Sparky: Thanks for everyone that reviewed for this story! I apologize for taking so long to update. Got a bit of writer's block and stuff kept happening. Hahaha, as for when I thought the mage/aco pairing was weird, I guess I was wrong. Thanks for all the comments and enjoy the second chapter!

Chapter Two: Getting to Know You

He watched as the girl was breathing softly as he laid her on his bed. He was still a bit ruffled because she had yet to let go of his mage robes and he would like to keep them nice. Since she had refused to let go, he ended up being pulled on to the bed next to the girl as she had wrapped her arms tightly around him. He sighed.

'This is going to be hell to explain in the morning…' he thought grumbling as he shifted around trying to get more comfortable and trying to keep his hands away from the girl. Lest not to grow suspicion.

He had managed to take off his mage's cloak and was just in his shirt and pants, so he was left lying in the bed staring at the ceiling with an unknown girl attached to his side. When he felt the girl moving closer to him he turned his head the other way, trying very hard not to blush.

'Stupid girl…why do women have to get so emotional…'

With that thought he managed to turn over and close his eyes falling asleep.

The next morning Zion had a rude awakening when he felt his cheek being pinched. Annoyed, he let out a small growl and opened his tired eyes to end up staring into Kaze's laughing brown eyes.

"Awww…did Zi-chan find a little girlfriend while everyone's back was turned?" he asked snickering.

"Go jump off a cliff Kaze." scowled Zion as he tried to sit up, but the weight of a certain acolyte was refusing to let go of the warm pillow she was currently still sleeping on. This just got Kaze snickering louder and trying to hide his laughter behind his hand.

"She seems rather comfortable eh Zion?" he said giving him a certain look.

Zion just muttered something under his breath as he slowly pried the girl's arms off from around him. Once he was out of her grasp he placed a pillow in her arms as she hugged it closer to her body.

"Well, how did it feel to have a girl pressed oh so innocently against you Zi-chan?" he asked.

"Kaze…"

"Yep?"

"You have five seconds"

"Eh?"

"5…4…"

"O...oi! you're not gonna…aw come on its just barely morning!"

"3….2…"

"Run away! Psychotic mage on the loose!"

Zion diminished the firebolt spell and quietly walked out of the room. Before he left, he gave one last look at the girl before closing the door quietly behind him as he went to join his friends downstairs to join the others for breakfast. When he got down he sat next to Drusilla who was sipping some tea.

"Sleep well Zion?" she asked smiling gently at him. Kaze snorted into his pancakes but kept his eyes trained on the food, ignoring the glare he was getting from Zion who just sighed.

"It was fine." He muttered and thanked the female assassin as she put some food in front of him and some hot coco.

"Well that's good. So what're you guys planning to do with the girl?" she asked sitting next to Rue. She sighed and poked his head, trying to get him awake before he fell asleep on his scrambled eggs.

"I dunno…wait…what are you two gonna be doing?" asked Zion looking at them. The female assassin sighed.

"We got notified yesterday that we have to meet our guild in morroc. So we have to leave soon." She replied.

"More missions huh, well it was only a matter of time." Kaze replied yawning. "You two going also?"

Jak and Zeph nodded sulking.

"Yeah…Trish practically kicked us outta our nice warm beds…" Jak whined.

The girl huffed.

"If you lazybones hadn't tried to spike Rue's drink and ended up running away from Drusilla half the night," she retorted.

"Besides that fact, the guild leader wants all assassins meeting and discussing some of the older members to meet with the valkyrie about changing to assassin of the cross." Sighed Tish. "I know he wants us to get stronger but making us change? Isn't that a bit much?"

Rue sighed as he stood up and stretched. "Probably, but I think pretty much most of them want to get stronger faster and what better way then change to assassin cross?"

Tish just grumbled about power hungry guild leaders before she gulped down her drink, making the others sweat.

"She drained her coffee fast…." Jak said.

"Never get on Tish's badside…" Zeph added.

"And you two have yet to learn from that lesson." Rue said wryly as the other two assassins whistled innocently.

"cough well I think it's about time we should be going, don't want to be late now do we." Jak laughed nervously.

