Part 5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- "My feet hurt, Can we stop?" Gloria whined as she slowly dragged behind Luna and Nicky. "Ten more minutes," Luna said as she kept walking on through the wild field of flowers. The trio where heading northbound to the third and last tower. "But I want to stop now." "Stop being a baby and keep walking." "Meanie." "Crybaby." "You two stop," Nicky said, "Five more minutes, how about that?" "Fine," Luna replied. "Okay," Gloria replied. They started walking again and exactly when they walked for five more minutes, Gloria just stopped. "Why did you stop this time Gloria?" Luna said. "We walked for five minutes," Gloria replied. "Fine, fine. I'm hungry anyway." "I'll make something yummy to eat." "Just make it eatable, okay." "Yummy eatable food coming right up, but first a fire. Nicky can you bring me some wood?" "Okay," Nicky replied, "Luna won't to come with me?" "Luna's going nowhere. She' staying here to protect me." "Protect you from what?" Luna asked. "Monsters." "Monster?" "Yes, monsters and I need someone to get the water for me." "Now the truth comes out. Fine, fine I'll get the water." "Yeah!" Gloria said as she hugged her. "Just give me the pot," Luna replied pulling her off her. Gloria took off a medium size pot she wore like a backpack and took out three bags of food putting them on the ground. Then she handed Luna the pot, which she grabbed and walked away to the small creek that was beside them. "I guess I go and get that wood," Nicky said as he walked away. "Okay," Gloria replied, "I guess I'll peel the potatoes." She took out two small potatoes from one of the bags along with the curse knife. She sat down on the ground and started to peel them with the knife. She was on the second one when Luna came back with the water. As Luna came closer, she saw the knife that Gloria and recognized it immediately. She dropped the pot of water and run to Gloria. She pulled her up from the ground. Gloria became frighten of her and dropped the potato and knife in her hand. "Where did you get this?" Luna said as she picked up the knife. "It's mine give it back," Gloria said as she tried to get it from Luna. "Where did you get this knife, Gloria?" "Give it back first." "No. It's my knife." "No, it's my knife!" Gloria said as she grabbed it back. "Give me back the knife Gloria," Luna replied holding out her hand so Gloria can give her back the curse knife. "No! It's a gift from a friend from a past life," she said as held it closer to herself. "That knife is the curse knife. It belonged to my mother and was the same knife that killed her and my father. A good friend gave it to me, but it was stolen from me." "But it's my knife now and you can't have it." Luna pulled out her sword and placed it on Gloria's neck, "Gave it back now." Nicky came back with the firewood at that moment. As he saw the drawn out sword that Luna had against the throat of Luna, he freaked out. He ran towards them dropping the wood as he went. "What are you think you're doing Luna?" Nicky said as he pulled Luna back and made her drop the sword in her hand. "She has my knife," Luna said. "It's my knife," Gloria yelled back. "What knife?" Nicky asked in the confusion. "The curse knife," Luna replied, "You were there when Damon gave it to me and you were there when Xavier took it away." "And Xavier gave it to me!" Gloria replied. "What did you say? Xavier gave you this knife." "No, my Nikolas gave it to me, my darling Nikolas. He gave it to me on my wedding night and told it was to protect myself from Xavier. I didn't know why. Xavier was so sweet and innocent. That boyish smile of his and that twinkle in his eye when he laughed, he was my dearest friend." "Stop it," Luna said as she picked up her sword. "He would do nothing to hurt me, nothing at all," Gloria kept going. "Stop it. Stop using her words. Stop using my mother words!" Luna lugged forward with fast tears running down from her eyes and across her cheeks. Gloria just went on talking not noticing Luna coming at her. Lucky for her that Nicky grabbed Gloria. "Let me go! I'm going to kill her, so let me go," Luna screamed as she kicked and tried to get out Nicky's strong arms. "Calm down, Luna," Nicky replied. "She can't use her words. She can't," Luna said as she broke down into millions of tears in his arms. "It's okay, Luna," Nicky said trying to comfort her. "What have I done?" Gloria said as she started to cry, "I didn't mean it. It just came out. I'm so sorry!" "It's okay, Gloria." "No it's not," Luna said as she pushed from Nicky, "It's not okay. She has no right to use the words of my dead mother." "I didn't know I was doing that," Gloria replied. "Liar." "Luna, stop this. She said she didn't mean it," Nicky said as he got up. "I don't know why I kept her with us. She's nothing but trouble." "You're wrong. You're the one that's trouble." "Is that how you feel? Fine then," Luna said as she got up ran off into the wilderness, "I'll make everyone lives better and disappear." "Luna!" Nicky yelled as he ran after her. "Nicky don't leave me alone here," Gloria said. "Oh shit." M Luna ran straight into the night not knowing where she was going. She couldn't see her surrounds and she was going so fast that when she tripped over a tree root that grew about the ground, she fell hard on her face. "Need help up," Xavier said as he extended his hand. "No," Luna replied as she pushed herself up and then sat back against the limb, "What do you want?" "I just wanted to see my favorite niece." "Well you're far from being my favorite uncle." "Harsh," he replied as he squirted down, "So what are you doing out here at night by yourself? It's dangerous you know." "Why do you care?" "I'm just wondering that's all." "Don't okay." "You been crying haven't you," he said as he took her face in his hand. "Get you hand off of me," Luna replied slapping it off. "Like