Separated from the rest of her party, Aisha continues traveling deeper into the ruins. As she continues through the dimly lit tunnels she notices several statues lining the walls. Immediately when she gets to the center of the statues, the spring to life and flock to her location. She remains calm, dispatching the Gargoyle's with a simple casting of a spell, summoning forth the power of the demon of death. Suddenly the floor begins to fall rapidly and she is thrust down into the earth. As the floor lowers, several more Gargoyles appear. Flying up from underneath the moving floor is a similar winged creature, except it's size is significantly larger than the others'. Already feeling exhausted, she readies for the coming battle. As it charges at her she attempts to drain it's power with her magic, but the creature simply picks her up and tosses her off the platform, as if she were a toy it no longer cared to play with. Despite using her magic to slow her fall, she still slams into the ground, disoriented. As she looks up she notices a large beast that appears to have an aura of freezing energy around it with fang and claws nearly the size of the creature that tossed her down. She's in no condition to fight, as she can barely even stand now, her right leg possibly fractured. The creature hasn't seemed to notice her yet, and she quickly decides she should get away before it does. As she limps away, she trips over a small stone which rolls off, creating a loud noise. Suddenly the beast, massive beyond comparison, is staring straight at her. She begins to run as fast as she possibly can. As she runs the beast grabs the earth she is currently on and tosses it at the exit, knocking her into the newly formed crater and destroying her only chance of escape. The flying beast and it's several smaller versions come down from the falling platform and encircle her, trapping her deep within the ruins.
Out of nowhere a small yellow orb comes flying at Aisha. The ball hits the ground beside her and emits a field of bright light, rejuvenating her life force, healing some of her wounds from the fall. She feels much better now, but she's still much too weak to fight. As the fear continues to grow within her the monsters close in on her. She closes her eyes and awaits the inevitable darkness that is closing in on her. But the monsters don't come. She opens her eyes in time to see swords flying through the air and crashing through each of the gargoyles, pinning them into the ground. Landing in front of her is a boy with spiky red hair, who then summons a mass of swords from the ground, knocking back the remaining enemies. Over his shoulder he throws a small purple potion and says calmly, "drink up." She quickly downs the potion, now feeling fully prepared for battle.
She runs up to his side, staff in hand, and kisses him on the cheek, and says "thanks for the help." She turns to face the remaining enemies, an overly large gargoyle, and the massive beast of pure cold energy, now is not the time for their happy reunion.
As the red haired boy rushes forward, she casts a spell to enhance his strength. He jumps up at the flying beast, who easily dodges his attack, knocking him aside with his wings. At the same time the blue beast rushes forward and attempts to run him down, but he adeptly flips out of the way. The flying beast lunges toward the red haired boy, but as it prepares to grab him Aisha runs between them and summons a massive stone, knocking the flying beast to the ground. The red haired boy jumps up and comes down on the flying beasts neck with his two swords, severing the beasts head from its body. Upon this happening the massive blue beast howls angrily, the power of the howl sending both of them flying off in opposite directions. They both land on their feet, ready for whatever comes next. Suddenly the blue beast spits out a massive ray of pure cold energy, hitting the red haired boy, freezing him in place. The beast turns toward Aisha and charges directly at her, with the obvious intention of swallowing her whole. She summons forth her greatest of energy, and suddenly is engulfed by dark energy. From her hands shoot forth a bright red light, then another, then several, until there are multiple red lines covering all areas in front of her creating a dazzling light show of deadly red beams. When the light passes, the beast has fallen, pieces of flesh carved from its side.
The dark energy fades from her, and though exhausted she runs to the red-haired boy's side, crying "Elsword, please no. Elsword, please you can't die." She quickly searches for a torch, something, anything, she can use to heat him up, but finds nothing.
Standing next to him crying, she hears a voice yell out "MOVE!" and suddenly a gust of fire in the shape of a bird is rushing towards her and Elsword. She casts a shield around the two of them, but the fire is strong and still burns her slightly as it passes by. Behind her, Elsword's hand breaks through the ice, and eventually he works his whole body out of the ice cocoon he had forced into. Suddenly a blonde elven girl in a hunter's outfit jumps runs into Aisha's view, bearing a confident smirk on her face.
"Rena you could've killed us!," Aisha screams at the elven girl.
"We don't have time for you to wallow over things, we've got much bigger problems coming our way," Rena declares.
"What's happened?" asks Elsword as he recovers himself.
"I'm not entirely sure yet, but I think the El Crystal has been corrupted."
"How?!" Aisha says with a strong hint of fear in her voice.
"I'm not sure, but I do know that the Gates of Darkness have been opened, and this time they brought more than we could handle, but before we do anything we must first find a way out of this ruin, Have either of you seen Chung?"
"No we were separated when a wall suddenly fell between us," the couple declares.
"Well me may not have time to find him, although we may need him. We need to get out of here as soon as possible and return to Ruben."
As she finishes speaking a wall collapses and a large stone creature comes crashing through the wall, tossing a small blonde boy carrying a cannon across the room. He loses his grip on the cannon and it goes flying off towards the opposite side of the room. The boy lands with a crash on the ground, no longer moving.
"Chung!" Aisha screams out in horror.
Following the the massive stone creature are hundreds of smaller yet similar creatures. Suddenly several demons walk in. From up high similar looking creatures wielding bows aim at the 3 still standing. More and more demons continue to file in through the hole created by the large golem, steadily surrounding the warriors who have now surrounded Chung's body as if to protect him from greater harm. As the demons continuously flood in, one rides out on a bird-like creature, fully armored, and wielding a spear.
"Drop down your arms and we won't slaughter you," the demon declares.
"Never!" Aisha yells out as she charges forth to attack the demon, greatly underestimating it's strength and skill. The demon spins it's spear around and smacks her across the head, instantly knocking her to the ground where she lays unconscious.