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Well, here's the 3rd chapter Arleen. xp Hope you like it.



"What brings you to my territory, FireStorm?" Illumining asked, looking at FireStorm. After I came back from the Healing Pond, the three of us decided to take a stroll around the territory and talk. I just stared at the territory's beauty, not paying attention to their(Illumining and FireStorm's) conversation.
"I was just visiting. What? Can't I visit an old friend?" FireStorm laughed a bit.
"Oh no no!! It's alright to visit! But... I feel like there's more to you visiting that it seems..." Illumining said that last part quietly, not wanting me to hear. Though, she doesn't know that I was already lost in space, staring at the scenery. Their words just go in one ear and out the other to me right now.
FireStorm's face dropped to a serious one. She turned her head to look in front, "Actually... Yes... I wanted to talk to you about-," she cut her sentence off when she remembered I was here. Haha, I'm so quiet, they almost forgot I'm still here. Illumining and FireStorm looked at me as I stared off into the field of StarBloom Heaven's so called "special flower."
"Erm, hey Hikari." Illumining said softly. But I didn't hear her, I was still lost. "Hikari. Hikari!" She said a bit louder. I snapped out of my trance and looked at her.
"Sorry. I was being brainless at the moment. Did you say something?" I said kind of quickly.
"FireStorm and I have to talk privately. Mind if you stay here until we're done?" Illumining asked, smiling softly at me.
I nodded at her, "Sure." Then I walked into the field of flowers as they walked away. I sat down somewhere near the middle of the field and stared at the flowers. They gently flowed in the wind. I felt a sudden warm feeling spread throughout my body, I wasn't familiar with this feeling, so, it started to creep me out.



"It's fine to talk now. What is it you came for." Illumining said seriously, looking at me. I stared off a bit into space, I heard her. I was just replaying the reasons why I wanted to come here in the first place in my head.
"Have you...ever had a feeling that something isn't right for a while now?" I asked still not looking at her. She eyed me suspiciously.
"Sort of. I don't know what to think of this feeling either. Do you think something's wrong with one of the other unicorns?" She asked.
I gave a small nod, "Maybe. Should we risk it and check up on them?"
Illumining nodded. "That would be a good idea... But, what about the territory...? Is it safe to say and do leave them alone?" She asked me, worried about the animals and others that serve her and live in her territory.
I looked down a bit, "I'm not sure.. Maybe I'd be safe just like always, if the guards are high on alert about everything that's going to happen if we leave."
"The only difference is that I'm not around to help." Illumining said. I lifted my head to look at her.
"Should we? Or we shouldn't? I can go by myself on this. You can stay and protect your territory." I suggested.
"But that's not safe! If you go by yourself and something really is up, you're not safe! I'm not saying that you can't defend yourself, but... you know...," she looked down sadly, "I just worry about you... about everybody..."
I gave her a nudge with my nose, "I know. But seriously! I'll be fine! Don't worry!"
"What about Hikari? She needs more protection than just me and the others here. It seems like she won't even talk to them unless she has to. She needs company too..." Illumining said, concern in her voice. I stayed silent for a while.
"I...don't know... It's too dangerous to bring her along. Kid got okay dodging skills when I attacked her earlier. But, the way she ended up when I couldn't really fight anymore... I...don't know..." I said. Hikari started to grow on me. "Should we, bring her?" Illumining turned to me, shock written all over her face.
"What?! No!! Like you said! It's too dangerous to bring her along!"
I turned Illumining sadly, "What choice do we have? You won't let me go by myself to check out things. You said Hikari can't stay here. She needs to be around us. I have to go and check up on things," I shook my head, "great mother horse of all forbid this, if whatever gets through your security, what about Hikari's safety? She won't be safe anymore..."
Illumining looked down and sighed, "You have a point..." I sighed and looked up again to look in front of me. "What can we do then?"
I was silent for a while, until a minute of thinking, "We bring her. You come with me, and we'll check out everything together." I turned to her with an encouraging smile. She turned to look at me, then smiled back after a while.
"Alright. I'm trusting you on this."
My smile became a little bigger as I was about to reply, until we heard a scream. 'Hikari!!' We both thought at the same time, as we turned our heads, something collided into us, making us stumble and lose our balance. When we shook off the dizzyness, we quickly looked to what had bumped into us, it was Hikari.



