CHAPTER NINE

as wuya opened the puzzlebox, there was a great ribbon of light that streamed from the box like a wave of energy being drawn towards him, kyle was l;ifted into the air as the light twirled and wrapped around him. As the last of the light left the box, it began to circle around kyle's floating form and swirl faster and faster with each poassing second. suddenly a bright flash exploded from kyle's body, it was so bright that wuya had to cover her eyes, when the light diimed she saw another stream of light this one a swirl of gold and green leaving his body and flowing into the box, after a few moments of this captivating experience, there was another blast of light from kyle's body, and as the last of the light was taken from kyle into the box. it closed, and kyle slowly descended to the ground. Once kyle's feet had touched the ground the last of the light faded and his eyes opened. at first he didn't move, but after a second his eyes opened and he looked at wuya, a smile graced his lips and he spoke his voice sounding tired and worn-out, "i'm...me" as the words left his mouth his eyes began to droop and kyle started to fall to the floor. wuya was there in a flash to catch him, "kyle?" she said a little scared he looked at her "wuya...i'm...me" soon after kyle passed out in her arms.

wuya looked at kyle and sighed, it had been three days since he had passed out and there still wasn't any sign of him waking up. she kneeled down next to his bed and stroked a strand of hair away from his face, "please come back soon kyle, where ever you are." she whispered as she stood up. as she started to walk out of the room kyle stirred in his sleep and she quickly turned and knelt beside him once again. "kyle/ van you hear me?" kyle's head turned to face her his eyes opened but were slightly drooped a noteable signal that he was saverly weakened "hey, casper" wuya smiled "i told you never to call me that" "sorry" "but." wuya responded quickly " i'll let it slide just this once" kyle's eyes opened abit more as he started to wakeup even more. "good" kyle started to gt up but wuya placed a hand on his shoulder "no, you need to rest " kyle took wuya's hand in his "wuya i've slept enough besides i feel fine." suddenly there was a knock at the front door

"oh, i ordered a pizza" kyle raised an eyebrow "a pizza:" wuya blushed slightly " well, i haven't eaten in three days and your fridge is empty" c"pizza sounds great."the two of them went to the door and retirved the pizza from the delivery boy, "that'll be $15.00." "really?" kyle said surprised " yeah the price has gone up since the company we got our supplies from was shut down" "oh," kyle paid the $15.00 and gave the man a fifty as a tip " you do know that you gave me a fifty right?" "yeah, " the kid took the money, he couldn't have been more than 22 "hey" the kid turned around before he got into his car " spend it on somthing good" "thanks" the delivery boy got back into his car and drove off. "smells good" wuya said as kyle came back into the kitchen with the food.

after sitting down and having a great couple slices of pizza they walked over to the couch and sat down "wuya" "what?" "i want to tell you what happened before. " wuya nodded "alright" kyle drew a deep breath into his lungs. "well, after you opened the box, a prettymuch saw what you did." "did it...hurt?" kyle shook his head "no, but my point is that now that i don't have my powers i might not be able to spar with you anymore." "why not?" "well, for one thing without my abilities i have zero to no martial arts prowess." wuya grinned "i don't think that will be a pronblem." "how?" "you'll see, but first i want to know what you ment when you said "i'm me" wuya spoke doing an exact impression of kyle's voice "well, it means that...i'm going to change into who i was before i came here...well, thats the sumedup version, i don't want to bore you with useless details. " "change? not too much i hope." "no, bujt i may start looking my age." wuya looked confused "look your age? youmean your older?" "not exactly," "and that means what?" kyle paused not sure not sure what to expect from his answer " well, try younger." "younger? you mean like 20? " kyle at this point looked at himself his physical appearance couldn't be more than 23." "well" " kyle...how old are you ?" um... i'm..." "yes" wuya strained losing her patience in the suspence " wuya, i'm 17." wuya's eyes nearly jumped out of her head " what! you mean to tell me that i've been spooning with a teenager!

END OF CHAPTER NINE