"Mokona, can you sense exactly where the feather is?" Syaoran asked unsurely. He was well aware how easily Mokona's senses drifted between precise and general every time they switched. He looked away from Mokona once more and glanced around at the trees and foliage surrounding them. They were in a jungle in a clearing. Ten feet in front of them, the clearing dropped away into a pit. No one had gone near it yet for the obvious reasons of not knowing what was in it. The pit spanned another ten feet and stopped with a very tall stone wall. The wall was intricately carved in symbols and other unreadable things that could have been words. Heavy vines have grown over the tops though and most of colored paint was gone except for a few chips closer to the bottom. The left edge of the wall continued into the jungle and was covered in tree roots. The left ended with a high tower that was twice the height of the twenty-seven foot wall. The steepest hill possible blocked all other access. There was no way around the pit and no way across.

"Mm…It's up in that tower," Mokona answered pointing at the tower with his right hand. Syaoran looked at the tower. He stared at it closely, looking for anything that could help him even in the slightest.

Nakietra

I let out a long breath and lower myself onto the ground. All this traveling is making me sick. Every world seems only to last a day. I curl up my knees and rest my head down. I feel exhausted. The aching in my lungs isn't going away at all anymore. It's only slight but it's enough to keep me up. It's because I can't sleep at night. I moan.

I look up at the others. They think they're being quiet, but not that much. I can't understand exactly what they're saying but I can hear their voices still. I watch Syaoran point up and I realize they're trying to get to the feather. I look into the trees. I never liked jungles anyways. I might as well get the feather for them so we can move on. It's not like they're going to be able to get it anyways. That pit has to be eight feet across at least. Syaoran can defiantly jump it, but that wall won't be easy to climb it he doesn't aim for a handhold.

I get to my feet. I wince as my shoulder clicks. All these feathers always involve climbing it seems. Either they like high places, or someone is specifically putting them there. Why would anyone do that though? Anyone with a rope and a counter-weight can make it up to those high places. Not this one, but every other one that is.

I walk to the ledge and let my toes hang over. I look down into the pit. I take a deep breath. There's something evil in this pit. I take a step back and look at the wall. I don't like that pit and I don't want to think about what might happen if I miss. The wall had definite handholds that I can grab on and I can probably make this jump if I have a running start. I've made jumps bigger than this before but those were better times.

I start from the point right in front of me. I follow the path to the left and then up. Parts of the ledges are gone, but there are ways around it. I find my way up the tower and then my eyes wander back to the wall. Directly inside my route is a huge square shaped hole. It's actually above a part of my route I guess. I lean rest my weight on my right leg. Who knows what's living in that space. It's too much extra work to go around though. I'll just have to move fast. I push my hood back and turn around.

I walk back to the edge of the forest. This would be a good enough running start. I pull my dress over my head and fold it nicely on the ground. Underneath I wear a short sleeved shirt and pants that go down to my knees. Both are black. The material is very flexible and light. I turn back around. Sakura and Mokona are on the ground near the ground. They're watching me. Nero is in the shade of the trees to my left. He's watching me too. He's not stopping me though. I will make this jump. I have to.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Then, I run. I open my eyes and snap my foot off the edge of my pit. MY body slams into the edge and I scramble for a hold. My right hand makes it while my left hand fails. I heard Nero whining and jumping around on the ground from behind me. I reach up and grab the ledge with my left hand. I breathe out in relief and start moving. I have a lot of climbing.

"What are you doing?" Kurogane yells angrily. Do I really need to explain myself at this point? Shouldn't it be obvious I won't answer?

"I'm getting the feather," I grunt as I reached up and grabbed the ledge above. I doubt any of them heard me. I hate how they forget I'm not as useless as Sakura. Just because I stand back from a battle doesn't make me scared. It makes me wise considering all I have is my knife. If I had a sword though…

I stop moving and listen. Above Nero's whining still, but there's something else. I blink my eyes and listen very closely…

Something is hitting the stone inside the walls. I need to move, but I don't know where they're coming from so I don't know which way to more. These noises are getting louder. It's like pounding and then scratching. It's better to move forward because I at least have a route in my heard for that area.

"Watch out!" Someone yells. I'm not paying attention. I look left. It's a spider as big as me staring at me. Its fangs are bigger than my forearm and it had eight eyes bigger than my thumbprint. A rock hit its face and then more hit its legs before it fell into the pit. I watch it fall. I see more crawling up the wall and I more. It's defiantly not safe to stay where I am. and saw a giant spider with eight red eyes and two large fangs. I really hate spiders.

I make it to the tower then. At least the others are keeping the spiders off me. Without the stones, I would easily be caught with my limited amount of motion. I reach the supposed ledge with the feather. I pull myself up. The small pavilion is made of white stone with its own pedestal for the feather which is entrapped in some sort of ball. I jump up from my knees and snatch it away. I need to get out of here. I rush back to the ledge and then—

Something slams into me. I put my hands up and feel a spider I breathe in sharply. I hate spiders. I close my eyes and feel it's fangs sink into my chest. I yell from the pain. It's worse than any other injury I've ever had. I hope I hit the ground soon.

I hit someone and then the spider's weight and fangs are gone. I breath in a few times before I open my eyes. Is it really gone or is it thinking about how it wants to eat me?

"Stay as long as you want. I'm very comfortable," Fai said. My eyes flash open and look up. I guess he was the one I landed on. There's a spider dead next to us with its head cut off. I glance around. Spiders are pouring out of the pit. I shouldn't be resting. I get up and start fighting. I have a few good ruins ready.

The spiders bleed chunky green than mixes poorly with their deep grey skin. They were all more or less grey. They kept coming and all they had to fight was us. Syaoran stuck with Nero and protected Sakura and Mokona. Fai had a stick and was able to help at least a little I'm guessing. I wandered farther away from them. I was closest to the pit; Kurogane was midway between me and the other's also. I always worked better on my own. Even being with Nero was hard sometimes.

"There's another feather!" Mokona exclaimed before anyone could say anything. The spiders were all dead as far as I could tell. I flicked the blood off my knife and kept walking forward despite this news. I feel disgusting. I need a bath or something I think.

"Where?" I ask first. I pick up my clean dress very carefully. I don't want to put it on until I'm clean. I'll give it to Mokona to store though. I put my knife away. I feel really good right now.

"Mm…it's hard to tell…Its really far ahead though," He said. I look back at the wall. It looks even more formidable than before. There's nothing else I can do though. At least Mokona didn't say I had to go through that hole in the wall.

"We'll leave this to you then Nakietra," Fai said. I looked at him and saw that smile of his. I already have a plan on how to get on top of the wall so it doesn't really matter. I'll either find a way to bring them all up from there, or I'll just continue on my own and come back.

"You don't have to Nakietra. We can find another way over," Syaoran said laying Sakura carefully on the ground. I don't' know how she got it out of the bubble thing, but she got her feather at least.

"I can do it," I say and, once again, ran at the wall and grab the same ledge.