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"Hey, i'm alright, it's not like you killed me" Terry said to yuina with not much of any emotion in his eyes. He lifted his head up alittle, but shifted his eyes towards yuina. Terry watched as just a single tear rolled down her face, and started to feel alittle sad himself. "aww, hey... What happend to make you this sad?" he asked turning his head to the side and leaned towards her. He raised his hand and pushed some of yuinas hair out of her face to see her face more clearly, and hopped she wouldn't mind it. "Seeing you cry, makes me want to cry alittle too, ya know?" Terry told her showing alittle bit of the emotion of sadness in his eyes. They were still changing their colors, red to blue.

"That was alittle unexpected of you, Yuina." Terry said quietly and soft, not wanting to annoy her much.He wrapped his arms gently arround her the moment after she had given him the hug. He noticed something alittle different about her, she was no longer crying, now. That made him feel alot better at that moment, and it showed. His flickering, now blue, eyes were no longer filled with such sadness as before. "What made you stop crying all of the sudden?" Terry asked yuina, not thinking that she would mind another question from him.

Saraneth found her way into a secret chamber at the tower. She had left several of her belongings here while trying to flee from some strange shadow, quite a while earlier. Even as she ran, more and more cuts appeared over her from invisible knives. She dropped to the ground and quickly slipped on a silver manacle that was next to her backpack. "Activate!"

A strange force was thrust out from her as a forcefield shield appeared. She could see the energy points where the invisible knives were hitting her, flaring a dull silver on the transparent forcefield. Pulling a small tub of what looked like skin cream out of her bag, she began to apply it to her wounds.

As the flaring stopped, Saraneth cautiously put down her shield and breathed a sigh of relief. Wincing as she applied the ointment to the rest of her wounds, she bound them up with gauze strips. The darkness of the shadows brought cool relief in the heat of the summer. So it was early august... that's still considered summer, one of her least favorite seasons, especially since paper burned so easily if the sun grew too bright and hot... or the paper got too close to the sun. Speaking of paper, she remembered that there was still one flying about. Saraneth snapped her fingers. A piece of thin cardstock the size of a business card appeared, floating to the ground. It was black with brownish stains on it. She quickly took it into her hands and put it inside the pocket of her shorts. It was humming against her skin... so the angel did follow her? She was half hoping he did... he was kinda cute. Not as cute as the Ravenhawk or that seven-foot-tall jock-looking guy with the bunny shaped robot, but still pretty cute. Maybe she shouldn't be stealing guys who are already taken... but what the hell? It was part of her job, quite literally, to steal guys... literally being a key word here. Saraneth continued to bind up her last few wounds as she listened to the humming of his aura as Kira drew even nearer. The cut on her face was quite annoying. She hadn't planned on anything hitting her face. It was quite rude.

"Yes, I'm fine!" She yelled when she heard the inquiry... he was near. This was a good time to use her secret technique... Saraneth whispered, "Open the Kekkai..."

From invisible points in space, she drew energy and surrounded the entire belltower in a shroud of darkness. Here, only the holder of the Kekkai may have the sense of smell, sight, hearing and taste. Even the sense of touch was greatly diminished for those without her power. This was her trap. Kira would be under her control within several moments... unless if he can find someway to stop her, Rivera was hers to claim control over.

In a very mocking, shrill and childish voice, "Oh my! Who turned out the lights! I'm so scared!" Saraneth laughed.

Even with light, Kira still would be unable to see... after all, a kekkai isn't formed of darkness. It is of only pure presence, absorbing both light and dark to form a neutrality that destroyed senses of all its inhabitants but the one who opens it. Not even the ability to sense auras or use the 'mind's eye' remained. Saraneth was fully invisble to him unless if he figured out how to make it possible himself. This was the power of the Silence Kekkai. It was the most secret technique she has, and no one who has ever laid an eye on it lived... as to the preservation of her secret. It wasn't listed at all as one of her powers on her enrollment form. If she succeeded, she would never have to use it again, nd the secret would be out. If she failed, she would never use it again because she would probably be either dead, permanently comatose, maimed or powerless. She had heard of the Gyrfalcon's power as well as her several level-up formations. It had only taken the Gyrfalcon seven days to master hypermode's instantaneous activation, now without the need for fatigue or desperation. She had researched that before she took on this job. It was rumored that she was training even more strongly on a chaotic power tier rivaling Paladin and Archangelic sorcery on the highest levels. It was only a rumor around the school administration that her paper cranes had spied upon... but she was about to believe that the Gyrfalcon was something to watch out for... although she doubted that even this infamous assassin could break through her Kekkai. The only way to get out was if she released it, or if she were severely injured and losses power. Aside from this art, there was very little power she had in other forms of magic. A little animation inffusion here, a little necromancy there, a tad of illusion occasionally... but just about anything else would be physical power. She was just about fully human, afterall. Her mother was an itako with powerful spirit energy, but she wasn't anything close to her late mother, who could summon ghosts with ease while all she could do was see them floating about.

Kira's light energy was only absorbed by her kekkai, made to strengthen it even further. Saraneth knew there were several ways to defeat her in this kekkai and regain freedom, but she had planned for all the ones that she knew of. The shield barrier manacle she wore spirit-locked to her wrist was protected by its own strongest barrier. It wouldn't come off until she were dead or until she unlocks it. Fed by the power of the kekkai, it formed an endless circulation of energy as it fed released energy back into the kekkai. Saraneth smiled. Snapping her fingers, she let a ream of cardstock paper fly from her backpack, forming strong feathers as hard as diamonds in a pair of disconnectable wings. They moved even more flexibly than real ones and were much more powerful than the naturally made pair. She had spent hours designing it to match up against the Gyrfalcon's steel wings. Unless if this... Rivera girl learns to control her full power on her tier two attack formation, these wings will never be destroyed... not by fire nor water nor the breaking of planes. In fact, EVERYTHING in this battle had been planned out on the prospect of capturing the Gyrfalcon alive. It was planned in the utmost detail with the fullest scrutiny. She didn't expect to fail at all... hopefully.

