Two Against the World
Book ONE



Chapter 1
Surprises Ahead!!
Don an 18 year old boy, with brown hair, and dark skin, was walking down the street, some time around midnight, when he heard something in the bushes. “ Who goes there?” he says astonished. Then, when he turned around, the bushes rustled and a strange girl appeared on the dirty ground. She had long, shiny, black hair, and a pail, white face. Her eyes were a deep, ocean like blue. They were wide, like she was scared.
“ Hey, are you okay?” Don stared at the girl, and she stood up. Slowly she backed away. “ Hey, what’s the matter with you? Are you hurt? What?
I’m not gonna hurt you.” The girl backed away a little more, and said,
“Umm, I’m sorry, but, who are you?” The girl had a small voice, and it barely cut through the silence. Don stared at her, and said, “ My name is Don, pardon me, but, what’s your name?” Don realized that the girl wore no more than a short skirt that looked cut or burned at the bottom to be shortened, and a shirt with the same style.
“ Umm, my name is, umm, my name is Darcy, age 14.” The girl still seemed scared, and she looked shy. “ Sir? what is this place? I fell asleep at home, and woke up in the bush.”
Don was taken back by her words, “ You woke in a place like this? It’s not safe for a girl to be alone in these streets, especially not sleeping!” Don didn’t know why, but he felt sorry that the girl had spent the night in a bush.
“ Sir, do you mind showing me the way to the nearest phone? I need to call my family.” Don looked at her, and said, “ Why don’t you just spend the rest of the night at my house? I mean, after this, you should at least get some rest.” He smiled at her, but she just said, “ I-I can’t do that, b-because… I just can’t.” Tears leaked from her eyes, and Don walked over to her, his shoes scuffing against the hard pavement. He held her shoulder and bent down to meet her eye level and said, “ Well, that’s okay! No need to cry.”
He smiled at her, and she smiled back. He gave her an encouraging hug, and turned to leave.




After about eight steps from Darcy, he heard a light thump on the ground, and turned around to see a dark figure on the ground. “ HEY! What just happened?!” Don ran over to Darcy’s body and bent down to see a small trace of blood on the ground. Don’s eyes widened, and he picked Darcy up and carried her to his house.
When he got inside, he set the girl on the couch. He sat down next to her, and called a doctor.
The doctor showed up within ten minutes. Darcy, still unconscious, lay on the couch still. The doctor was a girl, so she had permission to check on why Darcy collapsed.
When the doctor spoke, it was only when the examination was finished. “ Well, I can’t seem to find anything wrong with her except the blood was a force of a large wound in her side, if you have any idea of what happened, you call, or tell me now.” And with that, the doctor handed Don a small card, and left.
Don covered Darcy’s body with a blanket, and took out a fold up bed, and lay it on the ground. He decided that, if this girl was going to stay here, in her condition, he shouldn’t be in a different room.
Don cared about this girl, but he couldn’t figure out why.


Chapter 2
The Beginning…..

The next morning when Don woke, Darcy was still asleep. He decided to get up and make something to eat. He made some cereal for himself, and some eggs for Darcy, but still Darcy didn’t wake. It wasn’t until lunch, when she woke.
“ Where am I? What happened? Why am I-OUCH!” Darcy screamed as she was bombarding Don with questions. “ Hey, what’s wrong, Darcy?”
She shook her head and said, “ Nothing. I-it’s nothing.” Darcy’s face was red, and she was clutching her side. Don figured, that if she was clutching her side, then she was still in pain. Don wondered what to do. “ Hey, do you want something to eat? You hungry?” Darcy shook her head, but quickly looked up, “ No, thank you. Many thanks sir.”
Don looked at her, and wondered why she would call him sir every once in a while. But then he thought, oh well, what’s gonna happen?
“ Darcy, do you want to go out for a while, might do ya some good, you know.” Don smiled at her, but she just looked away from him, “ No thank you sir. Umm, sir?”
“ Yes? And you don’t have to call me sir all the time. You can call me Don if you want.” Darcy still kept her eyes away, as if she were gazing at the blanket still clutched in her hand.
“ Yes, sir. Oh, sorry, yes Don. Why am I here? It’s too dangerous for me to stay. I have to leave.” Darcy stood up.
“ Uh, hey! Where are you going? You can’t go outside like that! You’ll freeze!” Don was screaming after her, but she just kept walking, “ At least let me take you to get some new clothes, then you can leave, okay?”
Darcy stopped, “ No, it’s not going down like that. I’m not staying, and I’m not going to let you buy me clothes. Don’t you get it? I’m not going to be troublesome, even me staying here will put you in danger.” A tear came from her eye.
“I won’t stay, because………….I’m a monster.”


Chapter 3
I Want to Hear Your Story

Don looked at her. “ What do you mean, you’re a monster? Your no monster.” Darcy turned around, and rushed at him, knocking him off his feet, and pinning him to the floor, screaming at him. “ What do you mean, not a monster?! LOOK AT MY TEETH!” Darcy showed Don her teeth, her teeth were long, sharp, and white.
“ I am a monster! There’s no escaping that fact!” Darcy’s eyes were flowing with tears, and images seemed to pass in her eyes.
“ Darcy, you are no monster. Look me in the eyes and tell me you’re a monster, if you can’t do it, then I can’t believe you.”
Darcy looked at him, her teeth still bared in Anger, “ I AM a monster.”
Don looked at her again, “ I still won’t believe you.” Darcy clung to him,
“ Why can’t I leave? I want to leave so much, but my feet won’t let me! Why?” Don held her, “ I don’t know, but I’m betting it’s for the same reason that I won’t let you leave, either.”
Don smiled at her, “ What’s your story? I want to know why you ended up in that bush in the first place. Tell me everything.”
Darcy looked up into his eyes and said, “ Can I trust you? It’s so hard to find someone to trust now, so I want to know, before I tell you anything…….Can I trust you?” Don looked at her, surprised at the question,
“ Yes.” Darcy looked away from him. She stopped pinning him to the floor, and he sat up and took a deep breath.
“ Sir Don? Why do you want to hear the story?” Darcy looked at her hands, and ignored his surprised face. Don shook his head so he wouldn’t look so surprised, “ Umm, actually, I don’t know that myself!” They both laughed for a minute then, Darcy began her story.
“ When I was born, I was branded as a monster. One of my parents bloodline had thinned out to be in line with the monsters of long ago, they were the Kohzin. Kohzin, means, Dark Mix. Kohzin was a mix between a Vampire and a human. A vampire could bleed, but its blood would be off black, and not red, but a Kohzin’s blood would be red, the same as a humans, but it would have vampire fangs.”
Kohzin, it really didn’t seem familiar to Don.
Darcy continued her story. “ My mom, she had a slight mix of Kohzin in her. She married a human. She never told him, never told him what she was, but he found out one night and something terrible happened. You might have heard of her before, Tyrkess the Terrible?”
Don had heard that name in school, but it wasn’t for the reason that Darcy had mentioned, “ Why is her name Tyrkess the ‘Terrible’?” Darcy continued, “ Because she was the first Kohzin to marry with a human. Our people thought her a traitor, and she was exiled from the land.”
Don knew the part about her being exiled, but he never imagined that it was for such a stupid reason. People shouldn’t be exiled from their homeland just because they love someone of a different race!
“ What I told you about waking in the bush, was a lie. I was chased out of my homeland after twelve years of hiding. My skirt was burned in a fire, and my shirt was too. When the people of my homeland found out I was still in the town, they burned the house down. I got out just in time.”
Don smiled. “ So THAT’S why you were in the bush!”
Darcy nodded. “ That’s also why I can’t stay. If I stay I’ll be found. It’s not only my race that’s after me, it’s something else, something that attacks you mentally. I was……….being chased.”
Don was really freaked out. Don just stared at her in amazement, as she continued the story.
“ Too many people died that night. It mentally tortured every one of them to death. That will happen to you if you don’t let me leave.”
Don looked at her and said, “ I don’t know why, but I don’t care. Right now, you’re the one in danger, and you’re the one who’s hurt. You are not a monster to me. Lets make a deal. When you get better, you can leave, but, when you leave, you have to, oh forget the deal. Only when you get better, you can leave.”
Darcy looked at him with a stern eye and said, “ No, I won’t accept that. Now or ever.”
Don looked back at her with an even sterner eye, “ Then you won’t leave. I will not let you put yourself in danger. I don’t care what happens to me.”
Darcy looked at him and he saw something in her eyes. An image of a person. A person with black hair, and light skin. It looked just like her, only older. And a final tear leaked out of Darcy’s eye before she gasped in a breath and a scream of pain, and fell to the floor.
“ HEY! DARCY!” Don ran to her and caught her before she hit the floor. Blood swept over his hands, and Darcy spoke to him, “ Get out now, it’s here! LEAVE ME AND GO!” Darcy’s hand gripped Don’s arm hard, before she lost consciousness.
Don didn’t want her hurt anymore so he picked her up, and draped her over his shoulder, and tried running out. But a pain shot through his head and he fell to the floor, unconscious before his body touched the soft flooring.





