While Georgia, Anthony, Erica, and Kevin (Razi and Vedette were inside, watching Denae) went out to search for Edan, the little boy in question was beginning to think that he wasn't going to find his sister. He had now wandered for who knows long, and was now in a place that he had no clue where was. There was very little of anything around him, and he was beginning to get a little frightened. "Thithter! Thithter Erica, where are you!?" he called out, whining a bit at the end. If he couldn't find his sister, how was he supposed to find his way back to his home? "Thithter! Pleathe, where are you, I don't know where I am..." he began to sniffle, his bottom lip quivering.

He continued walking around, glancing around, until suddenly, he saw someone a few feet away from him, who was walking in the opposite direction that he was. Maybe she was going to his house? With a smile, he began to trot in her direction, calling out, "Hewo! Hewo! Mith? Mith! Hewo! Hewp!" the girl stopped, and turned her head in the direction of the little four-year-old.

He stumbled a bit at seeing the strange looking girl's features - short, deep, deep purple hair, a beautiful golden color of eyes, and deadly pale skin. He had never seen anyone look quite so scary; well, except for his Mom, when she got really angry, then she was menacing. This girl in front of him looked almost dead, except for the fact that her eyes were very intense, and she was scowling/glaring at him.

"What is it, child?" she asked in a very chilling voice, her eyes narrowing somewhat. Edan felt like running away from this 'scary lady', but for some reason, he found that he couldn't move his legs.

"Um... um... h-hi, Mith... I'm Edan... what'th your name?" he stuttered, blinking up at the girl, who just rolled her eyes, and crossed her arms.

"Ran. Now, quit wasting my time, and tell me, what do you want?" she asked in irritation, narrowing her eyes at the little boy, who shrunk back, away from her, staring up at her with wide, fearful emerald green orbs. Ran stood there, staring down at him, waiting for him to answer for a bit, getting more irritated as she waited longer. With a frustrated sigh, she let her face relax a bit, and smiled slightly at the small boy. "Okay, Edan, what is it that you want?" she asked in the nicest voice she could manage.

Edan seemed to calm down a little, and smiled cautiously up at her. "Um, Mith Ran, I'm wotht..." he said, his bottom lip sticking out in a pout, and shaking. Ran just rolled her eyes at him, and then looked straight into his eyes, raising an eyebrow.

"You're what?" she asked, and Edan blinked at her.

"Wotht."

"What?"

"I'm wotht."

"You're what?"

"Wotht."

"Grr... you are what?"

"I'm wotht."

Ran looked at him with a half-lidded, vexed look. "Can you please speak more clearly?"

"Huh?" Edan looked at her in confusion.

Ran sighed, covering her eyes with her hand, "Tell me, more clearly, what are you?"

"I'm wotht."

With an irritated growl, Ran ran a hand through her hair, glaring at the child standing in front of her. "Okay, you're... wotht... whatever that means..."

Edan gave her a strange look, and tilted his head to the side. "It meanth that I can't find my houthe..."

"Your what?... Oh, never mind."

"I can't go home. I'm wotht."

Recognition flashed across Ran's face. "Oh! You're lost?"

With a sigh of irritation, similar to Ran's, Edan frowned at her. "That'th what I thaid."

Ran raised an eyebrow at him, then slapped a hand over her eyes. "Right. Whatever. So, anyway, you're lost. Do you remember which direction your house is in?" she asked, but Edan just furrowed his eyebrows, and looked around, obviously trying to recall exactly where he had come from. He spun around once, a little fast, his left foot catching on the right, and found himself falling, but Ran was quicker, and steadied him.

"Thank you, Mith Ran..." Edan smiled up at her, then after a minute, pouted, sniffing. "I don't know which way... doeth that mean I'ww never see my Mommy and Daddy and thither again?" he whimpered, his bottom lip quivering. Ran sighed, sat down on the ground, and hugged the boy.

"Come on, child, you'll see your family again. Please, stop crying. ... I mean it, stop... shut up, please." Ran begged, in a not-so-comforting voice, rocking back and forth, but Edan just wailed louder. "Damnit, you human child, shut your trap!"

Edan pulled back, aghast at what Ran had said, and forgetting all about his dismay about his family. He then jumped out of Ran's grasp, and began running away from her. "You're a bad girl! You thaid that word Mommy thays ith bad! And you ithn't a hooman! Hewp! Hewp! Mith Ran ith an eviw wady! HEWP!" he cried as he ran, making Ran slap her face, and sigh in irritation.

"Stupid human child... I wonder if all human children are this stupid..." Ran mumbled under her breath, before looking at Edan, who had just dove behind a small hill, but Ran could still hear him yelling about how she had said 'the word', and she was an 'evil lady', and how someone needed to save him from 'Miss Ran'. "Oh well, he's not my problem." she stood up, shrugged, and began heading in the direction she had been heading before.

