HOME | DD

Description
Hiro yawned and opened his eyes blearily looking around with a confused expression on his face. When he looked down at his arms he was startled seeing a young girl in them. After several moments, he managed to calm his thudding heart enough to remember that they had fallen asleep together, and he blushed when he remembered feeling Jenna rubbing up against him in her sleep. Her face was now so close to his that he was surprised that he hadn't noticed her there when he had woken up, and she had her lips pursed like she was gonna kiss him, causing Hiro's face to go bright red. Reflexively, he coiled his arms in front of his chest and thrust out pushing Jenna off of him. Jenna landed on her butt with a loud thud and shook her head, looking up at Hiro sleepily. She yawned and stretched, a pleased expression on her face and looked at Hiro out of the corner of her eyes suggestively. Unfortunately, the look was wasted since Hiro was so busy staring into the sky that he didn't even notice the look she gave him. She sighed annoyed and whacked him on the back of the head with a nearby branch. Hiro gasped and grabbed at his head glaring at Jenna.
"What was that for?" he shouted rubbing his head grimacing. Jenna smiled playfully and tilted her head to the side.
"For not paying attention to me."
Hiro sighed and shook his head staring at Jenna with something that came close to hate but not quite. After several minutes, Hiro shook his head and yawned his eyes closed. He blinked and raised his head as Jenna held out some kind of package to him.
"...Eh? What's this?" he wondered idly, taking the large roughly square package, slightly surprised by the weight. Jenna shrugged.
"Just something I found. I can't really use it though so you might as well have it. I'm pretty sure it's worthless anyway."
"Gee thanks..." Hiro muttered, staring at Jenna through slit eyes. He stared at the package a few moments before opening it, his eyes going wide in surprise as he saw what looked like a large steel-looking shield with a catlike design masterfully etched on it. "Hello." Jenna looked over her shoulder as Hiro held the shield in his left arm examining the alloy. "Isn't this a little expensive?" he wondered once he realized that there were really fine grains of diamondthread melded into the shield. Jenna didn't reply. She was too busy staring in fear as a slightly taller naga slithered up to her licking her lips. Jenna opened her mouth to scream as the naga rushed at her, her jaws gaping wide and crossed her arms in front of her face, even though she knew that wouldn't really help. She opened one eye slightly after several moments of nothing happening and stared as she saw that Hiro was standing in front of her, the shield in front of him somehow managing to stop the naga, and that his diamond sword was sticking out through the back of the naga's throat dripping blood.
"Dinner's canceled!" Hiro shouted as he tore the blade out through the side of the naga's throat, causing blood to fly out. The naga tried to retreat, but it could barely move. Hiro spun around low and lashed out with his blade, cutting the naga in half right where the human upper body met the snake-like lower body. Blood gushed out of both parts of the naga as it's severed parts crumpled, and Hiro stood up, watching as the blood was absorbed into the blade before sheathing it and putting the shield over the sheath. He looked over at Jenna and grinned, looking very much like a cat, especially because the pupils of his eyes were kind of slit like a cat's. "Thanks for the shield, I guess Jenna." He looked to the side a frown on his face. *Oh great...another fighting style I'm gonna have to learn...* he thought, kind of sad. *I already know martial arts, short blade, long blade, and Axe styles...now I'm going to have to learn long blade shield style!* He growled slightly looking really angry and glared at Jenna as if blaming her personally. Jenna saw the glare and inched away slightly, becoming slightly scared, but Hiro calmed down almost immediately and shook his head, a smile reappearing on his face.
"H-H-Hiro?" Jenna asked nervously, her left eye twitching somewhat. Hiro sat crosslegged on the ground and smiled cutely, his cat ears rising high off his head.
"What are you doing in the Frelaryan forest anyway?" Hiro wondered, idly scratching his right ear, occasionally meowing involuntarily. Jenna looked at Hiro curiously and looked up scratching him behind the ear as she considered the question.
“I’m looking for something here. I don’t really know how I came here though. I just woke up one day and here I was. That was like…3 days ago.” She smiled at him. “You’re pretty cute, for a cat boy.” She stifled her laughter as that mildly annoyed and angry look crossed Hiro’s face again. “What are you doing here?” she asked Hiro. Hiro looked up at the sky appearing to consider the question.
“No real reason,” he replied, shrugging the question away dismissively. “I’m just here.”
