Hi guys! I'm here with yet, another new chappy, only because I almost went two months without putting up chappy seventeen, so I decided that I'd try to update this fanfic more frequently. Especially since after this chappy, only five more to go!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Take a Look through My Eyes by Phil Collins. There is also a flashback from my fanfic Power of Alliances.

Couples: Tiko/Ember, Razrein/Blizzar, and Simba/Rakurai. There's also some Ming/Haruka romance this chappy.

"..." Talking

Italics Thoughts

Italics and Bold Songs

At the Airport

Our heroes once again, set off to another location on Earth. But this time, they were going to Italy, so they could try some of the cuisine, and see the coliseum. Hoping to get a break from battling other mamodo teams, like a mini vacation.

When everyone got to the airport, they were actually late so they couldn't get on the plane. This was because of all the airport security systems since 911. Not wanting anyone sneaking in bombs, and sneaking in illegal items for that matter. So our heroes were on stand-by, which was if nobody was in a seat on their flight, they could have it.

The book owners were waiting in the gates, with all the seats around where everyone would leave to get on the plane. While the mamodos (except Raxel, Haruka, and Artic), were playing in what looked like a kiddie park.

Raxel and Haruka were talking with the book owners, about how to avoid the enemy mamodos, while Artic was sleeping at Nathan's feet since he was too bored to do anything else.

With the Book owners

"So, how do we avoid all these mamodo teams?" Aaron asked, while watching the mamodos, making sure they were okay.

Jay was the first to speak, "We could wear disguises," he suggested.

Eoin shook his head in reply to Jay's idea, "We have to think of advanced plans, something that nobody would dare to think of."

"Like what?" Chelsea asked, looking up from her copy of Warriors: The New Prophecy, Twilight which she bought at a book stand in the airport.

"I agree with Jay's idea Eoin," Nathan began facing Eoin, "If the disguise is good enough, it might actually work."

"Guys, we're not children, we have to think of something mature," said Jason, but received an 'ah hem' from Carly, "Oh… hehe, sorry Carly."

"None taken," Carly replied to Jason's apology, and went back to trying to think of an idea.

"Guys, we should probably just lay low for a while," said Cassie, with an idea on her mind, "You know, hide the spell books in our back-packs."

"So nobody will know!" Carly boomed out, interrupting Cassie in the process, all eyes on the eleven year old, "And they'll just think the mamodos are our siblings!"

"But what about Tai, Artic, and Simba?" Tariyu mentioned, "Nobody has animals for siblings, except for, well…… other animals."

"Good point," said Ming, looking at Tariyu, "and the fact that Simba walks on his hind legs, people will think he's the missing link… or something."

All the book owners, Raxel, and Haruka let out a sigh of annoyance from not being able to think of a plan. Then shortly went back to thinking.

With the mamodos

"I'm bored!" Ember whined, sliding down the plastic pink slide, in the kiddie park of the airport.

Which happened to be inside by the way, was near the book owners, and so they could see what was going on. Just in case, if something bad were to have happened.

"Me to!" Tiko yelled, lying on his back, counting the airplane models that hung by cords from the ceiling.

"Hey Grim, didn't you say you were in a band?" Zion poked Grim's shoulder, asking him the question.

"Yeah! The Skeltoz!" Grim boomed out triumphantly, watching Zion doing an anime sweat-drop.

"Could you… sing us something?"

"Why of course, I'd be happy to!" Grim boomed out in excitement, grabbed his scythe, and leaped up onto a plastic stage (like in theatres where people perform plays).

After hearing this; Ember, Zion, Blizzar, Yume, Tiko, Simba, Rakurai, Tai, and Razrein sat down on the gray-colored carpet of the airport, right in front of the stage in the following order from left to right. But they scooted back a little since they had to look up, and could only see the brown wood. After scooting back a couple feet, they could finally see Grim.

