All right, I'm back baby! Oh goodness, Billy Gilman. My friends have problems with that boy, why must he be sooooo fine? Lol, anyways on with the story (btw, I've had no sleep only pixie sticks so this may not be so good) but there's a line I HAD to use! My cousin liked it; I think you'll know it when you see it. Disclaimer: I don't own SRMTHFG, but I will pay a zillion dollars to!

"Are we there yet?" asked Otto.

"No." replied Antauri.

"Oh, how about now?"

"Not yet." said Twila.

"Are we there yet?"

"Yes." Said Sprx.

"Really?" asked Otto.

"NO!"

"Are we gonna get there soon?" he asked again.

"Otto, the sooner you stop asking, the sooner we'll get there." Said Gibson.

"Okay." There was a moment of silence. "So…now?"

"Otto, when we get there we'll be sure to tell you." Said Nova.

"Okay." Said Otto. "But, aren't we supposed to be going in the opposite direction?"

The team focused on Gibson, who looked slightly embarrassed and turned the book with the map the right way. So they turned around.

"Okay, I have a feeling we're getting closer." Said Nova.

"Really, why?" asked Jinmay.

"Because the temperature just dropped." She said. "Ugh, I hate the cold!"
The team looked at Sprx for a response.

"What?" he asked.

"Aren't ya gonna…?" began Chiro. "Never mind."

Needless to say, Sprx was not acting like himself and everyone noticed. Slowly the team approached a small ice-covered planet and landed on the snow enclosed ground

"Okay team, "said Chiro. "Split up to search for the lily. Half go west, half go east."

"No Chiro, I sense it is best to stay as one." said Antauri. "We are strongest as a team."

"You're right Antauri. "Said Chiro with a nod. "All right Gibson, how do we get there?"

" 'Follow when the sun not sets, then up into a cave of regrets.'" He said reading from the book. "Then if that test you can succeed, you must wait until dawn breaks free: only then shall you obtain only a piece in this rough game.'"

"Well what the heck does that mean?" asked Nova.

"If I heard right, we are to journey to a cave where no sunlight reaches," said Antauri. "There we are to face an obstacle and if it is completed we merely have to wait."

"But why does it all gotta rhyme?" asked Otto.

Twila shrugged. So the team set off to find the lily and the further they went the colder and colder it got. Eventually, they became more and more desperate to find it as night was approaching quickly and the whole team was getting tired of it.

"Okay, I spy with my little eye, something white." Said Otto.

"Snow." Said Nova.

"Right! Okay now something-."

"Snow." Said Chiro.

"Right again! Okay now something white."

"Otto, the answer's the same as it has been for the last hour! SNOW!" exclaimed Sprx.

"Nope. That time it was Antauri." Replied Otto with a grin

The entire team gave a groan and then suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Chiro asked Antauri who was leading the way.

"I sense we are close." He responded, then lead them into a nearby cave. In the middle was a single dormant lily, small and surrounded by snow and slightly wilted.

"I don't think this lily is the one, it doesn't look all 'powerful' and what not." Said Twila. "Are you sure, Antauri?"

"Yes. All we need to do is wait until it blooms." Said Antauri.

"Ugh, it's so dark in here." Said Jinmay. "I can't see a thing."

"Oh, allow me." Said Twila, then she pulled something from her pocket and revealed a wand with a glow at the end bright enough so the team could see as well as if it were day.

"Where did you get that?" asked Gibson, astounded.

"Uh, I had it the whole time." She said, as a-matter-of-fact way. "That's what pockets are for!"

"Oh, what's the wand for?" asked Otto.

"I'm not really sure. It was my father's." she said. "Now how long do we have to wait?"

"I'm not sure, "said Gibson. "But we have to keep an eye on the lily at all times, just in case."

"Who wishes to watch while we set up camp?" asked Antauri.

"I will." Said Nova and Sprx at the same time.

"You can do it." Said Nova.

"No, no. Ladies first." Said Sprx.

"I insist."

"No, I insist

"Why don't you just work together?" suggested Jinmay.

"Fine with me." Said Sprx, a little too politely. "That is if you don't mind Nova."

"Um, yeah. Okay, sure." She said, a little unsure.

So as the rest of the team went to set up camp, Sprx and Nova went by the lily. And waiting for a flower to bloom is only so exciting, and when there's nothing else to do, eventually you have to talk. And needless to say, things between these two could become a little …awkward.

"Soooo… ya think it will bloom soon?" asked Sprx.

"I hope so." Said Nova.

"So you think..?"

"Sprx why are you doing this?" asked Nova.

"Doing what?"

