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Sakura heard Verin shouting from behind her, she was able to turn her head quickly and say "No time for plans, Verin. Next time be ready before we make it out the door." She was almost near the doors of the building when she decided to stop and allow him to slide off. Sakura hoped that she wouldn't lose all of her energy due to the magic she had used. Raine caught up to the two of them along side Verin. Tucking her wings behind her Raine landed softly on the grass beside where Sakura had stopped with Orthae. She quickly pushed the doors open so that the two of them could get into the building and find someone to help Orthae out with his wounds.

"Wow, he has absolutely no care for his own brother really," Raine said looking at Sakura. "Do you want to talk to Orathae?" Sakura shook her head and drank the potion she had been given, "Naw, I'm sure he wants to rest some. Perhaps we should leave him to do just that." Raine nodded, "I at least want to pop in and make sure everything is alright before I go. You go on ahead." Sakura nodded and walked off out of the hospital, figuring she too should go to the hotsprings. Raine pushed the door to the room Orthae was in open and walked inside, "Is there anything I can do?"

Kira turned lightly red as Rivera moved towards him and put her lips to his. He closed his eyes and welcomed the pressure of her kiss, as well as adding his own pressure to the kiss. He still held her hand in his as he moved his free hand to her back, holding her as they kissed. He never felt this way about anyone before. When he was born from Kuro, he was filled with hate and thought he would never like anyone. And he doubted he would fall in love with Rivera considering they had fought before his birth into the physical world. But he guessed having a body really changed things, as well as freedom.

Kira removed himself from Rivera's lips and looked at her with the most gentle look in his eyes. "So... You plan on sneaking out tommorrow?" He asked with a slightly wimsical look on his face. "But you have two weeks before you are fully recovered?" He asked looking worried. "Are you sure you should try and get out before your time then?" He asked with his worried look still in place.

Marcus chuckled as he felt her arms wrap around his neck, he found it odd she was used to drifting with her own powers and didn't panic when her feet didn't touch the ground, yet when actualy lifted and having no control over his wings she did. In a way it was cute, in a way that made him like a typical boy...playful.

Building up momentum he ran faster as he approached the the sliding doors of the hospital, his wings curving in and ever so slightly tensing out again as he let the wind gather beneath them, well the wind that was building up from the run that was. As his pace quickened he drew closer to the doors, his grip just under Kamarias leg tightening so she didn't fall as his wings spread out more.

His eyes were locked upon the platform just outside the hospital, it would mere seconds to push off from the ground at this speed he just needed open space and good solid ground. Marcus licked his lip, his heart was racing, he loved to fly, but he never had company before, so this was exicting and he wanted it to be great. The doors were in sight, just a few moments and they would be up in the air. Grining he lowered his gaze slightly, she really was hanging on tight.

""Nice grip you got there...keep it like that till were off the ground...1...2..3!"

His voice had grown into a cheer, they left the doors and within seconds were in the sky as his foot gave an almighty shove, puching both him and Kamaria high into the air. But it didn't end there, next his wings shot out from their curve and tensed as the wind increased, lifting them higher and higher into the air.

HIs feathers where being brushed back from the strength of the wind, though the force of the wings beating rythm kept them safe and gliding in the air; the cold shapr air that was hitting against his face and forcing his hair back. HIs eyes were closed for a few seconds to get adjusted and feel the wind on his face.

"Take a look. The ground is now...well tiny"

His voice was soft yet giddy. They ahd already soared several feet into the air within a few minutes. That was one of the good things about flying. Fastest form of travel.

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Erika laughed in amusement, it wasn't very often she met guys who were quite so forward. Normaly it was her who was the forward one, it was a nice change to for someone else to be like that. Chuckling she gave a dark and playful glance as she leaned, taking his hand from her shoulder and holding it in hers as she leaned forward to meet him. Her blue green lingering upon his dark brown.

"My my aren't we the devil in disguise!"

She laughed a smooth and dark laugh as she gave him a playfulk wink before removing her face ane leaning back. She was of course just teasing, but what was life without a little fun every now and then, besides this guy was hot! She was still holding his hand as her thought wnet back to Kamaria and she chewed her lip out of habit and sihed deeply.

"She and Marcus..well When we saw him he was ok, but that was because this strange blondie healed him. Apparently before hand the nurses almost killed him..which of course upset Kamaria. But they seem ok now that she found him and knew he was ok"

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Aegle paused and smiled at Spooks as she cuaght up, she was just about to be all cheerful when her attention cuaght by the fact that Apooks didn't sound too happy at all. Pausing she hovered inches from her and gave Spooks a questioning look.

"Um you ok?"

