Mee: Oh the pain. Oh the agony! She's such a slave driver! Bright and early in the morning, forcing me to work on the story! Woe is me!

E-T-C-S:i was asleep till 11:57

Mee: (o.0) I've been up working on it since 8:49........

E-T-C-S: idiot........

Mee: (T-T) Deserter........ Oh ya! Sorry for this chapter being REALLY late. I was sick with a HUGE ASS writers block and I've been busy... a lot. I no longer have time for myself anymore! So don't get angry with me! Oh.... and flames could REALLY HELP ABOUT NOW! Cause the might get me over this writer's block I'm currently suffering...

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There, in silence Chris sat on the ground and stared into nothing. Alone, lost, scared and sorrowful, he stayed in that one spot where he lost everything.

"I'm... I'm such a failure!" He screamed in frustration, pounding the ground anger and angst. "I let her down as well as Raenef! Two people who I hold dear...gone... gone just like that. A split second and everythings gone!" He cried. He felt like he had something stuck in his throat and something in his eye. "I... can't live with myself..." He murmured while he listened closely to his surroundings. Nothing. The forest was absolutely quiet. He looked up to the trees that stood there. They did not sway. But the eerie faces that they held, some sad, some mocking, and others with anger. Though they were just trees, Chris felt that they had watched everything.

Everything that just happened. Everything that made his world complete was stolen.

From the silence, he heard some rustling behind him. Chris turned around, ready to strike, when a tall dark figure appeared.

"Oh... it's only you..." Chris said as he looked away from Eclipse's face.

"Where's Erutis? What happened?" He said with a worried, angry tone.

"She's... She's..."

"She's what?"

"She's GONE Eclipse!" He broke out. Tears spilled from his eyes and he started to bawl. "She's gone! No where to been seen!"

"Calm down-"

"I CAN'T CALM DOWN!" He screamed as he looked up at Eclipse's face. The tears still flowing down his soft pale cheeks. "She's gone and we can't get her back Eclipse!"

"Take a deep breath."

"I told you I CAN'T! Everything that I had was just stolen from me! What about Raenef? Huh?! You know how you felt? Well I feel it too! But I was hurt. Emotionally AND physically! How would you feel?!" He hollered again as he began to bawl once more.

No word came from Eclipse's mouth. He was furious but he felt sorry for him. After all, to him it seemed like Chris felt things that he, himself, was afraid of.

"I... I know how you feel. But it won't do us any good if we just sit here." He said coldly.

"sniff... Your right..." Chris replied as he got up from the ground.

"We'll go and find Erutis first."

"Thank you..."

"There's no need for thanks. As much as I displease of her OR you being in the castle... to say the least the both of you have grown onto me like fungus." Said Eclipse sheepishly.

Chris looked straight at Eclipse and felt that the demon known for cruelty does in fact have a warm spot. Was it there all along? Or was it Raenef who melted his cold heart? Chris left that un-answered, for if he were to ask... he would sure lose some limb from his body.

The two followed in the Direction that the Kidnapper flew off with Erutis, in hopes that they soon would find were she was being held captive.

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Chris! Please! Help me! I... I need you... please... don't give up! I don't want to be with this...this thing! Who knows what'll happen... but if anything does...... I want you to be... my... hero...

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Chris and Eclipse journeyed on through the creepy forest, following the direction they had set out on before.

"I'm so hungry and tired..." Whined Chris as a tremendous growl came from deep inside his stomach.

"I'm hungry and tired too but we have to find some sort of place that we can rest and NOT be eaten by any more of those... things..." Explained Eclipse who was slightly... no... VERY irritated by the whiney Cleric.

Stupid moron... When will he ever shut up! Eclipse thought for he could not take any more of Chris's complaints.

"Well there's someplace up there!" Chris shouted as he pointed to a small, dark, gloomy, and 'shack like' cottage. "Maybe someone's there or hopefully no one at all."

"Fine. We'll rest for a while."

"Good cause I'm famished and sore an-"

"Enough." Eclipse ordered coldly as he looked Chris straight in the eye. Chills spend down his spine as Chris knew that look before. He KNEW that whatever Eclipse wanted to do (especially if it involved violence) he would do it.

The two walked up to the old cottage and knocked on the door. Unfortunatly, with the first tap the door flew off it's hinges, leaving the suprised men standing there, invited yet not invited.

"Hello?" Questioned Eclipse, as he looked around the 1 room cottage. There wasn't much there. A counter top with canned foods, cabnets that held mysterious items, a small wood burning stove, an artist's table and canvas holder, a very small straw bed and a dusty armour that was positioned right across the door.

They walked inside cautiously like a mouse, sneaking in and taking little steps. Once inside the middle of the little cotage, it seemed sort of... homey.

