Hey everyone... I'm alive! and I haven't forgoten about y'all. I've been having a LOT of issues lately, same stuff as before X100 so, yeah. Anyway, here's the next chapter, and I promise I will try to work on the next one so it doesn't take me another lifetime to update. haha.

Anyway... TO THE STORY!

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North paced back and forth threw his workshop, it had been a several hours since Aster had showed up with Jack, and one more since Kozmotis had told them what was happening to him. To say the least: he was pulling his hair out. He had already looked threw his entire library. 892 books; and not one had any answers to help the winter teen. He even had a yeti help him search threw the internet for Christmas sake! But still nothing. He was in the middle of his eighth lap when Kozmotis came to him.

"North, Aster and I have a plan to help Jack." Pitch explained the plan of how he and Aster would travel and search for the Lunaris, while he stayed here to give Jack the injections of light.

"Sounds good," North responded. "but where do Tooth and Sandy come in? They vill vant to help too."

"Yes, I figured as much. But what Jack needs right now are people who can stay 24/7, and with them working every night it wouldn't be the best." Pitch answered. "If they want to help, tell them to keep doing what they are best at and keep the belief up."

"You vill not be here to tell them?"

"No, we are in a race against time. As soon as Aster gets back with the small amount of supplies we will be leaving." Pitch said.

North was about to ask why, but before he could a hole opened up in the floor and Aster hopped out. "Ya ready?" The Pooka asked Kozmotis, he was answered by a hand on his shoulder and a cold rush of bright light. When his eyes had adjusted to the light he saw that they were in an open field, stretching out at least ten miles before you hit a wall of an assortment of trees. "This is it? I thought we would be in some kind of jungle."

"M.i.M. has always loved proving people wrong, didn't he?" Kozmotis looked around at his surroundings. He started leading them South-West on foot, towards a small clearing between the trees.

"Is that a path?" Aster asked.

"Maybe." Pitch said.

Aster then halted in his tracks, upon a terrifying realization. "You don't know where we're going?!" He yelled. "No, when I said it was hidden, who do you think Manny was trying to hide it from?" Pitch said, like it was obvious; which if thought about for a moment, was.

"How are we supposed to find that flower if the only person that between us knows about, doesn't even know where it is?!" Aster was in a rage. They had only 3 days to find that flower, and they had no idea where it was!

"Aster, I realize what's on the line if we don't find it. I want to see Jack well again as much as you do!" Pitch yelled. "Now, I don't know where it is exactly. But I teleported us as close to it as I could, and fighting is only wasting the time we have to search for it."

Aster's temper started to cool, he knew Kozmotis was right, he didn't want him to be, but he was. "You're right." Ugh, the words tasted like poison.

"Thank you." Pitch's face softened. He then pulled out an ancient book out of his satchel and opened it. "This is a journal, of a man who had found it once before."

"If he found it, wouldn't he 'ave picked it too?" Aster asked.

"No, he was an adventurer. He only looked, to find." Pitch took a few moments to read the journal and began walking towards the clearing once again. "The man says that once we get to the clearing, we need to find a stream of..."

"Of what?"

"I don't know, it's to smudged to read. But if it's a running stream, then you will be able to hear it. Yes?" Pitch confirmed when Aster gave a nod. "Good, hopefully we will find the Lunaris before sundown tomorrow."

After they got to the clearing, Aster asked for some silence so he could concentrate on the sounds around them. He quickly heard running water a bit South-East and made way towards it.

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Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you that my beta (insanepanda) is taking a break. So if it's not up to usual par or if there are any horrid grammatical mistakes please forgive me?! And I will try better next time! LOVE YOU!

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