Hey guys, how are you doing? I missed you all so much, sorry for dropping the face of Earth for the past three months, now I'm done with the first semester and I started my winter break, more time to write. Anyway, lots of thanks to everyone who reviewed, favorited and alerted the story it means a lot to me. Also I wrote a new summary, and the genres are now fantasy and romance.

Now, let's see what happened in the last chapter:

Shun and Dan the best assassins in Valdolit were assigned to kill a lonesome girl after a witch called Seera told the king about her. Runo, Julie and Miono who are witches too were given their first mission to protect the same girl. They found Alice and were escorting her when they faced Shun and Dan and the two rival teams started fighting. During the fight it is revealed that Shun is a half wizard, able to use magic.

Now, on with the story =]

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 6: From Fiction to Reality

Faces changed, eyes widened. All three young ladies were in complete shock at the news that their rival is a wizard. For Miono and Julie it was fear of messing up the job and get beaten in a battle against him. The thought of loosing washed over their minds and horror was apparent on their expressions. But, Alice hid herself behind a rock that covered most of her body; her heart was beating faster and faster. She hugged herself; she was quivering heavily, her face was pale as if she had seen a ghost!

After returning to her normal self, she took a peek of the battle, still hiding. Shun and Miono were still sword fighting, red sparks were coming out from the collided swords; Julie only stood their unable to do something. Alice felt like turning herself in and end this suffer for both girls, but her mind stopped her from doing so, reminding her of the fate she'll face.

Another whack from his sword sent Miono to the ground. She hit it hard with a thud, an inaudible scream escaped her mouth, she tried standing up but her legs failed her. Julie saw it was a good time to step in and help her teammate. She took Miono's stick and the fight began. The atmosphere was getting more and more tensed by every second passing.

Away from all this, and in their own fight, Dan and Runo were battling. The two were almost equal in strength, both so determined to gain victory. Runo managed to shred another one of Dan's swords to pieces, Dan was not completely loosing, he managed to break one of Runo's claws, which was not a good idea. Runo's anger was doubled for breaking her nail; of course not for the same reason Julie would have if she broke a nail. The battle continued and Dan was having a hard time against her.

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Another thud was heard, this time from sending Julie flying to the ground. The two girls were next to each other. The weapon Miono enchanted was far from them and they were both very tired to cast a spell. Shun's face let up in a smirk, for once, hatred and rage filled his heart, each time he tries to find a reason to spare their lives, he finds nothing for what wizards did to him.

He slowly made his way to the scared witches; they were backing away till their backs hit the cold walls of the tunnel. His sword was in his right hand, and he was dragging it on the floor, the creaking sound of the metal carving its path on the rocks made the girls even more nervous. He stopped when he was close enough; he raised his right hand and prepared to strike, both girls closed their eyes…

Since his early years, Shun was trained to be an assassin, his father and the king wanted to use and train the special powers he held, though he did not know what they were himself. Always trained to hate enemies and taught to kill with no mercy. But, in the middle of the harsh commands he was given, only one voice managed to change what was in his heart…

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"Always remember Shun, the strategy is the craft of the warrior." An old man was instructing the black headed boy in front of him. The kid only let out a sigh, it was the hundredth time he heard it and he had memorized it by now. It was yet another boring training with his grandfather, who is the main trainer of the Special Forces. He held his sword and slashed the dummy before him.

A figure walked near the two at that moment, the young princess stood next to Shun, her dark brown eyes filled with fear as she gazed at the shattered dummy.

"You are late princess." Shun's grandfather stated.

"I'm sorry sir." She said blushing out of embarrassment. She was also training with Shun, but only to learn how to defend her self, she was wearing a white ninja outfit and her hair was put up in a high ponytail, as a sparkling tiara rested on her orange locks.

"Can I talk to Shun for a second?" she asked politely, but there was something about her tone that Shun didn't like. Her emotions were mixed, and he wasn't able to tell what was wrong. His grandfather nodded giving her permeation to leave. Shun dropped the weapon from his hand and took her hand and left, his grandfather only mumbled something like "Kids" and stood there waiting for the two to finish.

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"So, what's the matter, Alicia?" He voiced his question, when they reached a nearby hill. She looked at him with a small smile; she liked the fact that they were able to sense each other's feelings.

"Do you enjoy it? I mean k-killing people," she asked looking up at the sky. Shun put his arms behind his head and rested himself on the green grass, for being only twelve he didn't get that much missions, but he did kill some people.

"Sometimes, it always feels good to get rid of bad guys; I mean that does make you a good guy, right?" He answered with his eyes closed. She looked down at him, slightly hurt.

