CS: Hello! This is chapter 19. It took me a whole day to work on it so I hope you like it! I edit it as much as I could and thought you would prefer getting the chapter sooner then less grammar errors.

Alone

Jill awoke earlier then usual. Since summer was just around the corner, the sun was up as early as 5:30 in the morning. She awoke when the first streams of light came through her window. It was going to be a very cloudy day, maybe even a chance of rain shower, or so said the weatherman. Jill wondered if it was going to be good summer. She hoped to get more crops this season.

Jill did her regular routine of getting dressed, making breakfast, feeding the animals, etc. Time passed quickly and soon the sun was high in the sky. The clouds covered most of the sky, but it didn't look like it was going to rain anytime soon. Jill grabbed a basket from her home and started to head out.

"Jill where are you going?"

"I thought I would go to the woods and get some herbs," She explained, "summer in around the corner, and I could get some good money selling them."

"Alright I'll come with you," She stretched before trotting over to Jill. "I also need to talk to you."

"About what?" Jill asked concerned.

"About you and Joe." Jill almost fell down the front steps.

"What? Not this again!"

The two went up the path, passing Jamie's home.

"Jill, you can't be that naïve to not realize that boy has fallen head over heels with you."

"we're just friends," She gave a sigh, "nothing more."

Midna raised an eyebrow, "Is he not you're type?"

"Please don't be like that love fairy. I'm happy not having a love life."

"Well, one day you will meet your knight in shining armor," Jill rolled her eyes, causing Midna to chuckle, "Trust me, love is going to hit you when you least expect it."

"I know, I know." Jill grabbed some herbs from the ground and placed them in the basket, "I just don't see why your so persistent on finding me a guy. I still got many years to go to have a relationship. I'm too busy to have a boyfriend."

"I just want you to be happy."

"I am happy," Jill smiled, "why wouldn't I be? I got a loving father, a shadow demon as a best friend, I've made a bunch of friends in town, and I get to run a farm all by myself. Why would I not be happy?"

"I don't know," Midna shook her head, "I just think that 'Mr. right', as you humans say, is somewhere in this village. I haven't met anyone, besides Jamie, who has been cruel to you. I feel that if you don't search for them now, you may loose your chance for a happier life in the future. I remember meeting my mate. At the beginning, we didn't care much for each other, but slowly we started to grow fondness towards each other and soon we were in love, having five beautiful pups."

Midna usually didn't talk about her past much, so this was a rare sight for Jill. She couldn't help but notice Midna's sad eyes as memories poured in.

"…Are you already figure out my wedding plans?" Jill joked.

Midna got out of her daze and smiled, "well actually-"

"Midna!"

"I'm kidding…. Mostly."

"Argh! How about we concentrate on getting some herbs." Jill shook her head as the thought of Midna being the maid of honor at her wedding- Wait! Now she was getting caught into it! "AH! Now you're making think about that! I'll go down this path, while you go take the other. We will be done faster if we split up."

"Alright." Midna nodded and headed up the path, "But our conversation isn't over."

Jill groined.

Jill wiped the sweat from her brow as she grabbed another dark green herb from the ground. Even though the sun was blocked by some clouds, it was still hot out. Jill went to grab another when a hand came from the bushes, grabbed it as well. Jill looked up to see it was Jamie.

"This is mine." He said taking it from her and placing it in his basket.

"I was here first." She gave him a slight glare. Both teens talked in a calm matter as the tension grew…. But that wasn't going to last very long.

"No, I was." His eye gave a slight twtch, going back to his childish ways

"Jamie!" Jill yelled in frustration.

"What?" He said annoyed.

"Why do you have to be such a jerk all the time?"

"I'm not being a jerk, you're just overreacting."

"I'm overreacting?" Jill's blood started to boil, "At least I'm not allowing my pride get the best of me!"

"What does that mean?" He gave a slight growl.

" Even though I can see the crystals and is actually willing to work with you," Jill tried keeping her temper in check, but it was so hard to when talking to this hot head, "You still won't even consider getting help from me."

"You being helpful? Ha!" He scrunched up his nose, "You're just a girl. I don't have time to protect a weak human."

