Chapter 26: Justek Phase 4: Black Hole Wyvern

The moment Justek's eyes changed, Riku commented "I knew it…Despite your appearances, you aren't at all human. You're a dragon, aren't you?" Justek grinned a little and remarked as he looked at Riku "You are only a third of the way right there. Allow me to explain, since we have a bit of time to do so." Riku remained cautious for the time being since he knew just leaping at Justek after he has shown this change in his eyes could potentially lead to trouble.

Justek held his glasses before his neck and remarked calmly "Have you ever heard of Halflings? It's the universal moniker for those who were born half-beast, half-human. Your brother happened to meet one a couple weeks ago by the name of Priscilla, and her beastly half is that of a dragon. Though in her case, she was a dragon Halfling born from another planet than the one I came from." Justek then shut his eyelids as Riku remarked "So you're saying you are a dragon Halfling."

"You are two thirds of the way there by now when it comes to the truth, so allow me to fill in that last little blank." Justek commented briefly before going on to explain in greater detail "I'm sure the lack of prior revelation on some of these things is starting to get tiresome, but it was just another part of history that was chosen to remain hidden from the rest of the universe. In the time of the nine elemental tribes and the Aurians, there were two others tribes who stood independent of those tribes, with not even the Ten Sages bothering to try and control them."

"At first these two tribes cared not for one another, but then one day the leader proposed a union of the two tribes through a marriage. The couple agreed to the marriage only if they were allowed the chance to see if they would truly love each other, and their bond did eventually prove to be one spent together throughout eternity. I was the result of that union, a child born from the blood of two Halflings. My father was a Dragon Halfling…While my mother, whose blood primarily flows through my veins, was a Wyvern Halfling. I suppose it's safe to not call me a Halfling at this point, but even so…"

When Justek's explanation was at an end Riku clenched his fists and commented "So all you're saying is that you can transform into a beast…Fine, I'm glad I learned a bit more about your history, but I won't let you transform!" Riku then chooses to fly straight at Justek, but then a series of vortexes surrounded Justek's body and forced Riku to fly back before he went into one. Justek remarked while opening his eyelids "I made it clear that you had to make the right decisions to defeat me, Riku. You chose to err on the side of caution instead of attacking me right away."

Justek spread the cage of vortexes outward to cover a larger area around his body, and he went on to exclaim slightly "It's too late now. I shall show you the power I hold proudly in my blood!" Riku draws his energy sword and tries to slice through the vortexes as Justek snaps his staff in two and then bends forward, but Justek creates a series of wide vortexes to meet Riku's attacks and prevent him from breaking through the cage. The vortexes release bursts of energy and shake the ship with each release as Justek lets out a deep snarling growl.

The sound of Justek's bones cracking could be heard from within the cage as small boney protrusions stick out from Justek's spine and his body began to grow in size. Two wings grow out from the sides of his back as his entire body transforms into a more beast-like form, with blue flames surrounding the halves of his staff. Riku lands on the ground and watches as a dark black glow spreads out from the center of the vortexes, the cage shattering apart as a heavy power surges out from within. Riku widens his eyes slightly and finds himself having to lift his head up as Justek emerges from the dark glow.

He was now fifteen feet tall, with the smooth skinned body of a wyvern with black skin and a flesh colored midsection that had some degree of muscle on it. Unlike a wyvern, Justek had large arms made of black scaled skin, and though they were a little shorter the legs had the exact same color and texture to them. There were five fingers and toes on each limb, and the claws attached to them were violet in color. He has a small neck with a dragon's head attached to it, which looked pretty much like your average dragon's would, complete with small but fanged snout and with yellow eyes and a pair of black slits for the pupils, and on the back of his head with a pair of fin-like ears. His fleshy wings spread out twenty-five feet wide, and in his hands he now wielded two absolutely gigantic broadswords made of pure mountain crag, both of the blades engulfed fully in pure dark blue and black flames. Finally, there was his five foot long tail, which was smooth but covered in bony spikes like the back of his body is.

Riku widened his eyes as he looked up at Justek, who now spoke in a deeper and gravely voice while still maintaining the same accent as before "Now then…What shall you do next, Riku?" Riku's heart beat steadily against his chest, as he could feel Justek's power pressing against him and it was frightening beyond all belief. Kairi was at a complete loss for words as she looked at Justek, and Mew himself was completely stiff, unable to say or do anything besides look at Justek and feel his heart nearly collapsing from shock.

