Amanda hurried down the street, looking for Duncan, Elkaryene or Methos. After she heard what was happening with Methos from Joe, she knew she had to help somehow.

"What have you gotten yourself into now Methos?" she muttered to herself.

She soon passed a church and she stopped in front of it, sensing someone inside it.

"That must be the church they're in!" she cried before heading inside.

She walked through the door to hear someone coughing. Amanda ran inside to see Duncan kneeling next to Elkaryene, who the older Immortal saw was covered in blood.

"What the heck happened?" Amanda demanded to know as she also knelt next to them.

"We came in and saw Scott here. He acted as if we were never here until he regained his senses but that was after he attacked Elkaryene. I wish I knew what was going on with him," Duncan explained, knowing that the younger Immortal was in no position to do so.

"Well, are you alright Yen?" Amanda wanted to know as she placed a hand on Elkaryene's shoulder.

Elkaryene was slightly surprised by what was said. Amanda could tell when the younger Immortal's eyebrows flew up.

"Now that's a name I haven't been called by for a while," she whispered.

"What? Yen? Don't tell me you've been called that before," Duncan said with disbelief in his voice.

"I have been called a few things that originate from my name: namely Ella, Kari, Yen. I've used other names like Sarah for instance. Of course, I imagine all Immortals have used aliases before," she replied as she moved to climb to her feet. "It's a natural thing."

Amanda helped Elkaryene move towards a pew and the younger Immortal sat down.

"We have to do something or else something like this will happen again. Next time, it might be a mortal who gets attacked and they won't exactly be getting back up," Amanda said.

Duncan nodded in agreement from his position a few feet away from them. He turned away from them, a hand up to his chin. He was still trying to think of anything that could explain Methos' situation. Nothing he could think of could do so. Joe couldn't explain and he found that only one person could explain what was going on with Methos and that person was Methos himself.

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Methos ran down the street, barely paying any attention to his surroundings or the people around him. All he wanted now was to get as far away from everybody as humanly possible.

"I can't believe I attacked Elkaryene! She must hate me now for it," he mumbled to himself. "I know she must. Where can I go that I'll be away from her? At least until I am rid of this problem."

He continued to run until he came across another church. He noticed it was near the outskirts of town and he was glad. He stopped to look at it before heading inside, hoping that Duncan, Elkaryene or any other of his friends would find him.

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"This is madness Street. You're hurting him even more! You have to stop this!" Fitzcairn yelled at Charley.

"I know and that's the way I want it. You saw how Scott almost took Ella's head. Now we have to allow dear Ella enough time to find us and head off Holy Ground before I have Scott take her head. He'll want to wither up and die because he knows that all his hard work has gone down the drain, even with me not around anymore," Charley laughed.

The two began to circle each other, swords once again in hand.

"I will not let you get away with this," Fitzcairn snarled.

"We all have to deal with what happens to our friends. Scott will have to live with what he almost did. He deserves for keeping me from Elkaryene," Charley replied.

"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," Fitzcairn told him.

"Well, that is what defines me because I would! Heck, I'm even causing what's happening to my own worst enemy!" Charley cried out, laughing. "I will see Elkaryene dead very soon!"

The two began to fight again, the connecting of their swords unheard by everyone but themselves.

###

Duncan and Amanda led Elkaryene into the bar. Joe was still there, waiting for them to return. He saw the blood on the youngest Immortal's shirt.

"What the heck happened?" he asked.

"Scott attacked her," Amanda sighed as she sat down in a chair. "And on Holy Ground on top of that."

"he attacked her on Holy Ground? That's crazy! I don't get it. An Immortal won't attack another Immortal on Holy Ground. It's practically unheard of! It's almost impossible. We have to find him and help him with whatever's wrong before something like this happens again," Joe said, not believing what he was hearing.

"It's true Joe. He attacked her on Holy Ground but remember that he's not in his right mind either!" Duncan said, backing up Amanda's story. "You should know that no Immortal in his right mind attacks another on Holy Ground. I should know."

"This has got to be one of the worst things to happen to me after all those disasters I've been involved with," muttered Elkaryene as she sat down next to Amanda.

She leaned back in the chair, ignoring the bloodstain on her shirt. It seemed to Joe that she might have gotten used to the feel of her blood against her skin. She might not like it but she has grown used to it. Joe was certain that most Immortals had become at least somewhat used to it.

"Well, I checked in the files again and still nothing has come up. This is definately something new to us. We have never seen an Immortal sense another that obviously wasn't there and begin to hallucinate," Joe told them with a sigh.

"We'll have to find him first. He ran off again. This isn't a small town. He could be almost anywhere by now," Amanda replied. "I don't think he can handle what he did just yet."

"We'll have to do the same thing we did before. Look for him the old- fashioned way and hope we find him soon," Duncan replied.

Elkaryene nodded in agreement as she looked away.

"If the two of you want to start without me, go right ahead. I'd rather stay here with Joe until I get calmed down," she told the two older Immortals.

"Well, we'll wait for you," Amanda told her with a smile.

"You don't understand Amanda. It takes me a while to calm down from incidents. For instance, after the 'Titanic' incident, I wasn't able to get calmed down, even after help from Scott, for nearly 18 years. After Pearl Harbor, it was nearly 25 years. No, I'm afraid getting calmed down from this incident take a few hours," explained Elkaryene.

Duncan, Amanda and Joe all looked at each other and sighed. They silently agreed that they should find Methos as quickly as possible and help him with whatever was troubling him. They also silently agreed that this would probably be the best for her.

###

Fitzcairn and Charley began to circle each other, their swords lying in their hands.

"I'm going to kill you now and be done with it," sneered Charley as he lunged for Fitzcairn.

The battle continued on. It was slowly growing more intense by each passing moment. They were not realizing that Methos was feeling the effects of their battle.

Methos placed his hands over his ears, the pain growing more intense in his head and it was spreading down to his entire body. He began to walk towards the front pew. He tried to reach out to grab the back of it to keep himself standing but his vision was slowly blurring. He was soon stumbling as he headed over towards the pew.

"What is going on?" he quietly wondered as he missed the back of the pew and fell head-on into the pew and onto the floor.

A streak of blood began to appear on the side of his face from a wound but Methos didn't realize it. He had fallen into an unnatural state of unconsciousness.

TBC...