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a couple minutes later, Tommy finally walks into the sands. "Be right back..." he grumbled. He left to HQ to get changed.

"Would you like to be left alone?"
Memo asked kindly once more noticing Maddy was thinking alot.

Arekku snapped awake from his trance and noticed at Maddy and Memo were much further away than previously. 'Looks like their having a little talk, I won't bother them.' He nodded to himself and walked out to stand near the water a shadow approached him and sat down next to him, his power began giving it a corporeal form. "How can I help yo-..." He stopped as he turned his head and stood up just as quick, "How are you-...? But, the Underworld!... You're not...!?" He glanced over his shoulder to see that there wasn't anybody close enough to see or hear them.

Clara giggled and said, "I'll take that as a you're happy to see me?" She hugged Arekku and stood to stretch, "Ahh~! It feels so good to have a body, whether it's temporary or not." She cleared her throat and looked down to meet Arekku's now moistened eyes, "I'm only here to tell you this, I'm not going where I have been, I'm gonna be around for a while. You new Haunter came to visit me he said that you'll need help with getting a curse removed?" Arekku instantly shot up and half shouted. "No!! Y-You can't carry that kind of burden on yourself! You'd be completely crazy to even think about it!" The tears spilled over and flowed down his cheeks. He knew that Clara would be the only Spirit to comply to this, that she was his only chance to get that curse removed from Sammy. But he had to deny it, she was his sister, the one he most cared for over all others. He couldn't let her do this.

Clara sighed and spoke up, "It's not open for discussion, I'm taking the curse from your friend. You apparently know what to do, I'll be nearby watching for the time when you have her subdued then I'll come up and you can transfer it to me. Got it?" Arekku could only drop to his knees in defeat and whisper, "Yeah... got it." Clara put a hand on Arekku shoulder and spoke softly, "I'll see you around." Then her body vanished and the shadow that was left drifted back into the trees.

Arekku stood and walked back around to where everyone was, he cleared his throat and made sure there was no sign he had been crying. "Hi guys." He said in a low and strained voice.

"So... what's up you two?" Tommy asked, now practicing with his fire. He had Machoke set up a target on a rock in the sands of the beach (quite a mouthful, isn't it?), and made a fireball the size of a baseball. He threw... and it struck the third ring from the outside. It was a ten-ringed target, so it was a considerably bad throw.


"That stunk." Tommy declared, willing up a second ball.

She just hid her face in her arms, and muttered something that sounded like 'Ginji' and that was it. She went completely silent. "..."

Memo just watched Maddy as she she went silent. He continued to hold onto her with his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sure he wants to talk to you..."
He said kindly referring to Ginji.

She shook her head. No, no he probably didn't want to talk to her. Who would? She had brought all this on to them. She was endangering the ones she cared most about, but couldn't hurt them by leaving to protect them. "..."