"You just want to get there to look at the female assassins." Snorted Tish.

"Come on you two, lets go before I end up dragging your unconscious hides to the meeting again." Rue added as he headed towards the door with the other two assassins following quickly.

"So when do you think we'll be able to meet up again?" yawned Kaze as he took slow sips of his drink.

"Dunno…you know how these missions are. At least a few weeks." Tish replied.

"Damn. So we'll see you in the usual spot later then." Kaze said and waved as Tish nodded and left.

Drusilla, Kaze and Zion were left at the table wondering what their schedule was.

"Well first things first." Drusilla said breaking the silence. "I think we should find out more about the little acolyte and what she was doing."

Kaze was about to open his mouth and say something when Zion waved a fork in his face and he quickly shut his mouth.

Rolling her eyes at Kaze's antics and how childish he was sometimes. Since now the assassin was pouting that his fun had been ruined and was poking his eggs with his fork. She turned towards the mage as he had finished up his breakfast and was drinking his hot chocolate quietly. Zion raised an eyebrow as he caught the priestess looking at him.

"Yes Drusilla?"

"Did anything happen last night with the acolyte?

Zion's eyes widened and started to choke making him cough. Once he was able to speak again he turned towards the priestess and replied, "Err...well she did wake up for a bit then went back to sleep."

"Was she okay? Did she hurt too much? Were the bandages too tight?" Drusilla asked making Zion sweat a bit at the priestess.

"She was upset, but not because of the bandages, it's probably had something to do with the way I found her." Zion replied frowning as he remembered. "She said she didn't want to go back to some place."

"Well until she's better I say we watch over her for a bit." Drusilla stated.

"Just like that? You're going to take her in?" Kaze asked looking at the priestess who was glaring at him now.

"Why not? You saw how badly she was battered. It would be stupid to leave here alone to who know what's after her." She replied.

"Right, right. It's also your 'priestess' instincts that want to care for someone who's hurt too." Kaze added and dodged a blow from Drusilla's book.

"Don't make me give you another lump on that head of yours Kaze…" she growled.

"Yeah yeah.." muttered Kaze as he rubbed the new lump he had on his head and glared at the priestess who turned away.

"So now that breakfast is over with, let's go check on the girl shall we?" Drusilla said.

Zion and Kaze nodded and followed the priestess up the stairs and to Zion and Kaze's room where the girl had been staying since yesterday. She quietly opened the door and walked in, not wanting to accidentally wake her up if she was still sleeping. When she heard no sound, she opened the door fully and walked in.

She looked towards the bed and saw that the girl was still sleeping.

"Well that's good, now to check her bandages and…" she started as she walked towards the bed, but before she could try and take a good look at the girl, her eyes shot wide opened revealing confused blue eyes as she looked around frantically. When she saw how close Drusilla was she let out a noise and backed away until she hit the backboard of the bed.

"Hey now…calm down we aren't going to hurt you…I just want to make sure that you're alright and…" she tried again but the girl just shook her head, as her body started shaking again.

"N…no! You're with them aren't you? I don't want to go back you can't make me!" she replied as tears seeped through her eyelids as she wrapped her arms around her legs and curled up.

Drusilla looked at Kaze and Zion worriedly.

"This isn't good…I can't treat her if she's like that and her wounds may reopen!" Drusilla said.

Zion moved towards the bed, ignoring Kaze and Drusilla who were watching his every move. He made it to the bed and sat down on it and reached out his hand until it lay on the girl's shoulder, making her flinch and look up to see whose hand that was. When she saw that it was Zion, instead of having the reaction that she had with Drusilla, she instead wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in his shirt as Zion just sighed and patted her head.

"Those two are my friends you can trust them okay?" he said quietly to the girl.

At first she was nervous as she looked over to the other two people in the room, but if the boy she was clinging to said that these two were his friends, then they couldn't be apart of them. She quietly nodded her head.

"Good, okay now you can let go of me now…" he said but sweated when that was something she quickly refused to do. "They aren't that scary…well maybe Kaze because of his stupidly but other then that…"

Still the girl refused to let go and just held Zion tighter.

