Mitsuru flew in front of Suiseiseki, with his arm raised in front of her. "Leave this to me, you go find Souseiseki."

Suiseiseki cried out when Katsutoshi fired many ice darts in their direction, but somehow they all melted before they connected. "I'll be fine," Mitsuru assured her.

"But…" Suiseiseki glanced at Mitsuru, then at Shinku who was fending off Suigintou. "Thank you…I'll be back soon!"

With that, she took off, holding out her watering can in front of her just in case any ice darts were sent flying her way again.

Right before she exited the N-field, she took a quick glance back, worrying about Shinku and Mitsuru. Suigintou seemed to have become stronger, and Katsutoshi had actually stopped smiling and flew up to face Mitsuru.

She prayed they would be okay, but she had to find out if Souseiseki was alright…she turned back to leave again but then blue eyes were right there in front of her.

"Yo," Katsutoshi said, grabbing her by the neck before she could even scream.

Suiseiseki's eyes were wide as she was lifted further into the air by Katsutoshi's cold fingers. Her mind was racing as she tried to free herself. She remembered just seeing him in front of Mitsuru. She craned her neck and looked back, but where Katsutoshi was before, was only a pillar of ice.

Was it a reflection?

"You figured it out, but it's too late," Katsutoshi smiled, and his grip tightened. Then without warning, she was pulled in and swung around so she was held in front of Katsutoshi, facing Mitsuru who was floating in the air with his arms raised – about to attack.

"I'll hurt her if you don't…ah, no. I'll hurt her anyway," he said, in his free hand, a sword formed out of ice.

"Stop!" Suiseiseki cried, still struggling. But the hand around her neck was getting colder by the second and she could feel parts of her neck begin to crack.

The just when she felt like her neck was going to crack completely, a sudden trail of flames was sent flying towards the hands around her neck. And in an instant, it connected, and Katsutoshi pulled away, hissing.

Suiseiseki managed to keep herself from falling and instead flew back and towards Mitsuru, coughing and spluttering as her own hands felt around her neck for any damage.

"Are you okay?" Mitsuru asked gently after sending two more tendrils of flames in Katsutoshi's direction to keep him busy for a moment.

"I'm sorry, I was deceived," he said, caressing Suiseiseki's neck. "Your neck doesn't seem to have any problems…"

That wasn't how it felt to the green doll, she felt like there was ice spreading throughout her body, and she wouldn't spot coughing.

Then they all eyes went to Katsutoshi when he burst out into laughter.

"Oh geez," Katsutoshi wiped away a tear and smiled at Mitsuru. "You're so stupid, first you fall for a trick hardly class A, and now you don't even know what I did to Suiseiseki."

"Suiseiseki!" Upon hearing his words, Shinku flew towards Suiseiseki in attempts to aid her, but she was sent flying back by feathered wolves.

"Pay attention," Suigintou snapped, flying towards Shinku with feathers shooting out of her hands.

"Yes, pay attention," Katsutoshi said, rolling his eyes. Eyes turned back to him, except Suiseiseki's. She wasn't coughing anymore; she was still as stone, in mid-air.

"Suiseiseki's going to be trash within a few minutes, by the way."

"No," Mitsuru said, placing a palm on Suiseiseki's forehead. "She's cold…"

"Rather frozen too."

Mitsuru swung around and saw the raven haired doll right behind him, grinning. "I'm surprised she's still in the air, you know-"

WHAM.

Mitsuru's fist connected with the raven's cheek, sending him flying. He then proceeded to brush himself off.

"I don't like physical contact, but you deserved that," he muttered, turning back to Suiseiseki. He placed his hands over her head and tried to warm her up by sending heat waves down onto her.

"Ow…" Katsutoshi was already recovered. "That hurt. Oh and, you can't help her now, so why don't you stop wasting your energy and direct your attacks at me?"

"No, I can't leave her like this," Mitsuru said firmly, still trying to warm her up.

Unseen by anyone, Katsutoshi frowned for the first time. "It's. No. Use," he hissed through his teeth as a small, hardly visible, ice dart formed in the palm of his hand. And slowly, with Mitsuru still focusing on Suiseiseki, he reached forward to press it into Mitsuru's back.

But then there was a silver blur at the corner of his eye, and he spun just in time to dodge a silver, crescent shapes blade.

"Shinichi," he hissed, turning to see that in fact, Shinichi was there, with his blades poised in between the crevices of his fingers.

All dolls turned to see that Shinichi was there, and with Souseiseki leaning onto his shoulder, looking torn and tattered.

"Oh, how disgraceful," Suigintou smiled just before she encased herself with her feathers as a shield from Shinku's sharp petals.

"Suiseiseki…" Souseiseki panted, reaching forward slowly.

Then there was the sound of clapping. "A wonderful reunion," Katsutoshi cheered sarcastically, clapping his hands together.

"Silence," Shinichi snapped, eyes flashing. This surprised everyone. His usual quiet and shy self was gone without a trace and a fierce combatant took its place.

He lowered him and Souseiseki to the ground, letting her rest, and then he turned to Suigintou.

"You did this to her," he said stonily. "And you'll pay."

"Really now?" Suigintou chuckled. "If you think you can defeat me, then you may join the line. I've got to settle things with Shinku."

"I will not wait!" Shinichi flew towards Suigintou, throwing two blades and wielding two more.

"Oh no, now Master's got a pesky fly interfering, it seems like I must finish this off and go get rid of it," Katsutoshi spoke up, drawing attention from Mitsuru and Souseiseki, whereas Suiseiseki remained frozen.

Mitsuru turned halfway, but left one hand above Suiseiseki still in a vain attempt to help her.

"You'll pay," he spoke, raising his free hand.

"We'll see," was the reply, then Katsutoshi lunged with his ice sword in hand.

A/N: Sorry for late-ish chapter. AND sorry for cliff hanger. AND sorry for all the confusion, if there are any. I think I confused myself.
Let's see.
Shinku vs Suigintou vs Shinichi.
Shinichi attacking Suigintou for Souseiseki with Shinku.
Katsutoshi wanting to help Suigintou, but needs to defeat Mitsuru who is protecting Suiseiseki.
Souseiseki attacked by Suigintou is kind of junk along with her twin, Suiseiseki who is on the brink of becoming junk.

Whew. /sweat

Oh and this story isn't really centered on Souseiseki now, I realised. OHWELL.
And don't worry about Hinaichigo and Kanaria, if you're worried. I haven't ditched them and forgot about them.

Ah yeah. Review?