Music choice—30 Seconds To Mars—A Beautiful Lie

Lie In bed Awake at Night

And Think About Your Life

Do You Want To Be Different?

Try To Let Go Of The Truth

The Battles Of Your Youth

Gareki felt his heart thudding against his rib cage as the three of them finally came to a stop from the long run they had just done. He bent over and placed his hands on his knees." How much longer do we have to go on for." He looked up at Pastel as he tried to catch his breath.

Pastel sighed before turning his head to look up at him." We still have a bit further."

Yogi leaned his back against the wall as he tried to catch his breath as well." Well we can't stop now. We need to leave this place. I heard them back there. They found the body and now they're bringing more after us, just like I predicted."

Gareki 's eyes tighten as he heard him say this." This place will be surrounded with those bastards if we don't get out soon." He stood up strait. Done catching his breath." Okay, we need to move." He took a step back preparing to continue down the tunnel but felt a sharp prick in the back of his neck and immediately turned around to see two lycans in the form of humans as they both pointed long knives at him.

Gareki took a step back as he eyed the knife he was holding. His eyes moved up to his face before scowling in annoyance." Oh, great," he said flatly, clearly not happy that they had been found.

Yogi saw the two lycans before slowly reaching for the hilt of his sword. Planning on attacking if they made any sudden moves to fight Gareki. But his fingers were only able to ghost across the cold medal before a voice was heard in his ears.

"Don't even think about it." A deep voice came from behind him. He turned slightly only to see a lycan in it's werewolf form stalk towards him. It's fur appearing black in the purple light of the tunnel.

Yogi took his hand off of the handle and stared into it's red eyes as it stepped in front of him, standing way taller then his own stature. Gareki half turned his head and looked at the lycan that just so happened to appear at the right moment.

That only proved Gareki's theory that it had been following them ever since he had killed that lycan further back inside the tunnel. His blue irises stared at the werewolf from the corners of his eyes before glaring as he got the feeling of being blocked from all angles where he couldn't escape to. And he had a very strong disapproval of being surrounded. Especially for the ones that proved to be a threat to him.

"You two have caused enough trouble, you're coming with us," it spoke. "If you choose not to then we can make this situation way more difficult."

Gareki felt provoked at that moment and he felt even more agitated by these lycans. Clearly they were trying to get him angry and it sure as hell was working. His eyes stayed on the lycan's red ones as he thought of his course of actions. But it seemed like a waist of time considering he wasn't going to surrender which left one other choice and that was to defend himself. even if these lycans were mad that they had killed some of their people he didn't care because they had attacked them first.

He turned his body towards the werewolf." You can make it difficult. Cause we're not going with you." he quickly reached into his pocket flinging the knife he had stolen at the werewolf. It struck him in the eye causing him to jerk beck with a loud cry.

The other two lycans that were standing behind him lifted their knives for him reading to fight back but Gareki quickly swung his elbow back. Hitting one of them in the nose sending him falling to the ground with a thud before he kneed the other lycan in the stomach also sending that one to the ground. He turned to Yogi and Pastel." Unless you don't want yourselves to die then get a move on, now."

Pastel led the way as they all ran down the tunnel the opposite way the lycan in it's werewolf form had come from. "Well that seemed easy for you to do." Yogi pointed out to Gareki as he ran beside him.

Gareki glanced behind them. "Even if it was they're still not dead. I can hear them running after us now." Yogi looked behind them as well and he could hear the constant thudding of footsteps hitting the ground just like he had said. He turned back around." It sounds like they're getting closer."

"Exactly." his blues eyes eyed the sealing before looking at Yogi." I have an idea but I'm going to need your help."

Yogi nodded." Okay, what is it?"

"Stop for a second." Yogi did as told and they both came to stop. Pastel stopped as well before he turned to them as if they were crazy." Do you two honestly have a death wish? We are being chased by lycans, you do understand that, right?"

"I do, but after what I'm about to do they won't be chasing us for long," Gareki said as he turned and faced the way they had come from. He could hear the lycans getting closer. He held out his hand." Give me your hand, Yogi."

The blonde glanced at him confusedly but then he figured out what they were about to do. He reached his hand out and intertwined their fingers together." We're going to combine our magic again," he stated.

"Correct," he answered before lifting his hand towards the tunnel sealing." Do exactly what I'm doing now." Yogi lifted his hand, holding it up towards the sealing as well. He felt that same pulse of Gareki's magic in the air around him as they both concentrated.

