"Hah…. hah… hah…" I panted, dropping to my knees after killing that young man. "Ahahaha!" I laughed crazily, falling on my back and smiled widely. "Oh how this brings me back when I killed those men before I hibernated." I licked the blood off my sharp nails. The juicy iron blood was rocking my taste buds. "Everyone shall pay." I pushed myself up the ground and limped my way to another place.

"Seina….!"

It was very slow that when I turned, I saw a familiar face flying to me. My eyes grew and mouth dropped open. No words left my mouth as the body crumbled on top of me, slipping a painful grunt coming out my lips. "Ugh…. What the hell was that?" I blinked a couple of times before lifting up my head to see who it was.

"Seina!" A bubbly voice called.

I started at the face for a bit and, "ZENO?!" My mind registered who it was this instant, and hugged him from this long departure that I was forced to go. "Oh my— owww!" I winced hugging him too tight, causing my opened wounds to sting and blood to bleed out.

The cheery face molded into solemn. There was something on his mind, and it was going to talk to me any second now as his thoughts are ready to launch off. "How many people did you kill?" His blue eyes were wanting questions.

"Take a guess." I lightly scoffed, turning my head away in guilt. I know I shouldn't have killed them… but it was torturous… it hurts. They hurt me in any kind of ways. "Maybe— I should just," I looked up at the sky, just having a hard time to talk without being tearful about it. "I… I remembered their hands very vividly. There are times where I can feel it on me whenever I'm alone, Zeno." I brought my bloody hands up to my face to cover my monstrous looks. My past were resurfacing to my mind.

Then, I felt something dropped over my shoulders. I turned my head up to see Kija standing there awkwardly. He threw me a white cloak to cover my body. "Let's go. The others are worried about you." Kija hoisted me up on his back and carried me without my saying to him.

"Kija… I'm sorry you had to see that. I was careless." I whispered, staring at the scenery. His footsteps were getting heavier as the sound was getting to my ears. I scoffed sadly, "I'm just waiting for my time to end. One day… Just one day, I will be reborn to have a better life."

"Don't say that." Kija said. His muscles were tensed and his voice was graved in sadness. "We still need you. Yona needs you, Hak needs you—"

I chuckled, closing my eyes. "They can survive without me…. I'm so tired…."

When I opened my eyes to see blurry figures from the crack of light, I turned my head to the side and breathed out slowly. "Where… where am I?" My throat was hoarse and dry, it felt like a desert. I blinked a couple of times before my eyes adjusted its vision to be clear. I was in a tent and I was fully covered in white bandages. I grunted as I sat up. The pain ached all over my back and feet. My hands were okay, but it looked horrible.

I heard loud noises outside the tent and it made me curious. I forced myself to walk though my ankles were hurting badly. I was going to push myself to the limit. With each step stepping on shards of glass, I wanted to scream and cry. The bones felt so thin that it was about to break. It felt like a coned rock standing on a cliff as it about to tip off and fall. I closed my eyes and inhaled the pain. "Just… keep going…!" My eyes squinted as it met the bright day. "Oh gosh… it's so bright." I kept limping until I saw two kids playing around with… Shinah's sword? Where am I? But right now I need to take that weapon out of that child's hand.

I saw the two kids walking until they met up with bandits. No no no…! These kids are gonna die if they don't get away from them. So I forced my legs to run. My heart was thumping, stomach was turning, and my ankles were going to fail on me.

"... We want all the alcohol and meat this village has… also women. Go grab your parents." The leader said with a wide smile. His eyes were hungry with his own greed.

"Stop!" I yelled, falling before the bandit leader. I shot my head up and growled at him, "you're not going to hurt these kids." I turned my head back and asked the kids to run and get help.

It was only me and the bandits. "Grab her and chase down the kids." Anger was chilling down every muscle in my body.

"No!" I yelled, scratching the man who tried to touch me. "If you lay a finger on me or the kids… I swear to King Hiryuu that I will freaking slay the shit out of you!"

"It's too late." A sneered played on the leader's lips and he punched me, knocking me out so easily.

I felt something calling for me, I felt the need of someone's help…. someone needed me. My fingers were unconsciously twitching as the need of savior was pulling by heart strongly.