“You two need help?” a familiar question asked behind Hiro. He turned around slowly his right eye twitching and drawing his shield and sword, standing in a defensive stance as he regarded Crisis nervously. Crisis saw Hiro eyeing her nervously and giggled a little covering her mouth with one hand, leaning down so her head was lying on the ground in front of Hiro. “That’s so cute Hiro!” She opened her mouth wide in a yawn and Hiro recoiled, running away backwards trying not to fall. Jenna leaped up making a mystic sign with her hands as she closed her eyes focusing her energy. Crisis looked at her with slanted eyes, and Hiro was quick to interpose himself between Crisis and Jenna.
“Stand down!” he hissed back at Jenna, keeping his eyes on Crisis. “Calm down! I don’t think she’s gonna attack.” Jenna opened her eyes looking at Hiro in confusion as her skill went off. Hiro grimaced and grabbed at his head as an invisible blade sliced everyone in the area including Crisis. Crisis lunged at Jenna her mouth wide open.
“Jenna!” Hiro pushed her out of the way as Crisis’s mouth closed on his tail yanking him into the air as Crisis swung him playfully by the tail. “Yeeowch!”
“Hiro! You let him down right now or so help me…” Jenna said softly glaring up at Crisis. Crisis looked down at her and dropped Hiro lunging at Jenna again. Hiro used the power of his wind rune to reach Jenna before Crisis did and leaped away, carrying Jenna over his shoulder as Crisis chased after them. He leaped from tree branch to tree branch chaotically, and eventually lost Crisis, or so he hoped. He fell to his knees gasping for breath feeling extremely exhausted.
“Hiro?” Jenna asked, looking at him worriedly and kneeling next to him her hand on his shoulder.
“I’m fine…” he yawned and shook his head. “Just need to rest for a few minutes…”
“Make it fast,” Jenna warned, watching the surrounding fauna nervously. Hiro nodded sleepily as he fell asleep. “Zzz…”
Jenna smiled and shook her head stroking Hiro’s feline ears with a smile. “What a loser…” she muttered, shaking her head with a slight laugh. Hiro’s ears twitched and he rolled on his side staring into the brush with one eye keeping the eye that Jenna could see closed like he was asleep. He stared into the leaves, his left eye quivering as he heard Jenna mumbling.
“He really is kind of a loser…” Jenna muttered wiping a tear from her eye. “He’s so clueless sometimes…” She shook her head smiling and took a deep breath clenching her fists in front of her chest. “Whatever! I’ve got to remain focused! Right now all I should be thinking about is getting to the ruins in the exact middle of the forest!” Hiro yawned and sat up eyeing Jenna with a grim look in his eye.
“You just plan to use me then?” he asked quietly, the look on his face showing that he wouldn’t be surprised if she said yes.
“No,” she said, a small happy smile on her face. “I like your company Hiro, and I hope that you’ll still travel with me after this is over.” Hiro scratched himself behind the ears and sighed thinking.
“So…what do you need my help with?”
“I need the help of an expert swordsman to help me explore the ruins of Zemelgetch in the middle of this forest. My sister tried to explore it on her own and wound up being killed.”
“Then how do you know that this ruin even exists?”
“My sister sent me a spirit message just before she died telling me about it.”
“I see…” Hiro scratched his chin staring into the sky an interested expression on his face. “Let me guess…really strong enemies?”
“Yeah.”
“Traps?”
“Yep.”
“And you’ll go even if I don’t go with you I’m guessing.”
“Right again.” She looked down a determined look on her face. “So…will you come with me Hiro-kun?” she looked up at him a hopeful expression on her face. Hiro sighed and smiled at her warmly, a leaf blade in his mouth.
“I guess…not like there’s anything else to do anyway. Where’d you come from anyway?”
“I’m from Tokyo, Japan! How about you?”
“…Joren.”
"Joren?"
"Yes..."
Jenna looked away, apparently getting the hint from Hiro's voice that he'd rather not talk about it and wracked her brain trying to get another topic they could talk about. Hiro looked up at the sky, worry clearly on his mind.
"How powerful are the monsters in Zemelgetch?" he asked, making it sound like he didn't really care either way.
