Color of the day: Aquamarine.

Name of the day: Aqua

Job of the day: Marine biologist

Element of the day: Wind

Why? Because I was bored at 2 a.m. in the morning, and contrary to popular belief, Cappuccino does NOT help you sleep.

Conrad was slowly getting annoyed by the awkward silence that overcame the group ever since Wolfram and Yuuri returned.

"Why is everyone being quite?" Conrad asked to break the silence.

"I don't know..." Yuuri said quietly, then took another bite of food.

"Me neither..." Wolfram also said as he looked away from Yuuri.

Josak sighed, then said, "Ahh, young love."

Gwendal, Hube, and Conrad looked at Josak, but he just winked and put his finger in front of his lips to say he wasn't telling. Wolfram and Yuuri seemed to not hear that comment. They were not talking to each other because Wolfram thought Yuuri was playing with his feelings and Yuuri wasn't talking because Wolfram wasn't talking to him. Heck! Wolfram wasn't even calling him a wimp!

"Yuuri, the soldiers should return by sunrise." Conrad reported.

"That's good." Yuuri said while cheering up a little.

"No it's not. How is supplying the enemy good?" Gwendal said. Yuuri glared at him and Gwendal was taken aback. Since when did the king glare? He didn't know the training Yuuri went through, so yes, Yuuri knew what people in Shin Makoku were like. He had heard several comments about many different things. Most of the time, he just had to be nice and smile politely to get them to change their opinion, but when someone like Gwendal came along, he would have to resort to threats and glares that scared the victim shitless. Yuuri was still nice and his goal had never changed, but he did learn... OTHER methods of persuassion.

Yuuri stopped glaring at Gwendal and smiled, then said, "It's good because then they'll have no reason to attack us." Gwendal was slightly scared at the king's mood swing. Even though he was smiling, he had an angry aura rolling off of him in waves.

That night, everyone except Yuuri fell asleep. Yuuri had pretended to be asleep so the others wouldn't worry about him. Once he was sure everyone was asleep, he sat up. He wouldn't feel safe until the supplies arrived and the whole misunderstanding was over with.

You do know rest is vital if your going to fight with maryoku. Kristin's voice rang through his head.

I know, but I'm not going to use maryoku. Yuuri replied.

So you're going to return to the kingdom shirtless and with a pair of black angel wings? Kristin asked.

Might have to, I don't want to pull them in in front of the others, they'll start to worry if it hurts or not. Yuuri replied.

That's one bad side effect of your training. Kristin said.

Huh? What is? Yuuri asked.

Well, for one, you're more sensitive to other people's feelings. And as for two, you're more stubborn. Kristin stated.

Blame yourself, not me. Yuuri said while shrugging. Yuuri silently stood up, then walked over to the edge of the wall to peak around it. He slowly moved his head around the edge and saw that the enemies were trying to slip through the spaces between the steel poles. They were even starting to bend the poles a little. Uh, Kristin? Yuuri said.

I know, but I'm starting to run low on Maryoku and having no rest isn't helping either. Kristin replied.

This isn't good, at this rate, they're going to get to Wolfram... Yuuri said.

HA! You said Wolfram, not, them. You like Wolfram! Kristin said.

Yuuri was about to say shut up, but then he thought about it and said, No, I don't like Wolfram, I LOVE him.

Tch, Ruin all my fun... Kristin said. Yuuri smiled, but then turned his face serious again, the enemies were starting to slip through. Scare them. Kristin said.

Yuuri nodded. If he didn't want to hurt them, he'd have to scare them, and if that failed, he could make a bigger earth wall... Yuuri made sure he was out of view of the enemies and his comrades, than he tried to, as quietly as possible, make his wings go back in his back. He succeeded in the attempt with only a small stir from Wolfram. He then let out a small sigh and used his animalistic Maryoku to turn into a wolf. He added a bit of the Blood Maryoku in to make himself a little bigger, hence, more intimidating. He was now a pure black wolf about five times the size of a normal wolf. I hope this works. He thought to himself.

Yuuri stepped around the edge of the wall in his wolf form and waited for the soldiers to notice him. A few of the men that had gotten through the bars saw him, then scrambled back behind the bars. It didn't take long for everyone to get back behind the bars and try to make sure the wolf couldn't get them. Yuuri inwardly sighed. He'd have to stay there till sunrise, then what about when he had to transform back? He immediatly noticed some of the enemies were preparing to fire arrows at him. Yuuri walked to the middle of the wall so he would have room to dodge the arrows.

When the first archer drew back his string, Yuuri thought, Let the games, begin.