1Okay, I decided to right this one right after I posted the last chapter, sorry but I may not have too much time to update until at least Sunday. Sorry, bear with me. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, even though I haven't read any of the reviews yet. Sorry. I'm sure they were all worth thanking, so if you reviewed: Thanks a lot and I hope you all like this chapter.

Chapter 3: Attack in the Night

Once Zelos and Storm arrived in Luin, they began to search through the newly rebuilt town. Suddenly, they saw what looked Genis standing in front of a small store.

"Genis!" Storm yelled as she ran over to the young mage.

"Storm? Zelos? What are you two doing here?" Genis asked, suddenly Raine came out of the store with a large bag in her arms which she dropped at the sight of the two.

"What are you doing here?" Raine asked.

"Well, there's a reunion of the old team at Lloyd's house and we're here to invite you. So do you want to go?" Storm asked.

"Of course we'll go," Raine announced. "But, there's no way that we'll make it there today, it's almost dark already. You're probably tired anyway, we'll stay at the inn for the night."

"Okay, I guess we could stay here for the night," Storm replied.

"Yeah, hey how's your quest to end discrimination going?" Zelos asked as they all made their way to the inn.

"Good, we've managed to spread the word in several cities. Luin is one of them, if you look around you can see that there are half-elves, humans, and even some elves living here together. The children go to school together, they grow up together, and they even are getting married together and having children together. Discrimination can end, it will just take a while. I'm happy to have gotten this far this fast," Raine said proudly at her and her brother's accomplishments.

"That's great! Maybe there is hope!" Storm exclaimed.

When they finally arrived at the inn they all went to their separate rooms as they prepared for the next day. Storm went to her room, wondering if she would be plagued once again by her nightmares. She couldn't understand why all of a sudden she was so sensitive to her dreams. She laid down and was unable to sleep. She felt as if someone was watching her. She looked around the dark room, only to find that her senses were playing tricks on her.

Little did Storm know, but someone was watching her and they were prepared to fight her. Whoever, or whatever it was, was standing a few feet away from her window and was looking in at its prey. It lowered itself, almost crouching, ready to pounce on the defenseless angel.

Storm couldn't sleep if her life depended on it and she rolled from side to side in her bed and kept changing her position as she attempted to get comfortable. She finally settled on a spot that provided a source of comfort and she breathed a large sigh as she gently shut her eyes.

The next few moments flung Storm into a feeling of pain and confusions as she heard the window and part of the wall to her room, break and shatter into thousands of pieces. Something tackled Storm into the wall of her room as it struggled to suffocate the struggling girl. Storm fought back as the person sliced her in the stomach causing a large amount of pain to shoot through her system and a scream escaped her lips. She struggled against the person's weight as she threw them off of her. She didn't have her sword on her at the moment and she was reduced to fighting with what she had.

The rest of the group heard the large crash and the scream that came from Storm's room as they rushed to where the battle was already heating up. Zelos brought his sword and attacked the person who was fighting Storm. They were all unable to see their face in the pitch black room. After Zelos and the others entered the room the person began to retreat. Storm wasn't going to let the creep get away as she immediately began to chase down her attacker.

She followed the mysterious assassin to the Asgard Human Ranch. Storm lost sight of the person after he entered the ranch. Storm cautiously entered but saw that the building was empty and even her attacker was no where to be found. She was about to head back to Luin when she suddenly collapsed to the ground. She hadn't noticed all the blood she had lost from her wound and was unable to go any farther. At the rate she was losing blood she would be gone in a few minutes.

Damn, I fought so hard, for so long, and this is how I'm going to die? Storm thought as she began grow dizzy.

"Storm!" Zelos yelled as he entered the ranch and ran to her side. "Raine you have to heal her, before it's too late," he pleaded.

"Of course," Raine said as she held her staff over Storm. The staff began to glow and Storm began to feel the energy flowing back into her. She slowly got to her feet and looked around the room once more.

"What's wrong?" Genis asked.

"I could have sworn that that person came in here, but I don't see anyone," Storm said.

"Maybe he snuck out," Zelos suggested.

"I don't know," Storm replied.

"Well, I think that we should probably head to Lloyd's house, it's not safe around here anymore, besides the inn is kind of ruined," Raine said.

"All right," the others replied as they left the abandoned human ranch.

As they were walking towards Luin so Genis and Raine could get their Rheihards, Storm stopped when she heard a soft noise come from behind them.

"What is it?" Zelos asked, he and the rest of the group were already a few feet in front of her.

"Storm turned towards the source of the noise. "I don't know, but it sounds like someone's following..." Storm's sentence was cut off as she was once again tackled to the ground by the mysterious attacker. Then, a dark figure crept out of the darkness and grabbed the struggling girl from behind, placing a sword across her throat. "If you move I kill her," the voice said.

"Let her go!" Zelos yelled.

"Why would I want to do that? My master wants her, I would kill her myself but my master wants the pleasure," the voice said.

"Let me go," Storm choked out. "I will attack you."

"You can't use any spells, you don't have enough time to cast them. I will kill you believe me, but wouldn't it be wiser to be a good girl and live a little longer?" the voice was beginning to sound familiar to Storm, she'd heard that demented voice somewhere before.

"Kvar?" Storm asked the black figure.

"The one and only," Kvar replied.

"How are you alive, I saw Dad kill you?" Storm asked.

"My master found a way to resurrect all of the Desian leaders that you and your friends killed," Kvar replied.

"Who's your master?" Storm asked.

"All in good time my dear," Kvar replied. "Now that this reunion is over I believe that it's time for me and Storm to leave. Don't try and follow us or I will kill her," Kvar said with a laugh as he left leading Storm, with his sword placed firmly on her throat. He then had the mysterious attacker attack her until she was knocked out cold.

"What are we going to do?" Zelos asked worriedly.

"We need to go to Lloyd's house and get the others. I have a feeling we're going to need all their help to save her. I don't know what they want with Storm, but her life is apparently at stake and we need to hurry. This news won't be easy to break to Kratos, so Genis please try and be respectful," Raine said.

"I will, geez..." he replied.

Well, was it suspenseful? Sorry I left everyone with a cliffie, I don't know when I'll get the opportunity to update so please be patient with me. Review pretty please.