Courtyard (North)

[Raine_Falls]

"I-I have a bad feeling Kaida's hurting badly..." Alyssa explained, rubbing her arms where goosebumps were more than visible. She was spooked, nothing like this had ever happened before..so why now? Cold sweat was forming at her brow as she shook slightly. Alyssa smiled at Miki and shrugged some, "Don't worry probably just something weird going on with me.."  

[Senquis]

"I-I have a bad feeling Kaida's hurting badly . . ." Alyssa told

Miki. His eyes had gone back down to their normal size as the shock of Alyssa's screams was subdued in his mind. Who is Kaida? Miki asked her curiously. He was under the impression that Alyssa had really no other friends in Ria yet, being as new as she was.  

[Raine_Falls]

"Kaida was my best friend before my father's murder. I stopped talking to her and we just met up here a few days ago...I don't know why but I think that I'm feeling what Kaida is.." Alyssa explained, smiling at Miki's curiousity yet her eyes were filled with worry and sorrow at the thought of her father. She ran a hand through her hair, used to the akward silences she could create.  

[Kaitae]

"Well that's not cool." Keila said with concern. "We need to find where Kaida is then, don't we? Because.. if she's in trouble and you're getting hurt because of it.. well we just need to help anyway!" she nodded and stood up, resting her hands on Miki's head with a look of determination on her face. "So where would she be? Could you contact her?"

 

[Nyanfood]

Rivera leapt from roof to roof, her wings helping only with smooth landings. She had never mastered the full use of them in the air, but they were still helpful underwater and on normal terrain. Kairen wrapped tightly about her waist and upper chest, the chains rattling gently. Kairyu pulsed with a strange anticipation.

With a final leap, Rivera landed silently into the courtyard. Her hair trailed behind her like tresses of raven silk ribbons. Both of her eyes were a cunning golden-brown, tinted with the embers of yesterday's fire. Kairyu, her sword, was as silver as her wings, with the same bluish ripple that said it was the finest skysteel souls could buy and forge. The dragon on its hilt gave it its name. Kairen, the steel chain, moved of its own accord. Its primary counterweight moved its triangular piece back and forth like a mesmerizing cobra.

The girl looked towards the sky, a gale still blowing around her. "This is a first... are you angry at me?" She seemed to speak to the sky that grew steadily darker. But of what she could hear, no one else understood. No one else understands how the wind sings to her... this was a song of unknown sorrows, of crashing thunder and flashing lightning, rolling thunderheads and lashing rain... this was her speech, and it was the storms.

"... so it is the song... am I not allowed to sing it freely?" Rivera's whispering voice was sad, "That was a memory beyond memory... I found it by chance only. Do you mean to say... that you hid it from me? Please, tell me why..."

But the answer, even she could not understand why snow and hail would fall in a circle around her, but nowhere else. There was a last flash of lighting to bid farewell to the storm... and suddenly, all was still. Rivera stood alone with Kairen and Kairyu, with the frozen precipitation melting quickly in the rapidly emerging sun. After all this, all she could do was sit down on an empty patch of ground and think while she gazed sadly at the sky.  

[Raine_Falls]

Alyssa closed her eyes for a moment and began talking to Kaida mentally, blocking out both Miki and Keila.
"Kaida...where are you...?"
"I-I don't know...I was sparring...then I can't remember.."
another voice whispered into her head, groggily as if she had been sleeping. It was Kaida, and now slightly upset at being awoken by Alyssa. "However, I was just sleeping...ask around in the Training Hall. I'm sure someone knows.." And with those words, Kaida shut the connection off and fell back into a deep slumber. Alyssa chuckled and turned toward the others. "She's in the hospital." Alyssa replied softly to Miki and Keila, a grin plastered onto her face

OOC:I couldn't figure out how to do two colors... sweatdrop  

[Malekim]

A black mist appeared in an area near the fountain as Seraph materialized from a transport spell he was working on in the Abyss arena.
What the!?! What the heck am I doing out here? Seraph scratched his head as he looked around trying to find out exactly what he did wrong.
He stepped over to the fountain to sit and think, his sword's scabbard clicked on the concrete as he removed it from his back and set it down.
He absent-mindedly played with a ball of dark energy running across his hands.  

