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At some crazy nuthead's (no offense) attempt to carry Ligah's heavy but slim fastfood-laden waist, she awoke from being dropped repeatedly. Oww, my aching nervous system... Ligah sat up, still woozy, looked at Tale's bright face and got a little shocked and screamed.
"Dude, You heard nothing. I saw some strange blue thing right before I woke up, it looked pretty so I woke up from...whatever that was. Though I actually was trying to do suicide in the quickest way possible, thanks anyway for trying to help. Right now I feel fine coz' of my were--Never mind. I don't know if it was the jolt or what, but I feel great now that the clouds have cleared. One problem, though, I don't exactly remember why I did that extremely crazy thing. I think it was related to my ignorant friends and lousy attitude. By the way, Who are you?" Ligah forced a sad, but well-meaning smile.

Tale let out a simply shriek as she saw signs of life from the wounded person and quickly released her grip on her. She fell backwards onto her butt as she looked straight at her.

"ehhh? So your ok?" Tale simply smiled nervously and then forced a smile out. She was still rather confused onto what she has just done. "ahh.. Friends? Ignorant? Lousy?" Tale tilted her head a bit trying to catch the informations little by little. But once she was adressed to who she was she quickly sat upstraight and took a respective bow.

"AH! my name is Tale! I am an acoylte from the church here! Its pleased to meet you! im sorry if i bothered some training or whatever!" She was then greeted by her friend who had came onto the scene. As she was adressed to what she was doing she quickly stood up and took more bows somewhat scared by her tone of voice.

"I'M SORRY! All i meant to do was heal her! I saw her on the ground! And i was worried! AND AND!! auuu.. did i screw up?" Tale rubbed her forehead nervously.

Tale looked over at Ligah with some confusion and then tilted her head. "chee---cheesu?" She asked curiously but then just saw her quickly get up and start to walk back to her dorm. Tale then just blinked for a bit. "Ok.. we can leave you alone for a bit..."

She then looked over at her friend and shot up a bit. She was still quite frightened by her. "Umm... I will be going.. back to the church now!" She quickly said and then leapt up to pick up her basket which scattered across the ground. With that done she quickly scampered off back to the church.

Tale kept running forward twoards the church.

"AHH! I'm so late! how could i forget the church was that way! Im so stupid!" She yelled to herself and then suddenly found herself in a dead end. "... auu... i am lost again..." Tale fell to the ground hoplessly and rubbed her forehead in annoyance. "AHH! i should of took a map with me! Who would know a high school is so BIG!" Tale then stamped her feet along on the ground. Tale was raised up in the church and was hardly outside of the school, cause for one, she was scared of the outside world.

((From http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?page=4&t=1564780#50217370 ))

"eh?" Tale looked at her own shadow as it suddenly stretched itself forward and combined witht he walls shadow. "EHHH!?!?!" Tale quickly shot upwards and looked down as the Shadow seemingly moved on its own. "WHATS GOING ON!!" She asked out loud. And suddenly from the shadow formed 4 large black blobs. slowly the 4 blobs formed into Human shapes and there popped out Kurai held by Ishoa and next to her was a Seyla on the ground holding herself together, both of them half burnt. Ishoa seemingly burned his hand along the way too from Kurai's sword. Aldora however was left unharmed.

Tale slowly made her way forward. "Do--Doctor Ishoa?" She said nervously taking a bow. "Father KURAI!?" She yelled out with fear and looked down at him. "YOUR HURT FATHER KURAI!" She yelled out in fear and tried to make her way to Kurai.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Kurai snapped at Tale as he broke out of Ishoa's grip and threw both hands over his face. Ashamed of himself and scared. "STAY AWAY!" He repeated. Tale completely frightened took quick steps backwards. "Father... Kurai?"

Ishoa wanted to laugh with Rayan but this was no time to be doing so. "Mister Stiger." He addressed Rayan with full seriousness and attention of both of his dark black eyes. Ishoa then placed two hands on Kurai's back who had burried himself into his hands and was crying to himself. Tale tried to get close to him but she only brought up two of her hands to her chest and watched him silently.

"Father Kurai..." Tale said with some worry. Ishoa then continued with Rayan. "Can i ask of you to watch the three children here?" he didn't seem to be taking no as an answer either. Aldora looked over at Ishoa with some annoyance however. She didn't quite like to be thought of a child always.

Without waiting for Rayan to answer Ishoa turned to Aldora. "Aldora. Send me back to the church." he commanded Aldora. Aldora was about to protest. "but couldn't you just.." she started. "Just do it Aldora..." Ishoa said firmly. Aldora didn't agure back and just extended her hand and fingers out forward. There under her hand formed a small pool of shadow large enough for Ishoa to jump in.

Ishoa nodded at Rayan and then gave him a thumbs up. "best of luck.." He said. "If Kurai gets out of hand. I want you to try to stop him with all that it takes.." He said with some kind of warning. And with that Ishoa jumped in.

