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AN: Ok, umm…what to say, what to say…there is a blank in my mind. Ok, I wasn't really sure what I should do with this chapter. It's like I have two choices and such, I could do what I originally planed to do or what I think I should do. This is very hard…

New plan, I shall make it up as I go, whichever way it unfolds, it is the way it was suppose to be.

Another thing I would like to thank all my faithful reviewers. I love getting reviews even the criticism ones, cause that only helps me improve.

Italics are the private communications between the Blood

Italics are normally used for the Blood, it will just be the other part of Selari

Bold lettering is when inanimate objects are speaking (Selari's replies will also be in bold)

Chapter 12

The Next Day

Yeta wasn't feeling good. She had felt sick ever since the party had ended. Which wasn't until 5:00 in the morning.

It was now 2:00 and Yeta still wasn't feeling good. She had gone to see the Healer that was in resident. The Healer told her that it was just a thing that was going around. The Healer gave her something that should help.

Well, after this Yeta really didn't want to stay for the remainder of the stay. And so it was with great haste that Kadar had his family packed up and ready to go. They were on a Yellow Web home.

It was only now turning 4:30; having left at 3:00 it would seem that they would never get home. Well that was the opinion of Selari. Riding the Yellow one was so slow; they would never get there.

And from the looks of it, Jerrid was just as impatient. He was fidgeting. Not normal him and then his eyes kept shifting from place to place, never resting longer then a few seconds. Selari wasn't the only one who noticed this. Her father in fact noticed a lot, and didn't appreciate it. In fact it was every minutes on the dot, father would yell out for Jerrid to stop moving.

It went on like this for another thirty minutes before Jerrid finally lost him patience with the slow carriage. He yelled for the carriage to stop. Both Kadar and Yeta glanced at him, surprise evident in both of their faces.

Beatrix just seemed bored with the situation. Of course she was bored with anything that didn't have to do with her.

Now Selari she actually found it fascinating. Watching him, he was so funny looking.

"He is are brother, shouldn't we be more nicer to him. Like help him." There was a slight hesitation, before she continued. "Like off a cliff or something." And then she laughed.

"Your cruel you know that." Selari told herself.

Both of them continued to watch Jerrid as the carriage slowly landed on the closest Web landing. Selari had a hard time not laughing.

"You know this could be a good opportunity. You know like to find out about Jerrid's lady. We could also get off here and beat him home. And then we could corner him. Then he won't be able to avoid us. And we shall show no mercy."

"Surprisingly enough, I agree with you. And we should definitely show no mercy." Selari grinned maliciously, at the thought of their plan.

The carriage landed shortly after that, and Jerrid didn't waste a moment in jumping out. Selari on the other hand took her time. She stood up slowly and walked towards the open carriage door.

"Selari where are you going?" Kadar demanded.

"Father," Selari said sweetly, "I'm going exactly where you said we were going, home. I'm just going to go a lot faster." And with that Selari jumped out the open door. Then turning around she politely closed the door.

"You can go now." Selari told the carriage driver.

"Yes, young miss." Then the carriage was off.

Selari watched them go, for a moment. Before looking away.

"We have some time to spare. Jerrid won't be there for a long either way. Opal Jewel isn't that fast. Black is much faster. Plus the way we go, we will be there long before he will be." Selari said confidentially.

'Ok, how about we discuss the other night?" she asked softly.

"Oh, you mean the people that Jerrid met." Selari commented.

"Yes, I mean them. That was dangerous. It cause many problems, you know that right?"

"Of course I know that, I'm not stupid you know." Selari told herself angrily.

"Witch will want to find you, you know that right. What should we do? She can't find us. Not yet, we are not ready. We still have much to learn. She as the advantage of age, time, and experience. We don't need as much time as she did to know the stuff that she knows. We have the Wind to help us and we have the advantage of our ears. Plus, to make us even better would be that we learn that listening thing."

Selari listened closely to what her other self had to say. Despite what Selari might thing most of the time about her, she sometimes gave some good advice. All of what she had to say was true. Witch did have some advantages. But she wasn't stronger. No, well at least Selari didn't think so. She thought that they were sort of even. Well, that was what Wind said.

"Don't worry about it. I've already taken care of it." Selari said with confidence.

"Oh, and what is it that you did?" she asked.

"Nothing much you know. Just a little bit of this a little bit of that." Selari smiled.

"Ah, come on, tell me." She demanded.

"You are me, shouldn't you already know this?" she said sweetly.

"No, you never tell me, and when I try to find out you block me out. How is that fair, I never block you out."

"True, but I am the body, which means if you let anything crucial get by me, we both could end up in danger." Was Selari's logical reply.

"Damn, why did we have to be smart." She muttered.

Selari laughed at this. Her other self, said the most stupidest things ever.

"Hey, don't laugh at me!" she said outraged.

"I can't. You're just so funny." Selari told herself.

"Am not, if I'm funny so are you."

"Enough, we have to get home."

After that it was only a few minutes before they were on their way home.


Jerrid had finally arrived. Damn, he had thought that he would never get here. He started to walk away from the Web landing, when he heard rustling coming from the surrounding area.

He sensed around and felt it. It happened to be a female, A Rose Jeweled female. Jerrid didn't let on that he knew that she was there. He just continued walking on, until he was out of site of the person. Then he hurriedly went around, so that he could come out behind the female.

Jerrid kept himself hidden behind his Opal Jewel, and watched her for a few minutes. She was a cute little thing. She was wearing bright pieces of winter clothing. She was wearing reds and greens and purple of all things. But it all went well with her, especially with her red hair hanging down her back.