The could see Grim now, using his scythe as if it were a microphone, putting the blade near his mouth, and he began singing. After he sang the first couple lyrics, a few other children in the kiddie park, and some adults even sat down listening to Grim sing.

There are things in life you learn and
In time you'll see
Cause out there somewhere
It's all waiting
If you keep believing

So don't run, don't hide
It will be alright
You'll see, trust me
I'll be there watching over you

Just take a look through my eyes
There's a better place
somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
If you look through my eyes

There will be times on this journey
All you'll see is darkness
Out there somewhere daylight find you
If you keep believing

So don't run, don't hide
It will be alright
You see, trust me
I'll be there watching over you

All the things that you can change
There's a meaning in everything
And you will find all you need
There's so much to understand

Just take a look through my eyes
There's a better place
somewhere out there
Just take a look through my eyes
Everything changes
You'll be amazed what you'll find
If you look through my eyes

Take a look through my eyes

After Grim finished singing, he even heard people clapping their hands. This eventually turned into a standing ovation with cheering, whistling, and even more applause from all the people. But our mamodos were the loudest in the cheering and whistling departments.

Aaron, immediately took notice to this, and poked Chelsea's shoulder. Then he pointed to the crowd of cheering people and mamodos. Chelsea then nudged Jason in the arm, and he then lightly kicked Jay's leg. Which after a few minutes, went to a pattern of either light taps, or pokes on the shoulder, until everyone eventually saw what was going on.

The book owners, Raxel, Haruka, and Artic even woke up from the loud cheering to run over to the stage with the others. The audience was still applauding loudly, cheering wildly, and whistling in joy from hearing a great singer.

Zion was the first to greet his book owner, "Did you hear Grim singing Aaron? He was awesome!"

"He sings?" Aaron replied, looking down at his mamodo who was grinning really widely.

"Chelsea!" Ember yelled in joy, seeing her book owner, "Grim is the best singer ever!"

Chelsea was taking a minute to listen to all the cheering and applause, "he must be to get all this attention."

Grim meanwhile, was bowing to his audience, scythe in hand used as a support (like those sticks people use on hikes.) He smiled in delight, and even waved to the little kids who were clapping.

"Thank you everybody!" Grim boomed out, "You can catch me next week in Italy!" Then the undead mamodo took another bow, with his scythe in hand.

I knew he had talent, but I didn't know he was in a band back in the mamodo world?

Jason thought to himself, smiling at Grim and applauding for his mamodo, as if he was a proud parent at his child's play.

One hour later

Enough seats had finally opened up so our heroes could get on their flight to Italy. It was only because, most of the seats on the plane were used by the people watching Grim's performance earlier, and they volunteered willingly to give up their seats. Which were twenty-five people exact. But with the three animal mamodos, the pilot let the animal mamodos sit in their own seats, instead of in bags, and everyone else sat down on the plane.

The mamodos sat off in a group of seats, and the book owners in another group of seats. Artic, even joined the group of mamodos this time. The seats in the middle were rows of six, while the sides were in rows of three (since this is a big airplane). Mini television sets were above every other seat, and a big flat screen was hooked up to the wall for the middle row, up high so the others back could see it.

In the first middle row were from left to right Razrein, Blizzar, Tiko, Ember, Zion and Grim. The row behind them was Yume, Tai, Artic, Simba, and Rakurai. Behind that row sat Jason, Chelsea, Aaron, Jay, and Nathan. In one of the left rows near that group were Raxel and Saiko, the last seat sat Saiko's book bag. Behind them sat Eoin, Tariyu, and Travis. In front of Raxel's group were Carly and Cassie. In front of them sat Ming and Haruka.

With Ember's group

There were music videos playing on all the television sets, from Disney, to movie stars, and just about everything else. They all wore these big headphones in order to listen, or else all the music videos would be playing at once, which would sound weird in my opinion.

A Phil Collin's music video was playing on the television, after a few minutes of listening; everyone recognized the song to be the one Grim sang.

"Hey Grim!" Zion boomed out, looking over to Grim, "that's the song you sang!"