"You're not, you're not acting like yourself," she said. "Ya know, usually you're annoying and stupid."

"And..... that's good?" he asked.

"Well it-… you know what I mean." She said. "What's up?"

"Well, why do you want me to be annoying and stupid?" he asked back. "All it ever got me was a punch in the arm."

"But that was the Sprx I knew, who was my friend." Said Nova.

"Exactly."

"Awwwww, those two are so cute together." Said Twila from across the cave, helping set up camp. "Even now."

"What do you mean 'even now'?" asked Jinmay.

"Oh, just that before, when I was with my father, before Chiro met the team." She began. "He'd always be around her and she'd always…. hurt him. It was so sweet."

"Well, that's pretty much how it is now." Said Chiro with a laugh.

"I remember one time, before they had rockets. They were sitting on a high tree branch and he was just bugging the heck out of her until she just had it and finally she pushed him off as if he was flying. Now, he wasn't hurt or anything, but it just made my father laugh. He turned to me and said 'Whenever those two get together Sprx will fly'."

"So they've never gotten along?" asked Jinmay.

"It's not whether or not they've gotten along, but whether or not they've stuck together." Said Antauri.

Twila looked at him admiringly. 'My dad always said you were smart."

Gibson cleared his throat.

"But of course Gibson was the scientist."

Otto cleared his throat.

"Otto was the inventive one."

Then from all the way across the room (well, cave) they heard Sprx clear his throat.

"You heard everything we said didn't you guys?" asked Twila

"Yes." They said together.

The whole team started laughing, but Nova's face held a disillusioned look upon it.

Later, around the camp fire…

"And he turned to his notes to see… the equation was off by .0000000000023%!" said Gibson, finishing his 'scary story'.

Twila screamed.

"Twila, you really found that scary?" asked Chiro.

"Of course! Fractions are horrible!" she said.

"All right then." Said Chiro. 'Who wants to go next?"

"Oh! Me me me me me me!" exclaimed Otto.

"Alright then, give it a shot Otto." Said Chiro.

Nova looked to Sprx to say something, like you know if you get scared I can hold your hand or don't be afraid nova, I'll protect you. And little did she know, he was going to, but she always asked him to stop

"Alright, once there was a orange with huge feet, with toenails that were never clipped. And one day he went to the store to buy ointment …"

Jinmay's attention wandered from Otto's tale to behind him where the lily was. She saw a small light form around it. Then as it became brighter she noticed that it opened slightly. She let out an excited scream.

"Relax Jinmay! It's not real!" said Otto.

"No, not that!" said Jinmay. "That!" she said pointing to the lily.

The team turned to look and saw what she had seen, and they all moved in closer. They didn't notice Twila's wand-light dimming, and the cave getting darker. As it became darker, the lily opened further. Until it became pitch black and the lily fully opened. As soon as it did, it released a force that ricocheted around the team. Small but powerful, the team ducked to avoid it. Just as it was about to hit Nova, Sprx dove in front of her. The ball of energy hit his head and then went on speeding through. Nova ran to his aid and looked up in horror as the force was headed for the jar, which held the evil, or 'Curtis' as Otto called it. Nova quickly ran to try and prevent it from breaking the jar, but just as she did the ball of energy collided with the jar and released the evil. It immediately toke to Nova just as it toke to Sprx the first time while of energy returned to the now bloomed lily. The team rushed to help her, all except Sprx who was unconscious, but they were too late. She rose with evil in her eyes and snatched the lily with a wicked force. She rose into the air with a deadly laughter, fire around her, melting the snow

"This shall please my dark lord!" she said. "With my new host body, there's no end to what I can do!"

"NOVA!" exclaimed the team, but it was to late. As quickly as it had taken her, it forced her to leave, but not without setting the monkey team in a circle of fire. She flew out leaving her mechanical laughter ringing in their ears.

"I did not see that coming." Said Twila.

The team looked up in despair as Gibson put out the flames. Antauri and Chiro helped Sprx from the ground and got him to the medical ward. Otto cleaned the broken glass and retrieved Twila's wand. Twila looked at her book, hurt and confused.

"No," she whispered. "They're happening out of order. I thought I could prepare for them but I can't. This doesn't make sense."

"What do you mean?" asked Antauri.

She showed him the book, the passage that read:

'At time's patience will be a test, no one can know truly what is best. One will go to the other side; sometimes it is best to lie. But all in all, one thing remains; at the end it will all be the same. Through tears, love, hatred and deception, they shall all end up in the right direction. One will rise and leave the others to fall, but will always come back if someone calls. Something's that are broken should not be fixed. In the end there can only be six.'

And what was underlined was what had happened