I said before, you as beautiful as your mother, but the only thing you got from her are those ears of yours. The rest is your father, but you bring a sort of gentleness and beauty to his features." Xavier then leaned forward to kiss her, but before he could, Luna's knife found a place on his neck. "What do you think you're doing, dearest Uncle?" Luna said saying the last part with a sarcastic tone in her voice. "Only by name. You see Damon and I were adopted," replied Xavier as he gentle moved Luna's hand with the knife to the side of her, "You see if I do anything to you there's nothing wrong with it." "Of course there's still something wrong with it. If only if it's by name, you're still my uncle." "And Damon was your uncle when you pronounce your love to him." "I didn't know he was…. Wait how do you know that?" "I have my ways," he replied as he leaned towards her and kissed her, "Beside do you want to make that boy you're traveling with jealous? And don't you want to seek some revenge against that girl? I know you do. If you like it or not, you're part demon and jealousy and revenge always take over us." Luna released the knife from her grab and wrapped her arms around Xavier's neck then kissed him. "See. It always does," he said as he removed her jacket and started kissing her neck. M "I have to look for her, Gloria," Nicky said. It had been a couple of hours since Luna ran off after the fight she had with Gloria. He was giving her some time to vent out and he didn't want to leave Gloria all alone. But now it been too long and he started to worry about her. "But don't leave me here," Gloria replied as she held on to his right arm. "While I can't take you with me. When Luna sees you, she will get all mad again and run away. Girls are crazy that way." "We are?" "Yeah, but I guess you have to come with me to look for her anyway." "I'm sorry." "It's okay," he replied as he put his arm around her shoulder. "Are you sure?" "Yes, very sure. Let's look for Luna now." "Okay!" They walked off to the direction of which Luna ran off. Every now and then Nicky would yell out her name, but there was never an answer. "Look a big bird," Gloria said as she pointed to this big winged creature in the dark sky. "That's not a bird," Nicky said looked up and saw the human-like form in the sky, "It's Luna." "It is?" "Who else can it be?" "I don't know. Where do you thing she's heading?" "The third tower. We must get there before her." "But how? She's going to fast." "My AG-board," he said as he pulled it out of his bag and opened it. "What's that?" Gloria said as she poked the hovering board. Nicky jumped up and extended his hand to Gloria. She took it and got on. Then together they speeded off. M "What did I do?" Luna said as she sat on the tree root that tripped her with her head in her hands. All her clothes were back on except for her jacket and holsters that lay on the ground next to her. Xavier just flew off just a couple of minutes ago. Luna didn't feel dirty or anything and that scared her. She fully recognized what she was half of, a demon. A creature who was dark and everything bad and evil they did doesn't bring guilt to them. They do want they want bad or wrong. She got up and placed her holsters on. She placed her knife on the holster on her right arm and her sword on the one on her left hip. Then she grabbed her jacket and walked off back to camp. "I bet they still there," she told herself, "I bet they didn't even bother looking for me." When she got there, she found it empty. "If that how you feel, I'm finishing this thing by myself," she said jumping to the conclusion that they left her. She didn't even try tracking them down or remotely search which way they went. She ripped off the necklace that held the third and final stone from around her neck, "After I put you in your place, this would be all over and I can go home and forget all of this." M "She's not here, but lucky we got here before her," Nicky said as he got to the top room of the third tower. Gloria and Nicky have been traveling for a couple of days just to get to this tower. It was made from the trunk of a very old and very tall redwood tree that stood alone in a field of wheat that belonged to a poor farmer. "How do you know that?" Gloria asked. "Because the tower is still in one piece. The other ones fell apart when the stone was place." "So are we going to stay here until Luna comes back?" "Yes." "I wouldn't if I were you. She's pretty ticked at you two," Xavier said as he walked up behind them from the staircase. "Why are you here?" Nicky replied as he drew his sword. "To bring Gloria back home." "Back home?" Gloria asked, "You know where my home is?" "Of course." "You're not taking her," Nicky said as he stood in front of Gloria. "And who going to stop me? You?" "Yes, me." "Don't make me laugh. You know that sword only works if you're protecting Luna, so I can defend you in five seconds flat." "I want to see you try." Xavier drew his sword and in the matter of seconds knocked the sword out of Nicky's hand. "You were saying," Xavier said as he held his sword against Nicky's throat and walked closer to him. Then he made his left hand into a fist and knocked him out. Nicky fell to the floor next to Gloria's feet, "Now to make things interesting." He took out a piece of black string and tied the ends together by a knot, "Mistress of Darkness make this boy sleep a deadly nap until this string unties." "Now my princess, let’s go home," he said as he extended his hand to Gloria and she took it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [A/N- Hey if you watch any anime or read any manga, demons will do anything that moves. Even their siblings of the same sex! And there's nothing really wrong with it or at least with me. So having Luna do an uncle that's not even related to her isn't that bad.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------