Me: another chap, please enjoy!^^ also, the reason there is no big fight is because Mushra's still recovering from our last fight^^. I do not own shinzo or its characters, just mine and my story. ENJOY!!!^^
The next few days, as we traveled to Ryuma's castle, were really, really annoying. You had Carly and shadow at each other's throats one minute, then Mushra and shadow would fight physically, because Mushra wasn't in the mood to take voiceless jokes from the new guy the next. And Irayna cheering on everyone as they fought didn't help. I think she enjoyed seeing people act like that….granted, when I see it on, like, America's Funniest Home Videos, it's funny to me too, but when we're on a mission to save my parents, ourselves and maybe even the world, it's not that funny!
And we still haven't figured out how to get the guys voices back, though I know I'm going to regret it when Mushra gets his back.
Irayna and Shadow said they've never heard of something like that happening, so no help there.
And it's getting really annoying for us not to be able to talk to the boys we love. Though their still there, at moments, I feel like Sago's left, just like my parents…and I don't like that feeling.
"So, you come from dimension of enterra with no enterrans at all?!" Shadow asked Carly, amazed.
"It's called earth there, and yes. Either they will never decide to make ya'll in our world, or they just haven't yet." Carly really wasn't liking our new male addition to the group, and it went both ways. They were so annoyed with each other's presence, it was weird, since they barely knew each other and decide not to even try.
"Man…" he said, sighing sadly. "Must be really boring for all of you there. No cool guys or anything. Bet you ain't got a boyfriend there." He laughs.
"Well, it ain't like you got anyone here!!! You were just walking around with your sister when we found you!" she said, becoming even more annoyed (if that's even possible).
"Well, that's 'cause I'm just to good for anyone here, shorty!!" he yelled back.
Me, Heather and Winter cringed at the word. The last time anyone had called her anything near the meaning short, they were carded….this wasn't going to end well….
"Aaah!!" he screamed as carly jumped at him. And we had to stop for about ten minutes as they wrestled around….they reminded me of Mushra and Heather…
I rubbed my temples as heather broke them up. "Ok, listen, trying to kill each other wont help us find anyone. So could you two wait until we've carded these guys to strangle each other, please?!" she was standing in between the, putting a hand on their shoulders as they glared at each other.
"Fine!" Carly said, and got back on the back of Kutaal's ride.
"Fine!" he said back and walked over to his sister. They liked to walk more then riding.
Oh, yeah, forgot. Irayna and Shadow are brother and sister. Also, we found out the reason for their ears. They're half humanoid, half cat enterrans. And I was right about their powers, she was water and he was fire. We found out when they offered that we should be training and starting attacking before Kutaal sat on them to get them to stop…their excuse was they like to have fun and we're just boring.
And thankfully, we got some sleep…though Carly and Shadows constant knack for finding something to fight about got annoying.
"So, how far do you think we are from the reptile city near to castle?" Winter asked, right as we broke through some trees to see a city filled with reptiles.
"My guess is about a few feet…" I told her and she gave me a 'really not in the mood for sarcasm' look and stuck her tongue out.
We stood there for a moment and I guessed everyone was thinking the same as me. Are these peasants or Ryuma's lackeys? Some seemed to be children, some women, some men, some old. So, they may be peasants…but everyone should know by now, appearances can be deceiving.
"Should we sneak in? Or what?" heather asked.
Sago shook his head and motioned with his hands to wait. I gave him my phone and he began typing, and for someone whose new to this thing and isn't even from the dimension where the phone came from, he was a pretty fast texter, and he was good, too.
Once he was done, I took the phone from him and read it aloud. "Don't go yet. We wanted people, we'll get turned in. need the newbies to go in and get cloaks, no one knows them. Then we wait 'til night. They'd be sus…sus…what is that?" I asked sago, not understanding one of the words. He gets annoyed, takes back the phone, and re-types, then hands it back to me. "Oh! Sorry! They'd be suspicious of people walking around in cloaks in the day time, when it pretty warm out. We just stay close to da…" I look at him, holding back a smile for two reasons. One, his use of fast texting and changing words up and two, because I did that too. "Stay close to da shadows until we get there."
I looked at everyone and they nodded, some (Heather, Winter and Carly) laughing at me making fun of Sago. So, we send Irayna and Shadow in to get cloaks, wait for night-fall and then go in.
Before they had left, we told them that some of us would be taking naps. We didn't want to risk being tired and weak, like when we ran into the last batch of lackeys. They said ok and left, and we chose who'd stay up to wait.
Me. What can I say, right now, I'm cursed when it comes to rock, paper, scissors. So, I stayed up as everyone lay on the grass, snoring. I just watched the surrounding trees, sometimes, my eyes stopping on the opening in the trees where I could see the city. They were still looking…hopefully, not caught…
"Mommy?" I heard a tiny voice ask and smiled as I looked down at Ookami stretching, still half asleep.
