-1Chap.10 Crystal

"Fakir is Mr. Cat still sick?" Ahiru questioned

"Yeah."

"Why is everyone in uniform?"

"Same reason me and you are."

"Oh.' Ahiru replied' Than lets go sit down I don't feel so good."

Fakir put an arm around Ahiru and lead her to the bench. She sat down and than Fakir did the same. She sat there beside him as all the students looked and pointed. Than after a while they all went inside. Because they didn't want to be around the crazy chick.

The whole place seemed deserted and music came to ear. It was Mrs. Edel's music she plays when she's there. They turned around to see her sitting on the bottom of the tree. Ahiru got up and went over to her and sat down. Fakir didn't follow but watched her. To see what she would do.

"Mrs. Edel I need help." Ahiru said and Mrs. Edel pulled out a red gem in the shape of a heart with a white crystal in the middle. She showed it to Ahiru and Ahiru stared at it in awe.

"This gem is called life."

"Why is it called that?"

"This gem represents your heart. In it there is a power burning down in the middle. That power keeps the flow of life going. It is something the Raven needs to live. When you have a baby girl the power will pass down to her. You and your baby girl cannot die while the power still beats in the heart. The person out to destroy you to get the power can only kill you with the Dagger of Death. Use any other weapon and you won't be killed. When you die of that dagger a white crystal will come out of your heart with the power glowing in it. Once the Raven has your power he will become immortal and will control the flow of life."

"Can't Fakir or someone use the Dagger of Death to kill him and get it back?"

"No only if you had a baby girl than Fakir could use the dagger to get it back and than place it in her heart. But you would be dead and the Raven most likely won't let Fakir live after that. You must get the Sword of Light to blind the Dagger of Death in order to protect yourself and life. But you can't wield the sword only someone who loves you dearly can. It would be wise to get the dagger back but that is your decision to make. As for your friends all I can tell you is to use the power to control the flow of life to look into a past time in life to find out who exactly is the Raven's puppet."

Ahiru put her hands over her heart and looked down to ask Edel "How do I use it?" She looked up and Edel was gone.

Fakir got up and went to where Ahiru was and helped her up.

"Come on we need to go inform Mytho and Rue." Ahiru nodded and they were off.

"Where are they?" Ahiru asked

"I think in the main hall or at their home." They went to check the main hall first.

They opened the doors and went through it and they weren't there. They went out and started off to the castle right outside of the gates.

After a while of walking they were a few feet away from the gate and it opened. And coming through it was Mytho and Rue. They saw them and ran toward them.

"Oh hey we were just about to go see you to." Mytho said as they stopped right in front of them.

"Oh really why anything new?" Fakir asked

"No but we wanted to see if you to had found anything new." Rue replied giving Ahiru a hug hello.

"Oh well we have loads to tell you! We just found it out from Edel!" Ahiru said anxious to tell them all they knew.

"Uh?" Rue said taking a step back.

"That's great so what happened." Mytho said as if Rue didn't even have that award reaction.

They sat down on a few benches beside the gates. Ahiru spilled everything about Pique and Lilie and every last word Edel told her beneath the tree but the fountain.

"That's amazing she knew that much." Rue said with a evil tone in her voice everyone just by passed because of her past.

"Wow… alright well now we know your what your power is and all those other details so now we need to find out how to get that sword." Mytho said to everyone and everyone agreed.

Ahiru got a feeling about the black book and told everyone she was going to go somewhere and would be right back. Fakir said he was going with her and Rue and Mytho suggested they all go. Ahiru said fine and they were off at Ahiru's fast pace.

They got to the school and Ahiru headed into the boys' dorms and went to Fakir's room. She opened the door and went to the sink and found the book on the floor near it. She picked it up and it was glowing. She flipped it open to the page that was glowing the brightest.

"'The only weak point of the crystal is on the night of the half moon. To unlock the sword of light you must go to the pond where he appears and swim to the deepest depths of it and take the sword key at the bottom. Use it as a key in the towns cemetery. You'll know where to put it.' Okay than lets' go." Ahiru said closing it and turning to everyone behind her.

"Ok but I have a question if the crystal has a weak point on the night of the half moon than why didn't that person kill you when you came back to school? That night was a half moon and we just a had a new moon yesterday." Mytho asked in general.

"I don't think the dagger was ready until yesterday." Fakir answered back.

"Ok well let's go to the pond and find it. There's a half moon in a few weeks so come on." Ahiru said to everyone

"Yeah come on lets' go. Are you and Rue going to come to?" Fakir asked them

"Yeah." Mytho said as they followed them out the door and toward the pond.

Once they got there Fakir said "Ok who wants to go down there to get it?"

"I will!" Ahiru offered

"What?" Fakir replied but Ahiru took off the pendant and turned into a yellow blue eyed duck. She waddled into the water and swam to the middle and dove down taking a big breath of air. She opened her eyes under the water. She noticed something she never noticed in all her years living and swimming in that pond. She swam as had as she possibly could. Something was glowing a red blood color.

She had finally reached the bottom and there was the sword. On top of the handle a ruby or something that was glowing red. There was some type of cloth wrapped poorly around it. Where there was no cloth there was think green allege.

She used her beak to pick the sword up by the handle. She tried to swim up toward the surface but the sword weighed her down a lot.

"Damn it where is she?" Fakir asked worried about the duck beneath the water.

