Okay I've been waiting to do this chapter for a long time and I'm not waiting anymore. Standard disclaimers apply, I don't own anything so don't say I do. Start the fic.

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Spidey and Danny's eyes were beginning to twitch.

"We've been watching The Cheetah Girls for several hours now! I don't how much more of this I can take!" said Spidey.

"Yeah well you try to pop their movie out with laser happy Jenny watching it." Said Danny.

"Hey where's Vexx? He's missing out on a great movie." Said Violet.

"Oh yeah so great I fell like I should shoot myself in the h…"

Spidey would have finished but Danny slapped his hand over his mouth.

"I think he's in his room." Said Danny.

Violet rolled her eyes.

"Well I'm going to go and drag him out." Said Violet.

"Well you can try anyways. Vexx isn't afraid of facing a woman's wrath." Said Spidey.

Violet went down the hall to Vexx's room where she heard a number of grunts. She opened the door to find that Vexx practicing a few martial arts moves on a wooden dummy.

"Hey Vexx we rented a really good movie, why not come watch it with us? It has a good song in it about princesses rather rescuing themselves than waiting for someone to come and get them." Said Violet.

"If they didn't want to get rescued then why did they bother to get themselves captured in the first place?" asked Vexx as he performed a series of katas on the wooden dummy.

"Listen, are you going to come and watch the movie with us or not?" asked Violet.

"No thanks, I still need to train to kill Dark Yabu!" said Vexx as he kicked off the wooden dummy's head.

"Yabu, Yabu, Yabu, that's all we ever hear out of you. Why is so important that you kill him? Isn't just defeating him enough?" asked Violet.

"You want to know? I mean really want to know?" asked Vexx.

"Well…yeah!" said Violet.

"To fully understand why you need to my entire story. Go and get the others, I only want to explain this once." Said Vexx.

Violet nodded and soon returned with the others.

"You pried them away from that stupid movie." Said Spidey. (A/N: if you watched the same movie for several hours wouldn't you think it's stupid?)

"Anyways, first you need to understand something. On my planet there are two races of people the Astarans like myself and the Astaries. The only difference between the two was there looks, Astarans usually have facial hair like myself…or at least the males do anyways. Astaries usually have something like purple, or pink, or green colored skin." Said Vexx.

Flashback.

"But the real story begins before I was even born, it begins 700 years ago. The Astaries had found a door that could open door ways to other worlds called the Rift. They thought that they could learn miraculous things from others worlds as well as teach a few things. However…it was a door better left closed. Because as it turned out the Shadow Realm (A/N: Not to be confused with Yugioh) was on the other side along with Dark Yabu and his Shadow Wraith army. Hell was unleashed upon the once beautiful Astara."

Dark Yabu and a fleet of floating ships came out of the Rift and started destroying planets and taking innocent lives.

He laughs evilly as his Shadow Wraiths devour the innocent people.

"Shadow Wraiths are Dark Yabu's own personal army of demons. Trying to kill them is like trying to kill a roach, very hard and almost impossible to do. And even if you do manage to kill one its heart would still keep on beating."

The Shadow Wraiths were now devouring the energy that was powering the Rift leaving them stuck…which was perfectly alright with them seeing as how they had so much energy to eat and people to kill.

"However, my village, the Overwood had managed to escape such evil and lived peacefully for a number of generations. However, nothing lasts forever, not even peace. Dark Yabu found the village and in his savagery drove the defenseless villagers before them save for village guardian…my Grandfather and myself"

Shadow Wraiths under the command of Dark Yabu were terrorizing the poor villagers. Vexx and Vargas were now surrounded by Dark Yabu's own personal Shadow Wraith guards.

"We fought valiantly but unarmed and outnumbered my Grandfather and myself could not stand against Dark Yabu's evil power and were bound in chains with the others."

The guards pushed Vexx and Vargas down and forced chains on to them causing Vexx to growl at them angrily.

"We were forced to toil in the labyrinth of tunnels that surrounded the village as slaves."

Vexx and Vargas were mining in said tunnels but Vargas wasn't looking so good.

