I blinked. She blinked, and I bolted. Now as I stated before I have no running ability. But what was in front of me caused a very big problem, namely a tree, one that I didn't see until I had fallen flat on my face once I tripped over it. Smashing my nose, right into solid, ground

"OWWWWWWWWWWW!" I screamed in annoy. My nose! My bloody freaken nose! Oh my god! I broke it, I had to have. My second thought was why the hell did I run? I shot up like a pin straight cupping it in my hands. Blood streamed from it and as I looked down it's length, I could see it nearly turned in half.

"Oh my!" I heard a soft voice beside me and jumped again, right before a wave of agony and nausea hit me. Persea was back with her ax and she still wasn't chopping right! I sunk back down to my knees it hurt. It hurt worse then that stupid knee incident! "Here let me help you." Tear said, "I will have to put your nose back in place before I heal it though." She batted away my hands and placing both gingerly around my nose. "So where are you from?" she asked conversationally.

I nearly spat blood out of her in shock. What the hell was with the random question? "Well I'm from the small village of Oa-" Tear made a quick movement, snapping my nose back into place. SON OF THE FEMALE DOG! THAT HURT WORST THEN THE ACTUAL BREAKING! She immediately started to softly sing one of her little songs. My nose glowed with the seventh fonons. It felt better instantly. Wow I am SUCH a baby!

I heard a cough behind me; it sounded oddly enough like baby. Grr if there was one very large black panther I would like to skin…

I left that though hanging as Tear moved putting herself between Slink and I, her spear rose slowly. My eyes widened, okay really! Did these things always happen so fast?

"Wait!" I cried out. Launching to my feet, grabbing the end of Tear's weapon. She started, not expecting me to react that way. "He's with me! I heard noise and ran off! But freaked when I saw you because I know – I mean I knew someone who looked like you. I though I was seeing a ghost!" My eyes pleaded with her to believe me.

The melodiest sighed and lowered her spear as I released it cautiously, ready to grab it again. "I didn't expect a civilian to be traveling with such a companion."

Well one could never say that thinking on my feet wasn't my strong point. "As I tried to say BEFORE you re-broke my nose, I don't have a village. Not any more." I pulled on the puppy eyes. "I got kicked out for befriending Slink here!" I broke out into a large smile, hugging the huge cat that had approached and stood at my legs. "Come now isn't he cute!"

I saw Tear's cheeks flame red as she took a good look at the sly Slink who was acting for all the world as I had just said, and not like the devil he was. And I mean that quite literally.

She mumbled under her breath and turned around and walking away.

"Oi!" I gave a small sprint to catch up to her gate of walking. "Where ya heading?" She gave me an icy look. Uh oh looks like nice Tear is gone. "Well if your headed toward the capital the I would LOVE to accompany you! If you'll let me that is. I mean I don't exactly have any weapons to defend myself and I would really like the company other then Slink here! Please?"

Tear frowned. "And what do I gain by doing this?"

She caught me there. I though fast. "Brownie points in the next life?" I said hopefully.

She sighed, "Fine. But you stay quite, there are more bandits in this area then the king would like to admit." She continued her fast pace.

Well I had at least answered one of my questions. 'And what would that be.' I nearly jumped a foot in the air. Silently I rounded on the cat; he was walking forward, not breaking pace with us, or even pacing the slightest attention to us. I turned back the main road, a frown painted on my face now. It was nearly dusk now. The clear beautiful sun I had seen that had felt only moments ago was fading fast.

"We should stop now." I was pulled out of my walking daze by Tear's voice.

She went to go look for food as I prepared a small fire, collecting the right size stick as Slink dug a small pit and I placed the kindling in it. At least I could help in this small way! Up till now I was so useless I had no weapon, No crazy ninja skills and most importantly no crazy artes. I rubbed the two sticks together, creating a small amount of smoke. Suddenly the spark caught, roaring across the rest of the small dry brush grass. I added the rest of the wood.

"Fascinating." I turned, Tear held three small boars, gutted and cleaned. I could stand that. My dad did hunting and it wasn't just one time I came home to find some dead animal hanging in my garage. "Why didn't you use a arte?"

I handed her a few sticks to spit the poor animals. "Never learnt them." Best to stick to truths and half-truths easier not to get caught that way. " I just learned the simple way."

She gave a soft chuckle and gave me a slightly surprised look. "Sorry, I though those who have the ability to use fonic artes were brought in by the order and taught or went and learned at the church."

"Were you?"

She looked away. "No, my brother and my... his friend taught me."

Legretta I guess. "Why are you headed towards the capital? On some sort of secret mission?" I saw her stiffen. "Chill, I'm not going to tell anyone if you are." I weaseled. If she only told me…

"Sorry that's classified."

I sighed impatiently; I need to sort some stuff out. "Where did you clean those? I need a drink." I looked down at my shirt. "And I kind of need to straighten up a bit. Crusted blood won't exactly be welcome in Baticul." She pointed towards a parallel direction that we were traveling. I strolled away and kept my ears peeled for signs of rushing water or any other form of life. I grinned when I finally reached it. A small stream disappearing higher up into the crater's lip and dipped down out of sight below. I looked around and removed my shirt. Sticking it right into the water, hissing slightly, the water was freezing! Well that's all the blood came out in any ways. It must have taken me a good half-hour of scrubbing to get out the stain. Next was my face. It must still be covered in flakes of blood from before. No matter what scratching and cleaning with my shirt.

I bent over the water letting my face graze it. Once again life shocked me. My hair! I was soaked with blood. "What the HELL!" I took a deep breath and plunged my head into the river. Swishing it back and forth. Then pulled it back out. Now I was starting to freak. How is that even freaken possible! All my hair was red! No freaken way!! I stood up and examined my body for the first time, expecting to see the same overweight girl that had been blasted to another world only hours before. I wasn't skinny but god so help me I was ripped by my standard. My whole stomach was muscle as well as the rest of my body. Not a inch of fat to be found. So much for kitty cat's theory on my breathing. Now I pulled my hair out of the rubber-band. It was longer then my original length, and a deep blood red.

Great, I though. It's now that I mind having a freaken amazing body but it did help when you kind of noticed these things before hand it really helps when your creating a cover story.

Now it was time to go over the checklist of what I knew and what my future objectives were.

Okay one I was just out side of Baticul, right before Tear goes and attacks Van

Two I still had on my clothes from when I came from home and they stuck out like a sore thumb even more then my hair did

I had a demon cat as my companion who refused to tell me much about anything

So the only two logic things I could do at this point. I could ask and convince Tear to help me in me return to helping her by telling her van's location then tagging along to the castle and take on Luke and distract him while she finishes Van, there by ending the whole story before it even begins or just letting her go on her merry way and letting the story play out.

Well I stood up picking up my dripping wet shirt and wringing it out best I could. Option one it is! Now all I had to do was convince Tear.