The eight adepts stood before their foes, bracing themselves for whatever onslaught that they have to face. Spade and Heart were the most powerful foes they had ever faced, perhaps even more powerful than Isaac and his team, the last generation of warriors that had saved Weyard. But now it was up to these new fighters, Mathew, Karis, Tyrell, Rief, Eoleo, Harumani, Stella, and Himi. Even though the numbers were in their favor, they knew that they were held back by one major problem.
"Guys…there's no way we can win." said Mathew the team leader. "Let's face it. We suck."
There was no arguing with this. The eight knew that with the exception of Mathew, Eoleo, and Harumani, the rest of them were kind of useless. Who would put their faith in such poorly designed characters such as them? Yes it was nice to have a fighter in Stella who didn't use weapons, and yes it was nice to see a Venus magician instead of a warrior like the role filled by Isaac, Felix, and now Mathew. Variety is good. But when going up against enemies as awesome looking as Spade and Heart, the two commanders of the Tsaparang and possibly the most bad-ass opponents since Saturos, what was the point? Where Saturos was hindered was by the unappealing Menardi, and where both Karst and Agatio fell short as well was in the fact that out of these four, only Saturos could be considered a bad-ass awesome villain that you would want to be. Only one out of four. But now with both Spade and Heart each having an amazing design, who could possibly stand up to them? You wanted to be them, not fight them. And if you were to fight them you would have to fight a strange urge not to intentionally lose to them.
Rief came up to Mathew, putting a hand on his shoulder. In his high pitched annoying voice, he tried to restore Mathew's confidence. "We don't suck that much, do we? I'm pretty awesome…right? Right?"
With teary eyes, Mathew stared back and told Rief the truth. "I'm sorry but no, you're not. Look at your glasses, and that roll of scotch tape holding them together. When I played the Dark Dawn demo I saw the name Crown appear and thought that I would have a pretty cool ally on my side. But then I saw your design and my heart sank. At least you had a cool name though, Crown. But for the English dub it got changed to Rief. Rief. You suck worse than anyone!"
The team had lost hope and now were prepared to be beaten by their foes. It was only a matter of time now. But fate seemed to be on their side.
"Look who it is!" exclaimed Karis. "It's Isaac!"
The middle aged warrior leapt between the two forces and drew his sword. "I may not have it in me to defeat you all but I know that I'll be doing everyone a favor by getting rid of you horrible people."
Spade laughed at this remark. "Really? You think you can defeat "The Blade?" Me, the physical embodiment of bad-ass? I'd like to see you try."
Isaac turned his back to the large man and faced his son's party. "Actually I was taking about these guys here. Mathew I'm disappointed with your friends. You, Eoleo, and Harumani are too cool looking to be associated with them so I've made a deal. You can join me and we'll wipe out the others and join the Tsaparang."
Heart stepped forward, confused. "On whose authority?"
"On the authority of your commander. I spoke with him in private just now. The only catch is that I would have to shave my ridiculous beard and then we'd be all good. So what are we waiting for? Let's do this."
Eoleo and Harumani stepped in line with Isaac and drew their weapons. Mathew stayed in line but began to join them as well. Tyrell tried appealing to his lifelong friend. "Matt…don't do this. You know we can get cooler over time."
Mathew stopped and turned and said the last thing we would to his good friend. "I'm sorry Tyrell…but everything they said was true. Everything. I can't go on being best friends with a ginger kid. I can't."
With that they attacked, killing Tyrell, Karis, Himi, Rief, and Stella. Their heads were put on stakes as a warning to the Takahshi Brothers to deter them from making characters as bad as this again. With their work done, the six set out to the Tsaparang homeland, proud of their awesomeness.