"Wow…you barely met and already she doesn't want to let you go." Snickered Kaze.

"If she wasn't clinging to me at the moment Kaze, then you would be in a world of pain…" growled Zion.

"Don't want to hurt me with your little girlfriend watching?" he asked.

"No, I just think that if I tried to attack you with my magic that Drusilla and the girl would be caught too." Zion replied.

"Thank you so much for caring Zion." Drusilla sighed. She headed back towards the girl and started to look over her wounds. She did a few heals on a couple of them and removed some of the bandages, but kept the ones wrapped around the girl's wrists.

"Well you look in better condition now. So what's your name? My name is Drusilla, that's Kaze and you already know Zion." She said pointing to each person.

The girl shyly looked up at everyone and said something very faintly.

"I'm sorry could you say that again? That was a bit too quiet for any of us to hear." Drusilla said.

"M…my name is Auraiel Hikari…but everyone just calls me Aura." She said.

The priestess smiled making Aura feel a bit better. "That's a really pretty name Aura. Now, if it's alright would you be able to answer a few questions?" she asked.

She saw Aura bite her lip nervously as she looked from Drusilla and Kaze before burying her face in the embarrassed mage's clothes.

'Women…so damn emotion and clingy….' He thought resisting the urge to push the girl away.

"You don't have to answer some questions if you don't want to; we just want to know a few things. Now would you mind letting go of Zion please?" Drusilla asked gently.

Aura nodded a bit hesitantly and slowly unwrapped herself from the mage, much to his relief. Moving so he was off the bed and standing next to Kaze as he could feel his legs had nearly fallen asleep since the acolyte had been sitting on them.

"Okay let's start with some easy questions alright? Where did you come from?" Drusilla asked.

Aura looked a bit confused. "You mean what city I was born in?" she asked, "well… I was born around Geffen…"

Drusilla looked a bit confused. "Around Geffen? Don't you mean in Geffen?"

Aura shook her head. "Not really…my family traveled a lot so we weren't in one place for very long…"

"But why did your parents drag you along? Couldn't they have left you with an aunt or something?" Kaze asked scratching his head. Aura bent her head down a bit.

"There were…certain circumstances…." She said quietly.

"I see…well do you have any brothers or sisters?" Drusilla asked trying to change the topic.

"Well…I did have an older brother…but I haven't seen him in ages. He left my parents a few years ago so I don't really know what happened to him." Aura replied.

"Ahaha…er…well…" Drusilla said nervously. Her attempt to try and change the subject had basically blown up in her face.

Aura sighed and reached for around her neck, and the three people watching her blinked when they saw her violet eyes widen in a bit of a panic as she was frantically searching for something.

"Oh no! Where is it? It didn't fall off did it? Oh please say I didn't lose it!" she cried throwing off the blankets and looking around.

"Aura? What did you exactly loose?" Drusilla asked concern.

"It…it was a leather pouch that I had around my neck…there was something really important to me inside of it." The acolyte replied.

Zion let out a sigh as he walked over to the dresser next to the bed and opened the drawer and pulled out the said pouch and tossed it to Aura.

"There. Now stop your whining."

Aura blinked and stared at the little pouch. A slow smile crept to her face as she hugged it tightly to her chest.

"Th…thank you Zion…"

The mage didn't say anything but turned around.

"Hey what's in there anyway that's so important?" Kaze asked curiously moving closer to the acolyte who had been staring at the Zion's back.

"Um…ju…just something my parents left me. I…I don't really want to show it sorry…:" she said backing away nervously.

The priestess rolled her eyes and yanked back the annoying assassin.

"Ever heard of personal space you idiot? Get back here." She stated.

"You really need to lighten up. It was just a question." Kaze replied.

"Yes, but you don't need to be two inches away from her face to ask her." Drusilla replied.

"So what are we doing now?" Zion asked breaking up the usual fight between the priestess and assassin before it escalated.

Drusilla looked thoughtful.

"Well, we did plan on heading for Glast Heim graveyard." The priestess replied. Kaze swerved his head and looked at Drusilla.

"What? But I thought you said we were going to the prison not the graveyard!" he cried.

