Fiona went into the forest where she would meet with Issie to train. When she arrived she placed Mr. Stitches in a bag that she took to keeping on her and began some stretching exercises. All of a sudden she felt something coming towards her…fast. Leaping out of the way she saw a dagger implant itself into the tree that was once behind her. Turning to look at the direction it came from she heard clapping.

"You've improved so much~~~!

"I told you she has"

Fiona growled in her mind, damn captain.

"Well since you've improved sooo much I decided that we have to combine everything in one. So me and Issie will be training you, at the same time of course."

"I think she understood that"

"I just wanted to make sure, so it was clear"

"I'm pretty sure both of us being here makes it clear enough"

Serena stuck her tongue out of Issie before clapping her hands together. Fiona just stared at the both of them, mentally steeling herself for whatever hell they were going to throw her way next.

"So! For this training just keep your power up, and me and Issie will attack you at the same time. Ready~? Begin!"

Before Fiona could process what was happening both Issie and Serena disappeared. Flexing her power to it covered her she began to run deeper into the forest. Rocks, knives, and a variety of other things were being thrown at her in an alarming rate. Fiona began to try to think of what to do when a fist collided with her nose throwing her back a couple feet crashing her into a tree.

"Stop thinking!"

Serena's voice echoed around her, growling Fiona held her nose. Blood had started to pour out of it and it was really pissing her off. Taking off again this time Fiona kept her mind clear and her power raised without her realizing it. She kept running, focused on dodging the weapons being throw at her, and the occasional fist that would appear from nowhere.

Serena watched her and couldn't helped but smile. Fiona's power had started to show real improvement. It helped to alert her to their attacks against her, increasing her defenses. Though there was more, she was sure of it.

Suddenly an idea popped into her head. Smiling she turned to Issie and gestured to a large boulder. Issie instantly started shaking her head but gave in quick enough. Both worked to lift the boulder up before chucking it with all their might at an unsuspecting Fiona.

Fiona looked around, not feeling anything else coming at her. Breathing a sigh of relief she was starting to think that the training was over but quickly shook that idea out of her head. She knew Serena could and would put her through hell so there was no way it was over yet. That cheeky little- Before she could finish her thought the hair on the back of her neck prickled and she looked upwards to see a boulder that was about to crush her. Screaming she threw her hands up knowing there was no time to move and shot her power out. It formed a half sphere around her effectively protecting her from being mushed into the ground. Though the boulder was still on top of her sphere and her energy from creating this thing was quickly deteriorating. Her arms started to shake and her knees buckled, the sphere grew smaller and smaller before collapsing completely Fiona closed her eyes for what she knew was about to come. The boulder landed with a loud thud, and Fiona slowly opened to her eyes, not feeling the amount of pain she surely should be feeling. Looking up she saw Serena and Issie standing over her. Issie patted her on the back and Serena began jumping up and down

"See! See! See! I TOLD you that you could do more with your power and you did!"

Fiona was stunned, she never knew that she could do that. Yea she could cover her arms and legs with her energy but never had she dreamed of creating a barrier with it. She would have never been able to realize this if it wasn't for her captain, her captain. Yet again she was faced with the fact that her captain was the one person who helped her in ways no one ever did. Throwing her head back she started to laugh hysterically. Issie looked at Serena who just shrugged her shoulders

"I think we broke her"

A few hours later they decided that tomorrow they were going to set sail. Fiona intent on practicing more with her new found ability decided to have a sparing match with Issie. Though Serena reminded them that it was Issie's turn to cook so Serena offered to train her instead.

They walked further into the small island and began. Their training started off with hand to hand combat with Fiona creating and attempting to keep small orbs over her hands, and feet when they were being used to attack. She was doing good and even managed to brush Serena a few times, though truth be told Serena wasn't trying very hard. Though she would never admit that to her. It wasn't until Serena stepped on a weak part of the land and began to loose her balance that Fiona got a real hit in. Serena screamed as she fell backwards with more force from the hit into the newly formed hole in the ground. She hit the ground with enough force to knock the air out of her and a terrible headache ensued. Groaning she looked around and saw only darkness, looking up she figured she must have fallen about 20 feet or so. Fiona stood on the edge looking over the hole with her hands on her knees, and shouted down to her captain.

"Hey you alright?"

