(A/N: I do not own Shugo Chara. Please review!)

Chapter 4

The monsters that surrounded them lunged at Ikuto and Amu. Amu let out a high pitch scream and Ikuto gritted his teeth.

"DIE!" the monsters shouted. Ikuto muttered a few words under his breath. Suddenly, Amu felt suspended in mid-air. She realized the levitation spell Ikuto had used on her and himself and found that they were flying through the air.

"Thank goodness," muttered Amu.

"It's not going to be that easy, Amu," Ikuto muttered darkly.

"What do you mean?" questioned a frightened Amu.

"TSUKIYOMI!" the thundering voice shouted once more.

"DIE!" the monsters yelled out in rage. Amu turned her head to see them flying towards them, much quicker than the basic levitation spell.

"He's going to force me to use it…," Ikuto whispered to himself, although Amu heard it.

"What? What do you mean?"

That's when the first ray shot inches above their heads. Amu screamed. The beam was a sickly mixture of gray and yellow. She knew instantly that it would kill or injure severely if it hit them.

She could tell that Ikuto was concentrating very hard on the levitation spell to keep them airborne and to keep them flying fast through the air.

A sudden impact that came from nowhere hurtled them back towards the earth. Amu closed her eyes and Ikuto held her tightly to his chest.

They were about to hit the ground and Amu knew it was going to hurt.

"Sokoroolajmah!" she shrieked. When they hit the ground, they found it pillow soft and the impact didn't hurt them one bit. Moments after they hit the earth, the ground returned to being rock solid.

Ikuto smirked at her. "Impressive for a first year."

Amu shrugged, trying to hide the blush that shined on her face. "It was nothing, a simple 'safe landing' spell."

Ikuto stood up abruptly and held out his hand to her. She took it and stood. "We need to go." Amu nodded in agreement before he took her hand and they began to run.

"Why can't we just transport ourselves back to the academy?" Amu asked.

"It's easy transporting into this dimension, just not as easy getting out. You need to cross the border to leave."

"Why did you transport here and not to the place where you're taking me? Hey, where are you taking me, by the way?"

Ikuto smirked. "You need to cross this dimension before going to the place I'm taking you, Amu."

"You didn't answer my question fully, Ikuto. Where are you taking me?"

"I wasn't planning on answering you, Amu. You're just going to have to wait and see for yourself."

"Hey, Tsukiyomi Ikuto…," a high voice announced.

They both stopped running and looked around.

"Over here…" The voice laughed. They whipped their heads around to see a large spider-like creature. Its head was that of a woman, while its body was of an overly large black widow spider. The spider-woman's face was spider-like as well, with several blood red eyes all over her upper face, sharp poisonous fangs, dripping with ghastly green liquid, and small hairs running the sides of her tanned skin. "I will kill you for Master! And the little girl too!"

Ikuto glared at the monster and he pushed Amu behind him. "Climb that tree and stay there," he hissed. Amu did as she was told and rushed over to the said tree. She scampered up the tree and sat on a branch, watching Ikuto and the monster intently.

The monster laughed. "You expect her to be safe up there?"

"Yes," Ikuto said firmly. "You won't be able to touch her."

"How will you be able to protect her, Tsukiyomi? If I kill you first?"

Ikuto smirked. "You won't be able to, Niti. You won't lay a hand on me or her."

The monster let out a hiss and lunged. Ikuto smirked before muttering what had to be a spell under his breath. Suddenly the ground in which the spider-woman was standing started turning into quicksand.

"Is that the best you can do, Tsukiyomi? Oh, but of course, you won't use your gift! How weak!" the monster laughed. It jumped off of the ground and hitched onto a neighboring branch. Using it's eight hairy spider-legs, the monster made its way up the tree, directly across from Amu. Amu saw the monster stare at her with all of its eyes and then turn back towards Ikuto. Ikuto didn't seem to notice that the monster was on a branch an easily made spider-jump away from Amu's branch.

Ikuto was yelling out spells and things such as fireballs and icicles were hurtled towards the monster who dodged its way around it. Ikuto was concentrating hard and it looked like it took a lot of energy out of him to say those simple spells. Why? Those were basic spells.

"You know that you can't use regular magic for long, Tsukiyomi!" the monster exclaimed in laughter. Ikuto fell to the ground and started panting. This made the spider-woman laugh more. "See?"

The monster lunged into the air and shot out a silky sticky web at Ikuto and it trapped him. Amu heard him cursing to himself and yelling. But he was still panting and trying to catch his breath.

That's when she felt the branch shake and she realized that the monster was on it with her, smiling at her with its sharp pointed fangs.

"AMU!" she heard him yell.

Amu needed to say something, she needed to say a spell. But why wasn't her voice working? Why couldn't she say anything?

She opened her mouth, but instantly, a large hairy spider-leg covered it. Amu was backed up against the trunk of the tree and there stood on all seven legs (one was over her mouth) was the spider-woman, its eyes gleaming hungrily a smile forming across its face. Other legs held her in place against the tree. Amu could see the green liquid emitting from its fangs as it drew closer to her.

"You're going to taste… so good…"

Amu's eyes were wide as she watched the fangs draw nearer and nearer to her flesh…

(A/N: I'm updating very soon!)