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By now, we were at that spot in the woods, where we had been hiking before being taken away by that portal. Right before my parents were taken…right when we could have been home, helping and protecting them….

"Jaden, you couldn't have done much more damage, ya'll didn't have your powers then." Sago would tell me, trying to get into my head that it would have happened anyway and it wasn't my fault…but it was. I was so angry with them so mad at how they treated me. I even almost wished they'd go away for a while so I could have some real time with sago….and I got my freaking wish. I went far away from them, out of anger, wishing they'd just go away, and it happened. They were taken away and me and winter were too late to do anything…

But I'm going to change that. I will. I will save them. And I'll make sure no one else gets hurt or taken away.

"Man, something's up with my arm…" Shadow announced, rubbing his left arm. "It's been hurting for a little while."

"Did you hurt it while we were fighting?" Irayna asked just as Carly's head shot down. I thought I saw her blush.

"No. and it was hurting before then, like when I woke up…Maybe I hit it while I was asleep? I was having a weird dream, anyways." He laughed.

"What kinda dream?" Carly asked, not raising her head.

Shadow was quiet. "Uh, nothing….Why?"

"Nothing." was all she said.

I looked at them, really confused…

"Well, I thought I heard a thud last night…maybe you hit your arm?" Irayna said.

That made Carly duck her head lower as Shadow said, "Yeah, maybe…."

After wondering what the heck was going on, I turned to my sister and friend, seeing them riding close together with their guys. Winter was holding on tight to Zen as Heather stood with Mushra on his hovercraft. They seemed happy enough, though not Zen. Hm, must be the whole 'still have no voice' thing.

"So, why DO you think you and Mushra got your voices back?" I asked Sago, feeling bad for Zen as I watched him look frustrated.

"…..I'm not totally sure…but I think, it may be because we wanted and needed to say something so bad-because we tried so hard, we got them back. So I guess we just have to wait for something to happen with the others for them to get their voices back." I nodded.

I looked back at Irayna, Carly, Shadow and kutaal as the two siblings were closing in on Kutaal, looking at something in a bowl.

"What is that, kutaal?" they asked him, sniffing the air around it as he slowly moved the bowl away.

He typed out a message and handed the phone to Carly. "He says, 'it's a specialty and favorite of his. And its just for him.'"

Just then I got whiff of it and realized it was his cat nip recipe no one dared try…yet Shadow and Irayna were still trying to get close to it…..oh, yeah, cat enterrans.

"What's in that?" they asked, their eyes fixed on the bowl. He was pulling it farther and farther away as they kept getting closer and closer. He was having to lean back to keep it from them and he was beginning to crush Carly. He took the phone with one hand and typed a message fast, throwing the phone at Carly.

"He said it made with cat nip, but your not getting any!!! So stop before he kills me!!!!" he was beginning to crush her, right as the siblings dived.

"No!!!" he called out, jumping from his car to keep his food away from them, but the bowl spilled onto the ground and the three of them sighed sadly. "Now look what you've done!!! I don't have anymore stuff to make that!!!" he stared at it longingly. "And I was so looking forward to eating it….." then he turned to the other two, towering over them as they cowered. "You should be ashamed!!!! Wasting perfectly fine food!!!! I cannot believe you two did that!!!!" he kept going on and on.

Even when he looses his voice, then gets it back, his mind is still on food and nothing else.

I turned back to winter and Zen and saw Zen, his head dropped back in annoyance. Winter was rubbing his shoulder. Well, maybe he'd break free, too, soon.

That night, we stopped at the edge of the forest, close to the city, very, very tired now 'cause we had been traveling for a day and a half. I was so annoyed, because I wanted to get to sleep fast, so I could wake up early, head back to the others, get Hakuba and Binka, and be on our way again. But being too anxious and impatient didn't help my sleeping process, so I decided to just stay up with the others as kutaal cooked Dinner, still angry about the cat nip incident (he didn't say a word to the siblings as he cooked, but he talked happily with everyone else).

