The ice is always there.

[Keran Jaxsom]

Saphrien was in his own room toosing a pokeball up into the air and chatching it as he layed on his bed. Ark was at his feet snozzing softly. his mind was caught up in that girl Rynn. she ment nothing to him yet he couldent keep her out of his thoughts. It was going to make him go crazy he just knew it. and what bothered him the most was why keran thought he and her should be partners. he dident need anyone he had proven himself time and time again in battle. and yet that seemed to mean nothing to the woman. she continued to try to place him with someone and every time he made his unwillingness to help them known. he could do things alone as he had done since he was ten. he stood up slightly throwing the ball across the room.

"Come on ark lets get lunch..." he said darkly as he stood up his long hair was now out of its normal ponytail it fell to his lower back the bangs where just as long and had a tendancy to hang in his eyes. Ark stood up and shook out its fur padding forward to the door. soon the two where makeing there way to the lunch room. as the reached the first floor he saw rynn. he instantly tried to turn to get away from her she was all he needed right now.

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Rynn caught sight of him. And she caught sight of him trying to avoid her. Rynn walked straight up to him as one of her ears twitched. "Okay, has much as I hate to bother you" She almost wished she had run into someone else. "I'm dying of starvation here and I need to know where to get food. Can you tell me?" the girls tone and expression was more impatient than anything else. She wanted to talk to him about as much as he wanted to talk to her.

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Saphrien glared at her and then growled out a replie still quite annoyed that she had spotted him.

"Fine...I'll show you where the lunchroom is..." he said and started to walk from the way she had come Ark looked at her then licked her face the creature seemed to be smiling. Saphrien growled to himself as he saw it. he quickly walked through the halls untill he reached the lunch room. there where a few people crouded around talking some in pairs other in larger groups. there was a set of four near the back all whispering amounst them selves. next to them sat a blond haired teen who had proped himself against the wall and looked like he was asleep. a balck haired man in the group was glaring at him. another part a blond haired girl was chatting up a black haired dog demon who was waveing her off.

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A very oddly dressed girl was over near the wolf demon and the blonde girl. She had auburn hair with pink streaks in it. The girl smiled a lot. Rynn immediately took notice of her. She looked so out of place, but then again everyone was wearing something different-probably reminiscint of their home dimensions. The girl looked over and a look of surprise crossed her face. Tevy looked down at the wolf demon, her partner, Lorien. She place her hand on his shoulder. "Look over there... a new one... with Saphrien... that's the weird part..." Tevy chuckled lightly. "Man I feel sorry for her..."

Rynn noticed them talking about her, and her ear twitched in response. She could catch a word every now and then. She went up to the counter and got a plate of food-things she had never seen before in her life. Something that was golden brown in color and cut into strips. As she bit into one, she immediately tasted potato-but better. It was delicious. Rynn ate all of them quickly. She had taken a seat in an area to go unnoticed-she wasn't in the mood for mingling just yet. Besides, if anyone wanted to meet her they could come to her. She continued to eat her food in silence, sending Saphrien a slight glare everytime she happend to look at him.

[Keran Jaxsom]

Saphrien sat at the other end of the long table with his food trying to ignore her completly not even looking at her. he tossed Ark half of his hamburger and the Arcanine gobbled it up as he sat there lorien looked over from kira who was laughing brightly about something he had said. he watched Saphrien and ark then slowly turned his eyes to the red head. he instantly recognized her as Rynn. but that was impossable she was a main charater in her dimension. kira looked at where he was looking and laughed.

"Wrong one lorien....She's from the inuyasha dimension dident you know there are two of them" she said having caught the look on his face. meanwhile the blond haired teen seemed to have woken up on the other corner of the room. he looked up and saw Rynn.

"Now theres a babe..." he said with a slight slurr of words and walked over towards her. "Hey honey what brings you here" he said flopping down next to rynn he reeked of alchohal. Saphrien heard this then saw the one man whom pissed everyone off his name was Affren. he stood up and walked over to the blond.

"Buzz off affren..." he said dangerously. Ark padded over as well the man seemed to eye the gient dog like thing then stood up again and walked away.

