Chapter 8

It was an empty space; the place was pitch black, fog and cold air filled the place for miles and miles on. The only person there was one man, a guard. He stood there, slowly walking around though it seemed to go on forever. A young girl appeared before him, it was Serenity but some of her features had somehow been changed. She now had long white-silvery hair that gently swayed behind her and her eyes were a much darker shade of blue. She wore a long white flowing dress and also wore a necklace around her neck; it was a small marble of crystal on the end of a silver chain and had a gold crescent moon in the middle of her forehead.

The guard looked on at the beautiful teenager in front of him and tried to find his voice to speak to the shy creature, "Why are you here?" he asked.

Serenity smiled softly and took a step forward but stopped when the guard took a step back, "I don't want to hurt you…I just came to thank you…for helping me today" she said in a soft and rather elegant and sophisticated voice. The guard didn't reply but his look hardened at the thought of what he had done, "But…why had you done it?" she asked.

The guard looked on at her coldly, "I don't even know why I did but I do know that it was a mistake" he said in an icy tone.

Serenity looked on in confusion, "Why do you think that?" she asked.

"Because leaving a girl to run off and cry is something I was trained not to tolerate" The guard continued coldly though not daring to move closer to Serenity even though he knew it was her, he still didn't know what to expect of the place he was in or to expect from her in her current form. Or was it some other reason that he didn't fight back at her?

"Don't you ever wish you weren't trained that way?" Serenity asked.

"What difference would it make to me?" The guard asked

"I'm not really sure" Serenity said, her voice dieing down.

"So why care when it makes no difference?" The guard asked, crossing his arms.

"It still makes a difference to the kids; they feel better about themselves and feel that other people care. Maybe if they were treated better then they would act better to their elders and to each other" Serenity fought back but still keeping that sense of elegance in her voice.

"They don't know any better, they're stupid when they're young and could be easily trained from a young age without questioning" The guard continued.

"I don't believe that, kids are not stupid and can question an adult's order and once they grow up they will understand more and will object to an order given to them by their elders" Serenity disagreed.

"What do you know?" The guard almost yelled coldly.

"I know a lot more then you could ever know from beating children" Serenity replied, with a hint of ice in her voice which almost resembled that of a queen or princess or one of some sort of royalty.

The guard cringed and clutched his side; he had stopped listening to Serenity when he felt pain in him. He kept his hand on his side and Serenity stepped forward worriedly and held a hand out as if going to touch him but pulled back. The guard slowly pulled his hand away from his side and looked at it to see it smeared with blood. The guard disappeared and a yell of "traitor" was heard from someone before a low yell came from the guard.

Serenity gasped and quickly sat up in her own bed. The crescent moon on her forehead slowly fading away, a tear slipped from her eye but she wiped it away quickly. "Are you ok?" a gentle voice asked from next to her.

Serenity looked at Tala who sat up next to her, "Yeah, I'm fine" she whispered but Tala just gave her a warning look that said 'you better not be lying'. "Seriously, I'm fine" she said again, "I just need to go check on someone" she said, slowly getting out of bed and walking to the door.

'You need to move faster Mistress' Luna said.

'I'm sorry Luna but I can't, the mind linking took a lot out of me' Serenity said, walking as fast as she could down the hall.

'I know but if you hadn't done it maybe you wouldn't understand what is to happen next' Luna said.

'They think he is a traitor, what do you think they'll do to him?' Serenity asked worriedly as she climbed the stairs to the higher level of the abbey where the guards' quarters were.

'I'm afraid to even imagine, I'm sorry Mistress but they might…' Luna started but got cut off.

'Don't think that way Luna' Serenity ordered her bit-beast in that same refined voice.

'Forgive me Mistress' Luna apologized, 'I was just voicing my opinion' she finished.

'Don't worry about it Luna, I've just been a little worked up that's all' Serenity said, walking along a long hall way. She sighed in frustration when she got to the end of the hall, 'Why is this place so big, it takes me forever to get through' she complained in frustration.

