The next morning, they met at the place they first got together and set out on their way. They walked for a while until they finally reached their first stop; a small village on the bank of a long river.

"Let's get a bite to eat, I'm starving."

Reina led the way to a small stand with a chubby sale-man.

"What do you want? Fruit, a desert? Choose, I'm waiting."

Kyoto stared, indecisive.

"I'll just take an apple…and maybe some melonbread…and maybe some ramen…"

Reina laughed, "OK, I'll get a lot…we can eat it on the road."

She paid for the food, and they stuffed it in Kyoto's sack. They started to head out of the village when a little girl came up to them.

"Koneechiwa, little one, are you lost?"

The little girl shook her head and ran off. Before turning the corner, she looked back at them and nodded her head. Reina cocked her head and motioned Kyoto to follow as well. They turned the corner to find not an innocent little girl, but a demon standing in her place. It rose above them, just hidden by the ally walls. It growled and lunged for Reina. She dodged to the side, but slammed herself into the wall. Kyoko took a wooden board and banged it against its leg, but it kicked it away.

"Stall it, I need to generate power…"

Kyoko nodded and proceeded to hit the demon. Reina sat in lotus position, glowing amber. She stood up and, now fully restored, used the magic that she practised. She shot the demon with flames from her palms, and it disintegrated into ashes.

"Nice work. Let's get out of here before we reach any more problems."

They walked out of the village, relieved they had ovecome the demon. Reina turned to Kyoko.

"You do know how to fight don't you?"

Kyoko nodded, "I just need training, I guess. I don't have a weapon, so I stick with the whole ninja thing. Maybe when we travel some more, I can find a sword or something."

Reina shook her head and stopped walking. She took out her staff and it started to glow.

"I will not wait. I don't want to fight on my own."

The staff produced a metallic substance, which Reina controlled by the waving of her staff. It soon clumped together, and Kyoko saw the creation of a sword. Reina dropped her staff and grasped the sword-in-making. She swung it around and soon gave it color. She threw it up in the air, the sun catching in it's blade. It stuck in the ground, and Kyoko gasped at the sight. The sword's blade was an icy blue, the handle black with engravings of wolves. It had an emerald at the base where the blade and the handle connected, and mist encircled it.

"It's amazing! I didn't know you could create these things!"

Reina grinned, pulling the sword from the ground and handing it to him.

"It's powerful, so learn how to weild it. It should be easy for you."

Kyoko nodded and stuck his new sword in a loop on his pants. They continued walking until sundown, when finally Reina suggested they set up camp. They had come to a river bank, where they started to make a fire.

"So, what are we planning on doing this whole time? It's not like we have orders…"

Reina shrugged, "I can always get orders…from my advisor, Nanako. She's the one that tells me what to do and when to do it. I guess we can go around fighting and stuff…"

Kyoko nodded, "And we can go to that big celebration I heard about. I wanted to go this year, but being my mother, she didn't want to travel all that way. You can always tell when it's starting, cause' they put up this big light show."

Reina nodded, "That's a plan. If we don't travel too far from the city when we see the lights, then yeah, we can go. But for now, we better get some sleep. Big day tomorrow...a lot of walking."

Reina laid her head on the soft grass and quickly fell asleep. Kyoko did the same, but for a while, he stayed awake, staring at Reina's face, watching her breath in and out. After a time, he finally fell asleep.

Sorry if this was a shorter chapter, but I couldn't think of anything that could make it flow into the next chappy.