-1Miriella grabbed two bottles of water out of the fridge in the small apartment she and Rina were currently camped out in and tossed one to the young green haired mermaid.

Rina caught it, nodding a thanks to Miriella before turning back to the TV. Miriella walked up behind the couch Rina was seated on, "What are they saying about the snow?"

"Seems a girl was spotted in the clouds." Rina answered, "They're passing it off as a 'snow-related-hallucination' or something, but it seems a little suspicious."

"Hmm." Miriella thought for a moment, before sighing and collapsing down onto the couch, "Aww, I'm no good at this." Rina watched as her friend pulled herself out of her flopped position and stood up, "I'm going out. The snow hasn't stopped, but you know what? I've stopped caring what the people on the TV say. If I'm not back in an hour call my cell phone." With that, Miriella left the apartment.

Rina rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the TV.

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Miriella, after glancing around to make sure that no one would see her, which was pretty stupid considering that it was snowing considerably out and anyone crazy enough to come outside like she had couldn't see anything anyway, closed her eyes and transformed into her warrior form without any of the normal cries or calls that would go with a transformation. In case there was someone around, even though that was unlikely, Miriella didn't want to call attention to herself, and would rather just transform and be on her way.

She pushed herself off the ground and flew into the air, soaring towards the clouds. For the first time since she and Rina had gotten caught in the storm a few weeks ago, there was a lead, and no matter how ridiculous it sounded, a lead was a lead, and she was going to follow it until she hit a dead end or a more sane lead than floating girls in clouds showed up.

She soared through the snow, getting herself thoroughly soaked through as she thanked everything she could that getting wet while in her warrior form wouldn't change her back to her mermaid form, as that would royally suck, seeing as she was flying through the air a good fifty feet off the ground.

Suddenly, she noticed the silhouetted image of a girl against some of the clouds not too far away. She flew towards it, but just as she was about to be able to fully see the girl, her cell phone rang. The girl turned with a gasp and vanished, leaving Miriella cursing at Rina for her impeccable timing.

She flipped her cell phone out, "Hey." she said.

"Been an hour." Rina said.

"Sorry." Miriella replied, "I'll be back as soon as I figure out where I am."

"You're lost?" Rina asked, surprised.

"Not exactly. There's so much snow out here, I have no idea how far I am from the apartment. I'll be back later."

"Alright." Rina answered. Miriella hung up, turning around and flying back the way she came, hoping that she could find a familiar landmark and guide herself home from there.

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"I don't get it. We finally end up coming back with food and we eat it all so fast that we have to go out and get more AGAIN in less than 12 hours?" Kiri ranted, as she and Lexia walked down a street in Los Angeles, looking for the shop they had found and bought food from the night before. They were surprised to see Rayza run over, waving.

"Hey you two!" Rayza said, smiling at them, "Where are you headed?"

"To get food." Kiri answered, "Again."

"Food runs… you should probably try and stock up if you don't want to keep doing them." Rayza suggested.

"We tried." Lexia answered, "THe food was still gone this morning. Besides, we're not staying much longer anyway."

"Aww, you should at least stay until I'm done in California. Then we can go back to Japan together!" Rayza said.

Seeing as we were planning on SWIMMING back to Japan, that would probably not be the best idea. Kiri thought, worrying about how she could politely decline Rayza's offer.

"When are you leaving?" Lexia asked, before Kiri could say a word.

"Ummm…." Rayza thought for a moment, "It'll be about another week, I think. Lets see, I've got a concert tonight, a practice I'm late for right now, and another concert in three days. Then, give John another two days to pack all of his stuff up and then we'll be leaving."

"Aryl and I are going to have classes before then." Lexia lied, "Sorry."

Thank you, Lex. Kiri thought to herself, before realizing one of the things Rayza had said. "Wait, didn't you say you had a practice you were late for right now?"

"Yeah." Rayza said, "It happens to be in this direction. Plus, John won't get worried for another hour. I'm late for everything."

Kiri nodded, surprised.

"I also have this strange habit if tripping over my own feet while on a flat sturdy surface." Rayza added, shrugging.

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Miriella, one hour after finishing her phone call with Rina, walked into the apartment, thoroughly soaked. She hadn't even bothered switching out of her warrior form, and now she was dripping water onto the ground of the semi-small apartment as Rina stared at her.

"Well, I saw that 'girl in the clouds.'" Miriella told her, "But your phone call scared her away. So, I say the two of us transform and go looking together."

Rina shrugged and stood up, agreeing with Miriella.

Miriella smiled, "But first- I'm hungry."

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Half an hour later, Miriella and Rina were flying through the air towards where Miriella had seen the cloud girl. They flew INTO the clouds, getting even more soaked than before. Miriella gasped as they realized they weren't just in a cloud. The cloud almost looked like the inside of a small, not too decorated, but homey room. There was a man seated on one of the small stools in the cloud-room.

He looked up at them.

"Children of the water, I'd suggest you leave. Jeredeau will be returning soon and you can bet that if she sees you, you'll be punished greatly." the man said.

"Who are you?" Miriella asked, stepping forward, half afraid she would fall through the cloud's bottom.

There was a pause, "My name is Edur, the spirit of ice, and I and urging you, leave now, before she returns."

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Okay, yeah, so I said Lycoris would deliver her message this chapter, but it didn't fit. In fact, you'll see what I decided to end up doing with that next chapter. But, until then, sorry this chapter is short, I needed to end it there or there would be too much information in one chapter.

This starts the next set of confusing information. Edur… Jeredeau… who are these mysterious people, I wonder?

Ugh, so sleepy. falls asleep at desk

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