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Chapter 8: Wait...What?

Adar and Jade were in a small pool-like area of a river. They were taking a few moments to clean off before returning to the clearing for the night. Adar leaned over a branch and looked at her sister with a smug grin on her face.

"Jade...you know what...?" she asked, still grinning.

"What Adar?" Jade sighed, squeezing her red-brown hair out.

"I think you like Raph," Adar replied smugly. Jade looked at her like she had lost her mind.

"Why...or what would give you that idea?" she demanded sharply, an eye ridge raised.

"Your always looking at him," Adar replied still grinning.

"Just because he's hot...dosen't mean I 'like' him," Jade replied after rolling her eyes.

"Uh-huh," Adar answered.

"Oh for Pete's sake....what's to like about him? He's impatent, hot tempered, a loud mouth, a borderline bully, swears like a sailor, cocky, down right viscious when he fights, as arrogent as-" Jade vented.

"And you like him," Adar interupted. Jade sighed and looked at her sister in irritation.

"I. Do. Not. Like. Him," Jade said sharply. Adar rolled her eyes and grinned smugly. Jade reached over and shoved her sister into the mud.

"HEY!!" Adar yelped, "That proves I'm right ya' know!"

Jade walked off, ignoring her sister's comment.

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April had pulled the battleshell over and the guys were quickly examining the side of the road. The triplets were attempting to bolt off into different directions in their excitement to explore.

"Len...you need...Luke Come back! Somebody grab Jake!" Rose ordered. Scrambling to keep the three in line. April grabbed Lenora as she made a dash for the creek and Casey just managed to catch Jake before he could sprint off into the forest. Rose pulled Luke back to the battleshell and plopped him next to Fawn. He made a quick attempt to get away but was thwarted by Fawn who grabbed his belt, making him emit a soft "Oof".

Leo was crouched down looking at tracks in the dirt. Five years of hunting for a living had made him a great tracker.

"It's two days old...they headed for the woods...due east" Leo sighed, resting his arms on his knees. Don nodded.

"Well should we have the rest wait here for us?" Don asked, eyes flicking over to the battleshell and the on going war with the triplets. Mike grinned when he saw the ciaos. Leo groaned when he saw.

"Why am I plegged with the roudiest kids," he muttered under his breath. He whistled a sharp note and two of the kids froze. Jake stopped and looked at his siblings and then turned and looked at Leo, an eye ridge raised eyes questioning. Leo's mouth twitched upward a little at his eldest's confused look. He turned to Don.

"We need to find somewhere they can go where the kids can run for a bit...then we will go look for Raph and these...girls..." Leo sighed.

"Heh...I bet Raphies just enjoying the ladies," Mike laughed. Leo rolled his eyes and shook his head. Don glared at Mike in annoyance.

"What?" Mike aked. They just sighed. Minutes later Don was looking at a map of the area. He pointed out two possible areas where it would be safe to direct the others while they went in Search of Raph. In the end, after about twenty minutes, Leo gave his kids a strick warning and then kissed them gently before leaving with Don and Mike. Don took a tracker and they all took shell-cells. As the battle-shell drove off Leo and his brothers entered the forest, jogging quickly.

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Adar was laying on her stomach in a small clearing watching the figures of her sister Jade, and Raphael arguing. They were standing about a foot from each other, shouting at the top of their lungs. Movement off to the side caught Adar's attention, a man was watching them, he quickly slipped away. Adar felt a flicker of fear rush through her.

"Hey!" She said quickly, sitting up. Raph and Jade kept roaring at each other, fists clenched. Raph looked like it was taking all the control he had not to take a swing at Jade. Jade looked like she was accutally enjoying the fight and Adar had reason to suspect that Jade had started it on purpose.

"Hey..guys!" Adar tried again. Again they didn't hear her.

"HEY LOVE BIRDS!!! QUIT FLIRTING FOR A SECOND!" Adar roared. They stoped at looked at her in shock, mouths open.

"Could you too stop flirting long enough for me to tell you we were being watched by a guy?" Adar spat loudly.

"I wasn't flirting!! Wait ....what did you say?" they replied in unison. Adar smirked.

"you two are just the cutest love birds and all but all this flirting is getting annoying..." Adar babbled. Raph stormed forward and shook her gently.

"NOT that !!! After...uhhhg..about the guy," Raph roared. Adar looked a little scared.

"Hey don't do that to my sister!" Jade spat, shoving, or trying to shove, Raph away. He raised an eye ridge at her attempt.

"Ooooh you mean the guy that was watching us for about five minutes," Adar said quickly, enjoying the annoyed look on Raph's face.

"Yeah....wait five minutes? Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Raph asked quickly. Jade crossed her arms over her chest and gave her sister a piercing glare.

"I tried," Adar said in annoyance.

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