"Your dog don' bother me..." he said as he hastly walked away. Saphrien growled then sat back down at his spot once again attempting to aviode her eye contact meanwhile the blond had moved on to the long balck haired man and his three companions the girls in the group where all complaining loudly about him hanging around.

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Tevy's eyes widened slightly. "Lorien... you saw that right...? Saphrien... he just protected her from Affren..." even if Lorien was paying attention to Kira's conversation, Tevy found herself watching Saphrien and Rynn curiously.

Rynn had looked up in surprise when Saphrien had shooed the man away from her. Why on earth would he care if she was being bothered? She sighed and continued eating, but noticed everything. The main thing that had perked Rynn's interest was the conversation between the black haired wolf and the two girls. She heard them talk about her and the way he had looked at her... "Saphrien, I hate to speak and piss you off, but why are they looking at me like a freak... they said there's another one... that I was the wrong one... do you know any of what they're talking about?"

Tevy heard a slight snippet of Rynn's question. "Nice going you two... she heard you.... now she's gonna know there's another her running around somewhere... that would be so weird..." she sighed and leaned against Lorien, resting her head on his shoulder.

Rynn noticed the girl place her head on his shoulder. She had a good partner.... Rynn's eyes flitted to Saphrien who had yet to answer her, and was once more thrown into despair over her assigned partner.... but she just couldn't stop looking at him.... why was that?

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"I have no clue..." was all the man said as he continued to eat tossing things to Ark from time to time. meanwhile over where lorien was he laughed at his partners concern over her knowing.

"Its alright tevy....She's find out sooner or later anyways...Rynn Arokit... Now she was always an intresting charater...so thi is a diffrent Rynn then kira?" he asked the blond who nodded lightly.

"Ya...Don't know much about her other then keran has shown intrest in her. you know how keran is she must be powerfull" the blond smiled "Oy you two love birds scoot over would ya..." she said pushin lorien who suddenly fell backwards onto the floor his head hitting with a thud. Saphrien had been watching them and this seemed to get a littel smirk from the boy. he then heard Lorien's voice raise over the crowd.

"HEY watch what your doing kira" he said as he stood up rubbing his head.

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Tevy knelt down. "Lorien... you okay?" seeing that he was, she helped him up with a smile. "Its okay love..." She looked over to Rynn and Saphrien, apparently Rynn hadn't heard their latest comments and so she ignored them and finished off her food. Rynn stood up and started heading towards the exit. When she passed Saphrien, she patted Ark on the head lightly. "Bye" she said simply as she headed towards the door.

Tevy watched her on her way out. "Hey, new girl... wanna come chat?"she smiled. Rynn turned and looked at her.

"Not for long..." she said walking over to them with a slight smirk. "I'm Rynn..."

"I'm Tevy, and this is my partner Lorien-in more than one sense of the word" she chuckled slightly. "I'm from Wonderland! Where are you from."

"Inuyasha I think its called..." Rynn said, this Tevy character was easy to talk to it seemed.

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Lorien smiled at Rynn his smile was genuain and sweet.

"Names Lorien" he said looking at her "So youve been paired up with Saphrien ehh? talk about a losse cannon he nearly broke my arm once becuse i wasent doing something he liked" he laughed his laugh was almost like a bark. saphrien was watchign them his eyes narrowed since rynn had her back to him he was watching her. his mind still wouldent quite with its instance on thinking about her. Ark watched him with his amber eyes. he then barked out his named sniffing a Saphriens plate. the teen gave him the rest on it. and contienued to sit there brooding.

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Rynn sighed. "Yeah... Saphrien is apparently my partner. I love Ark to death, but him? He bugs me..." she shuddered. "Keran said I was the only one strong enough to be paired with him."

Tevy laughed at this comment. "You must have some fight huh...?" She looked to Lorien. "I got lucky, he's a great partner"

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"Ark...realy he never seemed to take a likeing to me was always snarling at me when ever i was around" he laughed lightly "But i think he has a soft spot for women...Ark I mean not Saphrien" he grined lightly as he said it

"Though i think Saphriens taken a likeing to you as well as his Arcanine..." lorien smirked as he knoticed Saphrien staering at Rynn "He keeps watching you" he laughed.

