"Relax..."he soothed. "You have to relax."

It was up to her knees, and she couldn't move anything submerged in it. Nick was about as deep as her, still perfectly calm. He put a hand on her shoulder. "You need to relax. Do you really thiknk that I would let them hurt you?

"who are 'They?' What's going on!"

It was at her waist, and she began to claw at it fruitlessly. Hard as stone, she only succeded in grazing the surface.

Nick held her hands down by her sides. "Rachel, I'm not gonna let you get hurt. I'm your freind. You should trust me"

"but Nick, I'm getting sucked into the ground! How can you be so calm! We need to breathe!"

"I can breathe underground. And don't worry, I know how to handle it. You should trust me more."

"huh?" It was up to her neck now. She closed her eyes. This was it. Nick was insane. He was gonna kill them both, and not even no it. ""goodbye nick," She closed her eyes, and waited for it all to go away.

There was a warmth on her lips, and she opened her eyes again. Nick was kissing her! 'great' she thought 'he decides he likes me when he goes insane'. Her eyes were covered in dirt, and it took her a moment to relize that she was underground. The even stranger thing was that she could breathe! She continued to fight the dirt tho, Doing her best to put space between her and it.

For a moment she thought it was working, because her foot broke through something. She opened her mouth to yell in joy, but nick stopped her. ' He must be sending me air somehow' she thought.

Their legs broke through, then hips. Hand and arms. For a painful moment she was suspened by her head, but then they were free. They fell a second, landing on a mossy floor with a light thud.

Nick finnally stopped kissing her, and let her go, looking down and blushing.

"Welcome" sid a strange and echoing voice.

Rachel and Nick turned to look. There stood a beautiful woman, with light green skin, grass green hair, anteenas, and Clear wings. Her eyes were almost buglike, a freakishly bright green.

Nick bowed deeply to her, Kneeling down on the floor. Kairi awkwardly stood there with no idea what to do. She wasn't a boy, she couldn't bow. Eventuall she settled on a clutzy curtsy so low that she almost fell over. The green woman appeared to approve. (I'll have a pic of this. I like the idea behind it. See it my profile is xKairisOtherx)

Nick stood up, and Rachel recovered from her curtsy.

"Young Nichalarius, what brings you here? And why have have you brought this girl with you?" Her voice was pleasent when casual. It was almost musical. One of those voices you wanted to hear more of, but the person was always quiet.

"She is my freind. She having a small problem"

"Nickalarious, as welcome as you are, I'm afraid we cannot have you comin in here with small problems. You need to live through them."

"I know, but, he's after her."

The woman let out a small gasp, but her perfect face remained joyas and kind. "Nickalarious, as much as I'd love to beleive you, I'm afraid I can't. Why would he chase her? She is of no importance. I'm very sorry, but if your lying, I'm afraid i'll have to ask you to leave."

"Are you talking about that boy with the gright green eyes?" she asked, then covered her mouth. "I'm sorry..your highness? I shouldn't have interupted."

"It's mother Nature, child. And yes we are." she turned to Nick. " You are very lucky. tomorrow we shall question her. If we find reason to beleive that you are lying, you will be sent home, and your memories shall be wiped."

"Thank you! Thank you!" He nodded eagerly, incredibly happy.

"Another bed shall be moved to your previous quarters. I suggest yuou teach her some of the rules." After that Mother Nature turned green, and seemed to break into a million little specks.

"What just-"

"C'mon, let's go.

He walked to a hole in a wall, and she followed. Inside was a large room, complete with two hammocks, which she assumed were the beds. He sat on one, and plopped on next to him.

"So..."

"what? are you mad at me?"

"No...Was that really Mother Nature? Why didn't she beleive you? Is your full name really nicholarius? Why did you kiss me?" endless questions flowed from her mouth, like a river.

"Wait, slow down! ok, yes that was Mother Nature, she didn't beleive me because you are not a particularly imortant person," that earned him a light punch in the shoulder."that is my real name" He blushed just a little"and I kissed you because" His face went from light pink to beet red in a matter of seconds, " That's how we transer air. You can't breathe through dirt so...yeah..and...yeah" he finished lamely.

She tackled him down in a huge glompish hug "aw...thanks..." The hammock tipped over and they both landed on the floor, laughing. After a couple of minutes they climbed back on, laying down. Rachel leaned into his shoulder, and he wrapped an arm around her.

"Nick, if you were here before, what was it like?"

He took a deep breath, and she felt his chest ris and fall under her.

"I came here after you moved because my father did. As his descendent it was my duty, according to him. I was a dissapointment, because I have more of Selphie's traits than Riku's"

"That's awful. Both of them were great people."

"Thanks" He squeezed her in a little tighter for a moment."Anyways, I thought that maybe if I came and learned all of the elements, Father would be pleased. So I did. I had a natural knack for it, according to Mother Nature. I was great with this element, and the gods here all adore me, but..." she tried to focus on the words, but sleep was coming at her fast. Eventually she gave in, falling asleep to the soft rumble of his voice.

Nick looked down at rachel and sighed peacfully. She had fallen asleep. She looked like an angel, perfectly calm. "goodnight" he said, kissing her forehead.

Sorry I know this one is super short but I gotta go in like 2 secs Expect Fluff!

Please R+R!