{i]Chaptet 5[/i]
*How are thee feeling?* Arc asked Cili as she stepped out of her hut.
"I little better." Cili said wearily.
*Are thee ready to go?*
"I guess so."
As they left the village, Cili took one last look back. She jumped when she felt a hand on her arm and looked to see it was only Munch.
"He made his choice Cili." Munch said comfortingly, "If he changes his mind he'll find us."
With a heavy sigh she turned around and started walking again. She thought she heard something and stopped to listen.
"Cili, we really must get going." Munch said gently.
"I thought I heard something." she said.
"It's your imagination, come on."
"Cili! Wait up!" they heard a familiar voice cry.
Cili whipped around so quickly that her ponytail smacked Munch across the face.
"OW! Becareful with that!" Munch yipped.
"Abe!" Cili ran toward Abe who had just rounded a bend and was running start for them. When they reached each other, they embraced each other tightly. "Oh Abe, I'm so sorry. I should have never had said..."
"No, I'm the one who should apologize." Abe said as they loosened their grip on each other, "I was acting like a real jerk last night. Your right I am letting this get to me and in doing so I hurt you. Something I never wanted to do."
"Oh Abe, I forgive you." Cili said with tears in her eyes and a smile, "Like you said, we'll find a way, together."
*As much as I hate to interrupt such a touching moment, we must get going.* Arc said.
"Agreed." Abe said. A little while later, he said, "Hey Arc, I'm sorry about how I spoke to you last night."
*There's no need to apologize Abe, I understand what you are going through.* Arc said.
"How did you.." he looked down at Munch who had started to whistle innocently, "Why you!"
*He deemed it necessary to tell me, Abe. There is no reason to be angry.*
"At this rate the whole village will know."
"Don't be such a pessimist love." Cili said, giving him a playful jab in the side, "Not as many people know about it as you think. Only you, me, Munch, Arc, and I think Alf knows the whole story."
"Your right." Abe said as he wrapped an arm around her and gave her a quick kiss, "I need to think more positive."
Chapter 6
They had journeyed for three days and the group hadn't found any sign of any Vykkers. It didn't help matters any when they were caught in a sudden downpour, sending the group scrambling to find shelter. They came across a cave and after Arc determined that there was nothing inside they went in.
"I am drenched!" Cili groaned as she rung the water out of her ponytail. She notice Abe was watching her with a rather mischievous look on his face. "What?"
"You know, you look rather...interesting drenched." Abe said with a smirk.
"Huh?" she looked down at her self and noticed that her tanktop was clinging to her skin, making her feminine features very obvious. "Eek!" she covered her chest with her arms, turning into a nice shade of red. "Did you have to call attention to it." she mumbled, embarrassed.
"Why so embarrassed?" Abe laughed, pulling her over to him, "It's not like you have anything I haven't seen before."
"It's not you its...them." she motioned toward Munch, who was laughing hysterically and Arc, who was trying his hardest to pretend he didn't see or hear anything that just happened.
*I...um...think we should camp for the night.* Arc said somewhat embarassed himself, *It doesn't look like the rain will let up anytime soon.*
It didn't take long for Abe and Cili to curl up and fall asleep in each others arms.
"They make such a cute couple." Munch cooed.
*That they do.* Arc agreed.
When Cili woke up much later, everyone else was still asleep. So she decided to explore the cave a bit. It went in pretty straight so she wasn't too worried about getting lost. About 30 yards in she noticed the cave changed dramatically, it changed from the typical cave format to a format that looked suspiciously like it was made by mechanical means. The cave went on for about another 50 yards till she reached a dead end. Thanks to her excellent night vision she spotted two groves on the rock face and scrape marks on the floor next to the wall.
Looks like I'm on to something here, she thought, then she froze when she felt something cold press against the back of her head.
"Well well, look at what we got here.." an obviously slig voice said, "Looks like I found a new volunteer for the bosses experiments."
Experiments? she thought, she knew that could only mean one thing, Well I found the Vykkers, but how I'm going to tell the others without getting myself shot?
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