Chapter 4
The Dream
A black room. Flaming lights on the walls. A girl standing with her back to him. She was small, and her hair was black, and her eyes were almost an ocean blue. She wore a long shirt, and carried a big teddy bear with her.
The girl turned and, as if she didn’t see him, she walked out the door.
Don followed her. There was arguing somewhere near. It sounded as if it were coming from a downstairs room. A man and a woman it sounded like.
The girl walked down the hallway, and down a staircase, Don followed her and saw everything she saw. She turned and walked through what looked like a living room, and walked up to a wooden door. Don saw that the door was opened a crack and the girl peered inside to see two people fighting.
Don saw a man with light brown hair, and a woman with black hair, both of the people were adults with light skin.
The woman looked terrified, and the man just kept yelling at her. Then the man picked up a glass bottle and smashed it against the wall. It looked to Don, that the man was drunk.
The man picked up another glass bottle and walked over to the woman, and he heard a scream, then…………SMASH!!
Don woke to the sound of a breaking bottle and a scream.
Don was drenched with sweat, and his eyes had widened in fear. He looked over to Darcy and saw she wasn’t where she had fallen. He stood and looked around the dark room.
There, in the corner, sat Darcy, with her knees in her hands and head lying on her knees. She was gasping, as if she had just witnessed a murder.
Then she said, “ Sir…y-you, did you enter into my memory?” Darcy looked scared.
Don looked at her still trying to catch his breath. “ I don’t know what I just saw, all I know is, if that was your memory, then, those people in the room. Were those people your parents?”
She nodded, “One was Tyrkess, my mother, and the other was Mark, my dad.” Don wondered why they were fighting. He asked Darcy, and she replied, “ That was the night that my father found out about my mom and her race. He had gone out one night with his friends, but they turned on him. They took him to a bar, knowing he would get drunk and try to get home safe to us. That night, he came home drunk. I was in bed, and he went for his room. If you saw him, you wouldn’t know he was drunk, or mom certainly wouldn’t.
She told him about her race and he attacked her, screaming, “ Kohzin?! KOHZIN?! A lowly Kohzin?!” That woke me up. I had gone downstairs to see what was wrong and looked into the room to see a man and a woman arguing about it. The last thing I saw, was a bottle smashing into the wall, a scream, and another bottle, thrown at mom, a-and…..and……”
Darcy broke out in sobs then, apparently unable to finish the story. Don felt himself ready to cry, but he decided not to cry in front of the girl. “ Umm, Darcy?” Darcy couldn’t hear him, she was still crying hard. So, Don walked over to her, and crouched down beside her. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him. She hesitated before wrapping her arms around him too.

Chapter 5
The Hooded Man


The next day, Darcy decided to go out with Don to get a new outfit. It was all she would have to wear for a while, but she didn’t care. She was freezing in the winter air. Even though there was no snow, and no rain, the air still chilled her to the bone.
They found a nice store at the end of the road, and Don told her to buy something to wear, “ A new pair of shoes, a shirt, and some jeans. Those should keep you warm for a while. I don’t have much, but, I think I can give you some.” Don handed Darcy 124 dollars.
“ Sir? This is too much, I went to this store before, it’s quite cheap here.” She smiled at him, and gave 67 dollars back to him.
Don said, “ Are you sure? You do need quite a lot.” Darcy just looked at him and smiled again, and Don said, “ Ok, if you need me, I’ll be out here probably eating some fries. You want any?” Darcy replied, “ No thank you sir.”
Darcy walked into the store, and Don walked back to the food court to get some fries. Then he walked back to the store and sat eating his fries waiting for Darcy to come out.
All of a sudden, he felt the pain in his head again, worse than last time, but he didn’t go out. He just endured the pain, until it passed. Then he looked behind him as a black, hooded, and floating figure appeared behind him.
The hooded figure went down through three flights of stairs.
Don stood horrified as the figure passed him. As it passed the figures cloak trailed behind him, and it floated upwards every few seconds. Under the cloak, from what Don could see, was just dust, or a cloud.
Darcy came out of the shop and stared at Don, and asked, “ Sir? What are you looking at?” Don stared back at her, and said, “ Don’t you see it?”
Darcy looked scared now, “ N-no I don’t see anything, that’s what scares me.” Don looked back at where the figure last was and wondered why Darcy couldn’t see it…



They started walking home. Darcy looked over her shoulder once in a while.
By the time they reached the house again, it was dark out. Don went to unlock the front door when the pain in his head returned. This time, it was unbearable, and he fell to the floor, but would not let himself loose consciousness. Darcy ran over to him and held onto his body.
Don was hunched over on the floor with his elbows and knees holding him up. His head was in his hands, and every few seconds, he would gasp and almost loose it and scream, but it seemed that he wouldn’t let himself scream either. He was determined not to let himself become weak.
Darcy was still holding onto his body when blood seeped out over Don’s back. Darcy saw a shiny silver blade poking out of his back, as if it went through his chest, only a few inches off his heart.
Then, he gave in and lost consciousness.
Darcy let go of his body as a hand wrapped around her neck and lifted her into the air roughly. “ Y-you!” Darcy saw a black hooded figure, the figure took off his hood, and said, “ Nice to see you again, Darcy.” He snickered, grimly.
Darcy tried to scream in his face, but she couldn’t breathe. The man had light brown hair, and brown eyes, it was Mark, Darcy’s father.
Darcy was so angry, her eyes turned black, and the pupils in her eyes became white, and shined against their black background, the teeth on the sides of her mouth became long and sharp, her hair turned pure white, and her skin turned black with wisps of silver.
Darcy had turned into her Kohzin form.