"I wounder who lives here?" Chris asked as he looked around the whole room, admiring the works of art hidden in a small corner of the room.

"That would be, I, Cathrine." Out came a childish voice but with a tint of a English accent. Eclipse spun around to look at the short, curly brown haired teenager.

Great... He thought, Another munchkin... but... why is she here in a place like this? and a puzzling thought indeed.

Chris turned around to look at her too. His reaction was, just only a small one with no questions considered. "Whoah... you sure are short."

"I didn't ask you anything about my height! Now may I ask you, what are you doing in my house?"

"Easy," Chris had mused, "We were looking for a place to hide and we came up to your 'house'."

"Is that so?" She seethed as she looked at them carfully and questionaly.

"Indeed it is." Replied the noble Eclipse, as he stood there tall and dark. "To our fortunate needs, your living space had showed up in the clearing. But, what confuses me most, is that..."

"That what?" She asked, slouching and putting her hands on her hips. God he's gorgeous. So tall... dark... and handsome. I've never seen him around. I wounder if he's...

"...How did you end up in a place like this?" Eclipse mused as his dark eyes gazed upon the young woman.

"Ummmm......." Cathrine noised as she shly moved her right foot side to side in front of her as a nervous habit it may have seemed.

"What? Is it something embarasing?" Teased Chris, who, as might have seen, got some amusment torturing her the way he would to our beloved Erutis.

"What?!" She jolted and her face turned red. "It's not that... It's just that... how about we settle this over a nice cup of thorn tea." She asked as she forced a fake smile upon her face.

"I don't see what would be the rush." Eclipse had motioned, to look around the room. Trying just a spot to sit down after the tireless hours of runing, walking, and fighting.

Cathrine noticed this and pointed towards her bed.

"You can just sit on that for a while." She exclaimed as she rushed towards stove and pulled out a small bag from one of the cabnets. The bag contained to what seemed like a very fine, ash-like powder.

"That must be the tea stuff then..." The super genious mumbled and looked at the black bag in desgust.

"It's not bad. It actually-"

"Ahem." Coughed Eclipse, his cold eyes focused on Catherine as she busied herself with the tea. "I am afraid to report, Miss Cathrine, that you did not answer my question." He proclaimed.

"Well..." She noised as the black kettle upon the stove wistled immediatly and was taken off of it. "... It was a long time ago, we'll just say." She said quietly as sadness reigned over her face and a frown curved it's way into her soft lips like a drawing in the sand.

"Well at least it's not worse than getting kicked out by your family!" Chris joked as thoughts of what Hejem had done to him amongst the past. He smiled heartidly but when he looked upon her face, he could even tell that something he had just said wasn't the best thing to say.

Way to go super genious. Chris thought, while quickly trying to find another way to cheer her up. But before he even got to saying anything, Eclipse had beat him to it.

"Don't mind the impudent cleric," Eclipse stated, reciving a small chuckle from the hostes. "He seems to forget that his big mouth doesn't really have the best choice in words-"

"Hey!" Shouted Chris, as veins popped out of his head and his ears steamed and fumed.

"However," Eclipse declared while ignoring the fact that Chris was trying as much as he could to get a few words in himself. "I still do not have my answer for my question."

"Well..." She said, with a small trail of silence. She paused and then put her own cup of tea down. "It started a while back..."

"Aw crap..." Chris complained. He was just about to put his head in his hands in agony when a very familiar hand thwacked against his hard skull. "What the hell Eclipse?!"

"Shut up you insolent fool. The lady here is about to tell us something important." Was what Eclipse had orderd him to do, while he readjusted his position.

Just then Chris mumbled something along the lines of... "How dare he abuse Chris, The Supergenius! Why I oughta-"

"Ahem! Did you say something you repulsive being?" Eclipse said, quirking up one of his eye brows.

"Nothing you queer." He replied.

A long sigh came from the hostest and they bothed looked up at her. She leaned up against one of the walls in a slinky position and she just stared straight back at them and slightly chuckled.

"Could I tell my story now?" She asked slyly.

"Yes ma'am. You may." Eclipse had mused as he straightened his posture.

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Mee: I know it's been the LONGEST of times since I updated and not too much happened this chapter, but I want to make this a somewhat long story considering that it's not much of a plot. nn" Anyways, sorry for the mistakes but my editors and I have been WAY too busy with homework, etc. Plus I'm getting more and more into Diablo... eh-heh... You just gotta apreciate those demon destorying, gory, games. Oh yea, I'm really looking forward for those reviews people! I would appreciate anything right about now.... ah I suck...

E-T-C-S: You don't suck

Mee: Then why is there no plot in this chapter?

E-T-C-S: Because you had writers block for so long

Mee:....agreed... -sigh-