Hope you enjoy this chapter! It is actually so far the shortest so sorry, but if I had kept going it wouldn't have been the same and I would have probably hit writer's block…so yeah…my mom is serving food now so…later!

Chapter 3:

So far training was going well. Mannen, Hajime, and Shin had agreed to help Yuuki train and they were now in combat. Mannen threw shards of ice at her and she made her eagle turn so as to not get hit by any of the ice. Shin had used the containment field so that their surroundings wouldn't get damaged. As some plants shot up from the ground at her she rode her giant eagle around the vine and closer to the ground. Yuuki dismounted and landed on the ground half kneeling. She looked at her surroundings just in time to note Hajime who was about to blast her with water. She flipped over it and landed safely on her bear. She sent a swarm of crows at Mannen before he attacked and charged at Hajime in her bear. She was hurting them. The crows merely disoriented Mannen. Shin swooped down in his vine and grabbed the bear. Yuuki took a hunting knife and cut the bear free from the vines. The bear jumped towards Hajime and stood over him. Not hurting him but Hajime was defeated and so was Mannen. She decided to call it a day. It wasn't in her nature to scare kids and she was sure Shin might be freighted since he was younger than Hajime and Mannen.

"Thanks. For helping me train and what not," she said and made her animals retreat.

"No problem," said Mannen and Hajime together.

"You okay?" she asked Shin as she grabbed him by the hand and walked them back to the little house that they all shared.

"Yup," he replied smiling innocently.

She had practiced with them like this every day for the past 3 days. She had also started working at the pet shop. She had found it quite easy going there. Through the time that she worked there it was her duty to care for all the animals, meaning food, grooming, cleaning and calming the animals while the old man would take customers. He said that ever since she had started working there it was better because he could take care of the customers and she could calm down the animals so that they would not make so much noise. He didn't know it was because he could talk to the animals.

But right now as of this moment; Yuuki was tired. She was going to take a cold shower and read. She liked reading. Whenever she had time she would read, fantasy, realistic fiction, and the newspaper when she bought it. This time she was working on a book that was about four siblings who went to a frosty place through a wardrobe (we all know this book, right?). It was a good book so far. She rather liked the little girl, although the younger boy was getting on her nerves. She was still reading when Goh showed up.

"There was a demon larva spotted! It's about to go into the town fair!" he said hastily.

"WHAT?" she yelled caught off guard. She was still in her pajamas adorned with blue, purple, pink and green polka dots and rings.

"You heard me! Do I have to repeat myself!" snapped Goh, "Hurry up." She grabbed his hand.

"What are you doing!" he said snatching his hand away.

"I don't know the exact location of the fight." She said defending her actions, "you are going to have to orb us there if not I would do it myself."

"Fine." He said stubbornly. He was still somewhat mad at her and she at him. He didn't know what he did wrong all he was, was concerned, and she had acted so rudely. But still he let her put her hand in his and also could not help but notice how nice it felt in his. 'So soft, her hand is so soft – Wait! What am I thinking!' he mentally shook himself.

"Let's go." He said as he orbed her and himself to the site.

"It took you long enough to get here!" scolded Hayate.

"Sorry," apologized Goh and Yuuki at the same time. They glared daggers at each other.

"Guys!" yelled Himeno. Bringing them back to reality and the situation at hand, "Cover me! I already found the core! Water flail!"

"Got it," said the rest in unison as she charged toward the beast. But something went wrong because the beast's head swiveled around so that is was facing her and spewed fire at her. Himeno didn't have enough time to change her course because she was going too fast. A fire attack against Hajime who would shield her anyways could do a lot of damage against him. At this point Yuuki's mind went blank and her body took over. Before she knew it she was standing in front of Himeno. Even though her shield took most of the blow she was burned very badly. She didn't expect it to be so painful. She screeched and yelled.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" that was all that could come out of her mouth over and over and over again. She tried to process thoughts but her mind was only thinking of the excruciating pain. The burning was everywhere and she had never experienced anything like it ever before. She wanted to run to the North Pole and jump in the water. Goh, Mannen, and Himeno had already put out the fire, but she still felt as if she were on fire. Her skin felt hot and dry like the desert floor and she felt as if it was going to crack and crumble like it too.

She tried to tell Himeno to kill it, "Hime…no…kill…" she couldn't finish it. The pain was too great. She could feel it the darkness. In an attempt to get rid of her pain the dark side of her was going to ask for strength to heal herself with. That would be a problem. The other knights would sense the change! They would realize that she wasn't good and that she was a monster, a wolf in sheep's skin. She tried to stop it. Tried to stop it with all her might, but it still happened.

Himeno killed the demon larva, and Hajime unpreated from her. But none of it helped Yuuki's immense pain. An evil aura surrounded her in shadows as smooth as black satin and as menacing as a shark. Cold-blooded killer instinct was all that the group could feel. But if you looked and felt deeper you could see that behind her eyes, past her smirk was a girl that was scared and was trying to fight. No one knew what to do. She was healing, everything was; she didn't have a single scratch or burn left.

Yuuki was trying to climb herself out of the hole she was in. She tried to stop the darkness before she would go insane and with sheer willpower alone managed to stop it.

"What are you doing?" asked the evil, "stop that!" it's voice was like Yuuki's but sounded more scratchy and any trace of innocence was gone leaving only malice.

"NO! I WONT LET YOU HURT MY FRIENDS!" Yuuki yelled back, "Go back into the cage you came out of, I control this body and mind. These belong to me and you don't belong here!"

The group couldn't hear anything. They only noticed that she was fighting something because the satin shadows surrounding her wavered and gave way to the Yuuki they were familiar with. One that collapsed after looking around to make sure all her friends were in good health.

Ohhh cliffhanger… I hope you're okay with that! Will she tell them the truth? Does she know EVERYTHING? You don't know! And neither do I until I start writing!