Caedis had taken his leave, slipping out into the shadows just as everyone's attention was diverted to the army and Nieko. The last of his amber eyes were swallowed up in the darkness, glinting for that final moment with an air of victory. It was time to let this group kill themselves off.

Zeta stared as Nieko dealt the army more than blow, it was a massacre really. She felt no sympathy for the humans, murder was a part of life to her and if anything at all she was simply impressed by Nieko's rampage. It was when the beast turned on the rest of them that started to make her worried. "I think that it may be time for us to go" she offered her hand towards Melik, "are you able to perhaps send sand into his eyes to blind him? Perhaps it will give us a moment to escape?"

((Melik: ROFLOL *dies*))

((Zeta: x.x was it something I said? All the MURDER attempts by my brother might be messing with my head <_<))

((Nieko: Yes, sand in my eyes. Great way to PISS ME OFF!
Melik: ^^; She was joking!))

She looked up at the man when he pushed her hair out of her face, she was still crying but it was hard to tell from all the water that she was soaked with. She listened silently to his words, she could hear how sincere, passionate, the sadness, and the truthfulness in his words. She rested her chin on her knees as she pondered his words, she watched as the ocean grabbed at her, trying to pull her in.
“This is the first time I have been outside, the first time I have met people, the first time I have been hurt, the first time I have loved, the first time I was rapped. Since I have left the scientist facility I have experienced many things that I have never experienced. I have been in that building since I was six years old, all because I was so sick that I was dying……for a while I was called Cerberus 6, they made me forget everything, but I have started to remember things and they didn‘t like it. I was suppose to be their weapon, but I became a healer instead. Kane……I mean Zero……this…this is all new to me and….well I am still the very ill dying six year old that I was thirteen years ago. I want…..I want to experience everything, it is all still so new to me, and I know most of it will hurt me in the end. I know I am still a child in many ways but I am not a child and I want to get to know you better also. I believe that I love you too, and I forgive you just…..just don‘t lie to me. I won‘t be able to handle it.” She whispered to him after a long time of silence, she placed her hand gently in his and stood up. She wrapped her arms around his neck, her tears had stopped flowing, she was blushing as she kissed him lightly on the lips. Noticing a bright light where the others were at, she frowned, trying figure out what it was. She looked into Zero’s two toned eyes with her own red ones before she pulled away.
“I think the others are having problems….” she whispered, still blushing from when she kissed him, she pointed towards the light that she saw. She had a feeling that Zero would know about it more than she would, but she didn’t want him to get hurt either.

((you know now that i look at this it is shorter than what i thought it was))

Thought after thought was going through Eleanor's head right now. You have to keep the girls safe, was the first thought. That was soon followed by, But Varun is dead, Zeta wants Melik to help the escape. We can't hide from Nieko. He'll find us, he'll always find us. It may have been a look of stubborness or it could have been bravery that filled Eleanor's eyes.

"Melik," she said as she looked over at the male. "Take Torrence and you and Zeta get out of here. I made a promise to keep the girls safe and if I'm the only one in the line of danger then I kept it." She gripped Chirs' fur in her left hand before helping Torrence down and pushing her towards Melik. "Me and Chris will handle this, right Chris?" She said as she then looked down at the large wolf she was riding.

A smile came to her face as she said, "We'll be fine. You run, make sure everyone gets away safe." She wasn't sure why she wanted this so badly. She wasn't looking to die, she was looking to protect and at this point even Nieko needed the protecting. "Go, before it's too late," she finally added before she looked back at Nieko rampaging towards them. Her right arm turned into a blade, she was focused at determined at this point. "I have learned much from being with you," she said to his form, though she knew it wasn't him. She just had to make sure that Chris was on her side, she needed his help to get Nieko back.

Melik gave Eleanor sympathetic eyes. "Eleanor..." he stopped. "Very well, I leave stopping Nieko to you and Chris. I'm sure Rroy or Zero or whoever the hell he is will assist you should it be necessary."

