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The massive hill continued to rock slightly, he had gone from deep meditation into a seemingly further state of mind, the astrial plains. The spiritual WORLD in which was available to every and any spirit willing ot supress heavy meditational training and meditate hard upon it for a while to gain access within it to see the spirits of long dead creatures or live ones. The dragons, the unicorns, even normal cats, snakes, dogs. Everything. He felt a hand upon his back and then heard the thoughts of Takara and he sighed as he looked about in this place of the spirit world. He bowed deeply, looking to the dead spirit of the Phoenix who flew above him, his guardian spirit. He smiled and he shook his head as his eyes snapped open in reality. He ooked about for a moment and then stood to his full height of ten foot seven inches. He walked towards where he knew takara was and he smiled slightly as he saw them gathering shards. "I don't htink you could make such a spell to gather the specific essence of a shard...but you could always look to the ground itself to see if it knows where to find them." He said with a smirk as he placed an ear to the ground slightly, the essence of earch allowing him to send little waves of earth energy to check for any disturbances in the ground, whereas a shard could have hit and punctured in. He walked a few feet away and he quirked a brow as he slammed his fist into the ground, the massive hand withdrawing with a grimace. "Seems I was a little off target." He stated as he lifted his hand out, the shard protruding from his knuckle. It was rather large and he had punched right into it by accident, the point a couple of inches into his hand.

Takara smiled when she heard what Damian said and what he had done to help out, then she looked back at Runa and smiled at her as well with what she had gathered within her hands as well. "Well guys, guess we best continued looking for the sooner we find all of it the faster we can get going and continue on with our lives." she stated softly.

Takara continued walking back to the opening for she heard something not far from where she was, "Guys, I'll be right back, keep looking okay?" she stated and then went on with what she had in mind. When she came out of the woods she saw someone laying not too far from the water, "Who in the world is that, for he sure looks familar." she said to herself as she slowly walked towards the body.

Seeing the writing upon the ground she gasped as she read it, turning around she shouted for Runa and Damian to come and help her out. "Runa and Damian come quickly!!!" then she knelt down beside his body she could see the injuries upon him. Quickly she ran to the water and ripped part of the skirt to dipped it into the cool water and then back to his body, she gently began to wipe away the blood that was upon his face, "Ringaru, please don't die on me, where have you been...have you seen Kouchi as well?" she asked softly hoping that maybe he had.

Ki had heard Runa calling, and felt more pain, but couldn't move at the moment. Why did I do this now? Of all times... Well... He was just finishing up. In front of Ki was a lotus-shaped pin. The petals were pearl, and the pad under it was jade. I hope this makes up for it... He thought. Then, looking over, he found a shard of crystal. "What do you know..." He said quietly, and picked it up. He felt parth within it... and knew it was part of his body. He then headed back to the others.

Xi' walked back to where the others were, then noticed they had left. He had walked a little ways away earlier, to get something to eat, then meditate and train some. Continuing his walk, he made his to the lake eventually; there he saw the others and quietly made his way to them. There was someone that was close to passing out laying on the ground, and Takara was wiping their forehead with a piece of torn cloth.

I heard shouting and tried to move my body but it had become so heavy all of the sudden. I felt my mind being taken back down to the bottom of the lake to the thing that wanted me so bad. I could see the jar before me in my mind. Inside the plant was wiggling about, it had indeed grown and was almost too big for the jar. I bit down on my lip trying to get away from the vision and pulled my daggar out and slashed my hand. The pain sent me back and I stood in the forest sweating and breathing heavily as I held my hand. I walked down to the lake and cleaned my hand off so no would see anything. It left a scar but it had stopped bleeding and wasn't too big.

I saw a man laying on the beach recognizing him as Faeror I went to his side. He seemed to have no major injuries, so I tore a piece of cloth off the bottom of my shorts and dipped it into the water and placed it on his forehead. I looked down the beach just a ways was Takara tending to another man on the ground....who looked very familiar.