Numero Cinco! Es hora para El Plea de Siren! XP Translation:

Number five! It's time for The Siren's Plea! That's prettty much all the Spanish I remember right now from Spanish One. Anyways, read the chapter.

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Chapter 5

Brittany sighed as she looked into the glass case that held her adoptive family's piece of the Kur Stone. She took a deep breath, and laid the palm of her right hand onto the glass. It was now or never, and quite frankly, she really wished it was never.

Taking a deep breath, she focused on the glass, and winced as it cracked and shattered. Her time limit began…

Now! The alarms of a break in started blaring just as she snatched the rock off of its little pedestal. She ran and slid easily into the vent shaft that she had unscrewed earlier, and made good progress. She just had to get up to the roof where her escorts' ship would be waiting. It was as if she wasn't to be trusted- which was true. She wasn't.

Not with what she was doing. She was just a little traitor. A good for nothing, brat of a traitor. Below her, she heard Zak's voice echo from where she entered the vent.

"I think the thief went in here!" She heard his voice echo, and Brittany started crawling faster. She couldn't be caught, she just couldn't! She wouldn't be able to bear to look at Zak's hurt face of he ever found out the thief was her.

"I don't think the thief would be that small Zak," Brittany heard her adoptive Father's voice through the vent system.

"Well, it's worth a shot, isn't it?" Zak's voice reverberated through the vent shaft. "I'll check out the vent system." And Brittany heard the sound of somebody clambering through the system almost immediately. Brittany quickened her pace, cursing herself for not making her way through this at least once before. Which way was the roof? She had a feeling that if she kept going up, she'd get there eventually, but she didn't have eventually- not by the sound of Zak's clambering. Thank Zetsumei she was as noisy as he was.

After what seemed an eternity and quite a few dangerous close calls with Zak, Brittany finally made it up to the roof. She climbed out of the vent, and nearly dropped the Kur Stone piece. She let out a gasp, and her fingers grazed it slightly before she dug a tight grip onto the stone. Brittany pulled it up, but not before almost falling back into the vent herself.

Brittany skipped quickly to the landing pad, cursing that her 'escort' wasn't there yet. She spared a glance over her shoulder, duly noting that neither Zak nor her adoptive parents had appeared yet. That made her slightly happy.

She heard the sound of an aircraft approaching, and was pleased to see that it was her 'escort'. Hopefully she would be able to get away without being noticed- hopefully. Brittany watched as the airship landed, and the hatch opened for her to step on. She had just taken one step onto the hatch when a voice sounded from behind her, causing her to freeze.

"Brittany?" Oh Zetsumei. It was…

"Z-Zak?" Brittany cursed herself for stuttering. She kept her back to her adoptive brother, not wanting to look him in the face.

"Brittany, where were you?" Zak asked, taking a few steps towards his sister. "Why won't you look at me?" Tears were falling down her cheeks as she turned and looked her brother in the eye. Brittany turned her head away as Zak's eyes widened and he took a step away from her.

"Y-you took the Kur Stone?!" Zak couldn't believe it. Zak wouldn't believe it. Brittany- the Brittany he knew would never do this. Brittany wasn't deceitful, she would never do this to anyone! This… This couldn't be Brittany!

"Zak…" Brittany's voice was soft and pained, making Zak believe even further that it couldn't have been Brittany who took the Kur Stone. Yet, even as he tried to make himself believe that, he knew that wasn't true.

"Zak…" Brittany repeated his name again, and he could tell that she was hurt by something. "I'm… sorry…" Zak's eyes widened as he took another step back, causing Brittany to visibly flinch.

"You… you really… took it?" Zak didn't want to believe it. Brittany wasn't that type of person! Brittany flinched again as she gave a slow nod, taking a step back on the hatch of the airship. Tears were flooding down Brittany's face, and tears were starting to form in Zak's eyes as he shook his head in disbelief.

"No, Brittany, you're not like that!" Zak protested, tears starting to pour from his eyes. "You would never do this!" Brittany bit her lip as she backed up the hatch.

"How do you know…" She muttered quietly, her head turning to the side and looking down. Zak shook his head and started taking steps towards his sister.

"I may have known you for a month Brittany, but I know you wouldn't do something like this Britt!" He cried as he moved towards his sister. Brittany took a hesitant step back, arms still wrapped around the piece of the Kur Stone.

"You don't know anything!" Brittany finally shouted out as the wind started blowing fiercely, whipping her hair into her face. "Face it Saturday-" Zak flinched at the name, causing Brittany to wince, but it didn't stop her, "-You don't know anything about me! You never have, you never will!" Brittany took two more steps back up the hatch, now halfway up it.

"That's not true Brittany, and you know it!" Zak protested. Brittany shook her head and continued her retreat up the hatch.

"Or is it you just don't want to admit it?" Brittany asked, her voice strangled yet oddly calm at the same time. "Face it Saturday, you don't know anything about me, do you?" And with that, Zak collapsed to his knees, tears flooding down his face, while Brittany fled the rest of the way up the hatch, the hatch closing and the airship taking off.

Betrayal hurt. And, Zak just found out that Betrayal was a dish best served cold.

Even if Brittany didn't mean it.

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Yeah, this chapter was a real tear-jerker. The story's getting moving now, and I hope I can get more kids to review.

Please read and review and tell me what you think!

~~Paw-Chan Signing Out~~

--P.S.~ I have an idea for a new SS fic on my prof, other than The Animal Whisperer, I'd like it if you guys told me what you thought of the idea. Thanks!