*Chapter 26: Only One Way Out*

"… … … … … … I blame her! ME?! THIS ALL YOUR FAULT! STOP TALKING AT THE SAME TIME OF ME!" Teressa and Mary argued.
"Um, can we try and get out of here without any arguements?" Lillian asked.
Mary and Teressa looked away crossing their arms.
"I guess you're right. Ok so we're in the sky, but there must be some sort of a way to get out," Teressa said.
"Way ahead of you," Tyler replied before breaking a window with his rifle.
"I MEANT LIKE AN ESCAPE POD OR A PARACHUTE YOU IDIOT!" The Bearer of Sol exclaimed.

Jody wiggled a door knob attempting to push it.
"Huh. Its stuck"
"Here let me try" Lillian offered.
"Ooo! I know what to do!" Mary cheered, lifting up a random Tuaparang soldier.
"WHERE THE HECK DID THAT GUY COME FROM?!" Carlos yelled.
"Here goes nothing!" Mary said before charging at the door.
"Hm. Maybe we should pull-"
She pulled the door right at the moment Mary threw the soldier into the air and crash landing in the room.
Everyone else stood there silent as Lillian shut the door.
"There was probably nothing in there anyway"
"Yeeeaaaahhh…"
The group left the area unknown of the treasure in the room.
Instead, they went inside another room to find an astonishing discovery.
"WHAT IN THE-?!"
Inside were blue steel like clones inside clear tubes with a strange blue fluid.
"Wh-wh-wh-what is…?!" Nick stuttered.
Teressa was the first to approach the tube of the clone of herself.
"When did they even have the time too…?" Crown trailed off, stunned at the close resemblance of his clone.
"It must have been when we were unconscious. They must have taken some of our DNA to make this," Lillian suggested, "Question is either how were they able to make it in such a short time, or how long were we unconscious?"

Teressa just stared at her clone.

Suddenly the clone opened its glowing red eyes and broke free of her tube with a replica blue Sol Blade in hand.
The original quickly blocked it with her own Sol Blade.
"Kuh…!"
One by one the other replicas broke free and attacked their originals.
Teressa slashed her Sol Blade and her replica dodged the attack.
"These clones… they're…!"
"Fighting us!" Jody finished for Crown.
"Yeah?! So what?! We can take them on!" Mary said confidently.
"They say overconfidence gets people killed…"
"Oh shut up, Carlos!"
"Lunar Slash!"
A silver colored blade-like wind hit the Mary clone.
But not a scratch appeared on it.
"What the-?!"
The Mary clone charged at the actual Mary, but was blocked by Teressa.
"Hey I could've taken care of that you know," Mary said.
"Ngh… No… You wouldn't have… SPARK PLASMA!"
The Wind-based attack blew the Mary clone to the wall, a cloud of smoke covering it.
Once it cleared up, the Mary replica was on its knees covered in cracks and holes.
"! Everyone! Fight a replica that isn't your own!" Teressa ordered.
With the help of her instructions, one by one the clones were defeated.

"Oooh! They were right! These guys are pretty strong!"

