Third Person P.O.V
Seto puts his hand on his lower stomach and feels something warm. Kim is talking to them as Seto looks at his hand seeing blood.

"Crap." Seto said. He slips out of the room pressing his hand against his wound that reopened. He opens a door and goes into a laboratory. Marisa, a Dark Sorcerer, is in her doing her normal experiments. Seto walks pass her and opens a drawer. Marisa looks up and at Seto. She looks at the blood staining his shirt.

"Seto what happened?" She asks.

"Stitches broke, wound opened." Seto said pulling out a tray, his hand is shaking slightly from blood loss. He grabs a table before he falls and Marisa stands up. She goes over to him and grabs his arm.

"Let me do it." Marisa said. She pulls off his jacket and sets it aside. Seto grabs a metal table with both hands, steading himself. Then putting one hand against the cut in his stomach. Marisa grabs a pair of scissors. "I'm just gonna cut off your shirt. I need to close that fast." Seto doesn't object at all. Marisa starts cutting his shirt. "It opened cause your doing to much. Kim is making you do too much and now it reopened." Marisa puts the scissors down and throws out the shirt. She grabs a cloth and presses it against Seto's cut. "Okay, I'm gonna sit you down. Go as slow as you need." Seto puts his hands on her shoulders as they sit down. But at the same time the doors open and Red is dragging in a Sky Army recruit. Marisa looks at them. "Red, this isn't a good time." Marisa pulls the tray closer to them and she puts her knee on the chair between Seto's legs. She grabs a needle.

"Well this one just won't stop. What happen to you?" Red asks walking pass them with the girl. The girl looks at Seto.

"Seto, how did he get hurt?" She asks.

"That's really none of your concern, now is it?" Marisa asks. Marisa puts thread through the needle and pulls up the cloth a little. "Hold still. This might hurt."
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Skylar signs as she looks back over at Dylan. Dylan meets her eyes.

"I want Seto back." She said. Seanna nods.

"You and me both." Seanna said quietly.

"He's still hurt from his injury to his stomach. With how much work Kim probably has him doing, the stitches won't hold." Skylar said. Em walks in with her hands in her coat pockets.

"Seto is strong, a little injury isn't gonna stop him. He has turned like this before, it's was actually about a year after I meant him. He was ruthless and cruel. Total opposite of who he really is. Skylar you know that's not who he really is right?" Em asks looking at her. Skylar gets off the chair nodding.

"O my notch yes. That's not the Seto I know. If this has happened before like you said, then maybe you can fix it again." Skylar said. Em looks to the floor.

"Problem right there. I'm not the one who cured him way back when." Em said. Seanna looks at her.

"Who did? Maybe we can find them." Seanna asks.

"Crimson fixed him. But she died long ago." Em said.

"How did she do it? Maybe we can replicate it." Dylan said. Em shakes her head.

"You can't. None of you can." Em said.

"Well why not?" Seanna asks. Skylar looks at the floor knowing why.

"Because it was love that got Seto back, wasn't it?" Skylar asks. Em nods.

"It was indeed." Em said. They stay silent for a few seconds. Dylan looks at Skylar.

"Skylar. Maybe you can snap him out of it." He said. Em shakes her head.

"It's not strong enough Dylan. Only Crimson could snap him out of it. Nothing else will work, not even Skylar can do it." Em said.

"So it's hopeless?" Seanna asks. Em nods.

"I'm afraid so. He's a goner guys." Em said. Skylar feels tears form in her eyes.

"We can at least still save his friends. Sky, Jason, Ty, Ian, Quentin, Mitch, Jerome, probably Alesa, and the recruits. We can at least do that." Skylar said.

"Skylar! Your giving up o-"

"I don't want to Dylan! Notch no! I want Seto back more then you think I do. This isn't who he is, but there is nothing we can...we can..." Skylar trails off. She wipes her tears away and looks at the floor. But she feels more tears come.

"Dylan, Seanna, can me and Skylar have the room for a while please?" Em asks. They leave. Skylar doesn't say anything. "Stop crying Skylar. I'm getting tired of you crying all the time. Yes, Seto is being controlled by a very powerful Dark Mage. The Army's were taken down and everyone in them is either dead or alive. Your not gonna help them by crying your eyes out. Your 18 now. Stop acting like a 10 year old." Skylar looks up and at Em.

