Reiku laughed out loud as the pillars middle shattered, torn apart by her attack. Her shadowy form flew out of the pillar and landed softly on the ground near a wall. Slowly her rotations slowed and the spines fell from her, shattering on the ground, the magic faded from them. the shadows slowly settled on the floor and began to solidify. Reiku's outline became more and more definable and the shadows withdrew. Finally she appeared, grinning at the pillars, the new power she now wielded making her feel much better about the the odds of this fight. She raised a hand to her harness and ran her hand over it, counting her recorces.<span style="font-style: italic">Hmmm, only one ice scroll left</span>she thought, not that concerned, only slightly irritated she had wasted so many. She felt her number or air scrolls, counting 3. She had already come up with a  way to cripple the pillars and was about to execute it when she heard yet another voice in her head. She felt hope rise inside her as she heard her friends were alive, pausing only a moment to wonder what it meant by not including Coe. She opened her mouth, hoping she would be able to reply to whatever ewas talking to her when -He- spoke to her.<span style="color: red"><span style="font-style: italic">He lies! that was the one who took the Lizard from you, and he stands over his body now, experimenting. Do not trust him!</span></span>Reiku's mouth hung open, her being too preoccupied to notice. Her mind struggled to understand what was going on, weather Arkain was alive or dead. She slid her back down the wall, sitting with her knees against her chest. She held her heads in her hands, her movments still slow from the inside of the pillar. "I...i just...Arkain...why...ahhhh..." she ended in a soft whimper and started crying. She didnt care about the pillars, they held no power over her anymore. Reiku sobbed for what felt like hours, but was only a few minutes. The storm of emotion that she had lived her life without hitting her in the matter of a few hours. Finding someone she cared deeply for, failing to protect him, hearing of his death, hearing he was ok, and then that it was a lie. She started trembling violently, the weight of so much emotional stress in so little time finally crushing her mind. Reiku finally snapped. Shadowy mist started to rise up like steam from all over her body. Her crystal necklace's mist started to twist repidly and seep out a small opening in the side. It spun around Reiku's head and shot down into her eyes, pouring in untill nothing was left. Her body twitched and she stood up slowly, her eyes closed. Suddenly she opened her mouth in a silent scream, a mist the same as the one that had been in her necklace only a deep, blood red sprewed forth. Its movments were much more subdued than the black mist before it, but slowly it made its way toward the crystal, seeping in through the hole i the side. Nothing happened for a few seconds, and Reiku kept her eyes closed. She began chuckeling softly, at first. She broke out into a crazed laughter. She opened her eyes slowly. In her eye sockets her usually green eyes had dissapeared, instead blue flames curled out of her sockets, giving off no light. She brought her hand infront of her face, examining both sides carefully. She spoke in a voice that sounded like hers mixed with something elses, deep like that of a beast and dripping with hatred, its voice like a growl forming words.<span style="color: red">"Ahhhh...it has been...far too long..."</span>she said. She looked lazily up at the pillars, raising one eyebrow in mind interest.<span style="color: red">"Oh right, i suppose you wish to keep me busy while the Kitsune plays with the Lizard? Very well...just dont bore me, or i wont be staying"</span>She spreads her right palm, shadows running over her hand and into her index finger forming a golfball sized sphere of shadows. She casually flicks it at the one that she first attecked. She grins at the pillars and waits to see what they do.