After some time Aisha stopped healing Rena. "I can't go on ... this is all I can do ...", she said out of breath. "Wake up, breathe, move ... anything, please Rena ... please come back!", Elsword thought. Elesis gave him a potion and said: "Here! Use it for yourself ... I see you need it!" The boy shook his head. "I don't need any potions ...", he said. He just kept staring at Rena. "Let's go guys! There will be more demons coming since we just defeated their master! Let's secure the area!", Elesis said and put the potion next to her brother. The rest of the group followed Elesis.
Raven walked over to Rena and covered her wound with his jacket. "In case she'll wake up, the wound will bleed again ... and it will get infected if it isn't covered. I don't care about the blood on my jacket ...", he said and followed the rest. "Thank you ...", Elsword mumbled. "Please, Rena ... breathe ... wake up ... please ...", he murmured as he held Rena close to him again.
After a few minutes Rena finally took a breath, slowly and weak but she was breathing again. Elsword grabbed the potion and made the elf drink half of the bottle. "Elsword ...?", the green-haired asked very quiet. "What is Rena? I'll stay by your side, no matter what!", the boy replied. "Please ... use the rest ... of the potion ... for yourself ... you need it ... and I ... can take it ...", she whispered. "Don't be silly and drink the rest of the potion please ... You need it more than I do!", Elsword said softly. "Elsword ... I mean it ...", the elf protested weakly. "That's insane, Rena! I won't use the potion! You need it ... So please drink it ...! Please, Rena ...", the red-haired replied. The elf sighed, then she said: "But ..." Elsword interupted her: "No, Rena ... drink the potion ... I don't want you to get worse ... I don't want to lose you again ... Please ..." The green-haired gave up fighting and drank the rest of the potion.
Just like Raven said before Rena's wound was bleeding a lot. A doctor needed to take care of the injury as soon as possible, if not the elf would be bleeding out; not even Aisha's magic would be able help her then.
Elsword lifted the green-haired up, he needed to carry her to the nearest city or village which was Hamel, the capital. He sprinted out of the dungeon. As he passed the rest of the group he shouted fast: "I need to take Rena to a doctor! I'll meet you in Hamel!" But although Elsword was really fast, he wasn't as fast as usual; his wounds were weakening him. The elf grew weaker and weaker with every passing minute; she was losing too much blood and the only thing Elsword was able to do was run to Hamel. "Rena! You need to press Raven's jacket against your wound! You're losing too much blood ... I'll hurry up, but you need to hang in there!", the boy said.
Rena pressed the jacket against her injury with only her right hand, the other arm was just hanging down; because of the injury and the bloodloss she wasn't able to move it. Still she was bleeding a lot and she got paler and paler. Elsword felt like he was watching her die and just standing next to her doing absolutely nothing. He ran faster and tried to finally reach Hamel.
Rena closed her eyes and leaned her head against the red-haired's shoulder. "I'm sorry ... for causing ... so much trouble ...", she whispered weakly. "Please don't talk ... save your strengh! You need to stay alive! And you don't have to be sorry for anything!", Elsword said worried.
Now finally they arrived at Hamel. As fast as possible the young knight carried Rena to a doctor, who immediatly took care of the elf's wound. After the elf's injury was treated and the doctor gave her some medicine, the man took Elsword to room. In that room Rena laid on a bed, she was asleep. "Will she be okay again?", the boy asked. "Don't worry! She'll be fine soon. She just needs to recover ... After ... let's say 2 months the wound should be healed completely and she has to stay here for about one month! I need to take care of the injury again later ...", the doctor replied and left the room.
Elsword kneeled on the floor next to her bed and grabbed her hand. "I'm so sorry this happened to you ... if I would've only been strong enough to protect you ...", Elsword murmered staring at the floor.
All of a sudden the boy felt a hand on his head. He looked up and saw that Rena was awake. "Don't be sorry ... and don't blame yourself ... for what happened ... I jumped in front of you ... I'm the one to blame for this ... ... You should go ... and search for the others ... maybe they ... need your help ...", she said. The red-haired saw that it was hard for her to stay awake, she could barely keep her eyes open. "I don't want to leave you, Rena ...", he said in a rather sad tone. The elf smiled weakly and replied: "I know you worry ... but I'm fine now ..." The boy answered: "Alright ... I'll go ..." He sighed and walked over to the door. He looked back to see Rena fell asleep again, then he hurried back to the others.
Elsword searched for the group for hours but he couldn't find any of them. The boy decided to go back to the city, maybe they were already there and looking for him and Rena.
The red-haired walked around the city but still didn't find his friends, so he walked to the hospital.
All of a sudden Raven blocked his way. "Raven! Thank God! I been searching for you guys ... Where are the others?", Elsword asked. The black-haired looked really angry. "Because of you, Rena got hurt! Because of you, we all were in great danger! We had to fight on our own and you ran away! We barely made it out of there! Chung and Elesis got hurt but they will be fine ... This, Elsword was the last fault you made!", Raven almost shouted at him in a very angry tone.
Meanwhile Rena woke up again. She sat on the bed and looked out of the window next to her. The green-haired looked at the city, all the huge buildings and many people in the city, but not in front of the hospital, there normally wasn't any person. Just now Rena spotted Elsword and Raven in front of the hospital. "Elsword ... and Raven. Good he found them.", she thought.
Just now Raven stabbed Elsword with his nasod-claw. The boy spit blood and stared at the claw that stabbed him. He heared Rena scream his name at the top of her lungs, but he couldn't look up to see if it was her or just his imagination. "Am I dead? Am I dying ... or dreaming?", he asked himself in his thoughts.
Raven pulled his claw out of the boy's chest and watched him fall to the ground. He stepped aside and Elsword fell forward. With a thud the red-haired hit the ground, his head turned toward the hospital's entrance. The boy was still alive, Raven didn't hit his heart but he pierced his lungs. Elsword was dying, slowly and painful. "I am dying ... Raven wants me to die ... but why? ... If he wants me dead, why didn't he kill me instantly ... he pierced my lungs ... he knew what he did ... So you want me to die slow and painful, Raven ... if I only knew why ...", the boy thought.
He tried to keep breathing, but his right lung had collapsed and it filled with blood. His vision got blurry and he felt his eyes close slowly. He forced himself to stay awake, to keep his eyes open, to stay alive. "I don't want to die ... No ... I want to be alive ... this ... this can't be happening!", he thought.
Elsword saw a blurry figure run towards him, all he could see was green.