Me: well, here's another^^ no writers block, thank goodness^^ though little bro wouldn't leave me alone -_-
Mushra: hope he drives you crazy.
Me: oh, don't worry he did. Anyways, stayed tuned, because a mystery will be revealed in this chap^^ enjopy!^^
"So, they took her parents, too?" Winter asked in a small, quiet voice. We were resting by the portal right now, no being stupid enough to go there and be as tired as that one time.
I nodded. "The back wall to their room was busted off and there were areas with ice. She got so pissed, she burnt that one picture she'd drawn of us, from the last time he got us."
"Wait, how did she burn it?"
"I'm not sure. She just got real angry, staring at the picture, and then it was engulfed with purple flames."
She seemed confused, like me. It was just weird. The only time she had power over fire, was when she had the power of Mushra's gem, which we all lost those powers….maybe it's something with the dark power…..
Heather was already asleep, troubled still, even in sleep. Her face was so angry. Mushra was asleep beside her, though he was getting dangerously close to hitting her in his sleep (can never get enough action) and Ookami slept in her arms.
Zen was sitting alone as me and Winter talked. I felt bad for steeling her from him, though I didn't get why he didn't just come sit with us, like Sago. Maybe he's scared we're talking about girl stuff, or think we need alone time or something. I don't know.
Carly was nervous. She sat between Kutaal, who had finally made himself more of that cat nip stuff (which he reluctantly shared with the other two) and between Shadow, as Irayna sat on the other side of him, both of them loving the cat nip specialty. I wish I could do something as I watched Carly sit there, holding her legs to her chest and watching the ground. But I had a sinking feeling I'd make things worse. Sometimes, I cant keep things in, or hide stuff good, so things tend to slip out….
Hakuba was wondering which card he had could have enough power, or the right power, to help us get to the ruins. And Binka was knocked out, holding her bazooka (the boys, that including Shadow, had been fighting over something, so she had to shoot at them once).
Eventually, we went to bed. Carly had come over to us, uncomfortable. We went over to heather and we all lay in the grass, holding hands as we slept. We missed the old days where we just had sleep-overs and Shinzo marathons.
When we woke up the next morning, we headed straight out of the city, wanting to get a move on. Hakuba still wasn't sure which card he could use, and he said we had to be a certain distance from it to get there by teleportation. He said the distance in which we needed to be depended on the power of the card, and especially if the owners of the cards had ever been to the ruins.
The cards he had were from everyone they had ever carded before, yet some were missing. Like Ryuma's, Eilis's and Daku's. And another that worried us all. Lunaria's card was gone, too….
"Great, now we gotta worry about going in circles and getting trapped in a maze! That's just freaking perfect!" heather said. Ookami ducked into her hair.
"We just need to keep in eye out for trouble." Sago said, right as I realized something that freaked me out, yet ticked me off.
"Guys, stop!" I said, staring at a tree with weird, orange and spikey looking apples.
Everyone stopped, turning to me.
As I kept looking at it, I became unsettled. "God, I saw this earlier…."
"What?" winter asked, worried. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure, 'cause I remember seeing it and wondering to myself what the heck kind of tree sprouts orange, spikey apples! Or whatever those things are. We passed this before. We're in the maze…."
Everyone groaned, jumping off vehicles. Well, everyone except me, Winter, Heather and Carly. We had decided we wanted to walk together. Sago came up to me and Mushra came up to heather, the Siblings coming over to us, too. We all gathered together, back to back, watching around us.
"Wait….Where's Zen?!" winter asked, breaking the circle and looking around, realizing her boyfriend and his ride where nowhere to be seen.
"He was right behind us." I told her, looking also. I remember, because he had a sad or down look on his face as he followed behind Winter and I wondered if there was something up with them. "Maybe he didn't get in."
"What?"
"I think it's good he's not in here." I told her.
"What?!" she asked, clearly annoyed. "How can you say that?"
"No, no! I don't mean it that way. Look, remember that the only way to get out of the maze is to card whoever made it? Mushra killed that pixie thing and Yakumo killed Lunaria, remember? He can probably get her while we wait in here."
