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*As the pillar vanishes Aeris's body is disentigrated. Everything that belonged to TJ and/or Aeris is gone from the room, and the rest is nothing but ash. TJ is nowhere to be seen.... the only thing left in the room was the blue rose sword layingi n the center of the room.... waiting for its next possessor*

Earthwaker gets up from his nap and looks around the room * he then says well i think im off to bed for know i need my rest for the day to come * he then walks over to the fridge and gets a glass of water and then walks to the stairs * he then walks around the dojo and looks at the mess Xol had made earlier today the dojo was trashed and would take days to rebuild * he then walks to the stairs and says good night everybody!

Shadow awoke suddenly. He knew he had heard a loud explosion but his body had been too tired to investigate. I'm lucky that Xol didn't return. I'd have been easy meat. He stood slowly and stiffly pained by a bruise covering most of his torso and his left shoulder and bicep. Fortunately his fur was covering it in his wolf form. He made his way slowly towards the stairs. He remembered 9 running up them and alot of noise from above during the fight with Xol. He moved on only three legs, constantly keeping his left paw raised of the floor.

As he reached the stairs he realized it would probably be best to shift back into his human form if he wanted to avoid using his left arm. He shifted back slowly gasping in pain as his bones and muscles lengthened. He made his way slowly up the stairs leaning heavily against the right wall. As he reached the second floor he sniffed slightly but couldn't pick up 9's most recent scent.

She had been in and around this building too much. Oddly exhausted by this effort Shadow shifted back to his wolf form and lay down to the side of the stairs to rest more before searching.

Shadow slowly stood on all fours and began to make his way down the long corridor searching for 9's scent. He moved slowly still keeping his left paw off the ground. His head swinging back and forth searching for the most recent scent. He paused frequently to rest and as he was halfway down the corridor he simply lay down again.

*In her fox form, she let out a slight yip as she yawned. She scratched behind her ear a bit then shook lightly as all the dust from the corner fell from her fur. she then slowly stood at the door, wondering what she was going to hunt for*

Xol walked out of his misty portal on the hill overlooking the BC. As his foot touched the ground, the mist swirled around him violently and finally dissovled into him. "Should I attack again so soon without giving them proper time to heal?" He smiled inwardely, contemplating his own question. "Why not..." And with that, he slowly made his way towards the BC. Without Focht and TJ out for the count in his room they will be easy prey. How you say...fish in a barrel. He thought to himself.

Shadow paused halfway up the steps and winced in pain as he put weight on his sore left arm. Should have shifted back he thought. He slowly shifted into his human form again and here in the shadows of the staircase with no one in site allowed himself to use the power he rarely called on to reenergize himself. A faint red glow surrounds him for a moment before he feels his magic flow back into him from the ground.

That's two days in a row Xol's attacked I can't afford to be so helpless. He muttered. Standing slowly his side and arm still hurting he moved causiously to the top of the stairs. He peered around the door to the first room he saw and his eyes were caught by a sword lying on the floor of an empty room. His eyes traced the markings of the sword and widened. This looked similar to the sword that Xol had wanted and taken from 9 the day Shadow had arrived.

He moved into the room looking around slowly and kneeling near the sword decided that hiding it was his best bet. He was hesitant to touch something he knew was probably magical yet didn't know the properties of.

So instead he placed his hands on either side of it and projecting both his aura and magic around it and himself pushed downward with them causing both himself and the sword to fall through the floor, and then the second floor and finally the lower level of the dojo.

Shadow and the sword fell through the floor's as if passing through water and as they merged with the earth Shadow decided to push down as far as possible and bury the sword in solid stone deep beneath the surface until he could find and consult 9.