A/N: Hey all you people out there in fanficland! I'm sorry I forgot to do reviewer thank-yous in the last post, so I'll stick 'em in this one.

LEX: (alias Astible-Elf, destructive-duo, and Glory's #1 Fan (yeah that's real original))

THANX for the "reviews"!!! I should really get around to posting the next chappy of the Mock-I mean Documentary, shouldn't I?! Eh-heh-heh…

Dilly: Yeah, like that's going to happen…

Shut up you… Or I'll dress you up as Celena again…

Dilly: GAAAH!! THAT WAS JUST UNCALLED FOR!!!!

Mwahahaaaaa… call me asap!! I have something I want to ask you!!!

SHURO: Thanks for the nice review! I appreciate the FB!!

And to everyone else, thanks for taking the time to read this!! Sorry the last chappy was so short and it took me so long to write…

* signals Dilly, who lights school on fire *

I've been held hostage by my dreaded nemesis, The Parents, but with the help of my SuperFriend Dilandau, I have escaped! Just don't let them hear me…

Alright, now this chappy has some long awaited romance!!! Also, * holds up "CLIFF AHEAD" sign * sorry, I couldn't help it…I love cliffhangers!!!

Kaiyari lay awake in bed, staring at the ceiling. The bed curtains flapped softly in the wind from the open window, but the breeze barely stirred her hair. She rolled over onto her side, and groaned in frustration.

"Sleep! I want to go to sleep!" she shifted again, staring out the huge bay window. She watched the moon, letting her eyelids drift closer and closer together.

Suddenly, a movement outside caused her eyes to snap open. "Dammit! Can't I get any shut-eye around here?!" she wondered crossing to the window for a better view.

What she saw killed the expletive creeping to her lips.

An enormous dark cloud rolled in front of the moon, eclipsing every last ray of light. "Maybe I was asleep to begin with…" she muttered sarcastically, but she pinched her hand, just in case.

Kaiyari wouldn't have worried about a cloud normally, but due to the fact that the cloud was moving against the wind, she felt move than a little unnerved. "Maybe I should tell Van… Just in case…"

Van swung his legs over the railing of the balcony, sighing softly. It had been several weeks since that night in his mother's room. He had bonded with Kaiyari over that time, and he was liking her more and more each day.

When he had bid her goodnight earlier that evening, he had realized that he was beginning to like her in a more than platonic way.

He was staring off at the horizon, when a surge of panic hit him, startling him almost out of his mind. He looked around wildly, trying to figure out why he was so afraid.

Then he realized that the fear wasn't something he was feeling, but rather something someone else was feeling.

"Crap! Kaiyari!" he sprang to his feet and sprinted across the balcony, throwing the door open and running into the hall.

Kaiyari flew down the hall, her nightdress billowing out behind her. "C'mon Van…Where are you!"

She turned a corner and whacked into someone running the other way. They both fell to the floor in a tangle of arms and legs.

She looked up into worried hazel eyes. "Van!"

"Kai!" He smiled in relief, but it disappeared instantly. "C'mon! We need to get you out of here!" He grabbed her hand, and they sprang to their feet.

"This way!" he pulled her down a side corridor. They ran through the bowels of the palace, winding deeper and deeper into the heart of the Castle.

Suddenly, the plush carpet and marble walls became cracked stone and scorched wood.

"We're in the old Palace," whispered Van. "This part hasn't been fixed up yet…" He slowed their flying pace, as the lamps became fewer and dimmer. Soon the passageways were lit only by faint streams of silver light from cracks in the walls.

Finally, they were forced to creep slowly along, their heavy breathing and gentle footfalls tossing up dust and cobwebs.

Van pulled to a stop in the middle of a wide hall, glancing all around them. "I think we're safe here."

Kaiyari nodded. "Where are we?" she had lost all sense of direction in their headlong flight. Van sighed and covered his eyes with a hand. "Honestly, I have no idea. I'm going on half-remembered memories."

Kaiyari smiled at him and suddenly blushed. You idiot! Why are you blushing? Get control of yourself!

Van looked at Kaiyari and noticed she stood in a silver beam of dusty moonlight. She seemed to glow softly around the edges, and her hair floated gently in a non-existent breeze. He took a real look at her, noticing things he had never noticed before. Her blonde hair framed her face and her aqua eyes shone from under long lashes. Her nightdress had fallen off one shoulder, exposing creamy skin and lightly defined muscles. He gazed at her as she blushed uncomfortably and stared at the floor.

"Kai-"

"Van, I-"

They both stopped, and an intense silence followed, with each wanting to say something, but neither having the guts.

Come on Van! Since we have you been scared of Kaiyari?

Jeez Kaiyari! You call yourself brave?!?!

Gathering his courage Van leaned forward, and was surprised to find that she had done the same thing. Their lips met, and Van slid his arms around her waist. Suddenly, he felt a pulling sensation between his shoulder blades. No! Not now! Why is it happening now?!

He sighed mentally as his wings exploded from his back, unfurling in a cloud of feathers.

His wings bumped against something and her opened his eyes, to find Kaiyari staring at him in wonder.

His eyes found her shoulders, where a pair of snow-white wings extended from beneath her nightdress.

He smiled softly at her, and kissed her again, cupping his wings around them. Kaiyari's hands slid behind his neck, and her wings slid over his, surrounding them in a whirl of white feathers.

Suddenly, Kaiyari was jerked from his grasp. Van's eye flew open to find her being dragged away from him by a thick tendril of darkness.

Behind her, a roiling tide of blackness sent out more shoots to twine around her arms and legs.

"Van!" she screamed reaching out a hand for him, as darks wisps snaked over her wings.

He jumped forward, and his fingers just brushed hers, before she was jerked backwards, being pulled into the dark cloud.

He ran after her, as the black mass began to shrink, slowly disappearing in on itself. "Kaiyari!" he yelled, but just as he reached her, her head disappeared into the cloud.

A pair of snowy wings beat frantically, trying to escape, but they too were pulled into the cloud. With a swooshing noise, the cloud faded.

Van stood alone in a whirl of pearly feathers. "Kaiyari…" he dropped to his knees, and to his surprise, one white feather drifted into his hand, each edge of it veined in black.