Me: Another chap! Yay!^^ and don't worry my friends, I no longer fear that any of you had murderous thoughts toward me for taking so long!^^

Mushra: …(mumbles)..Dang it1 I was having fun with that….

Me: anyways, here's another chap, if my spelling was messy, sry, I was typing hurriedly and I was tired. If there are many mess ups, please tell me in review and I'll try and fix them. Enjoy!!!^^

Two days later:

"I grow tired of these foolish games, Eilis!" yelled a slightly muscular creature in shell like armor. "You said we'd have them soon!!"

"I'd hate to agree with Daku, Eilis, but I'm growing tired and impatient also. Every second I have silence, I heard wedding bells." Said a boy with sickish-ly soft voice, with blond hair and bright green eyes that he shut as he imagined a wedding.

"Well, you just have to keep waiting for the right time, then. And Daku, if I were you, I'd control my tone…" he smiled at the bug king. He had silver armor and dark blue/ almost purple hair spiking up.

"I take orders from no one, Eilis!" hollered Daku.

"You kind of have been this whole time, seeking our guidance and help." He taunted.

"Enough!" he said, some bugs appearing behind him. "I will take no more orders from you! I have had enough! I shall take what I want, now!!! Attack, my minions!!!" he pointed at Eilis and his bugs attacked.

Ryuma sighed, standing. "So foolish…" he muttered as he walked away.

And Eilis easily dodged each one, morphing himself in different ways to avoid touch, and even if anyone hit him, he'd suck their weapons into him, then use them against them. In seconds, he was surrounded by cards.

More came, and then were carded. Daku kept sending and sending, until there were no more. Daku became angry and charged at Eilis with a sword, but was carded as well after Eilis liquidated himself, then made himself a sharp spear, stabbing Daku.

Eilis heard a sigh as Ryuma came back in, leaning against a rock wall. "Well, there goes our bug minions."

"We don't need insects."

"Well, he's out of the way now. Are we still helping each other? Or is it time to fight?" Ryuma just smiled, as did Eilis.

"We'll work together until our goals are in sight." He told him.

Ryuma pushed himself off the wall. "And what is your goal, Eilis? What is it you want with those weaklings?"

"That would be none of your business."

"Fine…" he said and sat back down.

Eilis left the room, make Ryuma question him more, then returned, laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"Well, great prince, where is your dragon?"

That shocked Ryuma and he glared at Eilis as he stood the headed to a little fountain that had frozen over. He looked to see Ungar, staring at a card. He looked closer and then became angry. "Those girls are testing my patience! I shall not be as merciful on their loves as I had been before!"

"First thing you need to learn, young prince." Eilis started and Ryuma looked at him. "Show no mercy…." and he walked away.

He glared at him as he walked away, but then looked back at the frozen fountain, seeing four girls in it and he smiled, rubbing the ice where their faces were. "Soon, my loves, I'll have you in my grasp."

"So, they were captured by this snake prince, Ryuma?" Irayna asked Carly. They had been bored, so Irayna had started asking questions, and me winter and heather didn't really want to take a full trip back to memory lane. "Just because he wanted a bride?"

"Yup." She answered, riding with Kutaal as Irayna and Shadow walked by her.

"And now you're one of his new choices?" Irayna guessed.

"According to Jaden, yeah." She said and shivered (so glad she's sane).

"Hey, at least someone likes you." Shadow started and Carly tensed. "Though, it must suck to have it be him, ha!"

For once, Carly just ignored him (which surprised most of us, especially Shadow).

"…Why ain't I a choice?" Irayna asked all of a sudden.

"Why would you want to be?!" heather asked.

"Well, I don't want to, I'm just wondering. I'm part of your group now, so why hasn't he said anything about me?"

Sago started typing. I took the phone and read aloud, "He probably hasn't noticed you or heard of you two yet, but sure he will soon."

She nodded.

"I'm just glad he hasn't heard of you two yet, that means you aren't wanted as bad as us and we have extra people to do things we couldn't." winter said.

"And have we gotten a thank you for getting cloaks and bringing out the dragon and that….uh, reptile, I think, controlling it? No!" Shadow complained.

"Oh, shut up Shadow." Irayna said calmly.

"Thank you! There! You happy now?" Carly said.

"I don't want a thank you from you, shorty!"

"Well, then don't complain so much, hothead!"

"Shorty!"

"Hothead!"

"Shorty!"

"Hothead!"

"Shut the heck up!!!"

….Was that Mushra?!

We all turned to him, and he looked very surprised.

"Did….did you just…talk again?!" heather asked.

