Ah, i am impatient, i just had to upload this chapter... I was bored and, oh, well, i'm not gonna bore you with my ramblings... xD

Oh, but i did find this cool website that enables you to make your own icon for IM... I had lots of fun with that yesterday. n.n I made my own lil' icon with Brago, Sherry, and my OC, Kalu... 'Tis so cute! But the IM on the computer at my mom's house doesn't show it, it's only at my dad's, but others can see it, so i'm sad... T-T (sniffle) Maybe i just need to update my IM...

Gr. But anywho, i had to at least share that tid bit. xD Oh, and i'm aware that this scene later on in this chapter may seem rather OOC for Brago, but it was too cute to resist, i just had to write it. You'll see what i mean when you read it... (i had actually been planning to write that for a while now, so be nice?)

And i am happy. Alumu finally appeared on Zatch Bell; his voice is alright... Despite the fact he's a clown (and i don't particularly like clowns), Alumu rocks. xD But Pamun is cooler yet he hasn't appeared yet... (sigh). Yeah... had to throw that in too.

Disclaimer: Who said i owned this?


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Chapter 19

Tranquility to Turmoil

So I had previously admitted that I missed the old Sherry, but there was a more serious case on my behalf that I had to be concerned about. Every day I felt my desire growing stronger and I feared that sometime or another it would break and I would lose all of the remaining control I possessed. And when that happened, I would be in for real hell, or was it merely just something that this new Sherry craved as well?

I would constantly find myself in awkward situations, just itching to do something while I was around the woman. I would literally have to find something to restrain myself with before I did anything rash. One time I even panicked and the woman questioned me if I was all right; I merely snapped at her that I was fine and walked away.

But I didn't know what to do… The barrier that I had set up around myself to keep me away from the woman was weakening. If I were not careful, I would do something that I would completely regret and would be unable to take back.

In the meanwhile, a little less than a weak had passed and Sherry and I still had no luck in finding the enemy. I could feel myself growing even more enraged knowing the fact that they weren't showing their faces… As much as I desired one thing, I also desired to fight with the other team. My thirst for battle had yet to be quenched and I was growing more and more agitated by the minute.

Sherry, on the other hand, didn't mind the fact that we hadn't fought yet. She merely said that it was good quality time for the two of us. Whatever. That didn't really matter to me, but I knew the enemy was around here somewhere and I was determined to find them, I wouldn't leave this area until I did so, unless I was positive that they had left. However, I highly doubted that that would happen. Perhaps we were all just running around in circles, searching for another…

Nonetheless, Sherry was also growing tired of the routine we had, searching for the enemy and training constantly every day. She even told me that she wanted to do something else for a change, for at least one day. I glared.

"Like what?" I inquired, staring at her with my arms folded across my chest. "You know that we have to continue our training if we are to win the match against the other team."

"I know, I know, it's just…" She trailed off with a shrug. "I'm just so tired of all this training and searching for the enemy! Every day it's constantly the same thing, we can never do anything fun anymore and I'm just so bored!"

"You know, Sherry," I said, "Your previous self never had fun, it was very rare when she did. She was always searching for a way to end this war as soon as possible and was constantly training and searching for the enemies. So, if you want to become more like her, you're going to have to start acting like her and taking up her traits."

"But…" Sherry protested with a pout. "It's been so long since I've had any fun! Hey, how about this, you can give me a one-day break and we can both consider it a rare time of fun like the old me would have? What about that?" She looked so relentless with her azure eyes persistently staring at me, all until I agreed.

I sighed. "Fine, do what you want, but for one day and one day only." I glared at her before continuing. "What do you want to do?"

"Oh, I don't know…" She shrugged again before standing up and turning to look out the window. We were currently in the hotel again, it was sometime around 3:00 in the afternoon and it was a clear day. Sherry had previously eaten her lunch a little while ago and we had afterwards been considering what to do for the remainder of the day since we had been searching for most of the morning. Evidentially, this caused my bookkeeper to become rather bored so she brought up the subject after her lunch.

With a sigh, I shook my head and said, "If you're going to take a day off then you might as well figure out what you're going to do. I'm not going to give you any suggestions, however. It's not something I want to do."

"Fine, then!" she said and glared at me, I merely glared right back as my eye twitched and I held my breath, waiting for her to make a decision. "Well… we could rent some skates!" she said after a minute of thinking. I blinked and exhaled.

