I cry myself to sleep and then jolt awake when I hear sticks breaking on the ground below. I shift into a human out of fear and then relies its Kiba and Stella. They call my name a couple of times, but I just lean against the tree and I don't respond. Kiba looks into the air and sniffs, he must have caught my scent because he started barraling up the tree. So I climb higher. I continue to climb until my foot gets stick and I slip. I scream and I start to dangle. 

I Don't know what exactly happens, but that instant I imagine pickles. I close my eyes and senses come rushing in at me, I smell her, see her, A mile up the tree, and I am filled with an unknown power, I dart up into a branch 10 feet in the air, then crouch and spring to the next in an instant, crisscrossing with amazing speed, and getting to the top next to luna.I grab her by the collar of the thirt and pull her next to me, and the branch starts crackin. My gold eyes widen and I jump into the main trunk of the tree just as the branch breaks, I dig my fingers into the tree with empowered strength and grip as hard as I can. "Kiba, Help me before I lose it!" I call

I fall along with the branch and screamed. Kiba catches me in his arms. I was shaking badly and I lean into him. He sets me down onto a sturdy branch and he leaps up to get Stella. He brings her down and sits her next to me. Kiba comes over to me and wraps me into his arms. I was still shaking violently and I lean into him. I buried my head into his chest and he kisses the top of my head. 

I grump and climb down the tree slowly head first while Luna sits there scared. I'm tired, I wanna fix some tea and try to get to sleep. I rush out of the forest to find Bailen, and hug him. "what was that for?" He asked. "i dunno, I just feel like I let you down." He traced his finger along my chin. " I feel like I wanna give in." I say, making mock puppy dog eyes."On what?" He asks. "You know...." I say and trace his lips. "It's up to you, I respect your wishes." I got up and was about to go in when I realized there was someone who might be interested in earth stuff who I can talk to. "Hey, do you rember that old earth sport, football?" I say and turn around. "yeah." How exactly would you play, I never really got that.  He came over next to me and pretended to have an imagenary football. "You try to get this across the touchline, and get points, and, people try to stop you, by tackling you." I Smirked at him. "I knew that. Would you teach me?" "sure. We stood at beginners position and he pretended to punt it and I ran to catch it. I spiralled it back at he made a run for the touchdown line. I ran after him and he pretended to drop it I picked It up and ran in the opposite directin. We continued playing for about an hour, but eventually we got a little warn out.  On one of his tackles we were both tired and panting. He had me pinned py the knees and shoulders, And I pretended to throw the ball to the side but he gave me a teasing smile and started to tickle my tummy. I thrashed to the sides and I was able to flip him over, but he quickly pinned me back down. GHe tickled me again and I thrashed in laughter.  He  moved his arms up to my neck to tickle me and we were staring into eachother's eyes again, starry eyed, tired, and panting. He moved his legs to where he was more then less laying on my lap instead of pinning m a the knees, He stopped tickling my kneck, and held his hands behind my neck and leaned down to nuzle his forehead against mine. I smiled I didn't even have to say anything. I had given up. HE Lowered his hands to where they were around my back and leaned in from the nuzzle. I let our lips touch and dance and fireworks exploded in my head, so many emotions at once.As the suction let loose, I took a deep breathe and just then he put his lips back against mine. I had no problem with the kisses, I just needed to resist to play my part. In between kisses I would mutter out. "Just ummmmph, One-more-Kiss-(breathe) Just_" I gave up and let my tounge snake in through his lips and twist around his. He smiled and kissed me again. We kisssed long into the night, until 11:00 actually

I fell asleep leaning against Kiba up in the tree. He carries me down the tree and back to the cabin. He lays me down and snuggles up to me. Around midnight that night the two came in and they accidentally woke me up. Stella was laughing and holding Bailee's hand. I get out of bed and go to her room. I slip my head into the doorway. I couldn't say any words so I jut put my finger to my mouth and shushed them. I rubbed my eyes and walked back to my room. 

We giggle a little and I shush Bailen. He nods okay, and makes a pallet on the floor for himself to sleep on. I lay down and drink some tea. Piclkles comes straight over to me and starts  purring. I put my arm around him and fall asleep

I wake up in the morning and I'm in extreme pain. My stomach was hurting really badly. I wrapped my arms around my stomach and cringed in pain. Kiba wasn't in the room so I tried to get up. I grunted in pain and fell back onto the bed. " help!" I tried to get out. But it was barely a whisper. 

I hear a thunk in the other room and wake up to go look, Luna is on the floor gripping her stomach and grunting in pain. "what's wrong?" I say, and lift her up gently to put her on the bed where hopefully she will be more comfortable

" I-I don't know" a sharp pain ripped through my stomach again and I screamed. That sent Kiba dashing into the room by my side. " help!"

" Kiba, You know anything about this? Because for once, I'm completely at loss." I turned to Luna. "Tell us exactly what you feel, we need as much info as possible to figure out what this is then help you. " I hoped it had nothing to do with alien viruses, or parasites, like saga's coating.

" I-it feels like" I screm and clinch my stomach again. Kiba started pacing and was getting really nervous. " a knife I-is being st-stabbed into me"  the pain eases up a bit so I don't clinch my stomach as hard. 

I look to Kiba for support, He's still pacing in thought, but he speaks up. "point to the exact spot on your stomach, if you can."

I fidget with my hands and I tried to pen point the spot, but it hurt almost everywhere. So I just pointed to the spot the Hirt most. I pointed on my stomach above my belly button. It hurts again and I cringe up. Tears fall out of my eyes and stream down my face. 

I look to Kiba again and Am furious, he obviously knows what's going on. "will you talk already! HOW about instead of sitting there like an Idiot, You tell me what the #### Is going on here!" I scream

He looks taken aback. He starts to stutter and I roll myself up into a ball and just lay there

I sigh and lean down to feel heer stomach, There are no bumps, scratches or anything, but then I see her hip and gasp. I almost vomit. "holy crap!" I say, taken aback. "UH, on second thought, o one look."

I feel vomit crawling up my throat. I jump out of bed and rush into the bathroom. I hadn't eaten anything really, so all it was was water. My stomach hurts again and I lean into the corner where the walls meet. I roll up into a ball and shake. 

I shake Kiba to attention. "Hello, hole in her hip, You've been here much longer than me, Help her! Or atleast tell me how to treat it!"  He looks at me. "It's celular acidosis. It's happened to many of us before." He looks down at the ground. "it eats you from the inside out." He's shaking and almost about to cry. "we could never find a cure on time." HE crawls up next to Luna and starts to cry on her shoulder.

I've never seen a guy cry before, especially a strong guy like Kiba. That must mean its serious. I crawl up into his lap and burry my head in his neck. He wraps his arms around me. Y stomach hurts again and I scream out " Stella, help!" More tears shed and I couldn't stand the pain. 

I don't know what to do, I try Bailen. "do you know anything About cellularacidosis?" I ask hopefully. He nods. "First, You neautralize the acid, then clean the would, then treat it with painkiller and antibiotics. And put the person to bed. Continue feedind them the acid  neuatralizer and nutricicous food until they are completely better." I a, almost dazed at what he says. "how'd you learn that?" He shrugs. "i spent most of my time on the ship in a virtual library. You learn quite a bit. I stole some off the ship when I got here too." He smiles. "do I get a treat now?" I stand on my toes. "yes." I stand on my tippy toes and give him a quick peck on the lips then run off to get my plants. I was even more impressed with bailen than ever. The problem would be keeping Luna still.