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Chapter 10:
Dark Preparations and Soul collecting
Author's note: Thank you snakeyeslo ver2 for reviewing, reviews make me happy (no really they do, because to it means I'm doing something that is worthwhile. Also for those who don't know what POV means, it means Point. Of. View. Oh yeah, reviews= helping me write better! On with the story!
(Sae's POV)
Meanwhile I was in the summoning room, I was watching Sarah and Jareth (kissing) and his subjects though a large mirror hanging up on the black wall swirling with dark magic along with mine and my members' weapons. Oh bravo Jareth! But I wonder how far you are willing to go for her? I heard a loud explosion; I sighed and left the room. I walked down the steps and outside the Temple of the Shadows (Basically it is a mansion that is behind and connected to a grim looking temple).
I looked up the sky of my realm; it is its usual dark red and gray colors soothed me. As I walked I passed the dead trees and grass; and the gloomy mist that is on the ground consumed my feet. In the distance I saw Luna with Cora watching Shade teaching Drake and Jasper what looked like a dark electric/fire spell on one of the lower shadow creatures (a shadow goblin to be exact). The creature looked like it was taking a beating; not that I care we can always get more creatures.
I shook my head as much as I approve of Drake and Jasper showing their powers off to let the shadow creatures know who was superior to them, but I knew they could be out of our realm and searching for people to kill and taking their souls and turning them into more shadow creatures. I hear Luna say with excitement but sulked at the same time, "You two are amazing! I wish I had another powers besides my singing." I walked over to them and said lovingly to Luna, "But Luna, I love it when you sing your dark song, it soothes all of us dark beings." What I meant by that was that even though Luna sings her gloomy songs and those songs have negative effects on normal people; when she sings her songs when me, Jasper, Drake or Cora are around her, our powers get stronger temporarily.
Luna nods and thanks me. Drake and Jasper stop casting spells and asks me what I'm doing outside; because usually I am inside listening to our dark god's lingering voice or dealing with Shade who is our shadow lord's right-hand minion who helps me in ruling the Shadow realm in our lord's *ahem* absence; even though my lord is gone, I can still hear him because I am one of few who are truly loyal to him. "Today I need you Luna, to go with me while (turning to Cora) Cora goes collect souls to feed the darkness and to increase our population of our shadow creatures. Drake, I need you and Jasper to go to the Underground Kingdom of Knowledge to obtain the hidden treasure there; known as the book of Fates and to go to the kingdom of Paraminda and also obtain its hidden treasure there." Drake questioned me, "Why do we need the hidden treasures of the Underground's kingdoms?" I was about to answer when Shade spoke, "We need those treasures because when our lord was sealed away, the priestess used all 7 sacred items to lock him away. Besides, we already have the Shadow Realm's secret treasure, the demon sword of Noctulius the god of darkness and the night aka our lord, so we need to get the remaining 6; because in order to revive our master and Sae needs those items to perform to the dark ritual."
Drake nods his head understanding his job. After that Jasper and Drake vanish from my sight, leaving me with Cora and Luna. I looked at Cora, "Well, what are you waiting for? Go and get as many souls as you can and bring them back here!" Cora nods her head and vanishes from my sight. I grinned sinisterly. Good now that they are gone, time for me to make a trip to the Goblin King's castle to obtain his precious pendant that he keeps around his neck. I quickly summoned the shadows to transport myself and Luna from the Shadow Realm leaving behind the awe struck crowd of creatures.
Back at Jareth's castle; Jareth was now sitting on his throne listening to a goblin's complaint about something while Maddi is teaching Sarah how to sense magical auras. And Rikki is playing with a few goblins. In no time at all Luna and I appear in his throne room with a dark portal disappearing behind us. I give the goblins my icy death glare and they all hid. And Luna is right behind me making a face at the goblins. Maddi almost automatically went right in front of her king and was already in a stance of readiness. Sarah clenched her fists which in doing so started to glow with spiritual power/magic.