Us girls were sitting together, just talking as we waited, the boys a few feet from us doing nothing other then asking kutaal a million times, if the food was done yet. Well, everybody except Zen.

"So, how'd you all meet?" Irayna asked us.

"Um," I started. "It's a long story and it will probably confused you." Like, the fact that their world and everything in it was a show. Defiantly confusing.

"Ok. Well, can you tell me the none confusing things?" she pressed.

"Sure. Well, um, like we told ya'll before, we're from a different dimension. It's this place, enterra, just years ago and it was called earth then. I'm not sure if they'll ever make enterrans there, but either way, you all don't exist there. Anyways…" I was thinking of a way to tell her it without saying it a show. "Well, we found a portal that led to this dimension and then we met everybody else. The guys and the others that we're going to get. And, we just became friends after that."

"Oh…"

"Um…" heather began. "If you don't me asking and if it's not too personal or anything….what's yours and Shadows story?"

"No, it's fine." She said, her face calm, almost happy, like it always was, though there was something different you could see in her eyes. "Well, we lived with many others, a big family of half cat enterrans. You know, parents, grandparents, cousins, uncles. Well, me and Shadow would always play and wrestle around and we had had like, a family party and were just celebrating being together happily. We were around twelve and fourteen at the time, maybe a little older. Everyone was dancing, singing, eating and drinking. Just having a good time. Other kids were playing board games, but of course me and Shadow didn't want to play that, so we headed outside, to our usual spot, a clearing in the forest and began fighting and having fun." She smiled at the memory, going through everything, before the smile faded. "But then something happened. We heard a loud crash back where the house was and saw dust flowing toward us….as if a building had collapsed. So we stopped and hurried back to the others, no voices or music could be heard ahead. We stopped to see the whole building in ruins, cards scattered everywhere and torn and that big blue dragon, Grandoora, flying away as this dude put something in his pocket. We just stared in shock, unable to believe our eyes. And then there was a soft laugh. One that just makes your skin crawl." She became angry, as did we as we realized who she was speaking of.

"Ryuma…" we all said with hate in our voice that he had done something to our new friends, no matter when it was.

"Yes. He was just a teenager then, only a little older then Shadow and one year older then me, I was sure, but still as evil as he is now. Anyways, he just smiled at us as we stared in shock, horror and sadness as we saw the cards of our parents lying beside each other, ripped. 'Oh, I'm so sorry.' He said softly. 'Did I kill your family? Well, they stole from me, so they deserved it.' Well, of course, this got Shadow pretty pissed, because of how calmly Ryuma discussed the fact. He ran at Ryuma, yelling in anger and pain, taking out his kunai. Before I could stop him, he made it bigger and tried to slash Ryuma, but he dodged, very fast. Shadow fell down and rolled over quick, getting ready, but Ryuma slashed his face before he could block and he cried out in pain, hold the side of his face. By then, I was really angry and I ran at him, jumping on his back before he knew it. I tried to get my whip around him, but right as I was about to and then jump off to do an attack, he head-butted me off of him and slash at me, cutting my arm." She showed us her left arm. "Well, we were young and weren't totally used to the pain, so we sat there for a few minutes, holding our wounds and whimpering in pain. Ryuma just laugh and then said, 'Your so pitiful, your not even worth finishing off.' He told us, making us even more angry. He'd killed our family, laughed at our pain, hurt us more, laughed more and pitied us. If the cuts weren't so bad, I'd be using both arms to strangle him…anyways, he left us, warning us never to cross his path again and he wouldn't kill us…..well, after that….we buried the cards….and left. We've never been back there and we've been looking for him ever since. We heard of his two down falls, one by an evil Mushrambo, then by some people who I now know are you all." She smiled at us. "And now, thanks to ya'll, we are finally gonna be able to reek our revenge."

