"Ugh..where am I?" I muttered opening my eyes. As I did, a flash of blinding light came straight into view, making me wince and close my eyes for a second. After a few seconds of bravery, I opened my eyes again. Luckily it didn't blind me as much since I was expecting it. Unluckily, my head was pounding like someone was..well pounding a rock into it. No wonder they call it pounding!

"Good. You're awake." a voice said. I sat upright instantly with my hands out, ready to karate chop the evil villain that laid before me. I let my hands fall back down to waist when I saw who spoke.

"Oh it's just you.." I mumbled looking over at the doctor. Klaus..the doctor of this town. I remember when I first built his house and he came to visit me, man he was a little rude. Just a little. He hasn't changed his attitude much since then either, but I can tell that he does actually care about the people of this town. How? Well for one thing I'm here aren't I?

"This is the 7nd time I've had to bring you here." He said with a disappointed look on his face. I held in a chuckle at his bad grammar. He's got da goody englishes he doeses.

"You're speaking out loud again.." Klaus said sighing. Crap.. "Anyways blah blah blah health blah blah blah herbs blah blah blah pushing yourself blah blah blah." He scolded. And well, let's just say I didn't exactly listen to it..just like the other six times he's brought me here. People just don't understand that I'm doing the best I can for this town and to do that I have to push myself. If I want my animals to be happy, I have to push myself. If I want to be able to afford all of these materials for blueprints, I have to push myself. No one just seems to understand. It's always about my health. Never about my responsibilities.. to be honest it really frustrates me, and now I have to do this Olympics thing, I can't always have everyone on my tail!

"Do you understand Rio?" he asked, eyeing me suspiciously, after his long and boring speech.

"Yep totally! Now if you excuse me, I've got a meeting with Alien." I said nodding my head a lot. Klaus gave me a strange look before sighing again. "No you don't understand. If you had you wouldn't be here." Klaus said shaking his head disappointingly. I, myself, sighed after I realized where this was going. Nowhere. That's where.

"Do you see this?" He asked pulling out a piece of paper.

"Is that a blue frowny face?"

"It's your health, and as you can see, it's not doing good." He said pointing to the blue frowny face, then he pulled out another paper with a yellow happy face "You want this." He gestured to the smiley face then back to the frowny face "Now this."

"Is this your treatment for children?"

"Rio, I'm being serious here." Klaus scolded. His eyes started to scan my body up and down, not in a perverted way obviously, looking for any signs of fatigue or some injuries. I don't know what he found, but he certainly wasn't pleased. He just sighed though and placed the sheets down then looked me straight in the eyes "Rio, please promise me that you'll try to take better care of yourself."

"I would Doc.." I started as I got out of my seat and headed towards the door "But Alien won't wait for much longer." And with my big dramatic exit, I left the room.

"Aliennn! Where are you?" I called out as I walked along the forest, my legs feeling a bit wobbly, but I kept walking. I was mining, I guess a little bit too much, when I passed out. However, I brought my dog with me and left him outside because I could tell that he wanted to explore a bit more. Klaus must've found me in the mines (again) and brought me back to his house WITHOUT my permission (again)! So my dog must've gotten scared that his master had gone and ran about because now he isn't here.

Gosh digity darn.

"What are you looking for, Rio?" I heard a familiar voice ask behind me as I crouched in a bush.

"Alien." I answered without skipping a beat.

"Okay then..shouldn't you look in space then?" Rod suggested walking beside me and giving me a strange look.

"Haha very funny." I rolled my eyes as I continued to scan the ground for any chase of my dog, Alien. No paw prints or anything. "Oh by the way.." I said looking back at Rod "Could you not tell...Neil?"

"My lips are sealed." Rod said then used the imaginary zipper to zip his lips. I let a sigh of relief out as I continued searching. Neil would have my head if he found out I lost an animal.

"Arf! Arf!"

Rod and I snapped our heads up to see my familiar chubby faced, brown dog barking at us. Or..something behind us.

I turned around slowly, Rod doing the same, to see a giant brown..bear.

"Uh..." Rod muttered wide eyes, backing up slowly. I did the same, keeping my eyes on the bear. Today...well today looked like it wasn't one of his good days.

"Hey girl.." I said calmly, I was still crouched on the ground as I backed up. The bear looked at me with angry eyes, but it didn't approach. "Remember all of those times I gave you fish?" I asked, hoping she would understand me. She didn't. I felt my left hand fall onto a small branch, accidentally snapping it in half. Her eyes bore into me at the sound of the snap as she started to approach. I stayed still, out of fear, or because I thought that moving might make her more mad. I wanted to say that it was the second one, but we all know why I really stayed still..