I causally walked a little bit closer to Jareth and said sarcastically, "Greetings oh great Goblin King, master of the Labyrinth and current protector of the Goblin kingdom's hidden treasure." King Jareth looked at me and said in a cautious voice, "Who are you? And what do you want?" I smiled wickedly and mockingly bowed, "My name is Sae, and I am the leader of the house of Shadows, dark lover and worshiper of the God of the darkness and the night, Noctulius; and unfortunately your precious Sarah's "dark half". Oh and this is Luna a member of the House of the Shadows." Luna smiled and said in her peppy voice, "Hiya! Sorry to do this to you people, but well, we need your treasure for our dark lord, goblin boy!" Jareth seemed to be pissed at the lack of disrespect that Luna was giving him because he said angrily, "Goblin boy? What makes think that I would give my treasure? That creature you worship, he deserved what happened to him!" Sarah asked out loud what Jareth's treasure was. I smiled and said casually, "Really you haven't notice Sarah? It's the pendant that Jareth keeps around his neck at all times, and you never asked your lover why he always wears it? Not that it matters because I will have that treasure no matter what!"
Jareth smirked and said in his cocky voice, "Well there is no way for a shadow creature like you to obtain my pendant, so you are wasting your time, leave my castle now!" I just chuckled darkly and said calmly, "Oh, you will find that I do not intend on leaving without that treasure; and as for "never" obtaining it, I think you are dead wrong." Jareth gave me a questioning look and asked with his kingly voice, "What are you talking about? The only way you can attempt to have my pendant is…no, you are not serious?" I smiled icily and said, "I am dead serious, Fae boy! I challenge you Goblin King Jareth to an all-out double magic duel! The winners get your treasured pendant and believe me; losing your pendant will be the least of your troubles. My partner will be Luna who will be yours?" Jareth thought for a while and turned to Sarah, "Sarah my love, will you be my partner in this duel?"
I overhear d Sarah say in a nervous voice, "Why me? Why not Maddi? It's not that I don't want to fight with you Jareth, quite the opposite, but I don't think I'm strong enough let alone skilled enough to help you; I don't want you to lose your pendant because of me." Maddi encouraged her, "Sarah the only method you will be able to get stronger is if you participate in duels and practice using your powers. Besides, with Jareth by your side I'm sure you can win. Also, you know that my magic is ice so I won't be much of help to Jareth and my fighting skills are excellent but unfortunately I can sense that Sae is a bit stronger than me; and Rikki being a pyromaniac, will just probably burn everything and everyone." Rikki just smiles and says happily, "Pyromaniacs unite!"
Luna smirks at Rikki and says in her cocky voice, "That's not something to be proud of loser!" Rikki just shrugged and said, "If something about you is true, then why deny it? Besides I enjoy and am proud of being a pyromaniac." Luna rolled her eyes and turns to me and said, "Big sis, can we just get this underway? I want to go back to the realm of Shadows and play with the shadow goblins." I replied sweetly, "Of course my little "sister", whatever you say. Luna and I will be outside where your previous duel was; don't make me wait long dear "light" half." I said with disgust to Sarah. And with that Luna and I vanished to the battle ground.
(Sarah's POV)
I turned to face Jareth who looked like he was going to kill someone (probably Sae and maybe Luna), but at the same looked determined to win. I grabbed his hand gently and said softly, "Jareth are you absolutely sure you want me to be your partner for this duel?" In response he pulled me into his arms and gave me a reassuring but passionate kiss. I immediately felt like jelly when he kissed me, and I wanted to take the kiss further but he broke away before I could get a chance to.
Jareth firmly said to me, "Sarah, I am certain that I want you as my partner. I know you will do well; I have faith in you." I nodded and told him that I have faith in him as well; and with that Jareth brought me back in his arms and he transported us to the grounds where Sae and Luna were waiting for us. Rikki and Maddi transported themselves as well.
(Sae's POV)
While I am waiting for Jareth and Sarah to come, I magically made a fairly tall flat rock to sit on while Luna was tormenting a dwarf goblin (I believe his name is Hoggle). After waiting for a little bit, a large ball of energy appear only a few feet away from me, and Sarah (who was dress in blue battle shorts that reached to her knees and a long black sleeved shirt with leather gauntlets and black combat boots) Jareth, Rikki and Maddi emerged from the orb. I smiled, I detest them all, but there is nothing else in this world or the next that I like more than, to hurt people both physically and emotionally, well, okay that was a lie, there is one more one thing that I love, and that is my dear Noctulius.
