I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic.

I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade master Fira

Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself

I own Kiako (That's ME!) When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.

Other voice and memories: Italic

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We met up with the others and helped out with healing and cleaning up a bit. Some of us were a bit reluctant about it, not mentioning any names (Zero, Vale...) I was in white mage Dress Sphere healing everyone that needed it.

"Hey are you guys ok?" Oscar asked

"Yeah, you look like you've seen a ghost!" Fayt said to Albel.

"Shut up and get away from me worm..." Albel snapped. Everyone was still shaken from the Farplane and was kinda being all depressed and stuff...

Well, at least some of us (Heihachi, Chichiri, Hakkai, Kakashi and Train...) were trying to make it a little more cheerful.

"So...uh, where to next?" Heihachi ventured timidly.

"The Thunder Plains. I asked some people where we would go next to Macalania." Ian said. Since all the shops and the Inn were destroyed, we just decided to head to the tunnel as we were. My white magic helped a bit, thankfully.

"So, what are the Thunder Plains?" Heihachi asked.

"They're plains, filled with Thunder, does that clear anything up for you?" Kuro said and I swear I could almost hear her grind her teeth.

"Really? How so?" Kein asked.

CRASH!

Everyone either shouted in surprise or struck some sort of dramatic pose. Kuro, who was uneffected by the scene rolled her eyes.

"Come on..." she muttered taking hold of Train and Sven's wrists and dragging them behind her. They both kinda fell over still in shock like two stone statues until Eve picked them up with her hair morphed into giant hands.

(Remember, Eve has Nanomachines in her body. She can morph her body as she wants.)

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"Ok, so before we go in you should all know that the lightning rods are still being fixed." Kuro explained, "You'll all have to try to dodge the lightning."

"Dodge, LIGHTNING?" Kakashi repeated. Heihachi ran into the wall from sheer surprise.

"WHAT!"

"Yes, dodge lightning. Got a problem with that?" Kuro asked with almost a glare.

Everyone immeidiatly shook their heads 'No' and watched Kuro stomp off. Everyone looked at me for an explanation.

"She's a bit grouchy and tired." I shrugged and watched as everyone walked ahead.

"Um, why aren't you moving?" Kel asked.

"Rain..."

"Oh yeah, you hate being wet."

"I LOVE RAIN!" I shouted running past Kel with my arms in the air as the wet droplets fell onto my head and made spots on my clothes.

"Curses! I hate rain..." Vale said trying to use his hand as an umbrella.

"Well, we can't use anything to shield us otherwise we'll get struck by the lightning." Kakashi said. Chichiri was sure to keep his staff to the ground, as was Kuro and everyone else who used anything that would immitate a lightning rod.

There was a rumble and everyone looked up.

"When the lightning flashes, everyone dodge the best they can!" Kuro instructed, "Charden, please take off your top hat before you get hit..."

"Flash?" Zero perked up.

The flash did appear and everyone dove to the ground. Well, almost everyone...

"DO YOU NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD DODGE?" Kuro roared shaking me back and forth.

"I don't see any flash, where's the naked chick?" Zero asked rubbing hishead. The rain pitter pattered as he doned back his cyber ninja helmet over his red hair.

"I fell asleep!" I replied. You know that saying, talk slow think fast? Well, let's just say it's opposite day in my head.

"You fell asleep... In a lightning field..." Kuro raised her eyebrow at me.

"Er, let's keep moving and dodging lightning." I suggested almost retorically.

"Yeah, dodge two hundred lightning bolts so an imaginary box can appear suddenly beside the agency holding in it's vessel a secret weapon known as, The Onion Knight." Kuro said with a laugh. Everyone except Kel and Zero kinda stared at us as if we were crazy.

"Imaginary box?" Kariudo asked

"Dodge two hundred lightning bolts?" Ian said with disbelief, "TWO HUNDRED!"

"Secret weapon you say?" Hao asked with interest.

"Onion Knight?"

"Blech, I hate Onions." Kyoko said with a pout.

"More lightning!" Heihachi shouted pointing upwards. Everyone dodged the bolt and took shelter under a lightning tower.