Seina…. Seina….

Someone was calling my name, but who was it? Who was the voice owner? My name kept on repeating over and over again until it became so realistic that I instantly woke up from the blackout.

A gasp slipped out of my lips and my head shot up. "Shinah." I whispered, knowing who it was. I saw him getting beat up by the bandits. Just after my blind rage, I'm going to have to get physical with them. I growled loudly, digging my fingers into my carrier's shoulder blades.

"Arghh!" He dropped me and I slightly tipped over as I landed on my two feet. I countered him with another slash on the back and I staggered my way to Shinah.

"If you don't leave… I will have you killed. I'll show no mercy." I licked my lips in blood thirst. My distress hair was covering my face, making me look like a maniac. "Ahhh!" I grunted from the strength of their reinforcement that they had on me. My whole body was weakened and their physical strength was overpowering me. My eyes were only on Shinah and will be on Shinah. That adult-child looked so helpless… he didn't want to hurt these people with his eyes… but it will soon to be revealed. In a split second through his mask, his eyes were saying sorry as it showed his dragon eyes.

I wasn't sure what I was feeling. It was mixed emotions swelling up. I looked away so I wouldn't be paralyzed by his eyes. "Shinah, my littlest child of them all… I hope you blossom to love yourself." I let the terrible screams fill my ear drums. "One by one, they shall fall," screams came from left to right. "The eyes of the beautiful cursed dragons is laid upon…"

"I can't move! Help!"

I looked up to stare at Shinah walking over to me. "Only thee could see behind the lies what lies within."

Shinah's eyes were dead set on these bandits. He wanted them dead because they were taking me away. I still had no idea where I was or where Shinah came from, but I was lucky that Shinah came to my aid… and if he hadn't, I would've been a goner again. What a pain in the ass it would be once again to play the goose chase.

"Jaeha, get Seina! We'll handle Shinah!" I was suddenly pulled up into Jaeha's arms and he smiled down and wink at me before lifting me up off the ground.

"I got you." His strong arms secured my body as he took a big leap off the ground into cover.

It's been so long since I've seen him… or any of them. But what was on my mind was Shinah. "No. You need to take me back. I need to go back to Shinah! He needs help!" I tried gripping onto his shirt, but I couldn't since my palms were aching like crazy as I move an inch of my hands. I held back my turning face.

"Seina," Jaeha sharpened his eyes on me. "You're in critical condition and the others can handle him. I'm taking you to rest." No matter how much I retorted back at him, he wouldn't budge. He didn't listen even with little hits on him. It did no damage since I'm in a weak state right now, and Jaeha only laughed at me. His laughters was pity to my ears.

Jaeha brought me into a safe, comforting room and laid me down on the bed. "You need your beauty sleep." He got up and turned his back on me, already leaving the room.

"Wait!" I called out to him, watching Jaeha turn back around. His flowy hair whipped around and his droopy eyes gazed at me.

"Hmm?" There was a surprised smile on his face but I could tell he was concealing it as much as possible.

I stared at him, just stared. My voice was stuck in my throat, but I managed to break through that barrier of bricks. "How… how did you guys get me here?" I will finally get my answer from him.

A smirk played on his lips. "Thanks to Kija and Zeno. It's all to them that they found you." Jaeha walked back to me and squatted down so he could be eye level at me. "You were heavily wounded…" he licked his lips before finishing his sentence. "Yoon fixed you up. He was saying how the previous wounds that you received from Kumji's men at the battleship was reopening, so you lost a lot of blood. A lot of blood came from your back." His purple eyes shifted away as if he didn't want to speak about what happened to my back.

"I know." I let out a sigh. "You don't have to talk about it. It's my loss that it happened to me. I should've done something to prevent it from happening to me." I turned my head to the side, away from his view. I blankly stared at the bamboo wall.

"It's not your fault that you couldn't stop the person to chop it off." I smiled of how funny he was to say that. I could've done something… I could've changed the way I was about to escape.

"Yes it is. There's not need to pity me. Who knows how long it'll take for it to grow back. Now shoo. Let me rest." I closed my eyes.

Jaeha whispered something, but I couldn't hear it.