamed again, blinded, but not hurt... One of the forearms whizzed too fast towards Gukko... Gukko grabbed his blade off the bed and began fending it off. But the creature started to gain ground...

"Mateaus! Grant Light! Holy Light!" Raven screamed.

A blinding holy light filled the room with its radiance. There was a soft smile hidden in the shrouds of light... Then it vanished.

The creature was no more, save for a burnt carcass on the ground.

"What's going on here?" The Pubmaster slammed open the door.

"Your monster," Gukko mumbled. "Raven killed it... Actually Mateus did..."

"Ayah!" a nu mou's scream. A disheviled-looking Sage rushed in, his eyes wild.

"Hey! It's the sadistic-"

"Evil child-stealing!" the Sage screamed, pointing at the burnt corpse. "EVERYONE! I SHALL ERADICATE ITS EVIL PRECENSE! SHUT UP AND STAY STILL!"

Gukko froze where he was, his muscles whining, as the Sage shouted extravagent rites. At last, the sun rose above the hills.

The Sage set the rosary down and bowed to the sun. "We are all safe now from the evil being," the Sage explained calmly.

A/N: I'm hyper! The last few chapters with the leeches and the crazy chicken Cooper were kinda insane... But I thought they were kinda funny.

R&R PLEASE!

MakoStreak