Makoto groaned as rays of light started to shine on her face. She reluctantly opened her eyes, knowing that she was going to have to wake up so that the group could leave as soon as possible. She was usually an early riser, but, due to last night's events, she was up later than she should've been. She stared at the wall of the group's makeshift shelter for a few minutes before Makoto finally sat up with a yawn. She started to get ready to stand up, but instead she ended up jumping a bit in surprise when she heard a groan beside her.

Alice was sleeping deeply, the sudden movement causing her to shift to the side. Makoto tried to wake her up by shaking her shoulder, but Alice just let out a groan of displeasure and unconsciously pulled the blankets closer to her face. This went on for a few minutes with there being little success of waking Alice up.

Makoto let out a sigh but decided to give up trying to wake Alice up for now. She stood up and walk over to where Mana and Aguri were sleeping. She started to lightly shake Aguri. "Hey come on. It's time to get up."

Aguri groaned, but opened up one of her eyes in response. "Okay, just give me a minuet."  Aguri moved around in the blankets for a little bit, before she sat up. "What time is it?" she asked while blinking the sleep out of her eyes.

Makoto glanced outside for a moment. "It looks like late morning. But it's not like any of our watches work, so I have no idea. Maybe 10:00 at the earliest?"

That seemed to immediately wake Aguri up. "Crap! We were planning on leaving early so that we could cover as much ground as possible today! At this rate we'll be lucky to leave by noon!" She quickly sprang to her feet and ended up throwing her blankets at the pixie's, who all gave various squeaks of displeasure from being woken up. She walked over to Mana and pulled the blankets from both on top of her and underneath her, which caused Mana to let out a yelp as she tumbled. "Come on Mana wake up! We have to get going!"

Makoto struggled to hold in a laugh at her friend's antics. She looked over to where Rikka was supposed to be sleeping and was surprised to see that she wasn't there. "I'm going to go look for Rikka. Hopefully she hasn't wondered off again," she said.

"Okay, I'll be out there in a minute to make breakfast," Mana said groggily. "If you can't find her, then food might draw her out," she joked.

Makoto nodded and walked outside. She didn't need to look around for long because she heard a sudden crash followed by an ow from behind her. Makoto turned around to see Rikka sitting on the ground and holding her arm. It was pretty obvious that she was the one that crashed.

Makoto quickly ran over to her and helped Rikka up. "Rikka are you okay? What in the world were you even doing?!" It took her a second to notice that Ira was laughing hysterically from on top of the broken jet. "And what is he doing here?!"

"What a guy can't just sit and enjoy the view?" Ira said the smile never leaving his face.

Makoto gave him a glare, showing that she was not amused. "If you tried to hurt Rikka I swear I will-"

"Makoto calm down. I'm fine," Rikka said effectively cutting Makoto off. "I just slipped while I was trying to get down, and I bruised my arm. Ira had nothing to do with it. I couldn't sleep so I climbed up there and we ended up talking. The only thing that's seriously damaged is my pride."

Makoto's glare quickly shifted to Rikka. "You were talking to Ira? A member to the selfish trio. One of the people that took over my home. The boy who is our enemy!"

"I'm right here you know! Stop talking about me as if I'm not!"

"Can it Ira! I'm yelling at Rikka not you!"

"Okay fine! I'll just go to the jungle and rot because the monsters are absolutely amazing compared to you!" Ira jumped off the jet and began to stalk away.

Makoto ignored Ira's comment. But she did take a deep breath to calm herself down. " I'm sorry for yelling it's just that after everything he's done I can't help but be infuriated by him. I know you're smart and that you wouldn't talk to him without a good reason, but we can't trust him Rikka. He will try to kill us the first chance he gets."

Rikka seemed surprisingly calm despite being yelled at, but it was probably the sleep deprivation keeping her emotions in check. "I know that it's a lot to ask of you Makoto, but we have to work together with him. This is going to be a dangerous journey and from what Swift Claw told us everything that happened yesterday wasn't even close to the most dangerous thing that we'll face."

"He won't cooperate with us.  He is going to put himself first no matter what we do. If he doesn't kill us directly then he will sacrifice us if it means that it saves his butt."

"I know that it seems like a long shot, but we have to try. Ira might not be the brightest, but even you can admit that he's not dumb enough to think that he can get out of here alive alone. We don't want to die and I'm sure that he doesn't want to die. We both need to get to the Trump kingdom. The portal there requires a lot of power to open and he knows that he can't open it by himself. Working with us is his only option of getting out of here alive. I know that you're not going to like this, but I'm not asking you to like it or trust Ira. I'm asking you to trust me so that we can get out of here alive."

Makoto stared at Rikka for an uncomfortably long amount of time. Her expression was guarded and unreadable. Eventually she let out a long sigh. "Are you 100 percent sure that having him with us will benefit us?"