Chapter 6
The Monster is Revealed!

The man still gripping her neck, but the changing in her form forced him to let go. When he looked at his hand, it was bloody. He had forgotten that, if you hold a Kohzin, while its changing form, its skin will burn you.
Darcy snickered wickedly as her feet touched the ground, and said, “ Well father, you forgot that little tidbit didn’t you?” Darcy screamed and charged at the man. The wisps of silver shining in the moonlight.
Once she came within feet him, she drew her blade. With the blade in her hand, she leapt into the air fully intended to land on him and drive the blade into his heart. Right when she was about to land on him, he moved, too quick for human movements. “ What the..?”
She turned fast enough to see a blade coming at her. She moved quick, and the blade missed her by inches.
“ You were never human were you? You evil thing. YOU EVIL BEAST!” Darcy was intended to bring the truth out of him. To break him down.
Mark simply replied, “ Dear daughter, have you not been told?” He smiled wickedly, “ Of course not, your mother being the filthy wicken that she was..” He laughed out evilly.
Darcy screamed… “ YOU FILTHY ANIMAL!!!! I’LL KILL YOU!”
Darcy lunged at him again, but this time, he wasn’t fast enough for her rage. He now fell to the ground with a gash on his chest and small cuts on his arm. The silver wisps on her black skin were glistening with anger. They looked like veins, the way they slowly moved.
“ Animal, you say? Me? Are you really in any position to judge me? You little monster.” Mark seemed to know Darcy well, if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have called her that. “ You and I, what’s the difference? The difference is, you kill for revenge, and I kill, for relief. But you wouldn’t understand that would you?”
Darcy stood over his bleeding body and said, “ I am not like you. I do kill for revenge. But revenge is only due because of the thing that caused the want for it. You filthy animal. You wouldn’t understand if I told you. That’s why I won’t kill you. Get up and leave.”
Mark just smiled and said, “ I knew it. You aren’t capable of killing me, are you?” He stood up and concentrated on Darcy’s body witch was now leaving. He whispered under his breath, “ Die, monster.’’
Darcy began screaming in pain, and her body began levitating, in a bubble of black, almost completely hidden.
Cuts appeared on her arms, and her black skin turned back to normal, and then, her arms began bleeding. The blood dripped from the bubble onto the ground below.
Don’s body lay on the floor near the door. Right when the blood first hit the floor, he woke. His hand was drenched in his own blood, but he stood up despite the pain in his chest.
“ D-Darcy. Where is she?” He looked over to the hooded man and the black bubble. He screamed, “ DARCY! YOU! YOU LET HER GO!”
The man just looked at him and said, “ Oh, are you in league with her? Wow, you look a little too old for her.” He snickered wickedly.
Don wondered what he was talking about. Then he really didn’t care, so, “ Hey! I believe I said, let her go!” The man seemed to be listening, but not caring, so Don rushed up to the man and knocked him off his feet.
“ I told you to do something! You never hurt a girl! Especially not her!”
The man looked at him and levitated him as well, but he was levitated no more than two feet off the ground. Don seemed to be cooperating with it, so that he could walk in air towards the man.
He began walking toward him, a little at a time. He struggled with the pain in his chest from the blade, but he finally got to the man. The next thing the man knew, he was looking at the boy, when the boy punched him out cold.









Chapter 7
Point of No Return

Darcy lay on the ground, weak from the fight with her father. Don lay on the ground, weak from the blade that had gone through his chest.
For some reason, he had let himself give in to protect Darcy.
Don cared for her. He didn’t know why, or in what way. He just knew he would never let anything hurt her, if he could help it.
Don was still unconscious when the man woke and tried to kill him, so that killing Darcy would be no issue. But before the man could drive his blade into Don’s heart, Darcy climbed on top of Don and the blade drove through her back and into her heart.
The blood on the blade crept up the metal and as soon as it touched Marks finger, it froze to him, and a blue icy covering went over his body, until it had him completely covered. As soon as the covering had him completely wrapped, the covering cracked and exploded into a million pieces.
The tip of the blade, although it had gone through Darcy, had poked into Don’s skin slightly, and it woke him. “ Darcy..” He whispered her name, but, it looked to Don, that it was too late to save her. She had a drop of blood coming down her face, and her mouth was covered in blood.
He looked up into her blue eyes, and she said, “ I told you it wasn’t safe to have me around.” She smiled and her eyes closed as she said, “ I love you.”
Don looked at her, but didn’t answer.
Darcy opened her eyes again and said, “I can’t die, can I? Every time something like this happens, I can’t die.” Darcy smiled again, and said,
“ Well, all the better for me. It means, there’s no turning back now.”
Don smiled at her back, “ Well it’s all the better for me too. I don’t know why, but it feels good, really good.”
Those words wiped the smile off of Darcy’s face. Tears filled in her eyes again. “ I’m sorry, really sorry! But, I can’t stay.”
Don just smiled and said, “ Yes, you can. You and me both, are going to live carefree. And if anyone tries to stop us…..”
Darcy looked at him and he said, “ Well, look what happened here, if anyone tries to stop us, we’ll have to teach ‘em a lesson, now won’t we?”
Don held Darcy close, and Darcy clung to him, and said, “ So, I guess we’ll call it our point of no return. I won’ t leave. I want to stay with you forever. Forever.”
Darcy stood up and Don let go of her so he could stand and they went into the house. Both of them helping each other to walk. They enter the house, both of them, very happy indeed.
To Be continued……………………….. in Part Two………


Part Two!







Chapter 8
New Beginnings



On the street in front of a white house, under the street lamps, lay pieces of ice. For some reason the ice was not melting. The ice began to move. Each piece went to its closest neighboring piece. The pieces connected and piled up to form the shape of a human man, then the pieces melted. Under the melting ice, first, appeared light brown hair, then light skin and brown eyes.
“ I’m back……and you, little monster, are done for.’’
The man began walking away from the house, lifting things into thin air, and throwing them, as he walked.

