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Rivera's eyes widened to the size of quarters, possibly... well, unless if the government increased the size of quarters in the past few weeks... did they? It was a totally unexpected time for her to get a kiss. She thought maybe he wasn't as hurt as she thought... but changed her mind completely when his arms slipped. Rivera tried to keep him from falling, but she found herself falling with him. The most she could do was pivot and have her fall on the bottom and take most of the impact. Falling was one of the things she had to practice as a fighter... she knew how to fall on the bottomside of a fight without getting crushed.

Lying there for a moment, she smiled and whispered, "Kira... you'll make my hair turn white before its time..." She kissed him on his forehead and dragged herself out from under him. She felt like a wreck, weak and jellified after the Kekkai drained from her enough power to light NYC for a day and a night. "... literally."

Standing under the half moon, Rivera used the last fragments of her power to forge a final spell. Waving her hand over the ground, she grabbed at an invisible thread. The ground seemed to sink and harden into stone while the clearest water filled the 20 feet wide, 5 feet deep indent in the earth. Rivera would've prefered the waters of Crystal Moon Lake... they were more effective. But what the heck? She couldn't do anything else in this condition. Rivera stepped into the center of the pool.

The moonlight fell around her, and spilled through out the water. "Demire-lunueares. Purifi dere l'acqu, dere Serine... Garia dere la Lune... Aidere meran... Viera Domini Lunueares..." The spell applied to a handful of princesses and princes in the Imperial line of Aeterranchise. She was one of them... Her Midnight Black hair turned a stunning pure white as the water burst into light. The wounds on her body were washed away by water and light... there was no other way to describe it. Splashes of moonbeams bathed her in a soft, radiant glow.

Rivera emerged from the pool with this new light around her. The pool vanished as she spread her wings of steel. Wrapping her arms carefully around Kira's body, she hovered from the ground for a moment before her powerful wings beat the air, taking them back to her dorm. Kira would get a shock to see her with white hair and really pointy teeth. She'll have to wait until morning to get rid of both of them.

Van calmy walked thru the forest, listining to what the small owl over head was telling him. He was looking for a quite place far from the school, and the owl had mentioned a place in the woods. The way was tough, but Van didnt mind, he practicly lived in the woods for the lastseventeen years. The brush was getting to thick and started to scrap at his skin. hold on he said to his owl guide. Van carfully unbutoned his shirt and pants and folded them up and set them down. It would be easier travel in a different form. He wanted to stay on the ground but, be able to move thru the woods well enough. His body started to change as he picked his animal. His shoulders brodened out and his body got all around bigger. His neck seemed to diaspear as his body got closer his head. His hands and feet changed into massive dinner plate sized paws and his mouth and nose formed together and started sticking out into a muzzle. Rich brown fur started coming from his pinkish body as his small tail poped out as did his ears. It was finnished, Van was now a full grown grizzly. He looked up to the owl.lead on he said to it. The owl took flight again and VAn followed below with ease as the thorns and thickets snaged his fur, but not slowing him down a bit.

Kei was clueless. He didn't notice the spirits and didn't even really think anything about the moon. He didn't have a heightned sence of these things like Rin did, but the feeling was so strong it was hard not to feel it. Kei was just that way though, he glanced up at the bell tower and the vines tugging on them for a minute. He looked back towards her and had the kind of look that most boys had when they were younger, adventure. "Come on" he said as he looked at her, she was wearing a skirt so she would have to go after him.

Actually he realized that she shouldn't climb anyway, it would be dangerous even without the wounds. He steeped forward and took her hands turning around, careful to not twist them. He placed them around his neck and then pulled up her legs around him carefully, and motioned for her to hold on tight as he let go. He then started to climb, going at a normally pace, not needing to stop but pausing a little every now and then to make sure she didn't fall.

"Where's the fun in that?" he asked softly but stopped and rested on a sort of windowsill type thing that was eaiser for him to stop at without risking falling. "Your okay right?" he asked worried all of the sudden, if she wanted him to then he would just climb to the bottom. He didn't know why but suddenly there were traces of a blush across his face, it was strange, but the feeling just suddenly came. He blinked and managed to make most of it dissapear before he looked up to her again.

