Well welcome to the 9th chapter of Dragon Heart Part One: No Tomorrow. I'm glad that I'm finally getting on a regular schedule. I've decided to post my thoughts on every chapter here up at the top as well as responding to my readers reviews.

1)Zero Xenos Slasher: Thank you, I take pride in being a crazy ass, but to be honest I can't take all the credit for the Nall and Ruby thing, its actually quite common in this genre. As far as cousins not having the same last name, sure they can, and no there is no brother marrying sisters. For instance if your father had a brother (i.e. your uncle on your fathers side) then his children would hold the same last name as you. I have cousins with the same last name. I'm glad you enjoy my story and I appreciate your reviews.

2)Story Weaver 1: Thank you for your continued support. I'm trying to decide whether or not to talk about how Nall and Ruby got together, but this story is already shipping up to be really long.

This chapter was relatively easy to write. It got really hard when I got to the conversation between Caitlin, Amy, and Sion when their at the plane. I had a conflict deciding whether or not to let one of the girls go with him, in the end I think I made the right decision. Read on!

P.S. I've made it so that all writing that is in a box (like this is) Lucia talking.


Chapter 9

Sky's the limit


The nearly silent buzzing of Sion's alarm clock woke him up.

"3 AM, this is a first", as quietly as possible Sion got out of bed.

He collected a large duffle bad he had packed for a week. He then picked up the letter he had written. Carefully he left it on his bed where it could easily be found. March weather was still kind of cold, Sion picked up his aviator jacket and began the silent, slow walk downstairs. His jacket sparked memories, his mom and grandmother picking it out with him, his grandfather helping him through flight school, and his dad telling him how proud he was at Sion's achievement when he got his license. Sion shook off the memories, realizing it wouldn't make it any easier on him. He disarmed the alarm, carefully open and closed the door, and made his way to the car.

"This just doesn't feel right"

("It shouldn't feel right, but it needs to be done")

"Lucia its 3:30 AM. Please don't get philosophical on me."

("Sion, no one expects you to feel right about leaving your family and friends, but you'll save them from certain death by doing it.")

"Thanks"

Sion climbed into his car, and headed for the airstrip. Thoughts flooded his mind as he drove, friends, family, the fun he had yesterday, then a voice echoed in his mind "you are", Sion smiled at that memory, but as fast as the memory came it was replaced with sadness, he realized it would be over a year before he heard that voice again.

"What will she think of me when I get back?"

("Only time will tell")

"But we've been together for what, three days?"

("You remember what I told you in the hospital right?")

"About the girl? Yeah… wait you think Caitlin could be the girl?"

("From what I've seen there are only two that would fit, Caitlin and Amy")

"Amy?"

("Yes Amy too, unless there are other women romantically interested in you")

Sion's mind started to spin around, luckily he kept the car from doing the same thing, Sion pulled up to the old ranch house. He went around back and got on a ATV.

"One day they'll have to put a road up to this place."

When he got to the airstrip he took a deep breath as the Citation X jet came into view.


SPRING HOPE, NC March 13th 2004 5:23 AM
Sion was looking through the cockpit for the checklist. Rummaging through stacks of paper he found.

"Lucia where's the checklist?"

("Check to your left")

"This", Sion lifted a book the size of the phone directory.

("I'm afraid so")

Sion sighed and flipped through the book till he found the preflight.

"Lets see, preflight, oh boy, this is gonna take awhile."

All Sion could hear was Lucia's laughing as he went outside the plane to begin the inspection. Inside he was grateful for a little humor, and for the enormous preflight task. It took his mind off other things.


SION'S HOUSE March 13th 2004 5:45 AM
Sally woke up, a nightmare had woke her from her sleep. She went into the kitchen and started to make some coffee, giving up on getting back to sleep. She figured it didn't matter, it was almost 6 anyways. Worried from her dream she went to go invite her son down for an early breakfast.

"It won't kill him to wake up early for once", she thought as she opened the door.

About five minutes later a scream echoed through the house, "Tim get up here!"


CAITLIN'S HOUSE March 13th 2004 6:15 AM
Julie quickly hung up the phone and in an instant was running up to her daughter's room. Throwing the door open she woke Caitlin up.

"Mom what's with the wake up call?"

With a lack for better words Julie blurted out, "Sion's gone!"