In the morning, inside the house, a young man, woke to see a young girl on the couch above him. Then he realized he had bandages on his chest, and hands. He noticed the girl had small cuts on her arms. Then he remembered, Darcy, the man, the blood, the blades, everything.
The girl woke and said, “ Morning sir.”
The young man said, “ I told you, Darcy, call me Don, not sir. Sir is so formal.” The girl smiled and said, “ Ok, Don”
Darcy seemed exhausted, so Don got up and made them something to eat, and he asked, “ Hey, Darcy? You want anything to eat?” But Darcy didn’t answer, so Don walked over to her, but she, was once again, sound asleep.
“ Oh well, it can’t really be helped can it?” Don left the room to get some mail, he was only wearing the bandages, but when he walked out, he noticed something strange.
The pieces of blue that lay on the ground the night before, were gone. The mail that Don had picked up fell from his hands as he ran inside. Ironically, the mail in his hands read, ‘ I’ll Be Back.’
Don ran into the room to see a man standing over Darcy, but it wasn’t the same man as before. This man wore a white cloak, and did not lower his hood. This man had a long thin sword out over Darcy’s chest.
As Don walked into the room, the hooded figure seemed to look at him, and then swiftly, exit the room through the window. Darcy, still asleep at the time, lay on the couch, she seemed to know nothing of what just happened.
As soon as the figure left, Don felt a sharp pain in his head. Even more unbearable than before, but it didn’t seem to surprise him as much. He didn’t fall to the floor and he didn’t collapse, he just put his hand on the arm of the couch. The arm of the couch kept him standing.
His grip on the arm was tight, and strong. Then, the pain became worse. The longer he held his balance, the worse it hurt. Then Darcy woke with a start, to see Don leaning with his hand gripped on the couch arm.
“ Don! What’s wrong!?!” Darcy stood up. Don was shaking. Then Don gripped the couch even harder and said, “ What’s his sign? That man who attacked you.. WHAT’S HIS SIGN!?!” Don screamed out, but still kept his balance.
Darcy just looked at him, and didn’t say anything. Don screamed again, then a woman walked in.
“ What’s wrong with Don?!” The woman tried to speak more, but her voice broke as she saw the bandages on Don’s chest. The bandages became stained with red, then Don said very slowly, and so only Darcy could hear him, “He’s here, isn’t he?” Then Don fell on his knees, but before the rest of him could hit the floor, the woman and Darcy caught him.



Chapter 9
The Hospital

The woman helped Darcy lift Don into the back seat of a large car.
They drove to a small hospital. It took about half an hour. All the while, the woman asked her questions. “ What’s your name? How old are you? When did you meet Don? How long have you known him?” So Darcy would answer her questions, “My name is Darcy, I’m,” Darcy thought for a moment and chose an older age, “ I’m 16, I met Don one night after I was abandoned in a bush, and I haven’t known him long.”
The woman took her answers into consideration, “ 16 huh? You don’t drive?” Darcy hadn’t thought about that, so she said, “ Don’t want to learn, walking is better.”
The woman stopped talking, so Darcy said, “I’m sorry, but what’s your name?” The woman turned to her and said, “ You can call me Miss Trensen. I live next to Don, and I am not married at the time.”
Both the girls stopped talking then, until they got to the hospital.
Darcy helped to lift Don. The woman helped her keep him up.
It was a miracle that he hadn’t stopped breathing.
They stepped into the hospital doors, and said, “We need a doctor, its an emergency!” The woman at the desk said, “ I’m sorry, but the doctor is out right now, I can call her office, but that’s about it, at least until later.” She smiled smugly, and Darcy let go of Don lightly, and walked up to the lady, she put her fist in the woman’s face and said, “ Look, lady, I don’t care what this doctor is doing! This is an emergency, if you don’t call that doctor here, I can tell you right now, it ain’t gonna be pretty for ya!”
The woman seemed terrified, she picked up a phone keeping a close eye on Darcy, she dialed a number. “ Yes, this is Clemet’s Hospital, may I speak with Doctor Meshin?” The woman seemed to listen to the person on the phone for a while, and then she said, “ Yes, I see. But, Doctor, there is an emergency at the hospital, from here, it looks like a sword wound on a young man. There is a young girl here too, and a woman.”
The woman listened to the phone more and then hung up. “ I’m sorry, the doctor will be at least ten minutes. Can you wait that long? I can take you to a room, because this kid don’t look so good. You can lay him down on the bed that’s in there. You both can stay in there though, and watch him until the doctor comes, are you okay with that?”
The two girls nodded.
Darcy had Don up again, and they walked to the room, following the woman.
They walked into a white room, with two windows. The walls were spotted with blue and purple. There was a flower pot, with orchids in them, hanging from the ceiling. The bed was white with a blue blanket on it. The window was curtained in blue. The room looked kind of like the sky, at dawn, when the white clouds are spiked with blue and small amounts of purple.
The woman turned back and headed out the door, and said as she stepped out, “ Lay him on the bed, the doctor should be here in a few minutes now. Just don’t try to move him too much, from those bandages, it looks like that wound could reopen at any minute.” And with that, the woman took leave.
Darcy and Ms. Trensen managed to get Don onto the bed without any trouble. They watched him. The only movements he made however, were twitches of his fingers, and his chest moving slowly up and down as he breathed.
The doctor walked in about ten minutes into the wait, and said,
“ Now, who will I be seeing today?” Darcy looked at her, then pointed to the man on the bed, and said, very simply, “ Him.”
Then, right when the doctor was about to speak, Don woke, and he sat up. His eyes darted from wall to wall, frantic to find out what this place was.
“D-Darcy’’ Don tried speaking her name, but, it came up short within small gasps of air. Don looked as if he were terrified.
Darcy put her hand on his and said, “ You collapsed, we’re at the hospital.” Then she whispered in his ear, “ but I didn’t tell them of what happened, and when. I told Ms. Trensen that I was 16, and I didn’t tell her anything else.” She looked up and then said, “ You’ll be alright! I think the doctor wants to get the wound fixed.”
Don smiled at her. She smiled back. Then out of no where, Ms. Trensen said, “ Hey!?! Did I miss something?!?”








Chapter 10
Does he Feel The Same?


As the doctor pulled Don into the surgery room, Darcy watched as he kept turning around to look at her with pleading eyes. His eyes seemed to say, ‘ Don’t let them take me in there! I want to stay with you!’
All Darcy could do was watch, then as he was going right into the room, she screamed after him, “ You’ll be okay! I know you will!”
Then, Ms. Trensen turned to her and told her to talk with her for a while.
“ Darcy, you were lying to me when you told me your age. How old are you really?” Ms. Trensen seemed like the type to figure it out sooner or later. “ I-I wasn’t lying! Really!”
Ms. Trensen just giggled slightly, “ Oh, really? Stop the act. You love him don’t you? Is that why you won’t tell me your age?” Darcy looked down at her feet and sat on Don’s hospital bed. “ Well, lets say I do, then, would it be possible…possible at all, if I could stay with him?”
Ms. Trensen looked at her and laughed again, “ You do love him don’t you? Well, I suppose you could stay with him, but can I ask you a question?”
Ms. Trensen got up and walked across the room. “ Does he feel the same about you?”
Darcy thought for a minute and said, “ I told him I loved him, but he never answered.” Tears welled up inside of Darcy and Ms. Trensen walked back over to her. She hugged her and said, “I’m sure he does. As long as I’ve known him, I can assure you, there is a great chance that he loves you.”

