Hello hello hello~! Now my kiddies, I must apologize for no Christmas nor new year story. I was planning on it, but it was too big of a project and the holiday passed. I wish you all happy holidays which ever religion you believe in. Sorry for the late update!

Now I must say this will be focusing on Chung and Eve, sorry ElsxAisha fans I want to focus on them more because they're my favorite. :3 But I did include some Els and Aisha fluff~!

Random Person: But what about Add?

He'll get Eve over my dead body. Anyway this is set after a few weeks.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except my bagel.

Eve's POV

It hurts, it hurts being locked up. Locked up as if I was a criminal. But I can't hate Chung no matter how it hurts. No matter how much the blame is on him for making me get into this situation. I can't hate him. No matter how I try, no matter how much I concentrate, I can't seem to hate him, not even a lock of cream hair on his head. Why…? Is this the human emotion they call, "Love?" But it hurts, I just look out the window until the evening comes and sleep until the day restarts. My thoughts were solely on Chung. Even when I concentrate on the kingdom's documents, there were several murder cases and the light citizens are afraid that it is the Dark.

"I don't want this, I hate this." I mumble to no one unhappily, longing for the outside world. I watch the sun retreat from the green of the hills, from the highest point of the trees, from the roofs of houses. It was disappearing off somewhere. Darkness consumed the world briefly, before the moon slowly rise and shine the pale light down onto the land. The light side always had light even at night, but what I had heard from merchants the dark side is just pitch black. I want to feel the light on my skin, to feel the warmth and cool of the sun and moon. I want to live. But I am responsible for my people, I must think of them first. But I just want to leave this place and walk on the streets again, please.

Please… Chung, save me.

I touch the gem that was forever burned on my forehead. I caress the jewel, sadly; I feel small warmth engulf my fingertips, until I pulled my fingers away from the head accessory. That's when I realize something.

Was Chung… in pain too?

The thought spun and glued to my brain, was he hurting too? Was he lonely? It's been weeks since I've heard from him. Does he miss me? Or…

Did Chung forget me…?

Tears threaten to flood out of my eyes as I wearily pace in my bedroom. Is that why he hadn't seen her? Did he already forget her existence? No… please don't let this be true. Let this fate change. Please, I beg of you, I cry out to oblivion.

The thing human's describe, the heart; I remember once Rena had told me that her heart was 'broken' when she had left her fiancée way back when. Back then I didn't understand what she had meant, a organ cannot simply shutdown and still she breathes, even though the heart is the most important organ; how could it break and the person not to die? I thought like this but now I understand it to its full context. There's a pain deep within your brain, you can't breathe correctly. A shocking ripping feeling starts in your chest, tearing up all of the happiness you felt so far. You feel weak, helpless, as if you were thrown in an abyss of darkness. You wish you could just sit there and shrivel away into nothing; just close your eyes and open them and hope it was just a nightmare. It's as if someone had ripped out your heart and stomped on it until it was just pieces.

But… I still love him. It's so peculiar, he caused me so much pain but yet I just can't imagine myself hurting him or even insulting him. But what did I even love about him? We were nothing alike, nor did we live in a similar situation. We weren't even in any contact most of the time. It's just an attraction, a very strong attraction. I can't leave him, I'm just stuck there it seems. Like magnets when the positive charge and the negative charge meet, they attract. Nothing alike but yet they attract.

A small tap on the balcony glass doors pull me out of my daze, I warily step into the marble balcony, and the stone was smooth to the touch. Then, lovely chirping echoes in the air, it sounded like a symphony of flutes that were played by the El Lady herself. I was almost lost in the lovely sounds until I noticed a small black or dark purple bird perched on the railing.

"So… You're the one making the noise?" I gently ask, it nods and hops closer to me, I notice a small scroll between the bird's beak. I hold out my hand, palm open and the bird releases the scroll and the paper falls on my palm before it flies away. The small bird's wing seem to flap once in a second, it blends with the night's sky colors and it seems like the gorgeous music of its chirping disappears as the stars shine.

I unroll the smooth paper and read the ink splattered letters,

"Meet me in the meadows east of the west castle walls in three days."

-Chung

My heart skips a beat and small heat concentrates my on face. Small sparks of adrenaline flares through my veins.

I was meeting him, of course; but… the question is how…?

"Eve!" A voice barks out, I spin around and hide the note behind my back; crushing the paper out of panic. Elsword was at the doorway, his eyes tired and sleepy. "It's time for dinner."

