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A breeze picked up as the three men stopped in their tracks along the mountain pass back to the small village. Kija and Jae-ha shared a short glance before Hak spoke up. "I've got a bad feeling." The other two nodded for they two felt that something was amiss in the afternoon breeze. Silently the three of them quickened their pace as they moved forward.

Similarly, two other individuals were having the exact same exchange as they gathered herbs in a nearby wooded area. Zeno stood from his perch next to Yoon and stared back towards the village from once they came, worry evident in his eyes.

"What's wrong, Zeno?" Yoon questioned him. Even as he stood to join Zeno an unsettling feeling fell upon his stomach, but nothing could prepare him for Zeno's reply.

"The little miss…" His voice fell short as his eyes once wide with concern hardened with anger. "She's fading."

Yoon's eyes grew in size as he absorbed this information. Frantically his head snapped back towards the village's direction. Worry for his friends settling into his bones. "We must hurry then!" Gathering their belongings, the couple began to run towards the village, hoping they weren't too late.

She was too still, too quiet, to cold. Shin-ah's only reassurance that she was still alive was the slight rise and fall of her chest. She had stopped responding to him almost immediately after she pulled him up on shore. Tears shone in his eyes as he was helpless to save her. He cursed himself and his demonic powers with all his might. Wishing, praying that if she were to die the great ancestral dragons of legend would befall him the same fate for his incompetence as her protector.

Ever so slowly Shin-ah could feel his fingers begin to twitch as he reached out towards her. The heaviness that was once paralysis in his limbs was ebbing. In a few more minutes he was able to move his arms and torso as he felt the heaviness on his legs finally diminish he lurched himself forward and to her side, praying that he wasn't too late.

The first thing he noticed was how pale she was. Her skin resembling that of a translucent cloth. He gently stroked her cheek in an attempt to rouse her from her slumber. "Yo..na?" He questioned. His voice breaking from the emotions he was trying to keep at bay. When she didn't stir a look of defeat settled into his golden eyes.

Defeated and utterly exhausted those same golden eyes travelled down her form till they found the arrow that was protruding from her stomach. He growled low as a light breeze moved the feathered fletching almost in a means of mocking him. Looking around him there was little that he could work with. Acting quickly he removed the blue sash that usually adorned his waist allowing his long black cloak to open up. Laying that aside Shin-ah reached down and with gentle but firm hands snapped the arrow head off that was pierced through her back side. Taking a deep breath Shin-ah knew this next part was the worst of it. As he took a deep breath he griped the shaft of the arrow in one hand while his other firmly planted her onto the ground. With as much force as he could muster he pulled the arrow out in one swift pull, attempting to cause the girl below him as little pain as possible. He did not succeed as a low groan came from her parted lips. Staunching the blood flow with the sash he removed earlier he looked up into her face to find her eyes slightly parted. Without removing his hand that stopped the blood flow he moved closer to her face. "Yona? Yona stay with me.."

Pain. White hot pain filled her entire being. As it ebbed from her limbs slowly a soft blue light began to play at the backs of her eye lids. Slowly her eyes began to open as she looked up. She blinked once, twice, even a third time, but her world would not come into focus. As green and gray blurs filled her vision she heard a plea as a new blur entered her view. "..na….th me." Blue. All she saw was blue. She knew who it was, her golden eyed dragon. Her mind in a fog she was unable to comprehend what he was telling her that he wanted her to do. She was exhausted and slowly her eyes began to close again, but before she fell into the realm of unconscious she willed her tongue to form words, "Shin-ah…" this was all she muttered before blackness consumed her once again.

His golden eyes searched hers as they began to fall shut again. Then his name struck him. She was weak and fighting a losing battle, but she knew he was here. A sad smile crossed his features as she fell unconscious again. When she was out he looked down to the would once again. Realization dawned on him when he realized that there was nothing he could do in their current location, so instead of wasting more of her precious time, Shin-ah tied his sash around her wounds and removed his cloak. Laying it on the ground he wrapped her in it before picking her up and carrying her bridal style into the forest that bordered the rivers edge. Her head lay against his chest as he walked. Allowing it to remind her to keep fighting and to live. To just please live.