Pivoting around, he took Torrence in one arm and swung Zeta over his shoulder. He needed speed, but he knew the extra weight would surely slow him done. Nonetheless, he focused on a place on the horizon. It was an island about 25 miles out from this beach. He knew Nieko wouldn't follow and he knew that Varun, if he ever returned, could swim the length.

He stared down the beach. Rroy... Zero... okay whoever you are, I hope that you will assist Eleanor and Chris is need be. And perhaps we'll meet again on that island. Smiling at Zeta, he took off running across the top of the water. The cold liquid splashed up and wet his face, but he kept running. He couldn't stop or they would all drown.

Panting, he collapsed about 25 feet from the shoreline. He mustered up the last of his strength and tossed the girls on shore. Exhausted and hardly treading water, Melik began to sink. Water rushed in his openings as he fought to stay afloat. With closing eyes, Melik fell unconscious.

((wait i am trying to post))

((I don't think my post affects yours, I'm just saving Melik))

Zeta held onto Melik tightly as they crossed the water. It certainly wasn't the most elegant way she had ever traveled but it was effective-at least until Melik could go no further. She yelped a little as she was thrown upon the shore, her fingers dug into the sand to keep herself from sliding far as she looked up sharply. She caught sight of Melik just slipping beneath the surface and before even comprehending what she was doing, Zeta ran back into the water and dove in. She couldn't even feel the pain in her stomach as she devoted her strength and concentration to reaching Melik as fast as possible. As soon as she had come to the place where he had fallen under she swiftly swam down deep, reaching out to seize his limp hand.

Grabbing hold, Zeta kicked back up towards the surface, she could feel her heart pounding in her chest and her breath beating at her lungs; the only thing keeping her going was her Talian blood, which seemed to also be causing her problems as well. Her eyes had turned a tearful and desperate blue as she dragged Melik back towards the shore, struggling to keep him above the surface of the water, which only made it more difficult to keep getting gulps of air herself.
Finally her feet touched sand and she pulled Melik from the waves, soon collapsing next to him.

((What are you talking about, saving Melik was exactly what Eleanor and Chris were gonna do! XD))

Melik hacked up a mouthful of water. Rolling to his side, a chunky liquid-like substance came up. Holding his stomach, the sicking sounds coming from him finally ceased after a few more stomach emptying pumps. Cleaning his vomit covered mouth, he stood, but only to reunite with the ground again.

His eyes widened as a sharp pain molested his leg. Looking down, he saw a giant harpoon was plunged in his leg just below his knee cap. Winching in pain, he yanked the weapon out. He screamed out and fell back against a rock. In his injured state, he just laid there looking up at the blue sky. His eyes closed again as he started to fade. He wasn't dead, but he was looking consciousness.

((Oh my gosh a harpoon molested his leg XD))

Chris watched as something snapped inside Nieko, he watched as he killed the humans, help make a glass wall to protect them, he saw the look that he gave them once he was done. Chris’s eyes went red, he shifted until he was more human then wolf, and he pulled Eleanor off his back and set her down next to Melik. He looked into her eyes, allowing her to see that he can’t allow her to get hurt. “If you get hurt Nieko will most likely kill himself. You are the only thing that is making me and him be civilize to each other, if you die or get hurt we will kill each other with out a doubt. Go with the girls and Melik, if he kills me then at least you will already be where you are needed.” He spoke seriously, and a very powerful commanding voice, his words were nothing but the truth, he kissed her on the lips lightly, then he walked over to Nieko, stopping in front of him, he looked the beast/man over.
“Go, you guys. Nieko, the beast in will recognize me as your superior. You will not hurt the ones you care about, for the fact the man you seek to hurt is no longer here. If you seek to hurt someone then we will fight.” He spoke to him, his voice staying authoritive, commanding and serious that he had since the wolf took over in this grave situation. He moved closer to him, letting the heat or fire burn his fur, he kept moving closer ignoring everything that was going on around him except for the figure in front of him. He stopped an inch away from him, he bite his thumb causing it to bleed, and he grabbed the ear lobe that he had pierced moments before, his blood mixed with Nieko’s, his blood calling for a submission that he had already gotten from him.