"Wow." Was all we said and Carly look to Shadow who was wrestling with Mushra and Ookami (who was in his hyper form at the moment so he'd be big enough to play).

"Foods done!" kutaal announced and we headed over and ate, very hungry now.

We ate slowly, wanting to savor (no matter how much a hurry I was in, I ate slowly, too….I might choke, ok?!).

"So, shorty, what's your life like back at your home?" Shadow randomly asked trying to find something to fight about with her, as was tradition pretty much.

"Um…it's fine. Normal." she said, not totally concentrating as she stared at the stars. We were all spread out on the ground, full and lying down watching the stars.

Shadow sat up. "Is something wrong with you?" he asked her, making her sit up and glare at him, surprised.

"No! Why? Something wrong with you?"

"No, but there is something wrong with you." He laughed, seeming real surprised and I was too when I realized what he meant.

"What are you talking about?"

"You haven't called me Hot-head at all yet."

"S-so? Why does it matter?" she said, lying back down.

"Well, because." He said crawling close to her. She tensed as she lay on the ground, him now sitting beside her. "Our usual conversations consist of us finding something about the other to pick at and we call each other by the names, shorty and hot-head. And I'm sure everyone here agrees it'd be weird if we just all of a sudden stopped that usual thing, no matter how much of a relief it would be." He laughed.

"He's right, Carly." Winter started, laughing. "It may be a relief to have you two shut up for once, but it would definitely be weird to see you two totally calm with each other."

"….Well, I'm tired, ok? Does it really matter?" she asked, sounding like she wished we'd change the subject.

Shadow touched her forehead, making her blush and reminding me of that one time before me and Sago were together….. "We're just trying to make sure you're ok, shorty." He laughed.

"I'm fine, ok? Leave me alone." She hit his hand off and rolled over.

"Ok, ok. Jeez, maybe I should call YOU hot-head." He said, going back to his spot on the grass.

Well, that little moment puzzled me, even in sleep and when we woke the next morning, I took Carly with me as we went to re-fill on water (we had containers, thanks to kutaal, of course).

"Why'd you ask me to come?" she asked, not in a mad way, just curious. "I'm surprised you didn't take sago."

"Well," I said, placing my container in the pond we'd come to and let it fill up. "I wanted to talk to you."

She tensed a little, but continued talking in a calm voice saying, "About what?"

I took a deep breath, hoping she would react angrily. "Um….well, I was wondering….how do you feel about Shadow..?"

She tensed again, but then changed her worried features, looking amused as she said, "Well, I think he's a pretty annoying guy who never leaves me alone. He's smug and over-confident. He always messes with me just for the fun of it. If he were anymore annoying, I think I'd hate him."

"…..Are you sure?" I asked her.

"Are you saying I'm lying?" she asked, seeming annoyed.

"Well, not totally…..maybe a little."

She sighed, standing and heading back to the others with her heavy container, as did i. luckily, the wait made her slow, so I caught up. "Do you really want to continue this conversation with him around?"

She stopped, annoyed. "There's nothing to talk about…"

"Then why'd you stop if there's nothing to talk or worry about?" I edged on.

She was quiet for a minute, then sighed and sat down. "Fine!"

I sat down beside her. "Ok, firstly, don't be so annoyed about it. It's completely normal."

"I'm not annoyed about liking someone, Jaden…." She started. "….I just hate that it had to be him…" she said, almost seeming sad and I realized what she was feeling and began to pity her. Before me and Sago were together, I'd watch him, full of love, yet hate. Love, just because I just had to fall for him. And hate because I had to fall for someone who I thought didn't think of me in any other way then a friend. I hated him for that, wished he'd just leave me alone when we'd go to see them, but he'd talk to me as normally as ever. I hated that he acted to calm and happy while I was dyeing inside. Now, I could tell this was how Carly was feeling, too. But that didn't mean she didn't have hope.

"Carly, I know how you feel but…your not sure about how he feels."

