Author's Note: Yahoo! (No not the site…-_-) School's out! Yayaya!! :D *dances around* Now I get to write more…course there's all the mowing, the farm work, the…uh…oh boy…eh-heh, um *clears throat* well let's hope I won't be *too* busy this summer! Now enjoy the next chapy! (Reviews, gimme? *gives cute puppy eyes* Pwease? Pwetty pwease?) Okay, okay, so these chapters are getting' shorter and shorter! I've lengthened this one! Oh and warning! Warning! This part has more mushy stuff. You have been warned…If you don't like romance, well then too bad you're gettin' it! (*puts hands up* Hey I can't help it if I'm romantic!! *grins*)

The Lost Mystics and the Dream Bearer

Chapter 5: Lost and Found

By: The Mysterious One

"I can't believe we forgot about him!" Mia shook her head.

Ryo nodded, a flash of guilt crossed his face before getting down to business, "Come on, let's go find him."

"I'm going to stay here with Kasteina," Mia said.

"Okay."

Just as everyone was about to leave, Mia grabbed a hold of Yulie and told him to stay with her.

"But I want to go!" Yulie whined.

"No Yulie, I want you to stay here with me."

Yulie pouted but finally nodded, "Okay…"

When the others left the house, Whiteblaze took off running ahead of them for he knew that he could get farther faster without the humans to slow him down. The others were walking behind talking.

"I hope nothing happened to him." Ryo said.

"Ah don't ya worry," Kento stated, "Ro can take care of himself."

"Not if we don't even know who it is we're fighting against." Cye said.

"Mutated thingys? Nah, I'd be willing to bet that one of us could take 'em down with one shot of our armor's powers!"

"Hum. I don't know about that-"

"Well, you said that the girl was able to, so why couldn't we?" Kento asked.

"Because, she had more than one element."

"Huh?"

"Think, what do wind and water make?"

"A bad storm?"

"Oi," Cye slapped his forehead, "No, ice!"

"Ice?"

"How did you come up with that idea? I mean, that she was using two elements?" Sage asked.

"I don't know, it just looked like it," Cye answered. "Her attack called up some winds, which in turn took water from the ground and froze it."

"Weird," Kento cocked his head slightly.

"Her armor has some strange powers, that's for sure," Ryo spoke up once more.

Sage looked ahead, Strange indeed…

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He couldn't think about anything. The only words that he could make in his mind were, 'Flee! Run! Must get away!' He couldn't think of anything else, even though he tried.

His whole body was freaking out, it wouldn't stop running. It was as if some inward force had awakened the urge to run away. It drove him onwards none stop. It was allowing his body to do what should be claimed impossible, especially since he wasn't wearing his armor or sub-armor. It was trying to make him go to Mia's house as fast as possible, as if fearing what was behind it, fearing the thought of being caught, fearing the thought of dying some horrible death, fearing the warning.

"Wroar!" the sound of the familiar roar drove away the intense driving thought of fleeing.

Rowen came to a sudden halt when he found that he had control of his body once more. He knelled over, placing his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breathe.

Whiteblaze came running up to him and rumbled a question, looking the exhausted blue haired boy over.

"Hi…White…blaze…" Rowen spoke between breathes as he smiled, raising one of his hands in greetings.

The tiger sat down and patiently waited for him to catch his breathe before they both took off to find the others.

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Nica considered the different reasons for why he had been called, but of all of them, he knew that one of them stood out the most.

"You called me?"

"Yes," the man turned to look at him, "I have noticed that Yollani's life force has disappeared."

I was right. "She has betrayed us more than once, each time worse then before. It was time for her to die."

"Without my consent?"

"…Yes," Nica bowed his head.

"So you are acting more like a human."

Nica looked up, wondering where this conversation was going, "Julow does the same."

"She's excused for it. Julow may be a part of us, but she is not one of us."

"You, mean, she's human?" Nica blinked in shock.

"She is."

How could it be? She's human, but she has special powers, making it possible for her to be one of us. Why? Why was she allowed to join us? For that matter, how did she come to be with us?