Pastel eyed the tunnel. The werewolves were close. They rounded the corner all in their lycan forms and as soon as they saw Gareki and Yogi they ran faster.

Gareki creased his eyebrows as he felt the overwhelming warmth of Yogi's magic pulse through his hand and up his arm before transporting itself to his outstretched one held up towards the sealing. A red ball of magic grew from his palm and a blue one grew from Yogi's palm.

Gareki quickly glanced at the lycans as they came closer before looking back up at the burning magic in his hand." We only have one shot at this, are you ready?"

"Yes," Yogi said. They both threw the blasts watching them both collide apon impact, slamming themselves against the sealing. A strong vibration broke the sealing of the tunnel causing stalactites along with medium sized boulders to fall onto the ground, blocking the lycan's path from getting any closer to them.

Yogi dropped his hand back down to his side as he watched dust from the rocks float around before slowly falling to the ground revealing a wall of crushed boulders staring back at them. He looked at Gareki." Good planning at the last minute."

Gareki dropped his hand before lifting it up in front of his face turning it slowly from side to side. Fingers spread apart as he examined it with bewilderment." That's such a bizarre feeling." he dropped his hand back down to his side. He turned to look at Yogi before noticing their hands were still holding. He looked down at them before slowly pulling his fingers from his, letting go of his hand entirely causing the magical bond between them to break, and they began to feel their own magic instead of each others.

Gareki took a step back as he felt that same emotion of admiration towards the blonde once again. He didn't know what had caused him to suddenly feel this way at a time like this but he decided to ignore it as he looked any where but at Yogi." We should go."

Yogi agreed as he watched Gareki walk away from him, Pastel leading him the rest of the way through the tunnel. He felt slightly confused as to why Gareki had avoided eye contact with him but he figured it was best not to think about it at a time like this where he should focus on getting out of this place alive.

All three of them finally saw the tunnel ending revealing a cliff that showed the bridge they needed to cross in order to get to the hole to climb. They all stopped at the cliff. Gareki looked down and saw that it was a some what high jump but he could make it down without a problem and Yogi could to, if he did it correctly anyway.

"We only have to cross this bridge and then we can get our so called freedom." Pastel smiled. Yogi walked next to Gareki looking at the some what far way down as well." We're almost there, Gareki. Do you still want to give up on living?"

The Avatar crossed his arms in thought before answering,"No, might as well not since we're so close to getting out of here. But that still doesn't change anything. We're still going to be faced with more dilemmas the further this journey goes."

"Are you saying you're going to end your life once another dilemma like this happens to us?" Yogi creased his eyebrows bothered by this assumption. Gareki turned his head to look at him." No, I'm saying this world never has anything easy to offer. There's always going to be some kind of trouble on our way."

They both stared at each other not being able to read each other's expressions as there wasn't one to show.

Yogi suddenly heard a wooshing sound. He looked up just in time to see an arrow with a blue blast of magic flying strait at them before hitting the cliff wall above them. As soon as it made contact an explosion went off behind them a strong force push them all off the cliff and they fell towards the ground.

Gareki rolled to a stop ending up on his front side laying flat on the ground before he moved his arms and pushed himself up feeling small rocks from the explosion hit him before falling. He looked in front of himself and saw the bridge but once he looked further up there was another cliff with lycans in their human forms pointing arrows with balls of electrical energy forming in front of them. Gareki clenched his jaw at the new dilemma in front of him.

He couldn't run on the bridge without them shooting at him. And if they happened to hit the bridge with that strong explosion then obviously it would fall. A second time in an abyss wasn't going to be lucky like the first where Yogi had saved him. They would all be too focused on when the next explosion would be thrown at them.

"Oh, So they have the upper advantage?" Pastel stood up and eyed the lycans as they surrounded them on the tall cliffs all forming in a circle side by side all around them, pointing arrows strait down targeting to where they were standing.

Gareki clenched the ground bringing one leg up so he was kneeling over it." Let them have the upper advantage but we'll still get out of here."

Yogi slowly got back up to his feet luckily not having anything broken from the fall. He looked up and saw the arrows all pointing at them. But what he wanted to know was what caused that explosion just now? He turned to Gareki asking him this.

"Apparently these lycans have magical powers. But I don't think they have in werewolf form."

Yogi turned back to the lycans seeing a women standing with them. Yogi squinted his eyes curiously at her." Who is that?"

Gareki studied her seeing the dress she was wearing was a silhouette down to the floor as her brown hair flowed down her back, her eyes staring down at them sternly with purple irises. Gareki sensed something about her that obviously told him she was of big importance.". . . That's their queen."

