He walked alone in the dark. Scilently, moving amoung the shadows. The cold air rushing against him. But He could not feel it. He could not feel anything. Not pain, nor happiness, nothing! He was simpley an emotionless being, that walked the earth searching for his perpous. But like so many that came before him, he could not find it. So on he would search, with out a care in the world about anyone or anything around him.

The snow wizzed around him. Attepting to pull him to his knee's but he did not break. He refused to, and continued marching on. Convinced that not even God himself had the power to break him.

Suddenly a voice called out to him above the wind. It was a faint sound, sweet and delacate.

Much like an angel from heavan. Kai grunted his displeaser at it, and walked on. Hopeng whatever was out there wiould simpley pass on by. What buisness did a holy being have out here in this wild terrony? Surley they would be smart enough to flee. Angels after all could fly above the storm.

Realizing his own power to fly, Kai sighed at his own stupidity. Closing his eyes, he searched deep inside his soul and activated his elemental power. Two gaigantic crimson wings sproted from his back. They eminated a subtle glom that seemed to turn the snow into flickering flames.

"Angel," the heavanly voice called agian.

Kai looked down and saw a young girl crawling his way. Her hair was a light blue and her eyes a deep saphire. She downed a black tear drop under one eye, and a black cross under the other. She was no heavanly being. She was only a mere human. "I am no angel," he called back.

"But you have wings," the girl coughed.

"I am a lord of fire," Kai replied. "The wings are simpley a figure of my power."

"Please," The girl coughed again. "Help me." With that she stopped moving.

Kai knew she wasn't dead. He could sence her heartbeats. But she was fading. If she didn't get smowhere warm soon, she would die. He sighed annoyingly, and stepped passed her. What a bothersome girl. Expecting a favor from him, of all people. "Angel," he voice rang in his head. "She thought I was an angel," he whispered.

Kai turned back. He could easily keep the girl warm in his arms. But Why should he have to. It was her misfortune getting caught out here. So why should he make her misfortunes his? That wouldn't be very smart. But still, something inside screamed at him not to leave her.

He didn't really understand but he obeyed none the less. Picking the frozen girl up in his arms and holding her close. The heat eminating fom his wings would be enough to keep her alive until he could get her somwhere safe. "Why have you braght her to me?" He shouted into the sky. "What significance does she hold?"

He had called to the heavans many times before, but there was never any answer. Why should this time be any different? "You are a cruel one," he murmered. and spread his wings. "Does the great and caring God insist on tourchering me?" With those last words he wrose into the sky, and flew past the storm clouds into the clear night above.

" Where is she!" Tala shouted angrily.

"We don't know," Bryan replied. "This storm you cooked up seperated us."

"Damn it," Tala cursed rubbing his temple. "She's only 17, her powers havn't come in yet. She can't survive out there."

Bryan sighed saddly. "Well sir," he exclaimed. "Did we really need such a large cover? What were we running from anyway?"

"I don't know," Tala replied. "But I could sense a dark presents the likes of wich I can't explain."

"That still dosent explain why we ran," Bryan stated boldly. "Everyone in this regon knows you are the strongest mage around. They have even given you the title of Lord, though you refuse to except it."

"I realize that," Tala growled looking out the window. "But I have never senced this kind of power before. It was so different. And I refuse to go into a battle with another mage without knowing there elamental abilities."

Bryan watched as the blizzard faded away. "You don't suppose it could of been a fire mage do you?"

"Don't be silly," Tala chuckled. "Fire is a very unpredictable element. Know one has ever mastered it. The tales of the Fire Mage are nothing but fantasy. Even Demons don't have the power to control it."

Bryan shrugged. "I hope your right," he sighed. "Because I wouldn't want to meet the man that could control it."

"A room for two," Kai told the clerk.

The woman grabbed a key and handed it to him. "Room 208," she exclaimed and glaced down at the blue haired girl he held in one arm. "Did you too get caught out in that storm?" she asked.

Kai said nothing and took the key. "Nosey woman," he muddered to himself. And walked down the hallway into his assigned room.

It was a quaint little place. Two seperate beds with a single night stand between them. And a little bathroom off to the side. Kai growled his disapproval of the place. But entered it none the less. Now was not the time too be so picky. He made his way over to one of the beds and laid the girl atop it.

"I hope you stay asleep," He whispered. "Cause your not going to like this." He hesitated as she began to snuggle into the blanket. When she was still again Kai went to work. Carefully he removed her soked cloaths and toissed them to the floor. He would take them down to the laundry later. Kai went to the bathroom and grabbed a towl to dry her.

He servayed her wet body. It was the perfect shape. A saphire cresent moon was tattooed around her belly button. "What are you?" he asked softly and lifted her into a sitting position. Slowly he began dabbing her creamy skin with the towl. There was no doubt in his mind, she could of been an angel in a past life. She was beautiful, and her vioce was so sweet. It should of made him sick.

He had always hated angels, both fallen and rissen. But this girl was human, and yet she took on such an angelic appearance. Was that why he was unable to leave her? Was the fact that she was so different, attracking him? No, that wasn't it. He had no heart. So there was no way he could feel anything.

"Ugh," The girl growned breaking Kai from his thaughts.

Kai froze, waiting for her to open her eyes. But she did not. instead she did something he did not expect. She curled into him, burrying her face into his muscular chest.

A cold shiver went up Kai's spine. This was not natural. Carefully he wrapped her in the blanket and layed her head on the pillow. "There," He said quietly. "Rest up now."

The hours passed, and Kai had dried her close and his own. Now he sat at the window stairing at the sky.

"What?" The girl said groggily rubbing her eyes. "where am I?"

"Don't worry," Kai said turning to face her. "You are safe. Your clothes are on the night stand there."

The girl looked over at her folded outfit, then down at her exposed chest. "Oh my," she gasped and pulled the blanket up around herself.

"I had to take them off," Kai explained. "They were soked."

"Thats alright," The girl replied cheerfully. "I understand."

Kai raised his eyebrow. "Most girls would be pissed," he exclaimed.

His blue haired companion shrugged. "Yeah," she admitted. " But I'm not most girls. My name is Todalin, by the way, but you can call me Todo."

"Kai," the confused fire mage replied.