A/N- Thank you "Autumn Maxwell" for your reviews! I haven't been writing this fic for a bit so your review made me finish up chapter four! Thank you, for letting me conquer my laziness. lol

Chapter 4- Meeting with Neville Decrass

The day after my birthday, Sofie woke me up early. Waking up early isn't that weird to me, considering I had to be up by 3:30 AM every mourning to train. But today was different, today was the day that I got to leave Sofie and start my new training with Neville. I was so nervous, but that nervousness was mixed with the feelings of excitement. Is this trainer going to be nice? Is he going to be rough? Am I going to be able to defeat Beatrix with his training? My new trainer is at Tokyo, Japan. It will take us a few hours by plane. Sofie is lying next to me in the chair sleeping. I'm a bit tired too now.

"Nikki! Wake up!" Sofie shakes Nikki with her one arm. Nikki opens up one eye. She sits upright quickly.

"Are we there?" Her voice is shaky, yet she is still excited to meet her new trainer.

"Well almost, now all we have to do is get off this plane, and find Neville." Sofie had buckled up Nikki when the plane was about to land and Nikki didn't know that she was still buckled in. She struggled for a second or so then realized the problem. " Nikki, you have to listen to what Decrass says, and you have to obey his every command. If you don't," Sofie gestured for Nikki to come closer then she whispered in Nikki's ear, "He will kill you and bury you in his garden,"

All the happy and excited emotions that Nikki had felt before were gone. "What?" Nikki jumped up her seat. "Why didn't you tell me this before?"

"I didn't want to scare you into running away. I wanted you to at least be here where you cant back out." Nikki was shaking head to toe.

At Neville's Training ground.

"Sofie, please don't leave me!" Nikki grabbed Sofie's shirt and wept. "I don't wanna die!"

Sofie slapped her, "Quit that!" Nikki rubbed her cheek and wiped her tears, then nodded her head sadly.

Neville's work place was on top of a hill in a secluded forest. "Nikki, this is where I leave."

"What?" She looked up the hill, "Why?"

"I cant go up the hill in a wheel chair. Besides you're a big girl now, I think you will do just fine going up the hill by yourself,"

Nikki knew better than to argue with Sofie, so without saying good-bye she went up the hill to meet her new trainer. With each step she took a deep breath. She heard rustles within the forest. She began to walk faster, she looked to the side of her. "Ahhhhhh!" She fell to the ground.

"AHAHAHA! Well who is this young un' walking to my manor?" A old man had pinned Nikki down to the ground. Unable to speak with dirt in her mouth, she let out a whimper. "What's that? Do I hear cries of fear?" Nikki tried to spit the dirt out of her mouth. "AHAHAHA! How old are you lil girl?"

"…9..." Nikki turned her face so her cheek was against the ground. "..And…who are…you?…"

"I'm Neville DeCrass," Nikki could see him now. She saw his neatly shaved face, and patched up eye. He looked to be over 70 years old. Her eyes grew big when she saw that he had a hunting knife in his robe. She fainted.

Neville got up and released Nikki from the hold. He shook his head and threw back his head in laughter. "AHAHAHAHA!" He let his head drag down, "You are an amusing one, we're going to have much fun together, young un'" He picked up the fainted girl and brought her up to the training grounds.

Time to work on Chapter five! See ya when I see you.

AMBER-RAE