"I'm not sure...I've never gone there." Hiro rolled his eyes and turned away pulling out his flute. Jenna looked over her shoulder at the flute and eyed it curiously. "What kind of flute is that?" Jenna asked before Hiro could start playing it, her expression showing that she didn't really want to know the answer. Hiro scratched his head, putting the flute down.
"It's called a spell flute," he said simply before he started playing an upbeat tune on it. Jenna covered her ears with her hands so that she wouldn't get drunk again, but stopped when she realized that a different feeling was emanating from inside her this time, one that both excited and scared her at the same time.
*Could this be...?* she wondered, looking at Hiro out of the corner of her eye a small smile slowly spreading on her face. She edged slightly closer to him and leaned forward so she could look at his face, his eyes shut against the world, hearing and feeling nothing but the music. She shook her head and giggled a little when she heard a sound that was fast becoming familiar, and sighed hitting Hiro on the back of the head, knocking the flute from his grasp. Hiro turned to glare at her when he heard the sound too and stood up quickly, his blade and shield already in his hands as his tail put away the flute, looking into the direction he had heard the sound of a naga approaching.
"I don't care who you are, if you're searching for dinner find someone else to eat." Hiro's determined expression quickly turned to one of fear when he saw a naga that he had spent several months watching with blueish white hair slither into the clearing. He growled low in his throat to fight the rising terror he felt in him and shook his head defiantly. "Hello, Vivian..." he said softly, putting the shield away and grabbing his blade firmly with both hands. Vivian looked down at the pair smiling widely.
"Hello humans," she said conversationally, winking seductively at Hiro. Hiro, though, had his head down, so he didn't see the wink. Vivian sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "I wouldn't stay in this area," she said, an innocent look on her face as she played with the leaves of a branch. "There are dangerous predators here..." She looked down when she felt a rush of wind surprised to see that Hiro and Jenna were gone. "Woah...they're fast..." she blinked shaking her head then shrugged and left for her house.
Hiro sat behind a tree calming his heart Jenna standing in front of him confused. "What the..." she looked from side to side really fast then looked at Hiro. "I thought you'd been charmed by that naga." Hiro looked back at her confused and shook his head appalled.
"There's no way I'd like a naga that wouldn't give a second thought to eating me." Jenna smacked Hiro on the back of his head mildly annoyed by his lack of knowledge of magic. "OW! What was that for??" he asked rubbing his head with a grimace.
"For not understanding the basics of magic," she shouted back her face bright red and sighed. "Look...if you're going to be using magic it'd be a good idea to at least understand the basics of it..." She pushed Hiro down into a seat and scratched her cheek. "In magic there are 6 main elements that anyone can use regardless of their alignment; Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, and Nature magic. Each magic element, except for Nature, has weaknesses and resistances to the other elements. For example...Wind elementals are weak to Earth and Lightning magic while being heavily resistant to Fire and Water magic. Magic is-" Hiro raised his hand interrupting Jenna.
"What's an elemental?" Hiro asked curiously, a blank expression on his face.
"An elemental is a person that is aligned with a specific element that doesn't have to do with light or dark. Now, elemental magic is far more refined than most other forms of magic. It is also by far the most complicated magic that there is, as the power of spells are heavily dependant on the environment that the spell user is in, not to mention the element that the target is. For example, si-"
"How do you know what element you are?" Hiro asked, again with a clueless look on his face.
Jenna growled and clenched her fist, shutting her eyes tightly resisting the impulse to strike Hiro in the face. "You know what your element is because most of the spells, including sword spells, you know are from that one element, and because of certain characteristics that each element has, not to mention a natural affinity for that element. Like you. Your element is wind because you know a few wind sword spells, you chose a wind rune when you could have chosen from several others, and your faster then most other people are even without your wind rune. Like I was saying...since your element is wind, your spells will be stronger if you use them during windy conditions then any other condition. Being in a forest will also empower your spells." She opened her eyes to look at Hiro, who was standing near a tree off to the side staring up at the top of the tree, obviously not paying any attention to Jenna."Hey! Pay attention!" she shouted at him hitting him on the head angrily. Hiro turned to look at her, a slightly worried expression on his face.
"Where are we?" he asked curiously. Jenna blinked in understanding and looked around.
"Ah...we're...uh..." she looked at Hiro and tilted her head to the side worriedly, "I have no idea..." Hiro smiled and shrugged.
"Better figure it out fast...Crisis is coming."

