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Opening his eyes, Riven sees the same darkness that has been haunting him for the last few days. Without waiting, he runs in the same direction he's been taking since his first experience of this dreadful place. Within a matter of minutes, if there is a concept of time here in his unconsciousness, he arrives at the screaming child. Though suddenly, as he sees the back of the child, Riven gets a weird feeling. At the same time, the child turns it's head and looks straight at him. The face of the child is still concealed by the shadows, but his eyes are quite clear. Those piecing red eyes stare at him as both stand in quietness of oblivion. Riven flinches as the child moves it's arm up, as if reaching towards him. Confused, Riven hesitates, but he too raise his hand toward the child. Their hands are inches from one another and the light in Riven's eyes start to grow dim as their hands…

Searing pain rushes through Riven's body as he starts to wake up. He grasps his chest where the source of the pain is coming from, but it doesn't settle. Riven holds his position, as to not inflict anymore unwanted pain upon himself, as he opens his eyes. He looks around, the forest he was once in is no more, instead he sees old worn down buildings and decaying land. As Riven tries to raise himself up, he chokes on the air he breaths. "What is this place?" As he gets a better view of this land, he continues to cough. "How did I" *cough* "get here?" Remembering the bag on his back, Riven turns it around and unzips one of the bigger pockets. He removes a weird shaped mask with a strap and zips up his bag. Riven puts the mask on his face and takes a breath. "Much better, though I didn't think I would need this." With no idea where he is, Riven decides to head towards the buildings. "There's got to be someone here that can answer my questions."


Back at Red Fountain, Timmy is using his computer to search for Riven. Scanning the text as it appears on his screen, he scrunches his eyebrows and bites his lower lip. "This can't be right." He enters in more information, but still he gets the same thing flashing before his eyes. No Trace. Frustrated with not being able to find Riven, Timmy bawls up his fists and hits his desk. "Woah. Timmy, what's up?" Sighing, Timmy turns his chair around and faces Brandon and Sky. "No matter what I do, I can't find Riven. I've checked Magix, Earth, Solaria, every realm he's been on, I've checked." Timmy removes his glasses as he rubs his eyes. "But I keep getting the same thing, no trace." Sky and Brandon ponder where Riven could be. Brandon gets an idea. "We can track him, can't we? I mean he couldn't just disappear in thin air." Timmy thinks about Brandon's suggest and then turns back to his computer. "That could work, let me just…" Timmy lets his sentence trail off as he gets to work.


At the same time at Alfea, Musa is teaching her class outside. Lowering her flute, Musa sighs. "Okay, I'll let you all practice amongst yourselves." She watches her students practice both their offensive and defensive powers, before she turns away and walks up the small hill. Seeing the lone tree, Musa walks to the other side of it and traces the markings that were left not so long ago. "I can't believe it's been two years." Musa starts to trace the R + M inside the heart. "Why do you have to be so difficult Riven?" She hits the tree, but no matter how hard she tries, Musa can't stay mad at Riven. Just as she reaches her students, the bell signaling the end of class rings, so she waves them off. Musa heads to her classroom to grab her bag, but just as she grabs it, her cell phone rings. "Hello? Hey Tec…What do you mean? I'll be right there." With that, Musa runs out of her classroom.


With the sun setting, Riven finally arrives in the town. Even though it's nearing night, he hasn't seen or heard anyone since he woke up. Still not knowing where he is, Riven gives up and takes his phone out of his back pocket. But when he pressed the power button, it refused to turn on. "Damn, you can't be serious." Having no more use for his cell phone, Riven decides to throw it over his shoulder, but just as he raises his arm the pain in his chest begins to hurt again. Riven's chest feels as if it's on fire and falls to his hands, so he rips the front of his shirt off. He looks at his burning chest, the slash marks are swollen and have turned from red to black since hewoke up. "What's wrong with me? A Bingledip scratch shouldn't have done this!" Closing his eyes, Riven thinks how he went from enjoying his life with his friends to being in the middle of no where completely alone.

Just as Riven starts to fall into self loathing, a twig breaks. He quickly pulls out his saber to defend himself. "Don't worry sir, I mean you no harm." An old woman appears out of the darkness, her gray hair in tangles and her eyes half hidden by her wrinkles and long gray bangs. "Oh dear, let me take you to my home and treat your wounds." Seeing no harm in taking assistance from the old woman, Riven puts his blade away and pushes himself up. The old woman tilts her head at Riven's shaky form. "Can you walk?" Riven nods his head, while he bites his cheek as the pain is not only in his chest, but now traveling down his thighs. "Then follow me." The two disappear in the darkness of the shadows, while Riven's phone and bag lay forgotten on the ground behind them.


Thoughts swirl around Musa's head as her and the gang, minus Layla, are eating pizza. After getting Tecna's call, all Musa's been is worried. Timmy said he can't find Riven anywhere and no one is able to get in contact with him, which scares her even more. Pushing her plate away, Musa doesn't feel like eating antmore, not when Riven is who knows where. "Are you sure he didn't tell you where he was going?" Helia sighs as he looks at Musa from behind his bangs. "Yes Musa. All Riven told me was that he's been having weird visions and showed me an old piece of paper, then he left." Covering her mouth with her left hand, she taps the table with the other. "What if it has to do with his parents?" Everyone looks at Flora. Sky's eyes widen and he turns to Musa. "Yeah, what realm did he come from Musa?" Musa plays with her fingers and averts everyone's gaze. "I don't…well…know." The table goes silent and a couple of them continue to eat their pizza. "I've asked him, but he always changed the subject or got mad and left." Feeling a rush of anger, Musa hits the table with her fist. "Maybe I should have pushed harder and then he'd be able to talk to me about what's wrong with him!"

After they finish their pizza, the guys load onto their bikes and the girls transform into their Enchantix forms. As they say their goodbyes, something zips around all of them. Stella clings to Brandon. "What was that?!" A little pixie surfs in the middle of them. "Hey everyone, it's be awhile!" The little pixie smiles up at her old friends. Bloom steps forward and hugs the pixie. "Hey Livy, what are you doing here?" Livy places her finger on her chin as she tries to remember the reason why she came to them. "Umm…" Musa rolls her eyes as she starts to head back to Alfea, hoping Riven will call her.

Just as Musa is about to leave, Livy speaks up. "Now I remember, one of the pixie animals told me they saw Riven heading up Mt. Albia yesterday." Looking at one another, the same thought passes threw their heads. "If Riven is at Mt. Albia, why didn't he come up on my computer?" Timmy takes out his mini computer and does his calculations. "Who cares, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind." Bloom grabs Musa's hand. "Calm down Musa, besides it's too dark to go to the mountain right now." Musa grudgingly nods her head, while Bloom waves the pixie of messages off. "Thanks Livy, have a safe trip." As the group watches Livy fly away, Flora comes up with an idea. "How about we think more about this in the morning? We've all had a long day." The gang nods their heads and goes their separate ways, but as the girls head to Alfea, Musa can't get the idea of something bad happening to Riven out of her mind.