Serenay Moon
Episode 28 : On their own
©2001 Kitty Ocean
Edited by: Cat
 

Without thinking, Kitt jumped after Zach. Clouds passed her face and finally she saw him! Both reached out for each other, and finally their hands touched.

Kitt held on to Zach. 'This is it', she thought, 'We are going to die!' "Zach..." She started. "I just wanted to let you know that...."

Suddenly, a portal opened sucked in Zach and Kitt. Before they knew it, they landed on the cold ground. Zach looked around. "So this is heaven?"

The next moment, Mika crashed on Zach. Kitt jumped aside and Derak landed next to her. She sighed relieved, but then Moka fell on her!

"We made it!" Mika cheered and hugged Moka.

"We are not dead!" Moka added.

Kitt growled. "You will if you don't get off me!"

Mika and Moka jumped up. Zach crawled up and helped Kitt. She stretched her back. "Where are we?" She asked and looked around.

Derak looked around as well. "Hmm, kinda chilly here. I don't recall any place on earth or Serenay Moon that looks like this."

"That is correct." All leaped around and saw an image of Chibi Ignis. "You are at Umbra 6."

All were astounded. "You mean...? You transported us to our destination?" Zach asked.

"We had no choice." Chibi Ignis looked angry. "Because you couldn't get along, we had to use our powers to get you there."

Moka was angry. "Couldn't you have done that earlier?"

Chibi Ignis' blue eyes became red. "Thanks to you Lady Aqua is now exhausted! She won't be able to help you any more! You are on your own. Just get along and finish your task!" She vanished.

All became silent. "She's right." Mika finally said. "If we don't get along, we'll kill the other Ladies before we get to Lady Kim."

"Who was that girl?" Derak asked.

Kitt gazed at Derak. "That was Chibi Ignis!"

"Who?"

Zach looked at him. "Come on! You have to know the Chibi's!"

Derak lifted his shoulders. "Sorry, I've never met them before."

"You've never had to do the tests?" Mika and Moka exclaimed.

"What tests?"

"Noooooooo!" Mika yelled.

 

He sat on a large throne. "Mm, they've come sooner than I expected."

A woman sat down next to him. "Don't worry. They'll never make it. They'll kill each other before they get to the queen."

"True." He added. "But I don't like taking risks. Someone has to destroy them."

The same woman stood up again. Her black hair danced on the wind. "Tempus, don't worry. I will do it."

Another woman in armour laughed. "You? Come on, to destroy them, you need to lie! Only lies can destroy friendships."

"Can be." The woman with black hair answered. "But sometimes, the truth can kill more than you think Courage." She walked away. Her cape floated gently on the wind. Suddenly, she started to change. Her dress became shorter and her cape vanished. A fresh young girl stepped out into the field. "Truth will prevail." She smiled.

Derak pointed at the sand. "So that is Chibi Ignis." All nodded. "And she can change into Lady Ignis, that red haired chick." All nodded again. "I've met Lady Luna, Lady Aqua (I wonder if she wants to go out with me one day) and Lady Gaia. Lady Kim has purple hair and red eyes." Again the nodding.

"And Lady Kim was also Miss Young at the tournament." Zach added. "You understand it now?"

Derak nodded. "I've completely mastered the subject. There is only one thing I don't know yet. How do the other 4 Chibi's look like?"

This was horrible! Kitt was ready to kill Derak. Mika started crying. "The past half hour we tried to explain him everything and he just doesn't get it!" Moka comforted h er .

"Hello?" They suddenly heard. All turned around.

The guys gazed at a young girl with black hair and bright green eyes. She was beautiful! "Well, hello!" Derak took her hand. "Who are you? Would you like to go out on a date sometime?"

Kitt punched him away! "Stop that!" She turned to the girl. "Who are you? Where are you from?"

The girl sweat dropped. "I'm... ehm... Ale!" That wasn’t a complete lie! "I live here on Umbra 6. I wanted to know who you were."

The boys gathered around her. "I'm Zach!" Zach smiled. "I'm very cool and since you live here, maybe you can be our guide."

"Such a pretty girl must be really smart too." Moka added.

"Hey, what about our date?" Derak asked.

Mika looked at Kitt. Kitt looked at Mika. At the same time, they folded their arms. "I don't trust her!" Both exclaimed.