"You said it yourself, it's hopeless. Seto was the only person in my life that cared about me and didn't abandon me. No matter how much trouble I caused him, he always forgave me in the end. My parents didn't care about me. Once they found out I had magic they tried to kill me. Seto was the only one, he was the only one who took care of me. He's like my Dad. And now I lost him forever because I didn't listen to him and stayed at the Dead Army Base. If I stayed there, none of this would have happened." Skylar said. Em grabs Skylar's arm.

"It wouldn't have matter if you stayed there or not Skylar. Kim was after Seto. This problem dates back before you were born Skylar. Kim just wants revenge against Seto for what he did long ago." Em said. Skylar looks at her interested yet confused.

"What did he do?" Skylar asks. Em lets go of Skylar's arm.

"Seto has nightmares almost every night, am I right?" Em asks.

"Yes. He never told me about them expect for they were about a war he was in." Skylar said. Em nods slightly. She lets in Dylan and Seanna.

"I have a idea. But I don't think it will work. You three got to understand something first about Seto. This has happened before. I know he never told you about this but I'm telling you now." Em said. Skylar crosses her arms. "Now do not judge his actions in the past, he has to pay for them each day and it destroys him. You were the only thing in his life he thought he did right. He may look good on the outside, but on the inside. He is evil. He was born that way, he wasn't born in the good side like you were told. He was born evil and trained in the Dark Arts, mastered it. He created most of the spells in the Dark Arts actually. That's why he is so good at fighting off the Dark Mages and protecting us from their evil."

"Cause he was one of them." Dylan said. Skylar takes a step back from Em in disbelief.

"What about the wars he has nightmares about?" Skylar asks.

"Those are real Skylar. He was fighting three magic wars. Dark Arts vs the Light Arts. Two of them, fighting against the Light and the last one was fighting against the Dark Arts." Em said. Skylar narrows her eyes at Em.

"So everything he has ever told me, was a lie." Skylar said.

"No. No. No. Skylar, Seto changed his ways. Believe me he has. He may slip every once in a while but he is on the our side." Em said. Skylar shakes her head.

"No. He lied to me all these years. Why didn't he tell me?! I thought he trusted me." Skylar said. Em grabs her arm as she tried to leave stopping Skylar.

"He does Skylar. He does. He lied to you cause he is still paying the price for his actions in the past and he can't take the guilt of it. Your the only thing that keep Seto alive all these years. Before you I was afraid to leave him home alone. He was always alone Skylar. The Dark Arts destroyed Seto. The Magic Conical, when if existed back then, never trusted Seto to keep his word even though he always did. We all knew one day Seto would crack and turn back to the Dark Arts, but then he found you. You were the thing that kept his dark side in check. You were the one who saved Seto from himself." Em said. Skylar stares at Em for a few seconds.

"He should have told me. I'm old enough to know this about him."
Skylar said. She yanks her arm out of Em's grip.

"Are you old enough to know that if Seto isn't killed during this, he will be after this?!" Em asks. The three have shocked expressions and Skylar stares at Em.

"W-What?" She asks.
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Sky hears voices talking around him. Every muscle in his body hurts but mostly his head does.

"How could Seto do this?" A voice asks. Sky opens his eyes seeing a stone ceiling. He groans and all voices throw to his direction.

"Is he waking up?!" One asks. More voices come making his head hurt and he closes his eyes and puts his hands on his head. He feels a hand on his shoulder and it shakes him.

"Sky? Sky are you awake?" It asks.

"No." Sky said wearily. A few laughs come up and Sky opens his eyes and Alesa and Ty are looking at him. Sky sits up slowly.

"He's up." Ty said.

"Finally." Jerome said. Alesa hugs Sky.

"I thought you never would." Alesa said. Sky smiles slightly but loses it looking around.

"Where...Where are we?" Sky asks. Ty looks at Jason. Jason fell asleep a long time ago.

"Don't know, but in a cell. You were out cold for days. We thought you never would wake up." Ty said looking back at Sky. Sky stands up wobbling a little bit. Ty stands up as well. Sky looks at the other cell. He looks at Mitch.

"What happened to Mitch?" Sky asks.

"Same as Jason, they didn't go down without a fight." Quentin said. Sky looks at Jason.

"Jason has a fractured or broken ankle. Mitch keeps blacking out and is weak. They did tests on Jerome. Licia said she put you under some spell." Ty said. Sky looks at Ty. Jason wakes up and sits up. They hear footsteps and it's Red and some guards. Sky looks at the guard recognizing them immediately.

