A/N: Hey sorry for the wait, I was on holiday with the school. So here's the next chapter.

Faetal was on the splatzooka, she was currently waiting for the last attacker to shout out their battle cry, and while she was waiting Faetal was thinking about what she did. Maybe she went a bit too far kissing Vane on the cheek, but then again he did kiss her on the lips, then again that was because Edda was closing in on them. She had grown closer to Vane within the past few days and maybe just a tiny bit…

"Faetal, splat the attacker!" Skabb shouted over from the water cannon.

Faetal came out of her thoughts and splatted the last attacker down into the moat. After that Faetal left the moat and went back inside the castle and ran up to her room to rest until the final night time round.

"Faetal!" A voice shouted.

Knightriss came into her room and sat on the edge of the bed.

"What happened out there?" She asked.

"I don't know Knightriss, I was distracted." Faetal admitted.

"Well don't get distracted later in the final round." Knightriss warned, "I've paired you with Vane on the cannons."

Faetal felt a little spark of happiness enter her heart. Maybe she could talk to him properly as they hadn't had a chance to talk that much. Once again her thoughts were interrupted but this time from whispering coming from the corridor. She tip toed to her bedroom door to eves drop into their conversation.

"So are you and Faetal going out?" A deep voice said.

"What! Of course not bro." A very clear voice said.

Faetal knew straight away that it was Vane and Thorne speaking.

"Then what was that kiss about?" Thorne asked.

"Listen I had to kiss her to prove to Edda that we were a 'couple'" Vane explained.

"So you don't like her then?" Thorne questioned.

"What! No I don't like her, she needed help and I helped her that was all." Vane told him, "End of I don't fancy Faetal."

Faetal crept away from the conversation. The spark of happiness in her heart had turned into pain and hurt. She clambered onto her bed and turned on her side and hugged the fluffy red pillow. She felt herself fall asleep.

Faetal found herself on her bed in her bedroom, she thought that she had woken up so she left her bedroom and went into the kitchen where she found Edda.

"Hey Edda." Faetal greeted confused.

"Hello Faetal." Edda greeted back, "Have you met my boyfriend?"

Faetal shook her head and a man with blonde shiny hair with bright blue eyes came and stood next Edda.

"Hey Faetal, I'm George." George greeted, "Edda's boyfriend."

"Hi." Faetal said back.

"So where's your boyfriend?" Edda asked.

"I don't have one." Faetal admitted.

The couple left and muttered she doesn't have a boyfriend poor her and she has probably made one up to fool her parents. Faetal left the room almost in tears. Suddenly she heard a shout call her to defend the castle. She was told by Gildar to control the splatzooka. A few minutes later the attacker came.

"My girlfriend made me come on this show." They shouted.

Faetal stayed quiet while splatting the attacker but they were smart and kept questioning her about her love life.

"So where's the boyfriend?" They taunted.

After that 9 more attackers came and asked the same thing, Faetal decided to stay strong and not cry in front of them. When the final round came, all of the attackers were taunting her all at the same time.

"No one loves you." They all shouted together, "You're alone."

"I'm not alone." Faetal muttered to herself over and over again.

Then she felt shaking and someone calling her name over and over again.

"Stop it!" She yelled, "Let me go!"

She yelled it over and over again until she realised that Shaiden was shaking her.

"Faetal!" Shaiden shouted.

She woke up and realised that it was all a nightmare, she turned around to Shaiden.

"Are you okay?" She asked, "You don't look well and you were shouting."

"Actually, I don't feel that well." Faetal lied.

Shaiden sped off somewhere, 2 minutes later she appeared with Medeva and Knightriss, who examined her.

"Are you sure you don't feel well my dear?" Knightriss asked.

Faetal nodded.

"I don't think she should do the final round Knightriss." Medeva said.

"I'll get Kook to fill in." Knightriss said and with that she left with Medeva and Shaiden following.

Faetal layed back down and hugged the pillow again. A few minutes later she heard the attackers and defenders shouting. Faetal doesn't lie that often, the only reason was so she didn't have to face Vane after what he said to Thorne. 30 minutes later the shouting stopped and she heard her fellow defenders enter the castle and complain and complain about the attackers the she heard someone shout for Vane. Just after someone shouted Faetal heard a knock at her bedroom door.

"Enter." She said in her sick voice.

Medeva came in and sat on the edge of the bed looking at Faetal who turned around to face her.

"Are you feeling better girl?" She asked.

Faetal shook her head. Medeva talked to her for a few minutes the left. Faetal tried to go back to sleep but she couldn't. She didn't want to risk having another nightmare. A couple of minutes into her trying to get to sleep she heard another knock at the door. She couldn't be bothered to say enter so Faetal pretended to be asleep. She heard them enter anyway and they sat on the edge of her bed.

"Faetal." Vane whispered, "Faetal."

Faetal decided to act asleep as she didn't want to talk to Vane.

"Vane hurry up!" She heard someone say in a grumpy tone.

She heard Vane sigh then she heard him writing something down and leaving it next to her. Once she heard him shut the door, her eyes opened immediately and she picked up the note.

Faetal,

Sorry to hear that you're ill. Hope you get better. I have to go away for a few days or a day depends on how bad the situation is. Pops is ill and mama wants me there. Sorry I have to leave you.

Going to miss you loads.

V x

P.S: Left you a little prezzie in case you miss me loads. It's by your bed.

Faetal stared at the note for a while, she wanted to squish the note up into a ball and chuck it in the bin but she didn't instead she place it done on the table next to her bed, she then remembered that he had left her a present by her bed. She leant down and picked up an item of clothing. It was one of Vane's hoodies. Faetal then remembered something about it getting colder during the next few days. She neatly folded it and placed it gently on her bed as if it was a very fragile object and left her bedroom to talk to the other defenders. Her fellow defenders were talking about the recent attackers when she came down the stairs. The others noticed that Faetal had joined them and asked if she was feeling better. She nodded and started to join into the conversation. A few hours later the defenders had dinner then the phone rang. It was Vane, Skabb was talking to him. The barbarian shouted to see if anyone wanted to speak to him. Faetal was going to say yes but then remembered that she was mad at him so didn't speak to him.

"Right Vane said that he should be back by tomorrow evening." Skabb told the others.

Faetal nodded and left the room.

"One night to go." She told herself, "Then Vane will be back."

But nothing could prepare her for what was going to happen tomorrow night.