"Skates?" I inquired. "…What are those?"

Hearing my question, the woman giggled as if it were the funniest thing in the world. I waited impatiently for her to stop and she soon responded, looking up at me with a large smile adorned on her face. "You don't know what skates are? Well, they're these really fun things you wear on your feet and it's almost like… Oh, just let me show you them!"

With that, she just hopped up, taking the keys to the hotel room and running towards the door. "Come on!" she urged and I followed her with a sigh, taking my black book with me since she had forgotten it. Sherry…

When we were out in the hall, I reminded her about what she had done and the blonde blushed slightly before taking the book back from me and placing it in the container on her white belt that she would often use to carry my book.

"Sorry," she said and turned away momentarily before saying, "Well, then, let's go! I remember seeing this place before that allows you to rent some skates. I think it was the other day when I saw it…"

I sighed and allowed her to lead me to where the place was. We headed there by foot since it was only down the road from where the hotel was, I could understand how she would remember spotting it, considering a bus stop we often used was right by it and we had once headed down that road in that direction to explore town at one point.

The place wasn't too big, but I had noticed from the front that it also had an inside part of the building as well as an outside, somewhere outdoors where others could go to 'skate,' whatever that meant. Sherry still had yet to tell me. There weren't that many people there, either, perhaps maybe one or two others, it didn't matter.

We had gone to the outside section of the building and I was glancing to the side at the different posters on the outside walls. I didn't recognize the writing so I ignored them afterwards. Sherry called out my name and I turned around only to see her holding out these strange pairs of shoes to me, they had wheels underneath them on the bottom.

"What're these?" I asked, staring at her oddly. She giggled before answering.

"They're skates!" she said enthusiastically. "They're what you wear on your feet, now try these on, Brago, so we can start already." I blinked before cautiously taking them from her. She expected me to wear these? Ridiculous.

I looked up at her again as I took the skates and she urged me to just try them on once more. I sighed and nodded my head as she led me to where a small bench was and I attempted to put them on, they didn't fit.

"Damn things are broken," I muttered and threw the skates on the ground. Sherry only laughed at me and I stared at her with a glare. "What's so funny?"

"You didn't take your shoes off, so of course they won't fit."

I glared at her again, anger rising within me. I huffed and turned around without a word and took off my black boots, throwing them to the side and then trying to put on the skates. Surprisingly, they fit.

"See?" said Sherry while I remained silent. "Now all you need to do is tie them so they can support yourself while you're out there. I'm going to go get mine." And that she did, afterwards getting up from the bench before going to the counter where a man handed her a different pair of skates, this time light brown, unlike mine which were gray.

She walked over to me and put on her own pair and I watched as she removed her own white boots, revealing her feet adorned in small, white socks. After she was done with that, she looked up at me with a smile and stood up, slightly shaky, and almost seemed to glide as she twirled around before stopping in front of me with a large grin.

"Come on, Brago, let's go already!" she said. I stared at her blankly before muttering a 'whatever' to myself and I stood up, only to lose my balance and fall down onto the ground. Sherry giggled and I glared even harder.

"What the hell are these things?" I inquired and she laughed.

"Skates!"

"I know, you've told me."

"Just watch!" She pointed in the direction of some other people beyond our reach where a small cement court was; a small trail from where we were led to there. A couple of people were out on the court, wearing the same strange shoes as us. They were all traveling quite fast and appeared to be gliding as Sherry had been a minute ago. I turned to look at the woman again, whom was still smiling. "Now if you use these right, you can skate like those people. It's actually a lot of fun once you get the hang of it."

I glared. "Since when did you skate?"

She shrugged. "I never have, but it looks fun!" I sighed and shook my head.

"Humans," I said and I stood up again, this time making sure I kept my balance. Sherry continued to grin as I stared at the ground to where my feet were. All right, so she wanted me to skate with her… these human tactics were strange. What was the point in this?

"OK, so let's go!" Suddenly the woman took my hand and led me to where the court was. A small breeze met my senses and it felt as if I were gliding along the ground with her, I found that I had to keep making sure my balance was in check so I could keep up with the woman. As soon as I got the hang of it, however, it wasn't so bad, I supposed.