"What if she tries to attack?"
"I don't think I remember her having any powers. She just sent things to do her work. The only thing she could do were order her minions around and make this. So he'll be fine without us. I'm sure he's probably guessed by now and is beating her but right now." I smiled at my sister and she nodded to me, smiling a little, too, though clearly still worried.
"Well, he better hurry it up." Shadow said, though annoying, he calmed everyone with his normal, calm routine. "I don't want to end up falling asleep."
"Don't worry, I'll make sure that doesn't happen." Binka said, tapping her bazooka and Shadow swallowed. Man, I like Binka so much more then Yakumo! (Sorry, Yakumo)
"Oh, hey, Shadow." Irayna said all of a sudden, sounding like she just remembered or realized something.
"Yeah?"
"What was that one dream of yours? You know, the one you had when you hurt your arm? Ever since you said that, I've been curious."
He went quiet for a minute. "Uh….I can't remember it that much…" he turned away, blushing a little.
Irayna turned him around to face her. "What? What was it? Is it embarrassing?" she smiled, excited.
"Uh….no…..maybe…I don't know! Why?" he really seemed to not want to say anything.
"Come on, tell me!"
"No!" everyone was starting to turn to him now, curious, too.
"Come on, what's the harm?"
"I'm not telling, it's MY dream!"
"Come on, come on, come on, pleeeeeaaaaasssssee!!!!???!!!" she was irritating, even to me.
"I said no, Irayna!"
"Come on!"
"Fine! I was dreaming about protecting Carly, ok?" he seemed to become a little self-conscious. A little blush came to his dark cheeks. "B-but it's nothing, ok? We fight all the time, so for some reason, I had a dream about fighting for her, I don't know! Buts its nothing, so don't say anything!" he gave a warning glare to all, but I looked to Carly and could see something had changed slightly in her.
"Oh…" Irayna said, trying really hard not to smile. "Well, that explains you getting hurt. You dream about fighting and hurt yourself."
Carly came to me, took my hand and yanked me away. Once we were a few feet away from the others, who kept asking ach other why he'd have a dream like that and he blushed as he headed away from them, she stopped, turning me to face her.
"Why do you think he was blushing?" she asked, almost demanded.
"Well….it could be something like the reason why you do….but it may not, I'm not sure…" I wanted her to think that, because I did too, but I didn't want to end up being wrong and her give her hopes up, so I added that at the end.
She was silent as she thought over something. "Why do you think he put his arm on me?"
"I'm not sure, Carly, I can't see his dream." I said as calmly as I could. I wanted to give her answers, but I wasn't sure. It wasn't like I was a great sage of these things, I was just lucky to get a guy that I liked. "What is it you think he was doing in the dream when he did that?"
She sat down and I sat with her and she curled herself up like she had before we left, her knees to her chest, her arms around her legs. "I don't know….I think….never mind."
"What?"
"It's nothing Jaden…" she said, burring her blushing face in her arms.
"Tell me, Carly."
"Well….I….hoped that, maybe he…had put his hands around me…in the dream….and that's why he put his arm on me then…..but that's stupid, I know. I mostly…..just hoped that because I…I sometimes….imagine him doing that, though I wish I didn't! It's so stupid and girly!!!" The part of her face that I could see was really red.
I laughed. The four of us were so alike. "I know how you feel, Carly, I'd do that sometimes, too. Well, you could be right, but then again, you could be wrong, just saying. But there's a reason that he was blushing and a reason why he didn't want to tell. Though I don't want you to hope falsely, all I can say is I believe something's up with him, and it has something to do with you."
"Really?" there was the hope, and I just hoped I was right….
"Maybe. I hope so, for you. But…just don't trust that possibility too much, I don't want it killing you later if I'm wrong, 'cause that'd kill me. And if you don't want anyone to notice, just keep acting like you always do, ok, and they wont guess anything."
She nodded.