Don came out of surgery a couple of hours later, asleep. Darcy stayed in the room and Ms. Trensen went home, she told Darcy to call her as soon as Don woke so they could go home.
Don woke an hour after sleeping. Darcy had fallen asleep waiting for him to wake. Darcy’s head lay on her hands on the bed next to his hand. He tried moving, but his chest hurt so much…he just lay back down to rest. He fell asleep again.
The whole time Darcy slept, the words “ Does he feel the same?” crept over her dreams. Then she woke with a start when she heard something outside. It was a twig cracking, but she thought she should check it out.
She looked out the window and what she saw she couldn’t believe. Mark was standing at the hospital door, looking up at the window, and when she stuck her head out he saw her.
She stuck her head back in quickly, and started crying. She ducked under the window sill, and hid her head in her arms.
Don heard her crying and woke. He got up and walked over to her and held her hands. He sat on his knees on the floor in front of her.
The words were still rushing in her head, “ Does he feel the same?” She was so shaken by the words but she couldn’t ask him. He knew how she felt, but how did he feel about her?
Don looked at her and said, “ What’s wrong?” As she was about to speak, the door banged open. A large figure walked in. It wore a black cloak, and its hood was up. The figure lowered its hood, and said, “ Hello you monsters. Did you miss me?”





Chapter 11
Search on the Trail


Don just stared at the man who attacked Darcy. Darcy was angry when she went Kohzin. Don let go of her hands when his hands started to get warm, then he noticed Darcy’s eyes had turned black, and her skin as well.
Darcy stood up. She took out her blade and rushed at Mark. Again he was too quick for her, and he dodged her attack. He took out his blade and tried plunging it into her, but she deflected it. Darcy jumped and landed on Mark, pinning him to the ground. She held the blade to his throat.
“ You never trusted mother did you? Beast…you FILTHY BEAST!”
Darcy was screaming at him. Don was sitting in the corner, staring at her in terror, he had never seen this terrifying form of her before.
All of a sudden, Darcy heard Don get up and run out of the room, his legs moving as fast as they could go. Don rushed out of the front door of the hospital, and onto the trail behind it.
Before she knew what she was doing she left Mark there on the hospital floor. She ran out of the hospital, and into the trail, and followed the footsteps her Kohzin eyes could see.
She ran for a good five minutes. She searched behind every tree, stump, log, and behind every boulder. She slowed down and fell to her knees while she tried to catch her breath.
Tears began to fall to the ground, in every sob she made, she cursed the man she called her father. She wished to have never known him. Then she heard something behind her, “ He doesn’t love you. He fears you. You’re a monster. No body to love, no body who loves you. Your pathetic.”
Darcy just stayed on the floor. She decided that if he ran from her, what this man said, had to have been true. These new words mixed with the old and created a fearful image of what could have been.
Darcy stood up and said, “ Is there anything, anything at all, that can kill me?” She let go of her form and returned to normal, and faced Mark. Mark replied, while your in this form, human form, I can kill you however I try.” He laughed wickedly, but she didn’t stop him, she just stood there.
Mark took out his blade and threw it at Darcy. She simply stood there still, and awaited death. She had not wanted to die on a trail, in the middle of a world where nobody loved her, but, she felt there was no other way. She didn’t want to hurt Don anymore. If she was gone, there was nothing for him to fear.
The blade struck her. She didn’t try to block it, and she didn’t want to block it. She loved Don, and she wouldn’t let anything bad happen to him anymore, even if it meant her death. She didn’t care anymore.
Darcy fell to the floor, alone and unloved it seemed like, but something happened, only one thing can keep a Kohzin alive after being struck by a blade in their most fragile form. True love.




Chapter 12
True Feelings
Don came ambling down the road to see Darcy on the floor, and Mark walking off, unharmed.
He bent down next to her body, and put his ear to her chest. Her heart wasn’t beating. This time, he let his tears fall to her. He decided it was too late, but as long as he was here, he should let her know….
Don lay on the ground, his head on Darcy, crying. His tears falling on her hand, which he had placed on her chest. He whispered words to her lifeless body, or seemingly lifeless.
As his last tear touched her hand, it fell from her hand and slid onto her neck and she woke. Her body hurt so much, she couldn’t stand, or even talk. Don just kept crying. She tried moving her hand, and the small movements she made in her hand made Don look up from his weeping state.
“ Darcy!” he spoke between sobs. He was so happy, his smile reached his ears. “ DARCY!” He picked her up and hugged her hard.
He stayed sobbing, uncontrollably, and between his sobs he whispered words that she couldn’t hear.
Darcy tried with all her might to speak, but nothing came out. So Don just stood up with her in his arms, and he walked home. Carrying her was really no problem. He just set his goal on getting her back safe, in no time, they were back home.
Don unlocked the door, at the same time, keeping Darcy in his arms. Darcy kept trying to speak. She knew that if she was going to ask, now would be a perfect time. No matter how many times she tried to make words come from her mouth, each time she failed.
Don lay her on his bed, which he had not slept in for days. He slept on the couch.
Before he lay down, he prayed for Darcy, and prayed that she would know, soon, his feelings for her, but his feelings were which he didn’t know himself. It seemed impossible that she would know, what even he didn’t.
Darcy regained her strength to walk soon, and she walked into where the couch was. She saw Don on it and she sat on the floor and put her head on the couch, next to his body, to fall asleep.
When she slept, she mumbled words in her sleep, and Don heard them and answered. Darcy said, “ How do you feel about me?” Don would answer, “ I have feelings for you, but I don’t know what they are, that’s what I need you for. Teach me, teach me what I feel and why. I need you here, with me.” But when he realized she was only talking in her sleep, he ignored the words she spoke. No matter how much it hurt him, he could not tell her feelings that he didn’t know.

Chapter 13
Through the Woods

When Don woke, it was to Darcy in his face. He started. Then he realized she was still sleeping and decided not to move so he wouldn’t wake her. Then Darcy woke when Don had settled back into his blanket.
“ So…so cold…” Darcy was freezing, she didn’t know why, she was perfectly content throughout the night.
Don heard her but didn’t say anything. He just took off his blanket, and covered Darcy with it.
“ Don…Don, your awake?” Still Don didn’t answer, he just turned with his back to her.
He didn’t know why, but he didn’t want to talk to her.
Darcy got the hint and said, “ If you want to ignore me fine, I’m going to the village down the road. Don’t follow me. I have some unfinished business to attend to.”
With that, Darcy got up and left the room. Don let his tears escape him again. He didn’t know what was stopping him from talking to her. Some invisible force that kept his mouth shut, and controlled his body movements.
He looked up and saw a figure in a white cloak. The figure held a large sword, not one like the blade Darcy kept on her, but a larger and, as it looked, sharper.
The figure didn’t seem to speak, but what it did do was lift the sword as a signal for him to either move, or die trying.
The figure lowered the sword quickly but Don was gone before the sword hit the couch. Don was running down the street, soon, he bumped into Darcy and knocked her over.
“ Don, what’s the matter with you?” Darcy looked concerned, and Don looked scared out of his mind.
“ D-D-Darcy” Don was stuttering, stuttering like crazy, he couldn’t control his words. Then he saw the white figure again, and he ran, as fast as he could run, into the woods.
Darcy looked even more concerned as he ran, then she turned around as the white figure swooped towards her with a sword gripped in his hand.
Darcy followed Don into the woods. She was at least 4 feet behind him when he stopped and fell on his knees. Darcy stopped and wondered what had happened to him, then she saw it. A flow of white and silver fog came from his body, the white silver fog floated away from him.
Don fell to the ground, his face pale. He was still breathing. He couldn’t move, but he was alive and breathing. Something invisible was holding him down. He was struggling to get up.
Darcy rushed over to him, and tried punching with her fists in thin air. She caught something upside the head, but she couldn’t see it. She felt it swoop off of Don. Don regained his color, and passed out.


