Finally I update, I'm really, really ,really sorry about how long this took to update hope you like it and thanx for all the reviews in advance.

oh yea and I was at my granddads so I had no computer, and then I went to spain on a language course so they also stupidly had no computer…this is why I couldn't update…sorry about that!

Running out of time

Tears like crystal shards sliced down Elie's pale face, but in the consuming darkness of the cave all this was invisible to both Elie and Shuda.

"Do you know how it feels, falling through the sky knowing that nothing but the ground will stop your fall", whispered Shuda into Elie's ear… "I do."

Elies breath caught in her throat, she had had so many nightmares about this, worried about what she has been told was impossible, that he…he had survived. Haru had only told her that he fell, that he wasn't coming back and that he was alright, but his cuts and his shaking grip on his sword told her a different story…what if he had survived? Would Haru defeat him a second time when the last time he had come to close to losing, both his life and the battle. Her first fear had come true, could her second come true as well?

No the cava has been sealed.

Elie curled her legs up around her and buried herself between her knees oblivious to Shuda.

"Look at me!" Shuda hissed

Elie began to laugh, but not her normal care free laugh. No. This laugh was deranged; it was a laugh that echoed threw the cave a made a chill rush down your spine. she was laughing so much her chest burnt with the strain, once she started she couldn't stop herself, the laughs boiled over her in a flowing of stream, interrupted only by sobs and chocking,

"I can't see you in the dark" she managed to say in-between her tortured laughs

If I can't see you, you aren't there….

Shuda grabbed Elie and shook her violently but she merely flopped back and forth her laughs never faulted.

"Look at me" he screamed, finally flinging her to the side in frustration.

"I will make you" see he smiled to himself.

An all too familiar red glow enveloped Elie, and then an explosion. Elie flew through the air and crashed against the jagged walls of the cave.

A cry of pain echoed from Elie's lips quelling her manic laughter.

"So do you see me now" hissed Shuda

Elie's tears mixed with blood, her blood ebbing from her new wounds into the ground.

"I've felt worse she" whispered through cut lips.

"But then Haru was there to hold you, care for you wasn't he! Where is he now?" he laughed walking over to Elie preparing another explosion.

Somewhere safe, away from me

Elie had felt worse, when she had discovered WHAT she was. And again Haru had taken it upon himself to protect her, to whisper sweet nothings in her ear, and save her. Because that us what she had to keep telling herself. Haru said what he had to, to keep her alive, had he know what she was would he have said those words or taken those blows for her. NO. He couldn't have changed his mid when he found out, he was always to stubborn even if it was for his own good. At least this is what Elie had to keep telling herself, it was easier to leave that way.

Haru POV

She is in the cave, but she will be alight. She wouldn't have been under the falling rocks she would have run the opposite direction. And even if the rocks did fall near her she could blast her way out….or is that what started the cave in?…. Haru racked his brain…but then what was she firing at? Did another one of those apparitions find her too, who did it look like, was it him? All of these thoughts flew through Haru's head as he sprinted to what once was the caves entrance.

Ruble, piles and piles of ruble that was all that was left of the once ominous cave. The cave was still ominous but now because Elie could be buried beneath it or inside with something.

Haru lifted the ten commandments sword above his head and began slicing away at the rock, he wasted no time to look around or investigate the area, and was completely oblivious to the stone writings on a piece of ruble, the warning, the warning that both he and Elie had missed under the circumstances.

"Elie" he screamed with every gash he sliced into the rock

"ANSWER ME"

Nothing just the sound of rock against steel.

"I know you are hear Elie and I know you are ok" he cried even tough through the tones of rock she wouldn't have heard him even if she had been trying. She was busy.

She was crying again showing that hated weakness which usually showed itself with the lightning. Such a stupid fear. She thought now, with Shuda towering over her ready to blast her again for his own revenge.

"Elie"

Haru finally smashed through the last rock blocking the entrance to the cave.

"Elie" he shouted one more time his voice now raspy his reply was an echoing scream which chilled him to the bone. Elie he jumped over the rocks now visible with the sunlight pouring into the cave, he followed the echoing scream not knowing what was going to meet him on the other end but thousand of possibilities flashed through his mind.

She' hurt she's in trouble and in not there cursed Haru as he navigated the stalactites and the other stones. Elie had been there for him through so much, how did it end up like this?

"Kill me now Shuda" whispered Elie through her cut lips. "I don't want to feel anymore if all I feel is pain. I will make it easy for you I wont fight I wound scream anymore, I see you outlined in the darkness, end it."

"Strong words but im sure you don't believe them, and everyone screams when the end comes. I know you are petrified and alone."

I am

"ELIE"

"Haru?" the words left her mouth as she was flung for a second time against the cave wall losing consciousness upon reaching the floor.