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Seekubey has ran all the way from courtyard 2 to the mountaons as a dog in orderto sit and think. he transforms bak to his human self and notices a small smoking lake, he takes off his clothes and dips in the hot spring. "Aaaawww! This is the life, l just need a swim suite now." Lays head back and chuckles thinking about himself in a speedo.

After leaving Galea and saying her goodbyes, she left Feena and went up to the Cliff. This was her first time up on the cliff, but it felt good to sit somewhere where no one could bother you what so ever. She henched down on the ground, her knee's up to her chest as she wrapped her arms her knee's like she was protecting herself from danger. She remembered her dreams when she was little, she wanted to become a hero from zero. She was very silly girl when she little. She hugged tightly on her legs as if it was giant teddy bear and seemingly closed her enchanting lavender eyes.

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"Mother Marissa!!! Mother Marissa!!! Guess what! Guess what!! I caught a butterfly just for you!!! Look at it!! Can i keep it?!!"

This was the voice of Sakura Ai when she was six years old, a year before she was "exiled' from Heaven and was when she was just beginning to live with her guardian ever since her mother passed away. She opened her hand and there was a monarch in the palm. Her eyes filled with joy, she felt like dancing in the fields. She has never seen or touched a butterfly, but she heard stories about them.

"Thats a very beautiful butterfly you have there, Ai. But you should set it free, it only knows it's environment, the wilderness. What would you do if you were captured and taken to another place? How would you feel?" Mother Marissa said with a reassuring smile, and placing her hand gently ontop of Ai's head. Mother Marissa was very angelic and holy, she had long blonde/silver hair. Her eyes were the color of the depths of the oceans and her touch was very warm. She could soften a troubled heart easily.

Ai listened closely to what Marissa has said, she looked back at the butterfly and then back at Marissa. She was right, Ai couldn't keep the butterfly it would be wrong. How would she feel if someone taken her to another environment that she doesn't know. She would feel un safe and sorrow. Ai loved Heaven so much, she wanted to wrap her arms around it and smile. Knowing that she had tasted what Heaven can really be like.

"Okay. I'll let it go" she said with a heavy sigh. She thought it would be great if she had a pet butterfly, well thats what the mind of child goes. If they see something soo adorable or cute they want to hug it or keep it. She crossed her arms and sat down on the steps of the orthodox. Marissa chuckled lightly as she smiled. Ai was so cute when she pouts or when she didn't get what she wanted.

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Sakura Ai, now close to the age of seventeen, opened her eyes slowly as she watched the sun go down. Today has exuasted her in some ways, and she felt like she was living in two worlds at two times. Her life in Heaven and her life in Earth. She slowly let her legs straightened out as she layed on her back. She could feel grass blades rubbing on her back as her enchanting lavender eyes followed the outlining of the clouds. She began to chuckle. She saw a few clouds shaping as her friends and family.

Look..there is one clouds shaped as drunk Joy. Oh! and that one looks like Tiffy is going shopping and Kiyowa holding her bags looking annoyed. Typical them. Ha! and that one looks like Butch making fun of Oliver's unmanlyness, such fun times that was. and that one looks like when Poppy and Kurai and myself on that motor boat, risking our butts to save Oliver. That was my first trip in Ria. And that one looks like Makie and Nohea.

She began to laugh at the clouds but more at her memories. Such sweet memories, where have they gone? She wished she could go back in time and hug all the people who showed her kindness. Her laughter soon echoed throughout the Ria area.

It was the face of hell itself, it was the face she dreaded to never see or kill in that matter. WHen she was a slayer and madness ruled her she went on a massive search for Iredezria and Ivy. The two targets who ruined her life in the first place, the two people who destroyed her happiness, and her heart. Sakura Ai has no heart. And she never will gain it back. All she wanted was revenge.

Until..that is when she came to Ria. She was granted kindness for driving her sorrow and pain away. She was given a shelter or rufuge or a place hse could call home. Her heart began to beat again and grow stronger and warmer. A warm place just for her! Was that all she wanted, yes it was. And god granted that wish. But the funny thing is, she doesn't believe in god. She's just an angel. Not fallen nor dark. Just one simple angel.

But then why did this being of shadows crawled its way into her new territory? Was everything around trying to break her heart? Did she still have tears she still has not shedded? Was there something holding her back? She does not know. BUt what she does know. Is that the same madness that drived her to become a mute was blooming again. Another day of grief has arrived. Her wings popped out as the shadows of Iredezria drew upon her sanctuary.

Flying a few feet away from Irendezria she let her heart grow in anger and rage that will make her a mute again. Will it be another ten years for to smile and speak again? Maybe. She forced a celestial orb in her hand. That orb began to duplicate into more and more orbs, until it circled her body. Her teeth grided with pain when she said the three most words she's been wanting to say to Iredezria.

"I hate you!"

With that she thrusted her orbs straight out at Iredezria, but then falling to her knee's after it. Her hands cletching her head as the pain pumped her heart or more like draining the joy and happiness away. She was sweating horribly fast as she felt her body vibrate. It was her shadowmancer blood. She was changing, yet again.

Her Shadowmancer form was the form she killed alot of devils, but not just devils when she was in the form back then in her slayer days, she can be so blinded in rage that she killed innocent children and people! With no emotion what so ever. It was also the same form that she got caught in by another angel and was sentenced to be locked away after high school.

Slowly, and painfully, her long lavender hair shanged to a thick raven black color, almost like pools of black blood. Her white-purple tipped wings changed to a brown black color, a color of death. Her eyes were a lost grey color, a color that can only see what she is thinking. Her skin changed to a frail perfect color to an white pale color. Her uniform changed as well, to a long slender frilly brown dress. There upon her hands came a red rose.