"I know, apparently it's from this Earth movie called Brother Bear," Grim answered, giving Zion a playful punch on the shoulder.

"Hehe!" Zion then gave a playful punch back to Grim, in the shoulder.

This resulted in a playful punching war between Zion and Grim, but Zion was winning the battle. Which resulted to the point where Ember was forced to hold Zion back, and the two guy mamodos previously punching each other, were sweating like pigs. Razrein only looked at Grim and Zion as if they were immature children.

With Yume's group

Yume was curious, got out of her seat and stood beside Razrein, "What's going on up here?"

"Oh, Grim and Zion were in a playful punch war," Razrein answered, "But thank god Ember got them to stop."

Artic was eating spaghetti, but Simba being the dimwitted mamodo he is, dove his paw into Artic's spaghetti, only to get it in Artic's mouth and the wolf mamodo chewed on his paw.

What the? A fury meat ball?

Artic thought this to himself, but then looked to his right and saw Simba, who was waving with his left paw with a guilty look on his face. Artic then realized, he had Simba's right paw in his mouth and spat it out.

"What are you trying to do?!?! Kill me!" Artic screamed out, with a look of rage on his face, which made Simba yelp, and cling onto his girlfriend Rakurai.

Rakurai grabbed Simba's furry ear into her hand and squeezed it, "SIMBA HART! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER BY NOW!"

"OWWWWWW!!! Raky-Chan! I need that to hear with!" Simba whined, only succeeding in getting his ear tugged harder by Rakurai.

Artic was watching this battle, with a smirk on his face, seeing Simba being tortured by his girlfriend like that. Tai, seeing this event only got an anime sweat-drop, embarrassed that Simba was his friend.

At 6:30 PM in Italy

Our heroes finally got off the plane and were now in Rome. They first took a bus to a hotel known as 'Hotel Alimandi Vaticano' in Italian, but everyone eventually got used to the new language. They all checked in, this hotel was so big that all twenty-five of them could fit in one room, which was known as the 'Party Room' in English, but nobody could pronounce it in Italian.

The hotel room was enormous; it looked more like a mansion than a hotel room. With all the regal furniture, peach painted walls, fancy Roman paintings hanging on the walls, the big chandelier hanging in the center of the big room, along with a computer. With ten other doors on the sides which broke up into bedrooms and bathrooms. Each of the seven bedrooms had three beds in it, along with some fancy furniture. The bathroom furniture in the three bathrooms appeared to be made of a fancy white marble, with Jacuzzi bath tubs and showers, white marble tiled floors with a tan rug, and white walls. A sliding glass door led to the balcony, with our heroes' four stories above Rome, which had a nice table and a row of plants, blocking view of the neighbor's balcony.

To make a long story short, the room where our heroes stayed at was very fancy.

Everyone put away their belongings, since they were staying in Rome for about a week. Some of the book owners were reading on some of the couches, Jay was sending an e-mail to his parents on the computer, telling them he and Tai were alright. Raxel was reading his book of Haikus again in one of the bedrooms. Ming and Haruka were sitting at the table on the balcony, having a romantic moment to themselves.

While Ember, Zion, Tiko, and Grim were spying on Ming and Haruka. They were doing this from random places in the room. Wearing what looked like army helmets and black face paint smudged under their eyes. Tiko was looking through a pair of camouflage binoculars with a walkie talkie, Ember was sitting on top of Zion's shoulders both possessing a walkie talkie with him holding her in place behind the couch, and Grim was hiding in cupboard with a walkie talkie.

"This is the Grim Reaper, do you copy Young Flame? Over," Grim spoke into his walkie talkie, poked his head out of the cupboard, and then did a dodge roll, so he was now behind a planted tree.

"Roger that Grim Reaper, Young Flame, over and out," Ember spoke into the walkie talkie, trying to stay on Zion without falling.

"See anything Young Flame, over," said Zion into his walkie talkie.

