((Warning: Mature content in this chapter.))

The day went on silently for the four travelers except for when Sam freaked about Bernie changing from a dog to a Jaguar so his body could accommodate the weather better. It was going to take Sam some getting used to with all the magic he was sure he was going to be seeing. He felt a little out of place occasionally because he was so amazed by it all while it was so normal to them. But he still wouldn't have it any other way. He finally felt as if he was doing something right instead of wandering the world aimlessly.

"Damnit!" John shouted gripping the Macrocosm tightly in his hand so he wouldn't throw it like he wanted to.

Six frowned and looked back at him. "What's your problem?" She stopped walking and turned her body towards him.

"The light keeps jumping around." He said completely exasperated. "It'll be pointing east, then west, then east again in a matter of seconds."

Six frowned and took the small stone from his hand, holding it up to the sun. "I don't think something like this can be broken." She said looking for any cracks or chips but finding none. She held it back out to him and shook her head. "We don't have a choice but go in whichever direction it's pointing and it seems it settled on east for the time being so let's keep going."

"What if it switches back to west? We aren't going to make any progress hoping around." Anna said from behind them.

"Should we split up?" Sam asked.

"No, if something were to happen we all need to be together." Six said dismissing his suggestion, continuing forward. "Let's just see what happens."

Anna rolled her eyes. "That never works out." She said following behind Six and John.

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"Six, it's getting dark." Anna said for the third time. "The light stopped jumping, let's take the opportunity to get some sleep."

"If the light has stopped now is the time to keep moving." She argued.

"Some of are tired." She complained.

"You mean your human is tired." She spat.

Sam glanced at Anna before lowering his gaze to the ground feeling his face get hot with embarrassment.

Anna clenched her fist and punched out towards her, knocking her down. Six threw her arms out and caught herself before her face hit the ground. She whipped her head around and glared at Anna as she stood from the ground. "You want to have at it?" She shouted tossing her bag down and taking a quick step towards her, but John put his arm around catching her around her middle.

"Come on!" He shouted.

Anna shrugged, completely unthreatened by Six. "Sorry, it's from the sleep depravity. I thought you were a Mog."

"We don't have time for this." John said to Anna seriously. "Let's keep going for a little longer and then set up camp." He said to the both of them. "Quit acting like children."

"Yes sir, Henri." Anna saluted. John rolled his eyes and grabbed Six's bag off the ground and handing it to her. She snatched it from him glaring at Anna once more before walking forward.

"Don't start fights over me." Sam whispered to Anna.

Anna rolled her eyes. "Don't start, Sam, you know how I am."

A smile tugged at his lips but he tried to stay serious. "I know, but please. Just try to be the bigger person."

Anna looked up at him. "Since I'm clearly the tallest person here." She said sarcastically.

Sam laughed and pulled her close to him, kissing her temple. "You know what I mean."

She shoved him playfully. "Blah, blah." She joked, lacing their fingers together and walking close to him before her grip became painful tight in an instant and she gasped.

Sam yanked his hand away. "Ow!"

Anna glanced at his hand. "Oh, sorry." She said with a guilty look on her face.

"What's wrong?" John asked looking for anything out of the ordinary.

Anna pointed to their right. "Do you see that?" She asked almost excitedly. "It looks like fire." She said with a smile. "Do you think a village is nearby?"

"We can't just waltz into a village." Six said seeing the flicker of light Anna was talking about.

"They could have information about who we are looking for." She offered. "Maybe he passed by too? I don't know, it couldn't hurt to at least try. Mogs would never think of searching for us there."

Six seemed to be debating whether or not to go, tapping her fingers on her backpack strap.

"It really couldn't hurt to try." John said. "Maybe they are friendly and we can sleep there?"

Six cursed under her breath. "Fine." She said, her accent thick. "Just be on high alert."

"There is really no reason to be so uptight, the Sinhalese people are generally friendly but highly religious." Sam said his voice quieting at the way Six stared him down. "So…lay off the super powers thing 'cause they will probably try to exercise you."

Anna laughed and took his hand, carefully, and walked with him towards the village. They had been a lot closer than it looked. After a few minutes of walking through the thick underbrush and moss they arrived at the entrance of the village. They stood behind a few trees trying to see what they were going to walk in to.