"H-hey." Shadow said in a curious yet nervous voice. "What're ya'll up to? Talking about me, huh, shorty?"
She swallowed, looked down, but then looked back up and smiled. "Yeah, hot-head, just wondering why you're having fantasies about me." She got up and walked off and I let out a little laugh before I could stop myself. Shadow glared then followed her.
"Hey, it wasn't a fantasy, shorty, it was just a random dream and you were just lucky to be in it."
"Yeah, ok. Denial." She was doing this to mess with him, but also, for herself.
"I'm serious, it was just a random dream! So stop!"
"If it was nothing, then why are you so worried about it?" and the smile she smiled was one of smugness, but also, one that was really happy at what she was figuring out. He WAS overly denying it.
"God, shorty, you are so annoying!" he said and walked away. Carly just laughed.
"So glad you're having fun…" we all of a sudden heard a voice say, it sounded like it was from above. And of course, it was Lunaria. "But the real funs' just begun, warriors. Good luck fighting my beasts…."
And right then, they busted through the trees breaking some of them on their way. There was that annoying crab or lobster thingy, fully transformed, that one thing that was those two creatures, Chiro and Kuro. They were in that (hate to say it) really cool, like, wolf thing or mammal thing. And that one big, bull-like beast that had been in Lunaria's maze that one time.
"Really?" us four girls said (we have really been in sink lately). We all hyper-formed, getting ready, pulling our weapons out.
Mushra and Heather headed for the wolf thing, beast thing, whatever, Ookami transforming and following. Me, Sago and Winter decided to take on Mr. Krabs and the siblings, Carly and Kutaal faced off with that big beast. I was worried about them, ready to beat Mr. Krabs so we could get to them, because the only reason the gang had been freed from that thing was because the Maze had been destroyed. They never actually beat him.
"Jaden!" Sago yelled, and I turned my head from my cousin and friends in time to see the Mr. Krabs hand coming straight for me.
Sago tackled me out of the way right before it hit me. We stood and he checked me over, I shook my head and we head into battle with my sister, who had just shot Four lavender arrows at the thing, wounding it and also making it really angry.
We came running in and Sago flew in the air, shooting water at it and I covered my sword with the lavender glow and slashed at it stomach while it was distracted, then hurried and jumped away as he tried to pound me again. He began to run at me and, me being to small to get enough space and knowing that, didn't move and I just put my sword in front of myself, getting ready. Sago flew down and picked me up, though, and winter began shooting arrows again, making him turn to her and run at her. I told sago to throw me at it and once I moved to hit him with ice. He nodded and dropped me down. He didn't feel me, 'cause I landed on his armor on his back, but he defiantly felt it when I slashed a big X on an open space on his back. I hurriedly jumped of, yelling, "Now!" at sago as it stopped turning to me. I was on the ground, legs a bit hurt from the sucky landing, and right as he was about to bring his claw down on me again, sago had sent a frozen Aqua Dragon at its back, its mouth wide open as it bit into the scar I'd made on his back. He screamed in pain for a while, but then disappeared and his card fell to the ground. I let out a sigh of relief as Winter yelled, "Yes!"
I stood up and saw that Mushra and heather had just double attack the wolf thing with their spears, and it became a card as well. That's when we all turned to the big beast and headed for it as it hit Kutaal and Shadow towards a tree, them slamming into each other and the tree, breaking it. He turned to the girls, smiling a gross, drooly smile and swung at them and they dived out of the way.
"Hey, smelly!!!" I called. Stopping a few feet away as I stared at his mass. I swung my sword, the lavender power shooting from my sword in a line of power and headed at his face, scratching him.
"Argh!!!" he said, and tried to crush me. I dove out of the way, rolling back to my feet as Sago sent an Iced over Aqua Dragon slamming into him and Winter shot three arrows at the spot I'd hit (always good to attack one spot repeatedly. Hurts more).
Shadow yelled, "Fire Tears!" and a rain of Kunai's slashed the same place and he hit Shadow again, knocking Kutaal over as he tried to get up.