"Nothing yet Red Dragon, Fire Lord Tiko, what do you see? Over," said Ember into her walkie talkie, eyeing Tiko who was near the sliding glass door.

Tiko looked through his binoculars, shocked at what was going on, "Young Flame, Grim Reaper, Red Dragon…… THEY'RE KISSING!!! Over!" Tiko shut off his walkie talkie, staring at Ming and Haruka, who were kissing mouth to mouth.

Ember, Zion, and Grim ran over to Tiko, all with their eyes peeled to the glass door, staring at Ming and Haruka making out.

With Simba and Rakurai

The two mamodos were playing in a park next to the hotel, since they asked Cassie for permission and gained it. Simba was pushing Rakurai on the swing, making her soar high into the air.

"Push me higher Simba!" Rakurai cheered, clinging onto the metal chains with her hands, so she wouldn't fall off. Who was now soaring back down to Earth.

"Okay Raky-Chan!" Simba called out, grabbing the swing when it came back, pulled his arms back, and then flung his arms forward making Rakurai go higher than ever.

While looking down at the Roman landscape, Rakurai thought she saw someone familiar. The girl had long black hair, fair skin, purple eyes, and she wore a white skirt with a purple lining, and she wore a white shirt with purple lining. The outfit reminded you of a female sailor's outfit somewhat. But she also wore a white sun hat, with a big yellow ribbon tied around it; she was also carrying a tainted pink spell book.

"RIKKA!" Rakurai cried out, leaped off the swing, landed on all fours like a cat. Then she got up and ran towards the girl.

Simba luckily jumped off to the side in time, before the swing Rakurai jumped off of would've slammed right into him.

Could that be her book owner?

Simba thought to himself, looking up from the ground since he landed on his stomach, in order to avoid colliding with that swing. Making him fly off to who knows where. This reminded him of something that happened a few months ago.

Flashback

"Guys I have an awesome idea!" Ember boomed out, to two other male mamodos and Simba.

The two mamodos both had snow white skin and eye markings like Zatch's,, blue eyes, blue hair in the same style as Reycom's, were both about three feet and ten inches tall, looked ten years old; and were both wearing a white t-shirt with a capital Y in blue in the middle, blue sweat pants with two white lines going down each leg, and shoes identical to Zatch's. To put it simple, they were identical twins.

"What is it?" Yarp, the smarter twin asked walking back to the merry go round, (like those in playgrounds).

"You know how you guys can run really fast?" Ember asked the two twin mamodos.

"Yeah!" The two look-alikes answered Ember in unison, both standing in front of the merry go round.

"You two could spin it really fast, and then stop it right away. To see if we would fly off of it or not," Ember explained her idea to the three males; Simba, Yarp, and Yerp.

"Excellent idea Ember!" Simba cheered out flailing his arms around.

"Come to think of it, that does sound fun" Yarp spoke to himself.

"Then let's do it!" Ember yelled already on the merry go round, sitting while holding onto the red bars. Simba decided to sit at the end clinging to the red bars.

Yarp and Yerp grabbed the outside ends of the merry go round. The two then began running around really fast still clinging onto the outside of the merry go round. After three minutes of running the two then jumped on and sat near the edge so they could get off easier when it was time to stop.

"This is totally wicked!" Ember screamed still clinging to the bars, with the merry go round going around eighty to one hundred miles an hour.

"WWWWWWWHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!" The four mamodos screamed in unison. Making the merry go round look like a faint red blur, from the speed Yarp and Yerp were making it spin at.

Ten minutes later

"BRAKE!" Yarp and Yerp screamed in unison, the two still clinging to the bar tossed their bodies off the merry go round, while they were still clinging to it.

Then the two speed mamodos slammed their feet into the ground, immediately making the merry go round skid to a halt, which for some reason made Simba go flying away because he lost his grip, he almost looked like Ponygon when he was tossed into the air by Naomi.

