S-E: Hey my favourite darklings, how are ya'll? Anywayz thanks to all those who reviewed my last chapter, sorry it took so long im kinda in the middle of my work experience...yep...I can frame pictures now. So I've been writing all through the night since my last chapter because I can't sleep, and I honestly don't want to.

Raven: Disclaimer time...Soulful Eyes owns me, Hannah, Yushi and...scowls...Mimi...there may be more OCs introduced but she has no idea at the moment because we are constantly arguing in her head...

Yushi: is on sugar rush ON WITH THE FIC!!!!

Everyone: ¬¬U

Hannah's dream

She could see him, lying on the hard, leaf covered floor. Coughs wracked his body as he spat out a mouthful of blood. His attacker stood above him, leering down at him as he delivered another kick to the red headed boy's stomach.

Cold, emotionless lavender eyes ran over the fallen boy.

"You just don't give in do you Tala?" he said matter-of-factly, "why?"

"Because, Bryan, I'm not going to let you have her!" Tala spat as he staggered to his feet. He painfully drew himself up to his full height, wincing as he did so. He summoned a smirk onto his face, "And you just can't stand that she chose me over you!" he declared triumphantly.

The lavender haired boy's lips curled back into a snarl as he knocked Tala to the ground again. Hannah reached forward with a hand, reaching for Tala, but he only seemed farther away. The pair were fading fast.

"I think it's time to end this, Ivanov, I never break a promise!" Bryan sighed. He closed his eyes and lifted his arms into the sky, somehow, Tala was borne into the air. He floated in front of Bryan, suspended with his arms and legs spread like a star. His face was contorted with pain.

"No!" Hannah screamed, "Leave him alone!" she scrambled towards the disappearing pair. "TALA!!!!" she wailed.

Hannah's POV

I jolted upright in her bed, only to find myself surrounded by my best friends and myself totally entangled in the bed covers and totally drenched in sweat.

"Hannah?! Are you ok? Please say something!" I could Yushi's frantic voice, although it sounded very far away. I could hear a low babbling of voices. I'm not sure what was being said, a jumble of words. Only one broke through my mind.

"Hannah, why were you screaming for Tala?"

My eyes shot open. "Tala" I whispered and pushed my friends away from me, falling off my bed with a thud in an attempt to free myself of the silk confinement. I scrambled over to the door and flung it open, it bounced loudly off the wall. I threw herself out of it and hurtled down the corridor, not caring that I was still dressed in my pyjamas or that I had no shoes on. I could hear the sounds of my friend's feet pounding the floor as they ran after me.

I skidded around a corner, almost crashing into the wall, but I managed to balance myself and carried on my run. Tears blurred my vision and I couldn't see anything clearly. I was relying on my sense of direction to get me to the forest.

And I also didn't see the person looming up in front of me until I ran straight into them. I was sent flying backwards and landed on my back, letting out a yelp of pain. I ignored the pain and carried on running, nothing is going to stop me from getting there.

Normal POV

"Bloody Hell!" Michael cried as he hurtled backwards. Colliding with a stricken goth girl on a rampage sure was painful. He rubbed his temple ruefully and pulled himself to his feet.

"What's her problem?!" he ranted, "doesn't she look where she's going?!" his continued to show his displeasure by waving his arms around in the air and scowling. This received many odd looks from the four teams stood behind him.

He quickly flattened himself against the wall as the other five girls fell around the corner, onto a heap on the floor.

"Which way?" Emily asked frantically, disentangling herself from the group and staggering up to Enrique.

"Hurricane Hannah went...that-a way" he pointed to the corridor on his left, "what's up with her?" but Emily had already pushed past him and attempting to run down the corridor after her friend.

"We have no idea, but come with and I think you'll soon find out" Hilary panted, she wasn't used to running so much, whereas Mariah was seemingly full of energy, even though it was one in the morning. She was bouncing up and down on her heels and half dragging Rei and Lee down the corridor.

When Kai had seen Hannah pelting blindly down the corridor, the alarm bells in his head had sounded. He ran faster than any of them. He saw Hannah as his closest friend, they had grown up together, she was the one who knew him best. Though he hated to admit it, she could read him like a book and yet he could never tell what was going on inside her head.

Raven ran so close behind Kai, she was almost treading on his heels. Enrique, Michael and Robert were lagging at the back and panting hard. None of them had run so much before, but they tried to keep up none the less. Tyson was dragging the slowly tiring Hilary by her hand. She tripped over something and fell to the floor in an exhausted heap. Tyson wasted no time in picking her up and running with her on his back through the trees. Gary was crashing through the trees as Kevin darted around and under branches. Eddy and Steve were doing their best to avoid the huge dark trees as they ran, with not much success. Oliver and Max were running through the trees with surprising agility, Rei, Mariah and Johnny hot on their heels. Emily and Yushi were pulling one another along. Yushi was half-heartedly yelling ahead of her for Hannah to slow down, but she didn't listen.

Hannah was showing no sign of tiring as she flew towards her goal. She was so close now she could hear Tala and Bryan's conversation.

"I think it's time to end this..." Bryan's voice drawled, "...I never break a promise..."

She burst through the branches and thorny bushes, covered in fresh cuts and bruises. It was just as she had seen it, Tala was hovering in front of Bryan. Bryan's eyes were now open and were glowing with a bright white light. He cupped a fiercely bright orb in his hands.

"So I thought what better than to destroy you with your own power!" he said maliciously, before throwing back his head and roaring with laughter.

