Well, woulde you look at that? Another chapter. And Im staqrting this one on thesame day that I finished my last one! HELL YEAH! Im gettin good at pumping these things out, arent I? Almost 3 chapters in 2 and a half days? Hell yeah! Well, I have no idea where to really go from here, and im kinda lost, so Ill add more people and get Shikes revenge or something. But the kid wont really come till later, okay? anyway, i gues ill be getting on with this story. OH GOD! MY DOG JUST SMACKED HER HEAD ON THE TABLE! POOR PUPPY!

Shekiken stared out the window in her room into the darkness of the night. The stars were again laughing at her and the moon seemed to shun her for being a screw up. She saw the corn beneath the window sway in the wind and the rain pummeled the window. The night was definately not the greatest, especially after Shekiken found out that she was carrying her leader's child.

She sighed as she opened the window and let the rain come onto her face. She just wanted to be rid of the people around her and the fact that she was now the proud mother of a new child for the rest of the other kids. She didnt really see a point to the fact that Malachai had done that to her while she was away except that he was going to be the age in which the kids would go into the corn and never return to them again.

Suddenly, Shekiken saw a shadow pass over the corn and cause the stalks to bend down and break as if they were ice. She then saw a whole pack of shadows come from the shattered corn and a bone chilling howl emitted from the things. Shekiken jumped away from the window and hid behind the ratty curtains that hung next to the windows. The window then shut suddenly, making Shekiken scream, as the glass shattered and fell into her hair.

Strong arms wrapped around Shekiken as she cowered in the corner of the room with her hands covering her head.She stared at the floor and the person holding her leaned their head on her shoulder. Shekiken simply lowered her head to the floor and curled into a little ball. The person next to her just scratched her head so she would feel better.

"Why aren't you asleep? Shouldn't you be in bed dreaming and not next to a broken window looking out at the corn? Please go to bed, Shekiken," the person said as he looked at his little love and pushed the hair from her face.

Shekiken looked up at the green eyed redhead and sighed. She immediately let herself get picked up by Malachai and taken to her bed. Malachai then tucked her into the bed and layed down next to her for a little while. He didn't say too much to her until she spoke up.

"Malachai... I was thinking. Did you... even love me when you made me a mom? I mean...when you..." Shekiken said warily as she looked at the calm and thoughtful Malachai.

"Well, do you think that I loved you when i did it?" Malachai asked thoughtfully. He didn't even allow Shekiken answer before he looked at her and said, "Of course. And I still do. Ever since you came to Gatlin I have been at your side, wishing that I could have you for my own. And the night that I raped you was the worst day I ever had. I wish that you'd forgive me, but I can never make you do so. So when I did make you a mother, I was so in love with you that I couldn't really stand you being alone any longer."

"You did that...so you and I would be together and that I wouldn't be alone?" Shekiken asked when she looked up at her love. When he nodded, staring at the broken window, she smiled and rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. "I love you, Malachai..." she whispered before she fell asleep.

Malachai stroked the hair of the mother of his child. He smiled at her sleeping form and kissd her forehead. He then looked at the window and heard the same howl that Shekiken had earlier. When his eyes widened in fear of what was now in the corn field that wasn't there before, he held Shekiken close to him and stared into the darkness.

When he tried to close his eyes, images of the night that he raped Shekiken went through his head. He opened his eyes and looked around him. In the corner was the black dress that she had worn, once again cast aside. Was he hallucinating, or was Shekiken a little hesitant to become a mother?

"Shekiken... Im sorry...Please forgive me!" Malachai whispered as tears fell from his eyes and he buried his face into her hair and cried himself to sleep.

The sun blinded Malachai when he woke up and his eyes fell directly on the shattered glass on the floor. He was screaming inside, cursing the existance of the thing that humans called their life force. He then noticed that he was under Shekiken's blankets and alone.

"Shekiken?" he questioned as he got out of bed and left the house, making sure she wasn't there. He went directally to the corn field and his jaw dropped. All of the corn was shattered and the ground was completely frozen even for September.

