Courtyard (South)

[Ai`]

Ai landed quite swiftly and gracefully, but in secret. She landed in the bushes somewhere so that no one would see her angel wings. When she landed, she folded up her two angelic white wings, not leaving one white feather on the ground, and slowly made her way out of the bushes, but her face was not smiling. She was crying, her cheeks stained with precious tears. It seems like almost everyday she cries, she's just a weakling.

"I'm... soo... scared... " she murmured under her breath as she collapsed on the ground, her knee's up to her chest as her back rested on a trunk of a tree. Her right cheek had one scratch from Tallan's attack, and it was lightly bleeding. She was scared, that attack reminded her of those darn devils that attacked her home.

"... I'll never gain my strength back... never" she said softly as more tears plumped on the grass. She was like a small child crying for her lost toy. All she came to Ria for was to sing, not to fight, when did that became her life?  

[Outlaw_elf]

Taqune was waiting on Marrow to answer when he heard a faint cry in the yard."Hey Marr i'll catch you later I think I am needed by someone."Taqune was gone with his speed and a gust of wind. He came apon Sakura,"Hey there why the tears and blood?"Taqune sat across from her his tail wrapped around his waist."You can tell me whats wrong I'll be quiet about it Ai." Taqune had remembered their meeting from a few weeks ago that seemed similar to this meeting.  

[Nohea-Chan]

Nohea heard the bush behind the great tree rustleing. She peeked around the side and saw,

"Sakura!?"

Nohea crawled over to her,

"What happened? Why are you crying and--" Nohea gasped, "Why is your cheek bleeding?!?!"

Nohea hadn't seen Sakura in a long time. And she was happy to see her, but Ai didn't seem so happy. What had happened? She didn't know, but she knew she should cheer her up. Then a person came over and began talking to Ai aswell.

"Oh, hello, my name is Nohea, do you know what could have happened?"

Nohea then looked back to Sakura.

"Well, lets clean this blood up."

Nohea raised her right hand closed to the scratch on Sakura's face. Water droplets began to form on Nohea's hand. Nohea slightly waved her hand, and the water mixed with the blood on Ai's cheek. Then Nohea pulled her hand away from Sakura's face, and the blood-water flew off, coming together as a sphere near Nohea's hand. Nohea looked around,

Now, where to put it?

Nohea shrugged and then let her hand down, the blood-water fell and sunk into the ground.

"I'm sure the ground doesn't mind." Nohea said, smileing

Then, out of nowhere, a voice,

"Don't be so sure..."

The spot where the blood dropped began to turn black and dark, but you could still see the grass, it looked like how grass would look at night, covered in shadow.

Nohea squealed and then shuffled nearer to Ai. What had she done now?!?

Then a dark figure began riseing out of the shadow spot. It was Kyoshi!!

After his whole body came out of the shadow, the shadow spot split in to a billion pieces, returning to their rightful positions, wherever Kyoshi had summoned them from.
Kyoshi stood there, his arms folded. There was a drop of blood on his forehead, dripping down to his nose. He looked a bit irritated, he had not planned to shower in blood, even if it was just a drop. Kyoshi snapped his fingers, and the blood dissapeared. He had mastered this trick while he was learning Dark magics because he had gotten tired of cleaning up blood the old fashioned way. Kyoshi then looked at Ai, just noticeing her.

"Oh, so you got out of that explosion alright? That idiot Tallan, blowing up the outside of a church. How disrespectful...not like I care for churches though."

Then Kyoshi looked at Nohea,

"Ah, it's you!! I finally found--" Kyoshi stopped, now looking at the other person present.

"And, you are?"  

[Outlaw_elf]

Taqune looked at the girl who seemed to have healed Sakura,"I'm Taqune a friend."he smiled to her softly his tail unwrapping from his waist and his ears rising from being flat on his head."When he heard the other voice he snapped to his feet.He listened to the guy until his addressed to Taqune."My name is Taqune and I would advise you leave these ladies alone,I'm not an enemy you want to make."Taqune was ready to fight fit it had to happen.  

[Nohea-Chan]

Nohea flinched a bit as Taqune stood up very quickly. She didn't want them to fight, the most important thing now, Nohea though, was to find out what had happened to Sakura.

Kyoshi rolled his eyes,

"Siddown, I'm not gunna hurt them. I was looking for this pink haired chick right here," Kyoshi pointed his thumb at Nohea, "She knows somthing I want to know. And this girl, Ai, I just met her not to long ago in the church."

Nohea's eyes widened. She had never seen this person before. What did he want from her?