"Would you watch it, boy?!" he said, annoyed.
"Well, I can't really control where I fall, man!!!" he said, transforming a small kunai into a big sword.
Carly slashed at his leg a lot, the lavender energy covering her sword. I hurried to her, worried, but he kicked her before I could reach her.
"Ah!" she said flying back and landing in Shadows arms as he fell over again. She got up and I saw her blush a little as she stared at him and he stared back, blushing also, but then she hurriedly got up as Kutaal passed them, roaring and yelling, "Enterra Quake!"
"You ok?" he asked her.
"Y-yeah, fine. You?"
"Fine. Come on." And they came running back into the battle.
With in minutes, everyone was huffing from exhaustion, even the beast (thank god!). we were all gathered together as we waited for him to attack. And he did. He looked at us, glaring, scratched his feet on the ground and then began to charge, like a bull.
"Ok, everyone!" sago yelled. "Hit'em with all ya got!!!"
And we did. Us girls sending out big balls of lavender energy, they guys sending their best attack and Ookami doing that one, shadow claw.
As it collided with the beast, he stopped in his tracks and once the dust and smoke from our attacks settled, we saw the card, high in the air, floating down.
"Finally!" Carly said, dropping on her back in the grass, taking great gulps of air. I would have, too, but I couldn't at the moment.
"So, what now, Lunaria?!" I yelled to the skies and saw her glaring face appear above us in the stary sky she'd made. "You got anymore beasts you wanna send our way?!"
She just glared, but then looked behind her and Winter gasped. Zen was staring at her, angry. "What are you doing here?" she sounded really annoyed. "I am busy, boy." It sounded like she'd met him before.
He glared at her mouthed, "Let them go!"
"My orders are to keep them here until Eilis comes for them! And I shall not take orders from someone like you, boy!"
Then he mouthed, "Let them go, before I kill you!"
She smiled. "You've disobeyed orders, my boy, and you'll pay dearly…"
He became tense at that as we all wondered what the heck she meant. And then he shot a spear of lavender energy at her and she screamed in pain. As her scream stopped, a crack appeared in the sky and then it shattered.
We were still in the same place, but it was day time and Zen and Lunaria were here now, the cards of those other three at Lunaria's feet as she was starting to fade. She just smiled at him and us.
"What're you so happy about?!" Winter yelled at her as Zen came to her.
Zen tugged on winter's arm and showed her a text that I saw said, 'I need 2 talk 2 u, now.'
"Hold on. What's up with you? You're about to become a card, why are you so happy?"
She laughed. "Have you been wondering why you've been so easy to find lately? Why there's always something there to fight you?"
We all went silent, waiting. Except Zen.
He shook her shoulder and showed her a enw text that said, 'I need 2 talk 2 u rite now!'
"Wait! What are you talking about!?!" she yelled as Lunaria became more and more translucent.
"Just asked your dear love there…He'll tell you…." And then she became a card right as Winter yelled, "No! you tell me!"
I turned to Zen, on edge now. "What does she mean, ask you?" my voice was cold.
He wrote something and handed it to winter. "He said he doesn't know."
"Bullshit." was all I said, getting really pissed.
"Jaden, stop." Winter said, angry with me. Everyone was looking at seen now, who took two steps back. "Zen, what did she mean? Did you figure something out or something?"
He was quiet.
I laughed, walking up to him, beside my sister, who got closer to him at my cold approach. "In the beginning, I knew there was something about. I knew it, but I didn't know what."
"Jaden, stop." Winter warned, but Zen just looked at the ground.
"Because you decided to kiss my sister and she got sweet on you, I thought maybe you weren't a bad guy, but I was dead wrong."
He just shook his head, like he wished I'd stop.
"Jaden, I mean it, stop!"
"Winter, think about it. We weren't so easily found by anyone, until this sucker joined us. Ever since then we've been attacked continuesly. And we've been wondering how they know where we are. It had to be one of us who was telling him, and its him."
"No, its not1" she said, deep in denial as she clutched Zen's arm. "How are you sure it isn't Shadow or Irayna!?!"