"…….Heck yeah I did!!!!" he screamed, jumping off his hover-board. Then he jumped back on, hugging heather and speeding around in circles. "Wooooooo hoooooooo!!!! NO MORE TYPING, THANK THE GUARDIANS!!!!!"

And then he gave heather a big kiss, surprising himself and her, but he still kept flying in circles and yelling.

I looked to Sago as he turned to me. He tried…..and nothing happened. We both became a little down at the fact, but all I thought was at least he wasn't the only one who still couldn't talk. Kutaal looked mad, too, and Zen and Winter almost seemed like a reflection of us.

"Ok, now that I have my voice back!" Mushra began with a crazed smile on his face (maybe it was bad his voice was back…..). he hovered over to Carly and Shadow, who watched him. "Would you two just shut the heck up for once, you're always fighting! My gosh, you remind me of me and heather! Would you just kiss and get it over with?!"

They both glared at him, blushing, glared at each other, then back at him.

"Shut up, shrimp, I don't like her!" Shadow said.

"Seriously, Mushra, that'll never happen!" Carly said.

"Yeah, ok. Why are you two trying so hard to deny it, then?" some of us laughed behind Mushra, because he was kind of right.

They just glared and looked away from everyone (well, except for Carly, who had Kutaal in front of her).

Well, now that Mushra had his voice back, he was talking nonstop, about a million things. Like, how much he couldn't wait 'til this whole thing was over so he could challenge Shadow and all his smugness (can't wait to see that, fire and fire….just hope they don't kill each other). And he talked about how he would work together with the boys and get back at us girls for making fun of them loosing their voices, and he talked about how he couldn't wait 'til he got his hands on either Eilis or Ryuma, who ever challenged him first….he kept going until we all yelled at him to, "Shut up!" though heather added a please at the end.

Well, when I found out how far we were from the ruins of shinzo, I got really ticked. They're petty dang far and it will take us up to about a week just to get there! I finally figured out where they were and now we gotta wait a week before we get there. Oh, wait, I forgot! It'll take over a week, 'cause we gotta go aaaalllll the way back to the city, back to the portal, then back to the others so we could get Hakuba's and Binka's help on going there. We remember, from the show, that Hakuba could take everyone to places, with a card, so that'd be plenty help, and we need Binka's help (and maybe Yakumo's but she'd be best to stay with the kittens and humans) to find the ruins, since she took the boys there in the second season.

I was so happy (or calmer) when we made it to a resting point at a abandoned inn. We checked it over a million times, looking in attics and basements a million times, checking every room and crevasse. We all stayed in a big living room, couches and beds all over the place, surrounding a fire. I sat with winter on a big couch, us in the middle, our guys at our sides. Heather and Mushra sat on a loveseat, Carly was sitting on a bed on her own, Kutaal had a huge bed and was closest to the fire, cooking. Irayna was sitting on the window seal of a really high window (I think they like hights) and she almost looked like a cat. Shadow was actually a few feet from carly, though his back was turned to her, his legs and arms crossed, just like hers. And Ookami was looking over Kutaals shoulder as he cooked, sniffing in the smell of the food.

"It smells really good, Kutaal!"" he told him.

He just nodded happily.

Ookami jumped down and first, went to heather, hugging her randomly and rubbing against her and licking her like a dog, then, after heather squeezed him in a tight hug, he came to Zen.

"Bubu, I gotta question." He said. Oh yeah, I forgot that nickname, we need to use that some time soon, hehehe!

He nodded, telling him go ahead and ask, curious, yet happy where he sat, with the girl he loved and all of us, the other people he was stuck with^^.

"Remember when we met, and how we stayed together for a little while after that?"

He nodded again.

"When we separated, where'd you go?" he seemed a little sad at the memory. "I looked for you for a while, but I couldn't find you…..like my pack…." He looked down, sadder.

Well, for obvious reasons, Zen was quiet, but he had an air about him, a look on his face that said even if he did have his voice, he would still be quiet. Eventually, Winter gave him her phone, wanting to know also. He took it slowly and, after a few seconds hesitation, he started typing.

Winter took the phone when he was done a read aloud. "Had more people on my tail again, and was kind of worried about your safety, no matter how tough you are. And I thought I had found your pack and I tried to follow them, but it ended up not being them. By then, we were too far apart and I thought if I kept my distance, you'd be ok. I'm so sorry."

"Oh." Ookami said. "It's fine, bubu, but you know I could fight."

He nodded, but had a troubled look on his face. I don't know why, but I wondered what the troubled look was for. It was like he was becoming self-conscious, like he'd said something wrong, and also like he had more to say…..i hated it, but my old feeling s about him came back pretty fast before I pushed them out of my mine as I saw my sister sitting beside him.