"E-excuse me, but I don't know you." Nohea said to Kyoshi

She didn't really want to know him. He looked kind of scary. His dark brown eyes, almost looking like he had no color in his eyes, and his dark jet black hair, some covering his face.

Nohea just felt a very Dark vibe from him, she could feel these things because she had some control over the Dark Elements. Nohea sat very close to Sakura, she didn't know if this Dark guy was telling the truth, that he wasn't going to hurt them. But she wanted to keep Sakura safe, she looked like she had been through enough.

Kyoshi looked at Nohea,

"Of course you don't know me. I barely even know you. But my name's Kyoshi, just so you know."  

[Outlaw_elf]

Taqune growled softly at the guy and transformed into his gaint cat form. "Keep your word or i'll kill you."Taqune jumped into the tree that Sakura was under from where he was, and layed down."I'll keep watch over her,Nohea becareful with this guy."It would look funny that a Gaint cat was talking by opening his mouth but there has been stranger. He laid in the tree and closed his eyes his ears very alert to every sound.


((alittle bigger than a cougar,and good night all its 15 til 11pm here))  

[Purple RadioActive Banana]

She sat, staring straight ahead. Her hands lay on her lap, a frown marring her pretty features.

Selene was having some real trouble. She couldn't remember anything. Nothing in the last 24 hours. She remembered being on the roof. That's it. Now Selene was in the courtyard, trying to sort her self out.

Frusteration.

She let out a sigh, rubbed her blank, white eyes and promptly fell of the bench.

" Ouf!" she grunted, feeling carefully for the edge so she could get back up. Selene still stared at nothing. Her eyes reflected something. And nothing all the same.  

[Nohea-Chan]

Nohea quickly placed her hands over her mouth and gasped as Taqune changed in to a great cat and jumped into the tree. Nohea sort of nodded when Taqune told her to be careful.
Kyoshi felt like he was being treated as some kind of time bomb, ready to explode at any moment...but sometimes he really acted like that. Kyoshi looked up at Taqune. He had a sort of blank expression. It was not very strange to Kyoshi that Taqune had turned into a cat, for Kyoshi himself has a cat form. But no one here knew about it, because no one had tried to remove Kyoshi's necklace.

The beautiful dark glowing stone hung on a chain around his neck. From the stone hung a tiny silver cresent moon, and from the cresent moon hung a tiny gold star.

Kyoshi tilted his head slightly, his face still quite expressionless,

"Oh don't worry kitty, I'll keep my word. And If I don't, go ahead, kill me. Some might think you would be doing the world a favour."

Then Kyoshi looked down to Nohea. He walked right infront of her and then bent down, looking her straight in the eyes. Nohea looked at him aswell, blinking a bit. Kyoshi tilted his head a bit once again,

"Tell me, Nohea, what do you know about Ikaika?" Kyoshi spoke very calmly, not very firm either, but soft.

Nohea felt a bit ashamed for thinking Kyoshi was all bad. After hearing his voice like that, she felt that this 'Ikaika' was very important to him, and that Kyoshi wasn't all that bad of a person. Nohea also felt sorry because she didn't know this 'Ikaika'.

"I-I'm sorry, I don't know any Ikaika." Nohea answered softly.

Then Kyoshi looked at her a bit iritated,

"What?!" Kyoshi said firmly, "How can you lie to me in my face like that, after I asked you all nicely and what not?? I've seen you with him before!"

Nohea looked shocked. How would he have seen her with anyone?

"What are you saying? You mean you've been stalking me or somthing?" Nohea said rather loudly. Now she was getting angry, and that was a rare thing for her...or so she thought.

Kyoshi looked taken aback. Stalking? He had never thought of it that way. He felt like he had a right to follow her, she had his brother!! Kyoshi didn't know where she had him, but he knew it was her, his magics couldn't have failed him. And he saw her with him.

"Look you, I know you have him somewhere!! Give him back to me!!"

Kyoshi was now loseing his temper, he knew she had him somewhere. It didn't matter what form his brother was in, he just wanted to be with his family...maybe to be atleast a little normal, instead of living alone, forever, in darkness...  

[Ai`]

(( Yeah. You guys totally deserted me there ))

Sakura kept her face in her lap, she was still crying, kind of, even when Taqune came. She heard a familar voice but couldn't picture a face in her mind, she slowly lifted her head up to see who ever it was. Thats when she saw Taqune, and barely remembered him, last time she saw him, was a few days before one of the devils, Iredezria, attacked her. Thats when she heard Nohea, her eyes widened as she felt Nohea takae away her blood. Its not any blood, its an angels blood, but Sakura didn't really care. She was just so happy to see Nohea again.