Caitlin sat up at the mention of her boyfriend's name "he's what?!"

Julie detailed the note Sion had left, "he mentioned he'd be leaving by plane."

Caitlin's eye's widened, "Plane, plane,…the Jet!", she ran over to the phone. Recalling Jeff's number she quickly dialed it.

"Hello", the alertness in Jeff's voice assured her that he had already heard the news.

"I guess you've heard."

"Caitlin?, yeah I don't get it though."

"Look we don't have a lot of time, get everyone to that air strip we were at yesterday."

"The jet?"

"Yeah I know he's gonna use that jet."


HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, WATER TEMPLE March 13th 8:30 PM (Remember Time Difference)
"Get that extension in place now!", Nall shouted at the group of workers.

Work had started the moment Lucia had let them know of the new schedule.

"How much runway do we need for this thing?", Nall turned to another worker.

"About 3,500 feet with the temperature like it is."

Nall sighed, "we still have to lay down 2,000 feet in 5 hours, is it possible?"

The other monk thought for awhile, "It'll be close", the man slapped Nall on the back, "but then again we've been waiting for this for so long, everyone's really motivated to get this done for him."

Nall smiled a little and started to talk towards the hanger, "you idiot hurry up, quit sitt'n down", when Nall heard the teen girl's voice he broke into a run to see what the situation was.

"What's going on here?"

The girl's facial expression relaxed a little when she saw Nall, "This guy here's been slacking off", She motioned over to the hooded monk who was bent over, "and he called me a little girl.

Nall put his hand on his forehead and sighed, "and because he called you a little girl you just had to kick him in the nuts huh?"

"Well yeah", the girl looked at Nall questionly.

"Jamie if you're gonna be like this how are you gonna get along with Sion."

"What? The kid who's coming today?"

"Kid? He's just as old as you are."

"Fine whatever, you know I'm a little tired of all this chosen one talk anyways. I don't see why were all bust'n our asses down here."

Nall remembered how annoyed Lucia's had been with him earlier over his attitude, now he understood why, "Jamie this 'kid' is leaving his family, friends, his girlfriend, he leaving everything he's ever known to come here, and help fight."

"Fine, fine, but he better not be some macho, arrogant guy."

Nall smiled, 'Well who knows Jamie, maybe if you nice to him you'll land yourself a boyfriend."

Nall could have sworn he saw Jamie's face blush, "There's no way in hell."


SPRING HOPE, NC March 13th 2004, 9:00 AM EST
Sion climbed into the plane and flopped down on the leather couch. The smell of jet fuel filled the cabin.

"You know Lucia you could have told me I was right under the fuel strainer when I pulled the drain tab."

("Yes I could have, but not telling you made it much more fun" )

Sion mumbled a little as he went to the front of the plane, "I'll let it calculate the flight plan while I take a quick shower and change."

Sion walked to the back of the plane and got in the small shower to clean off.

NEARBY

"What do you mean there's no road to the airstrip?", Caitlin was getting hysterical.

"Well little lady we use these", Jeff pulled off a tarp reveling six or seven ATV's.

"Ah looks like one's missing, good job Caitlin, looks like you were right. Sion must be there already, now we know for sure", Jeff was trying his best to be a leader.

As Jeff stood there Caitlin and Amy walked past him, Amy stopped and smiled, "That's nice Jeff but we knew for sure when we saw Sion's car, see its right there!", Amy pointed at the large SUV sitting in the driveway.

Amy jumped on a near by Honda four-wheeler, "Alright let's go!"

"Woah there do you even know how to drive it?", Jeff kept his distance, Amy wasn't in any better shape than Caitlin.

"Of course, I've got one at home", Amy hurried, and took off for the airstrip.

"Hey stop!", Caitlin jumped on another ATV and took off.

"Ah well if you can't beet 'em, join 'em. Hey ow!", Jeff rubbed his head that had been smacked by his passenger.

"Less talk, more walk", Christy held on as Jeff gunned the machine towards the runway. The others soon followed.

BACK AT THE AIRSTRIP

"Alright lets see, flight plan loaded, check, wait a second Lucia!"

("What?")

"This is a business jet, we can't take off on a 2,000 foot grass strip"

("Leave that to me")

"Fine this is crazy enough as it is, if it wasn't for this plane being here I'd think I was crazy, now lets see, start up check list, damit another long one."

