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To see him looking at her so.... it made her blush more, that tingling burst of warmth rising from her chest. Her heart was already beating faster than she would have expected, not initially understanding why. But she didn't ask. She smiled, the line somehow amusing to her, chuckling a little as she rested her head against his shoulder, her forehead just barely touching his neck.

It was so very strange. Just a day ago and she would have felt nothing towards leaving this place. Now, she really hoped she wouldn't have to leave. Not unless it was to go off with him if he'd have her. But, she guessed he wouldn't mind. Though, then she wondered about her sister. What would Sheryl do? Tag along? How would she feel about that? She could already guess she wished she had someone. Oh.... did she like Seiji too? No, she wouldn't have been as ok if that were the case.

Snapping out of her thoughts, she took a deep breath, exhaling slowly. It was nice to just sit like this in each others arms. She felt very... at peace. Despite any and all thoughts that whizzed past in her head.

(sorry i didnt post for a while. i wasnt feeling great and then by the time i started to feel good, i couldnt think of what to write. I should be okay now though. Sorry again))

"Know let me think here... I've killed many people in my days so just hearing 'brother' from you doesn't specify anything... brother, brother.... ah! I have only killed a few children in my life, they don't put up much of a fight you see, so it's useless to attack them, but there was one darkness user boy that was actually very strong for his age. Blew me right out of the water, so to speak. But I wasn't the one who killed him, that was you, wasn't it Elly?" the figure answered her and smiled evilishly, staring down into her eyes. She could feel herself loose some consciousness as his whole eyes turned a misty black, to posses.



Suddenly, Elly was free from that stare for Vira had made her power reach the bad guy, breaking his concentration, though his grip was still there. "Looks like your little friend over there wants a little action also..." the guy said and looked over at Vira, the darkness flowing from his fingertips as though someone just opened a lid. It was traveling up through little cracks and air pockets, building up to break free from the ice and also to travel through where the water came from, flowing visibly through the air towards Vira. "No! I won't let you hurt anymore people!!!" Elly yelled, her own eyes becomin a misty white. Her light traveled with the darkness, just as fast as his was sent and as it mixed with it, it caused an explosion, though not close enough to hurt anyone.

She then felt her hands become crushed more and more as the guy got angry and tried to break free from the ice that Vira put on him.

"You know what, I was the one who killed your brother but the thing is, I could have been stopped... I wonder who you know that can travel through time.... perhaps Master Atlas, yes? I wonder why he never went back to prevent that from happening... perhaps he was something against you, but what could that be? I mean, you are only great at light and nothing else, and there are always light users. I bet he's seen this moment too but hasn't stopped me from killing you? That doens't seem like a friend to me... i suppose I should telly ou my name before I end your life little missy. They call me Obidel the Shadow, though my specialty is darkness. I guess I cast a shadow of fear and death on my victims, kind of how I possessed your body to kill your own brother. Maybe I should possess silly old Atlas and have him kill you... that would be a great turn of events!" Obidels said, so Elly, very closely to her face and then laughed and made it very veyr loud, like a booom of thunder was descending upon Estelle Academy, Elly unable to think straight to do anything.

(( Yay! Glad that you are feeling better not. ^_^ ))

As she felt his head rest so gently against hers, it made her smile, color flushing her cheeks. Was this... normal? It had to be normal. She could recall passages of books that described scenes like this. It felt surreal for this to be happening to her of all people. She closed her eyes for a moment, taking in how she felt at that point in time.

Though, when she heard him laugh, she opened one eye, the other soon following as she looked upwards towards him. "What is so amusing?" She asked him quietly, somehow managing to tilt her head a little bit.

((ill finish this tomorrow for i cant think right now for im tired lol))



Elly tried her best to loosen the rip from Obidel, the last thing she wanted to do was be around him at all. When Vira shattered the ice to hurt him, Obidel cringed and loosened his grip briefly, just enough For Elly to egnite her light and counter attack his darkness, deflecting it from around her wrists. As though burned, obidel flinched and jumped back, shaking his hands as though putting out a fire. Ellys eyes became whited out like they had before, and she blasted her light in a radius around herself, kind of like the ring on a planet. She stopped, her arms up in a battle stance in cause he was waiting, though he wasn't. Elly looked all around, but she couldn't find him and that was scary for he might be doing something inside eth school or he might attack from above or from somewhere else. Elly decided to close her eyes and concentrate on Obidels darkness, something that was very easy to pinpoint for it was a high level of darkness

The fact that she was still holding an impact upon such a powerful enemy was making Vira giddy, the wind swirling around her one arm with glee. Her swords dissipated back into spirits, the wind almost seeming visible as she went to attack again when he had suddenly vanished. Blinking, she winced at the bright light, water slowly flowing down her other arm as she waited to see what would happen. For her it was harder to pinpoint him considering she could really only sense two things really well. Breath, and the water content within a persons body. If she really stretched, she could sense their blood. But she felt a little uncomfortable going that far since it usually meant she would lose control.

Grimacing, she glanced about, noticing a form up by the roof of one of the buildings. Tristan. Idiot, what are you doing?!

Tristan had gotten caught up elsewhere amidst this chaos, having been rather close to where Obidel had originally appeared. It had been a good thing he was in his spectral form otherwise that could have been rather bad. Right now he was trying to decide what was best. Help out the fight, or keep the cafeteria safe. Considering who was guarding it, he wasn't really worried about those students. No, he was more worried about the ones in the eye of this storm.