Chapter 14
The Memory


Darcy had watched as Don passed out. Darcy just watched, and she couldn’t stop what was happening. He didn’t have any color in his face while he was on the ground, but as she walked over to him, she saw something.
The surgery had left a scar on his chest, but the scar hadn’t been fully healed yet. The wound had reopened enough to let a small amount of blood seep through his shirt.

Don was in a room. The room was his own, from his childhood.
The room was green with one window, and a picture of his mother on the wall. His mother had died in a car accident. He walked out of the room, to see a man in the hallway. The man had dark brown hair, and light skin. The mans eyes were dark brown and he looked upset, angry even.
There was a small boy next to him. The boy had light brown hair, and dark brown eyes, and looked innocent, as most children do. The little boy was Don.
“ Papa, what’s the matter?” Don watched the little boy speak to his father, but his father didn’t answer, then the little boy started to walk away, “Don, do you know where my gun is?” The little boy stopped. “ Yes, sir.”
“ Then Don, go get my gun and bring it to me, then I want you to go to your room, and lock your door. Got it?” Don watched what the boy did, the boy answered, “ Yes, papa.” the boy ran down the hall and into a room.
Don stared after him and screamed, “ NO DON’T DO IT! DON’T LISTEN TO HIM!” but this was only a memory, the people couldn’t hear him. Don began to cry again, he couldn’t help it. He knew the end of this.
The little boy ran back to his father with a handgun in his hands. He carried it carefully, so not to fire it at the wall.
“ Here you go, papa, but what are you going to do with this, papa?” The boy was only curious, but the question got the man upset, “ Don! Just go to your room and lock the door!”
The boy did as he was told.
The boy went into his green room and locked the door. He stared through the keyhole. Then he heard a gunshot, and he went back out of his room to find his father laying in a bloody heap on the floor. “ PAPA!!!!!!!!!!!!”










Chapter 15
Disturbing Tale

Don woke with a start. He whispered to no one in particular,
“ Papa……….”
Don saw Darcy sitting awake next to him. Darcy saw how upset he was and said, “ What’s the matter, Don?”
“ Oh DARCY!” Don hugged Darcy hard as tears slid from his eyes. Darcy wrapped her arms around him and said, “ It’s ok. It’s alright. Nothing happened, it’s going to be ok.”
Don was sobbing uncontrollably, “ No! It won’t be ok! It won’t!” Don couldn’t control himself anymore. He wanted to cry. He had to cry. Even at 18, his emotions got the better of him, and his memories still haunted him. Darcy was very concerned. “ Why won’t it be okay Don? Why won’t things be okay? What happened to you?”
Don couldn’t stop crying, but none the less, he told her everything.
“ When I was little, my mom died in a car crash. She was on her way to Denver. And on the way, a driver crashed into her car. All we had left of her, was a picture that was given to me. I put it on my wall to look at every day. I would wake up to it and say, ‘Good morning mother’.’’
Don stopped for a while to try and gain control over his sobs. “Then, my dad, he…he felt it his fault for not stopping mom, not making her stay home. So, one night as I lay in bed, he called me out to the hallway and ordered me to get his gun. I obeyed, and now I wish I hadn’t! I wish I hadn’t obeyed him!”
Don stopped and cried more and more every time he stopped, “ I gave him the gun and he told me to go into my room and lock the door. I obeyed his every word, but how I wish I hadn’t! I really do! I locked my door, and looked through the keyhole, and he……….he………”
Don swallowed his sob and held in the courage to continue,
“ He…….he shot himself.”
Darcy held him close and said, “ Well that isn’t any of your fault at all. You won’t think like that will you?” Don stopped crying long enough to say, “No” For hours all Darcy did was hold Don close to her, rocking him slightly, and whispering to him, “ It’s okay, it won’t happen again. I won’t let it happen. Never, never. It’ll be okay.”






Chapter 16
Are You in Love With her?


Don went for a walk that night. He walked into the woods, to the place he had the memory. His sneakers snapped twigs as he walked over them. The air kept his hands cold, so he kept them in his pocket. Then he realized.
Mark is still alive, and whenever he’d had the headaches and memories, it was always after an attack from him, or one of those figures in white.
He ran back to the house, but when he went back to the room, Darcy wasn’t there. He went up the stairs that went to the roof, and there she lay, on the roof, looking at the stars, and she said, “ You are like the moon, Don. The moon shines so brightly, but all its wounds are hidden on its other surface. We can’t see them. How brightly will you shine Don?”
Don laid next to her, and she moved over and placed her head on his chest, and he said, “ But the moon can’t love. It may hide its wounds, but in the process of hiding, it forgets how to love.” Darcy rolled on her side, and wrapped her arms around Don, and there she fell asleep.
The next morning Don woke on his bed, with Darcy next to him. He didn’t remember anything strange, he just remembered the moon, he didn’t know how they got in bed, let alone the same one. Darcy was only 14, and at the most, she wasn’t entirely mature. But seeing as she couldn’t sleep on the couch forever, Don thought it would be ok for now.
Don woke Darcy. Then they went and had something to eat. As they were eating, someone knocked on the door. Don got the door, and Darcy heard, “ Oh, hello Ms. Trensen, won’t you come in?” The next thing Darcy knew, Ms. Trensen was walking into the kitchen. “ Hello Darcy, how are you?” Ms. Trensen seemed especially happy today. “ Hello Ms Trensen, I’m fine, what about you?” Darcy wasn’t that enthusiastic, but she made it sound like she was. “Oh I’m fine! Never been better actually!”
Ms. Trensen called Don out to the hallway.
“ Don, are you in love with this girl?” Don looked at her and blushed, “ I don’t know, I definitely feel something, and I know she likes me, but I don’t know if I like her. I mean, she is four years younger than me.”
Ms. Trensen smiled, “ I’m sure you do Don, and something might happen to split you apart. You should reach for her, while she’s still here, you know.”
Don didn’t know how he felt about Darcy, he just knew there was something that made him want to protect her. He would do anything, anything, for her to know that. He didn’t know why or how, but he did feel something for Darcy, if only he could explain the impossible.