Yogi eyed her. She did look like one. She stood ominous along with the men of her so called kingdom or maybe it was a pack in her point of view. She was pretty but definitely not the pleasant type who wanted a man at her side. She was more dour then anything. The men around her all paused with their arrows as if waiting for a command from her.

She took a step forward crossing her arms." My name is Alusia, I give order here and what you have done is unforgivable and evil. I don't give much appreciation for those who trespass in our territory and then kill our kind. So in return let this be your death day." she lifted her hand and that was a signal for the arrows to be fired.

Yogi's eyes widened before he quickly held his hands out forming a shield around the three of them. The arrows hit against it, exploding with contact. Each explosion being stronger then the last. He clenched his fist trying to hold the shield and keep it from breaking but he didn't know how much more of this he could take.

Gareki sighed, his breath turning into a cold steam he as he placed his hand flat on the ground summoning his magic to his palm. He felt the ground freeze away beneath his fingers as ice covered it. He took a glance at Yogi and it was clear he wasn't going to be holding on much longer with his shield. He turned back towards the ground again before standing up. The ground beneath him a floor of ice. He hadn't tried this spell in a while but now would be a good time.

"Let down the shield."

Yogi glanced at him before turning back to his shield." Are you crazy? They're going to blow you up once you step out of here."

"I can manage. Now let me out." his voice sounded like he wasn't in the mood for argument. Yogi reluctantly did as told letting the shield get smaller so it only fit Pastel and himself.

Gareki looked up and saw the arrows heading strait for him as soon as the shield had gone right through him. He brought up his hands, closing his eyes he focused on the movements of every single arrow heading his way. Time stilled into a slow movement around him as he placed his feet on the ice below him in a ready stance. Bringing his hands closer to his face as he formed hand symbols. The ice beneath him shifted, turning into small sharp darts protruding through the surface.

Time around him went fast again and just as the arrows were heading his way. He snapped his eyes open pushing his arms out and allowed the ice darts to wiz past him in a quick flurry. They connected with almost every arrow. The ice darts itself covered the arrows entirely before dragging them down to the ground as the ice was too heavy for them to fly.

For the arrows that didn't get hit with ice, they headed strait for him but he acted quickly as his glaive formed in his hands. He twirled it in a fast circle allowing a winter wind to blow against the arrows. Blowing them back and against the cliff the lycans were on. The arrows exploded dragging down one part of the cliff and lycans to their deaths as they fell into the abyss down below. Their voices screaming echoed against the cave walls. He stopped spinning his glaive.

Alusia wasn't happy about any of it but she still had a whole group of lycans pointing arrows at them.

" I see that you're strong but can you handle more?"Gareki furrowed his eyebrows figuring that she was challenging him. As if on cue more lycans showed up. They transformed into werewolves standing tall, overbearing and bulky. Three jumped over the abyss over to the cliff he was on without falling inside of it before their paws slammed against the ground creating cracks as they slowly advanced toward him growling deeply.

Gareki was bit taken aback by the powerful jump they had just done just to get over to him but he stood ready. In the corner of his eye he saw Yogi drop his shield before pulling out his sword preparing to help him fight.

Gareki looked up again and saw more arrows being pointed at him before hurling strait for him. He back flipped out of the way before they could penetrate him. Instead they stuck into the ground exploding the places he had flipped from. He dropped to his feet looking up to see Yogi fighting against two of the lycans with Pastel's help.

He looked to his right and saw the lycan heading strait for him. He held up his glaive side ways and the lycan's mouth clamped onto it pushing against him. But Gareki pushed back before the lycan could bite into his face. He pushed with all his strength against the lycan as it snarled. The lycan was way bigger then him so it was only logical that it would have more strength. His boots slid back against the ground as he continued to push. The lycan clamped it's mouth around his glaive snatching it from his grasp before throwing it aside and lunged for Gareki again who fell on his butt trying to get away from it's sharp fangs snapping at his face.

He scooted back against the ground trying to create distance between them but the lycan kept coming for him. His hand settled on a palm sized rock and he picked it up before bashing it into the lycans mouth creating a distraction as he quickly moved to his feet. He spotted a cliff wall and climbed it, thinking of his next course of action as he did. He reached the center of the cliff high enough so the lycan couldn't reach him.