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Rynn looked over her shoulder for a moment and then looked back, having made eye contact with Saphrien. "Saphrien? I doubt he likes anybody...though he's been watching me all day. Especially after Keran said something as she passed him. It must have been pretty troubling...but I doubt he likes me at all. We've been bickering since we met." She sighed and watched Lorien and Tevy, being somewhat lightened up by their way with each other. It reminded her of her and Cod- no, she better not follow that train of thought. None of these people cared too much to see grief. Rynn was dead set on not showing it to anybody. The only sign of the pang in her heart was something very small flickered across her bright eyes.

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Lorien seemed to read her mind but in fact he was just very preceptive

"Every one here has had a lot of pain in there life some way or another. alot of them Saphrien Included try to limit the amount of emotion they show..." he said both in answer to her feelings at the moment and to her comment. he smiled after her said it then laughed. "But I bet if keran said something to him it was probubly something on the lines of 'you wanna kiss her dont you'" he copied kerans tone almost perfictly when he said it Kira laughed at his imatation of her cousin.

"He right you know Keran likes to do that to guys s-she likes to watch them blush" she was laughing so hard that she could barly say the last part.

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Rynn laughed lightly, she hadn't laughed because something was funny all day. She'd only laughed because she was being mean to Saphrien. Rynn nodded in agreement to Lorien and Kira. "Well she certainly messed with him. He's been mulling over it all day. And Ark has been so funny to... he abandoned Saphrien for me for a few moments. But hey, at least I get a rush everytime I fight with him. Its fun to see him try to get under my skin..." Even though she was cutting up right now, Lorien's comment had hit home, making her realize that he must have read her face. She made no reaction or remark, but most certainly didn't ignore it.

Tevy smiled at Rynn and the others. At least the new girl was social. Too bad she was stuck with the most anitsocial one of the bunch. Tevy wanted so badly to psychemanipulate Saphrien on so many occasions, but she never had and probably never would. It wasn't a very nice thing to do. "You guys should stop talking about Saphrien... he's watching Rynn like a hawk, he may come over at any moment..."

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lorien looked at tevy with a slight smirk kissing her on the cheek.

"Oh come on tev' he knows what i think about him already he learned that after he tried to break my arm" lorien smirked at her. he then looked at rynn with a gental smile. "I realy do feel sorry for you weither or not hes intrested in you hes a loner and quite happy with it I dont think in my whole time with him he ever told me anything about himself. I dont even know what his last name is" as he said it Saphrien stood up and called ark to his side he then walked out of the lunch room. he realy dident want to deal with anything at the moment and the only way to get rynn out of his head would be to avoid her at all costs.

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Tevy sighed. "Fine then. He's gone anyway.... I don't know what his problem is, but hey- at least your not stuck with Affren..." she pointed to the drunk who had tried to make a move on Rynn earlier. "Luckily Affren isn't around all that often..." She hugged Lorien quickly and then let go, but still kept ahold of his arm. Tevy knew they looked way lovey dovey but both of them were so happy it didn't matter.

Rynn caught every kiss, every touch. She realized that right now she couldn't exactly watch that, not from this morning. Rynn was still too vulnerable, and she had to escape the happy lovers. "Frankly I don't care if he likes me... I'm not looking for someone to like me... I'm looking for a way to forget..." she gave them all one last smile, this one she had to force. "I'm gonna go... I'm really tired... see you guys around, it was nice to meet all of you..." With that, Rynn walked away and back to her room, once she saw the path was clear of Saphrien, doing him the favor of not having to see her. Once she hit her room she fell on the bed and closed her eyes, trying to fall asleep. It probably wouldn't work, but it was worth a try right?

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Saphrien sat in his room again even getting away from her was not helping now his images of her where even more vivid in his mind he wanted to rip out the memories of her he did not need anyone. he had Ark his trusted companion, and most of all he dident need a stubborn woman. it was as if someone somewhere was tormenting him with these images. his arcanine was sitting at the door to his room as he lay on his bed trying to forget the girl. he wondered if just going to sleep would help but he was starting to dought that Ark looked at him cocking its head to one side.

"...She's stupid and emotional...who needs emotions...they only get in the way" he said to the creature it looked away from him and watched the hall way beyond the door. Saphrien sighed and banged his head onto the wall behind him. his eyes where shut tight but no matter how tight he shut them he continued to see rynn.

