Yes. Yes I know that Dullahan is in Dark Dawn.

I killed him myself, months before writing this. Stop asking this unrelated question. It's pissing me off that two thirds of the reviews I'm getting on this only have that one question in it.

On with the story:

The group had spent the past eleven days down in the ancient catacombs of Crossbone Island. Having found all the keys needed to enter post Illuminati (the vanquishing of the shadows using the Apollo Sanctum), the adepts had decided to go on one final adventure together.

A large twenty foot high double door made out of a dark metal stood in their way to the final chamber. Two large keyholes indicated the need for the corresponding keys to enter. Mathew and Tyrell put the keys in the keyholes and simultaneously turned them, opening the final door at long last. As the doors creaked open, a misty vapor came rushing out of the room across the floor, all the way up to the final staircase down where it had no more room to go.

Slowly the adepts advanced inside, torches at the front as they scoured for whatever treasures would lay within. The room was at least a hundred feet long and statues at the sides not included a good forty wide. The ceiling was so high that in it's darkness, they could not see it.

Beyond the darkness, at the end of the room, stood a suit. Slowly it came into vision. Matthew recognized the suit from his father's tale of fighting the powerful monstrosity that was called "Dullahan", the shadowy keeper of light. His body froze and he ushered everyone to stop moving at once.

But he was too late. Tyrell could not stop his foot from touching the ground in front. And as he did, it slowly sank down with the stone, triggering something. Gears moved behind the walls, the giant door quickly closed behind them and beneath the floor, lighting torch after torch in the arms of the statues to the sides until it eventually reached the braziers next to the suit. Eoleo rushed back, trying to keep the door from closing behind them but he was too late and was forced to back off as the door closed shut. Frustrated, he punched the door. He regretted that.

Slowly, the suit began to move, it stood upright and raised it's sword towards the group.

"I am the shadow, the keeper of light. Children of foes past, if you wish for the Sun's power, then show me your own."

At this, screaming souls launched forth from the tip of his sword at the group, ripping apart any surface they came across. Himi responded quickly, launching earthen dragons from the ground at each soul to counter them successfully.

Tyrell charged as soon as it was clear, his gigantic broadsword embroiled in his elemental flames. He jumped up to come crashing down upon the moving suit of armor. But just as he got close, the suit moved at an incredible speed, swinging it's sword at Tyrell and consequently throwing him all the way across the room. He hit the floor on his back, losing speed rapidly as ancient dust and dirt was thrown up into the air around him. He crashed into the wall behind them hard enough as to dent the masonry. He slowly slumped together against the wall, a beaten man.

"Rief! Go!' Matthew yelled as he drew his sword and gestured at the others. In sync, Rief ran to Tyrell to tend to his injuries as the remaining six charged forward with Matthew leading the charge.

Dullahan merely stood still and moved only to parry Matthew's sword swings as he got close. Right after Dullahan parried yet another blow, Sveta jumped up over Matthew and entered her beast form and landed a direct punch on the suit's chest amour, denting it. Almost immediately after hitting the suit, Sveta was thrown back by a sudden force hitting her. She hits the floor far behind the others, sliding over the dusty floor on her paws.

Eoleo follows up her attack combined with Karis. The latter creates an enormously strong windstorm, throwing the suit off balance as Eoleo jumped in, using the increased speed and oxygen to his advantage to create a gigantic fireball around his axe and strike down on Dullahan with it. He fails, as Dullahan simply twists his body to evade the attack, causing Eoleo to crash into the floor behind him. Karis

Matthew launched an attack along with Himi now that Dullahan was in a bad position at his legs and distracted by Karis launching a volley of plasma bolts at him. Using a special technique he remembered from Sash, he picked up a tremendous amount of speed and raced in between Dullahan's legs, slashing the armor with his sword. Himi launched a multitude of Earthen dragons but they fell uselessly against Dullahan's blocking sword. Even Matthew's slashes did next to naught, it only slightly scratched the armor and Dullahan quickly turned around and hit Matthew head-on with his left hand, catching him off-guard. Matthew, unable to defend himself against the blow, is swung around on Dullahan's hand for ninety degrees before he detached from it, flying all the way across the room – much like Tyrell had – and hitting the floor smacking hard, offsetting the tiles and even creating a sort of human sized crater. In the floor, prompting Rief to rush over to Matthew and tend to him instead as Tyrell was already healed enough to get back into the action.

Himi was promptly launched in to the horrific darkness of above by a powerful blow of pure force which caught her completely off-guard.

Amiti followed up the attack just as Dullahan Himi went flying. He leapt up to Dullahan and attempted to freeze him in the spot with his potent control over ice. It did not work, Dullahan nearly instantly broke free from his bonds and slashed his sword at Amiti. The latter's small sized sword broke instantly against the gigantic sword of Dullahan and he was slashed across the stomach, his armor only just saving him from a fatal wound. He plummets down to the ground in front of Dullahan.

Karis continued her barrage on Dullahan but it was in vain, every attack was met with some kind of anti psynergy barrier, blocking her every attack. Dullahan muttered a few words. "Elements serve me – bind.". At the next plasma bolt Karis tried to launch she yelped out in pain as it backfired on her, electrocuting her body. Paralyzed and unable to move, Karis was picked up by Dullahan in his left hand where she promptly tried to free herself by banging the large metal glove with her hands – to no avail of course.