"Hey!" Irayna said, not liking being accused.
"Don't blame Shadow!" Carly said.
"They still found us easily, before we even met them, Winter, and you know it! Just think about it! He's been working for them this whole time!!!!" I tried hard to convince my sister.
"Your lying! Your lying!!!" she didn't want to believe, but then she looked to Zen. "She's lying isn't she?! It's just one big lie!!!"
Zen looked at her, torn. He moved his arm out of her grasp. He looked as if he was almost about to cry.
"Zen, she wrong." She told him, but more herself. "She's lying….isnt she?"
He looked away.
"Zen?"
He still didn't face her.
"Zen, look at me!!!" Winter was crying a little, getting worried as the truth settled in. I hated it as I watched her like this.
He looked at her, a few tears falling down her face.
"She wrong, isn't she?"
He took a minute, but then he shook his head and looked back down, his face angry as tears streaked down his face.
Winter stood as still as a statue. "She's….she's right?" she said, backing away a few steps, not wanting to believe it.
He nodded once. Then he looked at her, a pleading look on his face as he tried to talk to her. I heard the foot steps of others walking to their vehicles, but I didn't move. I just watched them, almost wishing I hadn't said anything as I watched my sister, but knowing it had to be known.
He tried to speak, tried to plead to her to listen, I could read his mouth. But winter kept taking steps back as he advanced on her.
"How….how could…?" her words were stuck in her throat. He had made it too her before she could get far enough away and he grabbed her arm, still trying to plead to her. They were both crying now. "Let go of me!" she cried. He took both her arms and I was about to walk forward and throw him of, but she got one hand free and slapped him. He looked back at her, holding his cheek and staring at her, pained.
She started walking away and I followed her, sago beside me, but then something happened that I knew had to hurt Winter more.
"Winter, wait!" he called out, his voice now back. He just stood where he was. "Please, listen to me! I didn't mean it!" his voice was full with despair as he yelled to her.
"SHUT UP!!!!" winter screamed, crying now. "Just shut up!!!!"
"Winter, I love, please, you have to believe me! Please, believe me!!" he yelled pleadingly.
"You can go to HELL for all I care!!!" she yelled and ran after the others, not daring to turn back to him.
"Winter, wait!" he said and started to follow, but I stopped in front of him.
"Don't even think of it! After we're done kicking Eilis's and Ryuma's asses, I'll be coming for yours, know this! My sister was hurt before, and you hurt her again. And you WILL pay dearly for it…." And we headed off, not glancing at him at all.
We all got on our vehicles, and since we had to leave Zen's hover-cycle, Sago let me and my sister ride together on his vehicle. He walked with the siblings.
"…Winter…I'm sorry…." I said. I was driving Sago's ride and winter was sitting behind me, holding on.
"Jaden…" she said in a hoarse voice. "…Not now….."
I nodded and kept silent, wishing this had all been me and not her. She may be the same age as me, but I always felt more protective of her as if she was younger and I hated seeing her in more pain then me.
Zen was going to pay, and soon.
"Poor girl." Ryuma said, watching Winter ride with her sister. "But don't worry, if you are my bride, I will never hurt you in such ways…"
"You spin too much time watching them. You are becoming obsessed." Eilis said and Ryuma could hear the smile in his voice.
"So, what are you going to do now, now that your so called agent has been separated from them and Lunaria has been defeated? She was supposed to help us capture them easily."
"We'll just have to wait for them to get here, as we originally planed."
"Ah." was all Ryuma said, but you could hear the smugness in his voice in just that one word. He had lost his dragon, but Eilis had lost his spy and his one chance at capturing them cleanly.
Ryuma couldn't wait for the moment they arrived, so he could finally kill the pesky boys and Take his bride!
Me: Well, what'd you think?
Mushra:…..0.0……Zen was bad the whole time?!!!!!!
Me: Yup. Sorry ila, had to have someone be bad.
Mushra: and I was just starting to like him….
Me: review!