Dedications: Thanks to Laney (LionRulersRoar) for being an amazing friend, especially when I needed it. Then, thank you to all of those who have stuck with Opposite Spirits for so long! Keep on reading and I'll put more Reilin together (but maybe not in this chapter). ;)

The Ram's charge seemed to be unstoppable. Rollan tried to dive out of the way as Essix shrieked… in anguish? Rollan couldn't believe his ears, Essix was actually cared about him? He was paralyzed by this thought, before being bumped out of the way. Then, the Great Ram's hoof had crushed the ground, where he had been a second ago. Rollan gasped with shock, "You- you just saved my life!"

Meilin wanted to retort that it was by mistake. At the same time though, she didn't want to witness death again, af- after what she had seen while escaping Zhong. Her heart plummeted to her stomach at that thought. How was her father doing? Was he… was he… dead? "NO, Meilin," she told herself, "He's fine, he can take care of himself."

A Niloan girl appeared into view below the vast cliff at the edge of the emerald-green forest.

"It was Abeke!" Meilin realized, but her bewilderment was short-lived for Abeke had shouted in panic, "Meilin, watch out!"

Meilin reacted, but faced the wrong way, before her hands were grabbed and she was tossed into the air like a bird. She shrieked, but immediately caught herself. How dare she for looking so terrified! She looked into the Amayan boy's eyes with both shock and incredulity.

Rollan looked into her eyes (and his face turned red) before saying, "You did save my life. Err… and so your name is Meilin?"

Meilin grumbled, not sure whether to show her appreciation or her annoyance at an improper introduction. She wanted to tell him right there that it was by accident, but before she could open her mouth to speak, the Ram was already charging back towards them. She tossed him into the air just hurled him into the air this time, and they ended up taking turns just tossing each others into the air like a tetherball. They ignored the fact that they were both enemies, while Essix was up in the air, laughing and forgetting the fact that she was supposed to fight.

"What are you two doing?" she laughed, "School Dance Night, eh?"

Rollan was busy saving this fierce girl's life, but he was able to catch a Niloan girl get rushed by an oversized leopard.

The Ram screeched to a stop and cried, "NO!" Abeke was after the talisman. She had taken longer than she wanted as the battle between the Greencloaks and Conquerors raged on, but she had reached it.

Rollan collapsed from exhaustion as Meilin toppled to the ground. "You're- you're heavy," blurted blatantly.

"Heavy?!" she shrieked. This was not how peasants treated a general's daughter! Her outrage was short-lived when she saw Abeke dash back, her hands clutching… the Granite Ram of Arax! Just then, a shadow crossed her face. She looked up, a vampire bat dived for Abeke's face as Zerif shouted, "No, the talisman. Get that idiotic bat of yours…"

"It's not idiotic!" retorted the woman, who was clearly the owner of the bat.

Meilin watched in fear as she saw a falcon with amber eyes dive, but wait, The Falcon was on the enemies' side! She picked up a stone and aimed. This was the only good for tossing here. It had to collide with both the falcon and the bat, regardless of what happened. She aimed carefully and hurled it with all of her strength.

"Wait! Not Essix!" that Amayan boy cried and jumped into the air.

Rollan felt a whoosh of energy soar into him, and he saw himself leap higher than he had ever before. He faced the small stone, and caught it, after it hit the bat, and was about to bounce off and onto Essix. He landed gracefully on both feet. He saw a blond, adult Greencloak exclaim, "Amazing!" and then to the Niloan girl, "Abeke, you saw that? You don't need Uraza this time, because you have the talisman. Use it!"

Abeke stared and didn't understand how to use it. She tried rubbing it like a genie in a lamp like in stories, but when she saw The Ram charge towards her, she saw the chain and threw it around her neck. She jumped from ledge to ledge and even skipped a few steps. She stumbled on a rock and landed— in the middle of the battlefield.

"Oof!" she cried as she collided with a blond-haired Conqueror. She stared into his blue eyes before dashing off at immense speed. She turned, it was rude of her not to say 'sorry.' "S-sorry about that," she uttered, before refusing to risk the talisman again. Suddenly, the chain of the talisman was grabbed from behind, and she was choked by it. "Oh no," she thought, "Arax must be behind me!" She kicked as she was strangled and as the heavy chain turned tighter around her neck. It twisted even more, and she was forced to turn around. It wasn't the Ram, but the man who had bickered with the lady about her "pathetic" vampire bat. She would've screamed when a jackal bit into her bicep, but she was almost out of air as her throat contorted and writhed with pain. Blood spurted out of her wounded leg and stained her outfit, the only thing that she brought from Nilo. Her father wouldn't let her take anything else from the village besides her clothing, bow, quiver, and arrows, which were her only reminders of home. He did have a point though, for their village was short on supplies, and especially rain. Abeke was meant to be their new rain dancer until she was fetched by the Greencloaks and taken to Greenhaven.

Uraza had now caught up, after avoiding the Ram's charges and bit the jackal, causing him to release its bite on Abeke. Uraza snapped at the jackal and chased after it viciously for hurting Abeke, before a shadow was cast on Abeke before Conor screamed, "Look out Abeke!"

Abeke swerved and she saw the dark-haired man who owned the jackal heave an axe above her head, and sent it down towards Abeke's skull.