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Chapter 13: Intuition

The group was making their way towards the Balacruf Mausoleum to look for the next shard. They figured that Sylph would be able to find the shard if it was anywhere nearby. Storm was in the back of the group and was not planning on taking part in the battle unless they all seriously needed her help. She was tired of getting the blunt of every blow from every monster and she decided that she would take a break. Zelos came up to her and walked alongside of her.

"Storm, you haven't been acting quite normal lately. Did you ever think that the reason you're doing worse in battle is because you haven't been sleeping as well? Plus, you always seem distracted all the time," Zelos asked her.

"I'm fine," Storm lied to him. She hadn't been sleeping well as of lately. She kept dreaming about Yggdrasil every night and would wake up and be unable to go back to sleep. She wasn't eating much lately either, she had very little appetite. Her mind was on too many other things and short on sleep so she never focused on eating too much. With all of this going on she was starting to slip up. This wasn't like the other times when she couldn't eat or sleep, this time it was affecting her, she needed to sleep and eat.

"I'm worried about you, I notice when you get up at night, every night," Zelos told her after seeing straight through her lie.

"I'm fine Zelos, really," Storm told him firmly, her voice was starting to show her growing irritation. She wanted to be left alone, she didn't want anyone to worry about her, she could take care of herself.

Zelos was taken aback by her harsh response and decided to leave her alone. "Okay, but if you need anything you know you can talk to me," he told her as he walked faster to catch up with the others in the front of the group.

Finally, the group arrived at the mausoleum and saw that it, like the other seals was vacant of any people. Everyone looked to Sheena as she went to call out the Summon Spirits.

"I call upon the heavenly messengers. I summon thee, come Sylph," Sheena called as the three Summon Spirits appeared before Sheena and the others.

"Do you sense a shard of Mithos' Cruxis Crystal around here?" Sheena asked them.

The three of them all focused their energy for a few moments before looking back at the pact-maker.

"We're sorry, but we can't sense anything around here," Sephie replied as the other two nodded their heads sadly in agreement.

"Oh, well thanks anyway," Sheena replied as the three disappeared once again. Sheena turned back to the group who realized that they would have to travel farther to find another shard.

"Oh sure, when I decide that I'm going to take a break, there's no shard for me to fight for," Storm complained.

"Storm, if you don't stop complaining, I'll come back there and make you stop," Kratos threatened as Storm immediately shut her mouth but continued to sulk.

"Why are we going to this place, there's nothing out here?" Anna complained to Sutra who was flying next to her as they slowly landed in the middle of a small valley buried in the mountains. Two Rheihards also flew down from behind them, each containing a Desian soldier.

"We're going here because I know that there's a shard here," Sutra explained to her, trying to keep her calm with the snotty girl.

"How would you know something like that?" Anna challenged her.

"Because I understand a lot about Mithos and I know that this would be an important place to him, so his shard would come here," Sutra shot back angrily before composing her calm exterior again. She was getting to really hate Storm's daughter and almost wanted to kill her off just to be rid of her. She figured that she'd be doing Storm and Zelos a favor by doing so.

After the Desians hopped off the Rheihards, they joined Anna and Sutra as the four of them walked to the other side of the valley. At the other end they saw a giant Linkite Tree that had been planted there. It was the last of its kind and Sutra knew the importance of it to Mithos. He had once had a flute that was made from a Linkite Tree and this was the last one in the world. Sutra walked over to the tree and began to search around for what she was searching for. She couldn't find it anywhere and she couldn't understand why. Her intuition had led her here and it had never let her down before.

Anna was walking around and checking out the scenery more than she was looking for the shard when she suddenly tripped on something. She was about to turn around and see what rock or twig she had just tripped on when she heard a low growling from behind her. She slowly turned her head to see that she had tripped on a sleeping wolf that was not happy about being woken up, especially by trespassers. She also saw that behind the wolf, up against the tree was the crystal shard and she realized that it was guarding it.

Just as Anna was about to try and make her escape the wolf lifted its head towards the heavens and began to howl to its fellow pack members. Anna took this opportunity to get off of the ground as she sprinted as fast as she could to get some distance between herself and the wolf.

The wolf was quick to notice that it's prey had run off as it swiftly jumped to its feet and ran after Anna. It caught up to her quickly and pounced at her to bring her down. While it was in mid-air it was killed instantly as an arrow flew threw its heart, bringing it to the ground. Anna stopped and looked over at Sutra who had her now empty bow aimed right where the wolf was.

"Grab the crystal before the others arrive," Sutra told her as she heard the wolves howling and growling growing louder each second. Sutra readied her bow for more attacks as Anna slowly stumbled back to where the shard was. She was too slow though and the wolf pack appeared over the hills. They all saw that their fellow had been killed by one of these intruders and they were ready to get back their revenge.

"Get that damn crystal!" Sutra yelled at Anna who grabbed at the gem and opened her wings quickly to get out of the way.

The two Desians came behind Sutra and pulled out their swords, ready to defend their leader. There were about four wolves and Sutra was ready for them. One flew at her baring its teeth as it jumped for her throat. Sutra quickly released her arrow and managed to hit the wolf in the side, but didn't kill it. It yelped as it landed on its side but soon jumped up with an arrow in its side as it tried to go after one of her soldiers instead.

Another wolf flew at Sutra while her back was turned and managed to pin her to the ground. It prepared to end her life quickly with its massive fangs, but it was suddenly flung off of her by a powerful blast of mana. Sutra looked to where the blast had come from and realized that Anna had used a Leonasium attack. She couldn't believe it. Anna had managed to use her angelic powers, powers that were similar to Pronyma.

"It's about time you learned how to do that," Sutra said as she readied her bow and pointed it right at the now stunned wolf. She focused her energy before calmly saying, "Thunder Arrow." The arrow began to spark as she released it at the wolf, striking it right in the heart, killing it almost instantly.

Meanwhile, the Desian soldier was still taking on the injured wolf and was beginning to gain the upper hand as the wolf became weary from loss of blood from his injury. Finally, it was finished off as the soldier managed to land his sword in the wolf's stomach as it's insides began to fall from it and it collapsed. It had no more energy left and slowly closed its eyes, waiting for the inevitable.

The other two wolves, seeing what had happened to their comrades decided not to mess with the strangers anymore as they ran off. Sutra watched them run off and sighed loudly, happy that she had gotten her prize. Anna handed the shard to Sutra who held it up to her eyes to gaze at it.

"We're getting so close now Anna. Soon, Mithos will be back and we can end the discrimination forever," she said happily as she opened up her wings to get back to Derris-Kharlan.

Well, that's it here. I hope that you liked this chapter. I don't think that they will be traveling to all of the seals, but we'll be all right with that, right? Anyway, thanks for all the reviews and please don't forget to review this chapter. Thanks for reviewing. Oh, and thanks for getting to 100 reviews! This is so awesome, thanks to everyone who's reviewed. You guys are so awesome. Well, until next time!