She walked round a corner but quickly ran back to hide from four other guards and Boris who walked out of the room she was intending to go to. She hid there but a pang of fear hit her when Boris walked her way to walk round the corner. She looked around in fear but couldn't find any place to hide but then saw a wooden beam close to the ceiling. With all her strength she jumped up and Luna's abilities helped her grab onto the beam, she pulled herself up, straining her muscles and body and sat on the beam. Boris walked through the hall and thankfully hadn't seen Serenity, she tried her hardest to stay hidden but it was difficult since the beam was narrow and had occasionally made sounds when she shifted position to hide better into the shadows. He turned his head to look behind him when he heard a creaking sound; Serenity winced as she clenched her teeth at the thought of getting caught.

Boris turned back and walked down the hall and hadn't noticed her, when she saw that the halls where clear of guards and Boris she swiftly jumped to the ground beneath her. She ran quietly to the door and stepped into the door way when fear struck her at the sight before her, the guard that had helped her by letting go in the hall was now lying on the ground in the middle of the room. He was covered in crimson blood that stained the already dark carpet beneath him and had thousands of whiplashes covering him. Serenity ran over to him and gripped his trembling hand; the guard turned his head to look at her which was a big mistake since the movement made his head hurt even more. "What are you doing here?" he asked in a soft raspy voice, roughly pulling his hand away from her which was another one of his many mistakes.

"I got scared when you woke up so abruptly" Serenity replied, ignoring that he had pulled away from her. She scanned him and saw a deep wound on his stomach, a wound that was deep enough to have been created by a knife. Multiple stab wounds covered his chest, arms and stomach and obviously created a lot of blood loss and his breathing was shallow.

She got up and ran to the adjoining bathroom and picked up a white towel and soaked it in cold water, she ran back to the guard and placed the cold cloth on the stab wound. She noticed how pale he was and that he was cold and trembling a lot but wasn't sure about what to do. She went over to his bed a took a pillow and then gently placed it under his head but then felt as faint as the guard when she saw the white fabric absorb blood. The guard winces and sighs, "Just leave…don't get caught" he whispered through short breaths.

"I can't leave you to die" Serenity said, tears welling up in her light blue eyes.

"Believe it or not I'm going to die…so save yourself and leave me" The guard said in a pleading voice.

"I can't leave you to die" Serenity repeated, tears starting to stream down her face.

"But you can't do anything to stop it" The guard whispered. "But maybe I could do something for you" he continued, taking slow ragged breaths.

Serenity looked at him, still with sadness in her eyes but had a confused look, "What do you mean?" she asked, wiping away the tears that still slipped.

"I heard you want to escape" The guard continued, Serenity gasped and shock filled her eyes, "Don't worry…none of the guards know…go to my desk, top draw at the back…there is a small book, it's filled with information on different hidden escape…routes that guards would use in case of emergency…take it" he told her. He saw her still looking at him with more hot tears streaming down her face, "Take it" he told her again.

Serenity did as he asked and got up and opened the draw and took out a small book covered in black leather, she quickly looked through it before sitting next to him and placing the book beside her. She took his still trembling hand and squeezed it tightly and she started to cry more and more by the second. "You can't die, you just can't" Serenity whispered.

"Don't you believe that maybe we all have a purpose?" He asked.

"Of course I do" Serenity whispered rather angrily.

"Then why do you find it so hard to believe that this might be my destiny?" The guard whispered, closing his tired eyes. "I'm almost gone but ask me if there is something you need to know before I leave" he continued.

"But I don't want you to leave" Serenity whispered, her hot tears falling on the guards cold and trembling hand that was still clasped in hers.

"Stop crying and just ask" The guard ordered.

Serenity held back a sob and tried to find her voice through all the confusion and guilt, "I need to know…what made you let go?" she asked.

"That's hard but I just knew that I couldn't stop you. Your eyes told me who you were" The guard replied, ending in a coughing fit of blood.

Serenity wiped some blood off the corners of his mouth and cried harder, "But how?" she whispered.

