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Yume nodded and sighed as he left. I know you're worried about him, but he'll be fine. Dirge is there to help protect him. Natsu smiled up at her. You're right...I guess I should stop worrying, ne? Natsu hugged her soon-to-be older sister. Want to cook? Natsu ran into the kitchen. Last one there is a rotten egg! Yume started to run and just missed being first by a second. She scowled and started to take out pans and pots. Shall we burn down the kitchen, or save our dignity and go out to get something to eat?

Keila, being stupid as usual, was waving her arm around and she began taking steps forward, getting rather pissed off. "Ow, ow, ow. Ow, ow, ow. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!" (( Like the 'blah, blah, blah,' thing from Finding Nemo. xD;; )) Then she turned to the newcomer, still waving her arm around a bit. Not a bit rather; alot.
"OWW! Can you PLEASE tell me what the heck is going on?" she directed right at the stranger. Then the pain became sharper before starting to cool, as though someone was suddenly dousing a bonfire with a large bucket of water. It still hurt, but not as fiercely as before.

His heavy boots crunching dead leaves and branches under his steps, Scyre blew a lock of blonde hair away from his face. Even though the forest provided shade, it was still warm. Scyre didn't like warm, but he was tolerating it right now.
I skipped school for this? He thought to himself, kicking a large stick down the path he was taking.
He could hear the sounds of nature all around him. Bird calls, animals scampering, tree limbs creaking, Scyre was well aware of everything around him.

(( Yo Scyre, it's the middle of the night, dude. xD ))

(( Oh, and it's fine, person. 3nodding We all have our short days.. :: cough cough :: Mine just happens to be two weeks running so far ... :: cough cough :: ))

"NUUU!" she said loudly, still hopping up and down. "It's like! ARM! HURT! BAD! Makke itt ssttoooppp.." Keila pouted very loudly, hopping over to the girl, not caring who she was. "Mreeeehhh... my arrrmm huurttss realllly baaaaad!" she started jumping in circles and then stopped jumping and started shaking her arm like a wet dog trying to become dry. Useless. But she then sighed. "Um... sorry, .. about that. No clue what's going on, but my arm hurts REAAALLY bad for some-odd reason..."

"No it's-AUGH!!!" Pallas yells.

"What could be happening to make the two of you be in so much pain? Wait! That's it! It has to be the fact the my brother and Kira's sister got your blood for the ritual. This might be a sign of good or bad, I'm not sure," Good says.

"HOW COULD THIS PAIN BE ANY GOOD!!!" Pallas yells.

Dirge stepped lightly through the silent village. Most were sleeping, the rest where sitting inside houses reading or listening to music from old records. Dirge reached the back of the cave in which the village had been build. For years he had lived in the stone confines. He took a sniff then raced off through the passages. They were high so Pander sat errect.

It is close. I can feel my armour nearing.

They continued racing upwards through the mountain, taking spiralling paths through hollow caves and climbing sheer cliffs with only Dirge's claws. They soon reach a dimmly lit cave. The only contents were a chair that would have fitted Dirge if he was humanoid, a dark obolisk at the very back, a painted floor glyph, rune stones and a set of armour.

Pander hopped off Dirge's back as the creature moved slowly to the armour. He touched it with his front leg and all the metal dissolved, reappearing on his body. The helmet was more of a face guard. It covered the top of his muzzle and the front and sides of his face. There were nostral holes and eye slits, aswell as slits for his ears to prutrude through at the top.

Dirge howled as he ran towards the passage that led down. Pander jumpped on his back as the creature passed, a nice saddle like aparatus sitting nicely on the back of the armour, as if waiting for him. Pander sat in it, the metal instantly conforming for his body.

Dirge seemed to reach home faster than he had reached the armour. They jumped down the shaft again, hair and fur fluttering in the breeze of air. They landed with a thud, small clouds of dust rising from their feet.

Yume. Natsu. We're back.