"Nic, Daniel." Sky said walking pass Ty. Sky looks at Red. "What did you do to my recruits?" Red grins.

"Same thing we are gonna do to you." Red said. Ty takes a few steps towards them.

"Really?" Ty asks. Red nods. Red looks at Quentin.

"Get Quentin. And you better not put up a fight Quentin. Or.." Red said. He lifts his hand and points two fingers at Jason and a faint blue glow appears. "Jason will get it." Nic opens the cell and Daniel grabs Quentin. They leave and Nic closes the cell and leaves.

"Wait, where's Ian?" Sky asks.

"Quentin doesn't know and neither do we. But we haven't seen him here, so they maybe didn't get him." Jason said. Sky sits down next to Alesa. Alesa puts her head on his shoulder.

"Hopefully. What about the Commanders?" Sky asks.

"No idea." Jerome said.

"Zane is here, Brice we don't know." Jason said. Seto walks in. He opens Jerome's cell.

"Let's talk Jerome." Seto said. Jerome looks at Seto. Seto grabs Mitch and Jerome gets halfway up befre Seto threatens Mitch. Jerome stops and sits back on the floor. Seto lays Mitch down. Seto walks in front of Jerome and crouches down. He pulls out a knife.

"If you think I'll talk your mistaken." Jerome said. Seto puts the tip of the knife on Jerome's leg.

"You have a Frost Caster in your Army, correct?" Seto asks.

"No." Jerome answered instantly. Seto narrows his eyes at Jerome and puts the knife on Jerome's neck.

"You answered that question rather quickly Jerome." Seto said. Jerome looks at the knife and then at Seto. "Who are they Jerome? Where are they?"

"I would rather die then give up one of my recruits." Jerome said. Seto lowers the knife.

"I respect that you do. But it's my job to find them and I'll get that info, one way or another." Seto said. He pulls out he whistle and Jerome looks at it. Seto stands up. "I wonder what will happen since Quentin isn't in here." Jerome stares at the ground. He clenches his fists. He stays silent while Ty grabs the bars looking at the two.

"That's low Seto." Ty said. Sky looks at Seto.

"What about Skylar, Seto?" Sky asks. Jerome looks at Seto seeing a flicker of worry cross Seto's face but goes back to that same mad look on his face. Seto turns halfway to look at Sky.

"I see what your trying to do Sky. Last time I heard from her, she was bleeding to death from a knife. Along with her friends." Seto said.

"You killed Skylar?" Jason asks. Seto looks at Jerome.

"What? Did that hit something in your cruel and cold heart?" Jerome asks. Mitch wakes up and sits up a little. He looks at Seto. Seto looks down at Mitch. He grins.

"You want to make jokes huh?" Seto asks. Seto's eyes glow and Mitch suddenly gets pushed into the wall and Mitch screams in pain.

"Why am I-I the punching b-bag?" Mitch asks.

"Because you always need help. You can't do anything for yourself without one of them helping you." Seto said. Mitch pulls himself to his feet and looks at Seto. Mitch takes a step towards Seto and clenches his fist. Seto looks at his hand and at Mitch's face. "Give me your best shot, that is if you can stand up straight." Jerome gets up.

"Mitch-" Mitch throws a punch at Seto and Seto takes a step back making Mitch miss. Mitch grabs Seto to balance himself.

"Mitch stop. Your using to much strength." Jerome said. Mitch tries again and misses. Seto steps to the side making Mitch crash into the bars. He grabs them. He looks at Seto.

"Yeah Mitch. Your broken and useless. Always a burden on everyone."  Seto said. Jerome takes a step towards Seto and Seto's eyes glow. "I will cut you down Jerome." Mitch walks towards Seto again wobbling a little bit. Jerome grabs Mitch's arms.

"Mitch stop. You not gonna win." Jerome said. Mitch tries to push Jerome anyway, but he doesn't have the strength to even move Jerome at all. Seto leaves. Tears form in Mitch's eyes. His knees give out and Jerome catches Mitch going down on his knees as well. Mitch buries his face in Jerome's shoulder and grabs Jerome's shirt in his fists.

"I-I'm not b-broken." Mitch said. Jerome hugs Mitch tight rubbing Mitch back with his hand. "R-Right?" Mitch looks at Jerome. Jerome hesitates to answer making Mitch push Jerome down with a sudden burst of strength. "Y-You a-agree with Seto." Jerome shakes his head.