There were huts made of thick twigs and straw scattered about the open area. People were walking about barefoot and wrapped in sarama's. There was a large fire burning to the left of the huts and a few villagers were sitting around it.

"Doesn't seem dangerous." Anna said in a hushed tone. She looked over to John and Six who seemed to approve. "Why don't you guys go ahead? I'm going to scoop out the area to make sure it's safe." She said turning away from them. She felt Sam's hand around her wrist and she stopped and turned to him. "What?"

Sam looked uneasy, he licked his lips nervously. "Are you sure you should go alone?" He asked a frown forming on his face. He didn't like the idea of her traveling the forest by herself, no matter how capable she was of taking care of herself.

Anna smiled. "I'll be fine and fast." She said trying to ease his worry. "I'm just going to fly around once and I'll be back before you know it." She floated off the ground and kissed his lips once before floating away with a wave. "Watch out for him, John." She said taking off like a bullet.

"I think she forgets you and I were friends before you two were a thing." He joked to Sam who laughed.

The three of them walked out of the trees and towards the forest while Bernie climbed a tree to keep an eye on them. A jaguar would probably raise alarm to the poor villagers. Then again aliens would raise higher alarm, but they wouldn't mention that.

As they neared the village the villagers stopped and started whispering and pointing. The men of the village, who still seemed timid, approached the three of them. They looked them over carefully noticing their odd attire.

The man in the center nodded at them and spoke to them in his native tongue. When none of them replied he frowned and repeated himself.

"Uh, English?" Sam said glancing at Six and John. "Um…McDonalds? iPods? Americans?"

The man seemed to understand the last word and a smile broke out across his face. "'Merican!" He exclaimed. "Yes, come, come!" He said opening his arms out and gesturing for them to go to the fire.

The three of them smiled at each other and walked with the man towards the fire who was shouting 'Mericans' and speaking in a language they didn't understand. He turned to them with a grin. "Many 'Merican come and teach us many things." He said in his attempt at English, and it wasn't half bad.

"You stay here this night." He said as they reached the warm fire. He gestured for them to sit on an empty log and they did so.

"Thank you sir." John said a little awkwardly, afraid to use words he might not know. "Very kind of you, very nice." He felt like he was speaking to him like he wasn't competent.

He nodded and smiled. "I get food, yes?"

"Oh, that'd be great." Six said with a polite smile, as polite as she could manage. Her face always held a little bit of sass in her expressions.

The man nodded and walked away from them leaving them with the other few villagers around the fire to stare at them with smiles and whisper.

"I guess Anna was right to suggest coming here." Six said to the two guys on her right. She took her bag off and set it beside her feet, resting her elbows on her knees. "Let's still try to leave before the wake." She said in a hushed tone.

"How do we get information out of them about seeing one of us without telling them about us?" John asked quietly.

"Maybe we can say we are here to be blessed by a God and see if they know where one lives?" Sam suggested.

John smiled and wrapped his arm around his head, rubbing his fist on top of her hair, messing it up. "I'm so glad you came." He said finally releasing him when Sam tried to push him off.

"I thought I asked you to look out for him, not bully him." Anna's voice came from behind, amusement in her tone.

They turned to her and smiled. "I assume we are good for the night?" John asked as Sam stood to approach her.

"Nothing weird going on." She confirmed.

As Sam neared her a lady by the fire started screaming. Everyone jumped and tried to see what could be wrong when she started pointing at Anna. When other villagers looked to see who she was pointing at they started to panic as well.

Anna looked around as the villagers started screaming angrily at her. "W-what did I do?" She questioned backing away from them, fear evident in her eyes.

"Demon! Demon!" A woman cried.

Anna shook her head and held her hands up in surrender. "I'm not a—" Her eyes. "Shit." She cursed under her breath. The others all had normal colored eyes, hers were far from it.

Sam took a step towards her but she glared at him. "Don't." She said between her teeth.

The man who had escorted Sam, Six and John pushed through the crowd towards them. He gasped seeing Anna and touched his forehead, chest, and shoulders in a cross symbol. "You!" He pointed to the three of them. "You bring demon here?" He shouted.

"I don't know those humans." Anna spat at the man who quickly turned his attention back to her.

"You speak they language." He accused.