Description
Hiro yawned and opened his eyes blearily looking around with a confused expression on his face. When he looked down at his arms he was startled seeing a young girl in them. After several moments, he managed to calm his thudding heart enough to remember that they had fallen asleep together, and he blushed when he remembered feeling Jenna rubbing up against him in her sleep. Her face was now so close to his that he was surprised that he hadn't noticed her there when he had woken up, and she had her lips pursed like she was gonna kiss him, causing Hiro's face to go bright red. Reflexively, he coiled his arms in front of his chest and thrust out pushing Jenna off of him. Jenna landed on her butt with a loud thud and shook her head, looking up at Hiro sleepily. She yawned and stretched, a pleased expression on her face and looked at Hiro out of the corner of her eyes suggestively. Unfortunately, the look was wasted since Hiro was so busy staring into the sky that he didn't even notice the look she gave him. She sighed annoyed and whacked him on the back of the head with a nearby branch. Hiro gasped and grabbed at his head glaring at Jenna.
"What was that for?" he shouted rubbing his head grimacing. Jenna smiled playfully and tilted her head to the side.
"For not paying attention to me."
Hiro sighed and shook his head staring at Jenna with something that came close to hate but not quite. After several minutes, Hiro shook his head and yawned his eyes closed. He blinked and raised his head as Jenna held out some kind of package to him.
"...Eh? What's this?" he wondered idly, taking the large roughly square package, slightly surprised by the weight. Jenna shrugged.
"Just something I found. I can't really use it though so you might as well have it. I'm pretty sure it's worthless anyway."
"Gee thanks..." Hiro muttered, staring at Jenna through slit eyes. He stared at the package a few moments before opening it, his eyes going wide in surprise as he saw what looked like a large steel-looking shield with a catlike design masterfully etched on it. "Hello." Jenna looked over her shoulder as Hiro held the shield in his left arm examining the alloy. "Isn't this a little expensive?" he wondered once he realized that there were really fine grains of diamondthread melded into the shield. Jenna didn't reply. She was too busy staring in fear as a slightly taller naga slithered up to her licking her lips. Jenna opened her mouth to scream as the naga rushed at her, her jaws gaping wide and crossed her arms in front of her face, even though she knew that wouldn't really help. She opened one eye slightly after several moments of nothing happening and stared as she saw that Hiro was standing in front of her, the shield in front of him somehow managing to stop the naga, and that his diamond sword was sticking out through the back of the naga's throat dripping blood.
"Dinner's canceled!" Hiro shouted as he tore the blade out through the side of the naga's throat, causing blood to fly out. The naga tried to retreat, but it could barely move. Hiro spun around low and lashed out with his blade, cutting the naga in half right where the human upper body met the snake-like lower body. Blood gushed out of both parts of the naga as it's severed parts crumpled, and Hiro stood up, watching as the blood was absorbed into the blade before sheathing it and putting the shield over the sheath. He looked over at Jenna and grinned, looking very much like a cat, especially because the pupils of his eyes were kind of slit like a cat's. "Thanks for the shield, I guess Jenna." He looked to the side a frown on his face. *Oh great...another fighting style I'm gonna have to learn...* he thought, kind of sad. *I already know martial arts, short blade, long blade, and Axe styles...now I'm going to have to learn long blade shield style!* He growled slightly looking really angry and glared at Jenna as if blaming her personally. Jenna saw the glare and inched away slightly, becoming slightly scared, but Hiro calmed down almost immediately and shook his head, a smile reappearing on his face.
"H-H-Hiro?" Jenna asked nervously, her left eye twitching somewhat. Hiro sat crosslegged on the ground and smiled cutely, his cat ears rising high off his head.
"What are you doing in the Frelaryan forest anyway?" Hiro wondered, idly scratching his right ear, occasionally meowing involuntarily. Jenna looked at Hiro curiously and looked up scratching him behind the ear as she considered the question.
“I’m looking for something here. I don’t really know how I came here though. I just woke up one day and here I was. That was like…3 days ago.” She smiled at him. “You’re pretty cute, for a cat boy.” She stifled her laughter as that mildly annoyed and angry look crossed Hiro’s face again. “What are you doing here?” she asked Hiro. Hiro looked up at the sky appearing to consider the question.
“No real reason,” he replied, shrugging the question away dismissively. “I’m just here.”