Lucia's laughter softened the mood as Sion started to go through the list.

"Lets see brakes hold, APU off, master on, APU engage. Lucia is there something to make this go faster?".

("Turn to page 20.")

"Alright, to engage Automatic starting sequence hit the Aut. Start button, fair enough", Sion found the button and pushed it, the planes panel sprung to life and started checking itself and stated to engage the engines.

"Great now, huh what's that?"

Sion spotted several ATV's on the horizon, "Oh Shit!"

"I see it, the lights are on, he's defiantly in it, wait I hear the engine", Amy shouted into the radio. Everyone was surprised when they found several of the ATV's were equipped with a CB radio, it made things easier.

"Fine I'll catch him", Caitlin responded, speeding up to the front.

"Oh no you don't I'll catch him", the two girls started a frantic race towards the plane.

"Crap they found us."

("Quickly take off")

"The thing's still starting up. I can't even taxi!"

The plane continued the automatic start sequence, the first engine fired.

"Alright, lets get into position"

The plane slowly moved towards the end of the runway, getting into position for takeoff.

"Let's see how long for engine 2, 10 minutes!?"

The planes time counted down under 'ETE egn. 2 fire'.

"That's not enough time!"

Sion taxied the plane and stopped it. He went to the back to close the steps as he did Caitlin and Amy rode into view.

"Sion stop!"


WATER TEMPLE March 13th 11:00 PM
"Man this is killing me, Uncle Nall can we take a break already?", Jamie slowly walked over to a seat near a folding table. She folded her arms up, and put her face down.

"Now Jamie, if you don't help your boyfriend isn't gonna have anywhere to land", Nall smiled as he placed a hand on Jamie's shoulder.

Quickly, finding some new source of energy Jamie jumped up and grabbed Nall's shirt, "He ain't no boyfriend of mine!"

Nall smiled, "Careful, your enthusiasm is starting to show, now go help we've got less than half an hour's worth of work, and not much more time than that before he gets here."

Jamie mumbled and got up to help the workers. Preparations on the hanger were almost complete, the bay door was in place and the camouflage of the entire complex took most of their available time, it was also finished. All that was left to do was put down the remainder of the collapsible runway for the plane to land on.

"I wonder what he's going to be like", Nall turned around to face the speaker.

"He'll be a mess that's for sure. Lucky guy, how many teenagers get to fake their death?", Nall smirked, then frowned as the pain followed his speech.

"Try to be serious", Ruby smiled.

"I may be a dragon sweat heart, but remember when I'm in human form, it hurts to be hit in the balls", Nall took the seat that Jamie had been sitting in.

"What a wuss", Ruby sat down next to Nall.

"I'm too tired to retort that"

"My what a big word, well Mr. Wuss I'm going to go make up Sion's room."

Nall smiled, "Alright Mrs.Wuss."

Ruby turned around looking like she was going to shout something back, instead she just smiled and continued on her task.

"I can't believe Uncle Nall keeps teasing me about him", Jamie yelled at herself. She was laying down the neon tape to help place the last runway extension.

"Just because I've never had a boyfriend, that guys got a lot of nerve", the other workers were now looking at her, Jamie hadn't realized she was yelling at herself.

"I think she's gone crazy", one of the workers whispered to his friend.

"Naw she's like that when she's angry, oww!", the worker rubbed his forehead, where a roll of neon tape had hit him.

"I heard that, now get back to work!", Jamie shouted at them.

"YES MAMM", the worker turned to his friend and whispered, "For a pretty 17 year old girl like her, she sure does make some fuss."

"You said it."


SPRING HOPE, NC March 13th 9:10 AM
"Sion why are you doing this?", Caitlin's eyes were pleading for information.

"You've got two girls like us fighting over you, and your leaving us?", Amy stood next to her, she wasn't it any better shape than Caitlin was.

Sion was at a loss for words.

("You've gotta stall them")

Sion mind felt like it was over heating, he was desperately trying to find the words to tell them.

"Caitlin you remember the phrase from my dream?"

"Of course I do."

"Then tell me, now"

"One to lead, one to flight, one to take the darkness out of the light. But what's that got to do with this?"