"...Till death do us part.." she said, her mind was somewhere else. No longer reconizing her enemy, Irendezria. She was thinking of someone else, someone from a long time ago. In an imaginary place.

((This is what her Shadowmancer form looks like: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/MaidanofGray/normal_The_Haunted_Love_Angel.jpg ))

((Are you losing your RP touch, Kathleen? XD))

It was almost like a dance. Yes. A dance. When Iredezria thrusted her attacks at Ai, who was now in shadowmancer form, she dodged them actually more like dancing away from them. But she took one blow, one slash hit her shoulder. Which a piece of clothe fell off and her shoulder began to bleed. But that didn't bother her, since she no longer felt anything. She doesn't remember anyone in Ria, nor can feel, or touch anything when she was in Shadowmancer. Her face didn't change, it was still emotionless yet calm. Like she knew what she was doing for once. But this wasn't Ai, the real Ai was locked somewhere inside.

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"Where am i? Is this what death feels..? Its so cold." the real Ai said to herself in her mind. While her shadowmancer took over her body the real angel sat inside. Curled up in the depths and coldiest of her mind. Her knee's up to her chest as she wrapped her arms around her knee's, hugging them, as if someone was about to kill her and this was her only way of protection.

Her eyes were glazed over, fear was in heart, her body was lightly shaking as she saw shadows all around her. Shadows were also wrapping themselves around her body, making her glued to where she was so that she could never return to her life again. Was this death? Was death wen your heart dies off even if your still breathing.

She gussed so.

Slowly, she closed her once bright lavender eyes and drifted off to sleep, a long sleep. Where she could return to once forgotton bliss. Was she finally at her grave? It seemed that every second she was wanting to die. To forget everything, was death a soothing thing. She heard once you die you no longer feel anything, so would that mean her pain would be gone. That pain that never leaves. She slowly let the shadows crawl into her light. That light that once greeted all her friends, disapearing.

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Shadow Ai slowly danced her way towards Iredezria, she dropped her rose as her body seemed to radiate in a soft light. A light that was from the moon, the moon that can change Ai at what she feels. Thats why most of the time Ai is happy to keep her shadow form away. This would mean that the moon was now showing its dark side. She dropped the red rose onto the ground, once she did that the rose slowly withered away into nothingness.

"I don't want to fight here. I want to fight there." she said as she pointed at a building. It was the church. It seemed that Shadow Ai's mind was thinking that the church was the othrodox back at her heaven home. She wants to remember everything by fighting in the church, thats where she'll fight her full potential. And she knew Iredezria wasn't even showing her full poptential nor even playing around with Shadow Ai. SHe was being lazy.

"Meet me there" she said emotionless, her face a shade of frosted cold as her dead wings spreaded out and soon flew down to the church. Where, her battle was start once again.

((Kathleen, I'll post tomorrow at the church))

Oni and Tetsuo made it to the Serine Cliff near sunset. It was the most beautiful scene Oni had ever been able to see. She had seen the sun set in the clearings in the woods near her home with Tetsuo before, but nothing could compare to what she was seeing now. With Tetsuo on her shoulders, she slowly walked towards the edge of the cliff, looking at the woods below. Sitting at the edge of the cliff, she began to think about her life so far. She had never known her parents, or if she even had any. Tetsuo was there her whole life; he was her guardian, her savior. Were it not for him, she would have died alone in the woods. Oni then realized that Tetsuo was her parent, in a way. He had helped her go through every little change she came upon, and now, she needed to help him. His body was out there somewhere, and Oni had to find it.

Laying next to Tetsuo, Oni swore her life to finding a way to turn her guardian back to normal. No matter what it took to do so. Slowly, as the sun disappeared in the distance and stars began to dot the sky, Oni fell asleep.



Several hours later, Oni awoke with a start only to find that her head lay limp over the side of the cliff. Carefully sitting upright, she realized how cold it had gotten. If she hoped to find Tetsuo's body, she would have to take better care of herself. Of course, Tetsuo was still asleep; curled up in a little furry panda ball. Oni picked him up and held him across her arms as one would a child, and carried him to the dorm to sleep.

What Dante is wearing.
Dante rode his motorcycle like a banshee back towards Ria high, yet stopped in front of the gates. Looking from behind his glasses at the school he'd made a second home, he sighed, shaking his head. He needed time to think... and a place to do so. He smiled weakly, thinking of the perfect place. Stopping the bike at the bottom of the serene hill, Dante dismounted, his attire just...slightly different. he wore a black pin stripe suit with a red undershirt, his usual Pendant dangling from his neck as he stuffed his hands into his pockets, looking up the hill with eyes encased behind obsidian glass. He climbed to the top, near a cliff as he drew a deep breath, exhaling in a slow sigh as he watched the sun going down. His mind was relaxed as he thought of the events at Ria...and of everyone there. Could he really still complete his mission? Could he really do what he set out for in the first place? He shook his head violently, his ivory hair falling ito his face as he stifled a grin, laughing at his own ignorance. he suddenly calmed down and felt a familiar reiatsu... yet it had been a while since he last felt it. Turning and walking down the side of the cliff a bit, he found the source: Joy. he hadn't seen Joy in a long time...it seemed she avoided him like the plauge after he saved her life from Kurai and Rene. He'd heard she won the STAR test, and was happy it'd been her and not that Yusake b*****d. He walked up behind Joy slowly, his hands still in his pockets as he spoke, his tone low and holding its usualy sensualness as his actual appearence was actually quite favorable and sexy. He smiled as he spoke, trying to relive tension, as well as mask the fact that he was happy to see her. "Well....look who it is. The last person I expected to see out here....How have you been Joy...?"