"But they don't seem strong enough to take us on…"
"Wh-who's there?!" Carlos said.
Two individuals came from above and landed in right in front of Carlos.
A strong buff man and a skinny woman. Both with matching bright orange hair, green eyes, and black suits. They seemed to be related.
He yelped in surprise and tripped backwards.
"Hello little childreeeeeeennnn!" The woman chirped.
"We're quite impressed you were able to escape your cells and destroy your replicas," the man said.
"Who are you people?" Lillian asked.
"Keehee! You may call me Aries. And this is my big brother Taurus!" Aries answered, hugging her brother's bulky arm.
"Ok, which one of you was the one who messed with Teressa?!" Nick exclaimed.
"We have no idea what you are talking about little boy," Taurus replied.
"Don't treat us like we're-!"
"The one who talked to me was the High Emperor wasn't it?" Teressa interrupted Tyler.
"Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't," Aries giggled.
"I wouldn't want to take another step if I were you though," Taurus warned.
"What are you talking about?!" Jody asked.
Aries flipped her hair and pointed in the direction of a cage hanging from the ceiling.
Everyone gasped when they saw Kraden unconscious in the cage.
"Master Kraden!" Crown screamed.
"Hold on Master Kraden! I'm com-!"
Teressa was cut off when Aries pointed her spear at her neck and backing her up against a wall.
"Ah ah ah. Wouldn't want Gramps or any of your friends to get a booboo now would we?" Aries teased.
"Guh…!"
"Shall we show them our new powers?" Aries said grinning at her brothers.
"We shall," Taurus replied.
Within a second a giant black and purple flame came up close to Crown's face.
"Ah… … GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Crown cried out in pain, his hands on his face.
"Crown!" Jody said running over him.
When he removed his hands, his face and neck was covered in burns and blisters.
"Hold still! Potent Cure!"
A yellow light emitted around Jody and entered Crown, and healed most of his wounds.
"Are you okay?" Jody asked.
"Yes, thanks," Crown replied.
"Ooooo-ooooh! But there's more!" Aries cheered before blasting Nick with black lightning.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Nick screamed in pain.
"What is…?" Lillian trailed off.
"Every element that was weak against you is now your weakness through the power of Dark Psynergy. You kids are now defenseless," Taurus said.
"I don't think so"
Taurus turned to Teressa's direction to find his sister pinned to the ground with the Sol Blade pointed to her chest.
"Make one false move and I will skewer her," Teressa threatened.
"Pft! Like you have the instinct to kill!" Taurus replied.
"What…? How did you…?!"
"I know for a fact that the very thought of murdering someone will drive you insane! You are weak! And your weakness shall be your enemy!"
Aries blasted Teressa with ice missles and threw her to the wall.
The Bearer of Sol fell to her knees coughing up blood.
"Keeheehee! The Bearer of Sol afraid of spilling one insignificant person's blood! How pathetic! Gahahahahaha!"
"One insignificant life?! You're wrong!"
Teressa slowly brought herself up, using the wall she crashed into for balance.
"No… Every person is important in their own way. You Tuaparang think that the strong should live while the weak should die. Well you're wrong! Just because a person is weak doesn't mean that they should give up on life!" Teressa said, wiping off some blood from her mouth.
"Yaaaaaawwwwwnn~! Boring! Can you get even more lame?!" Aries whined.
"Shall we end your miserable lives now?" Taurus asked.
"Yeah, I don't think so," Mary replied with a wink.
She brought out her Luna Blades and attached them to her wrists.
"See I have this thing where I have to do this other thing and I can't miss it," Mary said.
"If you're gonna lie can you AT LEAST be more descriptive?!" Crown asked.
"Nope!"
Teressa healed herself and Nick.
"You said that our strength have become our weaknesses, it should be the same for you wouldn't it?" Tyler pointed out.
"Aaaaaaawwwww phooey! You figured it out! No fair no fair!" Aries yelled.
"Thanks for confirming it!"
"Grrrrrr…!"
Lillian focused her Psynergy and casted Tempest on a Shadow Clay Spire that was aiming towards Tyler.
"Ha!" Taurus yelled as he aimed a dark shadow on Mary and Teressa.
And yet…
"Huh? Nothing happened…" Teressa said in confusion.
"Hah! What was that?! Some sort of test run?!"
Taurus stood silent. After a few seconds Teressa noticed a smirk on his face.
It sent chills down her spine but she didn't know why.
"Your guard's down! Ice Missle!" Crown cried.
A barrage of ice pillars struck down onto both Tuaparang siblings and knocking them unconscious.
"Now's our chance! Carlos! Jody! Lillian! Help get Master Kraden out of there!" The thirteen year old shouted.
"Got it!"
"Nick! Tyler! Crown! find us something to escape with!"
"On it!"
"Mary-! You… … … … go eat a sandwich…"
"No! I'll will eat a sandwich AND cake!"
After freeing Kraden and finding a set of escape pod (and Tyler breaking another window ) the team escape from the Zenith Tribe.

"You hit them with the attack right… … Heh heh…" Aries asked.
"Urgh… … You know it… …" Taurus replied.
"Foolish children… … They won't even realize until it takes affect that they learn what it was… … Ow… …"
"Even if we were to perish by his hand… … We successfully… … followed our orders… …"
What they didn't notice, was dark beings climbing their way to Mary and Teressa's brains… …

Hello, everyone, I'm back! It's me, Matthew Terra, or as some know me, Justasuckerforlove!

I just want to thank Jupitergirl132 for being so kind as to let me help her continue this story! I also want to thank all of you who reviewed, and special thanks to T&P! Thank you everyone!

Also, for those who are wondering where my old stories are, they are currently under rewriting and further detail adding, so, fear not, they will return... I just don't know when yet. Thank you all.

Matthew Terra,
Son of Isaac.