The rock he'd shoved into it's mouth fell to the ground as the lycan finally got it out. It's silver eyes found him before glaring up into his blue-grey slits lunging for him again but couldn't reach. Gareki scoured the ground looking for his glaive he found it and luckily it was within his summoning distance. He reached out his hand and focused on his weapon. On the ground it began twitching ever so slightly before lifting away from the ground and flung over to his outstretched hand. He gripped it before grabbing it with both of his hands jumping away from the wall as he placed the blade end downward. He fell onto the lycan's back below, penetrating it's neck deeply.

This time Gareki controlled his vampire instincts as he fought to stay on the lycan's back as it tried to shove him off by shacking it's body." Gareki look out," Yelled Yogi. An arrow came flying towards him. Gareki didn't have time to stop it. All he could do was wait for it to explode when it hit him. It came closer to his face but suddenly a golden blast hit it making it explode.

The force from the explosion threw his body and the lycan's aside. Gareki fell to the ground sliding on his back before coming to a stop, his weapon dropping onto the ground next to him.

Yogi dropped his hand down to his side as he stared at Gareki's unmoving body wondering if he was okay. He had felt lucky that he had thrown his magic to stop the arrow that could've done a lot worse with contact with his body but now he was wondering if him interfering had helped Gareki at all?

He turned around lifting his sword from the ground as his vines wrapped themselves around the lycan's bodies until they could no longer move. He lifted his hand concentrating as he formed a shield around himself from the arrows still shooting down at them.

"We need to get your Avatar friend out of here before we never get to escape," Pastel urged. Yogi nodded before running over to Gareki. The lycan that was laying near him got up before walking up to him. it teeth bared as it was going to end his life then and there. Yogi gripped onto his sword with both hands as he dragged it against the ground. The blade brightening golden as his magic flowed through it." Get away from him!" he flung his sword forward still holding onto it as the golden light flashed and flew through the air heading strait for the lycan before cutting right into him the force of the blast throwing it off it's feet and away from Gareki.

The glow of his sword dimmed down until it no longer had the golden light coming from it. He placed it into it's sheath before kneeling down to Gareki. He placed his hand behind his back lifting him up slightly." Gareki get up we need to leave!"

There was the sound of arrows exploding against his shield. Yogi turned around to see more lycans were coming from the top cliff. He turned back to Gareki who opened his eyes blinking a few times before things came into focus again. He sat up." What just happened to me?"

"You passed out for a few seconds," Pastel informed." Now hurry and get yourself up. We're going to die if we stay here any longer." The sound of thudding came from the lycans that landed on the cliff they were on before running over to them.

Gareki quickly pushed himself up to his feet, grabbing his glaive before they followed Pastel onto the thin bridge. Running fast without looking down. Yogi tailed behind and looked back as the lycans ran onto the bridge after them. He turned around looking ahead, they still had a distance away before the bridge ended.

Suddenly the sound of wooshing zipped past his ear and he knew they were throwing arrows at them still. He only hoped they wouldn't hit the bridge but as if on cue he heard a loud crashing behind him sounding as if rocks had just fallen from a tall mountain as the sound of it reverberated against the echoing cave. He felt the vibrations of the bridge breaking apart behind him. He looked behind himself and saw that the lycans that were running after them had falling into the abyss and the bridge was breaking away right after each step he made.

"We need to run faster! It's breaking!"

Gareki looked back at him." We'er running as fast as we—Yogi!"

The bridge beneath Yogi's feet broke away completely before stopping and he fell but not before Gareki dropped down to his stomach and gripped his wrist before he was out of reach. Yogi felt his heart beating quickly in his chest at the thought of falling into the darkness, he didn't dare look down.

Gareki stared down at him both of their hands gripping onto each other's wrists." I got you!" he breathed. His other hand placed on what was left of the bridge to keep himself from falling over the edge as well. Arrows whizzed past Gareki's ears.

"Oh no," Yogi said as they tried to shoot at Gareki who almost slipped off the edge but caught himself quickly. He tried pulling him only able to get Yogi's chest above the bridge before he scooted back allowing the blonde to pull himself up the rest of the way. He breathed in half relief glad that he hadn't fell but not glad that they were being shot at." Thank you."

"Don't thank me yet. Thank me once we get our asses out of here." Gareki picked himself up before running where Pastel was waiting for them. Yogi ran after him but right as he left the bridge and nearly rounded the corner of the cliff wall he felt something sharp sink into his back shoulder. He hissed painfully jerking forward before reaching back and yanked the dart out before throwing it to the ground. Feeling only a little bit of it's poison sink into his skin. He continued to run after Gareki and Pastel.