Malachai then saw a dark figure laying down in the middle of the broken field and he walked cauciouly towards it. He was a few yards away when he heard the growls emitting from it and saw the dark green liquid leading to it.

When Malachai was near enough to the thing, he pulled out his knife and stared. He stared mainly at the thing's teeth and how it had three rows of them the formost row holding a piece of cloth.

The cloth from a distance was red but by closer inspection, along with Malachai being very carful, he realized it was the cloth off of Shekiken's shirt. The beast then growled at Malachai and began to bite at him.

"Damn! It looks like a huge black wolf...but more of a doberman dog! It looks like a demon wolf..." Malachai said uneasily as the thing growled and its green blood seeped out in a great gush from a large cut in its back.

"It's a cerberus, actually," a voice said behind Malachai as he stared. "And it looks like your little girlfriend has hurt it. She must be very skilled."

When Malachai turned around, he saw a boy looking thoughfully at the beast, twisting his long, tanned fingers in his blue black hair. When the boy glanced at Malachai when he felt eyes on him, his eyes shown bright blue in embarrassment.

"Oh sorry. I didn't mean to intrude on your examination. But it is a difficult thing to do to hurt a Cerberus and I suppose that your little girl is able to do it, even when she is pregnant."

Malachai looked back at the beast and realized that it wasn't moving. "It's dead... And what do you mean, it's hard to kill one?" Malachai asked as he turned back to face the boy. However, the boy was already walking away still deep in thought. "Hey, wait!" he yelled and ran to the boy.

"Huh? What's wrong?" the boy asked when he stopped and looke at Malachai.

"Have...you seen the girl? The one that is my girl and the one that killed that thing?" he asked but realized something. "How do you know that she's mine and pregnant?"

"Huh? I know about her being pregnant because she was glowing with that motherly essence, ya know? And she glowed of the love of a man that was close to her. She also didn't look like she was the love of some normal boy. Anyway, she came this way. She wants to find out where these things came from," the boy said as he walked again and the sky became dark.

Malachai held himself close thinking of what to do. The rain began to fall heavily and the wind became cold. In the distance, he saw dark shapes running in the corn. They howeled as they turned his and the boy's way and raced there.

"Hey! More of those things are comming!" Malachai said as he stared at the boy in the rain. He looked up from his thinking and turned rigged. He then spun around and ran to Malachai.

"Come on!" he yelled as he grabbed Malachai by the arm and pulled him, running int the direction of the houses. They were nearing the trees int the yards when Malachai saw the bottom of his shirt rip off my a pair of huge jaws. He was going to say something, but he was thrown down into a dark place.

Malachai slid down from the place that he fell and his face landed on a soft bedding of moss and flowers. He was just getting over the trauma of the fall when he felt something fall onto of him. He groamned loudly as he was crushed.

"So sorry. There was no other choice to get away from those things. This is under a tree. Where I've come from and your girls gone," the boy said harshly as he rolled off Malachai and leaned against the inside of the tree. Somewhere above them was a scratching sound and howls of the Cerberus'.

"Malachai. My name is Eclipse. I am a guardian of the gateway between the worlds. I am also Shekiken's guardian," the boy said as he brushed himself off and helped up Malachai. He then began to walk down a dark corridor from the flowers. "Follow me to see your girlfriend. She is positively glowing with motherly love. And she's come here to protect herself and your child."

Malachai watched as Eclipse walked down the hall and he then turned to the flowers. "Moon flowers... Her favorite..." Malachai said slowly and picked a few for the mother of his son or daughter. "That could be the name if its a girl... Luna Fluere... Dante Plato if its a boy... Shekiken..." he whispered as he ran in the direction of the darkness that had swallowed Eclipse.

Yeah, another short one. Sorry for that. But it is difficult enough to friggen find a story line. But whatever. We are off to Paradise for Shekiken. And yes, Eclipse is her guardian. Dont ask. I needed someone new. and yeah, the others that are evil will come back, so dont worry! SHIKE WILL RETURN!