Seyla looked up from where she had tightly curled herself into a ball. All of the noises, her surroundings, they were very different. She was completely unaware of the amount of time that had passed, or how she got to this new place of sorts. She concluded that it definately wasn't the church, and that she hadn't passed out. Something must have happened. Someone was close to her, no a few people were. Kurai for one seemed to be irritant as ever, for when a girl sought out to help him he quickly refused.

Having since stopped crying she took the time to examine herself. Burns scaled her body, running up her left side, from her stomach to her shoulders, and even included her arm. She winced and hissed, suddenly feeling the painful sensation in her face. Gingerly she touched her right cheek. Yes she was burned there as well. Blinking rapidly she tried to better her vision, finding that when it focused, Kurai too was burned, another person as well. Had she done this? She wasn't sure but right now didn't seem like the time to investigate that.

It was hard for her not to ask what had happened, but she swallowed that urge, trying to bury her curiosity in the back of her mind. Soon after another man entered the scene, he was someone she had never seen before and she wondered what his intentions might be.

Is there a problem here, children?" Rayan asked, full of warm-hearted sarcasm. He then turned towards Ishoa.

"Greetings, good doctor. I see you have complete control of the situation," Rayan said, glancing between Tale and Kurai as he spoke. "Maybe you need to up the ante on whatever medications you're giving them."

So one of them was a Doctor, she supposed that was a good thing...of sorts.

No I can't run away, they aren't going to hurt me right now. I'm not their main priority...right now its Kurai, I won't run away she told herself in her mind. She seemed to sigh in relief, they weren't in a hospital so there wouldn't be any testing equipment or facilities nearby for that matter. Her attention was brought back to the conversation at hand at the Doctor's request to return to the church.

What happened at the church that was so bad that they all had to leave? Had Joy really wreaked such havoc in the sacred sanctuary? Maybe she had, maybe she was still there. But she had no information other than what she witnessed herself. It must have been bad though, for the girl looked as if she were about to protest. But then she stopped, as if there was some communication between the link...without words.

A pool of shadow emerged in the floor at the girl's summoning and Seyla watched in wonder. So this was how they had traveled to this place, through the shadows that this woman created. She had never heard of such a thing, but supposed it might come in handy at times. The Doctor uttered a warning to the man who had appeared earlier. Stop Kurai at all costs if he gets out of control. That didn't sound too comforting. She looked down, this was partially her fault, not wholly but a good chunk of it was.

There was a great silence for some time, a silence in which Seyla continuously thought about speaking up and apologizing to Kurai. But her mind told her it wasn't the time. He was fragile right now, her voice would probably do nothing but throw him off the edge again. It seemed that this man who was charged with their care, well more specifically Kurai's care, was just as curious as she. Only she had much more information and felt just as lost. Why oh why did she have to get involved. Cautiously she looked up in Kurai's direction, would he ever look back at her?

"Ku..Kurai ...I..I.." it was hard the words, they tried to creep out, but there was a block of fear standing in her way. Her voice shook, sounding sore from all of her sobs and she sat there, uncurled now, stammering, fighting to squeeze out an apology to him.

"Kurai I'm sorry!" she finally exclaimed, fighting back the tears that were starting to well up in her eyes. She had thought she couldn't cry anymore, that it wasn't humanly possible, but it seemed that her own body was proving otherwise. Seyla wasn't sure what to expect, he'd probably snap at her, whip out that blade of his, made of flames, and attack her but she just had to say the words. She couldn't hold them inside any longer. She stood to her feet weakly, fighting off the fatigue and dizzyness that racked her bruised and beaten body. Slowly, very slowly, Seyla lifted her eyes praying that he would look back at her, even if his gaze was filled with nothing but hate.

"Hold on Mr. Stiger. Could you watch them? I'll be right back. Onee-sama needs me."

Aldora disappeared and reappeared in a matter of seconds with Aili and Ishoa.

"Onee-sama! What were you thinking?" Aldora asked, gesturing to Aili's brown eyes and hair.

"Sorry Aldora, I wasn't thinking. I couldn't let them go on like that and I went in with a low source," Aili explained.

"Hi there Rayan. Sorry for running out on you earlier," Aili greeted.

"Are you alright?" she asked Seyla. 'I should tell Matt about what happened. Afterall, he is her teacher.'

Aili then went over to Kurai to check on her former student. "Kurai?" Aili placed a hand on his forhead, but it felt really warm to her.

"Silly Onee-sama!" Aldora place her hand over Aili's and removed them. She then put her other hand on Kurai's forehead and a light purple hue surrounded her hand, indicating she was running a healing check on him.

"Onee-sama. You're sick. You shouldn't be up and you know magic doesn't work on you."

Aili smiled, "Aldora... why were you with Ishoa? I thought you left school grounds."

Aldora mentally smacked herself on the head. Leave it to Aili to see such details. The young girl laughed sheepishly, "Heehee... you found me out. You sure you aren't a detective? I was just visiting since you called me recently."