"We should be able to hit two hundred if we have all our parties work together and combine the number of lightning." Kuro explained, "So nobody screw up and get hit by lighting, or you're making up the number of bolts lost by yourself."

Everyone kinda nodded and groaned. Either it was death by lightning or death by Kuro, nobody wanted to die either way.

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"--56...57...58..."

ZAP!

"AHHHHH!" Fayt screamed. Both Kuro and I were snickering and laughing behind our hands.

"He sure does scream the same way in real life and in the game." I said.

"AHHHH! WHO THE HELL AM I?" Kuro accuratly impersonated Fayt for a moment.

"Who the hell am I?" Fayt repeated in confusion.

"Shut up idiot..." Kuro snapped

"IDIOT!"

"STOP REPEATING WHAT I SAY!" Kuro roared.

"REPEATING? I'M NOT REPEATING WHAT YOU SAY!" Fayt protested. Kuro groaned and shook her head.

"As I thought, hopeless..." she sighed.

(A/N: If you've played Star Ocean 3, you'd understand that Fayt repeats alot of stuff.)

"Simple parrot syndrome. We can cure that." Albel said wickly pulling out his katana.

"Parrot syndrome? CURE?" Fayt cried.

"GET HIM!"

"AHHH!"

"NOO! It's his stupid scream again! "WHO THE HELL AM I?"" Kuro shouted.

"WHO THE HELL AM I?" Fayt mimiced.

"DIE!"

"DIE? WHY?"

"Because..."

"Because?"

"That's it!"

"What's it?"

"ARG!"

"Arg?"

I paused to shake some rain water off my fur. Sure I liked the rain, but I also hated being wet... Course unless it was raining but now I'm just getting smelly and wet...

So far we had 157 lightning dodges. Pretty good for a large party eh?

"Let's rest for a while." Kel said abruptly. We all stopped for a moment staring at him. Usually he wasn't the one to tell us to stop cause he was tired.

"Thank goodness! I'm tuckered out!" Train said shaking water out of his hair, "We can take shelter under that..Umbrella...thing..."

"Come on, theAgency is just ahead, if we book it we can totally make it!" I said trying to encourage everybody.

"And the lightning?" Ian asked.

I paused for a moment.

"We can book it really REALLY fast!" I said.

"We don't HAVE energy to 'Book it' Really REALLY fast." Ian retorted. I stared at him feeling the rain slowly evaporate from my clothes only to get wet again.

"You suck at seeing the bright side of things..." I muttered following him under the shelter. Everyone was either checking equipment or drinking water or eatting food. I for one, just wandered around in circles.

"How long do you think it'll take for us to get to the Agency?" Ian asked.

"Oh so NOW you wanna book it..." I said accusingly.

"Hey, I'm just wondering." Ian shrugged.I sighed and rounded the corner seeing Kel shoved a funny colored pill into his mouth that was the size of an giant almond. I opened my mouth to shout my signature, EH? But Kel covered my mouth and pulled me down beside him.

"Shut up.Don't say anything." Kel said quietly and looked to see if the others saw, "What did you see?"

I was tempted to lie and say 'Nothing' but of course my upbringing taught me to tell the truth automatically. I bit my lip trying to think of a different lie that wouldn't be a lie but it would kinda still be one.

"You swallowed a colorful almond." I replied.

DAMMIT!

Kel sighed, "It's uh...Vitamins." he said.

"Vitamins? Can I eat one then?" I asked.

"Vitamins for tall people only."

"WHAT? KEL HOW COULD YOU? HERE I THOUGHT YOU'D BE THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE FUN OF MY HEIGHT!" I cried, "Nyah!"

"Don't tell the others about it, or I'll run out. It's medicine." Kel said quickly.

"Fine... But I'm still holding this height thing against you..." I growled and pointed at my eyes with my fingers then pointed at him, "I, got my eye, on you..." I stomped away in rhythem with the thunder booms. When I splashed into a nearby puddle and Ian gave a shout.

"Hey! I just got that fire going, now how am I going to cook food? Dammit I hate Fire magic!"

"Shut up, Fire's awesome!" Kuro argued and lit the wood with her magic.

"FOOOD!"

