Since the "idea" surfaced Romano had been feeling queasy. Did they really risk their lives for nothing?

Was this maze just a decoy for the A.R.T.I.C-Z.O.N.E; and was the cure there, too?

Their small group of five became a group of ten quickly. Antonio, (who turned out to be old friends with Francis,) saved an albino boy named Gilbert from an acid-induced death. And it just so happened that Gilbert was another long lost friend of Antonio's; so Romano couldn't deny letting the "stupid acid-potato sucker" into the group.

Then, Gilbert insisted on dragging along his "Bitch", which turned out to be a shy Canadian boy named…

…Marcus? Matt? …Yeah, something like that.

After a few more days of wondering around and avoiding certain death; Romano tripped over a Japanese boy named Kiku who was playing Pocket Monsters: Emerald on his GBA.

Evidentially, Alfred forced Kiku to join the team so he could play it instead.

Romano was about to pound Arthur's face into his skull around the eighth day when Antonio screamed:

"EVERYONE, LOOK!"

Everyone did. It was a little girl, dressed in rags. She had her hair in braids and was holding a giant stuffed elephant.

Romano had to let her into the group because Antonio tried to murder anyone who "would dare leave this ADORABLE LITTLE CHILD TO DIE."

She didn't talk anyway.

She only stared at everyone with a look of complete admiration. Especially Antonio.

…Probably because of his hot Spaniard ass.

Things like this kept happening until the group was complete:

Romano

Antonio

Francis

Arthur

Alfred

Gilbert

Matthew (OH YEAH!-THAT WAS HIS NAME!)

Kiku

The little girl

Yao (The Chinese man Romano heard screaming "ARU" in the pits.)

Out of everyone in the group, the girl was the most mysterious.

She didn't know English.

Kiku seemed to speak the language she spoke, ("She speaks Elvin," he said, to which Romano replied; "Pfft. Nerdy-bastard." )

The Japanese boy insisted that her name was Eurceht.

Antonio demanded everyone call her "Cehttie" from that point on.

Cehttie seemed to like her new name, after all.

-A-U-T-H-O-R-'-S-N-O-T-E:-

Thank you all for reading this far, and for not imploding when I got writer's block for a week or two.

I'd also like to say this now: I do not own APH.

And now I finished the team with my very own personification of SOMETHING, (Not a country,) Cehttie.

And, Eurceht means something IMPORTANT in the story, but don't put to much thought into it.

Life's always a little more fun with a few surprises.

~Timi