Matthew looked up from his tiny crater. He could clearly see Sveta and Tyrell charging towards Dullahan from across the room. He could see Karis, being picked up. He wanted to move but Rief explained that he had multiple broken bones and that he couldn't move until those were healed by him.

"Tyrell! Get her out of there!" He yelled at the top of his lungs as he laid his head back. His best friend had heard him and he rushed to help her. But a sudden gust of wind from a single slash of Dullahan's sword threw both him and Sveta all the way back again. Dullahan held Karis out in front of him and she lashed her back and screamed in horrific pain as Dullahan clenched his hand around her.

"STOP IT!" Tyrell yelled as he again charged forward with Sveta, but it was too late. A sickening cracking could be heard, Karis stopped screaming and her head fell forward, motionlessly. Slowly Dullahan released his fist, causing Karis to slide in between it and falling down onto the ground just a few meters away from the cringing and bleeding Amiti whom was desperately trying to heal his own wounds.

It was surreal. After everything they had gone through, after everything they had confessed and after how strong they had all become, this could not just be it. But Karis was falling to the ground in slow motion for him, the cracking echoed within his very soul and when she finally hit the ground with a faint thud, he knew it was real.

Tyrell and Sveta reached him at last, Sveta launched a volley of extremely powerful kicks and punches in a way that resembled dancing – only in mid air – against Dullahan's chest, forcing him backwards as Tyrell launched a straight fiery cut past Dullahan's right leg. He cut it clean off despite Matthew's failing before. But even that was not enough, Dullahan smacked his left hand down onto Sveta as she attempted to back flip out of his range. With a screech she was sent flying, skipping across the floor whilst she lost her animal form. The cut off leg dissipated into a cloud of dark gases and reformed on his stump as if it was never gone.

Tyrell did not relent however and attacked Dullahan from behind with the biggest fire attack he had ever conjured around his weapons. Dullahan swung around and clashed his sword against Tyrell's blow, parrying it with moderate ease. Tyrell flew back to the ground, his momentum lost. But Dullahan had no intention of letting him go, and he slashed his sword down from above upon him as he still fell, Tyrell closed his eyes in what one could only see as the acceptance of death as he held his axe in front to parry. All that would follow was a massive cloud of dust, dirt and rock splinters as Tyrell created a large crater in the ground.

He couldn't believe this. It was just him, Rief, Eoleo and Sveta now. Himi had disappeared into the darkness above, Amiti was bleeding out next to Karis, Karis wasn't moving at all and Tyrell was just now hit by such a powerful blow... Well, it was hard to put it into words. The strength that this monstrosity possessed was way beyond them. As things were, they wouldn't even be able to retreat with all eight of them. They could get away with the four of them but they wouldn't even be able to get close enough as to get Amiti or Karis out. Never mind Tyrell.

Matthew crawled up to his feet as soon as Rief gave him the okay. He looked at the others and he knew they were thinking the same thing.

"Would you?.." Matthew asked.

He was promptly answered by three people yelling in sync. "HELL NO!" They screamed as loud and as convinced as they could. It had been decided, they would not abandon their friends. They would fight to the very end, even if it meant death...

Author's notes:

Lol. What did you just read? I don't know.

A let's fight chapter? Sort of...

Remember to R&R btw! As in, rate and review. I don't particularly desire popularity or anything like that but I want to become better, and for that I need people to tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I can improve things. I imagine some people thinking "well go follow a writing class" or "go read a book about how to write". The thing is, as much as I accept other people's advice, I want to be the writer, and not me performing a sequence of actions as dictated by a book.

Please mind that this has BARELY been test read. In fact, I only eyed it over once. This isn't exactly a serious effort on my part so I'm not going to treat it as I do TLWPoF.

Whilst working today (probably a few days ago by the time this goes up) I wondered what a fight between the adepts and Dullahan would look like ((all the while listening to (*) amazing music)) where Dullahan would kick their arses and my mind went NUTS on me. I started imagining all these crazy scenes which gave me the fan boy quiver. Combined with the amazing battle soundtracks from KHR, it prompted me to make this.

'vs Varia', 'The Guardians, 10 Years Later' and 'Succession' being them. God they're amazing. Also check out United we stand, Divided we fall. Put Greatest Battle Music of All Time in front of that if you can't find it.

Anyway, I wrote this down almost exactly like I imagined it, save for a combo scene between Matthew and Karis where she launched him instead of Tyrell and he swirled all around pull rocks out of the ground on the way and crashing into Dullahan... But it didn't work out like that, so I left that out. Stuff like Sveta's punching was just as I imagined, but you know, it's incredibly tough to put multiple kicks and punches into words effectively.

Despite being very very un-canon, there are some things I can explain here for you guys:

Dullahan is a being of IMMENSE power, the strongest entity in the world. Combined with the empowerment by the Golden Sun effect I figured he'd be strong enough to even influence pressure itself, outside of the normal elements. Creating a demigod like being. Hence people being tossed about and attacks being nullified.

This is kind of based as the end of TLWPoF only as an alternative ending, one wherein they fight Dullahan and are getting their asses handed to themselves.

Now, this is probably the first chapter of a two (maybe three if I'm out of my mind) shot. The end has yet to be shown. I'll tell you two descriptive words though: Bad ass.