Aiba? Aiba?! Aiba! The Hare was suddenly very disrupted by the feelings that the dark haired boy was all but shoving through his rings. It disrupted nearly everyone that rested in the rings except the Bear and the Wolf who seemed more immune to it out of their own experiences than anything else. It was insanely rare for the Earth Spirits to actually talk outside of being summoned by Aiba, but now they were all in a panic thrown off by Aiba's sharp emotions that twisted around many like the Snake trying to suffocate them or something of the like.
The Hare, being one of the more easily unnerved was calling out desperately trying to get the dark haired boy to stop surging panic through the other rings. The Monkey was screaming trying to use a strange twisted logic in order to soothe the dark haired boy despite the fact that he lacked understanding of what exactly had caused the dark haired boy to go into the state of panic.However, Aiba had cut off their voices and managed to lock his mind away only increasing his own panic and fear.The Bear looked at the Wolf. The Wolf looked at the Bear. Neither said anything but simply watched and waited as though internally knowing there would be an end soon enough if not close at hand.
I died... I died.... I saw them... Noiren... Hiawai... and they... they...all that blood... was it mine? What... why.... His entire body shook with the energy that was running through him. He wanted to fight something or break something terribly bad. Anything to relieve the feelings that were running through him. Yet he would not. The dark haired boy was not that type of person, so all he could do was sit there and tremble as nurse after nurse was panicking much like the blocked confusion of the Earth Spirits that Aiba was locking away from himself at that very minute with even more emotions. Aiba just continued to shake his head and refuse to say anything of actual value on what had happened. It was all to real to him at that point.... all to real.
"Excuse me but you have a visitor," a nurse's voice said. However, Aiba all but ignored her as he had the other Earth Spirits. He wanted to get away or something of the like.
"Hey Aiba it's me," Aisling's voice called, and almost in half a second after, Aiba found himself freeze. His muscles were still tight, yet he found a fraction of control only to be lost again as he looked down and all but cradled himself and startled mumbling again. "Aiba? What's wrong?" Aisling's voice continued as she tried to get at the matter much as the nurses had. However, the dark haired boy just shook his head and said nothing as he shook a fraction.
"They killed me.. they killed me... why did they kill me?" Aiba mumbled shaking his head in the jittery feeling that was taking even more control by the minute. Suddenly a hand was on his shoulder, and Aiba found himself frozen again. The sudden intake of air from Aisling caused Aiba's eyes to turn a fraction. The red haired girl had gone insatiably pale right then and there probably feeling the sharp emotions just as the Animals did.
"No.... no stop... don't..." Aiba said managing to remove Aisling's hand. He didn't want her to feel it... didn't want her to have to be burdened by it... No one should have been burdened by it, but if it was going to be anyone, Aiba would take it on himself. This was his own form of his thoughts.
Aisling seemed to recoil almost right then and there and had brought her hands together fumbling with her fingers and staring down even still growing more pale. "Death......" she muttered to herself now as if trying to close off the emotions that had all but overwhelmed her. Aiba shook his head detesting the fact that she had gotten such a glimpse into his emotions, yet there was nothing he could do. He couldn't even get control at that point... couldn't even.... even...
"Aisling? Aisling what's wrong? What'd he do?" Puck was now all but asking the same exact questions that the nurses had asked Aiba. However, the red haired girl said nothing and looked down all but ignoring him now as Aiba was ignoring the Animals.
Time ticked away, and slowly, Aiba gained control of his breathing if nothing else. Sensing this, the Animals appeared to slowly calm down. The Wolf and the Bear, now at peace with watching the other Earth Spirits slowly come to terms with themselves again, slowly began to work their own ways into Aiba's mind slowly calming down the tension and the stress. After twenty minutes, a more deadened look came across Aiba's face, and after that, he finally sighed looking at Aisling.
"Sorry...." he said unsure of what else to say. "I didn't... I..." he found words still escaped him, and there was still a lump that had knitted itself into the bed of his stomach that would not go away for weeks to come. "I think...I....Ryoen died...." he said after a split second. Aisling stared for a moment as she continued to twisted her knuckles around each other as if trying to inadvertently consul herself rather than anything else at that point. Aiba breathed out again and put his hands on his face trying to resist the urge to rip his nails down his skin.
"Ryoen died?" Puck mimicked in sudden confusion. His eyes widened large and he suddenly backed up. "I have to tell Lady Aine...." he said after a minute suddenly exploding off down the hallway.
Noticing for the first time that the Animals were all but still unnerved, Aiba began sliding his rings off in an effort to try and make less contact and put less strain on them. Each one fell to the bed in front of him, but Aiba found himself feeling even more alone by this action.
"Aiba?" Aisling said after a minute still trying to work down whatever it was she had experienced. "That..." she started trying to talk on the feeling of terror, pain, and such the liking that had passed through the touch, yet after a minute she just shook her head again.
"I think I'm going to be sick...." Aiba said after a split second shaking his head once more still resisting the urge to claw at his visage.
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As Puck zoomed down the hallway, he was suddenly and drastically seized by yet another hand. The fairy, more or less in shock yet again at being taken again, looked around confused. "Hey what's the big id-...." Puck started only to come face to face with Sho Sakurai. The bear man stared back as if unfazed by Puck's call out and instead narrowed his eyes a fraction.
"Where are you off to this early in the morning?" Sho asked aloud in a calm voice.
"I... I have to find Lady Aine... Ryoen's dead..." Puck said suddenly rushing his hands over his mouth as if to try and silence himself only after giving out what he had all bug sworn only to tell Aine. Sho's eyes grew immense at that point, and his hand released Puck in that instant. With a sudden motion, the brown haired man headed down the hallway and towards Aiba's room.
