A.N. Chapter 5.wow..

Cloud had undressed and gotten into bed, the light off, but she hadn't gone to sleep. Instead she lay awake, pondering her blood crystal tear thing, as she liked to call it. She contemplated on telling someone, but the fear of them not liking her came up form the bowels of her stomach, making her decide against it. She held it up to the moonlight, sitting up. It shimmered and shined with an eerie glow, and it was then she noticed something, while of course it was blood red, it had flecks of crystal blue, dark blue, green, orange, purple, brown, black, and a few other colors in it. In all, it made a sort of stained glass prism is held in light. "What are you?' she asked herself.

Many questions ran through her head, like; why she had warmed up to them so fast, why she felt like this was right, and just why in general. How did she cry this thing out? Cloud she do it again? What was it for? When did those flecks of colors appear in it?

She sighed and leaned back, she put the tear gem thing on the nightstand and snuggled under the covers, her legs were sore and gave a dull throb, so it was a bit hard, but she found herself lulled to sleep by the sounds of the crickets chirping away outside, their simple melody compelling her to do so it seemed.

~Ryo's Dream~ Ryo of the Wildfire opened his eyes. "Huh? Where am I?" his voice seemed to echo, he was surrounded by fire, and he liked it. It seemed, right. His ears picked up the ringing golden circles of the ancient's staff, and he suddenly found his feet guiding him towards the source.

It was like he was in a trance, as if not only the ancient were calling him, but something bigger.

He was soon led out of the fire, and he walked into a strange room, it had strange writing, like a mix between Egyptian and Japanese. It swirled in gold all over the room. He looked around, it was eerily quiet.

His eyes stopped on a shinning light coming from a hall, it was red at first, then it starting changing colors rapidly as he turned corners.

He had to shield his eyes as he came into a final room, for there the light shown more brilliantly than ever. His eyes adjusted and he saw the light was in a shape of a tear, and while most of it was red, he found it also had the colors of the other armors, good and evil alike.

The chiming of the Ancient's staff was louder here, pleading him to look closer, so he did, and couldn't believe what he saw. Up a fleet of stairs was a marble cross, painted to look like stained glass, and indeed a stained glass window was behind it.

But the marble cross, while beautiful, yet haunting, did not receive his full attention. What did was the person on the cross, tied there with barbed wire, it cutting into the flesh all over, was Cloud. Her head was tilted to the side, and she wore the strangest outfit. It was a sleeveless shirt with thinks on the shoulders that held it up, it tucked in, but then fluffed out of a black skirt, it was cut up to the hip on the left side, and the top parts were a light blue, making a criss-cross pattern above the cut.

The shirt was a light blue, with big flowers on it, and the main part of the skirt was either a dark blue, or a blue so dark it looked purple.

There was blood everywhere, and that concerned Ryo the most. She looked to be deep in suffering; he knew this because of her pained face.

He took a step to save her, but the Ancient materialized before him, his staff blocking the way. Ryo stared up at him. "The prophecy has come to pass, The they have long since been cast, The light that shines forth unyielding, Fully aware of the power it's wielding, Shines upon her silvery heart, Dark to dark light to light, She plays the part, She brings the silence in her wake, And to her love she will take, For in the darkness the Dragon wakes, To a cold heart the dragon takes, She slices with the power of her swords, Killing demons and gods in monstrous hordes, Beware beware, Stay away form the dragons lair."

Ryo stared at the Ancient confused. "What do you mean?"

"She wields the armor of the Gods and demons alike, There she makes her final strike, She wishes not to live on Violence, But she wields it now, the Armor of Silence"

Ryo was about to say something, but the Ancient just pointed his staff towards Cloud. "Beware young Wildfire, she is the key now, don't lose her, for not only is she the key to winning, but the key to love for you." Ryo again was interrupted by the ancient disappearing, and Cloud scream of anguish, yet he did not see the cause for the world went blurry, and faded into blackness.

~End~

Ryo woke up panting, and he was covered in sweat. He let go of the blankets eh had tightly clutched. He looked at the clock; it was 2 minutes before he usually woke up, so he shut off the alarm. He got out of bed, but remembered Cloud was here and put on a pair of long pajama pants and a tank top. He smiled at White Blaze who cracked an eye and continued sleeping. "Lazy, aren't we?" he chuckled. White Blaze continued to ignore him so Ryo made a face. "Well then!" he said in a mocking voice. "Sleep your life away!" he grinned and walked out the door, but paused at the stairs. He heard a noise, and it wasn't Cye. He got on guard and crept down the stairs.

Ryo hid behind the door, and peeked around it, his eyes filled with curiosity, it had been Cloud. She was trying to use her legs, and it wasn't working. He felt a twinge of sorrow shoot through him as he watched her fall again. Then he saw something he decided then he didn't want to see again, she began to cry. He listened intently.

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"Why can't I do it?" Cloud questioned herself, wiping away her tears, but strangely, her right side leaked the freaky tear gems, and the left was normal. She quickly stopped her flow of tears and scooped up the gems, 5 in all, and put them in her pocket.

Luckily from Cloud, form Ryo's vantage point he couldn't see the tear gems. But. he did see the grief on Cloud's face.

"Why? I've been trying for so long.. Why wont these things work?' she asked almost to herself. She pushed herself up, wobbled and fell into her wheel chair. She looked down. "Why can't I be what I want?" she closed her eyes, Ryo guessed remembering something. "I want to dance and sing, and act once more," she opened her eyes, and her voice was small. and seemed so frail.

Ryo couldn't take it anymore, he walked into the living room, and Cloud smiled. "Good morning," her voice was still small, and Ryo forced a smile to adorn his features. It worked thankfully.