"Is something wrong Kiako-chan? You seem upset." Heihachi asked walking beside me. I purposly slowed my pace into a normal, but angry, walk.

"Kel made fun of my height... Saying something about vitamins for only tall people." I sounded like a pouting 5 year old. I'm still a bit stingy about the height thing... Seeing that I have to look up at everyone.

"I'm sure Kel-san has his reasons. You shouldn't get too flustered about your height." Heihachi said, "If you were tall you wouldn't be as cute."

I looked up at him and we both stared at each other for a silent moment. Heihachi cracked a smile rubbing behind his head.

"Sorry, guess that kinda means I'm calling you short." he said. I stared at the ground and then taking a few steps, let my head rest on Heihachi's arm.

"You're the only one who calls me cute and doesn't get me angry..."

Heihachi chuckled and placed his hand on my head.

"Well, isn't that a relief."

Voices of the others would be clearly heard.

"Ian, is the food ready yet?"

"No..."

"Is it ready now?"

"NO."

"...How about now?"

"LOOK TRAIN. If it wasn't done 3 seconds ago, it's not going to be done 3 seconds later. So stop bothering me before YOU end up as dinner!" Ian snapped. Heihachi and I looked at each other and went to join the others.

"So, what're you cooking?" I asked sitting beside Ian.

"Something simple. Don't have much ingredients though..." he replied staring into a small pot. I slipped my back pack off and rummaged through it.

"Campbell soup?" I suggested holding up the can of Chicken Noodle. It would've been Cream of Mushroom but...well, no milk. Shoopuf milk might not be an option either...

"Where you this from or how it fit into your bag I have no idea, but it's better than nothing." Ian said taking the can, "Can opener anyone?"

"I can do it!" Eve said quickly and her hands sparkled.

"No, it's ok. I have ak nife somewhere--" Ian was in mid sentence when the top of the can slid off with a clatter from a clean diagonal cut.

"Wasn't I useful?" Eve smiled transforming her knife finger into a normal finger again.

'"Very." Ian said and poured the soup it then waited for a while, "There, I think it's done. We can eat!"

BOOM!

Kyoko looked behind me and screamed pointing. I turned around seeing my own reflection and a yellow green pupil.

"SWEET MOTHER OF--!" I shouted at random, scurrying backwards and almost pulling out a Cid Highwind vocabulary. Heihachi drew his sword in a blur and slashed at empty air as the giant eyeball flew back upwards into the sky.

"A Buer eh?" Kuro said and turned to Soren and the other magic users, "You better stay out of this fight, normal magic isn't strong enough against these things."

"Not only that, we've got more company." Vincent said as a lizard and a drake appeared from the darkness with the eyeball. Ian was fuming. Apparenty when the eyeball took flight again it knocked over the soup and put out the fire.

"NOW I'm mad..." Ian growled drawing his sword.

"Ok, the lizard can attack with petrify or silence and the Drake inflicts Slow. Kiako you're on white mage duty." Kel said drawing his lance, "Anyone with long range weapons should take on the floating eye. Stronger people take on the Drake and the fast ones take the lizard. Got it?"

Everyone nodded and quickly got into groups to surround the ready fiends.

Kein, Oscar and Eve joined with Heihachi, Charden and Leon as group Drake.

Vale, Chichiri and Ian teamed up with Kyoko, Fayt and Albel for group Lizard.

Kuro, Kariudo, Vincent and Train teamed up with Kakashi, Zero, Sven and Hakkai to be to last long range team.

Kel was in all 3 groups and I was in my own group as a medic and supporter.

The rain started to soak my white mage robes and I started to hope that we could end the battle soon.

White becomes transparent when wet...

"Attack!"

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I watched as the Long range team all lept at the Buer at once shooting at it as Kuro chanted a spell. I focused mainly on the other two groups.

"Take this!" Fayt charged at the lizard and knocked it up into the air. Fayt was ready to chase it when the saliva spewing from the lizards mouth his him square in the chest. His torso slowly started to crack and solidify and the stone started to spread to his legs. Fayt fell back down to earth and raised his sword to whack the stone from his body. I quickly rushed in and cast Esuna.

"Try that and there'll be nothing left of you." I warned throwing in a joke. Fayt gave thanks and rushed back into battle.

