Hello people! So glad to be back, but I'm afraid with some bad news, to come at the bottom. Right now: Excuses!

1. Phone problems. My phone is where I've been writing the chapters, and it wouldn't let me sign in because someone tried to find me with Find My IPhone, and I couldn't fix it because the last Apple ID password we remember is wrong. If someone knows how to reset your Apple ID password when all trusted phone numbers are out of order, please PM me.

2. Wi-fi problems that I already warned you about.

3. Severe writers block. Unfortunately, this is the reason this chapter is so short.

Please read AN at the bottom for important information.

All through dinner, Mattie watched her son. He had been uncharacteristically quiet since the elder Fenton's had gotten home. He had been starring at the wall behind Jack's head since he had sat down, fiddling with something under the table as he ate his spaghetti. As soon as dinner was finished, Danny jumped up and ran up the stairs with only a quick "Homework!" as explanation. Jazz's eyes followed her brother up the stairs with a smile. Suddenly, Jazz got up too.

"I'll go help him." she said as she walked out of the kitchen.

Jack and Mattie shared a look before shrugging and going downstairs to fix up the Specter Speeder for a surprise they were planning for next month.

"Clockwork knows me to well," Danny said, pacing with his fists clenched, as Jazz opened the bedroom door, "He knew that if he gave me something else to freak out about, then I'd be to busy with that to freak out about the c-cor-coronation."

"What seems to be the problem, little brother?" Jazz asked, sitting down on his bed.

Danny sighed as he opened one of his fists. In it was a small, leather drawstring pouch, no bigger than his thumb, which he handed his sister.

Inside were six beautiful and tiny gemstones. One sapphire, one obsidian, an emerald, an amethyst, a diamond, and a ruby, all perfectly cut for an engagement ring. Jazz didn't ask where he had gotten them, knowing that, having just come from Clockwork's Tower, there were many things that could have happened without her knowing. From his other hand, Danny handed the finished ring to his sister. It was gorgeous, it looked to be cut to a specific size (probably somewhere around to size of Sam's ring finger) and had a spider where the diamond would be. Said spider had a hole in it's back for one of the six gemstones. When Jazz looked up again, Danny stopped, opened his mouth as though to speak, thought better of it, and resumed his pacing. After another few minutes, Danny seemed to calm down a bit (a very little bit, but better than earlier). The hafla looked at his sister helplessly. "Help me," he pleaded.

Jazz gave a quiet chuckle before examining the gems again. After contemplating her reply for a moment, she picked up the amethyst, sapphire, and emerald. "How about one of these?"

Danny stared at the stones for a moment before snatching back the ring. As he held it, his hands and eyes glowed baby blue, like the sapphire, letting Jazz know that he was using his ice powers. After a minute, Danny held out his hand, without looking up, and said "Sapphire." Jazz gave it to her little brother and his hand flared neon green., shattering the rock into twenty, perfectly cut stones. He pulled his hand in, taking the gems out of his sister's sight. Another minute later, the raven-haired teen stuck out his hand and said "Emerald," before repeating the process. When Danny stuck out his hand for the third time, Jazz didn't even wait for the "Amethyst," before she gave him the final stone. Unlike the others, he immediately pulled it away. Jazz stood by patiently, waiting for her brother to finish up. When he was done, the halfa showed the finished ring to his sister.

It looked nearly the same as earlier, but the hole had been filled by the violet amethyst, sheltered between the pieces of the radioactive green emerald and the baby blue sapphire. Jazz's mouth dropped open.

"Oh, Danny," she started, "it's beautiful! Sam's going to love it.

I'm afraid I have some bad news. I am going on a four month hiatus. My writer's block is not getting better, I have final exams in June to study for, and I go to a no electronics camp during the summer. At the end of August/beginning of September I should start updating again. I will use my hiatus to write, so you can expect (hopefully) the final chapters of King Phantom and the beginning of another fanfic when I get back.

Also, while I still have your attention, even during the hiatus, please check my profile every so often. I don't have any form of social media, but I love to help. So, I have decided to use my profile as a way to spread the news on AMBER alerts, escaped convicts, and other situations, to help get the proper people behind bars. If your have information on a story on my profile, I will usually have a number you can call to try to help. If you know of something that is not on my profile, please PM me so that I can put it up.

Thank you all so much for your support and see you in four months!

-Magmia Flare