I want to thank everyone for enjoying this story and sticking with it!

NinjaAngel, xX Star-Blue-Angel Xx, YamiTenshi03, Anayas-Creater, Moon'sHope, SetoxSerenity4Ever, Galinda1, -&- ShadowXAngel

I want to thank Ceara Corey for helping me so much with my grammar. YAY!

Bold Dashes between the name's of the character represents their point of view.

Bold Dashes also represent the place, time, flashbacks, etc…

Italics are thoughts.

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Chapter 2-Wingless

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-3 Weeks Later-

-Serenity-

I know I can do it! If Seto believes in me, than I know I will do it.

I went outside again and walked up the spiral staircase again, this time going higher. When I reached my intended jumping point, I stopped and took a deep breath. As I climbed on the rail, looking down from my perch, I began to feel a little queasy. The wind was a little rougher up here, but I knew I had to continue. I closed my eyes and let go of the bar.

I believe.

I felt the wind rush past me before I remembered to extend my wings and slowed down a bit. Flapping my wings, I opened my eyes and smiled. Realizing my feet still weren't touching the ground, I clapped my hands. I started to soar, occasionally flapping my wings.

"Yay! I can fly!" I exclaimed blissfully, as I knew I could with the helpful words of Seto.

He'll be happy.

I began to flap my wings once more and saw Tristan looking up at me. I waved at him and saw that his hands were behind him.

Hm… I wonder why he is has hands behind his back?

I lowered myself to the ground and felt my shoes touch the dirt.

"Tristan! Did you see that? I can fly!" I yelled happily.

"Yeah, I saw that. You can fly, Serenity," he said, expressing a sad smile.

"Huh? Tristan, are you okay?" I asked, worried for my friend.

He looked at me darkly and I felt chilly all of a sudden.

"Hey, Serenity, there's something I've been meaning to ask you," he said to me, his hands still behind his back.

"Sure," I said happily as I walked to the small, brown bench and put my hand on the side of the bench rail.

"Who do you like?" he asked me as I turned around.

"I like all my friends. Seto, Mokuba, Mai, Joey, Marik, Ba-," I started to say cheerfully until he interrupted me.

"No, I mean. Who do you like?" he asked with a scary tone in his voice.

"I don't know what you mean," I told him as I backed away terrified.

"You like Seto, don't you?" he asked, gritting his teeth.

"Oh… please don't tell him. I'm afraid it might ruin our friendship," I said uneasily as I clasped my hands together.

"Do you love him, Serenity?" he continued questioning me as if this were some kind of interrogation.

I blinked and realized that I did love Seto. Ever since he had left, my feelings for him had grown deeper.

"I-," I started to say until he put his hands in the front of his chest. I gasped at what I saw. Why was he holding a big knife? "Tristan, why do you have that?" I asked worriedly as I continued to back away slowly.

"Oh… this. I was checking out the new dishware in the cafeteria since Gozaburo donated that money to the orphanage. I decided to eavesdrop on the cooks and chefs that worked in the cafeteria. Well, last week, the people that work here received some supplies. I checked out the silverware and saw this. It's called a butcher knife. You know what they use this for? They use this to cut big meat," he said rapidly as he started to advance toward me.

That's when my eyes widened with terror. I turned and flapped my wings, but then I felt myself being pulled back as I realized that Tristan grabbed my wings.

"Ouch!" I cried out and turned toward him, trying to twist his wrist to force him to release my wing.

"You love him, even after everything I did for you!" he furious.

Tristan pushed me down, still clutching my wings. I was on my knees and hands like a dog as I tried to scamper away but he wouldn't release me. "Stop! You're hurting me, and I'm scared!" I whimpered aloud.

"No!" he yelled and raised the butcher knife.

I felt pain all of sudden and saw my wings thrown in front of me. "OWWWW!" I started to weep. My body felt vulnerable as I tried to stand up, but I kept falling, unable to keep my balance.

"NOOOO!" I continued to cry as I saw Tristan smirk as he licked the blood on the butcher knife.

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-Mai -

I couldn't believe what I had just seen. All because Serenity's heart was set on Seto? Tears started to fall down my cheeks as I saw Serenity rolling around, crying. As I moved away, Tristan turned my direction. I put my hands over my mouth and noticed that he was coming toward me with the knife. I flapped my wings but just when I was about to leave, he caught me.

"I don't think so. Since you saw what just happened, you won't be able to get away. It's a good thing Joey got adopted because he'll never see you or his baby sister ever again. You mention one word of this, and I swear you'll never see this world again," Tristan said roughly as he pushed me hard enough to cause me to fall on the pavement.

I couldn't do anything. I noticed the adults flying to Serenity, who had just blacked out. Tristan dropped the knife and ran to her.

"What happened, Tristan?" the lady asked as she picked up Serenity and began to cradle her.

"I tried to stop her. Really, I did, but she insisted. She…she pulled out her wings because she gave up. She didn't want to keep trying anymore," Tristan cried out and clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, kneeling down.

"Let's get you cleaned up, okay?" the other lady asked as Tristan's eyes opened and glared at me horribly.

He nodded and stood up. As the woman continued to cradle Serenity, her head tilted to the left. I gasped in horror and noticed that Serenity's pupils were gone. Serenity must have passed out with her eyes opened. Her eyes appeared to stare eerily at me.

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-Normal P.O.V.-

"Forget everything you once knew…once loved. Forget everything," Tristan whispered gutturally, licking Serenity's earlobe. Her eyes were still closed, Tristan by her side, When the door opened and a few men walked in.

"Boy, is she the one who broke the law?" one of the men asked as another guy turned her over.

"Yes, she tore out her wings," Tristan said, trying to look worried.

"I see," replied the man as he picked her up in his arms.

"At such an young age," the leader said in shock as Tristan looked down.

"Come, let's go. She will be a slave from now on," the man said as they started to leave.

"Wait! Can I come with you?" Tristan asked, pleading as the men turned around.

"You want us to adopt you?" the leader asked.

"Yes," Tristan answered quickly.

The men looked at each other and back at Tristan. "All right," was the man's reply as Tristan's face became sadistic.

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I hoped everyone enjoyed it.

Ki Wingz