"Nope, it's Jaden." I said in a soft voice. I couldn't help it, he was just so cute, it left me feeling all gooie, like I wanting to just tickle him and say stuff that end up becoming unintelligible mutters of joy.
"Oh. Sorry…" he said and yawned.
"It's fine. Just go back to sleep, you need your rest, little buddy." I said, rubbing his hair softly. He smiled at me when I was done and then laid down again, yawned once more and then fell asleep, snoring silently.
"They're so cute when their young, aren't they?" I heard a sickeningly soft and kind sounding voice say and I shivered. And before I could turn to him, he was by my ear, whispering, "But he doesn't match any of you ladies beauty…"
I fell sideways, trying to get away from him. I was amazed I didn't fall on winter or sago, the both of which had been sleeping near where I sat.
Had been, but were now gone, along with everyone else. "Where is everyone?!" my voice sounded so freaked, I was mad at myself.
"Their gone, darling. It's just you and me..." an annoyed look crossed his face. "…though, not for long. I just came to tell you I cant wait until I have you ladies in my grasp again. I still haven't chosen who I'd love by my side more, and you've even brought me another choice…" he waved his hand and I saw Carly's sleeping
body, where it had been before, but then it faded away like smoke. "How kind of you…" then he smiled that creepy, evil smile.
"If you lay a hand on any of them…!" I warned, but that just made him smile even more. He even laughed.
"Oh, dear beauty, I don't think you need to worry about them…" he acting like he was checking for others, like he was doing something secret, then leaned in a whispered kinda slowly in my ear, "Don't tell the other girls, wouldn't want to crush their spirits, but I'm not sure they'll be as lucky as you."
I shivered, like, three times and seriously almost gagged. He grabbed me by the neck and put me against a tree, smiling evilly as he stared at me with his snake-like eyes.
I got really made then and yelled at him, "What do ya'll want?!!"
He laughed. "Well, sweetheart, I want you, that's obvious. I want someone by my side as I rule enterra." He thought for a minute, and I wondered if he was pondering if he should tell me what the others wanted. "Oh, what does it matter, we'll have everything anyways. Or at least I will. You see, the others want something for their selves, as I do, and we're using each other's help to get it. Daku wants to rule enterra, make the bugs the main inhabitants. And me and Eilis agreed to helping him, making him think we want that too and nothing else." He sighed. "Ah, such a fool…Well, me and Eilis agreed to work together until he was out of the way. Then, we'd be on our own, fighting for what we want and most likely, we'll end up trying kill each other, and I look forward to it." That smile just got creepier and creepier every time he wore it. But then, a confused and irritated look crossed his face as he thought of something. "I'm still not sure what he's doing this for, but I really don't care. All I know is once all my obstacles are destroyed, I will have you by my side and the world under my rule."
"Hate to burst your bubble, bud," I started saying, getting ready to kick his a-butt. I was still amazing he was stupid enough to, one, think it was ok to tell me everything, two, doubt Eilis and his power, and three, doubt my friends and their power, because we beat his as-butt before, easily, and now we have more friends on our side. "but none of that's gonna happen anytime soon!" and I punch him in the face, happy when I hear a cracking sound.
He looks back at me and I see his nose is broken (man, I'm good!) and bleeding. I also he's really mad. He sighs, wiping his nose as the blood pours. He looks at me with a bit of an annoyed look, like he's tired or something of my actions. Then he smiles a tiny bit. "Soon, darling, you will learn not to treat me like that. Soon, you will love me."
After I shivered, I said, "Yeah, in your dreams."
He laughed and then started to fade away, snakes covering him. And then he was gone and I was alone in darkness, so freaked out and grossed out, I was trying not to puke. I sat down and curled into a ball, wondering how to get back to the others, wondering where they'd or where I'd gone. Everything was just so dark and quiet. I wanted everyone back, but I didn't know where to go or how to get there. I wasn't liking this, not one bit….
"Jaden?" I hear someone say, and notice its my sisters voice. I try to open my eyes, but they've become heavier than before. Actually, I don't even remember closing my eyes. "Jaden, get up, we gotta go." Then I feel her shaking me.
Then I realized I had been asleep and was waking up now….he'd entered my dream…he'd created a freaking nightmare in my head! I opened my eyes then, seeing it was dark and then shooting straight up, mad at myself for falling asleep.
I feel someone else touch my shoulder and see its sago. He looked a little worried. i shook may head at him, trying to calm him, then I looked at winter, with everyone else awake behind her and getting ready.
"I'm so sorry I fell asleep, everyone. I didn't mean to. One minute I was checking everything and the next…" I thought of ryuma, then decided maybe I should wait until everyone fully awake (especially me) and we're away from here. It was the same place in my dream and I had a feeling he may be lingering here, though I knew it was stupid, I couldn't help the feeling. "I'm sorry…"
Sago taped my shoulder and I looked at him. He shook his said, trying to say its ok.
"Don't worry, Jaden." Shadow said, already ready and cloaked. "Hearing you snore made it up to everyone." He smiled happily at me and a few of them laughed, making me blush.