"Shockwave swirl!" Albel roared and swung his blade so a giant purple waved slashed up at the lizard sending it rocketing into the air. Chichiri jumped above it and slapped it back down with his staff. Landing with a thud he quickly put up a barrier around the others as Kyoko took a deep breath in.

"Kuro-sama gave me premission to use my powers, so I will!" Kyoko sang and blew a blast of fire at the lizard. When the flames disappated the lizard was still in one piece but had small burns covering it's scaley body.

"It's still alive?"

"BUUU!" Kyoko pouted.

Vale and Ian nodded at each other and both of them charged at the lizard. With a swift kick Ian kicked the lizard into the air and Vale jumped after it slashing and executing beautiful fast sword strokes slashing at the lizard. I had to admit, even I felt a bit of respect for Vale to be able to do that. When the lizard came flying back down both Ian and Vale slashed at it again and Vale jumped away as Ian took a stance.

"Triple slash!" he shouted and made a triangle like slash at the lizard.

It squealed and fell to the ground, pyreflies floating from it's body.

"Our limit. We call it, Tri slash." Ian said shealthing his sword, "I'd think of a better name but I need more time."

"I shall dedicate it to my love Kiako." Vale said and sprayed some sort of breath freshener in his mouth. I snatched it from him and put it in my pocket.

"Eat your candy later..." I smiled and praised the group casting Cura on them then running to the Drake group.

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"Piko Piko Hammer!" Leon shouted. A giant squeaky yellow and red hammer appeared out of nowhere and slammed onto the Drake.

SQQQUEEEAAAAKKK!

"My, quite a spell that is." Oscar said through his green helmet.

"Attack it now while it's stunned!" Leon ordered and slashed at the Drake. He slashed repeatedly and finished with another spell, "GRAVE!" spikes rose from the ground slashing at the fiend as it hissed spilling it's saliva everywhere.

"Bloody rain!" Charden shouted and splashed his blood at the Drake. The blood took the shape of 4 dragons snapping at the Drake, who just stood there breathing clouds from it's foul mouth as the bloody splashed off it's scales.

"It's harder to use my ability here..." Charden panted. Heihachi tried to slam his sword down onto it's head but failed and ended up being thrown back into a puddle.

"Maybe it's all this water..." he suggested fixing his hat. His goggles were pulled over his eyes to block out the rain. Leon charged forwards and slashed at the Drake again only to miss.

Leon grinned.

"Stone Blast!" small rocks and chunks of stone rained down on the Drake burying it in a pile of rubble.

"Whew! Man, that thing is scary!" Kein sighed leaning on his spear.

"I agree, it spits lightning..." Charden said fixing his sunglasses.

"Lightning?" I asked and heard a rocked fall from the pile of stone.

DOINK DOINK DOINK.

"Yeah, it'd wait a moment then blast it out of it's mouth." the doinking got more constant.

DOINK DOINK DOINK DOINK DOINK DOINK.

"NulShock!" I shouted casting it on the whole party. Just as I finished the spell a stream of lightning blasted from the rubble and out crawled the Drake. I constantly cast more NulShock spells because the stream lasted so long. Everyone scrabbled to get back to their feet.

Time to battle again.

Oscar was on his horse charging at the Drake in Zig Zags. It almost looked like he and the Drake were playing Chicken. Oscar had a chance to stab his spear at the Drake's neck and ride away unharmed. Kein held his spear's dull end and stabbed rapidly at the Drake. It roared and reared it's head back, electricity crackling.

"Whoa whoa!" Kein backed away and dove behind a giant boulder as the beam blasted at him. I cast NulShock on Kein and the on Charden as he headed towards the Drake.

"Bloody rain!" he threw his 4 dragons again and this time aimmed at the gashes left by Oscar and Kein. The Drake roared in pain and reared it's head back again.

"NULSHOCK! NULSHOCK!" I cried panicing to cast the spell on everyone that was battling. I got ready to cast it on myself then the Drake looked at me and growled. I expected it to start spitting lightning but isntead.