"The same way that you knew that you could trust me and enter my mind; clairvoyance. You're succeeding in doing what your mother sent you to do and I didn't want that to stop…I couldn't" he replied, opening his dark brown eyes to look up into Serenity's bright blue blurred ones. "You don't know this…but she sent you here to fall in love, make friends and to help others…but things get in the way of our goals in life but you can still do it…no matter what gets in your way, you were born that way" he continued, pulling together some strength and squeezed her hand reassuringly. "Save yourself and save the others" he whispered finally, his raspy voice dieing down.

Serenity felt his hands loosen and he stopped trembling. His eyes held a blank stare and were still looking at here; they scared her at the sudden thought that he was dead. She cried more and placed her hand that was now covered in drying blood over his eyes and closed them. "I'll do it…I promise" she whispered, her hot tears falling on his cold skin. She picked up the little book that he had given her and took another look at the dead body, knowing that it would be gone early that morning. She took the wet cloth of blood and removed the pillow and tossed them both into an empty old trunk so Boris wouldn't find out that she was in there.

Serenity walked slowly down the hall, wiping away the tears from her cheeks. She then looked through the small book, 'I think I know how to get out of here' she thought to herself. She walked as fast as she could down the hall s and quietly went into her room. She quietly walked into her room and the lights quickly flicked on, "Where were you?" Bryan asked angrily, getting off his bed and walking up to her.

"Cool it Bryan" Tala said, glaring at the younger blader as he walked up beside him to look and Serenity. He saw the blood on Serenity's hands and the leather book, "Where were you?" he asked, taking in the sight of blood.

Serenity walked to the dressing table and put the book in the draw for safe keeping and then went to sit on her bed and stared at the ground out of shame and guilt for letting such a pure-hearted person die in front of her, "The guard that helped me today was considered a traitor and got killed" she replied.

"What?" Tala asked, "Why was he a traitor?" he asked, walking closer to her and sitting down next to her.

"Because they somehow found out about him stopping me but there is more to it…" Serenity said, stopping for a second to think, "He said that he saw my identity through my eyes, after showing him that, the effects of Boris' brainwashing faded and he didn't follow Boris' orders and didn't hurt the kids so he was then considered a traitor and since he couldn't be brainwashed again he had to be killed" she said, her voice dieing down and a tear slipping from her eye. "This is my entire fault" she whispered under her breath.

"It isn't your fault, you're just finding some excuse to blame yourself. Go clean yourself up and don't let this get in the way of things, understood?" Tala ordered.

Serenity nodded and then got off the bed and went to the bathroom. She closed the door behind her and went to rinse her hands, she rubbed off all the dry blood and then dried them in a towel and then walked out again. Bryan was already in bed and tucked under the covers and Tala was waiting for her, she walked up to her bed and got under the cold covers and shuddered when the cold material touched the bare parts of her skin. Tala moved closer to her and wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him, letting her rest her back against his chest and he whispered softly in her ear, "Stop worrying and get some sleep."

"How can I when I still feel it's my fault?" Serenity whispered back.

"Why should you feel that way?" Tala asked, resting his head on her bare shoulder.

"Because I stopped him from doing his job in a way that cost him his life" Serenity said.

"Would you stop with the self-loath already, it isn't your fault now get to sleep before I knock you unconscious" Bryan called from his bed, still with his eyes closed as he shifted in bed.

"Someone's grumpy" Tala muttered.

"You would be too if you hadn't slept all night" Bryan muttered back angrily.

They all quietened down and they soon slept. Bryan was the first to sleep since he still felt drained of energy from the past few days and somehow his talk about his emotions with Serenity took a lot out of him. He had never spoken to anyone about his emotions so much and he felt that Serenity had actually understood how he felt about things and that maybe he could trust her, but he didn't want to trust her too much and still had a part of him that didn't trust her and a part of his heart was still nagging at him to keep away from her.

Serenity was the next to sleep since she was up late and wasn't feeling very well so she didn't take very long to sleep, feeling warm and safe at the time even if she still felt the guilt of that innocent dieing in front of her. She really wished that she could have saved him but knew that no matter what she did or even tried to do that he would die anyway. She could have wished on thousands of stars and still he would have died, it felt like someone had beaten her and she felt everything.

