I was amazed that Que de Forte just left, no 'I will get revenge!' or even 'Curse you!' It was strange; Ivan just looked at the fading residue of Que de Forte. It just made me wonder where he went. Did he go back to bury the body of his fallen brother? I would think so…

"Old friends?" Ivan asked me.

"Yeah… yeah I guess you could say that." I looked at him, and then I leaned back into the sand, and fell asleep.

Of all the great things in the world, Calico's people skills weren't one of them. He placed his right foot on me then announced "Conquered!" to wake me up. "So why did you sleep out here?" I teleported right out from under him.

"To get away from your snoring," I pushed him to the ground, he got up and laughed.

"Okay, the doctor says Lena needs to rest a little. Lili and Eli went to the market to get a few things. Food and such, Gary is off trying to sell his elixir so it's just you and me." I had a bad feeling about this… "Alright pal, let's go do something exciting!" He slapped me in the back hard enough to give me the taste of sand. "How does hunting sound?"

He picked up a rifle from the blacksmith for me to hunt with. We headed to the nearby woods, and began our search.

"Ever been hunting before?" He asked me,

"No, I never really had a life where I had to hunt. My father mostly did that kind of thing." Then I remembered seeing my father's skull in Scrarfaux's castle.

"Well it is simple, see an animal, shoot it, skin it, cook it, and eat it. Squirrel is usually good at this time of year; they are scavenging for food in autumn!" My mind was stuck on my father, as we walked we didn't see too much. Then I felt the need to ask him,

"What was your father like?" He stopped walking immediately and his big smile disappeared.

"My father, was… my father didn't… my father was a little like…" He obviously couldn't come up with something. "Well, he was one of those… he works for Scrafaux…" I clenched the rifle. "He had to do it to save me and my mother, but for my mom it was all in vain. Scrarfaux still killed her after my father tried to turn on him… foolish asshole…" Calico bowed his head and lifted it real fast and shot something in the tree.

"Yes, that's my favorite, black bird! Goes great boiled with celery!" He seemed to have forgotten his father. He went over and collected the meat and feathers. "Ever had black bird?" He asked me, he was obviously deflecting the conversation about his father. We went back early, I went to the hospital, Calico went to a hotel to stay in. Lena was sleeping, seemingly anyway. I took a seat on the bench by her bed. All was silent for a long time; neither of us moved or made any kind of sound. I came close to falling asleep when she started to speak.

"So here we are again, one half dead, the other monitoring. Life's a strange cycle isn't it, Cepter?" I didn't say anything in reply; I just looked at her looking at me. "Can you get me a glass of water?" I was a little lazy so I just teleported it in. I handed it to her, and she drank it. She sat up and just watched me sit back down. Just then the nurse ran in in high alert and soon informed us of the excitement.

"There are some men outside with guns who are trying to come in and kill us all, we have to go hide!" The nurse led Lena elsewhere. I just readied my weapons, and stood opposite to the door. I waited for them to finally break the lock and come in shooting. I sensed about seven of them, not so hard…

The door busted open; it was strange for me to finally realize that Gary had been missing. But I probably would have never noticed if he wasn't there hostage. I teleported to the side of the door where I decapitated the first man to come in, then moved back to my original position. I threw my first sword to stab the next guy, and the second for the third victim to die an excruciating and painful death. I teleported my swords back to me, where the next two guys would soon die. I sent myself behind them both and sliced them both in half. The final one, the same one holding Gary, was the leader. He wielded a really huge ass sword, best known as a buster sword. I went at him with full speed regarding the old man. He took his sword and blocked my attack with the same speed and agility as I had, but with more strength. Intense, I must say… He kicked Gary to the side and set his stance. He wore thick steel armor; this wouldn't be easy to penetrate. But, I was too tired to play fair… Ever used a giant laser cannon? After that I wondered why they would attack a doctor's office.

"Cepter, you saved me! How can I repay you?" I looked at him.

"By letting me get some f_ sleep." I didn't know why I was so angry, I just was. Gary gave me that look you get when you say something mean when they didn't do anything wrong. That look usually made me feel guilty, but not today; I couldn't care less. People wanted to thank me, I just walked past them. Lena was back in her room, I guess she knew I wasn't in the mood because she didn't say anything. I fell asleep in the chair, and had a dream that fueled the anger.

The girl was there; as a matter of fact she was the only thing in the dream. I reached out to her and she faded to dust, and then behind me she reappeared with my other friend; they were both smiling. I ran over to try and hold them in my arms. But they faded again, and in a new vision Zasrik was dragging her away. I tried to save her, but they faded once more. Zasrik…