This is my first ever story so i might not be great but i hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1

Marina's POV

Hopeless, heartbroken, sorrowful. This is how I am feeling right now as we stumble through the wet, muddy coast of Florida's swampland.

I couldn't get the images of the resent event out of my head.

Six and Nine are stumbling next to me. They are quiet for once, but I see a look of sorrow in six's eyes when she looks at me. However she doesn't say anything to me knowing I don't want to talk to anyone at the moment.

Nine on the other hand is different. He can't even l look me in the eyes and I know why. He blames himself for eight's death.

Oh God. I can't get the images of Eight's death out my head. All I can see is five's sword going through his heart.

I block that out and wipe a tear from my eyes. I never even got to tell him how I felt.

I wipe another tear from my eyes and carry on walking through the thick mud.

We carry on walking for a couple more hours until nine starts to walk ahead of us. He is about half a mile away from us when six turns to me.

"Are you alright?" she asks me with a hint of sadden in her voice. I know what she's talking about. She's asking if I am ok with what happened to eight.

"Yeah I'm fine," I lie. I am really not any bit fine. My heart aches more and more every second.

She looks at me and I know she knows I was lying. We are best friends after all.

"I know you're lying Marina. I know how you feel about him and nobody can feel fine after what just happened," she says to me.

I sigh and look down at the swampland. Six still looks at me like she is waiting for me to talk.

"I am... not fine," I sigh. Six looks like she's going to talk again but is cut off by nine running up to us.

"You might want to see this," he says before running off again. Six and I run after him up a steep hill. When we get to the top we see a small village. I brighten up a tiny bit when I see a motel.

We walk down to the village and to the motel. The motel is quite clean for a swampland motel.

Nine goes to the get us a room and six goes to the coffee machine. I sit down in one of the several chairs in the lobby area.

I sit there alone and my mind goes off to how eight always us to comfit me when I felt down. How he used to hold me in his strong arms making me forget everything bad in my life, the war, Ra, Ella's nightmares and only think about everything good that I have. I felt safe with him like nothing could even hurt me.

I think about everything we could have been. All that is gone, gone forever. A fear starts to roll down my cheek.

I am snapped out of my daydream by six handing me a cup of coffee. I take it and she sits in the chair next to me.

"Thinking about eight?" she asks me with a hint of sorrow in her voice. I wipe the tears from my eyes and stare down at the motel floor.

I nod slowly then take a sip of my coffee. The hot drink instantly makes me feel warmer.

Six looks like she doesn't know what to say and I don't blame her none of the other garde has had to feel what I feel.

Yes they are probably upset by eight's death, but I don't just feel that I feel heartbroken as I loved him deeply. He was my Loric love all the other garde has not had a loric love yet just human love. They dont know how much it hurts when you lose the other part of you.

Knowing that I feel like I am about to cry six puts her hand on mine and I give her a small smile, the first time I have smiled in hours.

We sit there for awhile longer drinking are coffee's until nine comes over to us with a door key. "You coming," he says waving the key in his hand.

Six and I follow him to him to the room and he unlocks it. When we enter there are two single beds and a coach.

I take one of the beds, six takes the other and nine has the coach.

The minute I get in the room I throw my bag on the floor beside my bed and jump on. After a second I am asleep.

Six 's POV

I watch as Marina sleeps on the bed beside me. I feel so sorry for her as she lost the love of her life in the matter of seconds.

I know she loves him and I knew from the very start that they were meant for each other. They were each others Loric love and Loric love is once and only once.

She can never love anyone else again as much as she loved eight and I know for a fact that she will never ever stop loving him for a second. However that's just going to make it harder on her because she's never going to see him again.

They never even got to say how they felt about each other.

I sigh and turn away and look at nine. He is looking at Marina to with a look of saddens in his eyes.

"It was all my fault," he says his sad eyes still on Marina. I know what he's talking about.

I want to tell him that it wasn't, but it was and now Marina has to life a live without someone she loves with all her heart and I am very protective on Marina. I want her to be happy. We want to be happy but now Marina's happiness is gone.

I glare at him and he turns to me. When he sees me glaring he sighs.

"Look six I know they loved each other, we all know that, and you don't know how horrible I feel right now to take him away from her. It was my fault I should have just kept my mouth shout then maybe eight would still be alive," he whispers trying not to wake Marina.

I look at him stunned. I have never heard him like this before. "Your right," he looks at me "for once," I finish.

I start to feel my eye lids get heavy so I slip into bed and close my eyes. Darkens quietly takes over me.

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this story. I will put up the next chapter very soon. :D