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What had started as a simple game of tag between a mother and a rambunctious son, had suddenly turned into what seemed to be a fight between life and death.

The two had been running around the house while the other children were out with Raziel. (Elazu had claimed of not feeling well when they had all left for the mall, so Risika stayed home with him. And as most random child illnesses do, it disappeared within a few hours of silence and boredom, (magical cures!), and it helped that his older brother, whom he had grown attached to, had stayed home aswell. At this particular time in the game, Elazu was it and Risika was fleeing the "plagued" child. Dodging the chairs and sofas that their living room mainly consisted of, Risika finally seemed to be corned by the coffee table.

Elazu stood in front of his mother, grinning evily as his tail flicked madly behind him. He had her now! His emerald eyes flicked around their surrounding area, making sure there was no escape for his sly mother. The coffee table was now where they made their stand, and the only obvious escape route seemed to be for her to run straight at him since a sofa and love seat blocked her on both sides, and of course there was the coffee table to her back. BUt he had forgotten how elusive his mother was, and before he even knew it, she was under the coffee table, crawling as fast as she could to the other side, and to freedom.

The shadow child let out a disgruntled," Hey!" and soon dove after her, sliding on the hardwood floors and under the coffee table, but he did not make it all the way out from under it. Soon instead of the sound of giggling as the boy would have done once the chase began again, but instead a frustrated grunt and frantic, " Mooommmyyy!"

Risika turned on her heel, surprised to not see Elazu behind her. Where was he, surely not still under the coffee table. She made her way toward the coffee table, kneeling down on the floor and peered under it seeing Elazu still under there, and seemingly struggling. But she wasn't worried, from time to time Elazu lost control of his limbs and fall through the floor, it was rare, but it did happen whenever he got really frustrated. All he needed to do was settle down and he would be able to pull himself out of the floor, and she told him so.

However, her reasonable words did nothing to settle the poor child, for he knew this was something entirely different from his usual limp transparency, and he voiced as such. Risika frowned, telling Elazu to keep his head down as she pushed the coffee table away from him, flinching at the noise of wood scratching wood, but that wasn't important now. A surprised gasp left her lips as she finally saw him.

Instead of his usual up to the knee missing position, he was down in the floor up to his chest, his hands frantically tearing at the slippery hard wood floor in an attempt to get himself out. A curse spilled from her lips as she launched forward, grabbing hold of Elazu's arms and trying to pull him out from the floor. But it was useless, it was as if she were trying to pull him from quick sand. She frowned, keeping hold of Elazu's arms as he tried to frantically scramble from the floor.

" Elazu hold still, just calm down hunny." Easy for her to say, but even harder for her to take her own advice. Watching Elazu's wide, terror filled eyes staring at her made her frantic. What if they couldn't get him out? This was different than from before, and perhaps couldn't be solved the same way? She did the only thing she knew could possibly save Elazu from sinking into the floor.

" Aubrey!" A few moments of silence, " AUBREY!" A few loud stomps and door slams and the teen was in the living room, hands on hips and a very angry look on his face. " WHAT!?" but his moment of frustration was soon wiped away as he saw the scene before him. What the hell was going on? He kneeled down next to Risika, pushing her out of the way as he grabbed hold of Elazu's arms in her stead. It was a good thing she had been holding onto him, but it was useless if she didn't know how to get him out.

" Laz, you have to settle down. Listen to me, I'm going to get you out okay?" Hearing his nickname coming form his older brother, helped him settle down, especially when the teen said he was going to get him out. Aubrey had very similar powers to Elazu, and due to his age and experience, knew what he was doing, and how to get Elazu out of the floor.

A deep intake of breath, and Aubrey shoved his arms into the floor, going in about shoulder deep. Risika remembered him calling it shadow transportation where he basically melted into the shadows and moved within them. Perhaps that was what was going on with Elazu? Aubrey's golden eyes seemed to be looking through the floor as his arms moved around, and after a few moments of heart wrenching silence and scared whines from Elazu, Aubrey smirked.

"Gotcha." A few quick movements to get his knees in place, and then he pulled, falling back onto his back once Elazu's weight hit him. He held the kid in his arms for a moment with a look of disbelief on his face. He didn't know he could do it, he had hoped he could, but didn't know if it would work, and obviously he did. He turned his attention toward Elazu, who was clinging to his shirt like it was his life line, eyes shut tightly and muttering what sounded like " thank you big brother" over and over again. Elazu's body was slowly becoming visible and solid, and once he was whole again, Aubrey risked his attention elsewhere.

The teen slowly looked up at Risika, who stared at him with her hands clasped tightly together over her mouth. He could tell that she was trying her best not to just grab Elazu from Aubrey's arms, and apparently keeping her hands clasped together was defiantly helping. He smirked at her and pulled his arms away from Elazu, who responded by opening his eyes and smiling at Risika.