Ember, luckily was holding on, but got off and had to fight Yarp and Yerp for a chance to throw up into a dark green trashcan nearby. But all of the mamodos present, lost their breakfasts and lunches, into the trashcan at the same time.

"I don't feel so good" Yerp moaned, walked over to a tunnel play area, then lied down inside a brown colored tunnel, and fell asleep in it trying to wear the sickness off.

Ember and Yarp did the same as Yerp, only Ember fell asleep in the tunnel slide backwards, and Yarp crawled behind the play castle, found a hole and crawled though it then fell asleep in the nice cool shaded area.

Poor little Simba was still flying through the air helplessly screaming.

A mamodo sitting on a wooden bench saw Simba flying through the air. He looked very similar to Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist in appearance. Stood at about 5'5" tall, had long flowing black hair, purple eyes, looked about sixteen years old, he was wearing a tight black outfit similar to Envy's from Fullmetal Alchemist, and black shoes. Plus he was also wearing a black silk scarf wrapped around his neck, and he was pretty slender. This guy was known as Imite Ying.

What the hell? A flying cat? Imite thought to himself.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Simba screamed, and his head crashed right through the bench next to where Imite was sitting. This left Imite confused, that a lion cub mamodo had his head stuck through the bench, while his neck and below was sticking out the other end.

Imite then decided to poke Simba with his finger, which made Simba's body quiver.

"Don't poke me!" Simba demanded, he pushed down onto the bench with his paws, while trying to pull his head out, in an attempt to free himself.

Simba kept using this same method for trying to get his head free, it eventually worked, but with a hole in the bench and Simba flew back into the ground on his back, rubbing the back of his head with a paw.

"Owie," the lion mamodo spoke twitching his whiskers sense he smelled something interesting, it was the pumpkin pie that Imite was eating.

He then approached this strange new mamodo, and only drooled at the site of pumpkin pie.

"Can, I have a piece?" Simba asked staring at the pumpkin pie.

"Nope, you can't have any." Imite answered Simba, picking up his fork and eating a piece just to torment the younger mamodo.

"Plllllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeee?" Simba begged the older mamodo, using the giant puppy dog eyes.

Imite then had a cruel smile creep across his face, while eyeing the begging lion cub mamodo, who was oblivious to the evil about to come.

"Okay, but you have to do something for me first," Imite answered making Simba smile really big.

"Sure I'll do anything!" Simba cheered hopping around like a hyper rabbit.

"First, you have to quit hopping around it's annoying and pathetic." Imite began which made Simba stop jumping. "Now sit right here," he patted the spot on the bench next to him.

Simba climbed up on the bench and sat next to Imite, eyes filled with wonder and curiosity, and his tail began to wag wildly.

"Now what do I do?" Simba asked curiously while smiling.

He is so oblivious, but he does look cute like that. Imite thought to himself.

"Did anyone ever tell you how pretty you are?" Imite asked Simba, only to receive a blushing mamodo. Not because Simba loves him, but because he didn't know what to say.

"Uh... No?" Simba replied confused at why anyone would ask him that.

"Well I think you're very pretty," Imite spoke wrapping an arm around Simba's shoulders, pulling him closer so the two were touching.

What does this guy think he's doing? I hope he's not hitting on me. Simba thought.

In the present

Simba immediately shook off that thought, which sometimes even gave the poor mamodo nightmares. He got back up on his hind legs, and walked over to Rakurai and her book owner to introduce himself, like the typical gentleman.

"Hiya, you must be Raky-Chan's book owner," Simba started, and held out his white paw out to the older girl, "My name is Simba Hart, but you can call me Simba."

The older girl giggled and shook Simba's paw, "My name is Rikka, and I guess you've taken a liking to my mamodo?"

"Yep! Raky-Chan's awesome!" Simba cheered, and grabbed both Rakurai's and Rikka's hands, "C'mon! You need to meet the others!"

"Okay then," Rikka replied, letting Simba drag her to the hotel they were staying at.

