Chapter 7
::Friend or Foe?::
Avalon and Sanibel helped find the boy’s parents and then walked back to their apartment. When they got in the saw Neo sitting on the couch.
“Hey Neo, what are you doing back?” questioned Avalon.
“Oh, Stella and Lina wanted to go see some movie and I decided to come back home to spend some time with you,” Neo explained. He walked up to Avalon and put his arms around her waist pulling her in to an embrace. Avalon blushed as Neo bent down and kissed her neck. “Hey, Sanibel, do you think you could give us some privacy?” Neo hinted.
Sanibel rolled her eyes and walked into Stella and Lina’s room. She kicked the door closed and curled up on Lina’s bed to fall asleep.
“Neo, do you really think we should do this now? I mean, what if Stella and Lina come home?”
“Eva, what are you implying?” Neo laughed. Again Avalon got a big blush on her face. “Don’t worry, I just want to cuddle.” Neo pulled a giggling Avalon down to the couch with him. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and snuggled his head at the base of Avalon’s neck. “I really missed you, you know.”
“Oh Neo, I missed you as well. It was so hard growing up again and having memories of you. I missed you every day of my life,” Avalon said as she leaned into his embrace. “So when does the movie let out?”
“I think in about an hour or so, we have plenty of time to ‘snuggle’,” Neo joked. He then lifted his hand and grabbed Avalon’s chin. He tilted her head up and kissed her. To Avalon the kiss seemed to last forever, she remembered kissing Neo before, but never like this. Then…”Neo!” Avalon looked down to see Neo’s hand under her shirt and cupping her breast.
“What?” Neo said with a puppy-dog face.
“I’m sorry, but not now. Besides you said that we were just going to snuggle tonight. Let’s go lay down on my bed,” Avalon said with a major blush.
“Mmmm, Eva, what are you implying?”
Avalon elbowed Neo hard in the ribs. He laughed and grabbed her hand leading her to the bedroom. Avalon shut the door and then went over to the bed snuggling in for the night.
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Later that night Stella and Lina came home gossiping about the movie. They hadn’t even noticed that Sanibel, Avalon, and Neo weren’t anywhere to be seen. That is until they heard giggling from Avalon’s room.
“Oh jeeze! What are they doing in there?” Stella said.
“Let’s go find out, maybe Neo’s telling his great jokes again!” Lina said taking off for Avalon’s bedroom.
“Wait! Lina, don’t go in there!” Stella shouted grabbing for Lina, but she didn’t reach her in time. Lina opened the door and peered inside. Avalon and Neo were on the bed and Neo was on top of Avalon.
“OMG! Eva, Neo, I’m so sorry!!! I couldn’t stop Lina, we’ll be leaving you now!” Stella said with a huge blush on her face.
“What is your sick mind thinking Stella?” Lina questioned eyeing Stella. “Ha! Neo’s tickling Eva!” Lina took off for the bed and jumped on too, helping Neo to torture Avalon with tickling.
“Ah, ah! Stop! That tickles! Stop!” Avalon laughed with tears in her eyes.
Stella was frozen in her spot, a sweat-drop on her forehead. ‘Good thing nothing else was going on,’ thought Stella. ‘We’re all like family, I hope we always stay together.’ Stella walked off for her bedroom looking out her window at the stars. She knew that in the future things could change drastically. ‘Please let everything go well from now on.’
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The next day Avalon and the gang were out for a walk. It was a peaceful sunny day and everyone was having fun talking about the past. They had no clue that a plot was being planned to destroy them. Yume, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, stayed hidden in the trees down the path.
“This is perfect! Now is the perfect opportunity to act all innocent and gain their trust. Okay, they’re almost here,” Yume got up and chanted a spell. “BEAST SUMMONS!” A red wind swirled around Yume as she raised her arms and a ball of light with a star gathered in between her hands. A beam of light shot down to the ground and a dog like beast appeared. The beast was black with red eyes, and looked like a giant great dane with tuffs of hair on his ankles and wrists. It also had a blue jewel embedded in its forehead. “Hey boy, here’s what I need you to do…”
“Ahhhhhh! Help me! Help!” Avalon, Neo, Lina, Stella, and Sanibel all looked up and saw a girl run across the path. Suddenly a huge dog beast came chasing after her. “Please help me! Anybody!”
“Guys, I think you know what we need to do…let’s go transform!” Avalon said to everyone.
In about 30 seconds everyone was ready to go and ran towards the scene. In an opening in the park the dog beast was hovering over the girl about to slam his paw down on her.
“Light of Binding!” Lina yelled, a beam of light shooting up from the ground and wrapping itself around the paw.
“Hurry! Run!” Stella shouted to the girl.
“Whoa!” Lina shouted as the dog beast yanked his paw and she went flying. The dog beast got up and chased after the girl again. This time it was able to swing it’s paw and send the girl flying. The beast came apon her and was about to attack.
“Teleport!” Stella shouted as she disappeared from her spot and reappeared by the fallen girl. She grabbed the girl and again teleported over to Neo. “Here, take her and get her somewhere safe!”
“Right!” Neo said as he took off for some bushes to hide.
By this time Lina had the dog beast bound again and Avalon was about to use her healing attack. Yume heard and secretly called back the dog beast. Avalon, Lina, Stella, and Sanibel looked stunned and stared at where the dog beast had just been.
“What just happened?” Asked Avalon
“He just disappeared!” Lina said.
“Hey, let’s transform back to our normal cloths and go check on Neo and the girl!” Stella suggested as she transformed back and started to run over to where Neo was hiding. “Neo! Is she alright? We saw what happened and that you helped some people save her.”
“I’m fine, thank you,” She said.
“We’re glad you’re okay!” Lina said smiling.
“What’s your name?” Asked Avalon.
“Yume, pleased to meet you!” Yume said smiling back.
“Where do you live, we should get you home so you can get some rest,” Neo suggested.
“I live down the road a ways. I’m sure I can make it home on my own,” Yume said.
“No, I think we should walk you home. You took a really hard hit back there,” Avalon told the girl.
“Okay, thank you,” said Yume.
They all took off for Yume’s house talking about fun things that were available to do around town. Avalon wanted to get the scary attack out of Yume’s head. Sanibel however had a weird feeling about the girl, but she kept it to herself. They soon arrived at a huge house located on the beach.
“Wow! You live here!?” Stella asked.
“Yah, let’s go,” Yume lead them to the front door and walked in. The inside had beautiful paintings and big white banisters. The floors were made of marble and a huge winding staircase led to the second floor.
“Your house is beautiful Yume!” Avalon said awestruck.
“Yah, it’s nice, but it gets lonely,” Yume said looking down to the floor with a sad face.
“What do you mean?” asked Lina.
“Well, I live with my mom, but she’s always traveling out of town on business and I really don’t get to see her. I also don’t have many friends. Today I felt lonely so I decided to take a walk in the park, and that’s when I got attacked.”
“Wow, I had no idea,” Neo said.
“Hey! I’d love to be your friend! You seem like a really nice person!” Avalon said smiling happily.
Yume smiled back. “I know! Why don’t you guys come over tomorrow and we can hang out on the beach!”
“REALLY!?” They all shouted.
“Yup!” Yume giggled.
“Alright! Well, we
better get going, how about we come over at
Yume smile and nodded her head. Avalon and the gang walked out the door and Yume closed the door behind them. “Gah! If I have to smile that much this is going to suck!” Yume said in disgust.
“I’m proud of you dear, you actually pulled it off,” Yurami said as she appeared in front of her daughter. Yume just smiled with a devious grin.
“I’m going to destroy them!”
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To be continued…