[Nyanfood]

Rivera looked up as an aural dent appeared with a strange force of energy. She seeked the object with her mind and her eyes turned to it without any mishap in directions. It was a dark fog of some sort. A figure emerged from it and sat down at the fountain, appearing to be thinking. He made a strange impression of it though--thinking the moment you come out of a fog... is he lost?

Her eyes immediately fell to the energy sphere in his hands, and she stood up, drawn to its power. Walking towards him silently, she got a closer look at the sphere. The sword he carried drew the attention of Kairen immediately, who snaked down in silence to greet the weapon. The links of chain did not clink against each other.

Rivera was about to say something when a missle of warping energy shot through her head through the slit pupil of her dragon eye, and the energy sphere vanished. By now, the man would've noticed her. Kairyu hummed a warning from its spot on her back. The blade was worried that she had done something she wasn't supposed to...

"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I think I...er... swallowed you... energy sphere..." Rivera made her presence known with the apology, although it was no more than a whisper and her emotions were still flat-ish. She didn't know that her powers would be out of her control. She looked into his eyes and realized Damn... I must sound really lame... "Um... I'm sorry..." She thought for a quick moment, then thought about the sphere. A ball of lightning, black in color, popped into her hands. "Didn't know I could do that... I hope this can serve as a replacement."  

[Malekim]

Seraph looked up as his sphere of energy vanished.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. I think I...er... swallowed you... energy sphere..."
A girl with a dragon's third eye was standing there looking sheepish and ashamed. "Um... Im sorry..." She paused and then opened her hand revealing a black ball of lightning.
"Didn't know I could do that... I hope this can serve as a replacement."
Seraph smiled,
"Hey, no worries. I dont usually let energy escape like the but your other side was hungry."
He gently controlled the ball of lighting, sending it alot in front of the girl. He wove it into a fine display of lights and arcs. He paused, letting the ball race into the sky. He winked at the girl and pointed up.
He felt the ball explode in a harmless display of tracers, lights, and firesprays. He held the sparks of death magic as he named them and sent them back to were they had come from.
"I dont believe we have been formally introduced..."  

[Nyanfood]

Rivera tore her green-blue eyes away from the display of lights. Her right eye, the dragon one, turned a prim shade of violet. Her left normal eye turned imperial blue. The girl bowed gracefully, a bow that did not match her boyish navy-violet biker's jacket and the dark blue boy-cut jeans, or the leather strapped black boots. They didn't even have one inch heels. The draconian tatoo on her right forearm was as dark as ever, masculine against her feminine body.

"My name is Rivencaira Aeryazure Capella'acqu, of the Pritier Capella'acque dere Aeterranchise... I think. I'm not very sure, but the Storm says so." She whispered to him, for it was all she could do in speech. She had never said anything, nothing that she could remember anyway. Her voice was the wind's song, nothing more than a whisper on the breeze.

Rivera rose up from her bow. "You can call me Rivera, or Birdie, if you like. My name is long... " But at least I know it's my name, mine and mine alone. She thought the last bit to herself. That was a memory she escaped with, her name. But her origins were vague. All that she had found meant nothing to her if she didn't know her purpose.

"And yours?" The flat whisper still rose and fell like the tides by the moon, but still, the emotions were only visible in her eyes, shifting into colors of green and gold. Her narrow frame seemed delicate and fragile, but they held steely muscles built for speed. Without the danger, she looked almost childish--a demented child, that is--and lost,except that she has the sword and chain. The steel wings on her back had folded and retracted.

((If you want pictures, my profile is on page 12 of the indepth info. ))  

[Malekim]

Seraph tilted his head forward in the old style male bow, not befitting the punk jeans, combat boots, and tight black shirt he was wearing.
"My name is Seraph Lu Dong Bing, literally meaning 'Angel of the Sword'. My hometown was originally a place called 'Sharder Gap', but I moved since. " He paused for a moment as he continue, looking up toward the sky, "Its gone now... An attack on the place killed everyone but me." A tear fell from his cheek as he recalled the incident. He clenched his fist as anger overtook him. Dark black energy started to pulse around his fists as another tear fell from his cheek. "They killed my Mom" Seraph quenched the flow of energy as his sleeve slid up revealing an almost life like, shimmering black dragon tattoo. He instantly caught it and pulled his sleeve back in place, anger turning into embarrasment.
Ugh... Why cant I keep control of my emotions.... She wasnt supposed to see that...
"Im terribly sorry about that," Seraph looked a bit sheepish as he continued. " I dont usually lose it... Umm... Yeah..."  