He yawns loudly and made a weak hand motion for me to follow him. I've noticed that Elsword has been this way for 4 weeks straight, is he having night terrors? Maybe I should stop making him go on patrol at night. He looks like he could faint any time soon. We walk down the halls in silence, besides Elsword's frequent yawns, the echoing of footsteps fills my ears.

Ever since Elsword started losing sleep, he has been more cranky and in thought. Sometimes he didn't seem like the actual Elsword I knew. Did… Did something happen on the battle field?

Two guards open the doors respectively and close them as we walk in the chandelier lit dinner hall. It was a huge room; it was mostly use for balls and national emergencies. But Rena decided to make the dining hall an arena battle ground, fulfilling the request of Camilia, so we've used this to eat our meals. The table was small but it was still bigger than the average table, steaming plates of food were placed and Rena was waiting for Elsword and me to take our seats.

The air was filled with tension; I just stabbed the piece of meat and observed it, not attempting to eat it at all. My tongue dried out and my speaking abilities left my mind, Rena crunched away at her vegetables. I look over to Elsword, who was… face first… in his mashed potatoes and steak. Rena just smiled and mouthed the words, 'Just let him sleep'. After a few minutes of eating the tiniest portions of my meal, Elsword began snoring, obnoxiously LOUD. Rena giggled and signaled Oberon over and told him to carry to his room. I suppress a giggle and continue eating my meal slowly.

Elsword's POV

It's all that witch's fault. She's been visiting me late at night and kept me awake for hours until she finally felt the need to leave me in peace. I've been so sleep deprived, I fall asleep every chance I get. Also dark rings covered the skin around my eyes. Damn that Aisha, keeping me from the sweet land of sleep. It's even affecting my patrols and reputation. She is the reason I was so bad in training today.

"Alright you newbie brats listen and listen well. I am you general Elsword, got it?"

The new recruits nod their heads and puff out their chests, shouting, "Sir, yes, sir!"

I bark out the same old speech I do with all the other soldiers, which pumped them up pretty well; but it took me all of my will power to not yawn. They nearly jumped out of their skins when I handed them their swords. Especially that one kid with purple hair and red eyes, he almost ripped the sword out of my grip when I reached him. That kid's spirit for fighting even gets me wanting to fight even though I can barely keep my eyes open. I start limping and everything feels like it's spinning, my eyes hurt from them being open.

I just want to sleep.

I nearly fall face first, half asleep I barely hear the purple hair kid beg me for a match. Heh… Just a little match won't kill me. I barely lift my feet from the sandy ground and lazily position myself in the battle stance. I only had ¼ of my strength and my arms withered from the weight of my sword.

The student charges at me and I could barely see or block it, the impact of the sword colliding with mine was enough to make me realize that this wasn't the best idea.

I clutched my sword and swung it in such a mediocre way that Lowe would make me train for 7 more years. The kid tried everything in the book, dodging, counterattacking, element of surprise, using the surroundings, everything I tell you .But not correctly, hell; he even blinded himself trying to take away my sense of vision. But even this little kid makes me out of breathe in this condition. After the match was over, I had obviously won; but only barely. Many of the other soldiers complained that I went easy on him. But no, I really was trying my best, my arms hurt like hell from swinging the heavy bulk metal of my sword and my eyes could barely stay open. My gut was turning; my head felt like it was blended in a blender, and I could barely move easily.

Just because she pestered me every single night, I could barely get any sleep and I fought as bad as when I first trained. But that new kid in my army; Ruby I think? He has a pretty good chance of becoming a great swordsman one day. The thought had the corners of my mouth turn skyward in a grin.

I flick away the remaining food from earlier out of my hair; if you didn't know, I fainted during dinner, face first in my food.

I sigh and sat on the edge on my bed, waiting. It was silence, and I felt no presence that could possibly belong to her. I glance over to the ticking clock; it's been 2 hours so far. Damn… I forgot how fast time could go. But where was she? She always came during this time, but she wasn't here today. Tch... Why should I care?

I lie on my bed and close my eyes. I can finally catch up on sleep without her. But I didn't drift to slumber in fact I didn't even feel tired, all of my thoughts were solely on, "Where was Aisha?" Did she get bored? Or did something happen?

I bury my head into my arms; I shouldn't even care what she is even doing! Am I so used to her coming that I'm dependent for her company? If that's it, then I am truly pathetic.

The whole night was nothing but wondering in the dead of the dark night, "Where is she?"

And that is it~! Sorry for not updating recently, and I am afraid I ran out of ideas for the next one so please be patient~! Read and review. Peace out to my lovers, haters and masturbators!