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The guard nodded.

"Very well." he replied.

"I'll need you to come with me." he told her.

"Just so I can get an official statement." he said further.

"GRAH!" the drunken man then shouted, and started to flee from the scene.

A security guard approached them, and crossed his arms.

"What happened here?" he asked.

Kyle chimed in, telling him exactly what had happened.

"All right, out you go." he told Terrance.

"Will you be pressing charges?" he then asked Lily.

Before he knew what was happening, he felt immense pain in his chin.

He grabbed his face and howled in agony, as he stumbled back and fell on his ass.

"ARGH!" he yelled.

"ASSAULT!" he shouted, as a crowd started to draw.

".....ugh." Kyle grunted, shaking his head some.

The man growled again, and grabbed her hand.

"Listen, here." he said, his grip tightening.

"Enough of this pussy crap." he told her.

"We're takin' this outside!" he barked.

"NOW." he finished, before yanking her arm. Hard.

The man gnashed his teeth when Lily said what she did.

"That's it." he said.

"Wanna take this outside?" he asked.

"Terrance, don't!" Kyle pleaded, before looking at Lily.

"I'm so sorry." he apologized.

"He's had too much to drink, and he shouldn't even be out and abou-" he told her, before Terrance interrupted again.

"I SAID shut it, Kyle." he growled.

"Shrimp. You. Me. Outside. NOW." he barked at Lily.

The person just growled.

"Excuse me?" he asked.

"Are you... threatening me...?" he asked her.

"Listen here, shrimp." he then growled, grabbing her shirt.

"You need to learn some respec-" he started to tell her, before his friend stepped up.

"Terrance, just drop it." they said.

"Shut up, Kyle." the first one snapped.

"There's a place called 'The Boar's Tusk' nearby." Andrew replied.

"Simple, rustic, but charming and comfortable." he told her.

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As she stopped in the middle of the mall, pondering what was wrong with her, someone bumped into her as they were backing up. She stumbled forward, and the individual turned around, looking indignant.

"Hey." they said.

"Move it." they growled.

"You don't own the entire mall, here. Get out of people's way." they then snarled.

Andrew just sighed.

"I don't think that's ever going to stop, Anna." he told her, as Luke rejoined them.

"Lucky you." he then said to Lily.

"You could have ended up anywhere in the world." he told her.

"But you happened to end up by the guild somehow."

Andrew just shook his head some.

"This is something you'll never grow out of, is it?" he asked rhetorically.

As the snake vanished, she suddenly felt it wind up and coil around her again, before it seemed to come back into view.

"It should be undetectable to anyone but you now." Luke told Lily.

"Impressive." Andrew said.

"Now come on, we need to get our nightly lodgings, now that we're back together again." he told them, echoing Anna's statement.

The snake looked back at Luke, and got even closer, slowly uncoiling from around Lily, and coiling around Luke.

"...." Luke continued to remain silent, until the snake was completely coiled around him.

The serpent flicked its tongue around, seeming to take in all of Luke, before slithering off of him, and in front of Lily.

"You'll need to... eat this if you... want to avoid trouble and... st-stay with Lily..." Luke said quietly.

The snake responded by raising its head, wrapping its tongue around the bloom, and taking it into its mouth. It then swallowed the bloom, and started to coil back around Lily.

Ash just nodded.

"Yep." he said.

"Later, Lily." he said to her.

"See ya, guys." he then told Anna and Andrew. They waved to him, as he took a step back and disappeared in a burst of black fire.

Luke was shaking visibly, but pushed himself forward, extending the bloom towards the snake.

The snake flicked its tongue out at the bloom, before inching closer towards Luke. It stared him right in his eyes, before looking back at Lily, as though awaiting direction.

Luke plucked the flower out of the ground, and made his way towards Lily and her snake.

As he approached, the snake became quite on-edge, as Lily noticed.

It tightened up a little, but extended its head forward, opening its mouth and baring its fangs at Luke.

Luke flinched and took a small step back, as the snake hissed warningly.

Luke was silent as he was told that, and gulped.

"R-right." he stammered.

He then placed his hands on the ground, his fingers gently digging into the soil, and concentrated.

"....." he seemed to be concentrating hard, before taking a hand out, grabbing a bottle of water, and pouring some into the soil slowly, for about 5 seconds, before stopping.

He then put his hand back into the ground, and concentrated even harder... just as a flower started to grow out of the ground.

Its large size, wide petals, and light purple colour, told them all one thing.

Luke had succeeded.

Luke was silent for a moment.

".....all right." he replied.

"I'll try." he said.

"I... I'll try." he repeated, as there was a sudden burst of black flames before them.

When they died down, Ash and Lily stood there, with the snake still coiled around the latter.

"And we're here." Ash commented.