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The dawning of a new age. Through hardships and battles the elementals of power as the government has labeled them have come to rest into normal lives. As normal as you can get when you wield nature it self anyway.

Now average teenagers they lead their lives to the best, but never forget the trials and tribulations they've gone through. But behold, a new journey has begun, one that brings forth a new day.

Hope of unity amoung the peoples of the world, and the deminority of the elementals the young souls press foreward.

But as the orginal elementals of power press foreward new souls arise with powers not unlike their own. This is the story of those young souls, their journey.

Hikaru shook his head from his postion on a tree branch. He often wondered how he found Mak so adorable sometimes but guessed it was destiny. He watched the boy for now, planning to scare him later with a surprise attack.

Sapphire eyes looked unto the blue sky, as a sigh escaped him. It seemed forever since he'd seen all of his freinds, since he'd visited the grave of the fallen elementals.

Looking back at his love he wondered just how long it'd take Mak to notice he was there. Mak had after all gotten a strange sixth sense to where Hikaru was concerned.

((we love you too makkeh >3!!! ))

Rin wandered about through the fairgrounds, searching for nothing and anything. She rubbed a hand slowly over her buldging belly as a few kicks emurged from a restless being inside. It was the fourth to last day that the fair would be there, and so she decided to go off and enjoy it. She stopped by a booth where one could throw a few little white balls into small cups of water to recieve a prize.

Rin decided to give it a try and smiled as she concentrated. She had three little white balls and aimed, shutting one eye as she tried to measure. Motioning the ball back and forth, she tossed it but a little too lightly and it ended up bouncing off of the rim of one of the cups. "Aww..." She said, gathering another.

The second she threw too hard and ended up knocking one of the cups out of the circle. Rin only giggled as she tried again. With a smile she tossed it and landed a prize. "I'll take...the...big giant teddy bear!" She said happily. She recieved her prize, a stuffed brown bear half her size. In victory, Rin wandered off to another vendor for more prizes.

Syaoran sighed as he stumbled though a forest, his injuries still not fully healed. "Trees... trees... and more trees, where does this damn forest end!?" he yelled, stopping and resting himself against a nearby tree. His clothing was extremely tattered and his body didn't look in much better shape. "I just got to... get out" he said between his breaths before starting off after another minute of resting. ~I just gotta move...~

((the crimson flame.... returns?))

Mak nearly gagged on his food, struggling hard to down the huge bite of hotdog he'd taken before Hikaru's attack. He squirmed around, finally swallowing and gagging in pain.

"Hi..ka...ru!" he managed tosay through the pain, twitching in both pain and joy, his face red from both suprise and suffocation as he tried to loosen the older boys grip a bit to regain access to oxygen.

"Hikaru....hi...can't... breathe...."

Mak scratched the back of his head, watching Hikaru with a suspicious stare as he took a seat next to him.

"Eh, maybe. Might've got a little taller, a little stronger, a little smarter. Who's to say?" he said considering it a moment and nodding and looking at Hikaru.

"And the only downside is that my hair isn't growing right." he said, staring at the older boy with a look that said he knew who was to blame.

Rin walked through the fair grounds, a bundle of stuffed animals surrounding her as if brought on by a gravitational pull. She carried the bear she'd won first in front, while a small giraffe under that same arm, a fat panda under the other, two wolves, one black one white, within both clenched hands, a long boa plushie wrapped around her neck and shoulders, and struggled to hold onto five small cats.

Soon enough, however, there was a few nice young men who were more than happy to help her along. She walked with a look to her that suggested she were those two boys' master and they, much how Syaoran once had, followed her around like a pair of lost puppies, carrying her luggage. She herself was burndened but by a light lion plushie thing under one arm, and a camera dangling off of her wrist. She looked back at the two men, now stuffed with twice as much stuff as Rin had gathered earlier.

"It's not too far from my car" She said politely. She sipped a lemonade and walked up the hill. The two happily followed, a promise of a reward from Rin in their minds. Upon reaching her car, her choeffure, hired by her father, opened the door. Since Rin's belly was too big for her to get behind the wheel, she was rewarded such help.

"Just put them in the back" She ordered the two. They complied, however only one load could be brought in. The other half had to be put in the trunk. Smiling, Rin kissed each on the cheek before climbing into the car. She didn't want to go home just yet, however. "Just drive around a while" She said to the man.

Hikaru only smiled, running a finger down the poor boys neck gently. He retracked his finger and grinned more to himself as he leaned back against the bench.

"Nah, I'll do it when your asleep after I wear you out or something."

He nodded to himself in thought, scratching his chin as he did.

"Yup, might take the whole day, but i'll wear you out somehow!"

He grinned unto the sky before looking back at Mak watching the younger boy eat the hotdog, a sly grin forming from the other one.

"Man you've got a big mouth."