The Huge Neighborhood~

(Dream Realm)

Aika dove back as Zeta lost control and began to change. With wide eyes he saw the transformation process before his eyes. Within the disguise of shade, Aika even blinked twice as he at first could not register what force he had awoken. A dragon especially one so real. Even in the realm of a dream Aika could feel the dragons raw power.

Taking the womens words to heart Aika faded from the dream. The last image he left were a pair of crimson lights in the shape of eyes narrowed at the dragon. Even as he faded back to the real world, Aika felt he could of stayed and won, but his better judgement told him he got what he needed.

"Hours ago I believed he was just like me....Answer solved, but now there are only more questions...? Dragons in this world?! Why?!"
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(Real world )

Aika quickly sat up. Little time had passed but so much happened. A student at his school was a dragon?! Shaking his head, J then came to mind. What the hell was he?! The guy had fought a dragon and made it out in tact. He would be the next target to observe starting tomorrow.

Walking through the door frame to his room, Aika's eyes went wide in terror. Not the current not Aika had received eailer that day from Hikari, but one of the older ones from his stash laid upon his desk. Someone had been inside of his home while he rested. Someone with an interest in his activities.

"Saito?! No, that man had a code of honor..." Aika thought to himself as stretched out his hand to let a crystal dagger potrude from his wrist. In mere seconds he held a complete crystal dagger in his right as the skin on his wrist closed back up.

Hours later, Aika found himself climbing the stairs as he had brutally checked every inch of his rather small house for clues. There were none. As far as Aika knew the one who broke in took nothing, but had gained some information on him. It was either that, or she/he was giving him a warning or message.

The covers were warm to his skin as he lay in bed facing up to the ceiling. With a depressing shake of his head more questions and issues rose.however, at this point Aika silenced his mind as he tried to force himself to drift into sleep.

"An interesting day comes to an interesting end..." Were Aika's final thoughs before falling back asleep and reeding off to plan in his own dreams.

After a night of sleeping in an alley, Ken got up and checked his possessions. Everything was still there, as luck would have it. If it weren't for that brace then he would've slept on a rooftop, where it was much safer. The sooner the brace was off, the better. The problem was that he had absolutely no idea how to take it off, and he didn't want to try anything in case it only made things much worse.

Running down the streets, Ken almost collided with a rather oddly dressed person and a little girl. "Sorry 'bout that, ladies!" he hurriedly apologised as he resumed sprinting down the pavement, not bothering to look back over his shoulder in case he tripped over something while doing so. After about half an hour of dashing to and fro, Ken finally managed to find Kumi. He slowed his pace with great difficulty until he was walking alongside her. "Morning, Yaminaka-san! What's got you down today?"

"Hi Sumato-san!" She said smiling sweetly at him. "Umm..... Your arm should be better soon." She thought about what her mother said earlier. "Don't converse with anyone at your school. I don't want you to have friends from there."

"Morning, Yaminaka-san! What's got you down today?"

Kumi snapped back into reality from her thoughts. "Oh... Just my mom, Yaminaka Kurai..." She smiled a little. "She told me not to eat commoners food, like Ryuu Ramen." She laughed nervously before she looked at Ken. "So that's what's on my mind." She chuckled nervously, hoping Ken wouldn't take it offensively.

Before Ken could answer, the school was in sight. She'd just talk to him in the classroom. "See you later." She mumbled the spell for her wings and flew to the front gate, just in time to see Aika leaving. "Hey!" She called quietly as she ran after him. "You're supposed to go to school." She saw that he was ignoring these warnings so she hopped high into the air as he looked back.
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Francesi looked at Ken as he ran off. "Oh my." She said, looking down at Lily. "Now what kind of cake would you like?" She asked, leaning down to look at the cakes.

"Vanilla Cheesecake!" Lily said pointing to the one in the case. She grinned happily up at Francesi.

Francesi laughed. "Okay." She asked the man behind the counter for a whole one and she paid for it. "Thank you!" She said smiling.

"She told me not to eat commoners food, like Ryuu Ramen."