"Your up already?' smiled Cye, coming downstairs. "I'll start breakfast then ^^" he went on his merry way into the kitchen, giving Ryo a secret glance of amusement finding both of them awake and together.

Ryo and Cloud turned to each other at the same time, not knowing what to do or say, they just looked.

A whistle that strangely sounded like a catcall coming form the top of their stairs brought both of their attention's there. Kento can Sage were the culprits. Kento was grinning openly and Sage was openly smirking. "Well, well! Thought we'd find you two down here. together," Sage smirked Ruefully, while Kento continued to laugh.

"You laugh it up Kento, cause when I'm done with you you'll be laughing a different tune!!" yelled Ryo dashing up the stairs after Hardrock who laughed insanely and ran into Ro's room.

Sage however just sauntered down the stairs, his a hair a slight mess, and then Mia came down, pausing to mess his hair up then dashing off as soon as he gave chase. Cloud grinned and shook her head. "I wonder if it's ALWAYS this amusing in the mornings."

"Oh it gets so much more fun, love," Cye laughed form the kitchen, he came out mixing up pancake batter, but unfortunately Kento and Ryo came running past, knocking him over and the stuff spilt on the floor. Cye turned red with anger and ran into the kitchen, he brought out a frying pan and gave chase to the 2 boys "GET BACK HERE!!!!!!" Cloud smiled and got the bowl from the floor, no a lot was spilt and she had a towel with her so she cleaned it up, wheeled into the kitchen put it in the sink and began finishing the pancake batter. She still heard screaming and insane laughter, and the stove and pan were already on, so she pulled herself up, and poured the pancakes. They began to sizzle, and Cloud soon found the spatula, so she flipped them, cooking them. "I wonder if I still remember that recipe Mom taught me." she spotted the syrup and another batter of already made pancake batter and she grabbed them.

First she got another pan form above her, and turned the other knob, turning on the other front burner, then she set the pan on it. She started the other pancakes and managed to get in between the 2 burners. She flipped the second batch of pancakes and then lowered the flames on both of them.

Next she took the spatula and made flat places in each pancake on the right, unaware of her growing audience at the door. Then she took the syrup, and poured it in the flat places, filling each till it was full and threatened to spill. Searching around quickly she spotted her bowls that had held the batter, she had made sure to leave some, and she put some water in it, making a paste. Then she spread it thickly over the rims of the pancakes with flat spaces.

Lastly she took the other pancakes and put them on top. As she suspected the watery batter fried into a paste, and she was able to slip them. She now had 7 of her special pancakes. She turned off the burners, and sank into her wheelchair exhausted for the time being it seemed. She then donned an oven mitt and took the pan of the cooled burner, she managed to wheel around and noticed them, and she grinned. "Hungry?"

"You cooked?" asked Mia, breaking the silence.

"Yeppers, it's our family's secret recipe," she smiled and wheeled over, putting the pan on the table. "Eat up ^^"

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"This is good!" Kento exclaimed, stuffing more of the pancake in his mouth. Cloud laughed, already finished with hers.

"Not as good as Candy canes and pickle juice ^^" they stared at her. 'What? It's delicious ^^" Rowen quirked an eyebrow.

"Is that even healthy?"

"Of course it is, it's um. Cloud approved," she grinned.

"I can't believe you finished break fast before Kento," chuckled Cye. Cloud just grinned.

"On a farm you've got to eat fast or starve ^^" She sighed and leaned back in her wheelchair. She looked a Rowen, one eye open, the other closed for the time being. "By the look of it Blue by, you've been starved half to death, your almost as skinny as a bamboo stick?'

"Hey!" Rowen said indignantly. 'Your skinnier than me!"

"Am not,"

'Too,"

"Not,"

"Blue boy?" asked Sage.

'Hai, I have nicknames for all of you, she grinned insanely, the first insane grin they'd seen plastered to her face since she'd gotten here.

"And what are those names pray tell," Mia laughed.

"Easy, I'd have to say you'd be slick, for that moved you'd put of poor little Blondie this morning ^^'

"Blondie? Hey, your blond too," sage pointed out.

"But I have silver bangs so there ^^" Cloud grinned. "I'd have to say Cye would be Innocence, because even when he was about to clonk Kento this morning, he looked so innocent," she batted her eye lashes for effect, and Cye chuckled.

"ha ha very funny,"

"yes it is, thank you for telling me ^^"

"Your nickname would have to be either buddy or smart ass," chuckled Rowen. Cloud laughed,

"Whatever you say blue boy, or stick boy.. or bamboo stick, or Just Rowen the blue boy wonder ^^"

"You have an over active imagination," laughed Kento.

"Your 'Teddy Bear' for I can tell if you were to hug someone it's be warm..besides you look like an old bear of mine," Kento went into a convulsion of laughter.

"So smart one, what about Ryo," the room went quiet and they stared at her.. she burst into laughter, and they blinked.

"The looks you were giving me were priceless!!" she paused and straightened. "Don't look at me like that," she chuckled a bit. 'Ryo would HAVE to be um..." she blushed.

"Say it," taunted Sage.

"I'd have to say... " she paused and she hid her face in her arm. "I can't do it!!" They face faulted."O.k. then if it means that much. Fire baby!!" they stared at her. "Well.. I can sense he likes fire!! I mean look at him, he's the kind of guy that looks like he played with fire as a kid!" several head fell on the table. Cye took the dishes, shook his head and chuckled, while 2 teens met each other's eyes, looked away quickly and blushed

"Who's driving?" asked Kento. Suddenly the guys went pale and Rowen beamed, grabbing the keys. "oh shit."

"Is this a bad thing?" Cloud asked bluntly.

"YES!" all of them 'cept Ro answered.



TBC

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