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Rynn turned into her tiger form, it always made her feel more comforted for some unknown reason. Even if it was a slight comfort, it made her feel better. She hung her head off the edge of the bed, her paws hanging off next to it. Rynn let out a soft growl of frustration. She sighed and stared straight forward, her eyes meeting her own in the mirrror. She couldn't stand her partner... Rynn hated him. He had a superiority complex. All that stupid pinning-just to get a point across. Rynn huffed lightly and turned away from the mirror becoming human again. She stared at her wall as she sat up, in a daze.

Saphrien was so frustrating, she just wanted to wring his stupid blue haired neck! And who the hell has blue hair anyway...? Thats so weird...everything about him bugged her. He was pretty cute to. Rynn found that to be a really random thought and she shook it away. "No..." she whispered harshly, chastising herself "Coden just died, you shouldn't be looking at someone else... did he mean NOTHING?" Rynn held her head in her hands, annoyed at herself.

But then something else came her head- dark visions of murdering some unknown man in the dead of night... cutting him to pieces and ripping his heart out- a literal illustration of what he had done to her. Rynn let out a slightly demented laugh and covered her mouth in a hurry as soon as she did. His blood... everywhere... the sight was so satisfying... Rynn stopped herself again. She wasn't this demented... that wasnt her... but revenge... it possesed her

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"DAMN IT!" saphrien said after he still couldent shake the image of her, the one that seemed to persist in his mind was of her crying of the body of that man. at that moment when he had seen her he had only attempte to get her to stop crying she couldent do anything about death through crying. as he though about it he suddenly remembered his mother. it had been on the day of his fathers funiral...they had just started home she had been in all black her eyes full of tears that had been when they had attacked them. his fathers favorite Growlith Ark had been with them. the creature had tried to bite the men as the roughed up his mother. then one of them had grabbed him. an hour later they where in an old shack near the cemetary. they had her hanging from the ceailing by her arms.

he rememrbed watching as each man violated his mother. each one had defiled her she had been sobbing her normaly beautiful face contorted in rage and greif. these images sent a chill down his spine. he watched as one of the men cut her down and she crummpled into a heap on the ground. then as she tried to crawl away he raped her again. she coudlent even call out as they had her gaged. he to had been so and tied up in a corner. and that was when Ark had showed up the littel Growlith had knocked down the door and tore up the man's leg but it was to late to save his mother becuse moments before her througt had been slit open the crimson blood had flooded onto the floor.

the man had tried to fight off Ark but the Growlith Tore out his windpipe. mintes later the rest of the rocket memebers had been on the floor. each dispatched in the same way as the first. Ark had then advanced on him. he remembered in that moment he had thought the creature would kill him like the rest his fear had long ago overwhealmed his sadness about his father and he was to numb with it to even regeistar his mothers death. but instead of killing him Ark had tore the ropes from him then moments later drug him out by his shirt. he remembered that night to well he had been so numbed by everything that all he did was stare off into nothing even when Ark brought him food he did not eat it.

Saphrien found tears streaming down his face when he was brought out of the dark images of his past Ark was curled up at the foot of his bed. he quickly barried his face in the fur of the creature he couldent cry, that was a long time ago it meant nothing to him now. he soon calmed himself but continued to cling to the Arcanine. Ark made no sound it only let him hug it it knew what was going on in Saphriens head. after a few moments Saphrien unbarried his head. he looked as he had before a light sneer crossing his handsom. he then stood up. There was someone he needed to talk to. he walked to rynns room and slamed open her door glareing.

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Rynn had jumped with a start as her door was slammed open and some man was glaring at her. She backed up against her beds headboard from shock. Then she registered that it was Saphrien. Rynn still had her fingers clenched in the flat blanket. Her eyes were wide. Saphrien had come upon her in a moment of struggle, and fear of herself was poorly hidden in her eyes. Soon she came to her senses however, and released the tension in her arms and fingers, the well developed flexed muscles disappering back into normalcy.

"Wh... what is it Saphrien... did I do something to anger you?" the look on his face was different from earlier, something seemed off. For the first time sense they had met, Rynn's words weren't filled with animosity, she was too messed up from her thoughts of brutality and murder to have to mind capacity to be mean to him now.