"Nohea!!! NOhea!!! Nohea!!!" she cried over and over again as she hugged her. She was literatly crying of joy when she saw Nohea. Last time she saw her was at the student lounge with Lenair, Nohea knows Sakura's secret, but won't tell anyone. She slowly subsided her friendly hug as she felt a darkk energy arise, and slowly a shadowy figure. Only she smiled when the figure revealed what was behind the mask.

It was Kyoshi. How Sakura was glad he was okay, but wondered how he got out of Church area and away from Tallan's attack. Thats when Sakura remembered that Feena was still there, is she okay? She probably is, knowing her, probably having joy of fighting or making fun of Tallan in many possible names.

She jumped up, and hugged Kyoshi really tightly, she was happy he was okay. But she might of went over board.

"Yay!!! Your okay!!!!" she cried throughout the courtyard, but then she suddenly stopped. What in the wierd is she thinking, hugging a guy? Not possible, she is too shy around guys. Then again, she can be very aloof around guys. But hugging? That is a big no-no.

Wait a minute.... Kyoshi= a guy...which means... Ai-ya!!! she thought as she slowly backed away from Kyoshi withh swirly eyes. She had no freakin clue what was going on nor what she was doing. Today was surely a really really wierd day. She slumped back down on the ground , her back against the trunk of the tree as she looked somewhere else, trying to hide her blushing. After a few minutes of recovering her senses, she had missed more than half of Nohea's/Taqunes/Kyoshi's conversation. Then her arm nearly twitched as Kyoshi and Taqune looked like they were about the fight and Kyoshi yelling at Nohea wondering where Ikaika was.

who the hell is Ikaika? she thought, he was probably one of those students Sakura doesn't know. There was many people she didn't know, but that was okay, Sakura was leaving soon anyways, she just wanted to find her friends and say goodbye. And stuff. SHe had it! How dare Kyoshi yell at her friends like that. She swiftly got up in a calm pace and walked over to Kyoshi.

Slap!

She had slapped Kyoshi, she hates it when someone is being so rude to one of her dear friends. And she knew Nohea way back in the spring. She then nodded with a glare at Kyoshi and walked over to where Nohea was standing.

"Are you okay? Nohea?" she asked with utter concern.  

[Nohea-Chan]

((sorry Sakura sweatdrop ))

Nohea felt like she wanted to burst out in laughter after Sakura got up and slapped Kyoshi. But instead she put her hands on her mouth to make it look like she was shocked, for she was smiling and didn't want to make Kyoshi even angrier. Nohea nodded when asked by Sakura if she was alright or not. There was no physical damage done, and Nohea was glad of that. But nore was there any emotional damage either. Nohea wished she could help Kyoshi. She too knew what it was like to lose track of someone special, for her Popoki was missing aswell.

Kyoshi blinked a bit, looking quite surprised, yet even more irritated then before.

I s'pose she did have a right to hit me... Kyoshi thought, trying to calm himself down.

If Sakura had not been a girl, he would have probably went berserk.
Kyoshi just glared at Ai a bit, there was a red hand print on his face. Kyoshi wasn't one to complain about pain too much, he was actually quite used to it. Sakura's slap hurt more than he thought it would though, since seeing Tallan slapped not too long ago.

"I apologize for yelling. Ikaika is...important to me, I s'pose...because he's pretty much the only family I have left."

Kyoshi looked away, to the other side of the courtyard. He hated being like this, and he just wanted to stop.  

[Outlaw_elf]

Taqune jumped down from the tree and transformed back,he had finished his cat nap and was wide awake again."I can help you find him if you would like,I maybe a cat but I do have a keen nose,as long as you have something that would smell like him."Taqune looked back at the girls,"nice it as well Sakura."he smiled to her and look back to Kyoshi.  

[Nohea-Chan]

Kyoshi looked at Taqune, raiseing an eyebrow, after his offer to help.

"Thanks Taqune, but I don't have anything that would have his sent...I haven't seen Ikaika for a long long time."

Kyoshi was grateful that Taqune offered to help, but Kyoshi really didn't have anything that would smell like Ikaika.

Nohea looked up at Kyoshi,

"Kyoshi, what does Ikaika look like?"

Kyoshi looked up, as if trying to remember,

"Well...I don't know really..." Kyoshi said, still looking like he was thinking hard.

Nohea blinked, very surprised.