Kairi was left agape with fright, and after a few seconds she finally commented "His aura…It's swallowing everything around him…It's almost like a black hole…" The anxiety she felt was growing by the second, and in hopes of finding some comfort she could only turn and cuddle against Mew's chest. But Mew couldn't bring himself to do anything even in this dire of situations. No joke would befit this situation, there was nothing he could say to assure Kairi that everything would be alright…He knew, at this very moment, that he was absolutely useless.

After a few more seconds of staring up at Justek, Riku clenched his fists tightly and remarked while trying to act bravely "I-I'm not going to give up Justek! If this is the full extent of your power, then I can still defeat you!" Justek grinned with his draconic fangs and remarked "This is your strongest form…Can you truly muster up the power to defeat me as I stand before you now? Fate does not look kind for you at this junction, Riku…"

Riku clenched his teeth and gulped a little bit before remarking "I may be in my strongest form, but I haven't used all of the power at my disposal! I will show you all of it, right here, RIGHT NOW!" Riku then swings his arms in front of his chest and concentrates as hard as he could, forcing his power to rise at an incredible and rapid pace. His body began to burn up with golden flames, as he Riku became a pure embodiment of the elements themselves. The atmosphere of the arena transformed into a wavy, bright neon environment, and slowly Riku lost the feeling of his own body.

But before that feeling was all gone, Riku thought about his own stakes in this battle, and all the worlds he had gone to came up in his mind. Each world was being swallowed into Justek's black holes across the universe, the trillions of lives that had likely been snuffed out weighing heavily on Riku's mind. He wished he could have done something to save them sooner, but vowed with all of his heart to bring them all back with Justek's demise. As Riku fully completed his transformation into a being of pure golden flames complete with six wings on his back and hollow blue eyes, he thought to himself "I-I'm sorry as well brother…But I have to do this!"

Riku levitates off the ground enough to look Justek directly in the face, and though the raw power he exuded pressed against Justek's body the man just grinned and remarked "So this is the full power of your Genesis Form. You have become one with the elements themselves! Shall you give me the best fight you can then?" Riku glared Justek straight in his draconic eyes and exclaimed in an echoing voice almost befitting a god "I am the last person standing between you and the end of everything Justek! I will be the hope for everyone in this universe, and I will defeat you!"

Justek held his right sword down beside his hip and remarked with an intrigued growl "Then come at me, Phoenix of Balance!" Riku immediately warped the fabric of time and space around him as he got in front of Justek and punched him hard in the chest, pushing the beast back ten feet along the ground much to Justek's surprise at first. Justek then swung his right sword out a broad width and met another of Riku's punches head-on, though Riku pressed right past the blade and kept the same momentum going before he struck Justek in the face.

Justek's face was pushed to the left from the punch as a loud boom cracked through the air, but Justek was able to focus enough to flip his massive body around while swinging his right sword at Riku. Riku was struck with the attack and knocked to the ground, but he got up even before the all the dust from his impact was kicked into the air and ran until he was below Justek's chest before rising up and uppercutting him so hard that the man was immediately knockrf up into the ceiling of the arena.

Justek used a large vortex to escape before Riku could punch him again, but when Riku levitated where the man once was he casually swung his right hand out and the immediate space around him was cut open, revealing Justek hiding in the other dimension with him already ready to swing his swords out. Riku holds his hand out and catches Justek's blades in the center, grabbing onto them and gripping as hard as he could to try and break them, but even with his eyes widening deeply in concentration he could not even crack the blades.

Justek finished swinging his blades as Riku let go, and the cut Riku put into the atmosphere sealed up and allowed Justek a chance to get out of the way before Riku cut it back open again. Riku looked around and could just faintly feel Justek moving around while the gap was open, so he responded to the man's movements by throwing a small spark into the gap and letting it seal back up. After a couple seconds, a gargantuan series of explosions went off within the other dimension that burst through the walls between the two realms, but Justek was not sent out through them.

Riku then flew to the ground upon feeling a distortion in the air, and was right in doing so as a series of vortexes opened up and released sharp beams of energy through them. Once on the ground though Riku turned around and watched as Justek emerged through it quickly enough for him to swing both of his blades down, scarring the air with waves of blue flames as the tips just struck Riku across the chest. A blue flaming "X" is left on the chest for a couple seconds before it's swallowed up into Riku's body, and the boy looks up and swings his right hand up to immediately swallow Justek up in a torrent of rising golden flames.