Chapter 17
The Cemetery



Don snuck out that night as Darcy slept. He walked down the trail, and into the woods. He found a small circle of grave markers.
He walked to the grave straight across from him, and he didn’t stop once. He just kept walking.
Darcy had heard him get up to leave and followed him quietly. When she saw him walking into a circle of graves she stopped. She quietly tried walking up to him, but she stepped on a branch, and broke it. She dashed behind a nearby tree, and caught her breath.
Then she heard something as she saw Don keep walking. “It’s time I came back here, isn’t it? I haven’t been here since I met her. I don’t know how I feel about her. That’s why I need your help, mom.”
Darcy turned back around and whispered to herself, “Mom?” Then she remembered the story Don had told her, about what happened to his parents.
He sat next to the grave, and said, “ I remember when we built this memorial. Me and my friends. It’s been a long time since then.”
Darcy wondered what he was talking about. Then Don started talking again, “ We-this took weeks to finish, and all of my friends left for another city. I haven’t seen my friends in years, I wonder how they’re doing. Matt, Karen, and Miguel. We all decided to pitch in the raise money to make gravestones. Took a long time to do it. I miss those days a lot, but I miss you more.”
Darcy watched Don the whole time. She saw a single tear slide down his cheek. The tear dropped onto the gravestone. Darcy couldn’t control herself, she ran over to Don. Hearing her made Don turn around. She jumped on him and he was knocked backwards. But as he was already sitting, he couldn’t fall, very much.
“ Whoa! What the..?” Darcy was on him before he could even focus on her. Don was slightly upset now, “ Did you follow me?”
Darcy saw how upset he was, but she didn’t lie to him, “ Yes, yes I did Don. I was worried about you!”
Then Don saw how she was about to cry so he said, “No! Don’t cry! It’s ok, I would’ve been worried too, if it were you leaving the house this late at night.”
Don smiled at her, she smiled back. She asked him what he was talking about, him and his friends, so he told her. “ After my mom died, my friends and I made a memorial for each of us who had lost someone close to them. I raised a few hundred dollars, and my friends raised even more. We bought these grave stones to place here. None of our parents knew what we were doing every night we came back into these woods. It kind of seemed like they didn’t care.”
Don stopped to catch his breath, and then continued again. “Every one of us took something that reminded us of the person who had left us. Ralphie had a necklace that belonged to his mom, and a watch that had belonged to his dad. I brought the wedding ring my mom would wear every day. Karen brought a brush that belonged to her mom. And Matt brought an ornament his dad had given him one Christmas.”
Darcy laid her head on him, and said, “ I see, a memorial, huh? But you didn’t mention Ralphie a few minutes ago.. I have a question.” Don looked down at her and said, “ Shoot.”
Darcy shook her head, thinking of what she wanted to ask him, “Memorial, no parents, what happened to you, after your dad….you know.”
Don looked up towards his mothers grave again, “ Did I tell you that my mom isn’t really buried here?” Darcy closed her eyes and said, “No you didn’t, but please don’t change the subject.”
Don looked as if he had just lost the most important battle of his life, then he smiled slightly and said, “ I guess I can’t win any way can I? Ok, well, after the incident, I called Ms. Trensen from the cell phone in dads pocket. She told me to come over right away, and to ignore what just happened. I left the house, reluctantly, and went next door. Ms. Trensen let me in, then picked me up, and I cried on her shoulder. She called the police, and told them the address. She lay me on the couch, and I slept there. I stayed there for about a week. Then one day, I woke up, and I asked her if something was wrong. Then she told me, ‘ You can’t stay here anymore. Your father’s will was found in his closet. It said, if anything were to happen to him, you were to be sent to boarding school.’ But when I was left at the school I ran away, and went straight to my old friend Ralphie’s house. I was there for years, helping pay for a new life, and finally getting old enough and having enough money to buy the house I live in now.”
Darcy took her eyes off of Don, but as soon as she did, she felt drops on her head, and looked back up. A tear fell from Don’s eye, and landed on her forehead. He sniffled and continued his story.
“Then, about a year after I bought the house, I received news that Ralphie had been shot by police. He was mistaken for a burglar, and he was shot in the criminals place. I keep thinking it was my fault, for not staying another year, but I also think that it’s the criminals fault. I want to blame someone, and I can’t blame Ralphie or you. The only two left to blame are me and that criminal.”
Darcy sat up, and told Don, “ That was no ones fault, and at the most, it wasn’t your fault. Not in the least. Stop blaming yourself. It was a freak accident. It’s over now. It can’t happen again. It won’t haunt you unless you let it.”



Chapter 18
The Bridge

The next day, Don and Darcy went for a walk. Don decided to show her Lover’s Bridge. Darcy stood and looked over the edge, “ Wow, the scenery from here is beautiful! I never thought it would be this nice, the view from a bridge, I mean!”
Don was bent over, leaning on the side of the bridge with a slight smile on his face. He said, “ There’s a reason why it’s called Lover’s Bridge, you know.”
Darcy looked at him and blushed, “ Why is it called Lover’s Bridge?”
Don looked at her, and smiled, “ Because there is a rumor about it. If you come here, on your 16 birthday with someone you like a lot, they’ll be yours. I don’t necessarily believe in it, I came here when I turned 16, but…oh never mind. Well, the girl I came with wasn’t really liking me for me. She thought I was rich or something. So she asked me if I wanted to go to Lover’s Bridge with her. And she told me the legend of this old bridge.”
Darcy blushed harder and said, “ I-is that so?” Don took his eyes off her. He found he was staring at her. He looked over at the scenery again, and his ears turned red. Then Darcy said, “ Hey, lets go back. It’s getting kind of cold isn’t it?”
Don looked at his wrist watch and said, “ Yes, lets head back, it usually starts to rain around this time, always on this day.”
Darcy stopped and said, “ What?” Don looked at her and said, “ Didn’t I tell you? Whenever someone goes to Lover’s Bridge, it rains. I guess it doesn’t matter if you fall for someone or not on this bridge. It’s just one of those things that happens, like a tradition almost!” Don smiled and turned to her.
“ Darcy? Can I ask you something?” Don had turned away from Darcy again, “What…well what I mean is…….well, how do you feel about me?”
Darcy blushed harder than she ever had before, and said, “ Your very important to me. I don’t know what I would ever do if I were to loose you. I would probably go nuts!” Darcy laughed nervously and Don said, “ I see” Don turned around and walked across the bridge.
Darcy tried to follow him, but when she was a few feet away, the metal floor of the bridge collapsed.
Darcy screamed as she fell, her hand grabbing on the metal, fast enough to hold her up. Don rushed over and lay on his stomach to reach out to Darcy’s open hand. He reached as far as he could, and she reached as far as she could, but the closest they could get to each other was a touch of their fingertips.
Darcy tried harder and harder and Don tried as hard as he could. They still couldn’t reach. Darcy passed out, and her fingers let go of the metal.
Don reached harder before she fell, and when she was inches from the metal he had reached far enough to grab her hand.
Don held on with all his might. He pulled her back up through the hole, but he used all of his energy to do it. As soon as she was on the bridge again, he picked her up and, as fast as he could, got her to the grassy ground, and off of the bridge.
There he passed out, very exhausted from this ordeal.







