A/N: wow, I really feel like writing another chapter of this. It's so hard 'cause this plot is actually very distracting. I'm having a hard time of thinking of other things right now… Gwen's POV

Disclaimer: own nothing. Idea is Crushed Hale.x's.

I crashed against the cold ground of the musty red land around me. My body seemed to give way to the cold ground, falling into it as crimson dust sprinkled around me, getting all over my skin and turning me a deep reddish color so that I was hardly the same pale girl anymore.

My head rattled as I coughed, gasping for fresh air in the puff of red dirt clotting around me and I pressed myself off the ground, hoping for a chance of better breathing, but it only became increasingly more musty as I rose to my feet. I staggered for a moment, leaning against a rock to try and gain some ounce of balance. I ended up standing there quietly for a long time until the dust cleared. I must've just landed in a patch of that dust because as my view cleared, I had a bit more of a look around the empty portal I had been dumped through.

The world around me was stretched out in red, the sky dark maroon and purple in places and rocks were everywhere. More rocks were hanging above me as if suspended by string. It was empty beyond belief and cold and lifeless.

I gave one last cough and looked around a little harder for the portal that I had fallen through, looking for the golden shine of it.

There was none.

My heart sank to my stomach and I knew I was going to have a bit of a hard time now because I wasn't getting back to Earth and civilization anytime soon. So I looked around for shelter, knowing I needed it. I carefully pushed off the rock, finally able to walk and peered around the other side, coming face to face with a massive blue creature with a cloak of blue edged with black around it.

A short scream escaped me before a few more were suddenly surrounding me, each of them blue with massive green eyes that were almost bug-like. I couldn't believe that I had just gotten here and I was already going to be dead in less than five minutes.

At the sound of my shriek, one snapped off the cloak, it transforming into massive wings with pointed tips and jagged edges. The body was lithe and well-muscles for obvious fighting and a strange cold was coming off of them as they surrounded me, my only defense the massive rock that I was still standing beside.

Fear welled inside of me as I pressed myself to the large red stone. I was only ten. And I was already going to die. Great. I wasn't even ready to die. I still had to win a Nobel Peace Prize yet.

The creatures moved in, their voices whispered and murmuring as they talked to each other in a language too foreign for me to even try to translate. Their buggy emerald eyes were staring at me like I was a prize to be won or a treasure at the end of the pirate's map. Or like the way a wolf's eyes narrowed in intense hunger as they spotted their prey.

I kicked at the dust and it rose in all their eyes, sending them coughing and spluttering. I had held my breath the best I could and ran as fast as possible out of the circle of them to head off to a hiding place or shelter if I could do the best I could. I searched hopefully for a shelter to hide in, but saw nothing in the immediate range that I could get to fast enough to be protected from the blue creatures.

Checking over my shoulder I saw nothing. They had all vanished. Panic overwhelmed me and I began to look around desperately, knowing they could be anywhere. I looked up and didn't see anything but the red sky stretching out endlessly above me, no way out in sight. I looked around one more time only to see the creatures rising out of the ground and coming after me slowly in their slow flight.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. My head pounded and I prayed for a simple solution to this other than my death.

The creatures were making a series of clicking noises that I assumed were them talking. Or threatening me. Either one sounded just as bad as the other. I couldn't help the fear that boiled inside of me. I was horrified of my coming death. I wasn't ready to be dead yet.

Suddenly, a war cry came from behind me and I could hear heavy footfalls. I didn't have time to turn around before a hulking figure was leaping over my head, wings carrying it a little bit further than it probably should've gone. It landed perfectly on top of one of the blue creatures and it's tail flipped so that it swatted down another one. Then a fist and then another one hit the final two. It seemed like there were more of them than there really were. I guess that's what happens why the prey is surrounded.

The newcomer was standing on the blue alien while it pounded the other three, saying some words every few minutes that sounded like death threats. I couldn't pick out the exact words, but I knew it was English. And I realized that I wasn't alone in this place of Hell. The aliens were taking a harsh beating, one of them vanishing effortlessly by going through the ground and disappearing. Then one flitted away into the cold, infinite sky.

Two were left and the hulking form was making sure they got what was coming to them. He kept hitting them and hitting them and I saw that one of them wasn't moving anymore and that the other one was trying to disappear through the ground since it couldn't fly off with one of the silky blue wings torn off. And it vanished quietly into the cold red dirt.

There were no more left.

I could finally breathe again, the panic no longer clenching my chest in an iron fist of a cage. I could let the relief wash over me without being worried again. Whoever this was had saved me from a horrible death and from a horrible moment of pain that would've surely come upon me.

The massive creature picked up my blue attacker and the ripped wing that the other blue thing had left behind. It tossed the body over one shoulder and carried the wing like a cloth over one arm. Then it turned.

My heart froze in my chest. "Kevin?" I asked, my voice soft and quaking with gentle fear.

He looked at me, his expression not at all confused in the slightest. He didn't even say anything as he came closer to me. "Need a place to stay?" he asked me, his voice still harsh as ever, but I knew he meant to sound nice. I guess a long time in the Null Void had kind of sent him into a streak of meanness on his behalf.

I just nodded silently, scared to speak to him.

"You can stay with me for a little while," he said, walking right past me, the body still over his shoulder. But he tossed the leathery wing to me. "It's cold. You should keep warm."

The blue wing hit me gently and I realized it was like a blanket. I pulled it over my shoulders and I followed Kevin as he walked further into the distance. I shuffled through the dust and dirt, just following him because he was my only hope in life right now. He was all I had to rely on. And when I had a criminal to rely on, I knew I was in trouble.

But I followed Kevin, the blue wing draped over me. It was the only thing I had now.

A/N: there's chapter two. Thanks for reading! Now it's time to review!

~Sky