Anna shrugged. "So do you."

"Leave demon!" He hollered picking up a stone and throwing it at her. Anna stopped it before it hit her and threw it back at him without even touching it. It just barely missed his head. She could see sweat drip down from his forehead.

The villagers all picked up rocks and started throwing them in her direction. She put a force field around herself and let it deflect the rocks. She glanced at the three of them sadly mouthing she was sorry. She sent a blast of energy from all around her, knocking the villagers back and into each other.

"I could kill you all in a second if I wanted, but you aren't worth it." She said, her eyes glowing. She grinned wickedly before turning away and heading back towards the village. When she was out of sight she let her eyes return to normal, as normal as they were. "Assholes." She growled, walking a little further into the forest to set up her tent.

"Do demons come here often?" John asked the man who still seemed shaken.

He shook his head. "No. Gods protect us."

Sam couldn't tear his eyes away from the forest. It was taking everything inside of him to not go after her. He could only imagine what she was thinking, what she was feeling. He clenched his fists angrily that they had reacted that way. But he couldn't have expected anything different. Why didn't she deny it though? She could have tried but instead she protected them when it wasn't necessary.

"Do Gods ever visit you?" Six asked dusting herself off. That was the second time Anna had knocked her down.

"They send blessings sometimes." He said. "We only get lucky one time to see."

John and Six exchanged glances and pressed further. "When?"

The man looked up at the sky trying to pick his brain for an answer. "Not long time back. He bring much fruit with him. Fix our homes."

"Was he very strong?" Six asked.

"Stronger than all us." He confirmed before moving to help other villagers up.

"So he has been here." Six whispered to John whose attention had drifted off towards the forest. "She'll be fine, she said the area was clear so focus."

He tore his gaze away and made eye contact with her. "This island isn't very big, we should find him soon enough." He said with a nod. "Let's make ourselves look good and help." He said motioning to the falling villagers. Six nodded and turned to help people.

John moved to Sam and put his hand on his shoulder. "Go." He whispered before moving to help the villagers.

Sam glanced at John in shock. Wouldn't that make them look bad? He looked about discretely and saw no one was even paying him any attention. He strolled away slowly as if he was looking around in awe. When he was out of sight he took off running. "Anna." He whispered loudly hoping she hadn't gone far. "Anna?"

He heard the sound of something zip and he paused feeling the hair on the back of his neck stand. "A-Anna?"

"Sam?" Her voice rang clear in his ears and he relaxed. He looked around until he spotted her approaching. His eyes lit up and he nearly ran to her only to slow seeing her eyes were wet. "Are you alright?" He asked concerned.

Anna wiped her eyes and smiled. "Of course I am." She said beaming at him. "I'm assuming you are stuck with me tonight?" She questioned.

Sam smiled. "I wouldn't have it any other way." He said grabbing her hand and gestured for her to lead the way.

She guided him a short distance to where he tent was, the moon was there only light, but it was beautiful. Anna unzipped the tent and crawled in, Sam close behind. When he was in she zipped it up and turned to him, kneeling down on the blanket she had laid out. It was only for cushion since it was so humid they wouldn't need one to sleep with.

"Thank you for coming back, Sam." She said pulling her hair up. "You didn't have to." She wrapped it up loosely in a bun to keep it off of her neck and out of her face.

Sam shook his head. "Yes I did." He cupped his hand over her cheek before feeling the motion was out of character and pulling away. "You would have come for me, I know you would."

Anna smiled at him. "Let's get some sleep." She said as she unbuttoned her sheer white blouse.

Sam turned his head away from her to give her what little privacy he could in the small tent. He went to keep busy and take his shoes off but something covered his head, laughter filling the tent. He pulled the shirt off and looked over to Anna who was in a tank top that had different colored shapes decorating it and a pair of black sweat shorts.

"Loosen up, Sam." She said playfully. "It's okay to look." She moved towards him carefully, looking him in the eyes. "Don't you want to?"

"Of course." He said too quickly. "I just don't want to make you uncomfortable." He watched her carefully as she climbed on top of him, running her fingers through his hair. "Anna?"

She smiled at him before capturing his lips with her own, not bothering to start out slowly. Licking his bottom lip for entrance he quickly complied, locking their tongues together in an elegant battle. He grabbed her hips and cautiously flipped them over so he was on top of her, pressed against her center.

