Swipe left Maken alone; he walked around on the far side of the balcony and stopped to see Makenzie with her sword out in front with her small gun as well. “Don’t be stupid Makenzie. Go potty and go to bed.” Makenzie glared at him with evil intent, “Hey it’s my turn to stand guard.” “We really don't need to stand guard, anyway. After making a declaration of war, a surprise attack would be pretty pointless.” “You’re right.” “But after ten days, it'll be an all-out fight to the bone. Makenzie, maybe after ten days you'll be able to fight too.”

“I was always going to fight,” Makenzie was cleaning her sword. “Sure. I have to ask you some things; why do you want to fight? And I still hardly know you, yet we fight all the time. So tell me about yourself?” She laughed, “So is this how you try to get with all the girls? It’s a shame that such words you speak go to waste coming from you.” “You twisted little.” “What was that?” “Nothing but anyways just tell me. I already know that you been whining about wanting to be strong. Just because you’re a girl doesn’t mean you were weak in the very beginning you know.” Both of them quiet; Swipe looked at her, while she still polished the sword. “It’s hard. Life is,” Makenzie spoke quietly. “Well of course if it wasn’t then what’s the point? If everything was so easy, we wouldn’t appreciate things as much as we should.” Swipe looked at her funny while she put down the cloth and said, “Well being known as a half vampire princess things get more complicated then you think. I always used people and never did anything for myself or any good for anyone.”

Swipe got up and walked away a bit looking over his shoulder. “Makenzie, you already know this isn’t a game. Even if you have to prove something; just make sure you don't get between Maken and Enishi. This isn't like with NekamOrez, when it was the fate of a country on the line. This is personal. Unless they themselves decide the outcome, it won't mean anything. If you think you're a grown woman, stay the hell out of it. Even if it means Maken dies.” “Gee thanks for letting me tell my story. All right but that would be a thousand to one chance,” she smiled. Swipe narrowed his eyes, “If I were you, it would be nine hundred and ninety nine to a thousand chances.” Swipe turns to walk away to only feel Makenzie tackling him. They start to scuffle. Makenzie loses. “But those other guys, if they fight, go for it. (Not that you're ready.) It's all pretty sketchy. I get the feeling that revenge is just an excuse for them.” Swipe held Makenzie off the ground.

Swipe puts Makenzie down on the ground and they both sit down. Makenzie put some of her hair behind the back of her ear, “When I heard Maken's story today I finally understood. The strength of the Maken I look up to. Not just the strength of the incredible sword techniques, but the strength to keep on living bearing the pain of the heart worse than death.” (Thinking) Not wanting to be in the way or the only one that's weak was only half of it. No matter how I struggled, I couldn't make it. (Aloud) “Now, in the true meaning of the word, I want to be strong. Then I can follow in Maken's footsteps and protect the weak I see weeping before me.” (Smiling self-depreciatively) “Although I guess I still have a long way to go.”

“Don’t grin like young lady,” Swipe gets smacked upside the head. “Ouch.” “Now what were you saying?” “If you're going to laugh at your dreams, you should stick out your chest and laugh loud.” Makenzie looked him and slapped him again as she covered her chest.” “No not that ugh never mind, Swipe looked up at the stars and thought to himself, “Maybe she’ll make it. One the other hand, I don’t believe that so easily. I wonder what I should be doing?”

Maken still sits in the same spot. Lost in though as the clock near him ticks on.

(Late Real Entry)
So the year 2004 has come and gone. This probably had to be the most remembered years in a long time. I graduated from high school this year. I never could see myself after high school, it's so weird. I remember a lot of stuff from this year though. The good and bad. This year seem to be the final time I talked to Heather my ex. We stopped talking in by June. We hardly even talked. She started to disappear on me. And I found out she was cheating. I couldn't blame her really though. I mean I wasn't there. She was living in Tennessee at the time. I know she goes to UGA here. So she's in my state. I do always catch myself wondering what she's up to and how life is treating her.

In track I finally broke my mile time. It use to be 5:04, but now it's 5:01. Sure I didn't break it like all super awesome like. But at least I beat it this time. Also Cross Country. 18:44. The fastest I ever gotten on 3.1 miles. Senior year was easy so I didn't have so much to worry. That was going to change. When I found out I had to take a pretty much a placement test for college. I hated it. I should have known that was going to happen. So I somewhat tried to study for it. Especially the math part. I should have studied up on my English as well. But I got pretty owned in that entire test that took 3 hours.