"I don't snore!!"I said, trying to defend myself.
Sago took my phone and started typing. He handed it back to me and I read it, not out loud. It said, 'honey, when you're in deep sleep, you do' and it a laughing icon at the end. I glared at him and pushed him when he soundlessly giggled, trying to hold it in. I would have hit him if I could actually hear it.
We left then, staying close to the shadows of the buildings as the sun set, and I was thankful other people wore cloaks, too, making us blend in a little better. We kept quiet, not saying anything, feeling like if we said a word, then angry lizards would start crawling out of the walls just to kill us for talking. This wasn't really the most comfortable place, especially for me, after my dream.
All of sudden, we heard a tiny rumble come from someone's stomach. We looked towards the sound to see Ookami looking at his stomach, then looking at us, smiling shyly.
"Lets find somewhere to eat." Heather said and we nodded and started searching. I was glad we were stopping to eat because I was hungry, too, but also because I could talk to everyone about my dream.
Finally we found a place, silent and dark, to eat. We sat in the most secluded corner, though it was kinda hard to fit all of us there, because we were sixteen people all together. We had to pull a second table and a few more chairs to the first table we found. We all ordered the same things, because the other things just sounded gross. It wasn't much, so we wouldn't have much time to talk and eat if we're finished eating before talking, so I started after the waiter left.
"Ok, there's something that I need to tell all of you, but we need to stay quiet, we may attract attention…" I said and looked at everyone as they nodded, Winter and Sago looking worried. I took a breath. "Ok…I had a dream about Ryuma...or, at least, he entered my dreams once I'd fallen asleep."
Some of them gasp and Sago had an ugly, mad and protective look on his face. I continued. "Ok, at first he was talking about how he still wanted to choose one of us as his brides and has added you," I pointed at Carly. " to the choices. Then, I asked him what they wanted with us. He said he didn't know what Eilis wanted, but that Daku wanted to rule enterra with his bug army and they were just playing along so they could get rid of most of us and execute their own plans, and that they planned on turning on him last minute."
"What does Ryuma want?" Winter said, annoyed and grossed out as she said his name and thought of him.
"…He still wants one of us…to be his bride, stand by his side, as he rules enterra instead…" we shivered at the same time.
After the waiter left, Sago started shaking his head in anger and I knew, right now, more than ever, he wanted to have his voice back, just so he could scream at the top of his lungs and for once I was glad he didn't have his voice or he'd attract attention.
"So, they're using each other, using each others power, to defeat most of us, or all of us, and to get what they want?" Heather asked and I nodded.
"But, then, why'd they steal mom and dad?! What do they have to do with this?! They haven't caused them harm and couldn't, whats the point?!!" winter voice was getting a little too high and I gave her a warning glance.
"My guess is, they're bait. Because, with Daku, I think he wants us to either come to his side and mom and dad are the bait, or he wants us to come to his safe haven so he defeat us with all his lackeys, without even breaking a sweat and mom and dad are still the bait. With Ryuma, they're still the bait, because he knows we won't go to him and marry him willingly. We know that from our last encounter. And he can card everyone else while he's at it, so he doesn't have to worry about any threats in the future, because he knows we wouldn't leave each other." I said.
"What about Eilis?"
"Who knows?" Heather starts. "But I have a sinking feeling that he just needs us for whatever it is he wants. He needs us just as much as he needs Ryuma and Daku."
As she said that, I felt it too. He must need us, or he would have killed both Ryuma and Daku, and us if he didn't. We'd be dead by now, or still fighting. I looked around at the people here and saw some people were watching us. I got worried and stood. "We should probably leave now…" I whispered to them and everyone slowly stood as they finished their food.
We hurried out of there and headed to the back of some building, just to be safe. More shadows to hide there. We were getting closer to the castle each minute and, though I really wanted to find my parents and hoped they'd be there, after that dream, I just wasn't any bit more comfortable thinking about Ryuma.
"So, you guys have met this snake prince, Ryuma?" Shadow asked as we walked.
"Don't ask." Me, Heather and Winter said at the same time as the boys shook their heads.
"Hmph. He sounds like a loser to me." He commented. Hmm, he was right on the spot.
"You'll regret saying that, boy!" god, how many more reptiles can Ryuma send after us?!!
We all looked behind us to see a lot of reptiles with weapons staring at us menacingly. With a sigh, we all got ready, hyper-forming immediately. Irayna and Shadow didn't though. They say they don't need to, because they're already unbeatable in their normal form.
They all started growling, and one said, "I'm hungry." And others grunted in agreement.
We all stood our ground, pulling out our weapons (Irayna had what she called a water whip and Shadow had what he called fire kunai knives).
Together, we all told them to, "Bring it!!!"
Me: well, I hope everyone liked this chapter and also, windflame, sorry that Irayna didn't talk much in this chapter. I'll make sure she does in the next one.
Mushra: **walks in on crutches and glares** I hate you.
Me: I know!^^ please review!^^