Anna tugged at his shirt pulling at the bottom until he broke away for a moment to pull it the rest of the way off. The moonlight danced beautifully against his skin. Anna ran her fingers up his flat stomach and to his chest which was surprisingly firm. She smiled at him seeing his gaze was watching her carefully, as if waiting for her disapproval. "Beautiful."

Sam looked in her eyes looking for any sign of dishonesty and when he found none he smiled, capturing her lips again. He ran his hand up one of her thighs as she wrapped her legs around him. Anna moaned into his kiss pulling him closer to her, wanting to feel friction. Sam kicked his shoes off and removed his shorts just as quickly, breaking away from their kiss to find a sweet spot on her neck. Anna dug her nails into his back and moaned aloud rocking her hips against his harden shaft.

Sam closed his eyes tight trying to keep a clear head, but Anna was making it hard. "Anna…we shouldn't…"

She took her shirt off as well as her shorts and leaned up kissing him sweetly. "Why not?" She whispered in his ear before nibbling on it. She kissed along his jaw line until she reached his neck trailing sweet kisses to his adams apple.

"A million reasons." He said through shallow breaths.

Anna laughed as her hands trailed down to his briefs. "Give me one."

Sam could feel his arms tremble and his heart race with excitement. "Protection." He managed to say.

Anna reached into a pocket on her backpack and held out a condom. "Another please." She said tearing off a corner with her teeth.

Sam gulped nervously. "Why do you have that?"

"Another please." She said ignoring his question.

"I am…no good." He said unable to mask his embarrassment. "I haven't…before…"

"Neither have I." Anna said not phased by his confession.

Sam looked at her with surprise. "Really? But you are so pretty you could have any guy you wanted."

Anna shrugged. "Not that kind of girl."

Sam took the condom from her. "You sure you want me?"

Anna pulled his briefs down as far as she could from where she was. "I want you so bad." She said lust in her eyes.

Sam kicked his briefs off the rest of the way and attentively removed her black underwear. He stared at her in awe. "You are so perfect, Anna." He said kissing her lips sweetly.

Anna took the condom from his hand, never breaking their kiss, and carefully slipped it on him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and opened her legs up for him. Sam broke their kiss and looked into her eyes. "Just tell me if I go to fast." He said as he lowered himself to her entrance and eased in.

Anna frowned and moved away from him at the feeling of pressure. Sam looked at her cautiously. "You okay?"

She nodded. "Yeah, it just felt weird." Maybe that was the way it was supposed to feel?

Sam nodded and pushed forward again and Anna winced, he immediately stilled. "Am I hurting you?"

"Maybe…a different angle would help." She said lifting her lips towards him more. She nodded giving him the okay.

Sam pressed forward again getting lost in the feeling of her hot, tight center swallowing him.

It hurt. Why was it hurting? She closed her eyes trying to ignore the pain but it was only getting worse. She felt as if she was being ripped apart from the inside. Her face contorted into pain."Ah. W-Ow, ow!" She pushed him away quickly and closed her legs.

Sam immediately felt guilt. "I-I'm so sorry, Anna." He said reaching out for her but she withdrew. His heart ached seeing the look in her eyes and he had caused that. "Are you alright?"

"I think so." She said as the feeling faded as if it never happened. "I think you must be too big…" She said looking up at him.

Sam felt his pride swell but didn't get caught up in what she said. "Anna, I doubt that's it." He said gathering their close sensing the moment had passed. "It…usually doesn't feel very good for girls the first time around—or I mean that's what I've heard."

"Why didn't you tell me that before we got started?" She asked flabbergasted.

Sam was shocked. "What? You initiated and came prepared, I thought you would know."

Anna shook her head. "Of course I didn't." She pulled her clothes on. "I only know what I've heard other girls talk about and they all bragged about it being great not torture."

Sam felt guilt squeeze him. "Please don't say it like that, I really feel bad about hurting you." He said pulling his cloths on as well.

"It's not your fault." She muttered.

Sam pulled his shorts back on and moved towards Anna when a rustle outside paralyzed him. His eyes widened and he looked towards the opening of the tent where the noise came from. "What was that?"

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