Tala had kept an eye on her and had avoided sleep just to make sure that she didn't leave the room or that she didn't suddenly feel sick or uneasy but then let sleep overcome him when Serenity drifted to sleep in his arms. He thought that she must have felt even the slightest safer, he knew that she would always protect him and knew that he would always protect her. She had always comforted him in his worst times and now he felt that it was his turn to help her, that maybe now she was the one that needed to be comforted. Now was a time when he felt he could repay her somehow, he did love her and wanted to help her as much as he could, just like she had helped him so many times before.

---Next Morning---

Serenity slowly opened her eyes, she saw the time in front of her; 5:30am. Without moving she could see that both Tala and Bryan were still sleeping. She turned over to look at Tala and kissed his softly on the lips and then pushed back a loose strand of red hair from shadowing his face. She removed his arm from around her waist and turned her back toward him and pushed herself gently out of bed and walked into the bathroom, locking the door behind her. She undressed and stepped into the shower. She stood under the running warm water and tried to keep her mind off what had happened. She felt uneasiness rising in her stomach and she rested her back against the wall for support. 'I really hope that I'm not pregnant…I really don't know how I would deal' Serenity thought, the pain from her stomach emitting through her mind's voice.

'You're never going to find out for sure from in here but still either way you still need to calm yourself, your stress level has been rising and I'm afraid it might affect your health' Luna said, voicing her concerns.

'I'm scared Luna, I don't know what to do.' Serenity replied.

'Stop worrying is a start' Luna said.

'But sometimes I just can't help it, like I automatically worry because I won't know what else to do' Serenity said.

'Well you have to learn to stop; it will only make you feel worse. Nothing will come out of worrying, you don't know for certain that you're in fat pregnant but there is still a very good chance that you are. But you will never know for certain from in here' Luna finished, a sense of wisdom filling her young voice.

'How will we ever get out of here?' Serenity asked, resting her head back against the wall.

'Have you lost faith in all of your plans?' Luna asked.

'Of course I haven't but I don't know if they would work' Serenity said, her eyes saddening.

'I am more then certain that they will work, I was sure about them in the past and I am even more sure about them now' Luna said, trying her best to reassure her Mistress as much as she could.

'Maybe we could try to escape soon, it would probably be a good idea' Serenity thought, more to herself then a statement to Luna. 'The plans should work, they're flawless, and with the added information from the guard we know how to get out without being seen' she thought and continued on about how her plans had to work.

'Now that is the Serenity I know and love' Luna said, smiling gently.

Serenity pushed herself off the wall and continued her shower under the warm water and then got out of the shower. She dried herself off and then changed into her usual clothing, fixing her hair she checked the mirror and walked out of the bathroom. She went back into the bedroom to find that both of her to room mates were still sleeping soundly, she smiled softly but noticed that it was getting late so one of them had to wake up to go get changed first. She thought about waking Bryan up first since he probably got more sleep then Tala did seeing as Tala stayed up later to keep an eye on her and to keep her safe. She knelt down by Bryan on the floor by the bed and took in the sight of his body, the whiplashes were slowly healing but were still visible and had often caused him a lot of pain during training but the bruises were disappearing and blending with his skin color more. She gently took a grip on one of his shoulders and shook him slowly until he started to stir.

Bryan sat up a little and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked at Serenity who smiled at him sweetly, "Time to wake up sleepy-head" she told him playfully, getting up and going to sit on her bed. Watching Bryan get up and go to the bathroom, she lay on her bed quietly only to have an arm gently wrap around her waist and kiss her on the cheek. She turned her head to look up a little at the red-head; she smiled sweetly and kissed him softly on the lips. "Good morning" she whispered.

"Morning" Tala whispered back, lying back down next to her.

Serenity rested her back against his chest and moved close to him, enjoying the warmth he past to her along with the sense of safety she got from him. "I was thinking…that maybe it's time we tried to leave" she whispered.

"Can we do that?" Tala asked.

"Of course we can, I have plans that have been created from years of knowledge" Serenity replied.

"But are they assured to work?" Tala asked.