Swooping up out of the building, he felt his form pulsate, the glow from his eyes brightening as his form darkened into a more substantial black. Drawing out his sword, it was a pure almost indigo purple, seeming to have lost it's physical form as well. He remained overhead, noticing that the enemy seemed to have vanished for the moment. The only reason he didn't move in closer was because he had no idea how he would end up reacting to the darkness the man was controlling.

As Elly looked around in all directions, concentrating on his advance on hiding his darkness. She was starting to get paranoid as she thought he might posses Atlas. Atlas! She had forgotten all about him and she didn't even think that he was injured for real. Without a second thought, she rushed over to him, only to find out that his body wasn't there. Sighing, she put her hands on her knees and took a breath, smiling, knowing that he was safe, where ever he was. She looked up to see that Tristan was over head and she waved at him, not so happily, but there was a hint of a smile there.

Unfortunately her sliht happiness didn't last long for she was suddenly knocked to the ground by something that was now holding her down by the back of her neck. "What a spirited young girl you are! Your friends are very spunky as well, I wish i had them in my army of darkness, but then that would mean I needed to posses them and... well you know how that goes, too much work and all. But you, oh yes your abilities would do very well in my army. your light is... troublesome, but mixed with darkness it would be very unique... yes, yes... though you cannout control your darkness... Ah! But I know someone who can! It wouldn't cost much i'm sure, infact, he'd do it for free! But who is this person I am speeking of? Why, that would me me of course!" He said in yet again, a caniving voice and laughed at his own misleading joke, which was rather bad. "What makies you think i'll let you do th-" yes Elly was interupted yet again and this time by Obidel himself. He pushed her neck and head down to the ground, muffling her speech and as he did this he lit his body in a darkness arura and his eyes were a flamming purple as he absorbed some of Elly's darkness that was being sucked into his own.

As the darkness combined into each other, Obidels body became a bit misty, kind of like Tristans when it wanted to be. Suddenly it was sucked into Elly's body, Obidel's body gone, and Elly's motionless on the ground. She twitched her hand a bit and groaned, getting up and rubbing her head. When her eyes opened, there was black where white was and white in the center of her eye. A smiled, evil in nature, spread upon her lips, which made her look like a villian. A laugh issued from out of her mouth, but it was a mix between her sweet voice and Obidel's ill intentions. "Ahahaha! This power, it feels greeeaaat!!! Man, why didn't she use this before? Oh that's right, i'm the one who hindered it, just for this occasion! Ahahaha!" If possesing Elly's body wasn't enough, he had unleashed his and her darkness all at once, the earth rumbling as a massive building size orb of darkness was forming from Elly's slender finger tips. It mixed and swirled with white, the combination of an elemental made bomb that was very dangerous if something snapped and made it explode. Did anyone really risk doing that, kinowing Obidel could kill everyone on campus?

Sheryl seemed to slip in and out as she pleased. At least from the moments she had been awake to make her comments. It was perfect timing on her part. She seemed to wake up at those exact moments when her input would be most effective. Or rather, most surprising. Seiji watched as Ranka lowered her eyes, his vision slowly moving to Sheryl. It'd been odd to think that she might have been listening in on all of this. He had assumed she was unconcious and unable to hear anything.

He had heard of people being in unconcious states and still having some subconcious form of their surroundings. It could have been the same case with Sheryl. All this time, he had thought that he and Ranka had been talking in a somewhat private manner. If Sheryl was kind of listening in as well, what would she be thinking?

He couldn't think of much to say. How was he to respond to something like that? Of course, some of this was speculation, but most of it was truth. He meant the things he was saying, he just didn't know how things would turn out in the future. "Mm. Well.." He trailed off, still not finding any suitable words. Even if Sheryl was teasing and joking, he wasn't sure what to think of the whole matter.

Seeing how the two of them seemed at a loss, one from embarrassment, one just... well... at a loss, it made her laugh. Though, this was cut short since it hurt to do so. A lot. Wincing, Sheryl seemed to flick at his forehead, manipulating the slightest bit of his life force so he would at least feel it. "Sorry. Normally keep my subconscious aware at the very least when I meditate. Usually I'm still aware though." She apologized, turning her gaze to her sister. "Ranka. Watch yourself ok? I don't like-" She stopped short, feeling a massive energy reading come from the lake. The fact that it was outweighing everyone else here was substantial.

But as soon as it was there, it was fluctuating, making her brows furrow. "Ugh, been here three days and shits already getting out of control. Ranka, be ready. Do you-"

"I already am. This will be close." She said softly, straightening up so she wasn't resting so much against Seiji. Looking up to him, her eyes seemed to hold a deep sadness, reaching up a hand to his cheek. She felt an urge, one she did not understand, but... She moved forward and kissed his cheek softly, a blush in her cheeks and yet infinite sadness in her eyes. "I'll be back soon. Take care of Sheryl for me." With that, she rose up and slipped into a portal she opened with a small motion of her wrist, a bitter chill following after her.

Sheryl sighed heavily, looking to her sisters new boyfriend. "There's... someone who may drift one way or another. She has to be ready to take care of him if he slips towards one. Don't worry about her. I'm more worried about the state of the school. The mermaids are getting active." She said softly, coughing up a bit of blood. s**t. And I can't do a damned thing.