Jill clenched her fists, her nails close to piercing the skin, "If you haven't noticed, I've been doing fine with out your protect-AH!"

Jill fell forward as if something pulled her legs right out from under her.

"Yeah, I can see that." Jamie started to laugh.

"It's not funny! Something-AH!" Jill was starting to be pulled back into the bushes by an unseen force.

"What the-" Jamie stopped his laughter as he fallowed pursuit.

Jill clawed at the ground, trying to get a good hold of anything. She finally got her hand on branches from a bush. Jamie soon came and grabbed hold of her wrist.

"What the hell is going on?" Jamie tried pulling her towards him but it only caused what ever was pulling her to pull harder.

Jamie looked around, trying to see who was doing this. He looked at the ground and caught sight of her shadow being pulled by larger inhuman shape shadow..

"what is that?" Ihe shadow came up quickly and slashed Jamie's hand, making him lose his grip on Jill, as she was pulled further into the woods.

"Jamie!" He heard her cry out as her body was dragged along the ground.

Jamie swore under his breathe before running after her. He was not going to allow this thing to take her. She still had the crystals and he had no clue on where she put them.

Soon the shadow stopped dragging her, allowing her to feel the pain from being dragged on the rocks, roots, and even into bushes. Jill tried to control the urge to roll up into a ball in agony, and decided to look up at her captor. He was human like with cold yellow eyes and a sadistic smile.

"Well, hello pathetic human." He took her by the throat and lifted her up, "I'm so happy that you came. You made my job so much easier."

Jill squirmed in his grasped as his grip tighten. She was about to try to speak when Jamie came in.

"Oh, and you brought the half bread as well," The thing gave a low dark chuckle, "You two are making this so much easier for me."

"Put her down so I can rip you to shreds!" Jamie got into a fighting pose.

"You rip me to shred?" He gave out a loud burst of laughter, "I'm sorry, but I think it's going to be the other way around. You see I got orders to have a little 'chat' with this girl and to kill you. Now, if you let me take her with no fuss, I may consider letting you live."

Jamie leapt toward him about to attack him with his now sharp claws. The humanoid quickly dodged it, still having a good hold of Jill's throat and brought his free hand to grab Jamie's throat.

Jamie thrashed around trying to get out of his hold. He clawed at the thing's arm only to have the creature laugh and heal itself.

Now, now." He tightened his hold on Jamie's throat, allowing his long nails to puncture the boy's skin, "don't be so pissy. I know your kind are territorial, but this is going a bit far. I don't see how this girl could be any concern to you."

Jill was starting to feel dizzy from lack of oxygen. Her trembling hands tried to get him to let go.

"Oh?" His smile grew, "is the little human having a hard time breathing?"

Jamie looked over to see Jill was gasping for air. Her arms were beginning to slack and her eyes started to rolling back to her head. Silent pleas passed her lips as her face turned blue. Jamie felt something strange in his chest as he turned his head towards the smiling man and grasped his wrist, hard.

The creature let out a screech as it dropped the two. Jamie gasped as he could breath again. He looked over to see Jill coughing and breathing, her body shakings as she tried to sit up.

The man hissed. He knew he shouldn't have stayed in his human form. It made him weaker. The damn half demon was able to crush his bones in his wrist. He tried to concentrate on healing himself when another presence came swiftly towards them. He smiled, finally his true pray had arrived

"JILL!" Midna came rushing in. She gave a sudden halt as she noticed the scene before her. Jamie and Jill were on the ground, gasping for air and a human looking thing stood there, smiling at her.

"Who are you?" Midna hissed as her eyes glowed.

"Don't tell me you have forgotten me," He gave a fake frown, "After all we have been through together, you simple forgotten little old Anaru?"

Midna's eyes widen. She was frozen in place. This could not be happening. It was impossible. How could he be here? The last time she saw him was before he fought of the human army.

Jill was a bit frighten at the state of her friend. She never saw Midna so scared.

"I-It can't be." Midna watched at Anaru tried to fix his wrist, "I thought you were dead."