A memory flashed through his mind: a young girl around the age of 12 or so was pacing the garden that Kei had just entered. She looked up when he entered, he was a little taken aback by the fact that she looked so determined and nervous at the same time. The expression across his face was blank as he stepped forward, she had called him here for some reason. "Kei....I-I....I...I LIKE YOU!" she yelled out suddenly at full-force, and he looked down hiding his eyes with his hair that fell into his face. "I'm sorry....its just not going to work out" he said, his voice sounded cold and she burst into tears running away. Kei looked up at Shinju who was approching and both Kei and Shinju came close to crying. Kei was never good with girls and he doubted that he would ever be.

He sighed as he climbed back onto the vines but didn't start climbing unless she said it was okay.

Kei paused for only a moment longer looking at her by turning his head and staring at her for a minute. "I'll hurry up" he said as he moved her up a bit to secure herself to him and make sure that she didn't make it so he couldn't breathe. He then started to climb up the vines, he was being childish and selfish, he could tell that she was scared, at this point though they were closer to the top, and then they could take the stairs down or something when they wanted to leave.

True to his word it only took another few minutes for him to reach the top, he climbed akwardly at the top, because he was hurrying and trying to get her off and to saftey first. He ended up lying flat on the ground so she could climb off eaisly, and he had jumped onto the ground, she didn't get hurt, but his stomach hurt a little bit. He carefully stood up after he had helped her up and then streatched but only for a minute. He quickly took both of her hands with his "Sorry" he said seriously, he was really worried that she would be mad at him or something.

Kei nodded his head slowly and then smiled, he was glad that she wasn't hurt. He still had yet to have noticed that there were spirits around them or that this place would be 'haunted' as most would put it. Shinju had always been seriously afraid of places like this and even the word tower would make him nervous. He was afraid of heights but much more so of the dark, it just gave him the creeps. Keiichi was secretly afraid of akward situtations, like long silences, it seemed considental that such a thing followed him.

He sighed as he sat down on the edge of the wall to the bell tower but sat so that he was facing to her. "So your feeling better right?" he asked as he took her arm carefully and traced his fingers around the scars that were still deep but weren't bleeding anymore. He had a feeling that she was still bleeding in a few areas, but just so long as they both were careful then nowthing would happen, and she would be fine...hopefully.
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Kei was worried when her hand jerked away "Rin!" he shouted worriedly and was about to turn her around when she turned around herself. He blinked, something about her did seem...different, he wasn't sure what it was but her eyes looked different. He heard her say something but couldn't manage to make out what it had been. Then she leaned up really close to him and put her hand on his chest, he blinked his eyes studing her for a moment.

"Uh...hi" he said simply backing a way a little bit because she really was quite close to him suddenly. He liked Rin...but um she was being different, he really wish he knew what it was, maybe he had done something wrong? These thoughts lead him to believe that and he felt worse and worse not sure of what to do. "Want to leave?" he asked her as he got off the edge of the wall and stepped back onto soild ground.

Kei blinked, Rin was acting beyond strange, she was smirking, the reminder occured to him that he had never seen her smirk and certainly not smile. He watched her take his hands and was still as just as confused, he wanted to pull away but her grasp was kind of strong and he didn't want to offend his first friend. "The...hotsprings?" he suggested, he had not been anywhere but the dorms, and the hospital since school started.

Occiasionally he went to class of course, but the holidays and sick days seemed to add up a lot latly. He had heard from a doctor that the hotsprings would cure some illiness and wounds and he hoped that maybe Rin would get better. He knew that she would have to watch her wounds though so maybe she could just stick her feet in or something. There was a co-ed side but he didn't plan on going there unless she really wanted to, he would give her privacy.

He looked to where the door was and tried it, it was unlocked, he really should have taken the stairs in the first place he thought. He turned to her "Can you walk okay?" he asked as he leaned against the door, he had pulled his hands away gradually but not in an obvious way.