As the bear got closer, Alien barked louder, but the bear didn't seem to care about him. It's eyes were fixated on me. It came close enough to me that I could feel it's breath on my skin. I didn't know what to think anymore. That this was my death, or that I could get out of this. Being the optimistic person I am, I was thinking that I could get out of this or that the bear will decide that I don't taste good and leave me alone. But that didn't look like it was going to happen anytime soon.

I closed my eyes, awaiting my death. At least I won't die uselessly, the bear would probably get a good snack. And if not then a wolf would probably come and eat my remains. ...I'm probably the only person who would be happy about that. Of course I would be happier if that didn't happen, but if a worst come to worst moment I would like my body to have fed someone.

However, I didn't feel my death, I didn't feel any pain at all. Actually, the bear's hot breath had disappeared too. Curiously, I opened my eyes to see that the bear was focused on something else now. No, it was focused on someone. Someone with blonde hair.

I watched in awe as Neil grabbed the bear's attention away from me, throwing berries at it. He was definitely pissing the bear off, but he wasn't hurting it. Neil would never hurt an animal. Not even if another life was at stake. I didn't disrespect him for that though. Heck I might've disrespected him if he had started hurting the bear on my behalf. The bear had not actually done anything wrong, it was just having one of those days, like humans. But a bear wasn't as selfish as a human was. It didn't force its way into people's lives to get its wants. Excuse me, I'm just getting ahead of myself here.

"Run!" Neil yelled over at me, snapping me out of my thoughts, when he got the bear away from enough so that I could get up. I did what I was told, my mind starting to feel hazy. Rod started to run too, picking up Alien before he could start a fight with the bear. As I ran, my legs started to feel like lead and my eyelids gravity seemed to increase a whole bunch.

Not now..not now..

I glanced behind me, to make sure that Neil was okay, but I instantly regretted it. No, Neil was not torn apart and scattered about, he was just a few meters behind us, the bear chasing but luckily not at full speed. No..the reason I regretted it was because I tripped on a root landed on the ground chin first before I fully blacked out.

"Wha.." I muttered, opening my eyes slightly to have the familiar blinding light peer into me. I moaned in response and shut my eyes again, trying to remember what had happened. A bear. There was a bear. Wolves eating my body..and a pair of strong hands picking me up.

All of a sudden, after remembering a majority of what happened, I felt a bunch of slobber on my face.

"What the heck?" I exclaimed loudly, sitting upright quickly. I groaned when I saw that it was just Alien licking my face and a certain orange haired 25 year old was laughing his head off. I glared at Rod, who didn't stop laughing, before getting up from the bed. Instantly I was pushed back onto it by a blonde haired 26 year old this time.

"Rio, I told you to take it easy." Klaus said as he appeared into view. Neil stood beside the bed, keeping his hand on my stomach so I couldn't get up. I glared at him too, but just like Rod, he didn't respond. But then I noticed that his hand was bandaged up. I didn't see a bandage before when he was hurling berries at the bear. Had he got it when he was distracting the bear from me?

"Actually, you're exact words were 'Rio, please promise that you'll try to take better care of yourself.'" I recited holding up a finger, still stuck on the bed. Klaus sighed loudly then pushed his glasses up further his nose. I don't quite understand why people always do that. I mean, it's normally okay so why do that? Dramatic affect maybe? I did notice that most bad guys with glasses say something cool, push up their glasses, then attack. At least in movies that is. And what Klaus said wasn't that cool. Who knows though, he still might attack. I'm kind of hoping he doesn't though...he may look weak, but I've seen him attack a jar of pickles. It's vicious man! Vicious!

"Rio...you passed out when a bear was chasing us..." Rod said sympathetically, looking over at me. Like HE actually cares...he just wants the town to grow too. That's what everyone here wants. And I want it too, so I have to push myself.

When I stayed silent, Neil spoke up. "I had to carry you over, Rio! I thought you were hurt!"

"And since when do YOU care about my well being?" I snapped at him, knowing full well that I shouldn't be, but I wasn't able to stop myself.

"Since when haven't I? We all care about your well being Rio! You need to snap out of this! Just because you're amazing doesn't mean you're not human! You need to take care of yourself too!" He snapped back at me, anger in his eyes. I looked around the room, looking at Klaus and Rod, even Alien. They all agreed with him. I could tell from their eyes. They just don't understand..

I grumbled a bit then pushed Neil's hand off me, storming out of the clinic.

Heyyy everyone. I married Neil in the game now :3 and I am quite proud. He is extremely cute when you're dating him! Much more then Allen. AND Neil hasn't given me vegetable cake...yet...

Tee hee, see y'all later.