Justek suddenly runs through the flames and tries to swing one of his swords down upon Riku, but the boy leaps up to get out of the way. Justek has a loose grip on his sword that causes it to fall down and stab against the ground while he clenches his claws into a fist and thrusts it forward. Riku speeds up enough to get out of the way, but Justek opens a couple of vortexes so he can still punch Riku. The boy is knocked back a couple of feet, but he quickly fires through the vortex Justek opened up with a sharp lightning bolt that burns off part of the scales from the back of Justek's right hand.

As Justek's hand glows from the damage dealt to him he quickly uses a vortex to drop his sword back into his grasp and opens his mouth to fire off a series of foggy energy blasts towards Riku. Riku's speed is at first enough to keep the attacks off of him, but Justek adds the vortexes to the mix to keep the attacks swerving around through the air while firing off more blasts to fill the air and force Riku to just tank through them in order to get to Justek. Justek swings his left sword in front of him and Riku dodges by landing on the ground, stamping down hard enough to cause a full mountain to erupt from the ground and drag Justek into the ceiling.

Riku stood on the slant of the mountain and ran up it while Justek was stuck at the top, and he left a trail of golden fire behind himself that split the mountain apart in his wake. The mountain crumbled enough that Justek was able to move back, and with a brief roar he opened dozens of slits across the air that sent abnormal crimson energy at Riku in the form of crescent blades. Riku swung his hands out and threw the blades aside even though they burned at the flames that composed his body.

Justek commanded the blades to turn around and attack Riku from behind, but Riku just increased his speed in a gigantic burst that sent golden flames erupting behind him as he then got directly in front of Justek and punched him with a curved punch, atomizing the mountain and dragging the beast to the ground in an instant. The blades from earlier strike Riku from behind, but he barely feels them and proceeds to hold his right hand out and create a golden seal below Justek's body as he gets back onto his feet easily. The seal released a series of golden chains that bind his limbs and wings in place, and Riku charged the area between his hands with electricity while exclaiming "Forged from the heavens, cast down my foe with all of your might! Heavenly Indignation!"

Justek manages to use his strength to break through the chains, but a pure white lightning bolt comes straight down and smites him, creating a blast miles in circumference. The light from that bolt lingers for a bit before Justek rips through it all with a series of space distorting black lasers. Riku lands on the ground and leaps at Justek, but the man uses the broadside of his massive sword to hold back his punch before sliding back and remarking "Using moves from other worlds? How kind of you to do that, it truly honors those bonds you have made."

Justek slams his swords against the ground to unleash a massive wave of flames at Riku, but Riku swallows the flames up into his body and flinches slightly before leaping at Justek and exclaiming "These bonds are part of my strength Justek! Not that you would get that!" Riku rapidly punches two hundred times, but Justek counters them with an equally fast flurry of swings from his blades while commenting calmly "I'm a little insulted by that. I did know the joy of having bonds with others once before, but now all I have are those with my children."

Riku widens his eyes and breaks his assault to deliver a hard swing to Justek's swords, hitting so hard that it shook the arena again and caused Justek to be pushed back. "Your children are mentally messed up because they want to make you proud! What kind of father does that to their children?!" Riku expressed genuine rage as he once again let out another punch, leaving a lashing wave of golden flames in the air as Justek blocks the attack and gets pushed back twenty feet.

Justek holds his swords beside himself and remarks quietly as he leaned forward "A horrible father. You seem to be under the assumption that I do not recognize what I've done to my own children…" Justek crossed his swords quickly as Riku flew forward to try and punch him in the face, and upon swinging his swords out Justek repels Riku back onto the ground while swinging his wings out and summoning twenty vortexes and fire off silver bolts of energy at Riku. Riku is hit by a couple of those bolts but doesn't flinch and glares at Justek to tell him while avoiding the other bolts with blurry movements "How else can I explain this then?!"

When Justek's attacks were at an end the man unleashes an absolutely massive beam of energy from his mouth that covers miles of space at a time and consumes Riku's body within it. But Justek watched as Riku broke right through the center of the beam and struck him on the side of his face. Justek closed his mouth for a moment and let out a slight growl before throwing his swords into his vortexes and using his claws to grab Riku out of the air and promptly head butt him with all of his might, even if direct contact with his body burned deep into his skin.

