The Moonlarks

36

The next few days were uneventful. Ryan would not come out of his room, even when Edaline offered sweet treats. On the third day, I decided to try again. "Come on Ryan! You can't hide forever!" I banged on the door, but he stayed silent.

The door silently clicked open and I pushed inside. Ryan was crunched over his desk, scribbling on a small slip of paper. There was crumpled up paper all around the floor.

I pushed the papers aside and pulled a chair over. "Whacha doin?" I asked. "Go away," He responded, crumpling up the paper and throwing it over his shoulder.

"Seriously, Ryan," I persisted. "You can't do-whatever your doing, by yourself." He turned to me. "What do you know about feeling pain?" He asked.

I paused. "I wouldn't know what your feeling right now," I said. "But-" he cut me off. "Don't sweet talk me," he yelled. "They have my family and I'm gonna go do something about it!" "Well," I yelled back. "I know that Callan or any of our friends would want this!"

As if on queue there was a loud crash and we looked to see Callan had broken the window and was now angrily staring at Ryan. "HEY, YOU GONNA SIT AROUND AND SULK, OR ARE YOU GONNA TALK TO US AND HAVE US TRY TO HELP!" He yelled.

I honestly wasn't surprised about Callans sudden appearance, or when Ryan yelled back: "I'M NOT SULKING YOU IDIOT, I'M PLANNING AND IM GONNA SAVE MY FAMILY!" He got so annoyed at Callan that he threw a fireball at him! I managed to stop it with my Guster abilities.

"Guys this is going too far!" I told them. But they didn't listen. And then to my surprise, Callan fired off a Shadowflux spear at Ryan. He missed on purpose though. . "Yeah, well you've been cooped up in your room, I actually did something!" He yelled at Ryan. "Better progress than us..." I muttered.

Although I was not sure how this was helping the problem. Also tomorrow was our first day at Foxfire. "Guys, stop," I pleaded. They didn't. Ryan leaped at Callan and pushed him out the window while going out himself. A moment later I heard a crack of thunder and they were both on the lawn.

"Are you trying to kill us!?" Callan half yelled half asked. "No, I'm trying to get you to go away!" Ryan fired at him. "Well, maybe you should try to ask for help instead of going by yourself!" Callan sniped back.

I jumped onto the lawn just as Ryan fired a fireball at Callan. Callan ducked out of the way and went invis. A second later there was a Shadowflux rope thingy that went for Ryan, but he dodged. Callan appeared and it was clear that it had taken a lot out of him. He was panting, sweating, and his legs were somewhat shaky.

"Both of you stop!" I yelled. Again, no response. Ryan screamed a battle cry: "AAAAAAAHHHHH! He fired a giant fireball at Callan, and Callan mustered up all his strength and yelled his battlecry: "Penguinssssssss!" He threw a big ball of Shadowflux, then passed out before they collided. I decided to get involved at this point. I shot the wind out a second too late. The wind just combined with the epic attack, making the implosion afterwards even more destructive. It knocked all of us back, Callan flying into Verdi's pen, Ryan rocketing towards a big tree, and I was flung back into the house, and blacked out.

I woke up in The Healing Center. Elwin was treating an unconscious Ryan, and Callan was passed out on a cot next to me. I quickly sat up, but decided to lay back down. Callan arm was bloody and looked like it might of had a dinosaur tooth mark, but bullhorn wasn't yelling or anything, so I assumed Verdi hadn't done her worst.

Elwin looked up from Ryan. "Ah, Kelly, your awake," He started. "So tell me what happened. I told him everything, from Ryan not coming out of his room, to Callan attacking him.

"Is there a reason why Ryan wasn't coming out of his room?" Elwin asked. "Um... The Neverseen have his family," At that moment, Alden, Grady, Edaline, Sophie and Della walked in. "Hey, kiddo, how are you doing?" Asked Grady.

"Good," I replied. "Did Verdi do anything to Callan?" I asked.

Grady nodded."We let Callan in, then as soon as we heard yelling and crashing we rushed up to your room but you weren't there. Edaline spotted you fighting and we went downstairs to stop it, but by the time we got there, you were all unconscious. Verdi bit Callan pretty hard, so he won't be able to move his arm till Tuesday, after your first day at Foxfire. You were only unconscious and Ryan was also pretty much fine. Although he was tangled up in the branches of a tree so we had to get him down."

"Callan never told me he could control Shadowflux..." Alden thought aloud. "I'm not surprised, he's actually insane." I commented. Just then Callan groaned. We looked at him and he opened his eyes. Then he sat up. "Why can't I move my arm!?" He said. "WHY CAN'T I MOVE MY ARM!"

Then he actually looked at his arm. "Oh," was all he said. Then he went back to sleep. "Ok," we all said. Elwin poured something down his throat. "He'll wake up in an hour," he declared.

Just then, Ryan started groaning and opened his eyes. "What happened?" He asked. Elwin filled him in, as he glared at Callan. "I need to go," He started to get up, but Elwin poured a sedative down his throat. "You can't go yet, I still need to run some tests, and Callan has to get some Shadowflux out of you," he told him.

"Um, you know he's sedated, right?" I asked. "Oh, um, Yeah, Anyway, Kelly I want you to drink some elixirs, and you can go since there's no Shadowflux in you." I nodded.

When I sat up, a bunch of blood rushed to my head, but it didn't matter. I needed to find out what Ryan was doing. As I leapt away with Grady, I could see Ryan sit up and shoot a death glare at me, as if he was saying don't you dare go into my room!

Right before I left, I transmitted, you can't stop me, almost like a taunt, and then he gave me the meanest look he could, but I really wasn't intimidated. He's Ryan. The only friend he would hurt is Callan...

Right?