Ow. I shakily sit up.

"That was... intense." Mai Yin says.

She looks around. Lan Zhan looks at her.

"At least we didn't die." Mai Yin shrugs. 

I cough.  I wince as I try to stand up but fall to my knees. I feel my wound. Blood was pooling out. Mai Yin turns. Lan Zhan turns.

"Oh... I forgot." She says.

Lan Zhan grabs me and pulls me to a tree. I wince. Mai Yin pulls my shirt back. I hiss as my eyes widen when I look at the wound. Ugh... that looks bad. Really bad. It's dug in pretty deep. It looks infected worse than a devil's mark. Lan Zhan's eyes widen. Mai Yin looks like she was going to puke.

"It's... not that bad." She says.

"Yeah, but it feels so much worse." I bang my head against the trunk. 

"I got this." She grabs the dagger.

Lan Zhan grabs the dagger as well.

"Okay, I'm not going to sugar coat it but this will hurt like a thousand suns." She says.

"Bring it." I cough.

She looks at Lan Zhan he nods. They try to yank it out. I let out a scream as the smoke from the dagger blasts Mai Yin into a tree. Lan Zhan yanks his hand back. I turn and I see blood dripping from his hand. I try to sit up, but the pain was stronger than I could ever imagine. 

Hear me.

We all look at the dagger. Its eyes were glowing red.

Dare not to take me out of this host.

I look at Lan Zhan. Mai Yin looks at me.

Try to remove me and the boy dies.

Silence falls. My head was blank. I grip the wound. Mai Yin stands up.

"Please tell me, I wasn't the only one to have heard that." Mai Yin finally says.