"Sion you can't leave me, I,…no both of us", Amy grabbed Caitlin's hand, "We both love you, why are you leaving?"

"I wish I could tell you both, but its too dangerous."

Caitlin was on the verge of crying, "Will you come back?"

The second engine started to fire, as it did Sion shouted.

"Yes!"

Quickly Sion jumped into the cockpit, looking out the window he saw something that broke his heart. Caitlin and Amy had their heads buried on each other's shoulder, crying.

"I can't take this", Sion placed his hand on the throttle, it was like touching fire. He wanted to take his hand off it so badly it burned.

("Remember you're saving them by doing this, trust me Sion you will come back. Save them, save your family, trust in your self. What is your heart telling you to do?")

"To do what ever it takes to keep them safe."

("Then lets do it")

Sion threw the throttle forward and placed back pressure on the yoke. The nose wheel gear instantly came up. Unfortunately with the short runway, the end came up fast too.

"Lucia now would be a very good time for that trick of yours!"

("Hold on tight")

Sion nearly had the air kicked out of him. It felt like God hand snuck up behind the plane and kicked it like a soccer ball. They went from 60 KIAS (knots) to 200 KIAS in less than a second.

"Alright rotate!"

Pulling back on the yoke further, the plane quickly rose into the air. Sion looked down to the GPS.

"Alright lets keep a heading of133 and head over the ocean. Lets see that gives us, wow, only 20 min to put us forty five miles out over the ocean. This things fast."

The plane continued to climb.

("I hate to say it buts its time to get their attention, enter the code.")

Sion tuned the radio to the emergency frequency, 121.5. His hands trembled as he reached down for the transponder.

("You'll be fine, I'm here with you. There's friends waiting for you in Japan.")

Slowly Sion dialed in the code "7…7…0…0", almost imminently a voice came over the radio.

"Attention plane squawking emergency, please confirm state of emergency if able."

"What now?"

("Tell them the auto pilot is locked up and taken control of the aircraft, you're unable to turn it off.")

"This is November ninner eight ninner charlie x-ray confirming emergency squawk. The auto pilot has taken control of the plane. We are unable to control, or disable the device."

"Roger that charlie x-ray, have you tried the circuit breaker."

"Affirmative, the circuit breaker does not disable the device."

"Roger that charlie x-ray, were sending two escort craft from Seymour Johnson to join your flight path. Report when you have them in sight. We'll keep an eye on you."

"Thanks, charlie x-ray."


ON THE GROUND
Caitlin and Amy continued to cry. Jeff comforted Christy and the other girls the best he could. Sally walked up to the two crying girls and took them in her arms.

"Hush now, didn't he say he'd be back?"

"Yeah", Caitlin looked up at her. Her voice still cracking.

"But there's no way he can land that thing is there?", Amy looked worried.

"Sweetie that boy can do anything, besides tell me if I'm wrong, but you two love him?"

"Of course!", both girls shouted.

"And he said he'd be back?"

"Yes!", both of them got excited.

"Well then lets get home and get a return party ready, I think he'll be coming back soon. He never said how long he'd be gone did he? Even the letter just said he was going on an adventure. I'd give it a week tops."

The two girls wiped the tears from their face, "You're right Mrs. Nickson."

"Please call me Sally, now lets get you two back to my place, and we'll start planning. We'll know where he is by tonight. Besides you know the saying, what goes up, must come down."

Sally didn't know just how much she'd regret saying that.


WATER TEMPLE, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN March 13th 11:30 PM
("We're in the air Nall")

Nall's head flew up and hit the over hanging lamp above his head, "Oww damit, wait there in the air, damit! Everyone there in the ai…oh?", Nall looked around to see everything in place, all the people were in the hanger waiting for the plane to arrive. Jamie looked at Nall oddly with her arms crossed.

"Well Uncle Nall you were so anxious to get me to help out, and here you are asleep. See what you miss when you take a nap?"

Nall couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

"Sorry, alright everyone the planes in the air, he'll be here within the hour. Try 'n be friendly. The kid's just left his family and friends alright. Ruby did you get his room ready."

"Of course Mr. Wuss."

Everyone in the hanger laughed, adding to Nall's embarrassment.

"Fine, we'll get him in there the second he arrives, he's gonna be tired. Now some one get the portable radio so we can talk to him in the air."

"I've already got it", Jamie held up the device.