Kutaal pounded on the floor, his way of announcing food was done and I stopped staring at Zen, getting up kind of fast and heading to a plate of chicken, grabbing it.

"Um, just wondering Kutaal..oof!" Irayna said as she jumped down easily from the window. "Where do you get all this food?"

"He probably stocks it up in his car." Mushra said.

he typed something on the phone, annoyed, and passed it to arly. "Well, yes, but just be glad no one has to go out and look for food." he passed plates.

We ate silently for the first time, no fighting from Mushra and Heather, or Carly and Shadow. We really didn't have much to talk about lately. And I just wasn't sure I could control the edge in my voice if I said anything. I had to keep pushing old suspicions back as I saw Winter sitting with Zen.

Later, we all were lying on our couches and beds, not talking and not sleeping either, though our beds and couches we were sleeping on were pushed a little farther away, just in case we decide to talk, but we weren't. Me for reasons you should know by now, and with everybody else…well, I'm sure my problems are there's, too (other then the Zen thing) but there may be other reasons that I don't care to really know right now.

I sighed and rolled over, really tired now. I was facing Sago, as we lay a few inches from each other on a bed, but my eyes were to heavy and I didn't really want to open them. I had my legs bent towards my chest, one hand on a dusty pillow, my head laying on the other. All of a sudden, Sago grabbed my hand and, just in case there was something he was wanting to say, I opened one eye slightly.

He looked really annoyed, and I thought of the fact that Mushra was the only one talking again. I could tell that was what he was frustrated about and I nodded slightly, saying, "I know…"

He shut his eyes, seeming really annoyed and throwing his head back. I decided to try and wake up a little bit. I put my hand on his face, rubbing my thumb on his cheek. He looked back at me, a little more calm…he started to stare at me so intensely and longingly, it made me blush. I took my eyes off him for a moment. But I had to look back, and when I did, he seemed to be trying to do something.

"What?" I asked in a whisper.

He opened his mouth and I realized he was trying to talk. I pulled out my phone, but he pushed it away. He didn't want to use it. He tried to say something again, but the only thing out of his mouth was air.

"We'll find a way to get it back soon, sago, just go to sleep for now…" I said sleepily, yet almost hoarsely. Watching him try so hard to talk was hard for me to watch, I missed his voice so much! It was so much a part of him! I wanted it back so much and watching him fail right now made it almost unbearable to watch, especially seeing the same annoyance and pain on his face as he tried to talk.

He shook his head, still trying. He kept opening and closing his mouth in frustration. I couldn't keep watching, I looked down, sighing and almost crying. I hated this, I hated everything right now! Fighting every step of the way against bugs and reptiles! Having Ryuma wanting us again and others, too! Having my parents being taken away for bait and not knowing if they were ok or….or….

"Jaden…"

I opened my eyes, as they had been closed to keep the tears in. I looked up at Sago. He was staring at me intensely, but less frustrated. He touched my cheek with his hand, a small smile crossing his face.

"Sago…? Did you-" he put a finger on my lips.

"I love you Jaden, I love you soo much." And he leaned in and kissed me softly and I could feel him smiling. I smiled too, so happy.

As we broke apart, we stared at each other, amazed. "But how…?" I asked.

"Who cares?" he said with a smile. Then a half happy, half frustrated look crossed his face. "Well, I know I told you I'd talk to you forever once I was able to talk again, but…" he looked around the dark room filled with people trying to sleep. "Would humming do for now?"

I smiled and nodded my head, laying my head on his chest as he cradled me, humming 'Gotta Be Somebody' by Nickleback, knowing that was a favorite of mine (and, the fact that it was a favorite meant I have played it so many times, it has become annoying to some……ok, many…..).

And I instantly fell asleep, feeling better then before.

Winter:

Though I wished Zen had his voice back, I was happy for Jaden as I heard Sago humming to her. I hugged Zen closer, happy to have him here, and he put one arm around me. If we didn't have these guys, we wouldn't be so lucky to be so close to getting mom and dad back. I hugged Zen more, a silent and unknown thanks. And we fell aleep in each others arms.

Heather:

"So, your happy I have my voice back?" Mushra asked, a small smile on his face.

"….Kinda…" I said, but smiled at him. I leaned on his chest, feeling safe there as we sat together on the couch. I don't know when it happened, but I fell asleep there, on his chest and I had a real strange dream about a beast running at me, hitting me a little and roaring, yet it sounded like snoring….even in my dream, I knew he had to be sleep-fighting and snoring, messing up my dreams….ah well, as long as I'm doing the same, I'm fine!^^

Carly:

As I layed there, almost asleep, hearing small snores from others and a loud snore that I was pretty sure was from Shadow, all of a sudden, something long lands on my stomach, surprising me. I opened my eyes and saw it was his arm. He'd rolled over and his arm landed on me!