Sherry let go of my hand and turned around, still smiling. We were out in the middle of the court now while hardly any people were there with us. I slowed down in order to regain my balance and I thought to myself. This could possibly be like training, just master this and don't make a fool of yourself…

"Heh, heh, looks like Brago's having difficulty, eh?" I glared at the woman when she said that. I was standing still while she was merely skating around me in a circle, twirling about. "Come on, you're no fun!" she teased.

"Shut up," I growled, my eye twitched again.

"Well, Brago, if you're so great at this, then come and get me!" She laughed insistently before taking off, leaving me to stare at her in pure agitation.

"Idiot," I muttered before going after her. Don't make a fool out of yourself; you're no fool. Turns out when I put my mind to it, this 'skating' wasn't too bad. I felt that I could actually do better than Sherry here if I tried. I smirked in victory when I caught up with her, completely balanced and going at a high speed.

She blushed deeply when I grabbed her wrists and pulled her close to me, not really knowing what I was doing. Looking up at me with her azure eyes, Sherry's blush remained and she smiled.

"OK, so you caught me," she mumbled and I let go of her.

"Hn, had enough?" I said and began to travel the opposite way. I watched her from a distance when she then smiled and shook her head, calling at me to wait up.

"That's not it!" she said when she finally caught up with me. I looked down at her and noticed how happy she appeared. There was a slight wind blowing due to our skating like this, her hair was somewhat in her face but otherwise fairly neat looking. Her lips were curved upwards into a smile and she was laughing. I had to admit it, but I hadn't seen Sherry like this in a while. It was… good to see her like this…

Damn it. Don't think of anything else…

So we both continued like this for a while until I noticed that Sherry was in a very good mood and she skated rather close to me. This I ignored. In the meanwhile, I was fighting off certain feelings that were intruding into my mind. The irritating urge to do something was bothering me to no end; I feared that I would eventually cave in.

Luckily before anything else could really happen, Sherry pulled up to a stop and glanced at the clock that was on the wall. 5:23 P.M… Was it really that late? I hadn't noticed how time had peculiarly crept by so quickly… Was I actually enjoying this too?

I really didn't know myself anymore.

"Wow, Brago, we should probably head back," said the woman as she turned around with a large smile. A blush crept upon her cheeks and she glanced to the ground before turning back around to where we had left our shoes. I followed her afterwards and proceeded to take off the skates like she started to do as well.

I had to admit it, but… being with her like this today… It… it wasn't so bad, perhaps… Damn it, what was I thinking?

After a minute or two we had both handed back the skates to the counter when I noticed something awkward; no one was there. I turned around and realized that we were the only ones in the park. Strange… a minute ago there were others here as well. I turned back around as Sherry and I decided to just leave the skates on the counter. She said that someone would eventually pick them up; I didn't really care.

"Thanks, Brago," said Sherry after a minute of silence. We were now putting on our own boots again near the bench. I glanced up at her but said nothing. "I really thank you today for doing this with me, I…" she trailed off, a large blush clearly seen on her face. I ignored this and merely glanced at her. She was just standing there, not really saying much or doing anything but looking to the side, evidentially lost in her own thoughts, thinking of something.

"Sherry?" I called her name.

She jumped slightly and looked back at me, a large smile on her face now. "Brago, I just wanted to say that I really, um… that I really do…" she trailed off again, shifting the weight under her feet uncomfortably before glancing up at me. "That I really…"

My eyes widened when I heard what she said next.

"…Love you…"

I glanced up and stared at her, not quite sure what I just heard. "What—"

"Korudo."

Before I could possibly even say anything, I quickly froze, instinct immediately taking over. "Sherry!" I shouted and grabbed her hand, pulling her down with me as I jumped away. A sudden surge of ice swept across where we stood, completely freezing the section where Sherry and I had previously been standing.

The both of us fell to the ground with a loud thud with Sherry lying on top of me and me on my back. We both glanced over to where two figures stood in the distance and my eyes widened. From where the ice had emerged there were two silhouettes, one with her hand outstretched, the other holding onto a pale blue book aglow with a soft light…

"B-Brago," started a flustered Sherry, "What just…?"

"Quiet," I snapped and sat up, still holding onto the woman, slightly unconscious of what I was doing. Still staring into the distance, I noticed that the demon and human were both females, one had an evil smirk spread across her face while the other was emotionless. "Sherry," I said, now helping her up.

"W-what?" she questioned, staring at the other pair as well.

"I think we've found the enemy, or rather, the enemy's found us."


Has anyone guessed who just appeared yet?