"People's life good or bad is a holy thing; it must not be taken from them! Even if they caused the death of many, killing them only makes you as bad as them, it makes you a killer!" she stated, nearly shouting at him. His eyes snapped open at her little outburst; it was so rare for her to get angry considering her calm personality.

He looked at her and noticed that she had tears in her eyes. He sat straight and with his finger wiped her tears away. Feeling his soft touch, she looked at him locking their eyes. After a while of staring, Shun took another glance at the sky.

"Why don't you talk to your dad, he is the king, not me," he said. Alicia let out a sigh.

"I tried, but he only sees me as a little girl that doesn't know what it takes to be king, he rules with sword, his fear of the people's anger because of the war got to him, he's afraid of repels," she paused for a second then continued, " But, he's not gonna stay king for long, I mean, in a few years, you and I will be the new rulers of Valdolit," she said with a little blush. Shun turned the other way, not wanting her to know he was blushing as well. He only let out a simple ''ya''.

"Promise me something," she said with a soft voice, this made Shun turn to face her, but with a puzzled look on his face.
"I want you to promise me to rule with fair and just, promise me not to kill anyone unless you were defending yourself,"

He looked at her for a second, and then smiled a bit.
"You have my word, I promise,"

She looked happily at him, "Really?" she asked innocently.

"What you don't trust me anymore?" he said playfully.

"No, it's just…I'm happy you're here. I love you." She said giving him a hug. He hugged her back.

"And I love you too. I won't let anything come between us, you're gonna be a wonderful queen." He stated.

Sadly, a year after something came between them, stronger than any enemy he could defeat, stronger than any disease he could cure, it was Death.

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His eyes were filled with tears, but he quickly shook them away, he showed no feelings of weakness to his friends and sure enough he won't do that to his enemies. He lowered his sword to his right side and turned his back to the girls, who opened their eyes after realizing that nothing happened.

"I gave my word and my word is my law. Killing you will not get her back." he stated then shielded his sword.
"But do not get in my way," he finished. He then started walking to where Alice was. She revealed herself from behind the rock.

That feeling, once again it hit him. And hard. She was so familiar, not to forget beautiful.

Normally, he would 'play' with the targets and then Dan would give the fatal blow, but this time, he felt that she shouldn't have the same fate, he felt this need of protecting her and taking her out of this place as soon as possible. He tried to shake it away, but it just won't. When he reached her, he noticed that she made no move to run; she stood there with a sweet smile plastered on her face.

"Come with me M'lady," he said bowing a bit, stretching his hand for her. It surprised him that she took his hand with no hesitation; it was like she knew he meant no harm. The moment their fingers touched, a weird sensation came over him, all the rage he had seconds ago was gone and was replaced by a sweet, calming one. It was like they were connected, he could hear her heart like she could hear his, and that's when it hit him.

They both looked the same, the same hair colour, and the same deep chocolate eyes. The similarities between the two were uncountable. The parts of his heart that died with her started beating again; despite that his brain was trying to tell him that it was impossible for her to be alive. He ignored it and continued to look at her eyes and smell her beautiful scent.

But, his train of thoughts was stopped by an anguished strike in his stomach, and this time he was the one sent flying to the wall. Miono was up after gaining some strength; she was holding her stick that was now turned into a spear. Pain shot in his body as his hand moved to where he was hit, and then he looked up at the angry witch.

"I said I won't fight, why don't you do the same?"

"Your tricks won't work; I'm not a fool to trust you," she stated and prepared herself to strike again, luckily for Shun, he was able to dodge it in time with a leap. The second time he wasn't that lucky, the spear slashed against the side of his left hand, his teeth gritted in away trying not to show he was in pain. The strike, though, made him loose his balance, next thing he knew he was on the hard floor. Miono took this as a chance and rushed to dig her weapon in the clocked assassin's chest.

"NO! Please, don't hurt him!" Alice spoke from where she was. Despite this, Miono made no move to stop. Alice felt a strange thing controlling her. Her eyes were closed then reopened revealing a purple glow in them. She raised her right hand and a beam of lightning got out and hit Miono dead on. The young lady fell unconscious.

Alice's eyes got their brown colour again, she looked at her shaking hands, and she just couldn't explain what happened. Shun looked at her. With wide eyes. What was the reason that she didn't want him hurt? Didn't she know that he's her assassin? Moreover, why would she help him? Both, Alice and Shun, couldn't answer those questions.

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Silence

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Julie rushed to help her friend, giving Alice an accusing glare. Alice only looked away from her. Hurt.

Shun stood back up and was about to say something to Alice when a loud scream erupted from the place Dan and Runo fought in. Shun instantly recognized it as Dan's and, fast, made his way to help his childhood friend-partner. Julie and Miono took off soon after him with Alice on their heels.