I knocked it off and heard it thud on the ground on the other side of him as I immediately rolled over, my back facing him. I don't know why, but my face was really hot, like I was blushing a lot. God, he's so annoying, even in his sleep!!!

As he stood in his area in the ruins, Ryuma all of a sudden slammed his hand down on part of the frozen water in frustration, making a fist sized crack in it. He watched as the images of Jaden and Sago passed by, them laying together and holding each other close, then passed by an image of Winter holding Zen close as he held her with one arm, them sleeping straight up on a couch. Then and image of Heather and Mushra, half-way sitting up, half-way lying on the arm-rest, sleeping there. And then the image of a red faced Carly trying to get back to sleep as she tried to get the thought of Shadow out of her head. He rolled over again and his arm landed on her again, and she hit it off harder, making a louder thud, almost waking him up.

Ryuma wore an angry and pained look. "They shall die soon. Very, very soon…." The images were now of the boys, flashing back and forth to each other, making Ryuma fill with more and more anger.

"Why do you seek a bride, anyways, young prince?" Eilis asked as he walked in.

He sighed, but then turned to Eilis with a sickening, angry smile on his face. "Well, I lost my first bride and I was very angry at that fact. So I vowed that I would have a new bride, one more beautiful then Yakumo, one stronger. I missed that chance again the last time, but I shall not fail this time." He looked back at the images of the boys, anger seething in him.

"Why marry if you are not in love?" Eilis asked, laughing.

"I do not need love. All I need and want is a bride by my side and a world to concur!"

Eilis just laughed again. "You will fail terribly if you seek something as useless as a bride, and with no loved involved? I would not be stupid enough to love anyone, dear prince, but it still seems pointless, your plan. I promise you, you will fail." He said and walked away.

Ryuma hissed as he walked away. Troublesome Kadrian! He thought. He sighed, trying to calm himself. No matter. Soon, he shall be destroyed and out of the way, and my plan will continue….oh, how I wait for that day when I can finally destroy him!

He kept watching the boys faces as they swam around in the glass-like ice, fueling his hated, anger and need to destroy them. He wasn't sure who he wanted to kill more, Eilis or the boys.

Soon, they will all be gone, and I shall have my bride!

"Jaden, wake up…" sago said, nudging me. I immediately woke up, momentarily forgetting his return of voice, and feeling glad all over again as I remembered.

"What is it?" I asked softly, still a little tired, just from waking up quickly.

"Come here real quick…" he whispered and I stood (Wobbling a little…..I'm not coordinated when I wake up, ok?), following him as we crept the last sleeping person, Ookami (he was so freaking cute when he slept!!!! All curled in a ball!!!!).

"What're we doing?" I asked, still a little sleepily.

"Well, Zen woke us all up and told us something." He said and my stomach sank….were my suspicions right?!

"What'd he tell you?"

"Today is something called the wolf moon, and the wolf moon is Ookami's birthday." He said with a smile and I smiled, too, after mentally beating my suspicions to a pulp in my head (or at least visualized that happening….).

"Oh, cool!" I said as we came to an old kitchen and I saw everyone in here waiting, a cake on the table surrounded by other food (I just wonder where Kutaal got this stuff before we left….).

They were all smiling, getting ready for the surprise. Me and Sago joined, in between Heather and Mushra, and Zen and Winter.

For a few minutes, we just stood there, our stomachs growling a little as we stared at all the food. But then, we heard shuffling in the other room and a small, cute yawn coming down the hall.

"Mommy? Daddy?" he called. "Bubu, where-Whoa!" he said as he came in, seeing the huge cake. His eyes were so wide, I thought they were going to fall out.

Kutaal got a big grin, along with all us girls and Zen, even Sago was smiling widely, though the other boys just had small smiles (not caring as much….Stupid hot-heads, the both of them!)

"Wha….is….I….is this for me?!" he asked in the cutest, most excited voice.

"Sure is, bubu! Happy birthday!!!" Zen called and we all called the same. Sago even shot squirts of water from his hands and mist, making them look like fireworks.

"Yay!" he squealed and came to huge Zen, then Kutaal (he made the food, no duh), then heather (a really big one for mommy^^) and then everyone else. "Thank you!" he squealed happily to everyone, and we said your welcome (though, it was Zen and Kutaal who put it together, the rest of us just standing here and yelling happy b-day for him). We just stood there, smiling at him as he smiled at us, on the table now. "…..um, can I eat?" he asked shyly and some of us laughed.

