AN: Here's ch. 8! Yahoo! It's alive and longer than yesterday's! Enjoy! Sorry about the short chapter! Anyways, this is longer!

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"Mommy? Daddy? Where am I?" Faith asked as she looked around the dark room. Her dark green searched the small cabin for any sign of her parents but, she found none.

"I see you've finally decided to wake up. Welcome little one."

"Who are you?" Faith asked. A man stepped out from the shadows causing Faith to gasp.

"I see that answers you're question. You might be here for a while so I'd just relax if I were you." He said.

"Where's my Mommy and Daddy? What did you do with them?" Faith asked.

"Nothing yet my child." He answered, smirking.

"I want to go home! Take me home right now!" Faith cried. The man shook his head and walked toward her.

"This is what I get for kidnaping a sick child. Sit there and shut up." He snapped. Faith's bottom lip began to quiver at his harsh words.

"You're mean! My Daddy never yells at me like that!" Faith cried.

"They obviously didn't teach you any manners either!" He retorted. Faith jumped up and kicked him in the shin.

"You're a bad, bad man! You only want to hurt my Mommy and Daddy!" Faith yelled. The man stood almost ready to hit her when he remembered what he had planned to do.

"I'm sorry I yelled at you child..."

"Faith. My name is Faith." She corrected him.

"Faith, I wanted to save you from them." He said.

"From who?" She asked.

"Why you're parents of course. It was only a matter of time before they decided to leave you." He said.

"What do you mean? My Mommy and Daddy love me." She said.

"How could they love a demon such as yourself? That's why I came to save you."

"A demon? What's that?" Faith asked.

"Well, you are a demon. Someone that no one will ever grow to love. They are evil and cursed people."

This only made Faith more confused. Her parents had never spoken about such things. Was that because it was true? Was she really a 'demon'? The word felt weird in her mind. She sat quiet and watched the man as he worked with some potions at the table.

~Mommy, Daddy, is it true?~



~~The castle~~

"Wha..."

Hitomi looked around the room then back out the window again making sure she was alone. It was getting late and there was no sign of Faith anywhere. She was beginning to get anxious and worried.

"Are you ok?"

Yeah, I just thought I heard Faith just now but, that's impossible." She said.

"Don't worry I won't rest until I've got her back here safe and sound."

"I know you won't. Thank you for saying that Van. I just wish I knew where she was. I'd actually kill to have a vision right now. Just to see if she was ok. To know she was..."

"Don't say things like that Hitomi. Don't even think it. We will find her, you have to believe that. You can't give up on her." Van said, hugging her.

"We've got people scouting the area and asking questions. Someone might have seen something." Chid said from behind them. Van turned to look at them with a look of gratitude. Merle looked over at Hitomi and just had time to point before Hitomi slouched over



~~Hitomi's vision~~

"Well I got what I wanted. Hello?" She walked around the all too familiar darkness. Faith appeared before her in a cabin with a man facing her.

"Demon! You're cursed and nobody will love you, ever!"

"Cursed?"

"No! You're not cursed Faith!" She yelled even though she knew that her daughter would never hear. Darkness surrounded her again and she witnessed when the man took Faith.

He had used magic and just appeared in the room. He threw Merle and Millerna against the wall just by extending his hand. Faith was then lifted off the bed and pried from their hands as the man grabbed her and disappeared again.

He took her to a cabin on the outskirts of Fanelia.

"It's like he's trying to get caught. I don't understand this at all." She whispered as she was sucked into darkness again.

"I believe you now. They left me alone." Faith cried.

"I'm here Faith, don't worry." She said.

"I'm here for you Faith. I will never leave you alone." A man said.

"Thank you." Faith said as she hugged him.

"Faith! Don't believe him! It's a trick!" She yelled as the cabin disappeared.

~~End vison~~



Hitomi woke to see that she was lying in a bed with a cloth over her forehead. Van sat silently beside her waiting for her to wake up. The others had gone to see if there was any news.

"I...I know where they are." She whispered. Van jumped at the sound of her voice and took her hand.

"Where Hitomi? Where is she?" He asked.

"A cabin on the outskirts of Fanelia. He's up to something Van." She said.

"We'll be prepared." He said. She sat up and looked at him with worried eyes.

"He's confusing her Van. He's trying to make her think that we don't love her." She said, trying not to cry.

"He'll pay Hitomi, don't worry. Faith is strong and I'm sure she'll knew what is true." He reassured her.

"I'm going with you. I'm not staying here knowing that he could very well get the both of you. I'm staying with you Van." She said.

"I know. There's nothing I could ever think of saying to change your mind when it's set on something. We'll go as soon as possible." He said.

"Tonight. We should go now. I don't want that vision to become reality and the longer we wait, the sooner it'll come." She said.

"Exactly what I was thinking. Let's go." He said, helping her stand.

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TBC.



AN: Ok, this isn't as long as I hoped but, my mother and brother are bugging for the computer so I couldn't get it longer. I hope this is ok though. It gets the points out. Tomorrow is the rescue or piece of it anyway. That's if I don't go out. I'll try 2 get it out earlier. R&R please!