"No. No. Benja-"

"Don't call me t-that J-Jerome. Y-You think Seto's r-right. I-I'm u-useless." Mitch said. Jerome reaches a hand out to Mitch. Mitch crawls away from Jerome. "S-Stay a-away." Jerome puts his hand on the ground staring at Mitch. Mitch curls up into a ball and cries silently into his arms. Jerome gets up and goes down next to Mitch.

"Jerome-"

"No shut up Ty." Alesa said. Ty looks at Alesa. Jerome grabs Mitch pulling him into a hug. Mitch hits Jerome's stomach trying to push him away but Jerome keeps a hold of Mitch since Mitch isn't that strong as he usually is. Soon Mitch stops hitting Jerome and grabs Jerome's shirt burying his face into it.

"Save your strength. We'll let you fight when your back on your feet. I don't want you getting hurt more then you already are Mitch. Your recruits would want you to keep fighting, but they want you safe. You challenging a Mage, especially Seto, alone in your condition is just suicide." Jerome said.

"I'm s-sorry." Mitch said through his tears.

"It's fine. Just don't do it again." Jerome said. Sky smiles slightly and Alesa falls asleep with her head on his shoulder and her hand hold his in his lap. Jason looks at them.

"Your lucky Sky. You actually gotta a girl." Jason said. Sky looks at Jason.

"Jason it's not that hard. Maintaining a serious relationship is hard. But the beginning isn't." Sky said. Jason leans against the wall looking at his purple and blue and black ankle.

"Says you. Everyone loves you. Same with you Ty. I'm just the rookie that no one cares about." Jason said.

"Where is this coming from? Did Kim put words in your mouth?" Ty asks. Jason looks at Ty slightly.

"So what if she did? She's right. I'm the newest Army and everyone still thinks I can't do anything." Jason said. Sky shakes his head a little.

"Don't listen to her Jason. She is manipulating you. Your still learning, we all are. The Star Army is just as important as the Sky Army is." Sky said. Jason smiles slightly.

"And for the girl, is there one you have in mind?" Ty asks.

"Maybe." Jason said.

"Who is it? Is it someone we know?" Ty asks. Jason nods.

"You know her. All of you do." Jason said.

"Can you tells us her name?" Sky asks. Jason hesitates for a second.

"Skylar." He said.

"You like Skylar?" Ty asks.

"Your making it sound like it's bad." Jason said. Ty shakes his head.

"No. No it isn't. I just never thought you were interested in having a relationship with anyone." Ty said. Jason bites his bottom lip back a little. He leans against the wall.

"I never gave it a thought until last month." Jason said.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Alesa said looking at Ty.

"I never said there was." Ty said. Jerome looks over at them.

"What are they doing to Quentin?" Jerome asks.

"I don't know." Ty said. The door opens again and Kim comes in. She sets her eyes on Sky immediately.

"Time for a little fun." Kim said.

"That can be taken in many different ways." Jerome said. Mitch smiles slightly.

"Jerome." Jason said.

"You know what I mean." Kim said.

"How do we know what you mean, if you never say what you mean?" Jerome asks. Kim stays silent for a second.

"Shut up Jerome." Kim said.
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Sky moves slightly hearing the chains move that has his arms behind his back and a long chain and is attached to the wall behind him. Kim and Red appear.

"Let's have some fun shall we. We have two Sky Army Recruits lined up for this." Kim said. Sky looks at them standing back up.

"What did you do?" Sky asks. Jacey suddenly appears standing a few feet away from Sky. Jacey looks at Sky and smiles.

"Your okay!" She said sounding so happy. Sky looks at her. He sees that she has brown hair in a ponytail, silver eyes, a red shirt a little ripped, sky blue hoodie with the Sky Army Crest on the back of it, and a sapphire necklace. Jacey takes a step towards Sky. 

"I want you to shoot spells at Sky directly." Kim said. Jacey looks at Kim.

"No." Jacey said. Sky looks at Jacey knowing she would say that. He shakes his head a little.

"Jacey do it. She will force you." Sky said. Jacey looks at Sky.

"But I don't want to hurt you Sky." Jacey said.

"I'll try to dodge them but you have to do it. I care more about your safety then my own." Sky said. Jacey looks at Sky for a few seconds before a staff forms in her hand. Tears form in her eyes.

"I'm...I'm sorry Sky." Jacey said.