"99.9 they will work" Serenity said, smiling a little. "And you're leaving with us!" she said, turning to look at the bathroom door where Bryan stood as she sat up.

"It's not that simple" Bryan whispered.

"What isn't so simple?" Tala asked, sitting up next to Serenity.

"Yeah, we have a plan to get out of here that is actually quite simple" Serenity said, staring at him in confusion.

"You don't understand…" Bryan almost yelled, "You both have somewhere to go but this is the only place I know and have ever known, I don't have any place to go after here" he explained.

Serenity smiled and looked at Tala who smiled back and they both laughed a little, she got off the bed and walked up to a confused Bryan and smiled, "That is why you are coming with us and staying at my place" she said.

"What? Are you sure?" Bryan asked, thousands of questions swirling through his mind but those were the only ones that could pass his lips at the time.

"Of course I'm sure, I would never want to leave you anywhere else" Serenity replied, laughing a little at the confused look on Bryan's features. "I obviously can't keep everyone at my place but my friend who lives outside these walls can find them all a place to stay, it will definitely be better then here" she told him, still smiling.

Tala had walked up to Bryan and stood by Serenity, "Till then we have to keep escaping our secret and we have to try to keep ourselves out of trouble" Tala said, glaring at Serenity in the last half as Serenity pouted.

"I'll try" Serenity muttered, crossing her arms.

"Good" Tala said, before kissing her quickly and walking into the bathroom to change. Serenity walked back to her bed and sat on it, leaning her back against the wall.

---Later That Day---

Training went on as usual and Serenity tried her best not to let her emotions from the night before from messing up her battles. Things were fine and straight after training all the trainees went to dinner. Bryan had stayed with them that day, he hadn't wanted to but Serenity wouldn't leave him alone, but he still remained very quiet and just ate in silence. In the silence Serenity noticed that about four seats were empty and noticed that they had been empty for quite a few days. "Why are so many kids missing?" Serenity whispered, looking up from her plate and looking at the empty spaces.

"Maybe they're still at training" Tala whispered, so the other kids didn't hear him.

"I don't think so, they've been missing for days and I haven't seen them during training either" Serenity said with a shake of her head.

"Maybe they have private training" Tala said before continuing his dinner.

"I don't think so" Serenity whispered.

"Something is wrong" Bryan muttered, not realizing that Serenity had heard him.

"I think Boris is on a killing spree" Serenity whispered.

"Gives us all a more reason to leave" Bryan said, still in a hushed tone.

"I agree" Serenity told him.

---Next Morning---

Serenity turned slowly on her side and pulled the covers tighter around her when she felt colder. She heard someone walk across the room and opened her tired eyes to see who it was, Bryan had been the first to wake up that morning and had already washed and changed for training. She looked up at the clock and saw that it was still four in the morning, "What are you doing up so early?" she asked him before yawning a little.

"Couldn't sleep" Bryan replied rather coldly, sitting on his bed.

"Again?" Serenity asked, raising an eyebrow as she sat up in bed, tightening the blankets around her.

"Yeah again" Bryan said, still with ice in his voice.

Serenity sighed in frustration, clearly seeing that Bryan didn't want to talk to her. She got out of bed and went to the bathroom for a shower. She came out a few minutes later but hadn't put on her denim jacket and just left it on her bed to put on later.

Tala had gone in after her and she waited, sitting on her bed with her eyes closed to rest for a while. She felt a light kiss on her shoulder and smiled a little; she opened her deep blue eyes and looked at Tala. Smiling sweetly she kissed him softly on the lips, not seeing Bryan roll his eyes until he spoke with frustration filling his voice, "Would you stop with the kissing already and let's go" he said through gritted teeth.

'He makes me wonder' Serenity thought.

'Wonder what?' Luna asked.

'Wonder if he is grumpy everyday or if that is just when he doesn't get enough sleep' Serenity thought, getting off the bed and walking to the door.

'Mistress, that really wasn't like you' Luna said, laughing.

'I know but it actually felt good to even think that' Serenity said, laughing too.