The golden flames lingered on Justek's head as quickly threw Riku to the ground and leaped back, drawing his swords back out from the vortexes while calmly remarking to Riku's earlier question "Lunis and Solaris always deserved a better father than I…I tried my best with them, I truly did, but I am nothing more than a shackle holding them back. No father, nay, no parent should be that for their children. I wish I would have the chance to apologize to them for drawing them into this conflict…"

Riku levitates himself off the ground and Justek stands completely upright while letting out a beastly but subdued growl before he remarks "But a monster does not apologize…It only destroys all things around it. The bonds they once had…" Riku rapidly waves his hands out to strike Justek with boiling hot waves of magma from both sides of his body, but Justek cleaves through most of it with his blades while Riku punches him hard in the chest. Justek feels his rib bones break a bit, but he just holds himself together and remarks "…the worlds in the universe…" before swinging his right sword out in front of him to slice Riku hard across the chest and send him flying back a good number of feet.

Riku lands on the ground and clenches his fists before swinging his arms out and summoning forth highly condensed white flames into his grasp while Justek remarks "…and the lives of all around him…" Justek swings his swords out beside himself and releases a massive plume of flames from the blades that strikes the peak of the arena and continue to do so as he holds the blades together above his head and the flames merge into an even larger plume. Focusing on Riku's location, Justek finishes his sentence off by exclaiming "A monster must destroy it all!" and then swings his swords down to unleash a massive pillar of blue and black fire towards Riku.

Riku just steps forward slightly and swallows the flames into his body, creating a burning white aura around his body that looks like a combination of haze and heat, and then he warps time and space to leap at Justek again and rapidly punch his body all-around. The air distorts further with each attack Riku makes towards Justek, and the bones in his body break with each punch. Justek's wings are punctured through as well a couple of times. By the time Riku is done he turns around as he slides on the ground and starts pulling his right fist back.

Justek limps forward slightly but keeps an absolutely calm demeanor as he remarks "This battle is over now. My apologies, but you have failed…" Riku makes his right hand burns bright with rainbow flames, with some light and darkness mixed in to show he was using those alongside the other seven elements, and exclaims to Justek with his expression firm with anger "No! This ends now, Justek! No more monsters from the past, no more suffering on my brother's part, I will end it all with this one punch!"

Riku's voiced echoed across the arena with confidence, but Justek raised his head up slightly and squinted a little after letting out a sigh. With one roar Riku swung his forward and prepared to thrust himself forward to punch Justek with one final blow, but all of a sudden the golden flames dispersed around his body along with the neon atmosphere on the battlefield. He was completely back in his most basic form, and his punch quickly limped down in front of him while his body froze entirely in place.

Riku's confidence was quickly turned to abject shock as his arms limped on both sides of his body, his legs and feet were stiff and immobile, and he could just faintly feel his heartbeat. Riku then found himself panting against his will, and he could barely see as well. Riku, gasping for air, remarks to Justek "W-What did you…D-D-Do to me?" Justek quickly responded with "I have done nothing, in some sense of the word. It was your own folly that led to this moment, Riku." Like with Alex Whiter, Justek was being rather blunt in his words.

Justek stepped forward slightly while stating "Your Genesis Form is quite powerful, and in that state you were more than capable of killing me at full power. But on my end, it was not a matter of overpowering you…It was simply a matter of stalling your power out. You were drawing on the powers of all nine elements, becoming something akin to a god. These consequences were really something you should have expected." Riku could not even muster up a scowl in response to Justek's excruciatingly truthful words.

Justek planted one sword onto the ground, while Mew, who had been silent this entire battle thus far, suddenly lunged forward and exclaimed "GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Kairi had to pull on the back of Mew's shirt to stop him from making a big mistake while exclaiming bluntly "Don't be an idiot! Damn it Mew, think this through!" Mew looked over his shoulder and exclaimed "He's my brother! I won't let Justek kill him like this!"

Justek paused for a moment and looked at Mew and Kairi, remarking quietly to Riku afterwards "If I recall correctly, you first achieved the Genesis Form out of desperation to protect your brother from those who set out to harm him." Justek turned his head to glance down at Riku before he remarked "S-So what…Now you're going to force me to watch as you kill him, you bastard?" Justek raised his brows and commented "I may be a monster, true, but even I am not going to be that needlessly cruel. You have failed to defeat me, there is only one other thing I plan to do to you."

