HE-LLOOOOOO EVERYBODY! YAY FOR CLIFFHANGERS! They happen everywhere, so why not here? And sorry for slow updates, but I have friends who need help, stories to beta, and stories to write.

Anyways, now we're going back to the Pit group. I really don't have very much to say here. Enjoy!

Disclaimer - I don't own either the game or movie this comes from. I keep forgetting this part. And also, I haven't seen Guardians in a while, so the characters are most likely OOC at this point. :)

Chapter 10: The Fire Shrine

"Guys! Guys! Guys! Guys! G-"

"Pit, we're going!"

Tooth, Sandy and Pit jumped off the roof and into the skies, heading west. Pit was flying a lot faster than the others, eventually coming back, grabbing their hands, and pulling them along. "You guys are slo-ow," he complained happily. How someone can complain happily, only Pit will know. The angel got a face full of sand (1)for the playful insult. "Sandy!"

I think I'll spare you the hours they did nothing but fly with meaningless conversation (sadly, this was all they did all day), so let's skip to when they get there.

The three landed in a forest in Florida, having flown the whole coast in a day. It was almost sunset, maybe 4:30, but still hot because of the distance to the equator.

"He's around here somewhere," Pit said, a little exhausted, but happy-go-lucky nonetheless. Sandy created an image of a person fainting. Tooth nodded.

"We're tired from flying, Pit, could we stop here?" Tooth leaned against a tree and slumped down to a sitting position.

"Aw, but we're *this* close!" Pit made a measurement with his fingers that was about an inch long. "Besides, we still have a couple of hours before nighttime. We should at least find the place."

Sandy made a bunch of cursing images (&#$%$) but followed the angel as he walked through the trees. Tooth stood up a second later and chased after Sandy.

It actually took them less than five minutes to find the temple. It was a wide but short fat cylinder with a dome on the top(2). The stones were scorched dark gray in more places than you could count, leaving little of the original pale gray stone left. It was like the whole place had been engulfed in flame or something. There were columns - blackened as well - extending all the way around and creating a platform on which was a single entrance. It faced the group. They were metal doors, material unknown, but shining a metallic gray in the sunlight that snaked between the pillars and roof they supported.

"I don't like big temples with single entrances..." Pit said. "But we gotta get that element, so let's do it.."

Tooth led the way into the place, followed by Pit and then Sandy. She hovered slightly as she flew in, and then screamed in surprise as a set of torches lit on either side of the wall, bathing the blackened walls in orangey light. The next set of torches lit, and then another, getting faster as they progressed.

Pit entered dungeon-analyzing mode in place of Palutena. "This corridor is straight and about thirty five feet long. There's probably a single room in the center of the building at the middle, and I'm pretty sure that's where the element is. Where the other passages would be, I don't know."

"So," Tooth asked. "Are we going to go fight stuff now, or tomorrow?"

"Let's wait until tomorrow, I think we'll be better at fighting after sleep."

The three left the passage and slept in trees, and the next morning were all ready to go. The torches were still lit from before, and a hollow wind now blew through the straight corridor, giving it an eerie feeling. Eager to grab the element and get the heck outta there, Pit and Tooth both ran down the tunnel fast as they could.

At the end there was a door. It was made of the same metal as the other one, but it was dull and covered in scorches like the walls. Pit pushed them open...

And immediately jumped back in instinctual reaction to the fireball that shot past him.

The red fireball rebounded off the walls three times before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"I missed on purpose, you know." Said a sickening and sickeningly familiar voice to Pit from inside the room. He turned around, as did the other two Guardians with him.

The room was circular, and the walls were purely black, not an inch of original gray showing up. There was an altar-like pedestal in the middle of the room, but nothing was on it. Instead, standing just to the left of it was someone Pit had really never hoped to see in this kind of situation.

"...Pittoo...?" Pit questioned. The black-winged angel standing next to the pedestal didn't make eye contact, but instead fingered the blood red stone in his left hand.

"I would absolutely love it if you'd stop calling me that, Pitstain," replied Dark Pit in a bored manner. The torches along the walls somehow illuminated the whole room, and then the good guys as they cautiously stepped into the room. On 'love it' Dark Pit looked up at the group, more specifically Pit, and a fireball similar to the one before seemed to grow from an ember in his right hand. Pit took a step back against the wall at the death glare.

"Well.." Pit pulled out his bow-sword-things. "I didn't ever want to meet like this, but considering that thing in your hand is the Fire Element and you're apparently evil, I guess a fight is going to have to happen."

"You know this guy?" Tooth asked. "He looks like you."

Dark Pit overheard this comment and replied in Pit's place, "I am him. Just the better version."

"You mean the version that was born out a mirror and made to oppose me, which you're regretfully doing now," Pit corrected and answered. "You two can call him Pittoo."

At this, Dark Pit immediately shot the fireballs in his hand at the group, stuffing the Fire Element into his tunic pocket (wherever it is). And a battle began.

A/N: Sheesh. Can I just say, this took me a couple weeks to write? I have been WAY too busy to update anything. I hope you guys enjoyed this, because I sure love writign sarcastic comebacks and remarks from my favorite angel. (Pit: Looks at Narrator questioningly) What? I like Dark better. He's just... better.

Anyways, here's the numbers. Please R&R if you enjoyed this, and tell me who's story you want to see next: This group's battle, or the other group's? See you later!

(1) - normal sand... How Sandy can make normal sand I don't know. Probably for the sake of comedic effect.

(2) - Sharpen the end and slap a face on it and BOOM! Stone Bullet Bill. That should give you a better mental image.