 

Ale guided them to a nice little lake where they decided to rest. "Ale?" Zach asked. "Could you tell us what you know about Queen Blackheart?"

Ale shook up. It looked like she was doing something. "What? Oh, sure!" She started talking.

In the mean while, Kitt and Mika swam in the lake. "You know..." Mika started. "I've been thinking."

"That is something new." Kitt whispered. Immediately she threw her hands before her mouth. Did she really say what she was thinking?

"What?" Mika asked.

"Nothing!" Kitt yelled. "I just said you were stupid!" Oh my God! Did she say that?! "No, wait! I mean that you are an idiot!" Ai... this was going wrong!

"Moka!" Mika yelled. "Kitt says I'm stupid!"

"She wasn't lying." Zach mumbled. Zach was shocked! Thank God nobody had heard him.

In the mean while, Ale smiled. 'It's working,' she thought.

"Kitt, that wasn't very nice of you." Zach corrected Kitt.

"I know!" Kitt answered. "I don't know what I was thinking. Actually I did, I was thinking about yo..." Kitt held her hands for her mouth. "I'm not going to say anything else! I can't lie any more!"

"Did you ever lie?" Zach asked astounded.

Moka mumbled. "I knew we couldn't trust her...." He grabbed his mouth. He was thinking that, but why did he say it out load? Kitt glared at him. "No! No, I mean, I always thought you were a spoiled brat!" Kitt smacked him in the face.

Ale smiled inside. This was really working! She was going to defeat them, and it was so easy! Suddenly, she heard someone grinning. When she looked aside, she saw Derak sitting on a rock and laughing. Mika noticed it also.

"What is so funny about this?" She demanded to know.

Derak shove his sunglasses further on his nose. "You are so funny." Kitt was ready to kill him, but Zach stopped her.

"What do you mean?" Zach asked.

Derak laughed again. "This is what you get if you keep your feelings to you. I don't have that problem; I always say what I think."

"We noticed." Zach sighed. "That's why we all hate you."

"Yup!" Derak showed his thumb. "Those Lady-chicks told us to work together, and we can't work together if we aren't honest against each other."

"You know...." Moka started. "He does make sense."

"You are kidding!" Kitt exclaimed. "That isn't true."

Mika thought for a moment. "It has to be true. We can't lie any more, so it just has to."

Derak got up. "I would suggest that we tell each other what we really think about each other and then move on."

Ale sat down on the floor. This wasn't supposed to go like this! She calculated everything in, but not that the jerk would become smart! In her head she heard a voice. 'That really worked Aletheia, they are soooo defeated'. The tone was sarcastic.

'Don't worry' Aletheia said back, 'I'll get them next time. They still don't know who I am. I'll lead them to their doom.'

"Ale?" Ale looked up. She saw Zach standing before her. She cursed. All were friends again and after this they must have become closer friends! "We'd like to go further. You know the shortest way to the NightWing Castle?"

Ale stood up. "Sure." She smiled with a fake smile. "But we'll have to go through the Desert of Nightmares."

"Isn't there another way?" Mika asked.

Ale shook her head. "That's the only way. But don't worry, we'll make it." Ale hoped they wouldn't see through her. She was a sore liar. But all seemed to trust her. 'Don't worry,' she thought, 'I'll make it, but you won't."

 

After a few hours, all were deep in the desert. The sun seemed to burn them, but all tried to keep up with Ale. "I'm so thirsty." Mika complained.

Kitt took off her black jacket. "Man, it's hot out here!" She saw that Derak took off his jacket too. Black was cool colour, but not suited for the desert.

Zach felt his arms. "I'm getting burned massively out here." He saw his red skin. "Hey Ale, how much further is it?"

Ale turned around, but didn't speak. She only smiled.

Suddenly, all heard something behind them. Moka ran towards Mika, who had collapsed. "Mika!" He screamed. "Are you okay?"

"So thirsty...." She sighed.

Zach wanted to turn to Ale. "Ale, we need to find some..." But Ale was gone. "...water." All of a sudden, they heard laughter.

"You'll never make it!" They heard Ale saying. "Aletheia has defeated you!"

Zach grinned his teeth. "Aletheia...." He cursed.

"Zach!" Kitt yelled. Zach ran to here. "We need to find some shade and water for Mika."

Zach looked around himself. All he could see where the hills of sand. "But where?" He asked himself.

End of episode 28

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