Alex, Chris and I had traveled the entire day. Only a single rest at midday gave us time to eat. The night fell over the grassy lands.

"My feet ache!" moaned Chris and rubbed them. "Why couldn't we have more breaks, Alex? This is killing me!" He said and moaned again.

"Because we were being followed, "Alex said with seriousness in his voice. "We continue tomorrow, so sleep as much as you can for now." and laid down on the grass, pulled a blanket out his bag and used his hat, a Dark ID, as pillow: "Good night boys."

"I only watched as this happened, for I was too tired to even get bugged by this. I followed Alex's example and went to sleep. I didn't use my Burgernet helmet for a pillow though... too darn hard hehehe.

I was in a cold place. It was dark before my eyes and it felt like rock covered the walls. The floor was flat and felt like it had pavement laid there.

'Odd..' I thought, 'Who would lay a pavement in a cold, dark, cave-like place like this?'

All of the sudden, I heard a low-pitched voice talk further down the cave I was in. The voice was in a conversation with someone else. When my eyes were getting used to the darkness, I saw that I was in a cave with white pillars and arches. They were mostly broken and leaning against each other or they supported nothing but air. Most of the arches were broken too, with a gap in the center, stood on one pillar or laid in ruins on the floor.

I followed the hallway cave towards the voices that were in discussion about something. The sound became louder and louder until I passed a corner and saw a big opening where the two were discussing their topic.

The voice with the low pitched tone was not a human, but a big winged beast. It had red eyes, great horns on his head and claws which could kill a person with a single cut. It was a demon from ancient times, big, brown, hairy and fierce with great powers where you don't want to fight against.

On each of his sides there was another demon like beast. Curved horns, a strapped on armor a big spear with a blue tip in its hands and hooves as feet. They looked as dangerous as their leader.

The trio was facing a horde of cloaked and hooded humans, whose leader stood in front of them, unhooded. He was the one who was conversing with the demons.

My position in this place was from the side, hiding behind a rock in the entrance. I was in the dark side of the rock and thus unseen.

"I don't care that this place was yours once! I'M in it now and YOU'LL have to leave, fiend!" The man said.

"I don't think you know who you are dealing with, pesky human. I am a Balrog, a fierce demon from the depth of this place. I left because you humans had destroyed it 17 years ago! Now that it is rebuild, remove yourselves from here." Said the Balrog demon with his deep, strong voice.

"If you don't go now, Balrog," sneered the man, "then I, Sora, will have to make you leave!"

"So be it! Get them my fellow Tauro's! Let the blood of humans stain this sanctuary!" Roared the Balrog and attacked Sora with a huge fireball.

'Get out of here, Shik! Go now before you get yourself killed.' flew through my mind, but the power of the Balrog just pinned me on the floor. I could only watch the fight.

Sora jumped to the side, evading the fireball with great ease. In the middle of the air, he made a second jump straight towards the fiend who had attacked him. 'I'm sure that's gotta be a skill; nobody can jump on the air!' I thought.

Sora was right in front of the Balrog, took out his curved dagger, that he had hid under his cloak and, in a split second, cut his enemy six times subsequently at different places. The Balrog couldn't even counter any of the attacks.

After that the Tauro's attacked the men and vice versa. Stars, spells, blood and sweat were flying everywhere. It was as if a small war raged before my eyes. Some spells deflected on the skins of the demons and flew away in different directions. Sometimes they flew towards the hall behind me and diminished into the deep. One actually flew against the ceiling above me and crumbled a piece loose, forcing me to dive away from behind the rock to evade the rocks that were falling down. This was the one time that I was not safe behind a rock to hide behind and I was immediately attacked by an unseen star. It penetrated my left arm and I shouted in pain and once I was behind the rock again, I took the blood-stained Tobi-star out and threw it on the ground. Blood was pouring out and I had to use a ripped piece of my sleeve as a bandage.

When I looked back at the battle, I saw the two Tauros laying on the rocks, all covered with burnt spots, steel throwing stars and gaping wounds. They both looked pretty dead. Sora, on the other hand, had few bruises and nearly no cuts at all from his attacker. He had a black thing in his hand and incantated some sort of old formula. The Balrog had it's hands full on keeping Sora's warriors away from him and smash the spells from the mages. He had no time to worry about Sora's activities, so he was suprised when Sora shouted: "Now, FIEND! Disappear in this sack as the unholy forces of Pandorra command: Fortrea do din t'icha Balrog!"

The demon was sucked in the sack, bit by bit. The last thing he said was "You won't keep me in there forever! I'll NEVER forgive youuuuuuuu", before completely being sucked in the bag, which closed after that.

"Magically sealed," Sora said "You try to get out you Balrog!" he yelled at the bag. "You may not know it yet, but you WILL serve me! The longer you're in here, the better you'll listen. Bwahahahahahaaa!" he laughed; his men joined him laughing.

"Victory!" one of them shouted and raised his red staff with red wings on it. "VICTORY!!" the rest shouted and all sorts of weapons went up the air.

"Now back to work!" ordered their leader and they all retreated to their 'homes'.

I finally had the chance to look around the big opening. It must have been a wonderful place before it was destroyed so long ago. The area was huge and filled with arches, standing and laying, broken and complete. The bases were mostly broken, some were barely standing and looked ready to fall.

The high ceiling was supported by newer pillars, roughly constructed from the broken ones in this hall. There was debris everywhere; rocks, stone, even remains of men and beasts, of which 2 new Taurospears lay, stripped of their horns. All this pointed at a big fight, maybe even a war, in this place long ago. The cave must have collapsed by the tremendous forces that, unintentionally, destroyed the bases of the pillars.

Sora's men are cleaning up and reconstructing the place... then this must be his base! Mom and the others must be here to then! If only I knew exactly where. I should go and see, but I'll be noticed. 'I'll have to get out and get help' I thought.

I turned around and...

"Goin' somewhere, SPY?" someone kicked me out of my hiding spot from behind me.

"I let you watch me get rid of the other intruders, cos they were a bigger problem than you." he sneered and kicked me again. "Now tell me, how did you get past my guards and traps?"

"Ehh.. what guards?" I said and stood up, looking up to the face of Sora. His eyes were red and slim; he looked really pissed off and just radiated his evil character.

"You look like a kid or a Halfling to me.. who are you?" he asked, surprised by the fact that a small person got past his guards. He grabbed my by the shoulders and asked again, this time louder.

I didn't want to answer, but could only think 'this would be a good moment to wake up' and closed my eyes firmly.

Suddenly I felt that I was laying flat on the ground.. on grass and covered by a warm.. fabric blanket.

The sun wasn't up yet.. but the time was close to sunrise. I was surprised that all that had just happened was just a dream. I shoved the blanket away and stood up. When I stretched myself I suddenly felt a strong pain in my left arm.

'Probably stiff from sleeping on hard ground' I thought, but when I looked closer at it, it was bleeding and my shirt's sleeve was staining red! Then the pain came back again and it hurt like hell! "Ahhh!"

I quickly looked in the backpacks and searched for some bandages. I strapped one of them around my arm, hoping the bleeding would stop.

I was shocked about how this could be true...

'If that was a dream... then how the hell did this happen?!!' raged through my head over and over again: "This is IMPOSSIBLE!"