Riku remarked while gasping for air "Y-You plan to kill me…Of course…" Justek commented after a slight chuckle "You may consider this surprising, but I refuse to kill you here." Riku widened his eyes slightly before Justek went on explain "Your heart was never in the wrong place…You wanted the power to protect all those around you, which stemmed from your failure to save the Hero of Time. And then your desire to protect extended to your brother once you found out all that he had to deal with…There was never ANYTHING wrong with your goals, but you strived for greater heights too quickly…And perhaps never realized you may have been going too high too quickly."

"My old friend could've achieved the same forms you did, but he knew he would've lost himself to all that power…Not out of arrogance mind you, but because that much elemental energy within one being is a road to self-destruction, especially if your base form is as strong as his was. Even so, your desire to protect all is so similar to his own that I cannot help but succumb to the nostalgia of our old friendship and spare you." When Justek's words were at an end, Riku remarked "T-That seems like pretty contradictory behavior…For a monster…"

Justek raised his left sword above his head and commented "I am very contradictory type of person, I will not deny that, but just because I am sparing you from death does not mean my actions will not still be cruel…" Justek wastes no time in swinging his sword down with one swift motion, striking the right side of Riku's body and hitting the ground with so much force that Riku is sent flying backwards, his expression frozen with widened eyes.

Kairi is the one who ends up catching Riku out of the air due to positions at the time, but she's thrown onto her butt from the recoil. Mew glances back immediately while Justek spends his time picking his other sword off the ground and standing in place a good distance away from the others, and once Mew gets a good glance at Riku he turns around all the way with a horrified expression on his face.

Riku just laid there against Kairi's body without moving at all, his mouth slightly agape with his eyes widened and none of his limbs moving in the slightest. Kairi sat herself up enough after being stunned by Riku colliding with her, and it doesn't take her long to notice the same thing Mew did…That Justek's attack had not only sent Riku flying, but he had also completely cut off his right arm. The blue flames had cauterized the wound in his shoulder socket, though it looked very burnt with lumps and a bit of charred bone sticking out.

Mew immediately dropped to his knees and hands and exclaimed in desperation "Riku? Riku, come on! Say something to me, please!" Riku was unresponsive, and with his heart beating against his chest heavily Mew shook his head and said "I'm not going to let you be mute Riku! You have to something for all of our sake, please! Even if you have to whisper, I don't care, you can't just give up like this!" Mew was on the verge of tears as he begged and begged for Riku to respond, while Kairi just looked at the wound on his arm and tried to keep her cool because she thought she had a solution to this.

Quickly reaching into her shorts' pockets, Kairi pulls out the vial she had been saving and popped it open, feeding the aura into Riku's open mouth while remarking quickly "You're not out of this yet Riku! T-This vial will put you back in shape, I swear, damn it!" Kairi lays her hands on Riku's wound and concentrates to help the aura flow through Riku's body in order to heal him after throwing the vial to the ground, and Mew just panted quietly while trying to subdue the panic in his body, every now and then glancing back and watching as Justek continued to loom in the distance without showing a single sign of moving.

Kairi let out a few heaving gasps before saying "No" a couple of times, causing Mew to look back at his almost comatose brother, where he finds that Kairi's efforts along with Auris' have only managed to reform Riku's arm into a lump of skin and muscle where the shoulder should be. The rest of his limb did not grow back. Kairi looked up at Mew and said in disappointment "I-I'm sorry…It's not enough to restore his arm…" Mew just stayed there with a blank expression of despair on his face before he said with barely a hint of emotion "Y-You tried your best Kairi…I-I know you did…"

Mew cracked a false grin and chuckled a bit as his heart clenched against his chest from the sheer stress on his body, and he commented as the world around him seemed to be spiraling out of control "And R-Riku…He-He also did everything he cold…" Mew looked up at Riku and clenched his hands together into fists while trembling, saying to him quietly "I-I'm sorry I was so weak all this time…That you had to protect me instead of us being able to work together…."

But a moment later, Mew forced himself to stop trembling, fighting against it with some anger welling up inside of him as he suddenly summoned his sword into his right hand and said "I will end this for us both Riku…Your efforts and sacrifices won't be in vain, I promise you!" Mew suddenly stood up and turned around, walking towards Justek while Kairi exclaimed "Mew stop! This isn't the way to handle this!"

