Horace and Crowley were riding on the trail, when they saw something heading towards them, fast. As the figure came closer, they realized it was a Ranger, and as the man stopped before them he looked at them. The other men recognized him immediately.

"Gilan? What are you doing out here?"

"I was coming to check up on Will. I wanted to see if he and his apprentice were getting along; when I heard Horace off in distance and you next to him and it has to be important if Horace came on a tracking mission."

"They were captured, Gil."

"Captured?"

"Yes and we need to find them before this maniac kills them." Horace said quickly, staining that they needed to hurry.

"Gil, did you happen to see wagon tracks in the snow on your way here?"

"Yeah I thought it was strange for this time of year."

"Then lead the way." Horace said.

Gilan nodded and turned his horse around and started running as fast and the horse would go, and the others did the same, as they were trying to do everything they can to save their friends.

Halt and Will were awaken to the guards picking them up and dragging them to a large room where they through them on the ground and as they lay there, Ryuu came in.

"I'm sorry to have wakened you but I needed to get this over with." Ryuu said as he walked around them. He signaled for the guards at the doors to do something, but they didn't know what.

As the sun set the guards grabbed Saya and dragged her out of her cell. She couldn't even stand in her condition it hurt just to think of breathing let alone to walk. She looked up as the door opened and she saw people she thought she would never see again, but she was wrong.

They all looked at each other and as they did they felt joy and grief that they were going to die, but at least they were able to see each other one last time.

Ryuu, walked in front of Saya, and whispered, *"Now you shall know true pain."* He motioned to the guards, as the two guards holding her kept their strong grip on her, two others moved Will in front of a large water bucket and the others surrounded Halt in a circle so he would have to fight seven of them to be able to get out.

Saya could only watch in horror as they proceeded in drowning Will, and gang beating Halt. She knew what he wanted, he wanted her to beg, but she wouldn't give him the pleasure of it. As she looked as Will started to go limp, a rage inside of her started to control her. She felt as though something was kicking in, something she had never felt before.

*"I told you I would teach you true pain."* He smirked, *"Now you will have nothing, gaijin, you die along with them."*

That did it and as he said that her body was overcome with rage and anger, her eyes dilated as she looked down toward the ground and let the emotions have her. She loosened her limbs and as the guards let their guard down. She stroke hard, taking both the guards down as she through their knives at the guards drowning Will, taking them down quickly. She moved toward the guards around Halt, taking a couple of them out before using a weapon on them, the surujin (a yard long rope with metal weights at the end). As she swung with brood force at her opponents in a way they had never seen, as her rage and reflexes kicks in. Each attack calculated perfectly. She had taken down 20 armed men in a matter of 3 minutes. As soon as the fight started, Ryuu had left fearing for his life as she took some of his best trained men down like it was nothing. She stood in the middle of the room as Halt and Will looked at her. Her breathing was getting shorter as she stood there at the ground.

Will walked over to her and put his arm on her shoulder and she looked and him and hugged him. She leaned against him and cried. She was worried she was about to lose him. Just then, Halt had come over and put a hand on her shoulder. The tears kept flowing from her face, until she had let her adrenaline fully crash, causing her to fall asleep in her master's arms and he held her as she slept. He looked at Halt, who looked him in the eyes to see a slight tear fall from his face. He was happy to see that Saya was ok, and they were here with her.

Just then, Horace, Crowley, and Gilan came into the room. They looked at their comrades and saw that they were safe. Will picked up Saya in his arms and they started to walk out of the place. As the moon was in the night sky, Will and Halt were able to see it after what seemed like forever. Will looked over and saw Tug, Abelard, and Shun standing there. Shun was the first to come over and look at Saya when he had concluded she was ok, he looked at Will as if saying he was ready to go. Will took his reign and attached it to Tug's saddle. Gilan held Saya as Will mounted and then handed her to him and he held her tight in his arms.

"There's a camping area just two miles from here, are you sure you and Halt can make the trip back to your cabin?"

"It'll be better for all of us if we do."

Gilan nodded, and then looked at Saya.

"She's tough; you think she'll be alright now? You think she be able to live now going through that?"

"She will. She has me and Halt, I think she'll be fine."

Gilan nodded again. Being Halt's first apprentice he knew how much Halt cared for him and Will, and how much he probably cares about Saya. He saw how Halt acted at the Gathering so he knew Halt would help her as much as he could and so would Will.

"Let's get going. I don't want to be around here anymore." Halt said and Will smiled he didn't want to be here either. So they left for Halt's cabin and got there just as the moon had reached its peak.