How does he expect to find Ikaika if he doesn't even know what Ikaika looks like?!


Kyoshi could see Nohea looked confused,

"Well...you see...Ikaika can never have his own body, because this person trapped his soul in a Spirit Stone," Kyoshi lifted up the stone on his neck, "Like this one. I doubt he has a body though."

Nohea gave a small gasp.

He can't be talking about....no....not, Popoki???

Kyoshi quickly turned his head towards Nohea,

"What, what is it?!?!"

Nohea just stared into nowhere, thinking...

((I can pretty much just rp with myself... rolleyes I have, like, 3 charactors xd ))  

[Ai`]

Sakura was spacing out as well, its not because she thought her current situation boring, it was well, she gets distracted by random objects pretty easily. She heard Kyoshi talking about how he expects to find Ikaika though not knowing what he even looks like.

I wonder how Feena is? And where is Oliver? Did Hiro get lost again? she thought of her siblings though she should really be paying attention to the person speaking. Its not her fault for worring about her siblings, though she is the middle child.

She slowly placed a finger on her chin as she thought, she was finally thinking who Ikaika was. Though she doesn't remember the name or reconize it, she remembered seeing the same stone that Kyoshi had when she was at the student lounge with Nohea, Popoki, and Lenair. Maybe Ikaika is Popoki? Nah, it couldn't be, they don't have the same name.

"Hey Nohea, where is Popoki? Just curious." she asked Nohea as she placed her hands on her hips, her enchanting lavender eyes had a mysterious and curious look, almost like she finished the puzzle.  

[Nohea-Chan]

"Who's Popoki??" Kyoshi said quickly with a confused face, looking from Sakura to Nohea, then back to Sakura.

Nohea quickly looked to Sakura, totally ignoreing Kyoshi,

"You know, I was just thinking about that Sakura!!" Nohea said excitedly. Then Nohea looked to Kyoshi,

"My cat's name is Popoki, and he has a stone," Nohea pointed to Kyoshi's stone, " and it looks just like that one, except it doesn't have those pretty charm things on it."

But, Popoki can't be this Ikaika person...they don't have the same name! And besides, Popoki is a cat.

It just didn't make sense to Nohea...

"It has to be him. It just has to be. Like I said before, he can't have his own body, the one he was born in. When I saw him with you, he wasn't in any form, he was still trapped in the stone, the one you were wearing."

It all made sense to Kyoshi, all of it. The only thing to do now, he thought, would be to find their 'Popoki' and his Ikaika.

"So...Nohea...got anything of 'Popoki's'?"

Nohea looked up, thought a bit, and then raised a finger signaling that she did,

"Yes!! I have his small yarn ball he used to play with!!"

Nohea reached into the pocket of her pink jacket. As she pulled the small baby blue yarn ball out, the small black wings on the back of her jacket bounced a bit.
Nohea smiled as she handed the yarn to Kyoshi. Kyoshi took it and then looked to Taqune,

"You still gunna sniff out this person? We don't exactly know what he looks like though, so we're gunna have to go by scent. I can help sniff him out too, I guess..."

Kyoshi tossed the yarn to Taqune, having faith he would catch it.
Then Kyoshi grabbed the tiny golden star on the stone that was around his neck. He took it off the small chain connecting to the silver cresent moon.

Suddenly two furry black ears popped out on top of Kyoshi's head, one had a small gold hoop earing on it, and a black furry tail popped out from the back, ripping a small hole in the back of Kyoshi's jeans.
Kyoshi poked his eyes, taking out two dark brown contacts, and revealing two bright, almost glowing, yellow eyes. The pupils of his eyes were also cat-like.
Kyoshi made a wave of his hand, and the contacts just dissapeared in a shadow-like smoke.

Nohea looked at Kyoshi, her mouth half open. She was stunned!!

There infront of them all, was Kyoshi's 'cat-boy' form.
Kyoshi could see the surprised look on Nohea's face,

"Yeah, I don't do this too often. I lose a lot of nice jeans this way you know....." Kyoshi said looking away with a kind of 'whatever' look, his hands in his pockets, his tail moving side to side like a cats tail usually moves.  

[Outlaw_elf]

Taqune caught the ball and smelled it,"hmm it has a destint smell but its still going ot be hard to interpit all the smells in the school and find this one smell."Taqune sniffed the air,"Ah this body is no good for this,"he then transformed into his full cat form and smelled the ground around them,"this is much better,I can smell something around the courtyard that has this sent."Kura began to move around the courtyard smelling the ground looking up everynow and then.