"Do I look like I'm dead?" He gave another laugh, "It has been many years since we have last seen each other. I believe it was right before you were trapped in that box. You sent me to go attack the humans. Sadly, I was no match with them and went into hiding. My pride was shattered as I staid out of public eyes forso many years and finally got out just a mesly few years ago. That was when I met the most interesting human. I never met such a man with so much power. We made a deal together and I've been working for him ever since."

"Really now." She sneered, "I thought you said you would never kneel down to a human?"

"Same goes to you!" he laughed loudly as he approached Jill, "But look at you now. Protecting a girl and even befriending her out of kindness. You sure have changed."

"STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Midna growled as her fur stand up on ends.

Jamie unconsciously went in between Jill and the other shadow demon, glaring at him. Anaru just chuckled, thinking this was all amusing.

"You have gotten soft, Midna." He said trying to figure out a way to grab the girl, "As you should know, the only way a shadow demon could get stronger and stay strong is to kill as many things as possible. The more powerful the pray, the stronger you become. Have you killed anything lately? Oh how the mighty have fallen. I've been having my fill of fun and hope to see how I match against you. From what I see, You'll be an easy kill."

"Why are you here?" Midna slowly was coming towards them, eyeing Anaru to make sure he didn't make any sudden movements.

"Like I said, I made a contract to a delightful gentleman," He smiled sadistically when he noticed Jill looking at him, "He wants to make his appearance, and I am a mere messenger boy. He just wanted me to pay a small visit to the little human. Don't worry Midna, I won't kill her, I was given orders not to. Thought… I do have the pleasure of discarding this trash!"

In one swift motion, He kicked Jamie in the head, sending him flying into a tree. Jamie tried to stagger back up, but Anaru was soon right infront of him, stomping his foot down upon Jamie's head. Anaru grinned widely as he had the poor boy pinned. Jamie tried to get his head up, but was stopped by the shadow demon's foot. Anarua looked at his right hand as it formed into an axe. He raised it up high, smiling widely as the thought of the half demon blood pouring out of his body.

"NO!" Jill ran toward him and tackled him.

The force of the girl only pushed him a step back, but was enough to set Jamie free. Jamie quickly went into action and grabbed hold of Anaru's throat. Jill jumped out of the way as Jamie punched his hand into the shadow demons body.

The body fell limp for a second, before a laughter came out. Jamie tried to get his hand out but found it stuck. Anaru looked down at Jamie, smiling once more.

"If you haven't notice already, Shadow demon's bodies are much different then other living creatures," Anaru then plunged his long pointy fingers into Jamie's abdomen, "Is this close to what you were hoping to accomplish?"

Jamie let out a gasp as pain filled his body. He screamed when Anaru moved his fingers, causing more blood flow out. Anaru quickly took out this fingers from the body, and letting go of Jamie's hand to allow the boy to fall to the ground.

"How about I finish-"

Anaru was surprise when large jaws chomped down on his axe arm. The weight of the creature brought him down. Anaru smiled as Midna showed her true form. A huge black beast with glowing eyes and large fangs. A shiver of excitement passed his spine.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because my 'master' is giving me a chance to kill you!" His head soon turned into a giant beast as he plunged his fangs into Midna's neck. "And I've been waiting for so many years to see you take your last breath!"

Midna gave out a cry of pain, but quickly went to attack his shoulder as the rest of Anaru's body started to change. They were both in their true form, hideously frightening creature of darkness, clawing and mauling each other.

Jill watched as the two fought viscously. Her attention was quickly turned towards the bleeding Jamie. She rushed over and examined his wounds.

"don't… get near… me-"

"shh." Jill said calmly, "Don't talk. You need to relax," Jill then went into her pockets and took out a crunched up herb, "I hope this helps."

She placed the herb onto the wound as Jamie hissed in pain. Jill placed her handkerchief over the stomach and applied pressure, making Jamie groin. Jamie had his eyes closed as he tried to calm down. He healed better when he was calm.

Midna tried desperately to shred him to pieces but to no avail. His wounds quickly healed up as Midna's took much longer. Anaru was stronger, Midna knew it right when she saw him.

"Why do you want me dead!"