"I know! But now that we have Aura I don't know if she's strong enough for the prison!" Drusilla hissed, but then blinked when she saw Kaze move from in front of her to next to the bed staring at Aura.

"Aura-chan do you think you can handle the Glast Heim prison? Pleasepleasepleaseplease?" asked Kaze with a hint of begging.

"Um…well…before I came to payon I did spend some time in Glast Heim with one of my friends and her group in the graveyard." Aura replied quietly.

"See! She has been to Glast Heim! Can we please go to the prison this time? The graveyard is too easy! Well except for that awful Dark lord and minions." Kaze muttered as he scrunched up his nose.

"I told you the minions could attack from a distance. You're lucky I was near you to teleport away." The priestess stated.

"Yeah yeah. So Aura-chan wanna come to the prison with us?" Kaze asked turning his attention back to the green haired acolyte.

"Well, I guess it shouldn't be too bad. Sure." She replied.

"Yeeeess! Thank you!" Kaze shouted out loud jumping around the room happily.

"Sometimes I really wonder if he was suited for the assassin class." Groaned Zion staring at his friend. "isn't that class focused on being on stealth and being QUIET?"

Drusilla shook here head and pushed Zion and Kaze out of the room.

"Alright, alright. We're going to the prison so you two already packed?" she asked just as they were outside the room.

"Yeah? Why?" Zion asked.

"Good, now you two just wait downstairs while I help Aura get dressed. With that, she slammed the door in the boy's faces making them blink.

"They better not take long…" grumbled Kaze as he walked down the stairs. Zion just followed quietly.

It didn't take very long, much to the boy's relief as after a few minutes they saw Drusilla walking down with Aura behind her.

"Well, we got everything packed up. Now do we have all our supplies?" she asked.

"I got some herbs, white potions and blue potions." Zion said.

"Mastera fruits, honey, concentration potions and some whites too." Kaze added.

"Plenty of whites, greens, blues and a few scrolls just in case." Drusilla said. "What about you Aura?"

"Um…just a few yellow potions, greens and three concentrations potions." She replied.

"Well we have plenty to go around so don't worry okay?" Kaze said patting her head.

"Su…sure!" Aura replied a bit taken back by the assassin patting her head. The brown haired sin turned towards the priestess.

"You do have the warp to the prison right? I don't exactly want to walk all the way there like last time." He said.

"Oh keep your katars on. I have the warp." Drusilla replied rolling her eyes.

The group of four walked out of the inn and headed outside of payon. Once they were some distance away from payon they stopped and Drusilla took out a blue gem.

"Warp portal!" she called out and immediately the jewel started to glow and she dropped it onto the ground. As soon as the blue gem had made contact with the earth a portal appeared.

"Well? Jump in if you want to get to the prison." She said.

"Yes ma'am!" grinned Kaze as he eagerly jumped in. Zion shook his head and followed after the jubilant assassin.

"Well? Aren't you going to join them Aura?" Drusilla asked.

"Oh right! I'm sorry!" she said smiling a bit and jumped in. The priestess soon followed. Just before the warp was about to close a figure in the shadows made its way to the portal. A smirk grew on its face as it stared at the portal.

"Heh, thought you gotten rid of me did you little acolyte?" and went inside right before the portal closed.

…………………………………

"Haha! Take this!" smirked Kaze as he did another sonic blow to a zombie prisoner, watching in glee as it soon fell to the ground and disappeared. The assassin whistled a happy tune as he collected the spoils.

"Can you please TRY not to give away our position to the other monsters in here?" grumbled Zion as he let loose a fire wall on three zombie prisoners that had heard Kaze's shouts and finished them off with a few firebolts.

"Why are you complaining? You're getting experience." He replied. "Hey where are the girls?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! EWEWEWEWEWEW! HOLY LIGHT! HOLY LIGHT!"

"I believe we found Drusilla." Kaze said wondering what got the priestess riled up.

The two ran in the direction they heard the voice and when they got there both boys sweated at the scene.

Apparently Drusilla and Aura had a run in with an injustice. Now it wasn't that an Injustice was grotesque, it was just that…Injustice was a monster that looked like a guy walking around nude with body paint and needles in his arms and legs.