"Ryuu Ramen? Commoners' food? I bet she's probably jealous. I would be; that ramen's the best food I've ever had in ages!" Ken replied jovially to Kumi's statement, waving to her as she flew off. If he was any better at levitation magic, he would've followed her, but sadly it was only good for getting to the rooftops without having to climb up a drainpipe. Wait, if that was the case then why didn't he go and sleep on a roof last night?! Ken hardly used levitation to the point of actually forgetting that he had the power at all sometimes. With his bad arm, the journey to school was going to take much longer than anticipated...

((Bastian, Present day))
Bastian sat there next to Francesi for a good hour recovering his strength the best he could, watching as the students of the school began to leave. Surprisingly the rain casted rather dark shadows across the school ground hiding the major damages to the school. The school was empty now, or at least to the best of Bastian’s knowledge; He rose up, no longer felling like a crippled old man. He knelt over and picked up the passed out Francesi, he cast a small crimson spell circle against her forehead; from thin air a rain coat materialized draping the girl completely. Bastian carried her home, leaving her lying next to Lily.

Bastian later return to the school, it gave him such a headache but the school had to be repaired. With silence over coming him he placed his hands again the school building; violet lines shot out across the walls giving it a digitalized look. Random pieces began to regenerate, glass would fill in its cracks, and the school began to return to its original state. Bastian let out a sigh of relief and accomplishment as the school was completely repaired. There was still no chance he was willing to teach another class the next day.

Bastian entered the school walking tiredly up the stair back to his class room, once there he plopped himself down on a sofa and began to sleep. He would sleep straight into the next evening.

((Zeta))
Zeta awoke briefly early in the morning, a strange blurry white figure sitting in front of him. “Mom?” he whispered, trying to lift himself but couldn’t seem to find the strength to even move his fingers. “No Zeta-Kun, you know mom’s in Daravi.” Suzume said patting Zeta’s head. Her fingers were icy cold, but he didn’t mind the electric blankets were keeping him warmer than his sister’s nitrogen touch. “Why does my back hurt?” Zeta murmured, his vision not clearing much; he allowed himself to fall back into unconsciousness.

Suzume pouted, she was hoping that Zeta would have recovered faster; really she was just quite impatient. “Back pain…” She whispered getting up, Zeta had fallen back to sleep too fast for her to break the news to him. He wouldn’t be flying anytime soon, in fact he was crippled for the time being; all medicine in the human world would not help him regrow his wings, he needed to be exposed to an unimaginable amount of heat and fire. Suzume looked sympathetically at her brother, at the very least she could ease his pain.

Suzume ran down the stairs into the kitchen soon returning with electric hot plates used for cooking. She spent some time flipping Zeta over to expose his back. Upon flipping him, his back was completely exposed; among other things, considering that Joel hadn’t bothered to dress Zeta. Suzume didn’t seem fazed by this in the least acting almost like a medical professional; she placed the hotplates upon Zeta’s shoulder blades, plugging them into the already over loaded outlet.

Zeta’s back was pretty badly scared, deep red marks outlined where the wings had been torn clean of his muscles; he wouldn’t be moving his arms for a while.

Dazzled and confused he looked around but was unsure where he was at. The young blue haired boy looked around the park he was at and didn't understand how he had gotten to it; there were only small pieces of his arrival that he could remember. His wings still being broken and hurt weakened him. Slowly getting up Saito walked to who knows where.

By the time the male had passed out he felt like he was right on someone's door step, or so he thought.

The blue haired male felt himself get dragged yet, he didn't make an attempt to look up at who it was, yet from how his savior sounded Saito could have sworn it sounded like Francesi. As the girl laid the boy's body on a couch Saito was relieved that there was something soft underneath him, he slept on the ground last night and the couch seemed to relive his shoulders of the weight that had been placed on him.

Breathing in and out the male soon found him out of breath, looking up he saw an orange haired girl looking at him. "Lulu," he muttered but as he opened his eyes more, he saw that it was a little girl with orange hair. She seemed to have asked him a question. "I'm Naomi Saito," he said while seeing Francesi.