Trevoor: I have no excuse for how long this chapter took, I could lie that it took me awhile to get settled back in after Disney, but you'd all see though it as I am well known for being a procrastinator…

Isaac: I conclusion, Trev here is a terrible person.

Trevoor: That's ri-what?

Isaac: Nothing…

Aelita: *sigh* Trev owns only his characters, Runescape and XT-421 are not his own.

Trevoor: Back to the action!

Playing with Fire

Ch. 10

"TIME OUT!" The gruff voice rang out across the square, silencing every being within the city limits. Trev turned around with wide eyes to find his large knight friend stomping his way over to Ike, "Time out!" He repeated slightly softer. "This was between Trev and you, Ike, I believe you've broken the rules."

"You are quick as a whip," Ike taunted while scratching under one of the large dragon's scales.

"I believe you are now disqualified, Trev is the winner of your little 'dual'," Valient continued with a growl.

"Unless I we're to get someone to fight with me," Trev began, "Then it'd still be fair!"

Valient turned to see his friend grinning at him. "Trev, what are you thinking?"

"You and me, we'll team up and make quick work of these two!"

The larger knight looked from the wizard to the elf several times before grabbing his friend's collar and holding up a finger for Ike and Elvarg to wait. Even Elvarg seemed to roll her eyes while Valient tried to talk some sense into his friend, "You're drained Trev," He began, "he's cheating and you can walk away the winner."

"I won't be the winner if he's not picking gravel out of his chin tomorrow morning," Noticing Valient's raised eyebrows Trev sighed, "You and me are the best, we never lose! Come on! Please?" He begged, trying his best to look innocent.

Valient sighed deeply, "Alright, but if Raynee gets stuck with that slob I'm never going to forgive you."

"Great," The wizard cheered, his hand suddenly glowing. "I'll just poof up your armor and your weapons and-"

"That won't be necessary," Valient began sheepishly.

"What? You're going to arm wrestle them?" Trev teased.

"Nope," The knight responded quickly and forcibly grabbing onto the middle of his tuxedo before quickly pulling it apart with a violent 'rip'. The entire crowd looked in shock as the large knight was standing in the middle of the opening the crowd had created with shredded bits of his outfit lying about.

And his light blue armor glistening in the streetlights of the city while his scimitar glared against the starlight from above.

"You work, play, drink, and sometimes sleep in that armor," Trev groaned, "would it kill you to take it off for a formal event?"

Aaron glared forward with his arms crossed, "Am I the only one impressed that he could hide a full suit of armor and a blade under his suit?" He asked, more to himself then his near-by friends, all of which turned and looked at him suspiciously. "I don't have separation anxiety with my armor, I swear in the name of Saradomin," He growled defensively.

"This has been a truly, enlightening, learning experience for everyone in Prifddinas," Ike began unenthusiastically, "but can we please get back to the fun?"

"One more thing!" Trev called out with a big smile. He reached into his left robe sleeve and pulled out a flask with a swishing teal liquid in it, "Shame, I was saving this for a rainy day," He said with a sad smile on his face before swishing it down completely.

Raynee and her parents looked at Aaron expectantly for several moments, eventually earning a growl pout of the young man. "What?"

"What was that he just drank?" The king asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I don't know!" The young man replied angrily, "My job is to hack and slash, not potion making."

"An Extreme Magic Potion," Jade whispered, causing everyone, XT included to turn to her. "Trev was so excited when he got it about a week ago, now he downed the whole thing. If he just took six does of magic amplifier, he's not as confident as he's trying to seem," The witch said with a hint of worry in her voice.

"Trev just keeps getting more and more desperate to win, something fishy is defiantly going on," Aaron growled while looking at the noble elf who was loading his bow, "Ike has to be cheating."

"I don't think 'Trev never lost before' is going to enough of an argument," Raynee sighed while looking at the boy, "There's nothing we can do right now."

Aaron sighed and looked away from the fight to the crystalline walls of the city, his eyes wandering across the towering forest just past the precious wall. He almost did a double take when he saw a flash of white up in the silhouette of the forest. Growling, he quickly took off for the city gates, a surprised Jade quickly following him.

"What are you doing?" The witch called.

"I think I know where we'll get proof Ike's cheating," Aaron yelled back while he kept on running.