"I won't fight you, Kira-kun..." Saraneth said in her sweetest voice, channelling it directly to Kira's mind for him to hear her as if she came from all directions. It had been planned out carefully. He will not know where she was. "If you will fight me, all I can do is defend. You're too cute." She giggled, "Actually... I need you alive. Remember when you asked me about Rivera? She's the Gyrfalcon... isn't she?" Pacing about, Saraneth smiled quite innocently. She was just a girl out to make a living... even if the job was dirty, the money for her father was all she cared about. She had learned to be hard and even cruel... and sometimes enjoyed it. It horrified her, but she learned to dealt with it.

"I am Kestrel... and I want her alive..." Saraneth continued, "Ravenhawk has his power, but I've spent a long time perfecting the environment to be in my favor as well as my power... I heard he lost... too bad! The blithering idiot deserved that for not planning things out." Her voice became more sing-song like with each word, turning into a rant out of all things... "Just because Gyrfalcons and Hawks are bigger than Kestrels doesn't mean their brains are much bigger... You, Kira Tenshi, is my primary target. You will be my hostage... in exchange for her, of course." Even as she paced and spoke, she was not bending her caution. The moment he tried to attack, she would repell it easily. She wasn't seeing with her eyes, but using her Kekkai to monitor every single movement he was to make. Even if he set up illusions or teleported, the kekkai would tell her everthing the moment it happens. She will not be unready. Saraneth was determined to do this job right... after sleepless nights and restless days of planning, she refuses to lose. All she hoped was that the Gyrfalcon would get here quickly and she could end it. The Kekkai wasn't going to hold up for long.

Kestrel dodged easily and giggled. "Tee hee... you missed me!" She knew his strategy well. It was something she had planned for when she created this special Kekkai. Anything and everything that she didn't want could be absorbed into the Kekkai, except for people with higher level magic such as Kira and Rivera and herself. "I've got no grudge against you! When I get the money, I'll send it to my old da and just disappear. I never use the same attack twice, and I'm completely untracable. If you can't come after me when this is done, I'm happy if my da can live out his full life without worries."

She suddenly laughed, "Oooh! She's here! This should be good..." Saraneth waved her hand. The Kekkai expanded even further in its reaches. Rivera found herself engulfed in a world without senses. She felt so powerless... so... weak and vulnerable here. When she coughed, she heard no sound. She could barely feel the ground beneath her feet or the clothes on her skin. "Kestrel, I know you're here... let Kira go now!" Her voice never reached her own ears, but she knew very well that Kestrel would hear it. Saraneth did, of course... it was her Kekkai.

"The Gyrfalcon has arrived..." Her voice channeled into the minds of the Kekkai's occupants. "Well, I'm not simply going to hand him over ya know. You got anything to trade?" Saraneth's voice came as the words of an average conversation, disarmingly cheerful. Rivera began to speak, but coughs stopped her. The world was all a dizzy muddle to her, and being in the Kekkai completely threw off her perception as well as what remained of her health. Saraneth laughed, "What's wrong, bird got your tongue? You poor thing, I think you have a fever! There's a case of flu around campus lately... yeah, that would be my doing of course!" She didn't even bother to hide her sarcasm. It oozed between her words like glue and gump.

Rivera regained her breath. It was a good thing Kira probably can't hear her. He would know that she was here, since Kestrel would be mindchannelling to the both of them, probably to avoid being attacked by blind luck. "You dare to kidnap Kira and demand a trade? You're despicable!" She sent out a chaotic shockwave throughout the entire Kekkai. It wasn't enough to hurt anyone, but it would sting a little. 'I'm sorry, Ki-kun...' She knew it would hit him as well... but it was crucial to her aim. As she had predicted, Saraneth activated a forcefield shield to avoid pain... just like a slowwitted coward. And with what she had of touch, she felt her shockwaves come back to strike her at a specific angle... perfect for her. The Kekkai itself was a forcefield of complete neutrality, absorbing and feeding to form a constant pattern. When a new shield is created within a larger one, they usually work together or negate eachother, depending on their polarity placement. Because this Kekkai was neutral, Kestrel's shield would be constantly pulled apart and constantly mended, even after she deactivates it. All she had to do was to attack near where her chaotic energy bounced off the fragments being pulled off.

Saraneth suddenly laughed in her mind. the sound of her laughter drove Rivera to her knees, holding her head. Her headache had just been made worse. "I know what you're thinking! I know every single possible way to defeat me normally in a Kekkai... and I know you'd think of them as soon as you came in here... however..." The Kestrel suddenly moved near Kira, letting the Kekkai flash for a moment that only Rivera could see between. The time it took for lightning to travel from point A to point B a milimeter away was the time it took for the Kekkai to flash, revealing that Kira was right behind her. She moved away momentarily right after the flash. No doubt the angel would've sensed her in that time if not seen her. She would come near him soon later, even if he were constantly moving to repel her. She had ways to channel to only one person with their worst fears on her tongue.

"That's why I brought Kira along with me." Saraneth mind-channeled to Rivera alone, "He doesn't know where I am. I can torture him to my heart's content. Shields don't matter... this is my Kekkai, I control the stakes... so will you come quietly and save having to hear him scream in your dreams... or will you let him suffer?"


((I'll let you have your fun after my next post ^^ You can do whatever to try and stop her... but the only reason she has you here is to make sure Rivera doesn't beat her to a pulp ^^))