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Anika stood there, watching as everyone piled onto the Tower's back. Taking a hesitant step forward, something hard whacked her on the back of the head. Starr turned to see one of the monsters standing there with a grin on its face, hovering over Anika's falling body.

'ANIKA!'Starr screamed, not fast enough to get Anika from the monsters grasp. 'Oh no, oh no!' Starr turned to Tower. 'Help!' She growled, worrying about her mentor.

In the mean time~
Anika's body rested on the shoulder of the monster. Anika being the way she is, thought it was a dream due to the fog in her mind. Opening her eyes, she almost choked on her own breathe. After a couple of seconds, Anika started thrashing and screaming; only to cause her being whipped around and gagged with a hand. Anika starting sobbing uncontrollably, hoping to wake up from this nightmare.

Earth~
It was almost dinnertime and Anika hadnt woken up. Her mother was pissed. "Damn it! Go get that lazy a** girl up!" Her mother yelled at her son, Erik. Erik ran up the stairs, two at a time. Jogging to the bathroom, he grabbed a bucket of water. Hauling it to Anika's room, her dumped it on her. With no success, he shoved her off the bed. Getting worried, he screamed his parents up. "MOOMM! DAADD! SOMETHINGS WRONG!" He yelled, not taking his eyes off her. The parents shoved into the small room trying every way to wake her up. Getting to that point, they called the cops. After tests of all kind and spending confused and emotional time sitting in to waiting room, The nurse and doctor walked out with a sad expression on their faces. "Im sorry but your daughter is in a coma." He simply said. Everyone was stunned into silence, tears flowing down their cheeks, onto the floor.

Nuika saw the monster take Anika. "Tower! Can you do that thing you did before?" The tower nodded, and Nuika got everyone out of the way. Tower implanted his spike stubs on his body to the ground. The furnace in the middle of Tower started to glow, then the glow faded away. "Harg!" A red laser shot out from Tower's chest, burning through the tree's and incinerates the monsters body. He beam goes on for forty seconds, then it fades out. When the smoke cleared, Nuika got off Tower. "I'll go check up on Ninja Star girl, I'll be back." He runs up to Anika, but it looked like she was out. "Hey, wake up, come on, wake up..." Tower took his spike out from the ground, then trotted to Nuika. Before he got to him, Tower whispered to Starr. "Do you have any idea what those Treant's want with us? This isn't natural for them to attack us like that..."

"Hell should I know, I'm no doctor." Nuika pry's Anika out of the Treant's hand, then carries her to Starr. "She's... She's okay, right?" Nuika Looked at her. She looked like she was asleep.

Nuika could only looks down. "I don't know either... I'd like to... But... I'm clueless..." Nuika tried to look at Anika, but he couldn't. He seen eye's like her's before. Confusion, but for him, it usually leads to anger. The tower closed it's eye's, then walked over to Anika. "Sorry to hold out on information, but I guess I'll have to fill everyone in. Just so you know, I can only tell you everything I know. I won't sugar coat it, and what ever I don't say, means that I don't know about it." Tower waited a few seconds to gather his thoughts, then started. "This is the world of Baylvim, a universe parallel to many, many others. All of you, who has tarots, things like me and Starr," Tower directed that to Starr. "Are known as Drifters. The natives around here may know a bit about that. Here is the 'Dream' World for most of you. Almost all of you here has some reason or another why you don't want to be in your world, and we, things like me and Starr, are here to keep you alive. Here, you can do what ever you want. Die here, live here, or leave here. That's up to you." Tower went silent for a moment. "We have to keep moving, Nuika, every one else hope on. I'll explain more when we get to a town or something." Nuika took all of this in, thinking about what Tower was saying.

Alice shifted in her sleep inside the tower her wound healing up. Her ears twitched lightly and she woke but was till a bit weak to move. "There are very few creatures that are nice to drifters us Bnudald will stick by your side and help you, but the trip to getting back to your world is dangerous especially around the Rucgema." Alice noted.

Kyle heard a howl from somewhere in the woods, it didn't sound like it came from a large beast so he thought it was nothing to worry about and sat down on the now dead treant, "I wonder if these thing have internal organs..." He said to himself. Treants were made of wood but he never really payed attention of their anatomy.

Alice's ears shifted at the familiar howl. She smiled lightly and the tower said it didn't want to scare anyone. She climbed to the opening and flew up to take a look at the town. She slowly glided down to the ground. She looked at Kyle and nodded changing in to her human form. "Long time no see Kyle." She smiled lightly at him.

Alice thought to herself. "I'm not really sure how long it has been you have sure grown though. Yeah I've been helping them, but you being along would be helpful you have helped more drifters then I have, and to get all three of them safely to the village would be great I don't think I've ever seem so many creatures attack as I have seen today."