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Balor's Return

All of the clay figures crumbled into dust. Balor's eyes widened in shock, that couldn't have been it!

"We'll stop at the halfway mark." Procyon's voice was starting to annoy Balor. Stop at the halfway mark? What was he thinking? "Besides, everything after Harapa is boring in my opinion. So I'll send you back now since it's one minute before sunrise with something for your friend."

"Wait! What?" Balor turned his head to look at Procyon just as Balor felt himself return to his body. His eyes opened and he sat up in shock. "Cutting it close aren't you? And it didn't feel that long!" Balor then looked around at his surroundings. "Wait, where am I?" He then looked at the Knucker. "And who and what are you?" The Knucker turned his head sideways curiously, once again putting his snake-like tongue into Balor's ear. Balor shivered in shock. "So that's what that feeling was." He stood up and looked over at an open coffin finally noticing something in his right hand: Kit's flupe. The skeleton was that of an evabon and for some reason Balor felt like he new the evabon. Why was it so familiar? He wasn't sure. Balor walked out of where he was, a tomb, and found himself out in the middle of moorland. The Knucker followed Balor without any reason. "Where am I?" He placed a hand on the Knucker's neck. "You bring me out here? Where's Snarf? Where's that komrev? Where's… where's Kit?" Balor took a step and ended falling into the mire. The Knucker quickly shot out his serpentine neck and pulled Balor out of the mire. The Knucker placed Balor on a rock and starred at the creature that saved him. "This is quite the place you chose to live!" He wiped some of the stuff from the mire off of himself and threw it back into the mire. "Well, I can find my way back to the Valley of the Tombs but I just can't find a way across this bog." Balor kneeled and looked down into the bog. "How do you get across this? I felt like I was being pulled down by something." The Knucker grabbed Balor by the shoulder with his mouth and lifted Balor into the air. The Knucker then stepped into the bog and started to swim through it. The Knucker then placed Balor on his back. Balor looked down into the bog. What was in there? When the Knucker reached the edge of the moorland Balor leapt from its back. Turning to face the Knucker, Balor smiled at the serpent with legs and wings. "Thanks! You coming along?" The Knucker just turned away, going back to the tomb. "Guess not." Balor continued in the direction he knew the Valley of the Tombs was in.

There finally came a time when Balor could not walk any farther. As he leaned back beneath a dead tree, Procyon appeared. "I should have expected that you would have been somewhere different from where you started." He let out a sigh and pointed a finger at Balor. "Just this once." Within a flash Balor was at the Valley of the Tombs.

The Valley felt like it was doing flip-flops and spinning. No wonder Procyon had said "just this once."

When Kat walked up to Balor, he didn't even notice how Balor was feeling. He had just been eating candy fruit and offered Balor a second candy fruit. Balor just shook his head and leaned on the statue of Antaeus. "Hey, you feeling okay?" Balor shook his head.

"Not really, no!" When would the Valley stop doing flip-flops and spinning?

"You must have been hit hard!"

"That's an understatement!" Balor looked down. The flip-flops had stopped but the spinning had not stopped and it didn't seem like it was going to stop anytime soon. "Have you seen, Kit?" Kat shook his head.

"No, why?" Balor looked at Kat. The spinning still wasn't stopping. "She go out for a walk?"Balor finally collapsed… on top of a sleeping tolac. The tolac was black with red eyes it woke up and starred at Balor. Balor nodded and the tolac just went back to sleep. Balor then looked up at Kat.

"You could say that."

"Well, you've got her flupe!" Kat pointed at the tolac. "Just have Barghest sniff it and he'll lead us right to her." Balor starred at the sleeping Barghest.

"You sure Asaji will be alright with us borrowing her late father's tolac?" Kat shook his head.

"Of course, who's gonna miss him?"

"That is true." There was a sarcastic tone to Balor's voice. Kat didn't notice it and just took the flupe from Balor's hand and woke up Barghest. "Does no one listen when I use sarcasm?" Barghest stood up and started to sniff at the ground and walked away. Kat followed and so did Balor shortly. They were off to find Kit and Snarf!