Vargas started having a coughing fit and Vexx went over to make sure he was okay.

"Back to work slacker!" shouted one of the guards.

The guard viciously whipped both Vexx and Vargas in the back, Vexx turned to the guard with rage burning his eyes.

"Beaten by word and whip I endured until my rage became unbearable. I lashed out against my oppressors by was stopped by the very shadows that answered Yabu's call."

Vexx picked up the mining pick and leapt at the guard who whipped them only to find that he was stopped in mid air but some type of purple smoke that incased itself around him. Out from the Shadows came Dark Yabu, the purple smoke caused Vexx great pain and was increasing all the more.

"I would have died then if it were not for the sacrifice of my Grandfather."

Just when it seemed that Dark Yabu was going to kill Vexx, a mining pick flew at Dark Yabu going straight through him as if he himself was made of smoke. Dark Yabu dropped Vexx because of the sudden pain and turned to see who dared attack him.

There was Vargas, it was he who had saved his grandson. He showed no fear, only determination to protect his only living family member.

"Fully enraged, Dark Yabu turned his wrath on my Grandfather and showed no mercy."

Dark Yabu sent a stream of the same purple smoke which enveloped Vargas causing him to shout out in pain.

"No! Noooooooooo!" pleaded Vexx.

Before his very eyes Vexx had lost the only family he had ever known.

"After night fall, vowing revenge I escaped the imprisonment and made my way to the heart of on Dark Yabu's fleet ship with intent on destroying him."

Vexx was going to have to be careful. He snuck past a sleeping guard and made his way over to said ship.

But the odd thing was he didn't see Dark Yabu anywhere. However, there was something giving off a bright light. Vexx turned to see what the light was and gasped at what he saw.

"However, fate would not grant me with revenge but fortune. Do you know what I found? The Legendary Astari War Talons, unable to destroy the powerful artifacts Dark Yabu had hidden them away fear that they may fall into enemy hands. I think my hands would have qualified."

The Talons for some odd reason were grasped onto a rock. As Vexx began to walk closer to them they began to react more. But when the gauntlets started prying themselves off the rock Vexx took a step back.

The gauntlets circled Vexx a couple of times before clenching their fists. The gauntlets latched themselves on to Vexx.

"I screamed as the talons bound themselves to me forever and my fate to all Astara. In short, if I die so does all chances of Astara remaining alive. Some of it is already just floating pieces of what it once was."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" screamed Vexx in pain.

It was the most painful experience Vexx had ever endured. And just as the gauntlets had finished their job Vexx had lost consciousness and the fleet ship exploded. Unfortunately Dark Yabu saw his ship explode.

"When I lost consciousness I woke up in some type of dream world. At first when I started hearing voices I thought I had lost my mind, but then I realized it was the Talons themselves speaking to me."

"Vexx…"

Vexx's eyes were beginning to open but closed again. He didn't want to wake up, his whole body hurt.

"Vexx…open your eyes."

Vexx opened his eyes and was surprised at where he was. There were floating blocks everywhere and a giant door in front of him. Over the edge of the platform he was on was an endless void. If he were to fall he'd be falling forever.

"You have endured so much and yet your journey has only just begun. We have waited an eternity for one who can perceive with the mind and not the eye. The mark of your grandfather's Vargas's passing lies heavily upon you. A part of you is linked to him even in death."

An image of Vargas appeared infront of Vexx. He was in some type of red prison and a particular breed of Shadow Wraiths called Shadow Creeps were attacking him, they looked as if they were zombies with the head of a demonic skeleton only made out of smoke. Clawing and biting him as they flew past him a couple of times.

"As Yabu murdered Vargas he deemed your grandfather unworthy of the mercy of eternal peace. Yet, he imprisoned him in a part of which could never be held captive in life. Your grandfather's essence is trapped in the realm of Dark Yabu's amulet. Where Yabu will feed upon his pain and fear until Vargas is no more."

The image disappeared leaving Vexx with a lot on his mind and a heavy heart.