Before she knew it the ground suddenly gave way from underneath her and she too came crashing down, landing on top of her captain.

"What the hell…"

She muttered, sitting up and rubbing her side.

"Ya know for the bottom of a hole the ground is really soft. It must be from all the sand…"

She trailed off as she looked around for her captain in the darkness. Releasing some of her power on her hand for light she looked around again before looking down and seeing an unconscious Serena underneath her.

"Shit!"

She hissed, quickly getting up.

"Hey, your not dead right?"

She asked and lightly kicked Serena's side who didn't move. So she decided to kick her harder, then harder and finally just as she was about to kick her again Serena started to stir.

"Owwww"

She groaned, blinking slowly a few times before slowly sitting up.

"What happened…?

"We fell in a hole."

Fiona stated bluntly, secretly pissed she wasn't able to kick her one last time. Serena nodded remembering being in a hole before flinching and lightly touching her side.

"I must have fallen really hard"

Fiona smiled, rubbing the back of her head

"Yea it was quite a fall"

Once Serena got her bearings both of them started to look around the large hole to see how they could escape. As they circled the edges to see if any vines or roots were in reach they stumbled onto an opening. Both peeked in with the help of Fiona's power and saw that it was lined with stones

"Well doesn't this look suspicious..."

Fiona whispered

"It has to be mole people"

Wack!

After Serena had some sense beat into her they decided to follow the tunnel which seemed to go on forever. Fiona internally thanked Serena for making her go through all of that training, or else they'd be sitting in the dark right about now. When they reached the end they both looked around in amazement. It was a large open dome like space with steps in the middle that went up to an alter. Torches lined the walls and a small hole was in the ceiling directly above the alter. On the alter there was a tablet and dagger. Serena stared at the alter made visible from the small stream of moonlight that made its way into the space, slowly she began to walk towards it.

Fiona felt horribly creeped out by the place. All of her years of working with cursed objects gave her a keen sense of when something was safe and when it wanted to devour your soul. Looking at the alter she felt that was the only thing stopping the dagger from floating up and stabbing them both to death and absorbing their blood or something. She shivered at the thought and that's when she noticed Serena was no longer by her side but walking towards the very thing that probably wanted to kill them in horrible ways, over and over again.

"Stop!"

She shouted and reached out to grab her arm to pull her back, but Serena just dodged her and continued, going up the steps reaching down to touch the cursed dagger.

As soon as her fingers brushed it darkness enveloped the entire space. It was like turning off the light in a room with no windows; complete and utter darkness. Fiona could feel her heartbeat speed up as fear took over. Never had she'd been so scared in her life, she could feel a deep dark energy surrounding her and all it seemed to scream for is her soul. Shutting her eyes she crouched down and began chanting every spell she knew that was supposed to protect you from evil spirits.

Serena could feel a pull from the dagger, it seemed to call out to her. She began to walk towards it and the pull became stronger with each step. It whispering for her to pick it up, just pick it up and listen to the story it has to tell. Her eyes glazed over an she felt that her body was no longer hers. Walking up the steps she heard singing, it was a woman's voice and it sounded so nostalgic for some reason. Reaching out to touch the dagger she could somewhat her Fiona yell for her to stop, but it sounded so far away. Wrapping her fingers around the hilt her eyes shot open, power surged out of the dagger and she found herself in a different world.

Somewhere In Some Time

A woman stood holding her swollen stomach rocking back and fourth humming softly. The woman was beautiful, her skin was whiter than milk and glowed in a mystical way with hair waist length and darker than fresh ink. Her eyes were red, phoenix shaped and kohl was placed on the outer half of her eye lids. Her lips were a deep dark red and perfectly formed, her nose was small and had a slight curve to the bridge. She looked up and smiled at a man who held the air of royalty. His face was slightly blurred, as if one was looking through a dirty mirror the only thing clear was his long white hair. They kissed and he gently stroked her belly before they gazed at each other with all the love in the world.

The scene changed and the woman was giving birth. Her screams were ear shattering and another woman coached her through it. Sweat poured off her and her hair clung to her body. Darkness began to seep off of her like waves, her skin turned an ashen hue with scales appearing in parts and long razor shark like teeth erupted from her mouth. Her hair raised as her power flowed out and large black wings erupted from her back, digging her talon like nails into the blankets. She gave a horrifying screech as a baby fell from between her legs before falling backwards panting heavily. The midwife smiled as she cleaned off the babe and gave it to it's mother.