As she was walking, Edan's voice began to fade. And when she finally couldn't hear it anymore, she began to feel an emotion that she had thought only humans felt. She scowled, closed her eyes, and shook her head. "It's nothing. Guilt isn't something a Dream Demon like I should feel. I mean, it's just a puny little human child, it's not my problem, and I certainly don't care if it gets eaten by a... mon... ster..." Ran trailed off, biting her lip, as the feeling of guilt grew. "No! No! I am unfeeling for humans! It's just a stupid little runt of a pest! He's in your way of... oh, shit, I hate being half human..." And with that, she turned, and stormed back in the direction that Edan was in, mumbling a line of profanities.

She approached the small hill that he was behind, but even thought she was really quite close to it, she could not hear any noise at all. "Edan..." she said slowly, and softly, as she walked around the hill. In getting no answer, she walked around more quickly, but smiled when she saw him, lying against the sand, hands over his eyes, and heard him whimper lightly. "Edan, I'm sorry." she said, crouching down and placing her hands down on the ground in front of her to keep her balance. He flinched, but didn't take his hands away from his face. "Edan, come on, I didn't mean to yell at you like that... I didn't mean to say the bad word... if you come with me, I'll help you find your family." she said, placing one of her hands on his shoulder.

I feel so... so... stupid. I mean, here I am, begging this little runt to forgive me, just so I can help him? Forget it, Ran, turn your back on him, and walk away! You have more important things to do right now! Like, do what you've been doing for four years now! Try to find the Bernadette family! Get up, get up, forget the child! ... I can't... grr... she thought, shaking her head to clear her mind, and focused on Edan, who had pulled his hands away from his face and was staring at her, cautiously.

"Weawy?" he asked, blinking at her. She sighed, and nodded her head, making him squeak in happiness, then leap onto her, his arms squeezing Ran's neck. "Thank you, Mith Ran!" he then kissed her cheek in a big, wet, sloppy way, making her want to growl at him; but, she didn't, because she knew that he'd become afraid of her again.

"Yeah, yeah... now, if you do that again, I won't help you, got it? No more kisses, and no more choking me." she stated firmly, and he nodded readily, a grin plastered to his face. With that, she stood up, and began walking in the direction she had been before, expecting him to follow her. When she didn't hear footsteps, she stopped, and looked back at him, to see him just standing there, looking at her strangely. "Well, what are you waiting for? You're supposed to follow me, child." Edan made an 'o' shape with his mouth, then ran to catch up with her.

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Denae sat in a chair at the diningroom table, her face pouting, and streaked with tears. Razi sat across from her, watching her, to make sure she didn't exit; Vedette sat beside him, also watching her. They had been watching her for quite a while now, every once and a while asking if they were to let her go, if she wouldn't kill Erica - needless to say, she hadn't said she wouldn't yet. Razi leaned forward on the table, his arms crossed and his brow slightly furrowed, and asked, "Now, Denae. For the twentieth time. This can't be too fun for you; if you want to be able to leave that chair, you'll have to promise not to kill Erica. Now, promise?"

Denae shot up, pounding her fist onto the table, and glaring at them. "But she killed my Grandparents! You don't understand! You just don't! Grandpa Clive and Grandma Catherine were such wonderful people, and she killed them!!" Denae roared, now beating both fists against the table. Razi and Vedette sighed, leaning back in their seats, and Vedette massaged her temples, shaking her head. Denae stood there like that for a moment, before sighing shakily, sinking back down into her chair, and resting her head on the table. "Fine... fine... I... I won't kill her... okay?" she mumbled.

Razi smiled, and reached forward, patting Denae on the head. "Good girl. I'm sure it wasn't Erica that killed them anyway, I mean, it could have just been someone that looked like her, for all we know! Or, if it was her that was there, how do we know she wasn't dragged along with that Jacqui Cascade?" he tried to comfort her, but only got a depressed sigh in response.

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In Surf Village (PianZoe: See! I do sometimes include things from the first WA!), in an inn called The Green Feline (CiaHottie: I named the Inn. PianZoe: And we know that there wasn't an Inn in Surf Village before, but, I mean, it's been a couple thousand years since WA, so, they probably made it quite a bit bigger...), sat Anna Lenial, at the counter, scowling into her glass full of the non-alcoholic drink called a Calamity Jane (PianZoe: It's kind of like a Shirley Temple or a Roy Rogers, if you've ever had one). She swirled the contents in the cup with a straw, watching the maraschino cherry bob around, under the ice. "I'm such an idiot..." she sighed, taking a sip of the tasty beverage.