It charged at me. I let out a 'meep' and cast protect on myself. The blue shield shattered as the Drake pounded through it. I could feel the magic break and got head butted in the chest, leaving me winded. The Drake threw me down and pinned me down with it's giant claw, making it even HARDER to draw breath. The Drake loomed over me and electricity sparked in it's mouth once again. I couldn't cast any spells or move my arms.

No NulShock.

No Protect.

No Kiako...

OMG! WTF! OMG! O.O!

Suddenly Eve threw herself over me and her NulShock sphere absorbed the lightning to the point that it shattered. Eve transformed her hands into a giant sheild to block the sparks. Then, jumping out from underneath the Drake her hair transfromed into a giant pair of hands that picked up the Drake and hurled it away at a lightning tower.

I sat up taking wild breaths. It never felt so good to breath! Well, breathing's always good of course.

Eve's arms turned into giant wicked blades and angelic wings formed on her back as she flew behind the Drake.

"Your life of hurting others ends here." she said calmly before chopping the Drake's head off. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Good job Eve."

"Yeah, way to go Eve!" I cheered happily putting my arms into the air. Suddenly I felt something grab my arm and lift me up into the air.

"Oh shit..." I heard Zero swore. Kuro was chanting again.

"Don't cast any spells! You could hit Kiako!" Vale cried.

"And that would be bad... how...?" Kuro asked trying to get some evidence that I had a right to live. Course, I knew this was all in joke.

Or...

I hoped it was all in joke.

I looked up at the eyeball and looked down at the ground. Looked back up I did the only thing I could've done.

I took Vale's breath freshener spray--

And squirted the Buer in the eye with it.

Normally I'd have spit in it it's eye but, my spit doesn't reach that high. The Buer shreiked and dropped me down to the ground. I landed hard on my bum and Kariudo quickly helped me up.

"Where they heck did you get that?" she asked pointing at the breath spray.

"I... 'Borrowed' it from Vale..." I grinned weakly.

"BLAST IT!" Kakashi jumped up and threw an array or kunais at the Buer. The knives slashed through it's leather wings leaving 4 big holes in them. The Buer shreiked and hoved in the air. It drew it's wings back and flaps it's wing blowing us all back into rocks or lightning rods. Half of us were all slapped back and knocked out or dizzy.

"What was that!" Heihachi asked picking himself up.

"Sonic boom, combination of wind and sound to make a gust of wind." Kuro explained, "Arg, this wind doesn't help either..." I jumped to my feet and gave my head a shake. It was pounding with a head ache from all the Nul spells and from the Sonix Boom. If Kuro was hit by another of those, she'd probably blow up the whole Thunder Plain with Ultima or Meteor or Indignation or worse, Meteor Storm...

"Protect!" I cast the spell onto Kuro, "Protect! Protect! Protect!" I cast it on everyone excluding myself and slumped to my knees. Jeez, how can Kuro take this mental abuse? The only thing running through my head now is probably Trigonometry! The Buer hovered up again and I put my arms up to protect myself.

This is gonna hurt...

Something slammed into me and knocked me over. Then ANOTHER something rammed me over, AGAIN! I was ready to start swearing again when I saw the first thing that hit me.

Heihachi was slumped over my shoulder and coughed out some blood onto the ground.

"You ok?" he asked with a smile. He slumped again and I quickly caught him and cast Cure on him at least enough to stop him from throwing up more blood.

"GRAVIRA!"

"PRESS!"

Both Leon's and Kuro's spells finished off the Eyeball so efficiently, not even the pyreflies were left.

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After that, I had cast NulTide on everyone to prevent them from getting any more soaked. Apparently they made really good umbrellas. Problem was in order to keep them useful I had to re-cast them every half hour or so... When we got to the Inn Zero and the others had started to argue and make room arrangments. Honestly, this agency looks a bit weird, like...

Pee Wee's playhouse I guess. The walls had flower wallpaper, and a flower in a box!

I was massaging my brain and sipping an Ether that resembled hot tea. My normal dry clothes felt warm against my fur instead of the wet heavy White Mage robe. I stared at the hat, goggles and vest sitting in front of me on the table. Since we had gotten to the Agency Heihachi had gone missing. I dunno what he was doing, but it probably wasn't my business. Finished off the Ether, I cast another NulTide and stepped outside into the rain. Luckily, there weren't any fiends near the agency. I squinted through the rain.

