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Christopher's Pov

~~Flash Back in His Dream~~ (he's knocked out)

I stumbled around leaning on a brick wall hearing something behind me but just ignoring it. It sounded like leaves being tossed about but nothing really mattered anymore. Only two days since I had run away like the coward I am, actually I wasn't being a coward, well not really. I was told to leave and I did what I was told. Yet I ran away from a conflict like I always do.

"Well well what do we have here?" I heard a deep male voice say and I swung around looking into the shadows. I couldn't see anything, it was too dark.

"Looks like a lost boy." Another male said. "Well why don't we help him out and show him that he shouldn't of come here." Someone else said, the voices were all around me and a sharp pain came from my neck as I was knocked to the ground and soon after that I was being kicked, punched, jabbed, stabbed, scratched and everything else.

"Ok I think he's learned his lesson, lets go." The same first male voice said as they disappeared out into the darkness. Everything was blurring together and I heard foot steps coming my way and I closed my eyes tightly reading myself for another attack.

"Don't worry I wont hurt you." A female voice said and I looked up into green orbs. "Rest now, I'll take care of you." And rest I did. Falling into my own blackness not really caring what she did to me.

~~End of Flash Back/Dream~~

I stiffened a groan as I opened my eyes into slits and felt the pain shooting up in my shoulder. Looking over I saw the white bandages and I stared up at the ceiling knowing exactly where I was.

I laid their shirtless and only in my pants, my socks were gone along with my shoes and a single blanket laid across me. Normally I would of searched for an exit but hearing the farmiler voices outside the door I calmed myself knowing that I was alright… that was until they found out what really happened to me during the time I was gone.

David's Pov

"All those scars… new and old ones." April said her voice crackling a bit as I ruffle but a hand threw my brown hair pushing it off my face only for it to be back in the face a couple minutes later.

"Where do you think he got them all?" Jalil asked but no one answered because no one knew but Christopher and when he wakes up he is not going to tell us shit. I know he still remembers I told him too leave but I never really thought he'd actually just get up and go! I just thought he would avoid me for the rest of our lives but he actually left and trust me that's not what I wanted, not at all.

"Lets go in and see if he's awake…" April said and without either of us agreeing or disagreeing she opened the door and walked threw. Jalil walked after her and finally so did I. Christopher was standing there looking out a window with his bare back to us. "Christopher?" April asked with hesitation.

He turned around and looked at her and then looked down at himself then back at her. "Where's my shirt?" I think we were all thrown back by that question. He had just gotten shot with an arrow by some cloaked person and he wants to know where his shirt is?!

"Wait! You just got an arrow in your shoulder by some unknown person and you want to know where your shirt is?" April asked, it was kind of creepy how she knew what I was thinking.

"First of all, the arrows out no biggie there. Second, the person isn't unknown. Third, I'm cold and I want my shirt." Christopher and we all just stared at him. All of us wanted to know the same thing but didn't know if we should ask or not.

A girl came up behind us her black hair waving behind her as she looked at Christopher with almost an aw kind of look.

"Emma you shouldn't be here." Jalil said, he didn't like Emma because of some reason or another. Emma didn't like Jalil either and that's why she always stuck around him just to bother him. She stuck her tongue out at Jalil then turned her attention back to Christopher.

"I know you!" She said proudly. "The bounty on your head is a BIG one!" Christopher just looked at her with an upraised eye brow.

"And how would you know that since the bounty on my head is in the tang." The tang? What the hell was that? Emma giggled and waved her index finger around.

"That's my little secret." She said giggling again and Christopher leaned against the way crossing his arms over his chest.

"The tang?" Jalil asked glaring at Emma and she just rolled her eyes.

"The tang is like the black market." Christopher said shortly before Emma could answer. She looked at Christopher then back at us.

"Well actually the tang is a LOT bigger then the black market and the people that work in it are a LOT dangerous." Emma said and Christopher shrugged like it was nothing really.

"Then why is a bounty on your head, Christopher?" Jalil asked and Christopher shrugged again.

"Actually I would like to know that too." Emma said walking up to Christopher and looking him up and down. He had actually gotten more muscle's then the last time I saw him and he carried himself with a proud kind of way.

"Well so would I." Christopher said shortly and looked at Emma not backing off or anything.

"Could it be the fact that a guy named Liam and a girl named Rain?… oh yes I can't forget the famous name you go under, Panther." All three of our eyes went wide looking at Christopher. Of course we knew who Panther was and Christopher was not him! He couldn't of been, Panther destroyed towns and lives and that kind of thing were Christopher… didn't.

"You read into things to much." Christopher said.

"Well you match Panthers profile quite nicely. Your tall, blue eyes, the way your carry yourself… the scar on your chin." Emma said running her middle finger over the scar on Christopher's chin.

"Panther's a legend and anyone with half a brain could figure that out, people like to dress up like him and pretend they are him so others will give him what he wants." Christopher said grabbing Emma's hand seeming annoyed with the young girl as he got off the wall. "And if your think I'm Panther… well then you go and think that." He let go of her hand and walked over to the bed sitting down and putting on his shoes.

"Well you never said you weren't Panther… so you didn't deny it." Emma said and ignored the glares she was being shot by April and Jalil.

"Your right, I never said I wasn't Panther… but I also never said I was." He got off the bed after tying up his shoes and turned to us not looking at me, not even giving me a glance.

"If you go out there more assassin and people after you bounty will come after you, you do know that you cant dodge them forever?" Emma stated crossing her arms and Christopher turned back to her.

"Not many people will try to come after me, only cocky bastards that think they can beat me." He said simple running a hand threw his blonde hair. "I may not be able to dodge arrows but at close combat those suckers will fry." He grinned showing the side of Christopher I was wanting to see for so long.

"You know how to use the sword now… well better then before?" April asked and Christopher turned to her.

"Yep, like a pro I might add myself." Jalil snickered at Christopher.

"The only cocky bastard I see here is you Hitchcock." He stated and smiled just because Christopher blushed slightly.

"Oh can I see you use your sword?!?!" Emma asked her eyes going wide with excitement. Christopher scratched the back of his head and looked like he was thinking.

"I only use my sword when I have to." Christopher said and Emma pouted.

"Then fight me!" She said and Christopher chuckled at her as she got pissed. "What just because I'm a girl you don't think I can fight?!"

"No, the fact that you're a girl never struck a cord, the fact that your about four times smaller then me and don't know how to use a sword struck a big cord." He stated and we all looked at him.

"How'd you know I didn't use a sword?" She asked sounding astonished.

"Well the way your stand, your feet are two close together, swordsmen usually have their feet apart and ready to run if forced too. Also you don't have a sword attached to your side and usually swordsmen carry their swords everywhere and have their hand on the hilt usually at all times-" Christopher was interrupted by Emma.

"You mean like David?" She asked and actually I had my hand resting on the hilt of my sword. Christopher looked at me for the first time and nodded.

"Yeah… just like David." Christopher said and I blushed slightly looking down.

"Then why don't you fight David?" Emma said like this was the best idea in the world.

"Uhh… well… I don't think so." Christopher said and I looked up at him.

"Well why not?" I said and Christopher looked like he was smacked in the face and he nodded.

"Fine, then we'll fight." He said shortly. "But first I need my shirt."

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Hmm… would this be considered a cliff hanger??? I think so too!! Hehe well please R&R!!