“You two need help?” a familiar question asked behind Hiro. He turned around slowly his right eye twitching and drawing his shield and sword, standing in a defensive stance as he regarded Crisis nervously. Crisis saw Hiro eyeing her nervously and giggled a little covering her mouth with one hand, leaning down so her head was lying on the ground in front of Hiro. “That’s so cute Hiro!” She opened her mouth wide in a yawn and Hiro recoiled, running away backwards trying not to fall. Jenna leaped up making a mystic sign with her hands as she closed her eyes focusing her energy. Crisis looked at her with slanted eyes, and Hiro was quick to interpose himself between Crisis and Jenna.
“Stand down!” he hissed back at Jenna, keeping his eyes on Crisis. “Calm down! I don’t think she’s gonna attack.” Jenna opened her eyes looking at Hiro in confusion as her skill went off. Hiro grimaced and grabbed at his head as an invisible blade sliced everyone in the area including Crisis. Crisis lunged at Jenna her mouth wide open.
“Jenna!” Hiro pushed her out of the way as Crisis’s mouth closed on his tail yanking him into the air as Crisis swung him playfully by the tail. “Yeeowch!”
“Hiro! You let him down right now or so help me…” Jenna said softly glaring up at Crisis. Crisis looked down at her and dropped Hiro lunging at Jenna again. Hiro used the power of his wind rune to reach Jenna before Crisis did and leaped away, carrying Jenna over his shoulder as Crisis chased after them. He leaped from tree branch to tree branch chaotically, and eventually lost Crisis, or so he hoped. He fell to his knees gasping for breath feeling extremely exhausted.
“Hiro?” Jenna asked, looking at him worriedly and kneeling next to him her hand on his shoulder.
“I’m fine…” he yawned and shook his head. “Just need to rest for a few minutes…”
“Make it fast,” Jenna warned, watching the surrounding fauna nervously. Hiro nodded sleepily as he fell asleep. “Zzz…”
Jenna smiled and shook her head stroking Hiro’s feline ears with a smile. “What a loser…” she muttered, shaking her head with a slight laugh. Hiro’s ears twitched and he rolled on his side staring into the brush with one eye keeping the eye that Jenna could see closed like he was asleep. He stared into the leaves, his left eye quivering as he heard Jenna mumbling.
“He really is kind of a loser…” Jenna muttered wiping a tear from her eye. “He’s so clueless sometimes…” She shook her head smiling and took a deep breath clenching her fists in front of her chest. “Whatever! I’ve got to remain focused! Right now all I should be thinking about is getting to the ruins in the exact middle of the forest!” Hiro yawned and sat up eyeing Jenna with a grim look in his eye.
“You just plan to use me then?” he asked quietly, the look on his face showing that he wouldn’t be surprised if she said yes.
“No,” she said, a small happy smile on her face. “I like your company Hiro, and I hope that you’ll still travel with me after this is over.” Hiro scratched himself behind the ears and sighed thinking.
“So…what do you need my help with?”
“I need the help of an expert swordsman to help me explore the ruins of Zemelgetch in the middle of this forest. My sister tried to explore it on her own and wound up being killed.”
“Then how do you know that this ruin even exists?”
“My sister sent me a spirit message just before she died telling me about it.”
“I see…” Hiro scratched his chin staring into the sky an interested expression on his face. “Let me guess…really strong enemies?”
“Yeah.”
“Traps?”
“Yep.”
“And you’ll go even if I don’t go with you I’m guessing.”
“Right again.” She looked down a determined look on her face. “So…will you come with me Hiro-kun?” she looked up at him a hopeful expression on her face. Hiro sighed and smiled at her warmly, a leaf blade in his mouth.
“I guess…not like there’s anything else to do anyway. Where’d you come from anyway?”
“I’m from Tokyo, Japan! How about you?”
“…Joren.”
"Joren?"
"Yes..."
Jenna looked away, apparently getting the hint from Hiro's voice that he'd rather not talk about it and wracked her brain trying to get another topic they could talk about. Hiro looked up at the sky, worry clearly on his mind.
"How powerful are the monsters in Zemelgetch?" he asked, making it sound like he didn't really care either way.
