The knock sounded again even more urgent when Adrienne didn't respond.

"Adrienne, you in there?" Daniel's voice sounded through the wood. Adrienne grumbled, and with that Daniel entered a letter in his hand. His face was quite white; Adrienne hoped it was from the lighting.

"What is it Daniel?" Adrienne moaned and shifted from her uncomfortable laying position. Daniel gulped and handed her the letter. She looked hard at him while she grabbed the letter from his hand. Adrienne opened the letter and read:

Dear Children,

I hope everything is well there, for it is not here. A few nights ago we heard of a small attack by Pirate's swoop. It was so small however hardly anyone heard of it. Well, anyway Grandda George sent some 'friends' of his to check on it. When they came back they reported it was some kind of evil force. So, I'm sending this as a warning to be on your guard.

From, Aly

Adrienne looked up from the letter to Daniel who was sighing in worry. Adrienne absently handed him back the letter and got up. She was still dressed from the day before. She walked to the window and peered out, it was cloudy, but a good day for fighting.

"So, what do you think we should do?" Daniel's voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned to him. She knew what needed to be done, she just wasn't sure she wanted too. Why me, Adrienne thought. She glanced at Daniel who was looking at her ready for a command.

"Daniel, I…" Then suddenly she remembered she had not told him about the prophecy, and taking advantage of that she gave him a different answer. "I don't know." She lied. Why she didn't tell her brother of the prophecy, she didn't know. He had a right to know being her brother and all, but just something about what she had to do kept her from telling him.

Daniel shook his head sadly.

"Well, if you don't know what to do, no one will know." Then just as fast as he had come he was out the door and down the hall again. Adrienne tried to bury the burning feeling inside of her, as best she could, but it just kept coming back.

The classes went the same as they had the day before, except that Adrienne avoided Sam the entire day. He noticed this, so he kept away from her also. Then dinner came.

"Where's Sam?" Charlie asked looking at Adrienne. He had forgiven her for not coming, though she had not told him why. So, for the rest of the day he had been pestering Adrienne about it.

She shrugged at his question. He pressed on about it all through dinner, which caused her to leave it early.

She was walking down the hall when she decided otherwise. She wanted to practice some with the staff and maybe something else before she went to bed. She made her way down to the practice courts where she found no one. She hadn't really expected anyone. They were all still eating dinner.

As soon as Adrienne had finished stretching she took out a staff, and started to practice her blocks and stabs. When she thought that she could take it no more she went to go find a bow, but instead decided she would do her hand-to-hand combat. She did kicks, punches, falling, and blocks. Adrienne was just about ready to stop when she noticed someone watching her. It was the Shang Griffin.

"Now if you did that in class you wouldn't be made fun of." She said her voice both excited and even. The Shang came into the practice court and joined the speechless Adrienne.

"What do you mean?" Adrienne asked cautiously as if her voice would just stop all of a sudden. The Shang laughed.

"You have perfect form, you just don't do as well in class, because you don't think you are good. Your nerves get a hold of you." The Shang explained. With that she got into fighting position. When Adrienne saw her do this she decided she wished she had told Daniel the prophecy, but she got in fighting stance as well.

The Shang went mostly easy on her, and stopped every few minutes to give Adrienne some pointers. After they finished it was almost dark, and Adrienne was exhausted.

"Thank you for helping me." Adrienne said, breathing deeply. She bowed low to the Shang who was breathing quite normally.

"It was a pleasure." The Shang Griffin did a low bow herself to Adrienne, and then disappeared into the night. Adrienne was left standing alone, her thoughts the only thing to occupy her. As she walked back to the palace she gazed up at the stars. There was so many. They looked so perfect as if every night they were hung up there individually.

Adrienne got to her room without meeting anyone and without any sound. And as soon as her head hit the pillow she was asleep.

The next morning instead of waking up to a knock or the bell, Adrienne woke up to someone putting a tub of water into her room. The women came back out and saw that Adrienne was awake.

"I'm sorry did I wake you?" The girl asked with a little frown on her face. Adrienne shook her head and rolled out of bed. When she was standing the women had gone out the door already. Great, I scared her off. Adrienne hit her self mentally. She wanted friends so bad, but she just kept missing her chance or ruining it somehow.

Once done washing and dressing Adrienne decided to do some exercises that they did before each class. The lifting of your body came first, then sitting up to your knees, and then last came stretching. Once this was all done finally came the knock on her door for breakfast. Adrienne was so used to Sam coming and getting her that she didn't think about it as she opened the door, but whom she found was someone that she never would have expected.

So, I know this is a really short chapter as most of mine are, but once I get more into the story and know more about what's going to happen they may get longer. So, please if you liked it, hated it, or just don't know what to think, Review! Thanks