So got put in all the classes that weren't even college level -_-. I don't even know how I got passed the last part of this year. I felt like I was going to lose it. When you get in college you better find something to do. It's supposedly the best time. But it depends on who you are. But the days go by fast. All you do is study and praying that you're going to pass the class. Even if you're smart they just give you harder stuff. Never ending cycle, I really hope in the end I enjoy college. I'm certainly haven't exactly. However I did meet a lot of old friends there. Like from Elementary day isn’t that crazy?

But I made it through the first semester of college. I messed up quite a bit. And made myself fail math and struggle through studying. I need to find a way to get this all worked out. I don't know what's going down. But hopefully something gets done. That's basically I want the new year. To get in that college mode and do so much better. Maybe find a real girlfriend or hang out more. I stay home way too much. Get that EB Games job. Yes I'm still trying to get that job. So keep praying for me and all. I love you loads and Happy New years to everyone around the world.

(Real Entry)

It’s been crazy here the past couple days. This weekend turned to crap Sunday. Man it sucked. I’ve wrecked a lot of things and just this isn’t the way the New Year should start out. I go back to college January tenth. I don’t want to go back yet! >.< So let’s get started on what happen. Well I went on a date for a friend. I had to save his life on that. It’s ridiculous what these people do now and days. It was a BLING DATE. Oh God. I got dragged into this. I should have known better. What the heck was I thinking!? So Ben wanted me to take his place because he forgot and he knew Dustin was going to mess up. So took the heat. Ben owes me money and my dignity, oh and also a beat down. So does Dustin.

“So hey Rory did you like you’re date?” What’s going through my mind? Me snapping Dustin's neck, beat him down a few times. Stomp on him. I’m not even supposed to be here! Was she ugly? Well she wasn’t my type or anything. I wouldn’t consider dating her. Hey I’ll admit. I’m a guy. I do stupid thing, and get selfish. I go for personalities but you got to have some looks. She had neither. She wasn’t ugly or anything, but her personality was making her more and more that way.

So at least I wasn’t like ewwing on first sight, but her personality really did make it worse. She was just straight up acting like a middle school girl. “It’s hot in here why don’t we go outside?” As I said, “We just walked all the way up here. Do you want a drink? It’s too far to go back outside.” “It’s hot in here I need to go outside. I never get like this I’m sorry sorry.” What’s going through my mind is that I knew she wanted to get me alone and talk.

I go with her outside so she can “cool off.” And of course she says she just wanted to get away from everybody. She couldn’t believe I was “ugly” (Note: She was trying to be sarcastic but failed miserably) Yeah so she thought I was going to look ugly yet I turned out nice looking. Which was the only good little thing about the date, sheesh. So we went to the movies and saw “Meet The Fockers.” OMG that was probably one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.  It was really really good. Made me forget about most of the date thank God. She was just doing middle school stuff I swear. Get into the movie theaters. She wants to get a drink (in the end she didn’t get one.) Then she didn’t want to sit in the middle. And I’m like. It’ll be boy girl boy girl. She didn’t want to sit by my cousin EJ. And I’m like I’m going to sit next to you. But she kept complaining so I told her to sit by Dustin since she knows him.

So after the movies I give her a hug and thank her for coming out and stuff. So she says she has a ride so we leave. EJ’s date didn’t have a ride so we took her home way out in the middle of no where. We didn’t even know how to get back almost. Also we were running low on gas. I can tell that EJ’s kind of bad. Because we didn’t know we had to drop her off. So Dustin keeps bugging me about the whole date thing. I’m trying to ignore him as much as possible. Yeah yeah I know I’m repeating myself a bit.  He ask if we exchanged numbers. And of course I lied so badly, “Uhhh yeah man I did ^_^;;;” Oh brother -_-.

It’s over finally. Late last night I get a phone call. And I was surprise. No one calls my house. And it was her. CRAP!!!!!!!!! Damn it Dustin. You gave her my number doh! >.< And so here I go on the middle school thing, “Guess who it is?” UGH I hate guessing! This sucked completely. Of course I said the wrong name lol ^_^;. I really didn’t know it was her. Oh by the way her name is Noni. And I had said Megan. Because Megan had called my house the other day and wished me happy New year from North Carolina. So I was trying to get in contact with her really. So Noni got all mad that I didn’t remember her, and she was saying I was talking bad about her. Well actually I only did talk to you 10 minutes, while saving my friends @$$ from you, and didn’t know what I was getting into. She was mad I didn’t give her my number (I actually didn’t have a pen or paper, none of us did I knew that much.) Man now I have to watch out for her number on the caller I.D.