She was going to apologise, but right now didn't seem like a good time. She would have to do it later when Spooks was slightly better...and when Lamya was busy taking over her body.

"Rivera!" Kira sprang forward when she fell back and his worry had grown. "Rivera are you alright? What's wrong?" He asked, hoping she was alright. He quickly got a cup and filled it with water. He offered her the drink hoping she was alright. God why does this have to happen...? When are Kai and Usagi gonna get back? They could really help right now... He thought urgently. Until then he would do all he could to make sure she'd be alright.

((Whenever I have to leave, I save the webpage and type the reply on Notepad at home... everytime I do that, my posts end up being two pages on microsoft word... O___o fweaky... Forgive me for the big long passages of BS-ing...))

Shaking her head vigorously, Rivera refused the cup of water. She thought she had finally gotten a chance to relax from her neverending nightmares and memories... finally gotten a chance to just forget about the past and start over from the absolute beginning. People from a company called Clover, they had taken her out of the military training camp and sponsored her education fully in the two weeks before she was transfered to Ria High... in the space of those two weeks, she had learned everything from counting to a hundred and ABCs to advanced calculus and post-grad literature, everything they gave her, she swallowed up in torrents. For her, that was a new begining, to learn everything in sight with a ravenous appetite without any knowledge of her past except for the fact that spells and incantations came naturally to her... and that she possessed a great potential that can't be fully explained by science. Then, she was transferred to Ria Highschool, and she realized that this school was a place where anything was possible, anything from changing the weather with a whimsical thought to bringing about the end of the universe... as well as finding out bits and pieces of her past by hacking into confidential databases and seeking out forbidden, enchanted records. Now she realized how much better it would be if she just left her past all alone, how much better it would be if she never knew anything of this ever again, to have no memory remaining of speech or anything... everything except the memory that the past is painful, not meant to be sought out... and the memory of...

"Kira..." Rivera looked up into his eyes. Her own were quivering rapidly, shaking back and forth, blurring her vision. At this point, her irises were a sharp silver shade. She never showed that color before either. Kira was making her open up slowly to the world, revealing emotions that she had been too confined to release or too afraid to confront. She turned her head away from him, ashamed and afraid of what she might say if she stayed to long. There were no secrets she could keep inside her from Kira. She couldn't say this in front of him. This was the one thing that she must keep a secret at all costs.

"I'm truly sorry to... to drag you into all my troubles..." She struggled to sit up again, still shaking. Rivera rolled out of bed and to her feet in the two feet wide space between her and the window by her bed, on the opposite side of where Kira was. "I wish you could just... forget about me... forget that I ever existed... All I've done is make you worry... Maybe..." It hurt her like daggers to try and say what was on her mind. Her whisper grew even softer, to where she wasn't even sure he could hear her voice anymore. "Maybe you'll be better off with a girl you won't have to worry about... I'm sorry!"

A pair of brilliant steel wings shot from her back. Each feather was as smooth as silk and as thin as paper, as bright and pure as moonlight. The edges of the feathers were deadly and sharper than some of the best razors in the world. Kuro had once encountered them when she fought him in the forest. When they burst from her back, they weren't ejected with the usual care she took to eject them. And there were no slits for them on the back of her hospital gown. The feathers instantly ripped through the bandages around her chest and the soft fabric of the flimsy, almost translucent gown, tearing it to shreds as it unfurled. Rivera dragged the sheet off the bed and around her body as she left through the opened window, like a strange white angel against the dark fabric of night. Her wings weren't fully developed for flight, only for gliding, and so she landed to conceal herself within the branches of a tree on hospital grounds, swallowed up by the darkness of the night.

Only several seconds later, Kai arrived with a bouquette of flowers. Usagihana wasn't with him, having, strangely enough, ran out of batteries after exerting so much energy arguing with him and doing whatever else she does during the day. She had returned to the dorm to recharge on stand-by. The moment he walked inside, he saw that Rivera was missing and the window was open. A single, small, steel feather was left behind on the bed. Kai knew immedieately what happened.

He turned to Kira, "What... what just happened here?" Without waiting for an answer, the blue draconian eyed Atlantean set down the flowers and began to take off the long black coat he always wore. "Anyway, don't blame yourself... I have a pretty good idea what happened. I shouldn't have left you two alone without giving you certain warnings. My bad." Underneath the heavy jacket, Kai wore a sleeveless biker top much like the type that Rivera often wore when she was training with Kairyu.jumping onto the window seat, he braced his feet against the outside wall and kept his hands on the windowsill, trying to sense her aura... it felt like she had deliberately reversed her aural presence to hide herself. Kai could formulate the exact opposite match-up of her aura by calculus. It was a few moments before he found a sure target.