They watched as Drusilla kept hitting it with holy light and Aura, a lot calmer then the priestess went behind it and slammed her mace into the back of the Injustice's head. But that didn't finish it off. It just turned around and grabbed Aura's weapon about to rip it from the girl's hand and attack her. But Aura thought faster.

Both boys shuddered when the acolyte brought her foot out and kicked the injustice where any man would immediately fall. That did the trick as the Injustice seemed to just freeze and let go of her mace, allowing Aura to slam it into its chest throwing him back and against the wall making it disappear.

"I suddenly feel sorry for any injustice we run into…" Kaze said watching Aura go back to Drusilla.

"I feel sick having to witness that…" groaned Zion walking to the girls. "you two alright?"

"Yeah, Drusilla got a bit freaked out by the injustice." Aura replied laughing nervously.

"That's an understatement. Not to mention she looks a bit green in the face." Added Kaze snickering as the priestess growled and glared at the assassin.

"That thing is DISGUSTING! I mean it was…was…just so...UGH!" she cried throwing up her hands and stomping off.

"Hehehe…" was all Aura said as she scratched the back of her head.

"Hey Aura why weren't you grossed out liked Drusilla." Kaze asked curiously.

"Eh?"

"I mean if she had that reaction and she's older than you, why didn't you go crazy and attack it?" he added.

"Er…well, I kept my head above the waist and moved behind him to knock him out." She replied.

"So that means…." Kaze said and got an evil glint in his eyes and started to head the way Drusilla left.

The two left alone in the room could hear Kaze calling out.

"Oh Drusilla! And you called ME a pervert?"

"WHAT! YOU ARE A PERVERT YOU STUPID ASSASSIN!"

"Oh really? But I'm not the one who looked DOWN when the injustice came."

"That…that was a complete accident!

"Suuuurreee! That's what you say, what about the time you saw me?"

"KAZE YOU TRIED TO PEEK ON ME IN YOUR CLOAKING STATUS!"

"Hey look another injustice behind you!"

"EEEEEEYYYYAAAAAAHHHHH!"

"I think we better hurry and get to Drusilla before she has a mental breakdown." Sighed Zion as he started heading towards the hallway.

"Yeah…okay." Aura replied running to catch up with the mage.

Just as they were about to enter the hallway, a cold voice made them stop.

"Miss me little acolyte?"

Zion looked around for who ever had called out, gripping his arc wand tightly. He could see Aura out of the corner of his eye shaken slightly as she backed against him, clutching her mace.

"Who are you? Show yourself!" Zion shouted growling as he could feel a chill go down his spine.

"Now where would the fun be in that? Besides, I'm not interested in you. Just give me the acolyte and be on your way."

"Che! I'm not giving you anything without a reason, now show yourself you coward!" Zion retorted.

"Hehehe, big words from such a small mage. Think you can really handle me?"

To the mage and acolyte the voice seemed to be echoing off the walls, making whoever it was sound like they were everywhere. Zion noticed as the minutes passed, Aura's shaking seemed to be getting worse.

'She did say that there were people after her. Is this one of them?' Zion thought to himself keeping a sharp eye out.

Suddenly before either of them knew it, a barrage of arrows was coming straight at them. Since neither of them knew where the attack was coming from or if the attacker was still there, Zion grabbed Aura and held her close to his body. Taking out a blue gem he quickly called out for some protection.

"SAFETY WALL"

Soon a pink barrier surrounded the two, protecting them from the projectiles. Just as the barrage ended, the barrier disappeared and the two quickly stood up, hoping to be ready for another attack.

"Where is this person?" hissed Zion, thoroughly annoyed. "Aura, do you know who this guy is?"

"N...not personally…but I know he was in the group that's after me." She replied quietly, not making eye contact with the mage.

"Why are they after you in the first place?" he asked frowning.

"I…I…" she started, but never got a chance as her answer got interrupted when two arrows suddenly came towards Aura she didn't have anytime to react and was soon pinned to one of the walls.

"Aura!" Zion shouted.

