As the group approached the now dark city, they were uneasy about the night. It felt darker and less clean than what they were used to on their own isle.

"I don't like this," Stefan whispered under his breath. Michael nodded in agreement with him.

A small house was built in the center of the city and they all questioned it's placing and figure but the sign outside said that it was supposed to be an inn.

As they walked into the inn, four girls greeted them with smiling faces. "Welcome," one of them said. She had pink hair and cat ears that looked very real.

"Ah!" Devin yelled staring at the girl with cat ears. Michael seemed to take a fondness towards her though.

"I'm Ichigo!" The cat girl said very suddenly and boldly. Another girl with green hair stood beside her. "This is Natsume." Natsume waved at the group.

"I'm Michael," Michael spoke to Ichigo. "We would like 2 rooms please."

A girl behind the counter, not belonging to the group that greeted the boys, stood half-spaced out. "Telice, ring up 2 rooms for these gentlemen," Ichigo said.

The girl behind the counter still spaced out but took out a book and wrote a schedule of who was in.

Another girl with pink hair stood. She had a large sword strapped to her back. "And you might be," Devin asked her.

"Blackrose, and yourself?"

"Devin. Who's the other girl in the dress/shorts?" He asked her

"That's April. She has the fastest gun shot record in this place." Blackrose gestured over in April's direction.

"Wow." Kevin looked around at the place. Strange circles where imbedded in the walls. "What are these?" He asked more to himself than anyone.
"You've never seen Salicous circles around here? You knew to this place?" April asked Kevin who seemed to not know what was going on.
"An old wizard mentioned something to us about Salicous. Something about it being able to use magic. Our brother," Michael paused for a second. "Sunshine, went with him."

"What!!!" A girl yelled from somewhere in the inn. "Sunshine is back?"

"That's Mint. She was Sunshine's soon to be wife at the time. But then somehow he was stolen and taken out of this world. And you're his brothers? I've never heard anything about you before."

"Could you tell us more about the history of Salicous and Sunshine's relation to all of this," Stefan asked quietly.

"Sure, I don't see why not," Natsume said happily.

"Salicous was used throughout the course of our history as a way to use magic. Many forms of it where crafted but there really are only 9 basic elements." Ichigo started to explain.

"Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Thunder, Forest, Light, Dark, and Celestial are the main elements," Telice said still lost in her own little world.

"As time progressed the elements began to be more tame and branch out into separate groups. For example, the Wind magic was used so much that it broke into another separate magic called Sky. Sky

deals more with helping the speed of allies and slowing the enemies. But it got advanced more and now can be used to fight," Blackrose said brandishing her sword.

"Sunshine had 4 very close friends who where taken about the same time as he was. All five of them where supposed to be able to make an element that was never heard of and didn't branch from any other element," April spoke.

"Is there any way that you could teach us how to use Salicous?" Michael asked Ichigo.

"Of course. But not now, its too late to do something like that. Don't bug Mint at all tonight. After all, she'll probably be asking you where he is and all that stuff."

When the group woke up the next morning, the girls where all waiting outside, including Telice who seemed to be a little more awake but not much.

"First you guys need to pick these weapons that we found with your stuff."

"Weapons? But we never had carried anything with us before," Kevin wondered.

"Everything in this place is free to go where it pleases. These must have found their way into your stuff while you where out walking or something," Natsume said.

Stefan picked up a sword. It had an eerie dark glow around it and had an inscription just like Will's weapon. However it seemed to be in a different language than what they could understand.

Devin took up two small daggers. Each had an illuminating glow about them. Michael picked up a silver sword that had a heat mirage over the tip of it.

Finally Kevin picked up a katana. It had a liquid aura around it and shined bright blue.

Stefan swung his blade through the air and an eerie dark ripple followed the edge of his blade creating an ominous and dead-like feeling too all around him. "Nice," he spoke pleased about how the blade worked for him.

"Well it seems that the weapons have been crafted with their own elements and they have chosen who they want to be with."

"Then how do we use the Salicous?" Kevin asked trying to swing the blade and create anything that wasn't ordinary.

"Salicous can only be learned by being exposed to the element itself."

"Like when Will fell off the cliff. Air pushed him up that must have been enough to trigger an outburst of air magic. So I need to be more exposed to the hot essence of Fire magic?" Michael finally finished.

"Yep. My best guess would be that if you sit inside a sauna long enough the heat should get through to your head and create a large enough wild energy concentrate, that it will cause you to be able to use magic," Ichigo explained.

"And for the rest of us?" Kevin asked Ichigo anxiously.

"Well, it'll be different for each person because of the different elemental charges that you hold," April answered to Kevin.

"The essence of dark is most likely to be gathered at night. Water is easier to hold by the rivers and lakes. Light is one of the easiest and you," Natsume pointed at Devin, "shouldn't have the slightest trouble in gathering it."

"Alright then. See you all in the morning." Stefan headed inside in order to wait for the night time. Devin moved for the area with a concentrated light beam. Kevin broke off from the group to head to a large lake that he saw the night before.

