Light in the Darkest Shadows

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I don't own Chaotic or iPod or any trademark here. Only my OC's and the plot.

By the way! I forgot to say the pairings! *Slaps forehead* Here there are!

TomXStephanie, KazXAlexis, SarahXPeyton, KlayXKrystella, ChaorXTakinom, MaxxorXIntress and some ChaorXStephanie action!


Chaor's POV


When Stephanie hit the floor, we all ran to her.

"Are you OK?" I asked, but she was out cold. Agitos eyes widen and took in some air.

Stephanie's back was covered in blood. There were long and deep cuts oozes out her crimson lifeblood on her back. I also saw tons of older scars on her back as well.

"Chaor, I need you to get her in a room while me and Takinom get some bandages for her wounds." Agitos said.

I nodded and I quickly lifted her in my arms. She was really pretty for a human. Long straight black hair, and piecing ice-blue eyes. I sighed. I can't be falling for a human. That was just plain wrong. Seriously. Besides, I loved Takinom. But, then again, Stephanie just captivates my soul.

I carried her to my living chambers. As I carefully placed her on her stomach she moaned, but stayed unconscious. I stared at her for a bit before Agitos and Takinom came in with bandages and some alcohol to cleanse the wounds.

Agitos quickly took off her shirt (I did that seeing-but-not-actually-seeing thing) and poured some of the alcohol on her cuts to pervert infection.

Stephanie hissed and gripped the pillows with her hands, but she didn't move. After that, he started to wrapped the bandages around her. When he was done, the scarlet blood was already staining the white bandages.

"She needs rest. There were some pretty deep cuts on her back," Agitos said. Takinom narrowed her eyes.

"I wonder how she got the other scars?" she said. I shrugged.

"That doesn't matter. She only needs to get better," I said.

Agitos nodded and left.

But, Takinom stayed back. "You do have a soft side," she said smirking before she left.

I sighed and looked at Stephanie. She looked peaceful, to say the least. So me, being now bored, started to look at her drawings, but before I could see any I heard a moan. I turned around to see Stephanie trying to get up.

"Stop moving. It will make the pain worse." I said. Stephanie turned around. She looked real pissed. I have been told by Kaz to make her an enemy, that it will only bring me a lot of pain and suffering. Now I could see why.

Her irises, normally a clear, cold crystal-blue, were bright scarlet red and silted. She sighed and close her eyes. When she opened them they were still scarlet, but some of the original color of their ice-blue returned and her eyes stayed silted.

"Why are you looking at my stuff?" she asked. I blushed. The good thing of having red skin is that no one could tell if your blushing or not.

"No reason," I said.

"Then why are you looking at it?" she asked.

"It makes no danm sense. You don't see me going through your stuff," she countered.

I smiled and threw her bag at her. She caught, just barley. "Finally! I CAN LISTEN TO MY MUSIC! THANK GOD!" she yelled and put her arms up in the air.

"What kind of music?" I asked. Stephanie smiled as one of her eyebrows rose. "And why do you care Chaor?" she asked sassily.

She then looked down at herself. "Um, Chaor? Can you leave for a moment?" she asked. It took me about five seconds to figure out why she was asking that.

"Okay, sure," I said as I walked out.


Stephanie's POV


I sighed in relief. "Thank God." I said as I took out an extra black shirt with white swirls tank top from my bag and put it on.

What I learned from coming to Perim so many times is that it's always smart to keep a couple extra sets of clothes with you in your bag.

I didn't want to think about what Chaor could be thinking of (probably something that would make me faint. That's a very hard to do). I again sighed in relief that I had on my favorite black bra on. Why was Chaor acting so nice? That wasn't like him.

"Whatever girl. You just need to get better." I muttered to myself.

I took out my iPod (which by the way, I designed the cover. It was black with gold and silver roses intertwining and a fiery scarlet phoenix on the back. Very cool) and put on "Tourniquet" by Evanescence. It was a awesome song. For the people who don't know, a tourniquet is used to stop uncontrolled bleeding.

So, it pretty much matched what happened to me.

"Okay, you can come in now," I raised my voice so Chaor could hear. He came in.

"You good?" he asked. I nodded, my ebony hair moving with me.

"Yeah," I said.

"What are you listening to?" he asked. I sighed.

I just noticed that I sigh a lot. How many times I thought of getting therapy? I should get it now, since the M'arrillains are now back, thinking about Tom and me together, asking why I love Sunkist and Snickers so danm much … yeah. Getting therapy now seemed like a pretty good idea.

"It's a song called Tourniquet by Evanescence," I said, looking away.

"Why do you care?" I asked. I was getting a bit freaked out. (like I always say, it's not like you can blame me.)

"'Cause I'm bored." he answered. Well, it made sense. When I bored I normally annoy Kazzy to death.