I sitting on the tree branch, my arms crossed and one of my legs swaying back and forward. The female was playing with the branches. The middle male was lying down on the branch that was couple branches above from mine, he is obviously bored. The taller male just sat down with one of his legs dangling off the branch. His face just stared off into the sky. I was to adjust the way I was sitting when a scream hit our ears out of nowhere. It took everyone by surprise. The female slightly jumped in surprise, the taller male was jolted out of his stare and looked towards the direction of the scream. I almost fell off my branch. One of my legs was hooked onto the branch while both of my hands were gripping onto the branch. I sighed in relief, that is, until I felt something fall right on top of me, making me lose my grip and it fell down along with me onto the ground below. I groaned in annoyance and looked up. It was the middle male. I twitched and shoved him off of me. He growled in annoyance.
"What the hell was that?!" He said. It was pretty obvious he was mad.
I stood up and brushed the little dirt and grass that was on me, "How the hell should I know?!"
"I wouldn't be asking if I knew!" He glared back at me. I narrowed my eyes at him, that idiot. He really shouldn't get pissed. He can survive the fall without being hurt! I'm the one that should be pissed off! He's the one that landed on me!
The taller male and the female stared into the direction that the scream came from.
"What do you think that was?" The female asked, looking at the taller male. He just shook his head.
"I don't know." He responded. The female blinked and turned back to the direction of the scream.
"Do you think it was whatever we're looking for?" She asked.
I climbed back onto my branch and just stood instead, "Maybe. But, I can still smell it's scent. It's not stronger, so, there's no harm to it."
The middle male passed me while climbing back to his branch, using his hands and feet to grip the sides as he climbed, "That's good. I'd get even more mad if we couldn't observe it because it died."
I watched as he climbed past me and back onto his branch and I snickered. He heard me snickering and looked down at me, his butt up in the air and him on his hands and feet. I started to laugh even more.
"What are you laughing at?!" He growled at me, baring his fangs. I didn't stop laughing.
"You look absolutely ridiculous climbing up the tree. And even MORE ridiculous looking down at me like that," I started to laugh even more at my next thought, "don't let anything hit your butt and fall! Because I'm not saving you if you fell!"
He growled more at me. The taller male looked at us, "Will you both stop it!!"
We both nodded. The middle male just glared at me while I had a big grin on my face. The taller male looked back at the scream's direction. "Since there's no harm, let's just continue to wait. It'll come out sooner or later."
We all nodded and went back to doing what we did before the scream.



As I sat in that field, waiting for Illumining and FireStorm to come back, I just stared off into space. Watching the sunset and everything turn orange around me. I just sighed for no reason and turned my head down to look at the flowers. They look even more pretty with the orange color on them. The red sparkles really complimented the orange. I looked back in the direction Illumining and FireStorm had left to, to see if they came back yet. Nope. I was about to turn my head back to the sunset until I felt something crawling up onto my leg. I flinched and whipped my head to my leg. Somehow, vines with the flowers on top(like the one at the Healing Pond) were crawling up my leg and wrapping themselves around me! My eyes widen and I let out a loud scream. I got up quickly and ran toward Illumining and FireStorm's direction. Important or not, I'm NOT staying by myself! Hey, you can't blame me! Vines slithering on you like snakes and wrapping around your legs?! Those really took me by surprise AND creeped me out! I didn't watch where I was going and I bumped into something and fell flat on my face. I looked up to see Illumining and FireStorm. They both fell down as well. They whipped their heads and looked at me. I narrowed my eyes at them. "You could of at LEAST tell me vines would crawl up other's legs to scare others for the fun of it!" I gritted the words through my teeth. They looked at each other and looked back at me.
"They never do." Illumining said, getting up along with FireStorm. "Unless someone had the ability to do that. Like having control of plants."
I got up and brushed myself off, "Joyous. I'm up to the point where I don't want to stay by myself anymore! Attacking unicorns, morphing bats, AND crawling vines?! What next?!"
FireStorm just laughed, "Well. Whatever the case. We're going to head out!" I raised my eyebrow.
"Head out to where?" I asked.
"We're going to visit the other territories!" Illumining smiled at me. My eyes widen in horror, again.
"You're joking right?" I twitched at the memories of the first time I met them. "I'm going to be dead by the time things are going to be explained! If not dead, then I'll have broken bones or become literally stupid, mentally disabled."
Illumining rubbed her nose against my cheek, which I kind of got weirded out at, "Don't worry. I'm sure that we'll be able to protect you before anything happens to you. With both of us watching you, we'll be able to protect you more better."
I shook my head, "The keyword: I'm sure. But, whatever. I'm trusting you both on this." They both nodded and smiled at me.
"Alright! Let's go!" FireStorm said, walking off in a different direction. I trailed behind her and Illumining followed behind me. I quietly sighed.
'Why did I say that I'm trusting them both on that? I don't exactly trust them both yet.' I mentally laughed with no humor in it. 'Keyword: yet. It's not like I have anyone waiting at home for me. I don't have anyone really special to me that's alive.' My face dropped as it looked like I had a part blank and part sad expression on it. 'Maybe it's just the thought of them trying to protect me. If we got far into this journey and I died in the middle of them and they protected me so much, their defending was all in vain.' I quietly sighed again. 'I guess that's what I'm just going to have to strive for until I find a way to go home. Keeping myself alive for their(Illumining and FireStorm's) sake.' Just as I thought this, you just can tell. We left the territory. Everything in the scene became duller. The sunset was still there, it's just the shining luster wasn't all there anymore. Everything was just grass, grass, and even MORE grass. No trees, no nothing. Just grass. 'Grass grass! Oh how I love grass! Grass I love you so mu-SHUT UP!!!' I mentally slapped myself at the song that I started to sing stupidly in my head. 'I really need help.'



I snapped out of my daze and looked towards the direction of the scent. It was fading. Everyone else noticed this and looked as well.
"The scent's fading..." The middle man said.
"Wow! Brilliant observation!" I exclaimed, sarcasm dripping from my words. He glared at me.
The taller male inhaled with his eyes closed, then he exhaled and reopened his eyes, "Whatever it is, is leaving in the opposite direction from where we are."
The middle man and I dropped our mouths, then anger crossed our faces.
"So we waited in here for pretty much nothing?!" The middle man growled through his teeth. His words becoming a bit louder at the end.
"How long did it take for you to figure that out?" I said, my eye twitching. I to, was extremely mad. He glared at me, again.
"Let's go." The taller man said, ignoring the comment I made. We all nodded at him and jumped away.