[Nyanfood]

Rivera nodded to express her sympathy. She wasn't so good with emotions. She doesn't have a memory of crying, but then again, she didn't remember much. "Say... what are your parents like?" Her curiosity got the best of her. Rivera never considered how it would be to live with someone else who could take care of you and give you advice... in fact, she's lived by herself as long as she could remember. In the juvenile detention center, in military training, during house arrest... it was all alone. Her supervisors were guards, cold sergeants and a few men in the roof beams with sniper rifles honed in on her.

"I'm sorry, if it's asking you a bit much..." She saw his expression and her eyes turned pale green. Her own voice never wavered. Rivera could not understand how people show emotions so easily while she herself couldn't do it at all. A smile or a frown was all she could ever manage, no matter how hard she tried. "I don't... remember... anything... from more than two or three months ago. What are parents like? What do they do?"  

[Malekim]

Seraph watched as she softly whispered, expressionless,"I don't... remember... anything... from more than two or three months ago. What are parents like? What do they do?"
Seraph spotted a bench out of the corner of his eye,
"This will take a bit of explaining, lets go sit over there." He pointed in the direction of the bench. He picked up his sword, strapping it to his back. He looked at her as he clasped his hands behind his back and started walking over to the bench. She followed at his side, listening.
"Well, I only knew my mother." He looked at Rivera, who still had the quizzative expression on her face, "She was a very nice person, spoiled me rotten. She liked messing with my hair, but I hated it." Seraph sat down on the bench as Rivera took the other side of the bench. "Strange how I hated it then, and now I miss her touch oh so terribly." He placed his head in his hands, "She took care of me, she gave me gifts on my birthday, she helped me with my chores... She even gave me a sweet plum if I was good." He raised his head, a pained expression apparent on his face. "She was all I had... Then the Morden came. They attacked quickly, ruthlessly, and emotionlessly. They killed her right in front of me." Tears streamed from Seraph's face as he recalled the painful memory, "I killed the one that did it to her... With magic... I didnt know what i was doing... Everyone was dead. All of the Morden by my hand, everyone else had a Morden blade or arrow in them." Seraph's tears stopped as he continued, " I went outside, looking for anyone, a friend, an enemy... Anyone. I only found my sword. That was it. It was standing amidst a pile of Morden, each lying as if they were reaching for it." Seraph brought himself back to reality.
"Oh, I am so terribly sorry... I have completely bored you..." Seraph chuckled, "I tend to tell really long and convulted stories... Especially when it comes to my history."  

[Nyanfood]

Rivera merely blinked and shook her head. "I had forseen the day that we meet, and saw the questions that I would inquire of you, and knew the air of the answers I would recieve. 'It is only opening the page of another book, and recieving an elucidation to previous inquiries.' "She quoted from the script that was written behind the key that she wore around her neck. The serpent dragon wrapped upon its handle's scales, miniscule engravings. Her whispering voice rustled as the leaves do.

"And I now understand the reason why the storm was reluctant on letting me sing its song..." She whispered to herself now, her eyes downcast. Rivera looked up, "Oh, I think Kairen knew it too." She nodded to the metal chain that snaked around her body. The chain was getting aquainted with Seraph's sword. "She wouldn't let me leave the supermarket without buying a basketful of these."

She passed her hand over his ear, and seemed to extract a sweet plum from his head. "You forgot to wash this morning." Rivera handed him the fruit. "And you have my chain to thank for this... winged one who wields the blade."  

[Senquis]

"She's in the hospital." Alyssa told them with a fake smile. Miki

blinked at her and tilted his head. He was glad that Keila was back to her normal self again, and all worried about Alyssa's friend, but that smile on Alyssa's face sort of creeped him out. Yeah, Miki agreed with Keila, We should go visit her or something.