The bartender, a rough-looking man of around forty-three, chuckled at her, while fixing another customer's drink. "I'll say - buying a non-alcoholic drink when you're in such a rut, and when you're old enough? That's not very smart; well, at least, I don't think so. But, hey, what do I know?" he looked directly at her face, to see her glaring at him (PianZoe: Oh, by the way, Anna is just telling everyone that she's twenty-one. She's really just nineteen). "Oh, that's not what you meant, eh?" he chuckled, giving the other customer his drink, then sitting down in front of Anna. "So, what's the problem? Maybe I can help? Doubt it, but, I gotta do something besides wait on people, I'm gettin' downright bored!"

Anna rolled her eyes, and sighed, setting her Calamity Jane down. "Alright. But you can't help. Well, I had been searching for Jacqui Cascade and her accomplice, Erica, for a couple years. They were wanted for murder and robbery. Of course, you probably know that, as I see you have their wanted poster up over there." she motioned behind the bartender, at the poster, and he nodded, motioning for her to go on with her story. "Well, the other day I came across Erica, but at first didn't know who she was. I think her hair has grown since her picture was taken for the wanted picture, it's now in her face. Well, her aunt - who is surprisingly the same age as her - Vedette invited me to join their Drifter team, and I said sure; I mean, it couldn't hurt, right? I would stay with them until I found Erica and Jacqui. So, we went to Boot Hill, to Erica's house, had a family reunion thing between her and her parents and little brother. Then she told her parents what had happened, and that's when I realized; I knew exactly who this was! So, I attempted to capture her, but, once I got her outside, her father distracted me, so she got away. And I escaped before her family could get me, coming here."

The bartender shook his head, with a sigh. "Hm. I can sorta see why you're thinkin' you're not so smart, but, why get so worked up about it? You'll find Erica and Jacqui again, it's not like if you mess up once, they dropped off the face o' Filgaia." he chuckled, taking an order from a man that sat down beside Anna.

She shook her head, with a sigh, and placed her face in her hands, shaking her head. "That's the reason I feel like an idiot, but... the reason I'm so depressed is because... well... I just realized something on the way here. You see, four years ago I found out that my Mom had been lying to me about what happened to my Dad... and she had been lying about his name, too, actually... his name was Anthony Bernadette... and... and... Erica's father is Anthony Bernadette. So I am related to a criminal... she's my half-sister! Erica Bernadette! I met my father, and I didn't realize it! I am so stupid! I've always wanted to meet him, and tell him who I am..." by now, Anna found herself on the edge of tears. "My Dad... I finally meet him, and... and I tried to shoot him..."

The bartender looked at her with sympathy, reached out, pulled her hands away from her face, and tilted her face upwards, to look at him. "Listen, missy, you should go back, and ask for him to forgive you. If he doesn't, it's probably not a big loss, since he wasn't there for you and your mother. And if you feel too depressed about it, you can always come back here, I'm always free to comfort one of my favorite customers. Oh, and by the way, the name's Iggy." when Anna raised an eyebrow at him, looking about ready to laugh, he chuckled. "It's better than my real name - Ignatius. Anyway, what's your name?"

"Anna Eleniak. Actually, it's Anastasia, but Anna is easier to remember." she smiled, and they shook hands. "Nice to meet you, Iggy."

"Likewise, Anastasia."

"Please, call me Anna."

"Right."

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Ran was angry. And not just irritated-angry, but seriously-pissed-off-angry. Who knew a small little human child could be so much trouble? If she wasn't half human, she would have thrown him off a cliff an hour ago when she met him. He was a motor mouth, asking questions about anything and everything, and every time she'd reply, he'd respond with 'Why?', and would tug on her skirt. He was currently lying in her arms, quiet because he was finally asleep; he had finally worn himself down enough, so that he had leaned against her legs, muttering about not being tired, and not needing a nap.

So, Ran was calming down - now, she was hoping that no monsters would attack them. "Please... please... let him stay asleep... please..." she muttered, but as she did so, a very loud growl came from a bush to the right of her, and a large wolf-skeleton pounced out from behind it, making a large 'WHUMP' sound, and causing Ran's whole body to jerk in surprise, which resulted in Edan snapping awake and screaming. Ran's eyes widened in fear; but not because of the beast, oh no. "NOOOOOO!" she screamed, her voice blending with Edan's. Then she stopped, narrowed her eyes at the fiend, and growled, in a very, very menacing way. "Oh, how you are going to regret coming across me right now..."

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PianZoe: There! Chappy ten, DONE! We do not own the Wild ARMs games. No. We don't. We just own a lot of the characters in SW.