He ran over, dropping his guard to get the acolyte down. Her left sleeve had the two arrows through them keeping her up against the wall. She was trying to use her free hand to pull them out but was having little luck.

"Hold still, I don't want to accidentally burn you." Zion said as he concentrated and soon his hand was glowing with fire. Aura nodded didn't move a muscle as he touched the two arrows. Lucy for him they weren't the elemental arrows so they easily burned dropping the acolyte down back to the floor.

"We better get out of here and find Kaze and Drusilla quickly." He said grabbing her hand and running back towards the hallway.

"But do you even know where they are if we get out of here?" Aura asked.

"We can worry about that later! Right now I just want to get out this room and far away from whomever it is that's trying to capture-" Zion replied but got cut off when just as they were about to enter the hallway, the mage was thrown back by a lightning ball that paralyzed him as he crashed on the other side of the room.

Aura was about to run to the fallen mage when her arm was being gripped by something. She tried struggling but the grip just got tighter. Getting desperate to know what exactly was grabbing her and wanting to take care of the mage Aura called out a skill that would help her.

"RUNWATCH!"

A light blue fireball appeared and started to circle her. Its light illuminated the small area around her and she saw the shadow of her assailment as the blue fireball got rid of whatever was keeping her attacker invisible. Dark brown hair covered one side of his face as green eyes seem to stare right through her. A smirk made its way to his face as Aura recognized the class as who it was with the pirate bandana on his head.

"Haledon" gasped Aura.

The rouge smirked seeing the shocked look on the acolyte's face.

"So you DO remember me! Don't I feel special? Now let's hurry. You have all sorts of people waiting for you." Haledon said as he started to drag Aura out of the room.

"NO! Let me go! I'll never want to go with you and I have to get Zion!" she shouted as she dug her heels trying in vain to stop the rouge from making her abandon her friend.

"Why? You know just by being around him he's going to get in even worse shape." Haledon said nonchalantly.

Aura froze. "Wha…what? No way! I won't believe that now let me go! I got to help Zion!"

Haledon sighed. "Hmph, if this Zion is so important to you and is holding me back from completing my mission on bringing you back…" he started and held up a hand where Aura could see the forming of another lightning ball. "then I might as well finish him off so this will be easier."

"Don't you DARE! If you do that I'll…I'll…" Aura said looking from Haledon to the spot where Zion lay.

"You'll what? Better hurry and make your decision if you want your friend to live…" Haledon said maliciously.

"LET ME GO YOU SONOVA…." Growled Aura.

"Language, language you are an acolyte Auraiel." Haledon said mockingly and twisted her arm a bit more, making her cry out. "Now for you little mage friend, say goodbye…"

"ICE STRIKE!"

Before Haledon could cast his attack, he suddenly saw several ice spikes coming straight at him from his side. Aura bit the rouge's hand hard making him drop her and moved out of the way as the attack hit. It didn't freeze him completely, but the ice did manage to cover up to his knees.

"You surprised me with that Jupiter Lightning, that won't happen again." Smirked Zion as he stepped out of the shadows.

Aura was surprised. She thought that the attack would've hurt Zion more, but his clothes were just singed and burned slightly. But she did notice that he had a small trail of blood from his temple.

"That attack should've at least knocked out." Scowled Haledon.

"I'm more resistant to magic then you think. I've been training as a mage for a while now so I'm stronger then most would believe." Zion said as he helped Aura up.

"He didn't do anything to you did he?" the mage asked.

"Just twisted my arm a bit…" she replied rubbing the said arm.

"Don't think I'm out just because you froze my legs you stupid kid!" growled Haledon as he grabbed his bow and started to attack them. This time Aura stepped up in front of Zion.

"My turn! PNEUMA!" she shouted as a wall of green smoke appeared in front of the two making the arrows that were about to hit them useless.

Haledon cursed while the two smirked at each other.

"So you CAN fight…" he said.

"Hey of course I can Zion!" Aura said putting her hands on her hips.