I got up and removed my shadow cloak to reveal my black thin strap shirt with my blood red skirt and wore black shorts with my black combat boots and my black fingerless gloves. I snapped my fingers and my hair was magically put into a ponytail. Luna followed my lead and took off her cloak as well and she wore; a white skirt with white shorts underneath, white fingerless gloves, a white blouse with silver MBT Salama sandals.
I looked around and saw that we already had a sizable crowd, full of Jareth's worthless goblins and along with the loser pairs of the fire mage, Rikki and Jareth's bodyguard, Maddi. I also noticed Sarah's friends, Ludo, Hoggle and Sir Didymus who was yelling "Long live his majesty and the Lady Sarah! May our Lord and Lady triumph over the darkness!" Ludo shouted out "Sarah win!" Hoggle just sat in the crowd looking nervous. I rolled my eyes annoyed that Sarah's friends were cheering for a victory that was not going to happen for Jareth and Sarah, that I much I promise (not mention I cannot stand creatures who are happy go lucky, it makes me sick).
Rikki again was made to referee this match which I agreed to, not that it made any difference to the outcome of this duel. All four of us got into a stance of readiness and said that we were ready. Rikki shouted with power, "Let the duel begin!" I turned to Luna and nodded to let her know that she could sing her dark song "Melody of the Darkness" now. Sarah sent a ball of spiritual/electrical magic at me; in turn I blocked the attack with a dark energy shield. Jareth was about to attack Luna when she smiled and summoned her microphone from the shadows and started to sing:
Open your beautiful eyes to the dark night.
Gently rest yourself down on the ground and wait for the night's creatures to snatch you!
Think you can escape their cruel hands?
Your world is spiraling out of your control and your heart is changing.
Love, oh yeah love, it actually is an illusion created by the foolish weak heart!
You may believe it's a precious feeling that cannot be easily broken; you're wrong!
Just like the light it can be broken so easily!
Just like friendships it can be oh so easily broken!
So my dear, just give up your ideas of love and happiness and let yourself be wrapped in the darkness's sweet embrace!
Let's face it, I know you better than anyone else, you want to get stronger and be able to stand on your own.
Well, my dear, if you take my hand I will show you the easiest way to gain power all you have to do is cast away your heart to the shadows!
You have nothing to fear anymore, the darkness is your true savior!
While Luna was singing her song I felt my dark powers growing stronger and Jareth's and Sarah's powers were becoming weaker than mine! I see Sarah fall to the ground trying to fight the darkness that was awakening inside her (My presence is only amplifying the darkness that is already in her heart) and Jareth surprisingly still could fight but I can tell that his powers were weakened a bit. So he can still fight eh? I wonder. I smiled and unleashed all of my dark powers in the direction where Sarah was.
With a terrified look, Jareth quickly got in front of Sarah and took the full force of my attack. I grinned because the spell cast was one that does different things every time it hits its target. I looked to see what damage my spell has done this time and smiled; Jareth was trembling due to loss of his blood which was flowing down from his large wounds on his arms and legs. Luna stopped singing and looked in my direction to also see the damage and jumped up and down with joy. I snapped my fingers and Luna and I were wearing our cloaks again. I walked up to Sarah and mockingly said to her, "Looks like we've won the battle, even though it wasn't much fun; dear Sarah I expected so much more from you; I do hope you get stronger for our final battle together." She looked up to me with pure hatred. I smiled at her and casually walked over to the Goblin king and bent down and said to him, "Now, since you are the loser, I will take my prize (I ripped it off of him)." I looked at the pendant already which I am already feeling the ancient power inside it. I looked up to see Maddi and Rikki and a few goblins about to attack me. I laughed and said, "Fools! I won your king's pendant fair and by the laws of the Underground you cannot do anything against me!" They stopped their advances and looked at me with great hatred in their eyes. Luna walks to be by my side and said, "Hmm…tough crowd, shall we go?" I nodded and with that we disappeared from their sight and were back in the Realm of Shadows.