"Yes, I am! All I am is the girl he loves to mess with! The one he just decides to pick on every second he gets! The girl he sees as nothing!" I saw a few tears before she wiped them away. She wasn't much of a crier, she was more like an angry glaring while yelling kind of person.

"Well, have you asked him how he feels?"

"No! Of course not! You really want me to put myself out there for that kind of pain?!!" she asked, angry. "He'd just laughs in my face!"

"You don't know that."

"Yes, I do!"

"You haven't tried it, so you don't know it, Carly." I told her and she didn't say anything, she just kept glaring. "How long have you felt this way?"

"I don't know how long I've felt this way, but I know I realized it after Mushra said that thing about….us kissing….and…that night at the inn?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well…when he was asleep…he kinda rolled over and…his arm landed on me….he was, like, holding me in his sleep….it took me a few minutes before I hit his arm off…he did it twice…"

"Ah, so that's why his arms hurting…" I realized, trying painfully hard not to smile or laugh.

"Yeah…"

"Well….all I can say, for now, is maybe either….well, either try and figure out his feelings, or wait 'til everything is over to find out."

She just nodded, though her face was sour. We headed back to the others.

We were back in the city in a minute, and then were through the portal, moving fast. By the time we got there, it was twilight, the sun setting in the distance and luckily the kittens were fast asleep when we got there (we had feared they want to come with and, of course, they can't. Ookami's only along with us 'cause he can protect himself).

"So why are you all back, again?" Binka asked as she eyed Shadow and Irayna.

"Because, we need yours and Hakuba's help to get to the ruins of shinzo. That's where we're sure they're hiding." Heather told her again.

"Oh." She said as she packed a little food (don't know why, Kutaal had a years worth stashed in his car) and her bazooka in her turtle transport….thingy…

"Are you sure I shouldn't come?" Yakumo asked, not in a desperate way, like if she wanted to come, but like she was really just trying to make sure.

"Yeah, we're sure. Though we'd loved to have you with us, Yakumo," Winter said (man, she's such a liar). "We think it'd be best if you stayed with the humans and the kittens.

"Alright." She said with a smile and told us, "Good luck." as we were on our way again.

Hakuba was a little reluctant to leave Yakumo, but then he did that one thing he did in the last episodes, the one where they were fighting Lanuncurus. He disconnected himself from the tube that Yakumo would sit in and he was now just his head and a small body with two fin things and a robot tail….it was just different having him like that.

"Hey, can we stop by somewhere, before we leave?" heather asked all of a sudden.

"Where?" I asked.

"My house…I'm guessing my parents are looking for me and worried 'cause the fact that ya'lls house is burned down and there's no one there. I want to check on them, though it sucks I cant talk to them."

"Oh, ok. Uh, why cant you talk to them?"

"They'd want me to stay if they saw me, and especially if they found out. But I'm not staying, so I'm not risking them seeing me. But I still want to see if they're ok, so I'll be back."

"I'll come with." I told her, as Mushra ran up to her and Sago came to my side. The others just waited at the portal.

Though the annoyance of our continues problem (they parents gone, the evil lords wanting us for different reasons) were still there, we were all walking with smiles on our faces as we passed through the familiar forest, passed the familiar tree house, following the familiar trail.

"You…remember that time….when we were playing hide and seek?" Sago was saying through laughs. "And that bunny had jumped out and scared Mushra to death?"

"Oh, yeah." We all said together, laughing. Even Mushra.

"And that time when we tried to show the boys what a DVD player was?" Heather said and I laughed with her.

"We don't have that in our dimension, ok? And it's defiantly weird seeing ourselves on a little screen…" Sago said.

"What can we say, we loved the show and it went off air, luckily after we had burned some DVD's of the episodes."