"STOP!" she shouted.

Hannah's POV

Bryan immediately stopped laughing and looked at me in shock. He quickly put his mask back on and the smirk slid back onto his face.

"Hello there, my darkling, you're just in time to see the show" he leered.

"Leave him alone" I said darkly, ignoring the throbbing pain in my feet and legs.

"And why would I want to do that?"

"It'll be worth your while"

He raised an eyebrow at this, and then grinned widely. "Are you offering a trade, love?"

I could not find any words, so I just nodded numbly.

"Me for him" I said quietly when I had found my voice.

"You'll be mine?" he asked, surprised.

Again I just nodded.

"Willingly?"

"Willingly" I repeated, "Just give him to me"

Bryan flashed a triumphant smile and brought his arms down, sending Tala crashing to the floor. He stepped away and watched as I crawled over to Tala.

I cradled his head in my lap, his turquoise eyes opened and looked up at me. They were full of sorrow. "I'm sorry" I whispered in a cracked voice, I place a kiss on his forehead and step away from him. Towards Bryan.

All of my friends had been watching this with shocked expressions.

"No Hannah, don't do this!" Kai yelled out to me, stepping away from the group.

"I have to, Kai, I traded, and I am marked" I said woefully, I swept my roughly severed hair away from my neck to reveal the ugly purple bite mark in my neck. Kai sucked his breath in sharply and glared over my shoulder at the grinning Bryan.

"How dare he?!" Kai quietly seethed, "I won't let him take you!"

"You have no choice, you can't stop him, don't make this any harder than it is" my voice broke with the last few words, I choked them out and turned my back on my childhood friend.

"Hannah!" Bryan's voice called sharply, and I knew it was time to go. I walked numbly towards him and stood beside him while he wrapped his arms around my limp form. He turned me to face him and crushed his lips to mine. I didn't fight back, I didn't respond, not seeing anything with my dull, empty eyes.

Kai's fists were clenched at his sides, his hair was shadowing his eyes. Kai's fists were suddenly aflame and the red fires licked up his arms, he ran towards us with a yell. Still with his mouth attached to mine, Bryan held up his hand and a jet of water shot from his palm. It quenched the flames and sent Kai hurtling backwards.

Breaking the kiss, Bryan smirked at Kai. "Later!" he said loudly, and we vanished into thin air.

Normal POV

"NO!" Kai screamed and ran to where they had been. He shuddered at a halt. He stared at the spot where his friend had stood just seconds before. He felt someone lay a hand upon his shoulder, half-turning his head he looked at Raven, stood behind him in a set of midnight blue pyjamas. To her he appeared lost and frozen inside. She pulled him towards her and wrapped her arms around his drooping form. He fell to his knees and Raven went with him. A single tear rolled down his cheek.

Raven never knew the bond between Hannah and Kai went this deep. She felt the tears welling up in her own eyes as she glanced around her. Rei, Robert and Lee were crouched over Tala, pulling his arms over their shoulders as they pulled the battered boy to his feet. Yushi was sat on the floor, silently crying while Mariah and Emily tried to comfort her.

Johnny was raging at everyone, screaming how they had to get her back and what he was going to do to Bryan. Oliver was vainly attempting to calm him down, only resulting in him getting shouted at.

Hilary had her face buried in Tyson's shirt, Kenny had appeared beside him and was sat on the leafy floor, Dizzi open upon his lap.

"Now that was freaky, I can't find a single trace of them. Thinking about it, I can only find a few signals of life in the school at all. Where has everybody gone?!" Dizzi's voice broke the silence. "As far as I can tell, all non-elementals have disappeared!"

"What's an elemental?" Kevin asked, he looked at the people around him. "Anyone going to tell me?"

"An elemental is someone who has the powers of the 12 major elements, Ice, Fire, Water, Electricity, Air, Earth, Energy, Serenity, Nicht, Day, Light and...Dark" Raven said quietly.

"Whoa I thought that sort of stuff only existed in fairy tales" Michael said in awe.

"Hang on, you said all non-elementals had disappeared." Oliver said loudly. "But we aren't elementals"

"There are the minor elementals too. They do not possess the same amount of power as the majors, but they do have some, you must be minors" Dizzi filled in.

"How do you know about this Dizzi?" Raven questioned, "We never told anyone"

"I'm a bitbeast, this has been foretold for millennia. The elemental Warriors would save the planet from a great evil, known to all of you"

"Bryan!" Kai growled, pulling himself to his feet.

"No, not Bryan, he's only a puppet in this story, there is one much more powerful" Dizzi said thoughtfully, "Bryan's powers are artificial, given to him by his master"

"Oh" came the reply.

"Does anyone else care that evil bastard has got Hannah?!" Kai yelled angrily.

"Of course we do, Kai, but we need to know where they are first!" Robert said angrily.

"I think we need to get Tala back to the school first" Rei said calmly, indicating to the unconscious red head between him and Lee.

Enrique marched up to them and shook Tala's shoulders. His eyelids flicked open and he looked up at the blond with dull eyes.

"What's going on?! What did you do to Hannah?! This is all your fault!" He shouted at Tala.

"I know" Tala whispered, fresh tears began to roll down his face, "I know" he head dropped back down as he slipped into a deep sleep.

"Let's get him back"

S-E: OMG! What's happening?

Bryan: insert evil laugh I have her now!

Tala: Give her back!

Bryan: No!

S-E: Okay then...please review, I need lots of reviews to make me feel better...until next time!