"But if you learn our ways. The potential to save him is in your hands. We will grant you all the knowledge and experience of the past guardians who have borne us throughout the ages. We can help you to unlock the doors of your own perception so that you may avenge your grandfather and redeem him from his plight."

Vexx got up onto his feet with a look of determination on his face.

"So the gauntlets taught me everything I would need to know about how to use them. And before I knew it, it was time for me to go."

The giant door opened up to reveal a swirling green tunnel.

"You have done well. Beyond this door lies the world in which you alone must use what you have learned to achieve your purpose."

Vexx nodded and leapt into the tunnel.

"Take heart, for the measure of a person lies not in how one deals with the easiest situations. But rather what you do in the most hopeless of circumstances."

"The next thing I knew I was waking up in some type of crypt that laid in a place called Timberdale."

Vexx looked around and saw that the room was some type of crypt. The room was filled with paintings of warriors. Now these warriors all had two things in common, one they were all taller than him, and two they all had the Astari War Talons on in each painting.

"Ah back among the living I see." Said a voice.

Vexx turned to see a very old man with a walking stick and a hunch back heading towards him. He had a bushy mustache and a very bald head.

"You're a stout one aren't ya? When I found ya I thought ya dead so I brought you here. This chamber is where the past talon bearers and entombed." Said the old man.

That did explain how he got there. The old man held out his hands to show numerous scratches and cuts on them.

"Cursed things nearly cut my hands off as I carried you here." Said the old man.

Vexx felt a bit guilty even if the gauntlets did have a mind of their own.

"Yabu destroyed the village. They're all gone except for you…and old Darby here." Said the old man.

Vexx was shocked, he truly was alone.

"I'd love to get my hands on that soul sucking monster, but Darby can't see so good anymore." Said Darby as he waved his hand in front of his face without blinking.

"But you…" he said while pointing to Vexx, "You can stop him before he opens the door to his world, you could get to the land spire before it's too late." Said Darby.

"The land spire was basically a door way to the rift that was available to each different part of Astara."

"If he opens the Rift again those demons will destroy what little remains of Astara, and all of us with it, than there will be nothing left to stop the Wraiths from using the Rift for destroying other worlds." Said Darby.

They would need some type of hero but where were they going to find one…unless…was he thinking what Vexx thought he was thinking?

"It'll have to be you my boy, ol Darby can't go with you. But what I can do is guide you with my voice." Said Darby.

"I later found out that I could use the Wraith Hearts to power the Rift and to get to Dark Yabu himself. Another thing I found out is that Dark Yabu himself cannot touch the Wraith Hearts, no one knows why but he can't. However, it was around my 25th or 26th Wraith Heart that me and 'Darby' got a surprise."

The platform in the rift started to rise as both Vexx and Darby stood on it. It finally reached the top where a woman with a purple face with her back to them was standing. She was wearing green clothes with the top so tight it left nothing to the imagination. She turned around and saw Vexx and Darby.

"YOU!" shouted the woman.

She pointed a key staff towards them and shot a magical blast from it. Vexx leapt out of the way but Darby got hit square in the chest.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"

"What happened next is something I will never forget."

Darby started to change, he grew fangs and his shoulders sprouted spikes (two going outward and two going upward). His peasant clothes were replaced with a sorcerer's gown that was blacker than the night sky. Where Darby had once stood was now Dark Yabu.

"I had been tricked! It was really Dark Yabu all along, there never was a Darby to begin with. Which was probably why the Astari War Talons had cut up his arms so much, they were trying to protect me. He was using me to gather Wraith Hearts for him to power the Rift. I was filled with an unbearable rage, a rage of both being tricked and betrayed, and of seeing the murderer of the only family I had ever known in front of me."

Vexx leapt to attack Dark Yabu only for him to use some dark magic to strap him to one of pillars using some type of purple rope. It stuck like glue and kept Vexx where he stood. With another blast using the same type of spell he used on Vexx he also strapped the woman the pillar opposite.

Dark Yabu walked over to her smugly. He held her chin in his hand as he gave her a once over.

"Reia last of the cursed Astaries. So proud, so regal, so stupid." Said Dark Yabu.