Then it hit me.

"Um, Chaor? Where is Kaz?" I asked. Chaor shrugged.

"I don't know. He hasn't been here." he said.

He never came here … He must still with Tom and Peyton.

"I need to go." I got off the bed, but my back was killing me. The cuts burned my back.

"Stephanie, you need to go back to bed." Chaor said. I shook my head.

"No danm f-ing way Chaor, I need to find Kaz. Now." I said a bit pissed off.

Seriously, Kazzy could be left along for a just a couple seconds and he could make a thousand different enemies. No danm way I gonna let that happen. My mom will kill me. But, sadly for me I could barely stand up. And back talking the ruler of the Underworld was the smartest thing I have done. But what the hell do I know?

"Stephanie, you need to go back to bed." Chaor said again and it wasn't a request.

I got back on the bed. I muttered a ton of swear words under my breath while Chaor walked out the door. When he left, I got out my Scanner from my black and silver bag and dialed Kaz's number. He answered on the third ring.

"Hello? Steph is that you?" Kaz asked. I nodded.

"It's me all right, where are you?" I asked.

"Lake Ke-i-po with Najarin." I raised an eyebrow at that. Of all places, why Najarin's place?

"Okay, why?" I asked.

"Well, Tom's mom isn't really dead, but she's close. Najarin is trying to save her." Kaz said. Well, I'm glad some creature cares from her.

"Where are you?" he asked.

"Chaor's place. I passed out for a bit." I said, grinning like a fool. Kaz's dark brown eyes widen.

"What! What happened?" he's voice just went up about twenty octaves. That was normal of Kazzy, always worrying about me. What about Tom's mom? Or our mom? She got to be freaking out now for us about now.

"There were some pretty deep cuts on my back. They just stop bleeding right now." I said. Kaz sighed.

Poor guy, when (I mean when not if) Kaz gets a girl, she will be the danm luckiest girl on Earth (or Perim for that matter. I seriously doubt we'll be able to back to Earth). He cares so much that my heart hurt.

"Well, at least you're alright. You want me to come get you?" he asked. I shook my head.

"I'll be fine. As soon as my back feels better, I'll be gone. See you soon Kazzy." I said smirking and ended my call.

I looked at the time on my Scanner. It was 12:30 A.M. Danm, it was that late? I was so tired. My eyelids felt so heavy. But, like the real stubborn girl I was, I stayed up.

Then I realized something.

I was at Chaor's living chambers. I so thinking a lot of dirty things (yes, that dirty!) that Chaor might have been thinking. I turned to the sound of the door opening.

Guess who it was. It was Chaor.

"Hey Chaor. What's up?" I said grinning weakly.

"Hey," he said. I yawned. Normally, I slept between 2 A.M. and woke up at 2:00 P.M. But then again, this wasn't normal.

"You should sleep." he said. Normally, I would totally argue (since because, well, the dirty) but I was too tired.

I moved over to the right side of the bed and soon left back into the bliss of the darkness of sweet, sweet sleep…


Chaor's POV


She soon fell asleep. She looked more like an angel than just a human.

"Stop thinking about her! She is just a human! She should mean nothing to you!" my common sense yelled in my mind.

I should totally listen to it. But, it was real hard. It was like my heart fighting my mind. I should really find the way to have my mind win. But, her black hair, her crystal-blue eyes … it was just so hard!

"You know, she is just a human. You can use her just like a plaything …" a venomous voice came into my mind. Part of me so definitely just wanted to just listen to that voice, go into the bed, rip Stephanie's clothes off and have her all mine.

I actually was thinking of doing that, but my common sense (thank goodness for it) fought back.

"Don't do it you moron!" it yelled.

That voice was so right. What I was about to do was just wrong! When humans started to come to Perim, all the tribes declared that we can't use humans like they was just playthings. Hey, we Underworlders have morals too.

Low ones, but still.

"You could just ask her, and if she refused you, you can just keep her in the dudgeons until she accepts you …" the same danm venomous voice came back.

But part of me thought that wasn't a half-bad idea.

"And what will she think of you when you do that? That you don't love her, that she is only a plaything to you, that you can just get kill her when she bores you, that she is only your property? One thing is for sure, if you do that, she will hate you. Think from her point of view!" my common sense yelled.

Well, my common sense did had a point. She could turn on me and take me down. And now I realized that I'm having an argument with myself! Whoa, wait! What the heck am I doing? I should just go asleep and then when I'm fully awake I'll figure the whole Stephanie problem out.

I went to the left side of the bed and soon fell asleep too with more than some very dirty dreams…

Me: LOL! Maybe there will be kinky stuff happening!

Steph: Shut up. I. Love. Tom.

Me: Of course you do.

Steph: *Get chainsaw*

Me: Review! *Runs away*

Steph: Review!