"Because," He took hold of her and flung her against a tree. "I want to be the strongest, But with you on this earth, I could never achieve that."

"What about that powerful human you were talking about?" She tried to pull her self up.

"As long as I collect more of those crystals," Anaru knocked down the big tree, sending it to fall right on top of her, "I will be unstoppable."

Jamie opened his eyes to see Jill concentrating on his wound. Her hair was a mess with twigs, dirty and grass sticking out of it. Her arms were covered with dirt, bruises, and cuts. Her shirt and pants had small tears in them. A red imprint of a hand was around her delicate neck. Jamie sighed, this was why it was a bad idea to have her around.

Jamie felt as his wound slowly closed up, letting out a sigh of reief this time as the pain lessened. He looked back up to see Anaru right behind Jill.

"Jill! Behind you!"

Jamie's sudden use of her name (not girl or human) brought Jill out of her thoughts as she saw that Jamie was staring at something right behind her. Before she could fully turn, Anaru grabbed her, pulling Jill close to his chest.

Jamie let out a cry as his wound started to reopen when he tried to get up. He looked around, wondering where Midna was. He spotted her pinned under some large trees that Anaru stacked on top of her. He watched as she tried desperately to get out from under them to save Jill. He watched as black liquid came out of her mouth and gave noises of frustration and exhaustion.

"I think I'll be taking-" Anaru sentence was cut off as a huge dog came full force towards the beast. Jill flew out of Anaru's grasp and landed a few feet away. She quickly got up to see Max fighting off the monster.

"About time." Jamie muttered as he concentrated on sealing up the wound.

Max started to bite into any part of Anaru's body he could grab, hoping to fatally wound the thing. It only got the shadow demon annoyed. Anaru thrashed his head around trying to shake Max off. After that plan failed, he grabbed hold of Max's hind leg and yanking the animal off of him. Max let out a yelp, letting go of the demon. Anaru tried to get to Max's neck, to finish it quickly, but Max already knew his plan and jumped back.

"I don't have time to play games." Anaru said as he turned his attention back to Jill.

Max wasn't fast enough to stop him. Jill tried to run, but only got a few steps before giant jaws got her. She screamed in terror as he flung her up in the air and then swallowed her whole.

"JILL!" Midna dug her claws into the ground trying to get free

"Try and catch us, Midna dear." Anaru cackled as he dashed off.

Midna was in pain and was weak from fighting. Anaru was much stronger then anticipated. Midna felt as her vision was becoming blurry and her mind became dizzy. But this was not going to stop her from saving Jill. Hands sprouted from Midna's back as she lifted the large trees off of her. Max helped her and soon the two sent off to get Jill.

Jamie finally got the wound to close up. His legs wobbled as he tried to get up. He was not going to lay here and hope everything turns out right. Ignoring the pain, he raced towards them, secretly concerned of Jill's safety.

Jill was in complete darkness. She could not even see her own hand in front of her face. It was cold and was hard to breathe. She felt like she was floating into nothingness. If it wasn't for the pain, she would have thought she was dead. Jill had a hard time moving her limbs and tried desperately to find a way out. She felt utterly useless. Even though Jamie wasn't much a match against Anaru, at least he was able to hurt him. Jill wanted to help. She won't allow this evil creature kill her best friend. Jill was willing to risk her own life if it could protect Midna.

Jill's attention was caught when something bright and shinning was shimmering not to far from her. Jill's body moved on it's own accord, as she slowly got towards it.

Max was worried. Midna was pushing herself too much. She looked tired and was having a hard time run straight. Max knew he couldn't stop her. Midna would not stop until Jill was safe.

The two were catching up to him. Midna pushed harder and harder, even as all feeling in her body was gone and her vision was becoming one giant blur. As long as Jill was safe in the end, she didn't care.

Jill finally got to it. She was surprised to find it was a crystal. That would explain why he was so strong. Jill had to think of what to do now. She knew taking the crystal out of the body would render him weak, but how was she going to do that. She could barely move in the body, let alone try to break out.

" any creature, even a human; who knows how, can use the crystals, giving them power."

