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Kim was getting so frustrated. Her one chance at getting back at Sjin… gone. She had found a tutor who was trying to teach her how to function in this strange new world and she was beginning to be smarter. Now he was dead -or something- and her tower was destroyed.
But then, of course, it was all his fault because he had not killed the Naga and the world began to fall apart. Something else, though, had been nagging at her mind; he had been trying to warn her about something… Oh… that's right… he had been trying to warn her about the Flux, just before everything was destroyed. But now he was gone, sucked into the Flux himself.
Kim was just wandering the new world whilst trying to remember any of her lessons she could when she heard a loud crash a couple yards away and she saw somebody run behind a nearby hill. She wondered who it was, but she was a little too scared to check on alone. Suddenly, before she could react, the person charged at her out of nowhere and had grabbed her before she could run away.
She gasped at who it was. "Duncan? I thought you were in Fluxland or something!"
"Oh yeah, that was pretty great there! I found out some really cool stuff like this." He gestured to his arm and then after a few moments she realized that it was not his power tool that he was holding. Instead, his arm seemed to have been replaced with a mechanical one.
"Holy shit, Duncan! Holy shit! What did you do to yourself?" She looked over his whole body and realized that many parts of him had been modified, not just his arm.
"Oh, not much really… it's just my real arm wasn't as useful."
"What about your back?"
"This is better for heavy lifting."
"Your eye?" I asked. Duncan shrugged and said "It just wasn't as cool."
Kim was beginning to feel nervous around Duncan again. He always seemed a little reckless, really, but now he was seemingly going completely mad. Quite possibly that living alone in a castle for years on end and then being sucked into a strange vortex hadn't been very good for his brain at all.
"Okay, Duncan… it was nice seeing you but I have to go now." I said nervously.
"Oh, but Kim… I think you are going to want to wait."
"Why would I."
He smiled. "I have learned a way that you can help me get revenge on Simon and for you to get revenge on Sjin. That sounds a bit tempting. Am I right?"
Kim could not believe Duncan sometimes, but this! He had done something that seemed almost… unholy. He had once again gotten a Flux crystal set up, but this time he was filtering it through several compressors into a small strange container.
"Duncan!" I shouted at him. "Duncan, Mother says stop!"
"No, Kim, I simply need to borrow her for a while and soon I will let her go." He said without even looking at me.
Kim shuddered uneasily as she saw the last of its essence drain into the jar. Duncan then picked it up calmly and plugged it into his arm. For a short while, nothing happened and then Duncan's eyes began to glow purple like Rythian's do.
"Are you ready, Kim, to begin your own quest?"
Kim stared at his eyes before saying, almost without knowing what she was doing; "Yes… yes, I am ready to be your apprentice again in order to bring Sjin to justice."
"Good…" Duncan grinned evilly. "Then let your training begin."