"They all are almost as happy as I am to learn how to use Salicous," Michael stated walking up past the fields of wheat and barley, to a steaming house.

Later that night, as the group was getting ready to rest (Stefan already had left for the evening) they thought about what Will would be doing right now but didn't really focus on that.

Chapter 2

A Spreading Epidemic

Song Pon de Replay

Mint Ichigo

Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up
All the gyal pon the dancefloor wantin some more what
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up

Mint
it goes 1 by 1 even 2 by 2
everybody on the floor let me show you how we do
lets go dip it low then you bring it up slow
wind it up 1 time wind it back once more

Mint Ichigo Telice support
Run, Run, Run, Run
Everybody move run
Lemme see you move and
Rock it til the grooves done
Shake it til the moon becomes the sun (Sun)
Everybody in the club give me a run (Run)
If you ready to move say it (Yeah Yeah)
One time for your mind say it (Yeah Yeah)
Well i'm ready for ya
Come let me show ya
You want to groove im'a show you how to move
Come come

Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up
All the gyal pon the dancefloor wantin some more what
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up

Hey Mr.
Please Mr. DJ
Tell me if you hear me
Turn the music up

Ichigo
It goes 1 by 1 even 2 by 2
Everybody in the club gon be rockin when i'm through
Let the bass from the speakers run through ya sneakers
Move both ya feet and run to the beat

Mint Ichigo Telice
Run, Run, Run, Run
Everybody move run
Lemme see you move and
Rock it til the grooves done
Shake it til the moon becomes the sun (Sun)
Everybody in the club give me a run (Run)
If you ready to move say it (Yeah Yeah)
One time for your mind say it (Yeah Yeah)
Well i'm ready for ya
Come let me show ya
You want to groove im'a show you how to move
Come come

Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up
All the gyal pon the dancefloor wantin some more what
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up

Hey Mr.
Please Mr. DJ
Tell me if you hear me
Turn the music up
Okay everybody get down if you feel me
Put your hands up to the ceiling

Come Mr. DJ song pon de replay
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up
All the gyal pon the dancefloor wantin some more what
Come Mr. DJ won't you turn the music up

"Anyone gain anything new yesterday?" Michael asked the group when they awoke the next day.

"Not me," Devin declared sadly. The others nodded in agreement.

"It may take some time," a girl said walking out of the inn. She had dark blue hair and a prissy attitude.

"And you are." Kevin gestured towards her.

"I'm your friend's to-be wife. We where supposed to be married earlier but someone took him from me."

"I don't know how he could ever marry a girl like her," Devin whispered to Michael.

"Fallen Ice," she talked sarcastically.

"What…?" Michael asked looking at her. She pointed up into the air. Large ice crystals fell right on top of Devin and Michael, pinning them to the ground.

"That's why." She turned around and headed back inside.

"Who does she think she is?" Kevin asked them.

"Will sure does have an odd taste in women. But I don't think that it is his entire fault. I bet she's gonna wear the pants in the family," Michael laughed.

The ice began to melt and let Michael and Devin free from it's frigid grasp. "Well I think that we should head back up to where we left Will. Maybe he'll be back there later today."

When the group reached the top of the steep hill that they were on before, they looked around for any signs of life or anyone having been there.

"Doesn't look like anyone has ever been here before," Devin spoke quietly.

"I don't like the the aura around here," Stefan whispered to the group. The air suddenly turned very warm. Large birds started to appear out of the burning air. They seemed to be lit on fire.

"Fu," Michael was interrupted.

"DON'T SAY IT," Kevin hollered at him.

The fire-birds dove at the kids trying to burn them or hurt them in any way they could. Everyone dodged their blows and grabbed their weapons.

Kevin's weapon seemed to be the most effective against these flying birds but it still wasn't enough to hold them all off.

They began to overrun the group. Everyone was fairly weak and couldn't stand. "This can't be the end can it?" Devin asked himself staring at one of the birds. It dove right towards his face.

"Now this isn't fair is it?" Someone said off in the distance. It captured the birds' attention.

"Arrow Gust Star." A large ripple past between the group and the large birds keeping them from away from harm.

"He saved us yet again," Devin whined.

"Would you rather be bird food?" Kevin retaliated at him. He shrugged seeming that it wasn't too bad.

Another person accompanied Will against the birds. He had a large bow in his hand and frozen arrows in his quiver. He shot them rapidly at the birds pinning and destroying them.

"Thanks Will," Michael said happily greeting him.

Will looked puzzled and stepped back from him. "Who are you," He asked him as if he never saw the person before.

"What you don't remember," Kevin asked him. He approached Will.

"Stay back," Will said pointing his star at Kevin. "Star Shot," Will yelled. The tips of the star shot off of it and headed straight towards Kevin.

Kevin dodged them barely. Will and his other friend ran off heading eastward towards the town that they came from.

"What was up with him?" Devin asked.

"Something isn't right here," Stefan told the group thinking about what happened. They headed after Will and his friend towards the inn them where at earlier.