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A few days passed, and Riddle went to school, for some odd reason. He wouldn't tell anyone about it. Now that school was out for Riddle, he had finished cleaning up the shop and opened it. He had painted a large sign that said: Riddle's Candy Shop over the door. Ryo had helped put the shop together, and Riddle rewarded him every so often with a piece of candy. Riddle made sure Ryo kept his teeth clean and diet in check, so he only gave him one once each day he worked.

It was a few nights later. Ryo's friends weren't there, so Ryo had to return the candy. He and Riddle had gone out to go get more candy making supplies and groceries, and got separated in the Town Market. Riddle was looking everywhere, but Ryo couldn't be found.

Ryo was sitting in the back of a truck, completely hooded so he couldn't see. "For my own good, I hope I actually learned a good spell from Riddle!" he said. Then his body flared, burning the cloth, and Ryo escaped. He learned that he had to be hopelessly lost, because he was in the back of a shop. Maybe not too far from Riddle. One person came out back to see what was going on. It was a young lady, no older than 23. "Oh no....they struck again," she said. "Come here. Don't be frightened." Ryo backed away a couple of inches, before he realized she meant no harm. He stood up and walked towards her. "That's good. What's your name? I've think I've seen a couple of kids like you passing to go to the park," the woman said. "Ryo. I'm a Hououza Kodomo, if you don't know what it is," Ryo responded. The woman lead him inside. In the back, it was a staircase. In the front, there was a large bookshop. "Wow," Ryo said, dumbstruck. The place was as big as a library. "C'mon, time to go upstairs," the woman said, leading him upstairs. "I never got your name," Ryo asked. "Oh....I'm Miss Maurie," she responded, opening up her apartment above the shop and leading him in. "You can sleep in the guest bedroom, she said, motioning him up a second set of stairs. "Up the stairs and to your right." Ryo ran up the stairs, and hopped into the bed, propping his sword, the Phoenix Blade, against the bed and going to sleep.

Riddle returned home, crying. "Why did I have to be so stupid?" he asked. Then he got on the phone to Dian Chegrin.

Riddle, Ryo, and Miss Maurie returned to Riddle's shop, and Miss Maurie gave Riddle parenting tips. Then Miss Maurie left. Riddle's pets gave Ryo a warm welcome.

"Almost there...." Ryo said, feeling strained. Ryo began his descent, heading straight for a shop of sorts. People were giving them strange looks. But they also had them reserved for Riddle too. When they landed, they were in front of a candy shop. Ryo brought them inside and up the stairs, taking out a key from a necklace he kept hidden.

((I g2g, be on latyr!!))

Hikaro nodded solemnly. Sighing, his head dropped back against the back of the chair and he was silent. Hikaro had passed out from the blood loss. He was still alive though, very much so.

After Riddle cast the spell, the skin on his wings began to shiver and knit back together, sealing the opening that was made when his feathers were torn from his skin. After the skin was in one piece again, red blood cells began to reform and circulate through his body. The only thing that wasn't made right again were his feathers, but they would grow again, in time.

((g2g, for real now)) crying

Raven had been kinda dazed for a while ((Accually his RPer was outside washing a car.. X_X )) but watched the events of the healing a little.. awkwardly.

"...... crying I want my mom..." he sobbed, curling up into a ball. "Or Ebola.. or Aurora....." sniff sniff.