Fakir saw a small row boat to the side of them and grabbed Ahiru's clothes and pendant and put them in the boat. He pushed the boat in the water and jumped in and rowed out to where Ahiru dove in from.

"I can't reach the top…uh…it's just to hard. Fakir please help me someone please." Ahiru thought trying with all her might to swim up but her air was going and finally she had no more air to breathe so she started to drown and fall deeper in the water.

A shadow blocked the sun from her view as she fell. She focused on it and saw Fakir dive in a swim toward her. She was so thankful but she couldn't express it because she was drowning ever so slowly. Ahiru was now unconscious but Fakir came took the sword from her beak and put her in the other arm. He used his legs to swim back to the surface.

His head popped out of the water and he through the sword in the boat and climbed in himself with Ahiru still safe in his arms. He saw the duck out like a light. He put the pendant on her and splashed her with water on her wing. She turned into a girl and started to cough up all this water. She blinked and coughed more. She sat up noticing herself. Fakir was turned around holding her clothes.

"Are you okay?" Fakir asked still looking away.

Ahiru coughed some more and snatched her clothes away from him. "Yeah I am okay. Thank you so much Fakir." Ahiru replied gratefully.

She quickly put on her clothes and fixed her pendant. She told Fakir he could turn around and he did.

"So is this all that was down there?" Fakir asked taking off the cloth and rubbing the allege off.

"Yup!"

"Hmm well than come on let's go ahead and go to the cemetery." Fakir said as he rowed back to the bank of the pond.

"Thank you so much for saving me down there." Ahiru said to Fakir as he rowed on.

"I did say I was going to protect you." He replied

"Yeah." She said looking at the sword in her small hands.

They reached the bank and climbed out together hand in hand. Fakir's other hand holding the sword from the pond. Mytho and Rue came towards them.

"So that is the sword we've came looking for?" Mytho said looking at the thing that looked like it couldn't even cut through paper.

"That's it." Rue said her eyes fixed on it in a different way.

"Yup." Ahiru said knowing that the sword didn't look like much but it was well it had to be.

"Come on we need to go to the cemetery now." Fakir said as Ahiru nodded.

"Naw we got stuff to do, right Rue?" Mytho said and Rue read what he was saying and was like yeah. So they left opposite of them

They headed out of the place of trees. They left together and went to the cemetery behind the pizza place 2 blocks down. They passed it and the sun started set. It was dark by the time they came to the entrance. There was fog on the ground and the place had an eerie feel. Fakir took Ahiru's hand in reassurance.

"Fakir I am tired let's come back tomorrow." Ahiru said because she was really tired actually and was thanking God for it.

"Yeah well okay we'll come back tomorrow at an earlier time." Fakir said because he to was really tired.

"Ok." And they walked back together.

"You going to be alright all alone in your room?" Fakir asked when they came to where they usually part for the night.

"Yeah."

"Ok than good night."

"You too!" Ahiru said giving him a hug good bye and than she was off.

The night was quite and just plain lovely. Everyone slept peacefully. Fakir and everyone else slept in a lot but not Ahiru and Kai.

Ahiru sat in the park by the fountain like she always did. She just loved to feed the birds. She always brought her big bag full of seed. She put a little into her hand and let the birds eat out of it. But today there wasn't as many as there have been in the past.

"Wonder where the rest of ya are." Ahiru said to them but then her ears caught hold of chirping and laughing. She looked to the side a little ways and saw Kai laughing on the ground with all these birds on him.

She got up and ran to him and kneeled beside him. She put a bag open a little ways out and shooed the birds to the bag of seed instead.

He sat up laughing and looked at the small happy girl beside him. "Oh, hi Ahiru!"

"I didn't know you liked to feed the birds."

"Yeah I just love them. Always so happy and friendly just like you." He said using them side of his hand to stroke her cheek.

Ahiru blushed and said "Oh thank you."

"No thank you for helping me with those hungry birds." He said whispering it into her ear.

Ahiru stopped breathing and blushed more from Kai's actions. She got her breath back and wished that these butterflies in her stomach would stop because they made it so hard for her to breathe right. Kai took her hand and pulled her up to eye level. He went around her and put his arms around her neck and whispered into her ear once more.

"You keep life going with your wonderful energy."

Her eyes grew huge at one moment and her face went pale. "Huh."

"You're the answer to my problems. That's also what I love about you." He whispered brushing his lips over the rim of her ear and down her neck half ways.

"Huh" Ahiru said words stuck in her mouth unable to come out.

"I shall leave now my dear but we will meet once more." He said kissing her cheek good-bye.

He disappeared like dust in the air. Ahiru fell to her knees wishing he would come back. Why? She didn't know.

"I saw that Ahiru! What exactly where you doing with him and tell me I didn't see all that just happen?" Fakir said staring at the person he loved on the floor after another man just kissed her.

She just sat there staring at the floor and it didn't even register that Fakir had seen all that and now was angry before her. He face white as a ghosts. Fakir stared at her waiting her answer. Rage filling within him just waiting to lash out at Kai.

The wind blew the clouds over their heads and all they did was stare. Ahiru seemed paralyzed from Kai. Fakir just paralyzed with anger.

Finally chills came up Ahiru's back and snapped her back into the cold reality at the moment. Fakir just watched her look up at him. Her face not showing an emotions because her mind didn't know what she needed to feel or say.