We just kept laughing as we remembered different things. We broke through the trees and saw heathers house, which was all on it's on. It was on a high hill, all by its self and as we looked at it from this angle, it seemed like the other side was a cliff (we'd always roll down the hill, and we'd push the boys down plenty of times, then they'd sneak up on us and do the same). The trail led to their garage, since this was actually a dirt road. Her house was pretty big, though it was just her and her parents. It was a nice two story house which I always wished could be mine. We had a fun Halloween with everyone else one time (I love him, but Sago screamed like a sissy girl at that party, hehehe^^).

Heather ran up to one window, us sneakily following behind. The sun had finally set, so gladly, we wouldn't be seen. She glanced through the biggest window (they usually had the blinds open so they could look at the beauty outside). She backed away slowly as we made it to her.

"What is it?" I asked, still in a good mood from laughing and reminiscing. I looked through her window, but couldn't see much from here. It seemed like the only light was from the TV in the living room and one in other rooms.

All of a sudden, she broke into a run, hurrying to her door and busting it open. We ran after her.

"Heather, what's-" I stopped as we made it through the entrance hall, to see the living room trashed, things thrown all over the room, broken. The TV was buzzing, messed up, with a crack in the screen. We looked down the hall and saw doors had been busted down and scratches were on the walls.

"Mom!" heather screamed all of a sudden, running down the hall to her mom and dads room. "Dad!"

I followed her as Sago checked the kitchen and Mushra headed up the stairs to where the bathrooms and Heather's room was, along with a storage room.

As I passed by the two closet doors, I saw games and books and junk all over the floor of the closets, and some of them thrown through the open door of the basement. God, what happened?!

Heather stopped at the door and I stopped by her, catching my breath as I saw the back wall of her mom and dads room, torn off….and part of the walls were frozen over.

Damn, Ryuma!

Heather swallowed, her eyes wide as a few tears started coming, some escaping her eyes. I put a hand on her shoulder, knowing how she felt.

"…I'm sorry, Heather…I'm really sorry they took them, too. But we'll have them back soon enough, ok?" I couldn't think of anything else to say, as I wasn't even sure MY parents were ok.

She shut her eyes and one more tear escaped as her face became the same sad mask mine had been before I was done wallowing and ready to become fully pissed.

And that's exactly what she did next. She took a some rectangular, thin thing from the ground and I noticed it was a fan picture she had drawn of Ryuma. Whether it was one of her and Mushra kicking his butt or not (inspired by our first battle), she still hated it. I could tell, because the picture became in gulfed in purple and black flames. Then she ran out of the building, through the huge whole, breathing heavily.

"WHERE EVER YOU ARE, RYUMA, LISTEN TO ME NOW!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, towards the sky. "I don't care what your plans are!!! When we find you, I will kill you!!! And if my parents are in anyway harmed, or worse, I will find a way to bring you back, again and again, so I can jut keep killing you!!!! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!!!!" and then she made a sound of annoyance, almost a moan of anger or pain, and dropped to her knees, hitting the ground.

"What's going on?" Sago asked as he stopped by me and Mushra ran up to heather.

"They took them…" heather said in such a dark voice, she almost sounded evil in her anger. "And they're gonna die!" she said, standing now and walking past us, heading back to the trail.

We just couldn't get a break, could we?

Ryuma sat there, watching the brown haired girl yelling to the skies, at him. I touched the glass. "So beautiful, even when angry." And he just laughed. "And I'm sorry, my dear, but you will not be getting them back……."

Me: well, I have more I'm writing, but I thought that was the best stopping point and I thought this chapter had enough surprising and answered questions (like Carly's feelings and Heather parents) and I'll be trying to hurry and write the next one, so just be patient.

Mushra: Why'd you take Heather's parents?

Me: well, I've been waiting to have them find that out. The reason is simple. She would have much more of a reason the go to Ryuma if it was her parents, too.

Mushra: and what was with the purple flames, dude? It was cool, but I don't get it….

Me: well, I wanna tell yal, but maybe I should wait 'til the next chapter. Well, please review!^^