As he entered, he found both Aiba and Aisling in a state of extreme discontent. Aiba hand his hands over his face, and Aisling had tried to turn her attention to the wall as though trying to find something to stare at in order to deal with whatever she was internally biting away at. The brown haired man stared a minute just surveying the entire room before he finally stepped inside and closed the door behind himself.
"Ryoen is dead?" he asked calmly.
Aiba didn't look up. "Yes...." he said after a moment breaking the silence in the room as if afraid to. At that point, Aisling dropped into a chair and seemed suddenly extremely tired. "Noiren and Hiawai.... killed him...."
Sho Sakurai's eyes widened. "This was unexpected..." Aine's voice sighed outwards causing Sho to turn and find the red haired angelic woman standing just behind him. "I would have never expected them to have killed one of their own."
"Then again, Noiren's brutality is to be expected...." Sho answered back shaking his head a fraction suddenly freezing. "What about...Ni-."
"He and Matsu are still in Matsu's room and both are asleep," Aine commented calmly back. "As soon as I heard Aiba scream, I had believed it to be coming from their room until I realized where it was coming from."
"Ah," Sho answered back. Walking into the room fully, Sho walked to Aiba's bed and placed a hand on his arm. The dark hared boy's eyes grew suddenly, but after another moment, the dark haired boy's body went limp, and he fell back into the bed as if he had never woken. Aine said nothing, but as Aisling saw this, she seemed to suddenly tense.
"Wait...." Ailsing tried before looking at Aine. "Nana....What...." she tried.
" 'Ghost Dreams' Sleep Paralysis?" Aine said aloud looking at Sho. "I would not have expected you to be the type to use such measures, Sho Sakurai."
"It is better if he just returns to sleep," Sho answered back. "And has better dreams than of what he just witnessed through his own mind..." Sho sighed back. "As for this one... I will leave her to you as she is not under my workings," Sho looked at Aisling who was continuing to stare as if unable to find the right question to begin with.
"Lady Aine! Lady Aine! Ryoen is...." Puck came zooming in the room as though he had gotten lost or something of the like. However, when he found which room Aine had come into, Puck stopped and suddenly remained hovered in the air.
"Dead," Aine answered back. "Yes I know." Puck seemed to sigh in defeat at this.
"I don't want to sleep...." Aiba groaned a bit causing Sho to look over. "I don't want to sleep again... no....." The dark haired boy's eyes flickered open again, and he stared as though blinded by some sort of light.
Aine looked at Sho and seemed to smirk a fraction. "His will detested the measure, it would seem," Aine smirked a bit. Sho just sighed back.
~*~
Nino's eyes flickered open, and the dark haired man found himself once again in Matsu's bed with the white haired man hugging him around the arm.Hell Matsu..... Nino sighed outwards trying to find a fashion to get off the bed without waking up the white haired man. Matsu seemed extremely at peace, and all Nino could do was sigh again as she slowly tried to move his arm out from the yellow eyed man's grip.
A strange ringing overtook Nino's ears, and he found himself tense completely and utterly tense. Reaching up with his free arm, the dark haired man put a hand to the side of his ear trying to cease the ringing. A strange satisfaction wove its way onto the dark haired man, yet he had no idea as to why. Shaking his head, Nino managed to slip his arm out from Matsu's grasp. However, in that minute, the white haired man opened his one eye and stared at Nino.
"Morning...." Matsu said after another moment.
~*~
Ame opened one eye and stared at the hotel room around her. She had slept sitting upright the entire night but felt no soreness from this. Ohno, who had gotten up earlier, walked into the hotel room once more. "Are you ready to head back to the hospital?" he asked with a light smile on his face. Ame closed the eye she had opened and sighed a fraction before forcing herself up off the bed and standing upright. Stretching her arms, Ame looked out the window.
"Ya... let's go," she finally answered back opening the window up.
"Wait what are you..." Ohno's eyes grew as the teal haired woman got on the ledge of the window and easily jumped straight off. Running to the window, the red haired man watched as the teal haired woman navigated downwards with the ease and skill far beyond that of a gymnastic master. Sighing outwards, Ohno forced a laugh and then started towards the elevator.
As he came out onto the street, Ohno found Ame waiting for him with her arms crossed as though impatient. The red haired man laughed a fraction and rubbed the back of his head methodically. However, the teal haired woman just released her arms and starting walking across the street towards the hospital again. Ohno followed suit. Both rode the elevator up. "Shouldn't we check on that other girl too?" Ohno said aloud.
Ame's eyes narrowed, and she all but took on the appearance of an angry cat. "I wanted to see Matsu first," he hissed. Ohno put up his hands and laughed a fraction. "But she is our responsibility... along with Aiba and Elle...since we helped save them, you know." he forced another laugh. Ame sighed outwards and finally shook her head.
"Fine," she answered. Both walked down the hallway towards the first room of the girl that had passed out the night previous.
~*~
"Where is Ryo?" Aeirin asked looking up at Solute. The giant Earth Demon stared down at the small Air child with an undiscriminating but overly uncaring face. "Have you see him?" the orange haired girl asked pushing herself up with an air current to try and desperately meet Solute's eye. The Earth Demon shook his head a fraction bending down to meet Aeirin's face. The orange haired girl nodded after a minute understanding this gesture and sighing outwards. "I wonder where he could be....." Aeirin sighed putting a finger up under her chin.
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Ryoen is dead Aeirin! Sadness... lol. I hope everyone's cool with this. Zoey, I figured that you could add on from where I left off with Ame and Ohno. Art, I left you with a lot ^^; sorry. Anyone else, feel free to bother Nino or Matsu.