"Ok I'll take that so I can talk to him, hey!", Nall was pushed aside by the younger girl.

"Oh no you don't Mr. Sleep on the job, I'll talk to him", Jamie took the hand held radio and walked back.

Nall smiled, a comeback finally coming to mind, "That's fine Jamie, but try and play a little hard to get. From what I've herd you're not the only one interested in him."

"What!, wait a second, I'm not interested in him!"


INSIDE N989CX CURRENT POSITION 7 MILES TO THE NE OF MOREHEAD CITY, NC
Two military fighter jets appeared on either wing of the Citation X. They banked there wings to let Sion know the plane had been intercepted. Sion picked up the radio.

"I have the fighters in sight, tell them I acknowledge their intercept but I can't bank the wings in my condition."

"Got that, charlie x-ray, continue on your path over the ocean until you can regain control of the aircraft. Try and manually disengage the auto pilot by cutting its power supply wire leading to the circuit breaker. Please state your name for the record"

"I'll try it. My name's Sion Alexander Nickson, I'm 17"

Sion looked down at the GPS, "Five minutes, then the roller coaster ride of my life."

("Let him know you cut a wire then you'll start the nose dive. I'll handle the portal")

"You better stay here with me through this Lucia."

("I'm here Sion just hold on here we go, and put on some good acting.")

"Control I've cut a wire, the auto pilot seems to be changing, wait oh shit."

"Control to Sion, what's wrong?"

"Shit the things gonna nose dive, I cut the wrong wire!"

"Re-connect it hurry!"

"SHIT, SHIT, ITS GOING DOWN, REPEAT I'M SHIT ITS NOSEING DOWN SHIT!"

Sion didn't really have to act at all, the straight down decent would be unnerving for anyone.

"All fighter craft escort charlie x-ray down to its final altitude"

"Roger wings one and two will comply."

The two fighters followed the Citation X in its straight down decent.

"LUCIA THIS PLANES NOT MADE TO DO THIS ITS GONNA BREAK UP!"

("Don't worry I'll keep that from happening, enjoy the ride well hit the portal in a couple of seconds.")

"ENJOY IT ARE YOU CRAZY!"

("Come on say weee!")

"WEEE! HOLY SHIT THAT'S THE OCEAN, SHIT!"

Just before the plane's nose hit the water a huge blinding purple light filled the area. And the jet was gone. The two fighters pulled out just in time to avoid flying into the ocean.

"Washington center, this is wing one, Charlie X-ray has vaporized upon contact with the ocean. There are no survivors. Request return to base."

"Poor kid, go ahead and return."

Back at the ATC center the team of aircraft controllers sat dumfounded and slightly depressed. A 17 year old was dead, and he spent his last moments screaming for his life.


ONCE AGAIN ON BOARD N989CX OVER THE PACIFIC 35 MILES SOF HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
"OH SHIT I'M GONNA DI…wait huh?", Sion looked around, the plane was still there, and oddly enough they were back up in the air.

"Huh were at sixty thousand feet. Where are we?"

("The GPS is going to take awhile to boot back up. Were running stealth. The transponder has been shut off, and the paint on this plane is radar permeable so they won't pick us up on radar.")

"Thanks, for a second I thought you were gonna let me die there."

("Of course not, at least you trust me now. Now tune to 127.43 you get to meet some friends.")

"Ok 127.43", As soon as Sion had the radio dialed a female voice came over it.

"Kid you there, respond already."

"When they said kid, they mean me right?"

("You'll understand when you meet her, just go ahead and respond.")

"Um this is Sion, if that's who you're asking for."

"Wow so this is the chosen one. Alright lets see, their telling me to let you know to descend to two thousand feet and go to heading 040. Can you handle that?"

"Sure no problem."


WATER TEMPLE, HIROSHIMA JAPAN March 13 11:54 PM
"Um this is Sion, if that's who your asking for."

Cheers erupted throughout the hanger at the sound of the boys voice. Nall even noted a smile appear on Jamie's face. Despite Nall's earlier comment, and the wolf whistles from all the workers Jamie still said she'd be the first one to talk to the guy they were all waiting for.

"Maybe she does have a thing for him", Nall thought to himself, smiling inwardly.

Soon a bright pair of lights showed up in the distance, the runway lights were turned on.