Meanwhile, the now four competitors were preparing for another fight, Valient raised his sword and began to charge with the wizard following close behind. With Ike's nod, Elvarg let out a large fireball at the charging warrior. Instead of trying to dodge the incoming mass of fire, Valient continued running with Trev on his tail. Moments before the fire was able to hit the blue clad knight, the wizard grabbed his arm and they both disappeared in a puff of smoke, shocking both the elf and the dragon. Ike quickly looked over his shoulder in fear of his enemies reappearing behind him, relived to find nothing was behind him. He turned back around to begin searching for the knight and wizard when his face quickly met a full goatee that he recognized very well.

He also recognized the feeling of the rune gauntlet meeting his stomach, causing him to stumble back shuddering.

Elvarg turned to try and catch Valient of guard when she felt a slight breeze cross her own stomach. With her incredibly long neck she peered under her large mass to find Trev standing underneath her with an impish grin on his face and his golden hammer raised. Before the dragon could do anything, the wizard had brought the hammer down on her clawed foot, hard. The dragon let out a pained roar while stumbling about on its newly injured foot, letting the wizard throw a well-aimed fireball into the beast's snout. The dragon quickly shook of the fiery ball and began to charge at the wizard at an alarming speed, too fast for him to teleport away and being talked into the buffet table. Elsewhere, Valient was slashing his rune scimitar in the direction of the elf who was able to doge of fend off most of the swings with his crystal knife.

"Getting tired?" Valient asked without breaking his advancing pace.

"Nope," The elf replied, "but your friend is." Ike smiled devilishly as the knight turned to find his friend in a pile of table rubble and a punch bowl on his head while the dragon drew near. Before realizing his mistake, Valient felt a powerful punch meet the back of his neck, causing him to fall to the ground. Ike did his best to jump on the downed knight but the armored man was fast enough to roll out of the way and jump back up with his blade ready.

"You just won't make this easy, will you?" Ike asked, feigning disappointment while pulling his crystal bow back out.

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Karina sat up in the tree with a smug smile on her face, Ike was all set up for the big kill and she personally couldn't wait to see all of her biggest enemies crushed where they stood. Giggling to herself, she looked over the crowd to look for her rival and her knight friend, wanting to see their reaction to their heroes losing the on-going fight, but was disappointed to see they had disappeared.

'They can't hide forever,' she thought with a shrug and returned her attention to the fight going on in the square. She was fairly content with herself until she heard a familiar voice call from below.

"Karina! I know you're up there! Get down here before I have to knock this tree down!" An annoyingly confident voice called from below. She peered over the branch to find Aaron yelling insults at her with his sword flailing in the air while Jade stood next to him giving her a death glare.

"Sorry darlings," She called back in spite, "I am just loving this show, want to join me? I have popcorn!" With a quick wave of her hand a large bowl of the fluffy and buttery snack appeared in-between her legs in a puff of smoke.

"Alright! You asked for this!" Aaron called while taking hacks and slashed at the bark with his sword in a vain attempt to bring the young witch girl down from her leafy throne. After a few strike, jade placed her hand on the young man's shoulder and motioned for him to move aside. Once Aaron had complied, Jade's hands glowed a deep green and a ball of rock and green energy appeared in-between her hands and was rocketed into the tree, causing Karina to teeter and eventually fall from branch to branch onto the ground.

"Now, tell me what you're doing here," Aaron commanded while leaning down close to her face.

"Enjoying the show, what does it look like?" Karina spat back at the knight. He raised his hand as if to hit her but was stopped by a cry that appeared to be Jade's. He quickly turned around to find her holding a small book with a brown leather cover over it, her eyes widened to their full extent and her pupils shrunken down to near pen tip size. Quickly running over he peered over her shoulder to see the faded text and drawings in the book. Being ignorant of the magic world, it took Aaron slightly longer then Jade to understand the text, but the horror sunk in just as his friend's had.

"TREV!" Jade squealed at the top of her lungs while making a mad dash for the city gate. "TRE-" She began to cry again until the electric blue lightning surrounded her, transforming her cry for help into that of pain. She stumbled slightly and turned to find Karina standing with her staff with the blue lightning blot on the end.

"I'm sorry sweetie, but we can't have you two ruin the surprise," She said with a large grin spreading from ear to ear. Before either Jade or Aaron could react they were electrocuted with another lightning bolt from the witch's staff.

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The large, dark green dragon flew in several circles over the square before coming down with her large, yellow claws outstretched in front of her and aimed at the knight's chest. Valient was knocked backwards forcibly by the blow but was otherwise unharmed thanks to his tough armor, which now had several fresh scratches on it. The dragon was aiming to take another swoop down onto the poor knight in blue when a particularly large fireball slammed into her side, sending her flight pattern off and causing her to crash into the tile road of the city. The wizard responsible for the ball of fire quickly ran to Valient's side and helped him up.

