Game one

((It doesn't really matter. ^.^))

"She... wrote a letter 'S' on the ground. That was all. I didn't... I didn't see anyone, but I wasn't really looking to find anyone. I just thought, I should get Zabby over here as soon as I could." Lycoris stared at the floor. "I should have probably looked around more carefully..."

"No, you did very well, Miss Calantha." Eglantine assured her. With a wave of her wand she levitated the no longer living student onto the bed and covered her completely with a clean sheet.
"An "S"... rather odd message." Eglantine muttered.

Darien heard a footstep and swung around.
"Diana...don't move." His wand in hand, he cast a shield around Diana...hoping it would stop an attack.
He darted forwards, snarling, and leapt through the air, into the shadows, leaving his wand on the floor, the shield still in place.
There was a yelp, and a clatter as his claws hit the floor.
The shield flickered and failed.
Darien crawled backwards towards Diana, blood spreading across his front.
He collased about a metre away and his fur began to disappear. His claws retracted, and he found it hard to breathe.
He knew this was his final transformation...
((lol he's on his way out lustre...time for the cheesiness! ))

((lol. Righto!))

"Darien!" Diana screamed. His shield around her faltered and she raced to his side.

"Darien!" She was sobbing now. "Darien, Darien..." All she could say was his name. "Darien... please, oh god, not again... Darien..."

She tried casting healling charms on him. Her wand hand shook violently.

"Diana..."
Darien smiled and winced.
"I want you to...Get...out of here..." he coughed. "Find a way out...and just...run...please..." He raised a hand to her cheek, a tear trickled out of the corner of his eye.
"Please...promise me..." he coughed again, this time with laughter at feeling the dampness on his cheek.
"Look at me...Mr sentimental cry-baby...people should take pictures..." He smiled, eyes shining with happiness.
"Promise me Diana...Run...Get away from here...Don't let yourself get killed...please...I love you."
It was even harder to breathe now, he felt as though lead weights were pressing down on his chest.
"And...please...take Ana with you..." he swallowed. "I know she's a pain, well an arrogant, proud and cheeky little bitch most of the time...but...she means well...and she was a great kid...It's not her fault, they made her like she is. Please...take her with you."
He begged her with his eyes, wanting the two people he loved most in the world to be safe.

((lol...got a smidge carried away lol))

"Darien don't," Diana hiccuped, her eyes tearing. "Darien, don't talk like that. We can still heal you... it's not so bad..." She lied through her teeth.

"Darien please don't," Diana sobbed. "You're the only one I have left... I love you... I can't... I can't leave you!"

"Diana..." Darie coughed again. "Please. You have to go...And one day...I won't ever leave you again. I'm sorry..."
He coughed, a dry laugh escaping him. "And I'll try not to annoy Nick in the meantime. Please...You have to be strong, and...I want you to move on, go on without me." He laughed again.
"So cliche...Well, that's me isn't it? Just...look after Ana...I don't know what they'll make her do...and I won't be able to stop them...please..."

Diana nodded at Darien's request. She shall, but she... "Darien, don't please, we can do this. I'm going to call for help."

She pointed at her throat. "Sonorus. HELP PLEASE! IT'S DIANA CASILLAS...IT'S DARIEN VAIGHT... HE'S HURT, HE'S BADLY HURT PLEASE HURRY!"

"Darien see, I asked for help, please just hold on a little longer." Diana wrapped her arms around Darien's side. "Darien please," she rocked him back and forth. "Darien please I love you... don't do this."

Darien's eyes filled with sadness.
"I...I will try..."
He rested his head against her shoulder. "I'm so tired..."
He glanced up at her as another thought occured to him.
"And don't you dare blame yourself for this. Don't you dare. Or I wi-" He broke into a coughing fit.
"I will cry."

"I won't if you make it Darien!" Diana said through tears. "Please Darien you have to. I need you."

Darien smiled.
"No you don't. I know you don't. I know you can do this, you're strong enough. I know you are."
His smile extended to his eyes, which he closed for a moment.
"I know you are." He opened his eyes again, the irises shining brightly.

Diana lost it. She started crying. "Please... no, please I can't lose you!"

Darien's sadness shone through. "I'm sorry..." he swallowed. "I'm so sorry."
He raised his head slightly, and kissed her.

((lol!))

She kissed back, her tears falling unto his cheeks, knowing that was probably their last.

Darien finally broke the kiss and smiled sadly up at Diana.
"I'm so sorry."
The sadness was prominent in his eyes, until the light behind them finally died.
Darien fell limp, eyes closing as he faded for the final time...

"NO!" Diana screamed at him. "No Darien! No! Come back! Come back! Darien no!"

She sobbed and rocked his now lifeless body back and forth. "Darien..." This time it was barely a whisper.

Ana heard the sonorus yell and began to run.
He might be a pain, and an idiot, and annoying...But he was still her big brother.
Her side was aching when she finally reached them, and noticed Diana crying.
She knew she was too late.
She froze a few metres behind Darien, Diana on the other side of him.
"But...This...has to be some sort of sick joke..." She muttered.
Darien? Darien?! DARIEN?!
She fell onto her knees and froze, throat seizing up, unable to move, or even cry. Ana knew in that moment that she would never hear her brother's thoughts again.
Never...

Diana felt Ana's presence but couldn't face her just yet. To let go of Darien now was to... let go of him forever.

She clung on to them and continued to cry.

Ana was assualted by memories...
Laughing, crying, fighting, playing...
The day she'd nearly died...Her brother saved her life...
But she hadn't been in time to return the favour.
Failure stung her sharply and she wanted to scream. But she couldn't. Her throat was making it hard to breathe. She wasn't getting enough oxygen.
She gulped down air, but it wasn't enough. She flopped forwards slightly, seeing black for a few moments.

Diana stopped crying momentarily to see Ana having troubling breathing. She remembered her promise to Darien and strengthened her resolve. "Ana?"

Ana opened her eyes in time to see her head connect with the floor.
"Ow..." She pulled out her wand and forcibly reopened her windpipe. But she really would have preferred to pass out.
"What...Who...What happened...and where did they go?!" Her eyes were cold, as she kept her pain hidden, converting it to anger like ore in a furnace.
Anger gave her drive.

"You passed out," Diana informed her. "Are you alright?"

"Oh, I will be when I kill the scum who did this."
Ana's voice shook with newly molten rage.

((lol where is everyone else?!))

"Yes," Diana said closing her eyes. She let the last tear fall and she said a mental good bye to Darien. When she opened her eyes, they were dry. "The scum who did this will pay."

Ana nodded once. Then she swallowed.
Biting her lip, she levitated Darien's body, her wand hand shaking only slightly and began to walk.
She didn't trust herself to speak, presuming Diana was going to follow her. Darien had to be put in the hospital wing with the others.
Then, she needed to be alone.