Eleanor froze at what Chris had said and then kissed her. Her face became red as she rose one hand to her lips. She didn't know what she should think about that; she was at a loss for words. She did know one thing though. She wasn't going to let Chris do this on his own.

She bit her lip slightly as Chris was walking towards Nieko. She looked back to where Melik had gone. She couldn't make the swim, that was obvious. Instead Eleanor followed Chris. When he stopped she kept walking, stopping beside him. He had just grabbed Nieko's earlobe. Taking his right hand in her human left she said, "But I will not leave you to fight alone for someone we both care about." A smile came to her face as she looked at him. "Friends don't let friends fight alone." Her attention then returned to Nieko. She was nervous at how close they were, but she had to be strong and she would. It all just depended on how Nieko would react to whatever it was Chris had done.

((Chris: he is mostly going to faint because of my sexiness and my flirttting touch!!!!))

((O.o What the frakkle?! Harpoon?! Where did that come from?!))

Zeta had to take a minute, laying on the beach to catch her breath, her limbs felt as though they were on fire and now the pain in her stomach was equally matched to a pain in her heart as she looked at Melik. She nudged him, then sat up and leaned over Melik as his eyes closed, "Melik... Melik you open your eyes right now!" she demanded, her hands were trembling as she touched his face, "Melik..." she was still panting and exhausted, she rested her head on his chest wearily. "You are Neboro, an Idiot..." she mumbled, becoming steadily too tired to even translate before speaking, "Neboro Melik kilasy mai..."

((Idk... it was the best I could think of for Melik. xD))

((XD okay, I was just curious, it was a little random but it made me laugh something fierce!))

Zero blushed and held onto Lyna. "Let's go. We'll talk about this later once we make sure our friends are safe." He called over his horse and mounted with Lyna behind him. Riding toward the flames, he slowed. "Stay put, I'd hate for you to get burned."

Jumping down, Zero walked over to Nieko. He stopped, confused as to what Eleanor and Chris were doing.

Nieko seemed submissive. But then, his hand smacked the wolfman's. He growled and a glow showed through his mouth. He was preparing to breathe fire.

"Are you ready to die?!" His eyes were twisted and psychotic as was his voice. He laughed and his right hand went ablaze. Just as he was about to deliver a powerful blow to the two, a narrow blade drove through Nieko's stomach.

"Tch," he looked down and saw the two-toned male's eyes glaring into his. He saw him smirk, so he returned the smile.

Zero's eyes widened. Something was terribly wrong. A pool of blood dripped from his mouth. His eyes played a horror movie's scene of true fright and terror. Spitting and hacking up blood, the male's eyes closed some. He staggered backwards, tripping over a soldier's charred and severed arm.

On the ground, Zero grasped for air. His lungs were punchtured. He blood spooled from the open chest wound. It was flowing much like a fountain. Shooting straight up, but then coming back down thanks to gravity. His face was slowly overcome by the blood. It was consuming him. Swallowing him up whole.

His once white hair was now a deep red. His once white outfit was now a brownish red. His once icy blue eye was now fading as he groped for air.

Nieko's eyes widened. The monstrous demon within him vanished as he stared down at his dying friend. In shock and disbelief, Nieko began shaking. He drew his arms up in front of him as his face became a sickly white.

"Ni-N-Nieko-sensei..." a smile came to Zero's face, "f-f-f-father would n...n-n-not be... pleased."

Nieko's eyes went blank for a moment. He looked dead. His heart had even stopped.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.

His heartbeat came back as did new-coming tears. "Z-Zero-kun," Nieko bent down over the male. "Why... why did you lie. Why didn't I see it." He cupped the male's head in his arms. Pulling close, he cried over his body. "Zero...." His watery eyes were full of sorrow and torment.

