Destiny's feelings with mixed up, she should be angry with her father, but when she sensed how proud of RJ and her, he is. It threw her a curve ball,

"Dammit!" she cursed, and right now Master Finn and her brother were downstairs having father/son moment, she could be down there to turn it into a family moment. But she didn't want to answer questions, first being how she chose to runaway, second if her dad saw the scars on her torso, he would ask questions, and she wasn't a very good liar.

"Destiny?"

Destiny turned toward the voice that called her, finding out it was Master Finn,

"Dad," Destiny greeted stiffly. "Or should I be calling you; Master Finn?"

"I'm your father and Casey's master," Master Finn answered as he sat beside Destiny on a stool, "RJ said you have something to tell me?"

"Oh great, leave it to me to explain, how my life sucked up until now." Destiny moaned. She spun on the stool, to look at everywhere but at her father. "Where do you want me to start, or should I just start yelling."

"I would very much like it if you wouldn't start yelling," Skyla spoke up after coming out of her meditative trance.

"Who said that?" asks Finn

"Don't worry about her, she's my other teacher." Destiny laughed.

"Two masters?" asks Finn,

Destiny shook her head, "No, my only Pai Zhuq Masters are Coyo, RJ."

"I'm her empathic training teacher, also her friend." Skyla explained,

Finn glanced at his daughter, Did that explain how she was able to sense everything emotional, and how she ran away?

"No, I didn't run away because of the empathic gift, I ran because you wouldn't listen to me about my animal spirit, you can't change a leopard into a shark." Destiny explained,

"But you have to be a student in the temple before finding your animal spirit" Finn wondered,

"Not for me, I already felt that I had the leopard spirit but you were so dead set on teaching me the Shark technique without every thinking about what I wanted," Destiny retorted, "I can sense animal spirits."

"I see there is a lot; I should relearn about you, Destiny." agreed Finn

"Some of which, I don't want to tell you about dad, but I haven't got a choice" Destiny replied and looked down at her shoes, "I'm still a student."

"I don't see why you're still a student, you could be a Leopard Master by now, since you've been in training since you could walk," Finn stated.

Destiny sighed, "I know, when I was thirteen there was something that happened to me, Before I could even try for the Master Test."

Destiny got up, walking over to the practice mats, she didn't want to come clean about this, she was afraid the reaction her father might have when he learned that his baby girl, almost died.

"Destiny, you can tell me anything," Finn stated softly.

Destiny crossed her arms, "I needed you for four months when I was laid up in the infirmary of the temple,"

"You were in the infirmary?" Finn was shocked only really bad accidents caused students to end up there,

"Yes, if it wasn't for my leopard and Master Mao, I would be dead." Destiny answered.

"If one of the students did something Mao would have thrown them out." Finn argued.

"It wasn't a student, I was stupid and trusted a boy three years older then I was!" Destiny shouted. She turned around and glared at her father, "you weren't there to scare him off, you knew that I had only one choice where to go to be trained in the Pai Zhuq, why didn't you ever come search for me?"

Finn knew he was going to have to with an emotional teenage daughter, but one that had no mother, or father because he wasn't thinking straight at the time. "I wasn't thinking straight at the time, you heard my reasons, if I could go back in time to change what I did, I would in a heartbeat."

"I really needed you," Destiny whispered, she took a deep breath and let it out, "and I still do, I'm not a little girl anymore, I'm a overly emotional teenager that needs her father in her life,"

Finn walked up to his daughter that he hasn't seen or heard from in five years, and pulled her into a hug. "I'm here whenever you need me,"

Destiny sighed and hugged her dad back. She finally began to forgive herself for stupid choices. "Can you forgive me for running away?"

"Yes, Kitten." Finn replied, "I never really understood why your mother called you that, but now I know."