Chapter 16
The Strange Man
The scene opens up showing Zero, Marcus, and Tai standing behind Noah. Tai is holding Mariah over his shoulders because of her wounds. "Fury Of The Shadow Dragon!" Noah yells while throwing a punch, the shadow like cyclone spinning around his arm shoots off of it and forms into a dragons head, it flies at Karagshi and lands a direct hit in his chest, on contact it explodes and the whole cave is leveled. The smoke from the explosion begins to clear, Karagshi isn't there. "So.. Is he.. Dead?" Asked Tai. "I.. Hope so." Noah said while falling to one knee. "I've run out of magic.." Noah added. "What?!" Marcus said while pointing forward. "He.. He's alive!" Zero yelled as you can see Karagshi standing up out of the rubble, this time he is pretty beat but his facial expression doesn't show it. "But.. How could he have survived that attack?" Noah said. Then a guy in a suit jumps down landing next to Karagshi. "That's enough, Karagshi.. You have cause commotion, the army is on their way, we must leave now, we will come back for them later." ? Said. The guy waves his hand as the army stomps over the hill, walking their way, Noah and the others look towards the army and then back to Karagshi and the strange man but when they looked back; they were gone. Noah looks back at the army; only to see them to be illusions and vanish away. "So.. That guys is a user of Illusion Magic." Noah said. "Seems like it." Tai said. The scene switches back at the guild, Mariah was placed in the infirmary, Noah, Tai, and Drail were in the guild sitting at a table. "That man.." Tai said.. "Who.. Karagshi?" Noah asked. "No.. That guy who used illusion magic, I wonder who he was.." Tai replied. "Well, he's the least of my worries, that Karagshi is something else.. I'm terrified of him now to be honest." Noah said. "Yeah, no kidding.. Hey, where were you for all that time? You've been gone for two weeks and then show up outta no where. Where were you?" Tai asked. "Don't worry about it, Tai..." Noah replied. The scene switches to the roof of the guild, Marcus, Zero, and Zulios are seen standing on the roof. "Why?" Marcus asked. "Why what?" Zero asked in reply. "Why did you help them.. Mariah, Tai, and Noah, After all you did to them, why did you help?" Marcus then asked. "It wasn't for them! I only did it for the reward.." Zero said with a bitter tone. "Okay, let me ask you this then." Marcus said while leaning against the chimney. "Why did you kill Jessica...?" Marcus asked with a serious tone. Zero looks up at Marcus in shock at the question as the scene darkens.