In another part of Italy

Another mamodo team was walking the streets of Rome, Italy. The mamodo stood at 4'5", she had blonde hair, greenish eyes, a light tan; and she wore a blue t-shirt with a wave on it, an Indian leather necklace with a Sapphire in it, blue jeans, gray sandals, and a blue/orange anklet.

She was traveling alongside a boy who stood at 5'6", had blonde hair, blue eyes; and a light tan while wearing a gray Abercrombie shirt with a khaki jacket, cargo pants, and white runners. He also carried a spell book which was a mix of silver, green, blue and purple.

"Why are we here Shami?" The boy asked his mamodo, known as Shami.

"Because Tyler, I have a feeling my little brother and his friends are here," Shami said to Tyler, "Besides, it's been forever since I last saw him.

"Oh, so we're just visiting them then?"

"Yeah, besides, I wanna see his girlfriend, just make sure she's right for him," Shami spoke like a parent, making sure her child's date is appropriate.

With Ember, Zion, Tiko, and Grim

Haruka had caught the four mamodos spying on them, and almost beat them to a bloody pulp. Somewhat like what an older sister does, if you annoy her just enough. So the four mamodos were punished by their book owners, had to quit playing their game called 'Army Spies' and sit on the couch for an hour. Aaron took away the mamodos' army helmets, and Chelsea got the face paint off them.

"I hate being punished," Tiko whined, and then poked Grim in the side.

"Don't… Poke… Me," Grim said in a cold voice, which made Tiko yelp, and cling himself to Ember.

"Guys," Ember said, trying to push Tiko off her, "Can't we cooperate?"

Zion was sitting obediently, with his arms crossed, waiting patiently for their punishment to be over.

Outside

Little did the others know, was that an evil mamodo was lurking in the shadows. Stalking its prey, waiting to lunge and attack! But for some reason, the two guys only waited in the park. One made a paper airplane from a note he wrote, and threw it into the fresh gust of wind.

"Grrrrr, when can I shoot them?!" The shorter one asked.

This guy had shoulder length silver hair, stood at 5'7", red eyes, and a peach skin tone. He wore a pair of black jeans, black army boots, a red t-shirt, and the same red cape Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy 7 wears. He was also carrying a Hydra model gun with long barrel and sniper scope from Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus.

"Just wait, they'll come out in a minute."

The other guy stood at 5'10", had brown hair which went down to his waist, and slightly tan skin. The guy wore dark blue jeans, a black leather jacket with a brown sweater underneath, and brown boots. He was also carrying a black, silver, and red swirl spell book.

With our heroes

Everyone was inside doing random things. Jason and Jay were taking turns playing pinball on the computer; Grim, Zion, Tiko, and Ember were still being punished and had to sit on the couch. Rakurai and Simba finally came back, and they introduced Rikka to the other book keepers.

Artic was the only one to notice the paper airplane that flew into the room, he caught it in his mouth and brought it over to Nathan. The boy unfolded the paper airplane, after reading the first few sentences he was shocked, and yelled for the others to come over and read it. He couldn't read more than those few sentences, because the handwriting looked as if it was writing by a drunken person.

Nathan read the note aloud, which said……

Dear Mamodos and Book-keepers,

We have seen what you were trying to do. Find all the mamodos because the portals to Earth were acting up, and spitting them back up here. We want you to know that we WILL stop you at all costs. A couple of you may recognize us, while most of you will not. Either way, we will burn your books, and stop rescuing the other mamodos.

Your Friends K. and L.

Muahahahahaaaaaa!!! Evil Cliffhanger of doom!!! Like I said earlier, I'm going to try to finish this story as quickly as I can, simply because I have many ideas for the sequel. Also, since I'm back in school now, it's gonna be hard to update. But I'm gonna try to finish this as soon as I can. You guys better be happy with this chappy, because it took me six hours to type. I found the scene where Ember, Tiko, Zion, and Grim playing 'Army Spies' to be quit funny.

Hooray for fourteen pages of typing!