Nothing ever stops all these thoughts and the pain attached to them
Sometimes I wonder why this is happening
It's like nothing I can do would distract me when
I think of how I shot myself in the back again
Cause from the infinite words I can say I
Put all pain you gave to me on display
But didn't realize instead of setting it free I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

It never goes away.

The three bladers walked down the hall and went downstairs for their training. Throughout training the bladers were made to practice on there own so they spent some of the time watching each other. This gave Bryan a good chance to think, somehow his mind had drifted to Boris and how much Boris had hurt him over the years. How much pain Bryan had endured because of him, not just physical pain but also emotional pain. The pain made him lose himself, lose his own personality, he felt that he had lost so much just for one man's greed. He keeps wondering why all the bad stuff seems to go down on him; he felt that everyone was out to get him. He knew that people had seen his pain, so why hadn't anyone tried to help him? He knew that no matter who helped him now…now it was too late, he felt it was too late.

No matter how far Bryan ran, even if it were Japan, he knew that a part of Boris was always with him. Spending his life with Boris as his coach was enough for him to get an influence off of him. Now Boris was a part of him, Boris was a part of every one at the abbey. The only ones who hadn't had a part of Boris in them were the ones that had a part of Serenity in them; Serenity had tried to help as many kids as much as she could and some had actually listened to her and so didn't believe in Boris but still kept themselves alive. He could run as fast as he could and escape to the farthest country but the name of his greatest fear would still bring back horrible memories.

And now
You've become a part of me
You'll always be right here
You've become a part of me
You'll always be my fear
I can't separate
Myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me
I've let myself become you

Hearing your name the memories come back again
I remember when it started happening
I see you and every thought I had and then
The thoughts slowly found words attached to them
And I knew as they escaped away
I was committing myself to them everyday
I regret saying those things cause now I see that I
Took what I hated and made it a part of me

Bryan snapped out of the rush of thoughts and pain when a hand touched his shoulder and he looked up at the girl in front of him and with concern in her eyes she asked the oh so smart question, "Are you ok?" she asked.

"Yeah I'm fine" Bryan relied, brushing her hand off his shoulder.

"Well if everything were fine then you would have noticed that it was time to go back upstairs" Tala said, walking up next to Serenity who placed her hands on her hips and continued to look at him with a hint of frustration replacing the worry in her eyes.

"Whatever, let's just go" Bryan said, pushing himself off the bench and walked out of the empty training room and into the hall that led to the staircase that took them to the level of the bedrooms and quickly walked up the stairs, leaving Serenity and Tala behind. He walked into the bedroom and seeing as both Serenity and Tala were still behind he decided that he would go change first so he went into the bathroom and closed the door tightly behind him.

Serenity lay on her bed, closing her eyes to rest a little before dinner. She lay there very still, still feeling the aching affects of training that was slowly draining her of her energy day-by-day. She felt soft lips touch hers and then she slowly opened her eyes and Tala pulled away from her. He lay next to her on his back and took her hand, "How are you holding up?" he asked, turning his head and looking at her.

"Honestly?" Serenity asked, "I don't even know…I am not even positive about this pregnancy stuff and I'm never going to find out for sure from in here. I don't know how to keep up with all the changes and I don't know what is going to happen next and…"

"Whatever it is we will get through it" Tala told her, squeezing her hand.

"I hope you're right" Serenity whispered, moving closer to him and kissing him deeply.

'I am so lucky that I haven't eaten yet or else I think I'll lose my dinner' Bryan thought, lying down on his bed after seeing the romantic scene between his two roommates. "Could one of you just change already so we can leave" he complained.

"Stop complaining would you?" Tala said angrily, getting off the bed he walked to the bathroom before glaring at him before he left.

Serenity sat up a little and looked over to Bryan, he was just lying on his bed with his eyes closed. She shook her head a little and then lay back down on her bed and rested a little. She knew that something was wrong with Bryan at the time and was thinking about what could've changed since she spoke to him, he had seemed to trust her a lot more but now she knew that something was wrong with him and he wouldn't even tell her. She got a little worried about him when he acted that way; she just got scared that maybe if he held in his pain for too long then maybe it may just hurt him more later.

