A/n Hi all this is the Author once again. Thanks to Mistude for your help with the problems with the world and such. Tomorrow is Good Friday and I have it off then Saturday I go to see the grandparents for Easter. You wanna know something funny? I don't even believe in god and they expect me to commune my ass in that room and smile and pray for my soul. Well I'll tell you one thing the fact that I refuse to believe really pisses my mom off. I'm gonna have fun with that hehehehe. (NO DISRESPECT INTENDED TO ANY WHO DO BELIEVE!)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of Amelia Atwater Rhodes Characters.

Chapter 14

Fala let go her illusion and she was once again the shrew of a creature that she had always been. She played with the lighter in her hand as if Jaguar wasn't there.

Nikolas watched Fala with one eye while trying to get to Kaye. He knelt down beside her and held her hand tight in his. He smiled down at her in the same way he used to look at Christine.

Jaguar's full attention was on Fala and his rage. "What do you think you are doing Fala?"

"Well to me it looks like I am playing with a lighter. But to you it may look like I'm playing with fire." She looked up at him contemptuously. Her eyes held the same fire as any match. They glowed so bright that the sun could have disappeared and one would still be able to see clearly. And right now that fire was directed at Jaguar.

Nikolas could not help laughing at this. Fala didn't even look up at him. She understood Nikolas a lot more than she did Jaguar but then again: two insane peas in a pod.

Jaguar glared at Nikolas and seeing he was with Kaye he dragged him back and threw him aside. "Leave her alone Nikolas!" He threatened, unwisely turning his back on Fala.

"Fine but you might want to watch your back or you'll turn in to ashes faster than a lit cigarette. (He's not so good at the comparisons).

Fala had rushed at Jaguar with her dagger newly returned to her hand. Her arm came down in a swift movement that was impossible to follow. Jaguar raised his own blade just in time to defend the oncoming blow. He spent the next few minutes defending himself and looking for a possible opening in which to attack.

While Jaguar was fighting for his life Nikolas picked up his dagger with Black inlay and pocketed it. He crawled on his hands and knees over to where Kaye lay. She was unconscious. It was hard to tell weather or not she would live through this. He put an hand to her forehead to feel how clammy she was.

His skin felt cold against her burning skin. She shook in her sleep as if she was badly frightened. Her mind was being invaded and through such and invasion something was causing her to relive her darkest moments and then make some up to frighten her even more. She was swimming in a pool of darkness that swallowed her like the sea.

He took her in his arms and disappeared from the spot giving Jaguar one last look. No matter what Jaguar said it was hard to believe that he actually felt anything for someone he refused to save himself.

Fala attacked again but forgot to protect her back as she swung to far. Jaguar took the opening and plunged his dagger into her gut. The blade he chose to take with him was unfortunately not a Vida blade, so the blade would leave little or no damage to her system.

Fala on the other hand thought it fatal and went into such a state of dramatics that she was quite pathetic to watch. Although as the last rays of light fell behind the horizon she threw the lighter to the ground some ten feet away and the ground ignited into a fire wall. She disappeared from the spot after throwing her blade into Jaguar's chest. He had been to preoccupied with the fire wall to notice that she was moving to he didn't notice the blade until it was deep in him. It had missed the heart fortunately but unfortunately this was a Vida blade and it burned his skin on contact. He pulled it out with a shudder of pain. The fire seemed to have formed a ring around him. He saw a shadow fall over him and knew he had either been helped or had managed to disappear himself. But as he blacked out one thought came to mind: Where is Kaye?

A/n and that, as they say, is that