Jack Spicer was strong. Everyone laughed at him and insulted him, calling him weak and thus proving just how strong he was. Could a weak person stand such belligerent attention for as long as he had? Could a weak person keep fighting despite the futility of it all? Jack was strong. He took every beating and kept on coming back for more, retaliating with twice the energy and vivaciousness. An ordinary teenager would have given up by now, but here was this ADD albino with a love of evil that he couldn't quite master himself, and he was still going strong! There's no other word for that but strong. It wasn't because he thought he had a chance—Jack was a genius, and he knew better than anyone just how impossible his dreams were—but rather, it was because of the impossibility of it all that he kept going. Impossible was the ultimate challenge, and it had kept him strong over the years. It had been a way of surviving at first, then a way to keep from losing himself, and now it was his essence. Jack Spicer was strong—strong enough to never give up on the one person he longed for more than anything else…
Chase Young was weak. He had known it all those years ago when he fought alongside Dashi and Guan. He had turned to Evil out of that weakness—out of a fear of that weakness. Even now he was all too aware of how weak he was. He hid in his fortress where no one could do him harm, and hid behind insults so no one could hurt his heart. He cloaked himself in suavity and control so no one could see him flinch inside. He trained his body endlessly so that his hands would not shake in the presence of his enemies. He had survived fifteen hundred years without anyone learning just how weak he was until that boy had fallen into his arms. His insults and strikes did little to drive the youth away. The invisible walls that he hid behind, they meant nothing to the foolish young man who invaded his personal space again and again, making him want to cringe and causing him to lash out in fear. He was the most powerful man in existence and he wanted to flee every time he saw Jack Spicer. Chase Young was weak—too weak to trust anyone with his heart, but also too weak to hold out much longer…