"Heh, don't cry for me uncle. I've always been a shadow of my father. For once in my life, I broke away from that shadow, his fate, and became myself." Blood trickled from his mouth. "It's just a sham-" he broke out coughing and spitting up more blood. "I-i-it's j-ju-just a s-s-s-s-s-shame I... I couldn't.... couldn't l-l-li-live a l-l-long-e-r-r-r l-i-f-f-f-f-f-f...." The male went limp in Nieko's arms.

Nieko's lips trembled as he arms continued so shake violently. "I-I-I-I... I..." his hand was now blocking his lips, "I killed... I killed Rroy's son." Dropping Zero, Nieko crawled back. Finally spinning around, the male took off. Crying as he ran, Nieko was escaping this harsh reality. He didn't want to believe he killed his best friend and brother-in-law's son. He didn't want to accept the fact that he, Nieko Colte, killed Rroy Skytun's prodigy Zero Black.

Zero wasn't Chris? Eleanor thought as she watched everything play out. This couldn't be the end of the male, just as Rroy had been nearly impossible to kill, wouldn't he have been the same? Nieko took off before she could even figure out on how she would find out. With the fight over her arm became human again and she went to run after Nieko but the male at her left had stopped her.

"Chris, we have to go get Nieko," she told him as she spun around to look at him. She then turned and tried running again. "Come on," she said this time a little more frustrated. She tugged on his arm a few times as she pulled him with her in a run.

((Zero: x_x No love!))

Chris was in shock this was a twisted turn of events and Nieko rejected him as his leader. He snapped out of it when he felt Eleanor tugging on him to go after Nieko. He pulled his hand out of hers and turned away. “You go to him…..he needs you more then he needs me. I am nothing to him compared to you.” he said to her, he turned back around, completely human; he looked at her with his blues eyes. “Go back to the house in the woods, and go into the cellar that is were you will find him.” his voice, face, and eyes were emotionless and expressionless. It was almost like he was rejecting her, he wasn’t trying to be cruel or anything, but for a brief moment he had a look inside Nieko’s head and knew where he would run when he was devastated. He walked back towards Zero and Lyna, letting Eleanor go to the man she truly loved.

Lyna smiled at his words, being as close to him as she could as the rode back to the others. She nodded her head when he told her to stay put, because he was concerned for her safety. She watched as he stabbed Nieko in the stomach, then something happened, Zero was collapsing onto the ground and he was bleeding. Nieko held him crying, and then he took of leaving Zero for dead. She was crying the whole time she watched what had transpired between the two males; she dismounted the horse and fell on her knees next to Zero. “Zero, you can‘t die….you promised to be here for me. Don‘t die!!!! PLEASE!!! I love you!! YOU PROMISED ME!!!” she was shaking him, trying to get him to wake up, after a while she just cried onto his chest. A few minutes passed before she remembered that she could heal him, she pulled back from his chest, opened his shirt, and placed her hands onto his wounds. She was crying so hard that she couldn’t see at all, she tried to calm down but she couldn’t, she focused all her love, pain, sorrow, longing, and every other emotion and every thing she remembered sharing with him since they met. Her hands started to glow, she focused on healing him and getting to see him alive. His wounds were healing, she could feel it, but it was taking everything that she had to save the one person that was going to teach and show here everything. Her skin went pale, her eyes went dull with only a slight flicker of life left in them. “Please don‘t leave me all alone again……” she whispered weakly to him, a few more minutes and she collapsed onto him, she did everything she could to save him, but it might have cost her, her life in the process, who knows, maybe she was just deathly ill again like when she was a child.

