CHAPTER 5

"I see a light down there. It must be a small town." Lantis claimed.

"I hope so, 'coz the last time we saw a light it was the fireflies." Hikaru held her breath.

Lantis read out the welcome board near where they stood, "Welcome to Ellenoir, the country of remedy."

About give meters from where they stood there was a small hotel. Without hesitating they entered the hotel and asked the front office if there was any room left for them to stay.

"You two are lucky!, there is a nice room left. Here's the room key, our servant will bring your belongings to the room so please enjoy yourself." Said the front office guy cheerfully.

"Thanks. Anyway what are you selling here?" Lantis pointed at various bottles inside the glass cupboard beside the front desk.

"Oh, we're selling various remedy here."

"What's this?" Lantis stretch out a bottle in which is written "Argaiav".

"That is a remedy to recover strength."

"What about this?" Hikaru stretch up a bottle in which is written "Cocola"

"That's a remedy to gain appetite."

"Sounds good!. Lantis, please buy me one."

"OK. May I have the Argaiav and Cocola one for each please?"

"Thank you, Sir. Here you go." The hotel guy handed them two bottles of potion.

"Thanks." Lantis took the 2 bottles and passed one to Hikaru. They drank the contents of their bottle together and threw the can to the trash can below the front office desk.

"It's 9 pm already!. Let's eat dinner at the room and go to sleep." Hikaru said as she pulled his arm.

"Yeah, you're right. We still have two more days to spend until we reach Diamond Dust." They headed to the room, ate some canned food they brought and prepared to sleep. The only bed in the room was a big double bed and since there was no sofa to sleep separately, they decided to sleep together.

"Lantis…"

"Yes?"

"Nah… just calling." She giggled.

"Hikaru…"

"I won't be fooled by the same joke, Lantis." She stuck her tongue out.

"I love you." Hikaru gasped, her hearts was beating loud as if it's going to jump out of her chest.

"I love you too, Lantis."

"Hikaru, I'm going to protect you no matter what happen I promise."

"Thank you Lantis I'm really happy to hear tha…" Lantis planted a deep kiss on her lips before she even finished her word. She could feel his kiss that was full of passion and his strong grip on her waist.

"Hikaru, I don't wanna lose you. Please don't leave me." Lantis voice started to tremble, his thought of losing the woman he loves suddenly crossed over his mind and made his body shaking. Hikaru cupped his face with both hands.

"No, I won't leave you Lantis. That is the reason why I decided to fight Debonear together with you. I want to spend my life time loving you." She whispered.

Lantis smiled and sealed her lips with his. Hikaru replied to his kiss as she circled her arms around his neck. He pushed her down the bed and gave her an open mouthed kiss that sent shivers to her back and made her produced a large moan. She started to undo the button of his pajama with her numb fingers.

Censored

Hikaru woke up when the sunlight came in from the window. She rubbed her eyes and glanced at her partner who was in deep slumber beside her. She kissed him on the forehead and this woke him up.

"Huh?... is it morning already?"

"Yes it is, Lantis"

"Let's have breakfast and get going"

Hikaru jumped out from the bed, suddenly a pain run through her body and she began to lose her balance. Fortunately, Lantis was able to catch her on the arms so she did not fall on the floor.

"Hikaru!, are you alright?"

"I-It hurts"

"Which part of your body hurts?"

"….all… of it… Lantis help…me…."

"Hikaru!, pull yourself together!, Hikaru!. Somebody please help!"

"It seems that the poison is torturing her harder than before." Said the local doctor

"Will she be alright?"

"Yes, she will. She fainted because she couldn't stand the pain. I have injected the pain killer so she should be fine by now."

"Wait… this is the country of remedy isn't it?. Can you make a remedy to overcome the potion, doctor?"

"Actually there is a remedy called the rainbow shell but a month ago someone has bought all of it and destroyed the materials so it is impossible to re-produce it."

"How does he or she looks like?"

"According to the rumor it was a woman in a black dress but small eyes and red lips." Lantis felt his body burning in anger. He knew that it was the evil Debonear who started everything.

Hikaru woke up in the hotel room and she felt that her body was burning with pain. She explored the room with her eyes to find Lantis but it seemed that he was outside.

"Looking for your prince charming, princess?" Hikaru's body jolted with fear to this voice.

"Debonear!...you!"

"Stop screaming, dear or you'll cough up blood again. This time it may be your last." She smirked. Hikaru used all of her strength to stand up. She summoned her fire sword and pointed it edge to the evil queen. She hissed and started to attack Hikaru with her long sharp nails. Hikaru protected herself with the fire sword and attacked Debonear back but she was able to get away from the attack. Hikaru concentrated and decided to use her magic.

"Fire arrow!" She screamed. To her surprise her fire magic didn't appear instead, she started to cough up a lot of blood.

"Hahaha!, you can't use magic as long as you don't have the remedy, poor girl."

"Debonear, take your dirty hands off her now!" Lantis voice echoed throughout the room. He was standing in front of Debonear with his black magic sword ready on his right hand.

"Not so fast, boy!" Debonear grabbed the unconscious Hikaru on the back and disappeared.

"Hikaru!"

"Hahaha!, if you want to save her you must defeat me. I'll be in my dark castle north of here."

"No!, Hikaru!" His scream echoed in the room.

To Be Continued