Ivan felt as though his whole body would be engulfed in flames, he had to get out! But the pain kept him from escaping. Between sleep and reality he could barely make it to either. Darkness was beginning to creep up around his already darkened vision. The only thing that he was able to think was pain and the blackness. Feeling his body go numb, he could barely make out his killers face. 'Death,' that was what he was experiencing at the moment. This was the last thing he was able to make out before the darkness clouded his vision.

Taking a quick sweep of the room, Mia could barely contain her rage. Isaac stood over the younger one of their party, a blood drenched sword in his right hand.

"Looks like Garet couldn't handle killing you, figures. He always did have his eye out for you, well it doesn't matter. I'll just have to kill you myself." Isaac grinned with malice.

"Hold on there one second Isaac, first tell me why you and Garet are doing this. Than I can continue in kicking your ass." Mia chuckled at her new found opponent. Confidence filling her every word.

"That was always the problem with you Mia, thinking that because your a women who can do battle that your superior in some way. I knew we should of never let you join with us."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Mia stated. "You should know that I don't think of myself better than you or anyone else for that matter?" As she spoke, Mia was careful to keep her hands behind her, gathering the energy of the water around her. "You don't seem to realize that you could of just asked me or Ivan to leave and we would of." She continued, trying to buy as much time as she could. Taking a quick glance at Ivan, she silently cursed herself. He was losing blood and life. If she didn't get to heal him soon, he would probably to far gone to save.

"Mia, you just don't get it do you? It all comes down to the fact that you were never one of us. The only reason we let you stay was because you were the only one at the time who was a adept in water." Isaac shot back at her, "Now, lets finish this."

"As you wish Isaac." Mia replied coolly. Rising her hands above her head, she let the power she had gathered release from her hold, a bolt of azure struck Isaac. The young man was forced to his knees with the pain, gasping for breath as he could barely keep conscious.

"Serves you right," Mia sniffed, herself struggling for air. She had used such a amount of power, she hadn't had the strength to and the room seemed to be getting smaller by the minute.

"What am I doing?" She muttered to herself, shaking her head in a effort to clear it. She hurrying over to where Ivan lay. His body was blood soaked and she could easily tell that he was holding on to life by a thread.

"Don't worry Ivan, I'm here now. Everything will be fine, just lay still and I'll heal you." Mia murmured in his ear, more for her comfort than his. She wasn't sure if she could heal him, he was so close to death…

Taking a deep breath, Mia called upon the last remaining bit of psyenergy she had left. It was so little, after having to defeat both Garet and Isaac… It had been hard. Maybe to hard, and she was overusing her energy, both magically and physically. Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the task ahead. After making contact with her magic she proceeded in the task ahead.

'First thing is first,' she thought while calling upon the spirit of ply. The spirit would help keep the patient in a life state, but ply could only work for so long…

"The only thing left to do is call upon the Djinn…" she muttered under her breath. Letting the slim amount of power she had left into the world of spirits. Mia could hear the Djinn come into form, now she was able to take from their enormous power. Drawing from their immense store of energy she was able to make contact with pure wish. The most powerful healing spell she had. Letting the power flow into her hands Mia knew she was overextending herself. Even with the extra energy to draw from. The spell flew into Ivan's barely breathing body.

"It's working," she sighed as life was given in full to the young boy. Falling to her knees in exhaustion, Mia knew that Ivan would be fine. In the meantime though, she was to tired to even greet him back to life.

Ivan awoke to find Mia asleep over him. He stood up, laying the girl down on the bed.

"What the heck," Ivan whispered to himself, seeing Isaac sprawled on the floor. Suddenly memories came rushing back to the young boy, memories on how Isaac was going to kill him. Stealing a glance back at Mia, he was happy to find that she was not wounded.

"What am I supposed to do now?" Ivan sighed. Looking down at his boots he was startled to see that in his mail shirt there was a hole. Lifting the mail up, Ivan stared in horror of the wound that covered his lower belly. It was healed, but also infected and he had to get to a healer, if he didn't then he would probably catch a disease or something… he let his depressing thoughts trail off as he noticed that Mia was beginning to struggle up.

"Ugh," Mia said in pain, putting her hand to her temple. "I feel horrible."

"Mia, your okay, I'm okay. What happened to Isaac and what about Garet?" Ivan poured out onto the newly awaken Mia, rushing toward her in a hug.

"Ivan, we'll all be fine. But first we got to get off of this ship. Can you summon anything?" The young women stated, tightening her hold on Ivan.

"Yeah, I can probably summon Procne." Ivan said, peeling away from the hug. "If she can't get us to the main land no one can… but what about Garet and Isaac? Are we just going to leave them here?"

"Yes that's exactly what were going to do, now can you summon Procne? I need to get off of this ship!" Mia sneered with more rashness than she intended. Ivan nodded as he walked outside on to the deck. Going into the trance like state that proceeded the summoning as soon as he knew there would be enough room to hold the gigantic bird. Mia watched as the bird like form of Procne came into view, it was Ivan's favorite summons and she knew that he could communicate with the spirit easily, so there was no fear of it suddenly attacking them.

"Just grab on to her talon's and than we can get out of here," Ivan smiled at Mia, grabbing on to the talons as he spoke.

"Right," Mia responded, following Ivan's action. She could feel the bird beginning to lift up, but decided against keeping her eyes open. The girl had always been afraid of heights and she still needed more sleep…

As a white-bird like spirit lifted in to the sky, two figures clung to it's feathers. A young boy of 15 and a girl falling into dream world. Neither of them were aware of the blue tinged man, floating behind them. Rain began to fall as two men from a village that had forsaken them started to stir from unconsciousness.



A/N: See, I finished it. Now are you happy? I did have half of the chapter written, but it was bad, real bad. So I rewrote the whole thing. Now before you go and yell at me in your great reviews (that I love by the way) about how long it takes to put up a chapter, go look at my other stories. I do write other things you know. Well I have to think of a plot before I write another chapter so It'll take a while.

By the way, reviews are the best, so please do more, they make me happy and give me incentive to write! So now I'm going to shut up now, before I embarrass my self further. Oh yeah, Isaac your right, I do give myself no credit.