Rikka nodded. "I wouldn't be suggesting it to you if I wasn't."

"Okay, I don't trust him and I don't like this, but I do trust you Rikka. I'll talk to the others about this before we leave. Now lets go back to camp, Mana is probably almost done with breakfast by now," Makoto said.

Rikka hummed in agreement and followed Makoto back to their makeshift camp. The came back to an interesting sight to say the least.

There was just complete and utter chaos. Aguri was screaming and running for her life as Alice was chasing her with one of Mana's frying pans in her hands. Lance was struggling to keep up with his partner and seemed to be trying to talk some sense into her. Mana seemed to be trying to diffuse the situation, but with little luck. Daybi was in her human form and chasing after Alice. Surprisingly Ira was sitting by the makeshift cooking area, watching the scene was amusement as he calmly ate some food of his plate. The rest of the pixies were sitting in the area as well, though they were as far away from Ira as possible, watching the scene with wide eyes.

"What the hell?! Guys, I'm gone for 5 minutes and suddenly everything is in chaos!" Makoto yelled before she ran into the chaos and ended up getting caught up in it.

Rikka went over to the fire place, the only place that seemed to have any sort of peace, and sat down next to Ira.

Rikka looked at Ira with a suspicious, but in no why threatening, glare. "Ira, what did you do?"

Ira gave a look that screamed, seriously. "Wow, something goes wrong and suddenly it's the Selfish Trio member's fault. Can you not believe that I had nothing to do with this?"

"No because your a prankster and you love to cause mischief," Rikka said.

"Your lack of faith in me wounds me," Ira said dramatically. "But seriously I didn't do anything. Clovers over there wasn't getting up and it was really frustrating Little Ms. Buzzkill. So she took a cup of water and poured it over her head to wake her up. It worked, but that really pissed Clovers off so she started chasing her and somehow got ahold of a frying pan. I'm only over here because I smelled the food and Goodie Two Shoes over there said I could have some," he explained before putting a piece of food in his mouth.

"I find that hard to believe. It's true that Alice has a really bad temper, but that's only when people hurt or make fun of her friends. Other than that she's one of the calmest and level-headed people I know," Rikka said.

"AHH! ALICE I'M SORRY! I WAS JUST TRYING TO WAKE YOU UP!"

"COME OVER HERE SO THAT I CAN F**KING KILL YOU!"

"ALICE PLEASE CALM DOWN! AGURI DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM!"

"SOMEONE GET THAT FRYING PAN AWAY FROM HER BEFORE SHE HURTS SOMEONE!"

"Then again I can always be wrong," Rikka said looking at the scene with wide eyes.

"Nah, you're probably right. But due to whatever it was that happened last night Clovers over there isn't going to be acting all sunshine and rainbows for a few days," Ira said. Ira must have started making another plate of food without her noticing because he now had two and was holding out one of them to her.

Rikka hesitantly took the plate of food. "What do you mean?" she asked before taking a bite.

"Am I seriously the only one who asked that weird spirit thing what she meant by disorientated when she left Clover's body?"

"Why would you even care about that information? Wait, when did you even talk to her? You stormed off before she was done explaining everything," Rikka asked.

Ira rolled his eyes. "Obviously when you were all sleeping or at least trying to sleep in your case. I wanted to know if it would be funny to watch and I was right!" He stopped talking for a moment to laugh at the scene in front of him. "It turns out that Clovers is going to have extreme mood swings, personality shifts, a few other things that aren't really important right now, and then by the end of it she will probably feel like she got hit by a bus."

"Well that explains it. I really should have asked about that. I'm kinda surprised that your not joining in the chaos."

"If I join in then I will definitely make things worse and I need to make sure that you guys don't want to kill me so that I can actually leave this hellhole."

"I should have known you had selfish motives," Rikka said.

"ALICE PUT DOWN THE MATCHES!"

"I WILL BURN YOU ALL ALIVE!"

"TOO LATE SHE ALREADY SET THAT STICK ON FIRE!"

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

"Okay we have to go go help them," Rikka said as she got up.

"Why should I help?"

"Because Alice is about to set your jacket that's hanging on that tree branch on fire." Rikka looked over and saw that Ira was no longer next to her.

"DON'T YOU DARE SET MY JACKET ON FIRE YOU MANIAC!"

"GO TO F**KING HELL!"

Well this is going to be fun.

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Yeah I know that not a lot happened in this chapter, but it gets better I promise! Yeah, Alice is going to be a little OOC for a bit because that's what happens when you have a random stranger enter and control your body and your mind is too out of wack to even control your emotions. Don't worry she doesn't actually want to burn everyone alive, she's just pissed and needs to set some things on fire. If anyone says that there are no shenanigans with this group of middle schoolers then you are lying to yourself. I'm so glad that I got this out quicker than normal, though it still took me way too long in my opinion. Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.