Disclaimer: You know what I'm about to say none of the characters belong to me except those you don't recognize: Gavin.

A/N: *sigh* Another cliffy . brace yourselves : ) Chapter 6

They pivoted and raced away from the sentinel. Numair and Diane dashed through many corridors, with the guard never far behind. They turned into yet another hallway. Soon after that turn, three knights passed at the other end of the long corridor. Seeing Daine and Numair, one yelled to the others and they turned into the corridor at a run.

Diane saw that they were trapped looked frantically around for a way to escape; she found none. She did notice a sword hanging on the wall as decoration there were many scattered around the keep. As fast as possible she tugged the sword off the wall and handed it to Numair; the guards were no more than a few yards away. Soon Daine was gone and a small, fast, sharp- taloned merlin landed on Numair's shoulder. All four men were closing in slowly swords drawn.

Numair lunged creating a cut in one guard's leg deep enough so he wouldn't be able get back up. Daine feeling Numair's muscles tense flew up into the air and dived down darting around another soldier's head pecking and scratching at his arms, cheeks and eyes. The man tried desperately to down the bird with his arms but was blinded when the bird began to scratch at his eyes. Eventually he fell dead from loss of blood.

Two down two to go. Daine thought to herself. By the time she was about to fly around the third man he was running down the hall, back the way he came.

Numair lunged another time but the soldier blocked and attacked locking the swords hilt to hilt. Numair brought his sword out of the lock and swung it up and out, stabbing the man deep in the shoulder. The guard switched sword hands and slashed his sword down Numair's left arm forming a shallow gash. Numair, both hands holding the sword hilt used the flat of the blade and slapped the attacker hard in the side of his head then thrust the sword out into the man's stomach, twisted and pulled it out. The man fell with an agonized yell and died.

Just then the first man Numair had stabbed pushed himself up, leaning on one elbow and yelled, "Relipicus!", pointed at Numair and rope shot out of his finger.

"Numair watch out!" Daine warned -having changed back to her human self-, but was too late, the rope already wound itself around Numair's torso. Before she could do anything, rope was flung towards her and she too was tied. The guard whistled three times, and within seconds soldiers came running. Two of them pulled Daine and Numair to their feet and forced them to walk.

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CrAzYhOrSeGiRl88: Sorry : ) though I know what u mean cliffhangers are really not my thing now even though I just left a cliffhanger oh well I've updated :-D

child-of-the-goddess: wow .er.thanx