Chapter 19
Unwanted Dream

Darcy lay with Don on the grass late into the night. Her dreams carried her to a grassy hill, the suns shining brightly over her head. The clouds of rain seemed a distant memory now. Darcy was wearing a short dress that was pink, and kind of blew in the wind. Darcy walked down the hill, and as she walked, she noticed someone behind her.
It was a man with light brown hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. Don was standing behind her. He wore a black shirt, and boots. He had a pair of baggy blue jeans on, that kind of stuck out against the green grass.
Darcy walked over to Don. And something happened, Don wasn’t Don when she touched his hand. The face changed, the body changed and the voice changed. Don now looked like Mark. Then her dress turned black with smears of blood red coloring on it.
“ Hello, little monster. Miss me?” Darcy backed away quickly and tried to change form, but her form wouldn’t change.
She kept saying, “ Change, change, come on! Change form!” Mark walked toward her, and she kept walking back, then she heard cracking. The sky turned blood red, with streaks of yellow, and orange. The ground behind her broke and collapsed inward. A cliff now stood on the side of the hill where Darcy was now backing off to.
She turned around and stared down the cliff, it seemed like a long fall from the top to the bottom. She turned back around to see a fist coming across her face. She was knocked off balance and was close to falling, but she regained her balance in time.
Mark grimaced at her, and said, “ Fall, why don’t you. Death is easy. It doesn’t hurt, but I have never died. Why not take Don’s word for it? You’ll kill him soon enough.”
Mark laughed maniacally. “ I won’t kill Don! I won’t let anyone kill Don! You won’t lay a hand on him! If you touch him I’ll kill you!”
Mark just laughed again. “ I won’t kill him, you will!” And with that, he pushed her off the edge of the cliff, and she fell spiraling down, down, down………………………………....................
Darcy woke with a start. Tears rushed down her cheeks, and she realized that she was still laying in the grass with Don. She saw Don’s face was still his own, so she stayed where she was, and tried to fall asleep again. But Don said, “ Are you cold?” Darcy looked into his brown eyes, then she felt cold all of a sudden, and she shivered. Don took off his jacket and wrapped her in it.
Don saw she was crying and said, “ Are you hurt somewhere?” Don looked into Darcy’s blue ocean like eyes. Darcy nodded. She was hurting. Her pride was hurt, and her heart hurt worse. She sobbed, and Don got up and they walked back home. Darcy trying to control her sobs the whole way.



Chapter 20
Fulfilling the Foretold Fortune

As they walked home, Darcy almost lost her balance many times. Don would try to make sure she was okay, but Darcy moved back each time. After a while, Don stopped trying to see if she was okay. They reached home in about five minutes after Darcy last lost her balance.
Don let Darcy walk in first. But Darcy walked slowly, as if she was scared, or even worse, guilty of something.
Don just ignored it. He was too tired to deal with it. He lay down on the couch, but was soon woken by Darcy holding a large, sharp knife in her hand. Don jumped out of his comfortable state, and said, “ Darcy? What are you doing with that knife? Put it down…please, put it down!”
Don watched Darcy’s movements, he saw tears on her cheeks, and she said, “ This knife is for you. I need you to do something. If you don’t, it could very well be the end of your life. I need you to kill……………me.”
Don looked at the knife and said, “ What are you going to do if I say no? What’s wrong with you?” Darcy just sobbed, and said, “ It’s not what I want to do! It’s not! I don’t want to at all!” Darcy sobbed again, “ Please, before I kill you, take the knife…please take it!”
Don only backed away, he was already on the floor, he didn’t know what she was doing. Don was scared out of his mind.
“ Don, if you don’t take the knife, I’ll have to stop my self!” With those words, she raised the knife into the air, and pointed the blade, not towards Don, but towards herself.
A voice came from nowhere, “ That’s enough, you monster, if you won’t kill him, then I’ll just have to make you!”
All of a sudden Darcy fell to on her knees. Her eyes opened wide, as on single solitary image passed before them, an image of Mark.
Then her voice changed, “ Hello, Don, was it? It seems this little monster couldn’t find it in her heart to kill you. It seems she’s grown too attached to you. If she won’t kill you, then I’ll have to, now won’t I?”
Don wouldn’t believe that Mark had enslaved the girl he cared for. He couldn’t believe it, he knew the Darcy he knew was still there, somewhere. But what could he do to get her to come out of Marks enslavement?
Before he knew what he was doing, he was screaming at Mark, who was enslaving Darcy’s body, “ You come out of her! You don’t touch her! Get out! I wont kill her! I wont! You get OUT OF HER!!!!!” Don still wasn’t off the floor. He seemed angry, but he wouldn’t get up and fight, after all it would be Darcy he would be fighting, or at least, it would be her body he was destroying, then he had an idea.
“ Hey! Jerk! If your going to kill me, the honor should be in your own body, not hers! You cowardly pervert!” Don was trying to provoke him into using his own body.
Surprisingly, it worked, Darcy fell to the floor, still holding the knife.
Mark transformed into his own body, and took Darcy’s aura from her, the same aura that he had used to make himself more powerful.
Mark attacked him head on. Don just sat in the corner, and he took out the pocket knife he had in his pocket. When Mark was close enough for a range attack, Don drove the knife into Mark’s chest, catching him right in the heart.







Chapter 22
Happy Ending


Darcy lay on the floor with the knife in her hand. Don sat across the room, Mark next to him, bleeding all over the floor. Don tried moving to Darcy, but he was exhausted, and scared. He didn’t know if she would try to kill him. The first time, it was her who had held the knife, not Mark. The thought scared him. Don wondered if Darcy would try and kill him, but he knew she wouldn’t for some reason. No matter how he tried to shake the thought, it lingered back into his head. He loved Darcy, he understood that now, but he couldn’t let her know that, not until he knew what she would do. She seemed more afraid than he was, when she was holding that knife, about to kill him. She didn’t seem afraid at all as she was about to kill herself, however.
Don took all his courage, and got up and walked over to where Darcy lay on the floor. He took the knife from her hand, and realized the knife was no more than a fake piece of metal now. Then when he touched it, it turned into a knife again. He took the knife into the kitchen and placed it in a drawer.
He came back to see Darcy still laying on the floor. Then he looked down at her. She looked so innocent, he noticed she wasn’t breathing, so he tried CPR. She woke and said, “ D-Don..” she reached her hand out to his cheek and said, “ Please………please don’t be angry with me. I never wanted to hurt you. Never..” Darcy closed her eyes, and Don took her hand and said, “ I know that. I wouldn’t ever dream of hurting you either.” He kissed her forehead, and said, “ Will you be with me forever?”
Darcy opened her eyes and said, “ I want you, I want to stay with you forever. I love you.”
He kissed her.











Epilogue
Two Years Later

Don asked Darcy to marry him two years after the ordeal. Darcy became a fine young woman and Don became a young man. Ready to go through anything as long as they were with each other, they were married.
They had two beautiful children named Don Jr. and Joanne. There children grew to become fine adults, their parents never got to see their marriage.



Don Darcy
1987-2021 1991-2026
Don lived to be 34, Darcy lived to be 35
Early death due to Death due to
Unknown Cancer
Coming up in book 2!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next in:
Two Against the World.............................
Don and Darcy’s children live in their parents legacy, will their loved ones turn on them?
Joanne seems to know why her parents died, but she was so young as they died. She couldn’t remember much of her father. Don Jr. being older, remembered his parents more. The two have lived in a new house together for years, will their differences split them apart as they begin to find people they love? Will the brother and sister find who they are and why?
Lets Find Out!