Chris had watched the couple silently, he was crying also, knowing her pain, it was killing him to see someone lose the person they love to the reaper but there was nothing he could do about. He shifted until he was in a more animalistic form, he walked over to the couple, picking each one up like they weighed nothing. He turned back to see that Eleanor was were he had left her, he walked over to her, setting one down so he could swing her onto his back, and then picked up the body that he had set down. “Hold on.” he said, he started to run, reaching the house in the woods faster then when he had reached the beach, he had laid the two people side by side on the bed and set Eleanor onto the floor. “Go to Nieko I will watch over them to see if there is a difference in their state.” He said to her, pointing to the door that lead to the cellar that connected to many things below the city. He sifted back into his human form, and sat at the foot of the bed watching the couple silently.

What could she do? Something just didn't feel right about running after Nieko without Chris going with her. She didn't move when he urged her to go. She watched as he seemed to care for Zero and the girl with him. Suddenly she felt bad about not noticing them before. She had that habit at times. She watched him change as he picked the two up before coming over to her and putting her on his back.

"Thank you," she whispered as she cluthed her body against his back as he ran. Her face buried itself in his fur much as she always did when he was running with her. It seemed like time hadn't passed before he was setting her down again. They were in the house earlier, the house that he told her to go to, the house that Nieko would be at.

Once her feet hit the ground and he said that he would watch over the two on the bed she nodded. "I'll be back, and when I return Nieko will be with me. I promise. We aren't going to leave you, you're not that lucky," she said as a smile formed on her face and she winked at the now human wolf as she turned towards the door.

She pulled the wooden door open and once she closed it behind her she realized just how dark it was in there. She ran her hands over the walls trying to find a light switch but had no luck. "Must be a pull string," she said to herself as she gave up the search. She didn't go back to open the door though, she wasn't sure why but the light didn't seem as important as finding Nieko at this point. "Nieko," she whispered loudly, almost as if she was trying not to wake someone.

Originally Posted by miss_SMG

((Oh my gosh a harpoon molested his leg XD))

((Okay, still the best post ever right there. XD It makes my day every time I read it.))

Nieko held a blade up, but quickly retreated it once he saw Eleanor. "Tch, what do you want." He looked away. He had been crying. "I told you I was a bad man. Just look at what I did. I killed my nephew." He frowned and broke down into tears again. "Rroy will hate me for all eternity."

Meanwhile, Melik finally came to. Sitting up, he saw Zeta beside him. "Hey there beautiful," he pushed back her hair and placed a kiss on her forehead. "Damn," he pointed across the sea. "The sky is still orange from Nieko's rage. I wonder if everything is okay...."

Bowing his head, he seemed to be searching for the answer to his question. His eyes widened. A spider flew down next to him. "So... is it true?"

"Yes. Zero is not Rroy. Zero is actually Rroy's son... Zero Black. Zero Black has been murdered by Nieko Colte. Although... I think Zero still has life within him. Zero is... special. He's like his father, only Zero is like his mother - he has a heart. He's tough like his father and his sweet like his mother. He should be blessed and he should get to see the light again." The spider waved and danced away into the wind.

"Damn. So that wasn't really Rroy. Shit, Zero looks just like his father. But that would explain why he didn't fight Caedis and why he turned on Nieko." Melik hung his head. "It means he probably hates me too. But unlike Nieko, I was there for Zero. Heh, I remember when I first built a puzzle with him. He's bright. A wicked charming. He can talk himself out of anything. Only problem is, he's too damn handsome."

Eleanor still couldn't see but the sound of Nieko's voice led her to him. She could feel the warmth radiating off of him once she stepped closer. She knelt on the ground before him. He didn't seem happy, he was upset and she could understand why. "You didn't know," she said quietly as she carefully placed a hand on his cheek. "You weren't yourself either." She was trying to reason with him but she wasn't sure how she was doing. "And maybe, maybe if we can get Varun back he could help us. Don't give up hope just yet, you're better than that and I'm sure Rroy would be more angry with you if you were to give up on his son now." Her eyes were earnest as she was able to make out the handsome male before her. She didn't like to see him like this, not at all. She wasn't sure if Zero was even able to be saved, she just hoped that what she said would help Nieko in some way.

((Haha glad I could make you laugh XP))

((lyna did basically healed him but if it worked or not is up to Wavikz))