The frantic mother grabbed hold of Elazu, instantly pulling him into a tight hug as she pet his hair gently over and over. She had seriously thought she was going to lose him, and if Aubrey hadn't been there, she was pretty sure she would have. She moved an arm and wrapped it around Aubrey's neck, pulling him into the small family hug. He grunted in objection, then sighed, knowing that it was useless once Elazu grabbed hold too.

" Laz, I'm going to train you."
" Okie Big Brother."


( wow i saw this being better in my mind XDDD
*sigh* alwell X3 i like it nonetheless)

"Again, but this time concentrate more on what you are trying to create."

A dark haired teen stood in the middle of a dark garage, his arms crossed and golden eyes glued upon his pupil. Training was every other day, and said pupil was having more or less, a tough time with things. The teen knew that it was because he was thinking too much about the fact that his teacher was constantly staring at him, and the urge to impress would always trump the urge to actually take things slowly. He would always become too frustrated, and due to the dark garage, there was plenty of shadow for him to sink into from this frustration and loss of concentration.

The teen sighed, making his way over to his pupil, patting his head perhaps a bit too hard as he squatted down to get on eye level with the child.

" If you don't settle down and concentrate, you're going to sink into the floor again and I won't save you this time." The child swallowed hard, knowing that he didn't really mean it, but the idea startled him, and it was the main reason why they were doing these training lessons in a dark garage with only an unshaded lamp, placed in the middle of the concrete floor, as their source of light. He needed to get a hold of these powers, and the first step was to get a hold of what his older brother, and teacher, called " Shadow manipulation". Once he got a hold of the hardest of his new powers, the others would become easier to learn.

He nodded, then took a deep breath in, letting it out slowly as he watched his shadow on the wall.

" Visualize it, concentrate, and you will get it" the teen said before standing up, taking his place behind him, his arms once again folded across his chest.

Another nod and the child stared harder at his own shadow, breathing nice and even for concentration. He wanted to shadow to move on its own, without him having to move his own body. He wanted the shadow to dance and twirl and play tricks on people, especially so that he wouldn't have to get in trouble for it. His mind trailed off then, thinking of what kinda of tricks he and his shadow minions could get into. Making scary pictures on the wall sure would be a neat trick, scary images like monsters that used to hide under your bed when you were younger.

Little did the child know, as his mind wandered off and his imagination grew, so did his shadow. It began to tremble, flickering as if the shadow were being created by a fire's light, and then it began to mutate. Its form became more round, horns began to grow from its head, white eyes began to form across its "face", and a wide, fanged grin appeared upon as its mouth. With this devilish form two arms with claws appeared, the claws flexing in and out, the form may not have had its own mind, but it was defiantly testing its new form out, and it seemed pleased.

The child finally noticed something moving in front of his eyes, his mind finally coming back from space, he saw his creation on the wall. A wide grin crossed his face and he leapt into the air, a shout of glee filling the air. The teen could only smirk, pride flickering in his eyes. He knew that his little brother had it in him, and seeing such a shadow form coming form him in such a short amount of time, only made him that much more prideful. It had to be his training, but of course it was also the kid's own powers.

" Good, good! Now remember what you did, and change it into something else."

The child stopped jumping, rubbing his hands together as his pride swelled. He could defiantly do this, after creating the form in front of him, who was waving merrily at him at the moment, it should be a since to create something else. He waved back at the devilish shadow then began to concentrate on what the shadow could be turned into. Perhaps he could turn it into...

Another deep intake of breath, and a smooth exhale and he let his imagination run wild. The shadow trembled again, wiggling from side to side before losing its form, and becoming a fairly large ball. Another tremble and then legs sprouted from the ball, eight to be exact, and not a moment later two fangs sprouted from the front and back of the ball, the front pair being much larger and soon accompanied by several large white eyes. The spider clenched its fangs together, its white eyes blinking before making its way toward the ceiling, its legs moving so fast that the shadows seemed to be having a hard time catching up with it.

The child let out another shout of glee, but this time kept his feet firmly on the floor, he didn't want to jump higher toward the spider, his creation or not, he was defiantly not a fan of spiders. The spider soon reform into the devilish form from before, the shadow making its way back to the floor and smiling, waving at its creator. He waved back before turning toward his teacher, a bright yet tired smile crossing his lips.

" I did it! And I think I like this one bestest." A wide yawn and a fluttering of eyelids and the shadow returned to normal, flickering back to the form of the child's real shadow. The teen stepped forward, reaching out and picking the child up before he passed out. As soon as the child's head hit the teen's shoulder, he was out like a light.

" You did a great job, Elazu. I'm very proud."

He smiled, and although he couldn't see it, so did Elazu.

~~Quest = Fin~~

~Thread RP: Elazu and Shayla~