Hadn't let up one bit.

A figure standing in the rain made me go towards it and see who it was. Heihachi had his eyes closed and his head tilted back to let the rain soak him and wash all the dirt and mud from his face and clothes. His red hair hung on his head and covered some of his face. I stood on tip toes to hold the NulTide Sphere over his head.

Heihachi opened his eyes and looked down at me and smiled gently.

"You shouldn't be out here, you'll catch a cold."

"You will too." I said holding the sphere. Heihachi laughed.

"Touché."

"Hei-san..." I smiled up at him, "Thanks for protecting me earlier."

"I am your guardian aren't I?" Heihachi said. I rubbed behind my head.

"Yup!" we chuckled together and then silence took over.

"What brings you out here?" I asked, "You're soaking wet."

"Oh no reason, just sometimes I like the rain. It's...calming." Heihachi said.

"Well..."

BOOM! CRASH!

Startled, I quickly clung to Heihachi and covered my ears to block to loud booming from my sensitive cat ears.

"Guess the lightning isn't calming at all."

"No...The rain isn't helping either..." I said with a whimper. The NulTide sphere had already absorbed the amount of water it could and had shrunken away. I couldn't cast another NulTide sphere because I was leaving the robe to dry. I started to shiver and muffled a sneeze with my sleeve. Two wet, warm arms wrapped themselves around me.

"See? You're going to catch a cold." Heihachi said and held me closer to him, "We wouldn't want that now would we?"

I snuggled closer to him like a child.

He was so warm, even if he was the one standing out in this pouring rain for almost an hour. He was tall enough to lean over my head and block the rain from wetting me. His arms felt secure and strong around my shoulders, the same arms from the night at the side of the MoonFlow. My heart was pounding so loud I could almost hear it beating twice as fast. When I inhaled, the smell of rainwater and some sort of sweet smelling wood was all I could smell.

"We...should get inside before you get sick." I said slowly and started to pull away. When I did Heiachi's arms only tightened around me and I began to panic.

OMG! He won't let go! Did he fall asleep? Maybe his arms are stuck! Omg...ahhh! CROWBAR! CROWBAR!

"Hei-san, let go, we're getting wetter..." I said trying to pull away again, "Leggo..."

"I can't let you go... I won't..." Heihachi said quietly.

"Why not?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"I can't..."

"Heihachi let go! We're gonna get sick and we're all gonna regret it!" I protested and tried to pull away again.

"You could've died!" Heihachi shouted. I fell silent and Heihachi pulled away enough just for his hands to rest on my shoulders, his head hung down, "You could've died today... I don't want you to die..."

"Hei-san..."

"I'm...scared... If I let you go, I'll never be able to hold you again. That I won't have the strength or speed to protect you... I don't want you to die." Heihachi was almost sobbing, "I love you too much for you to die!"

A crack of thunder echoed through the Thunder Plains as we both stood there. Almost the full echo we stood there in silence.

I gently pushed off Heihachi's hands from my shoulders. He looked up at me and straightened himself upright. When I took a step towards him he almost fliched...

I smiled and threw my arms around Heihachi. He seemed so surprised, that he had to regain his balance against the wall.

"I...I love you too... I don't want you to die either..." I said trying to choose my words right. I could hear a relieved sigh pass through his chest and he hugged me rubbing his cheek against mine.

"Tears trickling down my face...The rain cannot dampen my love for you... Love me for a reason, let the reason be love." Heihachi recited into my ear. I giggled.

"Did you make that up in L.A. class? The ones you write on your hand?" I teased.

"Yes. Except this one was on paper and it took almost three months to write." Heihachi laughed and nuzzled my cheek, "Now, shall we go inside before we both catch a a cold?" I smiled up at him as the rain started to lightning into a drizzle.

"Yeah."

Heihachi smiled and took hold of my hand leading me back to the Agency.

Authors notes: Too...sleepy... I stayed up till 3 AM writing this chapter... I couldn't stop! Course, everything's been goin' great for me. Omg, grad is coming...and exams... OMG my dad's coming home from South America too! Then there's Summer school...

Anywho, thanks for reading!