Mew gripped the handle of his sword tightly and remarked "Then fight by my side Kairi! Just make sure Riku is kept safe while we battle!" Kairi nodded her head, glad that Mew was at least thinking as straight as he possibly could, and as she lays Riku onto the ground Mew approaches Justek while reaching for the black trigger on his sword. Mew exclaims to Justek after standing still a safe distance away from him "I've had enough Justek! Why are you even doing any of this?! What is the point of your madness?!"

Justek remarks calmly while glaring down at Mew "Does a monster ever need to explain themselves?" Mew grit his teeth slightly and exclaimed "You're threatening the universe, you've caused a great deal of stress for the girl I love and her people, and you sliced my brother's right arm off! I DEMAND answers from you, Justek!" Justek responded bluntly with "My apologies, but I am in no mood to answer anything at this moment. Either prove your will to fight for your life, or die here and now."

Mew swung his sword in front of him and said with anger very clear on his face "No, I will kill YOU, Justek. Riku weakened you, so Kairi and I will finish the job!" Mew was about ready to pull on the black trigger when all of a sudden his body was gripped by a paralyzing feeling, his eyes widening against his will as something started to grab hold of his mind. Justek closed his eyelids and commented "Forgive me then for this moment, Mew…But you will sadly not even get the chance. Fate decided this path for our battle, and you and I have no choice but to go along with what they decided…"

Mew's sword suddenly was forced away as darkness was dragged up from the ground and began to wrap itself around his body starting from the legs. Mew grasped the sides of his heads and leaned forward while yelling in agonizing pain. His mind was being ripped at the seams, and a familiar demonic laughter filled his head as Mew fought through the pain to exclaim "N-NOT NOW! Y-YOU DAMN DEMON, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"

'D.'s' fanged grin actually spawns behind Mew's body, plastered onto a foggy mass of darkness. After a few seconds 'D.' laughed at Mew's resistance before telling him "You weak-minded fool…All that stress…! All that anger…! You were practically BEGGING me to claim your body at long last!" The darkness crept up Mew's legs as black flames formed a demonic seal around him, and Kairi stood up after protecting Riku with aura before proclaiming "Fight him off Mew! Come on!"

"It's too late you little wench! Every last part of this boy's body…IS MINE!" The visage of 'D.'s' face spread forth a pair of wings and began to blanket Mew's body as he continued to scream uncontrollably, and 'D.' just continued to laugh and laugh, only breaking to exclaim with the utmost glee "SCREAM! SCREAM AS HARD AS YOU CAN! FILL ME WITH YOUR LAST IOTAS OF RAGE AND HATE, MAKE ME WHOLE AGAIN. GIVE ME YOUR BODY, MIND AND SOUL. IT'S MINE, IT'S ALL MINE AT LONG LAAAAAAST!" All of that demon's patience had finally paid off, and an eruption of black fires swallowed Mew's body in the form of a pillar.

Mew's screams were silenced, and the power 'D.' unleashed from Mew's body pushed Kairi back a little bit and made even Justek flinch. The flames consumed the immediate area for a few seconds until a pair of thick demonic wings with red membranes and bones made of black goop swung out to spread the flames away. Mew had been consumed by black goop across his entire body, which was solidified into a somewhat jagged form. Mew's feet each had three triangular toes, and his hands were replaced with three thick and sharp fingers. His head was circular and covered in the black goop as well, with a pair of curved bones sticking up and going behind his head. In the center of the face, 'D.' familiar fanged grin shown through, but he quickly opened his mouth and exclaimed while unleashing the full power of darkness within himself "FINALLY! I AM ONCE MORE TRULY ALIIIIIIIIVEEEE!"

His darkness spread out in the form of gigantic shockwaves on the ground, and space itself shook in the face of 'D.' might. Kairi just stood there with a wide-eyed glare before murmuring "Mew…N-No…Not you too…" After 'D.' basked in the glory of his return for a few seconds before lurching forward like a gremlin and saying to Justek with a grin on his face "It has been a VERY long time, Justek…" Justek, keeping his calm as he always has, stares down at 'D.' with contempt and remarked "It will never be long enough, you vile murderer…"

Next Time: The Greater Evil