"It's a girl"

The mother smiled a warm toothy grin as the baby was handed to her. Taking scrutiny to every aspect of her, she could see no talons, no ashen complexion, only milky skin and short white tuffs of hair. She takes after her father, the woman thought lovingly. Though fear was quick to grow in her stomach, there were so many similarities between the two it was going to be hard to hide the linage of her birth. For now though, she thought looking at the small being in her arms, you're safe. The babe opened her eyes and two deep red orbs stared back up at her, reaching out with her tiny hands she pulled on the hair of her mother and smiled.

The scene changed again and the beautiful woman was running, clutching two small children in her arms. Panting she ran as fast as she could, releasing her powers her skin turned ashen and scaly, her teeth grew, along with wings and talons. Though as soon as she tried to fly creatures resembling herself flanked her, biting and clawing at her wings. Shrieking from the immense pain she began to loose altitude, her vision was beginning to blur. Turning mid air so she would land on her mangled wings to protect the babes. The ground hit her hard and the force dragged her quite a bit, ignoring the pain she looked around and found a tree with a hole small enough for the babes. Shushing them she ripped bark off another tree and used it to cover the hole. Then she stated to run, closing her eyes for a moment praying that they wouldn't be found, that they would be safe.

A while passed as the children sat clutching each other, the older girl wrapping her arms protectively around her younger sibling. Deciding that she needed to find their mother she went to go look for her. She tried to leave the younger sibling in the tree but was met with defiance, being scared herself she conceded easily enough. Both children walked through tightly packed forest of grey trees but the youngest stopped when she smelled something familiar.

"Mother!"

The child shouted before running off leaving the older sibling who had to hurry to catch up. The oldest almost bumped into the youngest who stood peering over a detached bloody arm. Bone stuck out and the skin was ragged as if it was ripped from the source. The oldest quickly grabbed the youngest and held the younger child's eyes to her chest.

"It's mother"

The younger child whispered, tears soaking the older child's shirt. They soon began walking more, and came upon more and more feminine body parts. Legs, another arm, a torso and lastly a head. The head of their beautiful mother was found skewered through a spear sticking up from the ground. Her jaw was missing and her once beautiful eyes were hallow and dull, blood dripped down the length of the spear. The children wept kneeling down in front of the head that was once their mother.

Back In The Hole

Serena gasped as the vision came to an end. The force that seeped out of the dagger abruptly cut off and her vision cleared. The Moonlight once again shown through the ceiling and tears rolled down her face. She didn't know why she was crying, she didn't know who those children were but she couldn't help the deep pangs of loss erupting from her.

Fiona slowly opened her eyes, still chanting protection spells. The darkness had receded and all she could see was her captain kneeling in front of the alter with her head hung. Standing she slowly made her way over to her captain.

Tears wouldn't stop flowing from her eyes as she gently held the once powerful dagger. She couldn't stop thinking of what she saw and the images ran through her mind over and over again. Nothing made sense to her, why was she shown this and who were those children? Her thoughts were interrupted from a hand placed on her shoulder. Snapping her head up she saw concern written all of Fiona's face. Standing up, she wiped her eyes and turned her attention to the small tablet containing some type of language.

"What is this?"

She asked, Fiona picked it up and looked it over carefully.

"I'm not sure, but I've come across this type of writing before…Though when ever I did, Marines would always come and take the objects from my store. Never paid for any of it either"

She added the last part with disdain. Serena nodded

"Well if the Marines want it, we're taking it"

Turning her head upwards towards the hole in the ceiling she closed her eyes allowing the moonlight to wash over her for a moment. Opening them once again her air of authority took over.

"We need to find a way out of here."

Fiona nodded

"But how..? I mean it not like we haven't been looking."

Serena pointed to the ceiling

"We just need to get up there, if we stand on each others shoulders we should be able to reach it."

Fiona's eyes widened in shock, she mentally kicked herself for not thinking about that. Nodding she bent down to allow the smaller girl to climb up her. Serena gave the small tablet to Fiona, who put it in her bag with Mr. Stitches and then climbed up her. The two were able to make it out of the room and back up to the surface of the Island.