"Yeah, go on!" Zen told him. Ookami looked at the cake, his eyes wide, and he was about to dive into that thing (it was bigger then him, let me tell yeah, so he had to be happy), but then Heather caught him in mid-jump and sat him in a chair that had books stacked in it. He looked up at her.

"Real food first." She gave him a look.

"Ok…." He said and we all sat down, eating.

Once we had finished our real food, Kutaal stood to cut the cake, but Ookami had already jumped at the cake, diving into it (literally) and eating it from the inside. We all laughed, but had to hurry and grab pieces (small pieces, too) from the plate before he ate it all. After he finished, he just laid there on the plate, his stomach extended a bit, crumbs and icing on his widely smiling face. He rubbed his stomach, happy now, and then burp a pretty loud burp.

What was funny was we all said, "Good one!" at the same time, and he smiled happily.

But, of course, our little time of joy was ruined as a big crash sounded from the other room, the main room.

We hurried in there (kinda squashed in the hall) and saw lizards, crawling in windows, doors and broken parts of the walls some of them had created.

"Damn it, can't you guys just leave us alone?!" the four of us girls screamed at the same time as we hyper-formed.

Everyone else hyper formed, too and then the fighting began, metal, armor, fist and flesh colliding none-stop.

Irayna, Shadow and Carly were back to back, fighting people from three directions. Mushra and heather were running up the walls to the upstairs balcony, where some lizards were throwing things at us down here, and they started bashing them. Me, Sago, Winter and Zen where down in the middle of the room, back to back also, attacking who ever came at us, and Kutaal and Ookami (who was in hyper form now) were guarding the front and back exits, stopping more from coming in.

But they just kept coming, it was driving me crazy! I was getting tired and I hated this! We kept fighting and fighting and the cards kept growing and growing. But it didn't cease. They just kept coming and coming and coming!

I saw Ookami passed by a window (he must be running around checking) and then he came through the door, close to me. "Ookami, how many of them are out there?" I asked.

"Like, hundreds!" he exclaimed. "They've surrounded this place."

"Great, just great!"

"And this was supposed to be my birthday!" he said and his wolf face became fierce and angry looking. He ran back outside and all of a sudden we heard him shouting different things and saw flashing of red, purple, blue, yellow, as he yelled things like, "Flaming Vortex!" and "Aqua Dragon!" and "Aqua Tornado!" and "Earth Crusher!" and one of our attacks, mine and the girls….Could he do our attacks?! And then one last thing, he yelled, "Shadow Claw!" and a purple-ish black light erupted outside, too.

He came back in after a while, a smile on his face as we finished off the others and he transformed small again, saying, "I did it! I beat them all!!!"

We all headed outside to see cards everywhere, all over the ground.

"Well, dang, kid!" shadow said, amazed as he stared at everything. "You did better then us!"

Ookami just smiled more.

Well, after staring agape at all the cards scattered everywhere, we all headed to our vehicles (well, Kutaal packed food back in, then got in) and then we hurried out of there, not wanting to risk staying any longer. And then I started to wonder how they heck they find us so easily?! I mean, really? How?! If there masters know where we are, why don't they just come already?! Wimps!!!

Well, at least Ookami was happy again and we were on our way again, traveling through the forest.

Ryuma was sitting and eating as Eilis stared out at the land below. Ryuma remembered something and asked, "You know, they may catch on to the fact that we have an agent after them, don't you think?"

"Maybe, maybe not. I think it will be too late once they find out who he is." He said back. "We'll have them in our grasps before that time comes."

"Well, I don't think we need him. They be here soon enough, anyways. You told me some so called guardians informed one of the girls of our whereabouts? Why should we keep him alive?" he seemed annoyed that who ever this was, was still alive.

"They may know where we are, but that agent is the only one keeping your minions from fully destroying to group."

"And why are we keeping all of them alive?! All I need are those four girls! What is it you want with them all?"

"All I shall tell you, is that I need their power for what I want, and that is all…" he said and walked away from Ryuma once again.

"Ugh, stupid Kadrian! What could someone like him want?!" Ryuma asked no one, in annoyance.

Eilis just smiled as he walked away from the snake prince, whispering. "You'll be dead, along with all other filthy enterrans, before you find out…."

Me: well, hope you enjoyed^^

Mushra: yes, I got my voice back!!!! Woooooo!!!

Me: and just a few questions for my fans, of this finfic^^ have you guessed any of the mysteries yet? If you think so, tell me when you review, please!^^