"I'm not sure...I've never gone there." Hiro rolled his eyes and turned away pulling out his flute. Jenna looked over her shoulder at the flute and eyed it curiously. "What kind of flute is that?" Jenna asked before Hiro could start playing it, her expression showing that she didn't really want to know the answer. Hiro scratched his head, putting the flute down.
"It's called a spell flute," he said simply before he started playing an upbeat tune on it. Jenna covered her ears with her hands so that she wouldn't get drunk again, but stopped when she realized that a different feeling was emanating from inside her this time, one that both excited and scared her at the same time.
*Could this be...?* she wondered, looking at Hiro out of the corner of her eye a small smile slowly spreading on her face. She edged slightly closer to him and leaned forward so she could look at his face, his eyes shut against the world, hearing and feeling nothing but the music. She shook her head and giggled a little when she heard a sound that was fast becoming familiar, and sighed hitting Hiro on the back of the head, knocking the flute from his grasp. Hiro turned to glare at her when he heard the sound too and stood up quickly, his blade and shield already in his hands as his tail put away the flute, looking into the direction he had heard the sound of a naga approaching.
"I don't care who you are, if you're searching for dinner find someone else to eat." Hiro's determined expression quickly turned to one of fear when he saw a naga that he had spent several months watching with blueish white hair slither into the clearing. He growled low in his throat to fight the rising terror he felt in him and shook his head defiantly. "Hello, Vivian..." he said softly, putting the shield away and grabbing his blade firmly with both hands. Vivian looked down at the pair smiling widely.
"Hello humans," she said conversationally, winking seductively at Hiro. Hiro, though, had his head down, so he didn't see the wink. Vivian sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "I wouldn't stay in this area," she said, an innocent look on her face as she played with the leaves of a branch. "There are dangerous predators here..." She looked down when she felt a rush of wind surprised to see that Hiro and Jenna were gone. "Woah...they're fast..." she blinked shaking her head then shrugged and left for her house.
Hiro sat behind a tree calming his heart Jenna standing in front of him confused. "What the..." she looked from side to side really fast then looked at Hiro. "I thought you'd been charmed by that naga." Hiro looked back at her confused and shook his head appalled.
"There's no way I'd like a naga that wouldn't give a second thought to eating me." Jenna smacked Hiro on the back of his head mildly annoyed by his lack of knowledge of magic. "OW! What was that for??" he asked rubbing his head with a grimace.
"For not understanding the basics of magic," she shouted back her face bright red and sighed. "Look...if you're going to be using magic it'd be a good idea to at least understand the basics of it..." She pushed Hiro down into a seat and scratched her cheek. "In magic there are 6 main elements that anyone can use regardless of their alignment; Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, and Nature magic. Each magic element, except for Nature, has weaknesses and resistances to the other elements. For example...Wind elementals are weak to Earth and Lightning magic while being heavily resistant to Fire and Water magic. Magic is-" Hiro raised his hand interrupting Jenna.
"What's an elemental?" Hiro asked curiously, a blank expression on his face.
"An elemental is a person that is aligned with a specific element that doesn't have to do with light or dark. Now, elemental magic is far more refined than most other forms of magic. It is also by far the most complicated magic that there is, as the power of spells are heavily dependant on the environment that the spell user is in, not to mention the element that the target is. For example, si-"
"How do you know what element you are?" Hiro asked, again with a clueless look on his face.
Jenna growled and clenched her fist, shutting her eyes tightly resisting the impulse to strike Hiro in the face. "You know what your element is because most of the spells, including sword spells, you know are from that one element, and because of certain characteristics that each element has, not to mention a natural affinity for that element. Like you. Your element is wind because you know a few wind sword spells, you chose a wind rune when you could have chosen from several others, and your faster then most other people are even without your wind rune. Like I was saying...since your element is wind, your spells will be stronger if you use them during windy conditions then any other condition. Being in a forest will also empower your spells." She opened her eyes to look at Hiro, who was standing near a tree off to the side staring up at the top of the tree, obviously not paying any attention to Jenna."Hey! Pay attention!" she shouted at him hitting him on the head angrily. Hiro turned to look at her, a slightly worried expression on his face.
"Where are we?" he asked curiously. Jenna blinked in understanding and looked around.
"Ah...we're...uh..." she looked at Hiro and tilted her head to the side worriedly, "I have no idea..." Hiro smiled and shrugged.
"Better figure it out fast...Crisis is coming."