"One day I shall share with you her life story," the man's voice jolted Nica out of his thoughts, speaking as if he knew what Nica was thinking.

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"Rowen!" Ryo exclaimed.

Everyone looked up to see the familiar blue haired boy and Whiteblaze coming towards them.

"Did you find that mutated dog?" Rowen asked.

"Yes we did. Well actually, Cye did."

"And the girl?"

"She's back at the house," Cye said.

Ryo, Cye, and the other Ronins related their different versions of what happened to them so that Rowen would be caught up.

"I have something to tell you too," Rowen said after they were all done. "I had been searching all morning, when all of the sudden the woods grew dark. Before I knew it, I was in a dark hallway with two torches on either side of the wall. There was this girl, and she gave me this, saying that I would know who and what it was for."

Whiteblaze looked at the necklace Rowen held up with recognition.

"Then she told me to run," he finished.

"Okay, this is really starting to get weird…" Kento said.

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At the sound of a door opening and closing, Kasteina stood up and took a step forward, trying to walk. Instead of working properly, she tripped over her wobbly legs. But before she went crashing into the wall, she flailed her arms out in front of her, saving her just in time.

She let out a small sigh of relief and stood up straight. I should have been more careful. I still don't know how to work these legs…I just can't understand how humans are able to use just two…

Kasteina used the wall for support as she walked towards the door.

Once in the hallway, she glanced both ways, trying to think of how she was going to get to the railing without falling. Her face brightened when she came up with an idea. Allowing herself to drop to her hands and knees, she crawled towards the railing and grabbed onto it, using it to haul herself back onto her feet.

She started her wobbly walk towards the stairs then paused when she reached them, Oh no…how am I going to get down these?

Kasteina stood there thinking for a few seconds. When she knew that there wasn't anything else she could do she moved one foot down onto the first step. When nothing happened, she realized that she had been holding her breath, so she let it go. I hope I can make it down these steps…

She continued down the steps in this fashion, but her hopes soon ended when she slipped, "Urh," she quickly tried to grasp onto the railing, but ended up finding nothing.

Her eyes widened in fear as she fell head over heels down the flight of stairs, ending in a tangled heap at the bottom.

"Kasteina!" Cye rushed over to her, "Uh, here let me help you up," he extended a helpful hand, his cheeks flushed when he saw the position the girl was in.

She took his hand and allowed him to help her to her feet.

"You okay?"

Instead of answering him, she stared into his eyes with the same curious, innocent, deep expression in them that he had seen that morning.

He just returned her stare, thinking of how beautiful her eyes were, how innocent she was, and how he had never seen eyes like hers before.

"Oh how cu-ute!" Kento grinned, clasping his hands together.

Cye quickly turned his head away, blushing, "Shut up Kento!"

The others laughed lightly.

"So she's the one?" Rowen asked, looking at the girl. "Wow, she's beautiful!"

"Yeah she is."

When Kasteina noticed that the blue haired boy was staring at her, she turned her attention to him. In the second that their eyes met, a jolt of realization went through both of them. The conversation that was going on around them seemed to fade from their hearing. The room seemed to have disappeared. It was just the two of them.

She's the one, I know she is! Rowen blinked in shock. "I-I think this belongs to you," he showed her the necklace that he was holding onto.

Kasteina looked down at it, her eyes seemed to shimmer with the question of why she felt like she recognized the object that he held in his hand.

She slowly raised her hand and wrapped her hand around the clear orb. Once she had a good grasp on it, Rowen let go of it.

The feeling of realization disappeared, the conversation returned, as did the room that they were standing in.

Rowen tried to clear away the feeling by shaking his head in bewilderment. That…was…strange…

"-not true!"

"'Kasteina! Are you okay?' Oh yeah, you can go on believing what you want Cye."

"Kento," Ryo stepped in, trying to defend the auburn haired boy, "He was just being polite."

"You see, that just proves my point," Kento said, shrugging.

Cye groaned, slumping his shoulders in defeat.