He smiled at her choice of clothing. She always did have the weirdest choices in clothing. She took a step forward, out into the clearing that he had just vacated. Jerrid followed silently behind her.

She followed his footsteps until they stopped. She looked down at them confused.

"Why do these stop here?" she asked aloud. She then started to look around a bit. There was no sign that he had taken another step after the trail had ended.

"Where could he be?" was her next question. Jerrid couldn't help it; this was the perfect time to reveal himself to her.

"I'm right behind you." He said talking down the Opal shields. She screamed and whirled around. Her pretty gray eyes glared daggers at him.

He just laughed and walked towards her. For every step that he took towards her she took a step backwards. But she eventually ran into a tree, and just stood there glaring at him as he came closer, until he was right in front of her.

She pushed him. Jerrid had expected her to do so, and braced himself.

"Go away, I'm mad at you." She told him in her angriest voice. Jerrid knew that it was just pretence and that she wasn't really mad at her. Her eyes revealed everything to him. He could see laughter dancing in her eyes.

"Ah, come on Elise. You really don't want me to leave do you." He asked her mockingly. She smiled at him sweetly, and nodded. Jerrid laughed out loud at her. She stuck her tongue out at him. He just smiled at her, before he wrapped his arms around her and brought her close to him.

"Missed me?" he asked softly in her ear. She nodded against his shoulder, wrapping her arms around his waist. He grinned, "Good," he told her, "I missed you too."

They stayed that way for awhile before he pulled away from her, keeping his arms around her still. She smiled at him.

"Couldn't you have just pretended that I wasn't there."

"Now what fun would that have been?" he asked her smiling.

"It would have been loads of fun." She then said underneath her breath, "For me, that is"

"Of course what was I thinking." Jerrid said in mock horror. "I have deprived you of your small and measly joke." He moaned. "Oh, Elise, how ever can I make it up to you."

Elise smacked him lightly on the shoulder.

"Her don't make fun of me. I thought it was a great idea at the time." Then with a wicked grin I know how you can make it up to me."

"How?" he asked curiously.

"You could walk around the town." She told him lightly.

Jerrid frowned at that, that was just way too simple. "And…" there it was, the big AND.

"…You have to be naked." She then giggled.

"You do know it's winter right?"

"Yep." She then looked at him curiously. "You asked what you could do to make it up to me."

"Yes, I did." Jerrid conceded slightly. "But I have a better idea."

"Oh, yea, what could be better then you walking around the town naked."

"This," he whispered as he leaned down, and brushed his lips against hers. She leaned into him, and he deepened the kiss. It was a few more seconds before he pulled back.

"I don't know Jerrid, the naked thing might be better…" Elise trailed off, smiling at him. Jerrid laughed at her, and leaned in again…

So that was Jerrid's mystery lady. Selari thought as she left the area. She hadn't wanted to stick around after that, they had started getting mushy.

"Have we heard of this Elise before? And is she good enough for Jerrid."

Selari thought about that for a second. She was positive that she had heard of this girl before.

"Yes, I have heard of her before. She's about a year younger then Jerrid. She's a hearth witch, with the Rose Jewel. She has already made the offering and she has already gone through her Virgin Night. She works as a housekeeper to one of the lesser aristocrats." Selari murmured.

"So, is shegood enough for Jerrid." She repeated.

"She might be. She has good potential. But she as no fighting skills and that just won't work. She as to at least know how to defend herself. We shall have to offer to train her. Or we should tell Jerrid that he should do so."

"Will he listen to us."

Selari shrugged. Jerrid might, and then he might not. It didn't really matter, either way Elise would learn.

They had been walking for some time in the forest. Selari hadn't really been paying much attention to where she was going. She didn't even know that she was in the clearing until she had looked up and found herself there.

Wonder where Divear was? Selari looked around the area. There was no sign that he had been here at all today. She then started using her Jewels to sense out the area.

When she did so, she actually laughed. She had found him. He was sitting up in the trees, watching her. She looked up and looked directly at him through all the trees.

"Irresponsible child. Not paying attention to your surroundings." Divear announced as he slowly came down from the tree. His eyes piercing hers, before they glance downwards to where the amulet lay beneath her clothing. A slight smile touched his face before it vanished when he looked back into her eyes.

"Nothing dangerous was in the area." Selari told him, "Plus, I don't have to pay attention as much as you do." She said tauntingly.

"Yes, you do." He told her sternly. "What are you doing here?" he asked her suddenly.

"Yeta was sick and wanted to come home." Selari told him, "I just took a faster route."

"So what have you been doing sense you got here?" he asked.

"What do you mean, I just got here." Selari said innocently.

"Don't play dumb, I know that you have been here for awhile." Divear told her.

"Nothing much, I just wanted to see Jerrid's lady."

"Oh, so you were spying." Divear nodded his head at this.

"Hey, I don't do it all the time, normally Wind would just tell me, but he's in a mood and isn't speaking at the moment." Selari said defensively. 'I left when they started to get mushy. I just happened to end up here."

"Great, we can practice. You're most likely getting a bit rusty." Divear commented the last bit more to himself then to her. Selari glared at him.

"I am not getting rusty." She said, instantly bringing out her blade, and holding it in an attack position.

Divear smiled at her, and brought out his weapon.

"Prove it." He whispered, and then they were off.


AN: I finished chapter isn't it great. Yippee, now on to the next. One last thing, review, review, review