"Stand back, Kira. You don't want to get slashed." Making sure that the way was clear, Kai's wings extended in a flash of silver. it was made of a darker and duller looking steel than Rivera's, but the edges were even sharper, patterned with the light and shadowy tribal markings floating beneath the surface of the steel. Pushing off from the side of the building, Kai shot straight towards Rivera's location. It would be Kira's choice whether he follows or he doesn't... Rivera was just going through some shocks. It would be over quite soon, but she would have to learn to restrain her mind from hypnosis. There were things he understood that she couldn't just say.


He found her in an elm tree, the white sheets draped around her, the long end floating below her branch with the ends of her long hair. There were small drops of blood at the center of her chest. Kai lit next to her. "Kamichama, what am I going to do with you?" Rivera looked up at him silently, bewildered and confused of what might happen next. It was all going so well... she just had to go and remember what happened. It was one of the memories she acquired from the Aquarian Ages, one she didn't think mattered until Kira stole her heart.

Kai sighed and placed two fingers on her forehead. "Your chaos level is too high. You might want to tone it down a little... it might help." Rivera felt a cool sensation spread from Kai's hand onto her skin, flooding her body. Her muscles instantly relaxed and she could take a deep breath.

"Th... thank you..." She placed her hand over her chest, feeling wetness. Spots of redness came off. "I don't know why this keeps happening to me... I'm ... just a burden, aren't I?"

"We can argue further upon that subject later. As for now, we're going to have to do something about the blood..." Kai muttered. He couldn't heal Rivera because her Chaos presence was too strong... no one in the hospital had been able to, after all. At the moment, she seemed reluctant to go back to her room.

Rivera was silent, she looked away, not knowing what to say at all. For a few moments, she just thought and continued to think. After Kai dropped her chaos level by absorbing it, she felt a little calmer and easier to restrain her mind. She just hoped that whatever triggered that memory wouldn't come back too soon.

Kai shook his head. Magic wasn't going to phase her. Taking the small first-aid kit out of his pocket, he began to rummage for a roll of gauze. He kept that kit with him everywhere he went. It was just his luck that he ran into about three or four hurt people every two or three days. Three-fourths of the time, Rivera was one of those people. There wasn't a week where she didn't use up at least ten band-aids. Although many of her old scars faded faster, there were always new ones to take their place. Some of them are too stubborn to fade and remain a permanent part of her body. Kai continuously reminded her to be a little more careful... then again, Rivera's standards for 'careful' is the average person's 'dead-on reckless'. Hell knows what she was like when she wasn't careful...

"Here we go..." He produced a roll of white gauze and some neosporn. Rivera looked up, still a little pale. Her eyes were cygnet-blue with lingering guilt. She was just a problem child. Still at age 14 or maybe 15, she was already going into trouble most adults will never encounter in their entire lives. Plus the side effect of her Chaos Continuum made her completely reckless. She couldn't feel pain when she was using the Continuum, at least, if it wasn't a severe blow and a few minutes after the attack. She didn't know her limits... it only created trouble. Normally, she would just leave the bleeding alone. It usually stops before she bleeds to death. But trying not to worry people meant obeying them. She couldn't be the wild gyrfalcon princess anymore. She had to try and act a litte less like a... beast, of sorts. Rivera let the sheet slip off her shoulders to fall around her waist, revealing her chest.

Efficiently, Kai began to bind up the wound with a dab of neosporn and yards of gauze strips. Neither of them showed any signs indicating recognition or protest of indecency. Rivera sat up straight, letting Kai do what he will. Kai worked thoroughly without appearing to be disturbed or intrigued by any of this. Neither of them seemed to care whether or not Kira was watching. Here, it was just the two of them on the elm tree in the dead of night, a journey back into time when Kai would fix Rivera up after sword practice when they were small children. This was their own little world, where the only balance and connection that mattered was the bond between brother and sister.

"There," Kai tied off the last loop and tucked the knot in a comfortable position. "We better get you back into your room. You can catch a cold when your immune system is still trying to catch up." He tried to think of a way to get her back in. Rivera only knew how to glide. She was never strong enough to fly, and now she wasn't even strong enough to jump-glide onto the second floor. Kai knew that he was too big to even fit through the window with Rivera without missing on his first try. "Hoi, Kira-kun. Do you mind giving us a hand?"

"I'll get there myse--"

"No You won't."

Loki dashed into the hostpital and grabbed five packs off blood, and two IV's. He quickly grabbed the stuff and and payed the nurse for the trouble. Loki payed in gold and then after picking his stuff together he dashed out of the hospital and back to the library. He just hoped he would make it in time before something else went wrong and he would hate himself for it. He ran past students who didnt see him and to the steps of the library door.