Tala came out of the bathroom a few minutes later and Serenity went in to change quickly for dinner. After dinner they all went back to their rooms quickly, Bryan and Tala lay in their beds as soon as they got there but Serenity sat on the window sill and watched the freak storm outside. Serenity then lay in her bed near an already sleeping Tala and lay on her side from which she could see Bryan. Watching him sigh in frustration and close his eyes only improved Serenity's suspicions of something troubling him. 'Something is definitely wrong with him at the moment' Serenity thought worriedly.

'He obviously isn't going to tell you if something is wrong at this point so what do you plan to do?' Luna asked, musing on Serenity's thoughts.

Serenity sighed, 'I would never do this to anyone but I think that this time it is important…do you think you could enter his heart and mind and find out what it is that is wrong?' she asked.

'I can but should I?- I don't mean to go against your orders but do you think it is wise to do so…they are after all his thoughts' Luna said.

'I know what you mean Luna but this could lead to something worse and I've already lost one innocent this week and I don't want to have to lose another' Serenity replied.

'Even at the loss of a friend's trust?' Luna asked.

'You know that I am not doing this to hurt him but only to help him' Serenity said, a slight measure of aggravation in her mind's voice.

'I understand Mistress…shall I proceed?' Luna asked.

'Yes please…just be careful' Serenity warned gently.

Luna mentally nodded and concentrated on entering Bryan's mind. Serenity had just kept an eye on Bryan who still lay on his back in bed, he seemed rather peaceful and Serenity seemed to calm down though when he turned onto his side quickly was when she got worried the most. She found that she couldn't move and she didn't want to move since she didn't want to startle Bryan, she noted that hot tears had started to stream down his pale skin and by the look on his features he was pain. 'Luna…you're hurting him' Serenity almost yelled in her mind, 'Stop it now Luna' she called. Luna pulled back into her Mistress' mind and ended the empathy between herself and Bryan. Serenity looked at Bryan to see him relax and slip into unconsciousness, 'After all the pain he just felt please tell me that you found something' Serenity pleaded.

'I'm afraid I've found very little, you see he has placed his fears and pain deep in side of him and has hidden it from many…including myself. For me to find more I would have had to look a lot deeper into him and it would have hurt him much more' Luna replied, pain and worry filling her voice.

'What did you find?' Serenity asked.

'He is just scared, I was unable to find out of what as he has practically shoved everything away from him, including his personality and his fears and pain' Luna said.

'Whatever it was that happened to him must have been horrible' Serenity thought, her worry for the younger blader increasing.

'I agree, I felt a great amount of fear in him but the awareness of it was faint' Luna informed.

'He keeps everything bottled up inside of him and it hurts to keep it inside. He has to tell someone how he feels but he has to do it on his own terms' Serenity said, still looking at Bryan's unconscious form opposite her. 'Do you think he knows that it was you who entered his mind?' she asked.

'Highly unlikely Mistress, he was already exhausted and so he didn't even realize what was happening at the time' Luna replied.

'I hope he's ok' Serenity thought worriedly.

'I'm sure he'll be fine but for now it is best that you don't question him about the subject, it may make him lose his trust in you and right now it is the only thing he has' Luna advised in her usual tone of wisdom.

'I understand but I can't help but feel worried for his own safety' Serenity said, getting under the covers and tightening them around her.

'I know what you mean Mistress but just be careful of what you say to him' Luna said.

'Don't worry Luna, good night' Serenity said.

'Good night Mistress' Luna said sweetly before returning to her blade. Serenity moved closer to Tala, pulling the covers tighter around her since she was still feeling really cold but in a few minutes she drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Ok that is the chapter, I hope you liked it. Please review and when you review try to review in length. I have a couple of things to point out; first of all the song used in this chapter was 'figure.09' by Linkin Park. Second of all, this chapter didn't come out very easily so in the mean time I wrote a one shot called 'Tainted Dreams' in case you want to read and review it. Another note is that I fixed my profile and I put up a section on future fics and a little about each one cause I need you to decide which you want next after this one and I also decided that if and only if I get 100 reviews I will do a sequel to this. Ok I have to go for now but till then please read and review.