Shun was the first to reach the scene, Dan was on the floor with cuts and bruises covering his body, while Runo stood in a victorious way, she then gazed at Shun.

"A little help here, dude!" Dan shouted. Shun started mumbling words that were weird to the other young man. Shun's hands started glowing, Runo started having troubles breathing, her nails returned to their normal size. She was coughing hard, she put her hands around her neck and she was now on her knees.

At that moment, the other girls arrived. They gasped when they saw Runo on the ground; Miono was on the verge of exploding.

"Give us the girl and you'll take her back," Dan stated after getting back on his feet. The two witches looked among themselves; any attempts of trying to save her will fail, they could easily hurt her if they do. Alice didn't want to hurt them more and stepped forward.

"I'll go with you-" she was cut off short by Runo.

"No! G-Go b b b-back, take…Alice with you a-and leave, I'll manage," she said between coughs.

"We can't go without you,'' said Julie with her high pitched voice.

"It's a-an order!" stated Runo. Everything they learned in the wizard's school was put in a test now, though the truth hurt, Miono knew they had to leave Runo behind. She grabbed her medal and raised it up to where she sensed the hidden gate.

"Katarka," she said, a blue portal was opened and it took the three girls. Shun tried to reach it, but it was too late.

Runo let a weak smile then fainted due to lack of air.

Dan took Shun's sword, apparently his three ones were gone, he then raised it up. As he lowered his hand to hurt Runo, Shun grabbed it.

"She tried to kill me, man," he shouted angrily at Shun, who rolled his eyes; it was just that Dan was not used to loosing.

"Do you know why they want the girl?" Shun asked, Dan didn't seem quite interested in answering the question cause he cared less about it. Shun sighed.

"Do you know where they live, or where they had taken the girl?" He questioned again. It was Dan's turn to sigh, he shook his head. He gave up and gave the sword back to Shun.

"You got lucky this time," he said to Runo's still body.

The two then walked to where Liria was, Runo, who was carried by a spell, was with them as well. With a swift clap of her wings, Liria was in the air. During the long journey home, Shun had one thing in his mind.

'Alice, who are you?"

A hand punched the little pond of water in frustration. Verona slowly breathed again, deeply, as a smirk made its way on her face. The fog was no longer there, she was sitting in a huge room, near the little stoned bird's bath, that showed the face of Shun and Dan on its water.

She slowly grabbed the cup of tea, blew a little over it in an attempt to cool it down, before taking a sip of it.

"Oh well, luck was on their side today. But there are more to come my dears," and an evil laugh echoed in the place

The portal leaded the girls to Runo's house attic, they stepped out of it. Then…silence returned.

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They had left Runo in the hands of the Voldons, the true witch haters, defenseless.

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Their leader was strong, but not enough. She is to face a merciless death. The Voldons were known for not keeping a hostage for long, they would extract the information from her, and then dispose her like trash.

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And

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It was their fault.

"I'm sorry about your friend," Alice spoke with a soft tone. She lowered her head down; she knew that this would never have happened if she wasn't with them.

"Like you are really sorry! You attacked me and helped our enemy; the one's been trying to kill you! And Runo is with them because of YOU!" Miono shouted angrily. She collapsed on the floor crying, for once loosing her self-content. Julie too, was crying.

The door was swung open at that moment, as Runo's mom walked in.

"I heard voices here, and I knew you're back. Julie you got another postcard from Billy; he's coming to visit-" she trailed off, noticing the teary eyed girls. Her eyes spotted a new face, she looked at Alice and the girl bowed in respect.

"Hi," the woman greeted back, but she did look shocked. She took another gaze and found out there was a missing person.

"Girls, where's Runo?" she asked, slightly worried. The girls cried harder.

"She's with the Voldons," Miono managed to say through tears. One would expect the mom to join the teary girls, but instead she chuckled a bit. This took both girls by surprise.

"Don't worry about her; she can take care of herself. She'll be back soon, I'm sure," she said with a smile that made the girls smile as well, she then gave the postcard to Julie and got out from the attic. The squeals of the silver-haired girl were heard clearly even from the outside.

She put her hand in her pocket and got out a picture of four young girls holding wands. She then looked at the ceiling of her house,

"Dan, Shun, please, don't kill my daughter,"

What's with this picture popping up in my story?

The chapter was so long, it's about 8 pages long! Hope that made up for the late update, but I wish it didn't get you bored.

What will happen next? Will Runo be okay? Or, would she get killed? Only one way to find out and that means you have to wait till next time.

R&R

See you next time,

Ess.