She spat in his face causing him to let go of her chin.

"You'll never rule Astara!" proclaimed Reia.

Dark Yabu grinned as he walked over and picked up her key staff.

"We don't want to rule it, we intend to devour it! Every life that thrives here shall succumb to the Shadow Wraiths. You will bare witness to our triumph." Said Dark Yabu.

Dark Yabu made his way over to the Rift causing Vexx to snarl loudly with anger.

"Thank you boy, you've made all of this possible." Said Dark Yabu.

Vexx finally broke free using the war gauntlets. He leapt at Dark Yabu only for him to disappear into the Rift.

Vexx gave a shout anger and slammed his fists on the ground causing a small magical pulse.

"Yabu deceived you from the beginning, used you to power the Rift, making you think I was your enemy." Said Reia.

Vexx turned to her and prepped his fingers for some possible slicing. At first it looked as if he was going to cut the woman herself but turned out he was only going to cut her down.

"I failed!" Reia slammed her fist against the stone pillar in anger as she said this. "Without the key staff we can't close the Rift. But all hope is not lost, you can get it back. Follow Yabu into the Shadow Realm, your war talons will protect you. But first you'll need to activate the structures that lie in the three outer worlds, and return here to succeed. All hope lies with you now. Good luck."

"I fought long and hard to activate those structures. At times I seriously thought I wasn't going to make it but I still pulled through none the less and made my way to the Shadow Realm."

Vexx had hopped out of a portal and onto a long stone path. Vexx looked left and right, nothing but darkness was surrounding the entire place.

Vexx ran down the path and found the monster who had taken his grandfather away, Dark Yabu.

"You were a fool for coming here! But no fear, you shant be staying long." Said Dark Yabu.

Vexx gave a small growl and gave Dark Yabu a 'bring it on' signal with his hands.

Two black spheres formed in Dark Yabu's hands, he threw them to the ground where ten Shadow Creeps were formed.

"Destroy him for me my children!" ordered Dark Yabu.

Both the Shadow Creeps and Vexx charged at each other.

"I soon found out that any Shadow Wraith in the Shadow Realm had their strength increased immensely thus making it much tougher fight. After I had disposed of his Shadow Creeps he tried again…only this time throwing fire balls at me. After that still didn't work on me Dark Yabu did something that still haunts my nightmares."

Dark Yabu had appeared on the opposite side of Vexx. As he spread his arms out wide Shadow Creeps rose from the ground.

"Come to me, my children!" ordered Dark Yabu.

The Shadow Creeps leapt into Dark Yabu causing him to scream like a banshee. Dark Yabu held his head with his hands as he begun to change. Now in front of Vexx stood Dark Yabu as I giant spider.

"Fighting Dark Yabu as a giant spider was one of the hardest fights in my entire life. Mainly because he kept trying to squash me with size and legs…he also breathed fire on me a lot. But by attacking the amulet on his lower thorax I was able to beat him and separate the amulet from him…or so I thought."

Vexx ran to absorb the amulet but stopped when he saw that there were now two amulets. They both looked identical in each and everyway. Vexx didn't have much time so he was going to have to make his choice now.

Vexx chose the one on the left but started getting pulled into it.

"The last thing I remember after that was falling through the sky where Raven saved me."

End Flashback

"No matter what way I look at, no matter how many possible explanations I could have come up with it all ended with the simple fact that I had failed. I failed my Grandfather, I failed Reia, and I had failed all Astara. But on these Astari War Talons I vow, I shall return and I will kill Dark Yabu to prevent him from doing what he did to my world to any others." Said Vexx.

However, just as Vexx had finished these words a green whirlwind developed around himself.

"What the hell is going on?" shouted Vexx.

The green whirlwind continued to get bigger and bigger until Vexx was completely enveloped him and disappeared with him in a flash of light.

"Okay…I don't think that was supposed to be part of his story." Said Spidey.

That's all you get for now. Hope this chapter was long enough for you. Sorry if it was a little light on action but next chapter will definitely have more I promise.