Sessu huffed, sliding down the wall. He was afraid. He lost Sirra once, he lost his mother... He didn't want to lose Reiko as well.
Soul approached the boy with his arms crossed. The black-haired boy looked up weakly, but dropped his head back down.
"She'll wake up, Sessu. you just have to believe in her.", Soul comforted. This gained everyone elses attention, which was quickly guided to Reiko's still unconscious body. The happiness between everyone stopped, as they remembered that Reiko was their leader, and if she didn't wake up...
They probably wouldn't stand a chance against Noru, no matter how strong they were...
Reiko stood in the middle of darkness. She couldn't see anything, she couldn't feel anything... She couldn't get herself to move. She simply laid down silently.
'If this is what death is like... I suppose dying isn't that bad.', Reiko thought to herself, closing her eyes and opening them. When she did, the darkness around her quickly lightened up. She forced herself to cover her eyes with her arms as well as closing her eyes again.
'Ugh... Could do without the random flashes of light, though.', Reiko leaned up from the ground, using her hands to push her to her feet. She was ready to begin walking through this new, mysterious place.
However, when she opened her eyes, she was met with neither extreme light, nor dark. Instead, her eyes showed her the sky, land... And most shocking to her, the village she grew up in.
"Reeeeikoooooo!!!", a high-pitched male voice yelled, not far away. Reiko knew this voice, but she couldn't place her finger on who it was... Until she was tackled.
Reiko and the other person tumbled downhill a bit, until finally they stopped, with the elf girl on her back. She looked up to see a very certain someone...
Aidan. They both looked dumbfounded, before Aidan lowered his face to hers. They looked eachother in the eye, before Aidan...
Licked Reiko's face, from her left cheek, to her forehead.
"ACK! Aidan!!!", Reiko yelled, pushing Aidan off of her, leaving him to tumble back down the hill as she wiped her face free of the disgusting slober. Which probably contained Aidan-cooties, too. Bleck.
"Aidan! I told you not to!", a sweet voice yelled. Reiko instantly knew who it was, but turned her attention back to Aidan, who couldn't manage to stop tumbling downhill before he landed in the river below.The two girls couldn't help but laugh as the blonde boy yelled and splashed around.
"Great! Now my clothes are soaked! Just freakin' PERFECT!!!", Aidan sarcastically complained, trying to stand up, but the new weight of the water in his clothes made it difficult.
"It's your fault, Aidan! You just had to try and tackle Reiko, remember?!", Courtney tried to sound serious, but was having problems with seeing Aidan falling on his butt in the water. Courtney and Reiko both moved under a tree's shade.
"ACK! SOMETHING SWAM UP MY SHIRT!"
Ammo grinned, turning to Sly.
"Hey Sly, you were in my challenge! You enchanted my bow, and-", Ammo said, reaching on his back, and pulling off his bow. However, what met him was not the beautiful bow he left the challenge with... But his normal, wooden bow.
"Wh-what...?", the black-haired man muttered, shocked and confused. Slyfur raised her eyebrow, but reached to her side. Only seconds after, she was frantically feeling her body, sharing the same expression as Ammo.
"Where the hell is Demonic!?"
Everyone turned to the two confused companions, but The Dark Wolf, Soul and Shin quickly understood their confusion.
"The items you received only exist in your dreams. They aren't real.", Shin smirked, tucking a few stray stands of his white hair behind his ear.
"So you mean... I only have...", Ammo looked down in anger, then held up the bow, "THIS!? A wooden bow is all?!"
"Sometimes the simple wepons can be the best ones. Don't underestimate any wepon, regardless of how it looks.", The Dark Wolf took the bow. He examined it for a moment, tugging on the string. He then handed it back to Ammo.
He frowned, but placed the bow on his back, sighing.
After 5 minutes(and one fish up the shirt), Aidan finally managed to get out of the rushing water, and was now making his way back uphill. Reiko was smiling, Courtney was laughing, and Aidan... Aidan was exhausted.
"Oh my, looks like I missed everything...", A soft male's voice spoke, with a slight chuckle. Reiko and Courtney looked behind them, seeing a boy around their age standing in the road. He had fairly long purple hair, which was thrown over his shoulder. His eyes matched his hair, and he had pale skin. He was quite handsome, and he wore clothing similar to Aidan's(though obviously lighter weight).
Courtney smiled brightly at the boy, "Hello, Noru!"