Mira's words whispered in her mind. Could she do it? Was she capable of using the crystal? The thought of using the crystals never crossed her mind. Jill stared determined at it, pleading that it would work. 'It had to work,' she thought to herself, 'if I want to save Midna, Jamie, Max, and even the whole town, I got to try.'

Jill grabbed hold of it, concentrating on trying to use the crystal. She felt her hand beginning to burn, but kept holding on. Energy surged through her body, making her only see white.

The two were caught off guard when Anaru collapsed and tumbled. He let out a horrid scream as white light streamed through his stomach. A while ball of light burst through him and landed a few yards away. The light diminished as Jill was laying unconscious on the ground, A crystal in her burnt hand.

"How… did… she…" Anaru tried getting up even as a large hole was in his side, "This… wasn't suppose to… happen."

Anaru tried to heal himself, but found he couldn't. He heard Midna coming towards him slowly. She stood above him, her jaws ready to kill.

Jamie caught up with them. He saw Jill and walked up to her. She started to wake up when he came closer to her. Jill slowly sat up, trying to remember what happen. Jamie took notice of the crystal in her hand, then took her gaze towards Anaru and Midna.

"Now, Midna," He gave a weak chuckle, "You won't kill me… you couldn't."

"Why not?" Midna growled hatefully, "Because you were once my comrade? My mate's brother?"

"No," He gave a smirk, "Because if you killed me, you would be the last shadow demon to exist. You would be all alone."

Midna looked at Jill before going back to Anaru "I won't be alone."

Midna fangs went forth into tearing him apart. He made no sound as his body was shredded apart. Midna stared at the now lifeless dull eyes of her once friend Anaru.

May he rest in pieces.

Midna slowly turned to look at Jill. Jill smiled at her, happy that she was safe. Midna slowly tried to walk over toward her, but ended up collapsing. Jill rushed to her friends aid, as Max and Jamie slowly walked towards them.

Midna slowly tried changing back to her cat form. She did not wish to be in this form anymore. Jill slowly picked up her cat size friend and smiled down at her.

"I'm so happy you're ok," Jill scratched behind Midna's ear, "I was worried."

"I'm sorry…"

"Come on let's go home."

"….I can't."

"Don't worry," Jill smiled, "I'll carry you."

"Jill… I-I don't think I'll make it this time."

"Midna," Jill stared down at her friend, "What do you mean?"

"Jill…. I'm not strong enough to live much longer."

"What are you talking about?" Jill tried to muster a smiling, trying to be hopeful, "If we get you to Dr. Alex, he may be able to-"

"Jill, Shadow demon's bodies are much different then other species," Midna's breathing was becoming shallow, "Not even if he knew how to treat my kind, I am beyond help."

Jill watched as her friends chest move up and down, up and down.

"No, y-you're going to be fine," Jill said stubbornly, "You just got to rest."

"I miss them Jill," Midna looked up at the cloudy sky, "I wish to see my pups and my him once more. Please don't make it as harder then it is."

"B-but," Jill was shaking, "You're my best friend, what will I do without you?"

"You're a smart and brave girl." Midna's was having a hard time keeping her eyes open, " and I left you in the most capable hands."

Midna gave a quick look at Max, who sat gravely by Jill's side. Midna gave a weak smile.

"P-Please Midna," Jill's voice started to crack, "Hang on."

"Don't worry Jill," Her eye lids slowly fell, "I'll always be with you. Always."

And then she was gone. Midna's chest stopped moving, no breathe came past her lips, and her eyes never opened again. Jill sat there, staring at her.

"M-Midna," Jill felt as her eyes became flooded with tears, "Midna, please wake up!"

She shook Midna's body lightly, getting no response.

"Come on!" Tears streamed down her face, "Y-you can't… You can't die! Oh, please Midna!…. PLEASE!… Don't leave me!… I-I can't… I-… NO!"

Jill hugged Midna tightly and cried. Max looked away, trying to hold his emotions in. Jamie stood there, watching Jill cry. The crystal a few yards away was forgotten and mother earth brought down the rain. No one seemed to notice. Jill screamed, begging to the heavens to bring her friend back.

Jill's tearful pleas were heard on deaf ears.