"There are no stars tonight, lover," he whispered into her ear, and she couldn’t help but shiver. The chill air surrounded them as he walked a few more steps into the trees. "No one but us."-- Rykea has always thought she had been accepted into the Alliance because of her skills and determination, but a secret from her past that even she did not know of comes back to haunt her, and all because she had captured the wrong salvador at the wrong time.

A/N: This was written back in 2004-2005 when I was around 14 or 15. Since then, I've written spin-offs from the main plot and tried to edit it into a different story, etc, but I've never gotten anywhere with it. This is the first and most original story of Rykea and Kyou out of all the different versions I ended up with, and I'm not sure if it's ever going to be finished... but it's definitely one of my goals. I hope you enjoy anyway, despite the fact that I wrote it in my early teens. :)