"Fine then. Let's knock this guy unconscious so we can leave." He said and Aura nodded. She used buffs on herself and Zion before they moved to attack the rouge. Haledon kept throwing arrows at them, but Aura just countered with pneuma again, while Zion kept throwing lightning bolts at him. The two could see that they were managing to wear out the rouge, but unfortunately neither of them noticed that while Haledon was throwing arrows at them, he had been using his other hand to chip away at the ice as it had started to melt away. Before they knew it, the ice broke free and a predatory grin appeared on his face.

"Now the tables have turned…" he said before he disappeared.

"Shit…I didn't realize the ice would melt so fast…" growled Zion as he held his wand.

"Well he was keeping us pretty well distracted." Aura replied frowning.

"DUCK!" Zion shouted as the two separated as a Jupiter lightning came at them again. Zion was about to cast sight to try and detect the rouge but didn't need to as the rouge appeared in front of his face.

"Now you have good magic resistance…but what about physical?" sneered Haledon as he raised a fist, and it collided with Zion's buckler. The mage growled as he tried to push the older and obviously stronger rouge off of him, but was having no such luck.

"That won't stop me!" Haledon shouted.

Zion's eyes widened as he winced when he was suddenly kicked in the side of his body making him drop the shield and slid across the floor. Before he had a chance to get up he was being lifted by the front of his robes by the rouge. Aura tried helping by trying to attack Haledon from behind, but all the rouge did was cast the spell at her throwing her back.

"Now…what should I do with the little snot nosed mage…" Haledon asked. Zion just glared back at him and cursed at himself for not being strong enough to not get into this situation.

"Oh I know…I'll pay you back for that lovely ice attack you threw at me." He replied.

The mage soon felt white hot pain and let out a scream as the rouge had taken his dagger and cut him deeply in the chest. Looking at his work satisfied he threw the mage over to Aura who was just getting up. When she heard the sound of someone landing in front of her, blue eyes widened in horror as she saw Zion groaning in pain as there was blood coming out from the wound. Crawling over she pulled him close to her and pressed her gloves against the blood-soaked chest.

"Zi...Zion! No, no! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! HEAL!" Aura said desperately as a warm green glow surrounded her hands and was trying to heal and close the wound. Much to her horror she wasn't strong enough, because even if she had managed to stop the blood, it only lasted for a few seconds before it continued to spill.

"Wha…what are you doing you stupid girl? Get out of here and get Kaze and Drusilla!" hissed Zion gripping his chest. He could feel his head beginning to swim with the amount of blood he was starting to loose.

"Are you crazy? I can't leave you here with him! What about the monsters that are in this dungeon?" cried Aura shaking her head as she went back to trying to heal Zion. The mage let out a groan, but continued to glare up at the stubborn girl.

"You're going to waste your energy! You don't have enough power yet to heal me. Go and get Drusilla!" Zion tried again.

"Don't be stupid!" Aura snapped back also glaring.

"You're the one being stupid!"

"Aw…isn't this sweet? You two care so much for each other. How about I make it easy and just take the girl off of your hands?" Haledon smirked stepping up.

Zion barely had enough energy to sit up, but he glared darkly at the rouge. He managed to lift his arm up and grip onto Aura's tightly.

"Don't you touch her…" he hissed.

"Or what?" laughed Haledon as he stepped closer to the two, "you're going to attack me? I'm so scared!"

Zion just continued to glare at the rouge as he tried to remain conscious. Just as Haledon had brought out his dagger and was about to attack them again, Zion raised his arm.

"Fire…Wall…"

Haledon howled in pain when he felt his arm burning when the wall had suddenly appeared stopping his attack. Zion's breathing was becoming ragged but he narrowed his eyes at the rouge.

"You…are not getting Aura…" he rasped out. "over my dead body…"

"That…can be arranged fool…" Haledon stated glaring murderously at the two.

To be continued………….

A/N XD;; cliffhanger gotta love these. Sooo whatcha think? What will happen to Zion and Aura with the rouge on top of them and Zion slowly bleeding to death.

Zion:…….you truly suck…

Aura: That was a bit mean don't you think?

Sparky: Hey! A little drama never hurts!

Zion: glares as long as YOUR not the one in pain…

Sparky: Ehehehe…review please!