"I don't know why, but these two are becoming too much for us," Valient whispered as he stood up.

"Well, if you have any great plans I'd love to hear them," Trev replied while using Valient's tough armor as a shield from a crystal arrow, which shattered on impact with the strong armor.

"I think I do," Valient said while seeing that both Ike and Elvarg were charging side by side. "Can you do another God Spell?"

Trev saw the elf and dragon charging at them and quickly understood his friend's plan. He quickly scampered up to Valient's side and raised his staff. "Hopefully Guthix still loves me," Joked halfheartedly.

Valient raised his hand and curled his fingers so that his index and middle were pointed outwards as he began to glow with a light blue aura. Trev raised his staff with a growl and began to give of a faint red glow similar to the knight's.

"Make this count," Valient reminded.

"I always give it my all," Trev said with a grin.

"SARADOMIN'S STRIKE!" The knight cried.

"FLAMES OF ZAMORAK!" The wizard yelled with similar strength.

The elf and dragon only had time for their eyes to widen with shock and realization before they were hit with the full force of the god spells. The large bolts of lightning surged though their bodies as the powerful red energy ball with several fireballs inside smashed into them and blew them across the square in a large cloud of dust.

Silence, pure silence was the only reaction the crowd gave as they watched in amazement as the energy slowly drained from the now exhausted duo.

"Check," Trev coughed, "mate."

The crowd remained silent, unsure if they should be pleased their beloved princess wasn't lost to the man whose sanity was questionable after teaming up with a dragon, or be disgusted if the worst enemy of the race had won. The silence was quickly broken by the slow but steady sound of two metal hands clapping. Trev and Valient turned to find XT smiling and clapping at them.

"I don't normally condone using violence to solve a problem, but I must give credit where credit is due: He was asking for it." The robot giggled.

The next to start clapping was a major shock to everyone in the area, their own queen. Her glare hadn't changed but she had decided that the lesser of the two evils was the dark wizard before her. Her husband and Rusty quickly joined in with a large amount of enthusiasm. Finally, a green blur flew by and tackled the worn wizard in an aggressive hug, proving no one in the city was happier than Raynee.

"You did it!" Raynee cheered happily while crushing the poor young man beneath him.

"Raynee, air," Trev stuttered, turning red from embarrassment and lack of air.

"Oh," She gasped while standing up with him still in her now looser arms, "I'm sorry."

"It's fi-" He was cut off by her lips landing on his own. Before he could wholly comprehend what had just happened she had pulled away with a large blush on her face.

"I-I'm sorry," She apologized fearing his reaction, letting out a happy squeak when he had kissed her back.

"Don't be," He grinned, "Besides, aren't you mine now?" She looked up at him before smiling widely.

"I wouldn't have it any other way!" She cheered snuggling as close as she could into him.

However their happy moment was interrupted by the sound of leather boots stomping their way across the square. They all turned to find an irritable Ike standing in front of the dust cloud with a leather book in his hand and a wild look in his eye.

"If I can't have her, "He said wile tearing the book open, "No one can!"

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Outside of the city walls the two witches had been at a stalemate with every blast of energy was met with one of equal strength. Aaron hadn't been able to do much to break the tie after being knocked out with a few bolts of lightning surging in his system, a miracle he was still breathing. Both witches were shocked out of their fighting when a bright light shined from the square. Karina's mouth quickly evolved into a large grin as she began to laugh.

"SUPRISE!"

XxXxXxX

Ike stood in the light being given off by the book laughing psychotically as runes for the four elements began to spin around him. He and Elvarg began to glow white as his laughing continued.

"And may the power of this gem give me the power to take what I want!" He cried while hoisting a large purple gem into the air that had been hidden in his pocket. If XT could turn pale, he would have at that point.

"A Chaos Emerald!" The robot cried in realization of the energy that had been coming of the elf boy was really the emerald that was powering him, and now he was going to use it for who knows what. Before XT could do anything both the elf and the dragon became purely white and formed together is a large white flash. When the smoke cleared everyone could see the new, twelve meter tall, purely white dragon creature that stood on in their presence with that large purple gem lodged into its forehead. It stood proud on two legs rather than the normal four but still had the fierce look of any other dragon in Gielinor.

Trev looked up at the sky expectantly. "What did I do Guthix? What did I do to deserve this?"

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Trevoor: I took a nasty blow to the head during one of my breaks so if you notice any screw-ups, I'm not thinking clearly. Now that I'm pushed on time and bodily fluids, I bid you a quick farewell!