Drew slept peacefully in her bed. It was the first time that she had actually slept good in a long time. The night was calm, and everything was still. Then suddenly, Drew heard a noise. She walked over to Nico's room and knocked on the door. Nico opened it and looked at Drew.

"Hey Drew. What's up?" Drew looked at Nico's chest. There were claw marks and blood all over his shirt.

"Nico, your bleeding."

"Yeah, I know."

"Are you okay?" Nico nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's late. You should go back to sleep."

"I probably should. Well, good night."

"Good night, Drew." Drew went back to bed, too tired to suspect anything. Nico closed the door and looked over at Christina fast asleep on the bottom bunk of his bunk bed. He sat down at his desk and started to gauze-up his cuts. "I can't keep doing this. I love her, but it's getting hard to deal with this." Nico heard yawning. He turned to see Christina waking up. She looked over at Nico. The she stood up.

"Did I do that to you?" Nico nodded. Christina looked down. "I should probably leave." She turned to walk out, but Nico stopped her.

"You're not going anywhere. You're staying here." She looked at him. Her eyes were full of tears.

"Nico, I can't stay here anymore. I can't have me hurting you." Nico put his hand on her shoulder.

"Christina, you're going to stay here. I know this whole power is new to you. Your parents trust me enough to take care of you."

"My parents don't trust me. That's why they pushed me on you."

"Christina, we both know that's not true. Your parents love you. They just don't know what to do. They wouldn't put their daughter's safety in the hands of someone they didn't trust." Christina looked up at Nico, then hugged him. "Ow! Christina! The cuts!" Christina quickly let go. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow." Christina looked down.

"I can't even touch you without hurting you." Nico looked at her.

"That ain't true." Drew looked at him.

"Your right." She kissed him on the lips. "I don't think that hurt you." Nico grinned.

"Not for a moment." He sat down in front of his desk. "You should go get some sleep. It's late."

"I was just sleeping. You need sleep."

"True, true. But you need sleep, too." Christina crawled into the bottom bunk, and Nico climbed into the top. "Christina?"

"Yeah Nico?"

"What time is it anyway?" Christina looked at the clock.

"It's 2:36am. Why?"

"Just was wondering. It's really is late. I'm probably not gonna wake up until three tomorrow afternoon."

"Yeah, me too."

"Well, good night Christina."

"Good night Nico." Silence fell over the island. There was no noise except for the tranquil sounds of the ocean. It was a peaceful night.

Christina woke up around 2:30pm. She looked up at Nico, who was still fast asleep. She opened the window and looked outside at the beach and the endless water. Then she heard yawning. Nico climbed down to the floor.

"What are you looking at?"

"The ocean." Nico looked out the window.

"It is pretty. But not as pretty as you." Christina smiled.

"It looks like a picture, doesn't it?"

"That gives me an idea." He ran over to his desk and pulled out a professional digital camera. He ran over and took a photo from the window. "That's a good photo for next year's calendar." Christina looked back out at the ocean as Nico took another photo, this one of her. "That's another good shot for the calendar." Christina looked at him.

"Have you ever noticed how blue your eyes are?" Nico shrugged.

"They're not as blue as yours." Nico put his camera back in the drawer in his desk. Then he looked at Christina. "Hey, we should probably go get something to eat." He looked at the clock. "Yikes! Almost three! I can't tell whether we should have lunch or dinner." Christina shrugged.

"I don't know. What should we have?" Nico shrugged.

"I don't know. Maybe pizza?"

"Pizza sounds good."

"Well I know there's those microwavable personal pizzas in the freezer downstairs."

"That'll work." A few minutes later, the two came back up with their pepperoni personal pizzas. Nico sat at his desk, well Christina preferred to eat it standing up. After they were done, they started to chat.

"So, Christina, what do we do now." Christina shrugged.

"I don't know. My entire family is out with your mom on some fancy trip until tomorrow, so we have the entire island to ourselves."

"Well, we'll have dinner at around 6:00."

"You know how to cook?" Nico nodded.

"What do you want? I can make pasta or chicken parmesan, or anything."

"I want steak. Well done.

"That makes my job a whole lot easier. I'm glad you're not one of those girly girls that only eat salad and are afraid of anything that used to moo." Christina laughed.

"Yeah. I hate those girls. They're so focused on being petite little woman who have a paper fan in their hand and drink fruity drinks while waiting for their strong husband to save them from the puddle on the side of the road."

"Well, you're definitely not that kind of girl. I wouldn't like you if you were." The rest of the night was good. The steaks were cooked well, there was a special on machine guns on TV, and before you knew it, it was 10:00.

"Gee, it's already 10:00. What should we do now?" Nico shrugged.

"Beats me." Then suddenly, Christina fell over. Nico looked at her and jumped back. "Well, I know what I'm gonna do." He watched as she transformed into a wolf. "Christina, I'm just gonna let you kill me this time. Maybe that'll work." The girl turned wolf charged towards Nico, then stopped and looked down. Nico looked at her. "I was actually expecting blood and claw marks and stuff like last night. This is actually an improvement." Then suddenly, the two heard a noise. Nico pulled out a gun as Christina stood growling.

"Hey, guys, put away the weapons. It's just me." Nico put the gun in his pocket.

"Oh, hey Zak. What are you doing here?"

"Keeping an eye on you." Nico raised an eyebrow.

"You're keeping an eye on us? Why?"

"My mom said she saw you last night with claw marks and blood all over the front off your shirt. I can see why." Christina let out a low whine.

"Hey, dude, we're fine."

"No your not." He pulled out the claw and pointed it at Christina. His eyes started glowing just as hers did. Then she jumped on Nico. The two fell back. Zak let out a laugh. "This is fun. I could do this all night." Nico looked up at him.

"I don't think so." He pushed Christina off of him, grabbed a sword that under the couch, and pointed it at Zak.

"That's it? A sword? I have my mom's Tibetan Fire Sword. You're gonna lose." Nico grinned.

"Oh, am I?" Suddenly, the sword blew out a huge blast of ice. Zak quickly dodged it.

"What was that?"

"An Antarctic Kur Sword." Zak's eyes bugged out.

"Dude, I'm Kur." Nico lowered the sword.

"Well, that explains why your acting so bad. I guess this is your sword." He handed it over to Zak. Zak looked at the sword, then looked at Nico.

"Why are you giving me a sword that I might kill you with?" Nico grinned.

"Because no matter what anyone says, you're not a bad person. You're Zak Saturday first, and Kur second. I know you'll do the right thing. C'mon, Christina." The two walked away into the dark.

"Who are you?" Nico looked back.

"I'm Nico, the Kur protector."

THE END.