BACK ON BOARD N989CX
"You've gotta be kidding me, you want me to land there?"

("You can do it, besides I let them know what you were in, they made it just right for this jet.")

"Yeah 'just right' as in just enough, no room for error."

("Well that's one way of looking at it I guess.")

Sion guided the plane down to the runway. Soon they were just under a mile from the field.

"Alright everyone, I'm on final, look out down there", Sion let them have a final warning over the radio.

"You're doing fine, just be careful", the reassuring teenage voice actually calmed Sion down a little.

He pulled back all the jets power, and threw in all the flaps available. At the same time he deployed the air brake, and guided it towards the runway. Rounding out slowly the plane wined as it lost power, and then with a little slam it settled onto the runway. Sion pushed on the brakes slowing the plane down. The lights ushered him towards the partially concealed hanger.

"Man that was tough", Sion swept the sweet off his brow.

"Great job there, little rough, but you're still in one piece, park it over in that hanger you see."

Sion pulled the plane into the hanger, slowly bringing it to a stop. He looked in awe out of the cockpit window. There were over two hundred people looking back at him. He quickly shut down the plane, and walked towards the exit. His legs were wobbly, Sion started to feel the fatigue from the day's event's, well technically he lost about half of the day in time difference, but its not easy faking you death in a jet fifty times bigger than anything you've ever flown. He stood, and stared at the door, unable to open it.

("Go ahead, they'll let you get some rest. Besides they've been looking forward to meeting you.")

"I'm just too nervous to open it."

("Just push that button, you've finished the hard part.")

The door opened and lowered the steps down to the awaiting crowd that had gathered by the plane.

Sion noticed a boy who appeared a little older than him, with white and brown hair walk towards the plane. He walked up the steps, and placed his hand on Sion's shoulder.

"Sion, I'm Nall, welcome to the water temple, and you're new home. We've got a room for you to rest up in, we'll explain everything in the morning."

"Um, thanks."

The pair walked down the steps and towards the crowd.


SION'S HOUSE March 13th 12:30 PM
After the event over at Spring Hope the entire group had gone back with Sion's mom to eat and talk. Everyone was still a little down, but after Sally's talk the girls had stopped crying and both poured all their efforts in preparing for Sion's return.

The girls, including Christy, were setting the table. Jeff had gone into the living room with Michael and Tim, Sion's dad, to watch some updates on the sports from Saturday night. Jeff changed the channel to channel 5, WRAL.

He was surprised at the picture he saw, without thinking he just said out loud, "Hey looks like there's a plane crash off the coast of North Carolina", Jeff's voice was only meant to be heard by those in the room, but it instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the kitchen.

Amy didn't even bother putting down the plate she still had in her hands. She, along with everyone else in the kitchen was now glued to the living room TV.

"It can't be, Sion's too good to crash like that", Amy mumbled to herself.

"Oh this just in", the anchorman took a sheet from a worker off screen, "Raleigh Emergency air traffic control tell us that the pilot of the plane gave his name just minutes before the plane started a nose dive into the Atlantic."

"Him?", Caitlin was getting worried as the possibilities narrowed down.

"Apparently the plane in question was a newer model Cessna Citation X."

"Citation X?", Amy was also getting worried.

"The pilot was a seventeen year old boy that identified him self as one, Sion Alexander Nickson."

At that point the plate left Amy's hand, and crashed on the floor.


Chapter 10
No Pain No Gain

"You know I'm the same age as you, could you stop calling me kid."

Jamie hid a smile on her face.

"Only if you can beat me,…kid."

"You know if you were a little nicer you'd be a real catch."

Jamie blushed, she couldn't hide it. So she decided to change her mood to hide it, "SHUTUP AND FIGHT YOU PUSSY!"


GD: Well finally everyone had their action scene.

Nall: Please, all they wanted wasmy appearance.

GD: Well we had some great reactions form everyone from the last chapter on that.

Nall: Of course I'm all everyone wants.

Ruby: You stuck up jerk what do you mean you're all everyone wants.

Nall: What you think they'd want, some pink puff ball like you?

Ruby transforms into her teenage human form

Nall: Woah, what was I saying.

Ruby: Oh Nall I forgive you.

Nall: Really?

Nall receives swift kick to the groin

Ruby: No, not really.