Short chapter, I know. But full of action! Start thinking about the paragraphs at the top of the chapters, and of the actions of Gemini and Omega, and the plot will become somewhat clearer. Please review! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fourth emerges. He is mine. He will resist, then he will fall. With his help the Second and the Third shall fall. For I am the First. And I am the Last. The Fourth emerges. He must not go to the First. If he resists, he will stand. With his help the First and the Sixth shall fall. For I am the Second. And I am the Last. Link leapt aside as a black bullet slammed Omega to the ground. Two figures became intertwined in a fight that Link couldn't hope to follow. Finally, a foot shot out from the paler man and the dark-skinned man went sprawling to the ground. He just jumped out of the way as a global made a smoking crater of his position. Link gasped. "Gemini..." he murmured. Omega produced a blade seemingly out of nowhere. It's blade was pitch black, and it's similarly black hilt held one blood red ruby. Gemini merely reached in back of him and drew an ice blue scimitar, it's silver hilt adorned with three topazes. Link regained his senses and tore his blade from his sheath and charged head-long at Omega. The hunter watched the battle tentatively. The combatants were yelling something, but the hunter couldn't realize what. His hawk swooped in for a closer look on command, but came too close. A errant thrust from the green-clad one impaled the hawk. The hunter's eyes widened in shock. That hawk was his only friend, and this...this man had killed it without a second thought! The hunter screamed in primal rage and pulled a roughly-made iron greatsword from his belt, and leapt into the fray, swinging wildly. Omega watched with grim amusement as the man attacked Link. It was going according to plan. "He killed your friend!" he yelled, "Kill him! Kill them both!" "He won't join you!" Gemini warned. "We'll see about that, Storm Lord. KILL THEM!" he screamed. The hunter was doing no such thing, however. Link easily kept in step with his wild thrusts and swings. He brought his blade up high, and then swung it down. The hunter easily parried, but then caught a fist in the face and a foot in the stomach. He doubled over, and Link smacked him across the face with the flat of his blade, expecting that to drop him. The hunter had taken hits worse than that, and he still managed to stand, and drove forward. Link leapt back and resumed the battle. The hunter, in his rage, managed three words, the first he had said in four years. "You..kill...BIRD!" the rest was an unintelligible scream. Omega eyed Gemini. "The Fourth is mine. So is the Sixth." he laughed, ducking another deadly swipe. "The Fourth is the undecided one, Omega. I will win him. With him, the Third, and the Fifth, the darkness shall fall!" he warned, leaping over a high blow. Link's back was pressed against a tree, and he could barely see the greatsword's repeated blows. The battle had turned against the hero when the hunter had managed to trip Link up with a well-placed sweep-kick. Now Link frantically parried, looking for some hole in the hunter's defenses. He finally found one as the hunter swung his blade up for a massive swipe. Link drove the hilt of his blade into the hunter's stomach, knocking the wind from him. His shield quickly flew to his head and the massive greatsword clanged harmlessly on it. Link followed up by smacking the flat of his sword against the side of the hunter's head. The hunter fell to the ground, and Link pointed his sword at his throat. Gemini's scimitar collided with Omega's longsword as Omega continued his relentless stream of attacks. Gemini flicked his wrist, then slammed the flat of his scimitar into the longsword, which went flying and landed twenty feet away. Omega responded by firing a rod of blue energy at Link. Link was lifted twelve feet off the ground and hurled twenty yards into the forest. A million things raced through his head, the foremost being unbearable pain. Blue sparks shot from his body as he groggily crawled to his feet, and barely ducked in time to get out of the path of the greatsword as the hunter cleaved through the tree behind Link. Omega began to laugh. It was a cold, maniacal laugh that cut to Link's soul. The hunter was also affected by this laugh. His primal instincts thought this laugh threatening, but no more. Gemini was long accustomed to this laugh. But Link...the laugh was evil. The laugh was saturated with hatred, with insanity, with a sheer coldness that defied the imagination. Link fell to his knees, filled with loathing and self-doubt. Omega kept laughing, his head held high, his blue hair hanging wildly about his face. Gemini slowly looked to Link, to the hunter, than to Omega. He realized what he must do. "By the storms that govern the universe, grant me this request...Void of Life, hear my call! Void of Life! Emptaies des prophalxyis!" he screamed. The laugh abruptly stopped. A chill shot down the spines of all in the clearing. Including one who had been watching the battle with terrified awe. A muffled yell reminded everyone of Prince Sosaria. The laugh had cut to the very marrow of his bones, and the chill that followed had almost destroyed him. He looked pleadingly to Link, Gemini, the hunter, and finally Omega. Omega let out a chuckle. "You have served your purpose, vessel, now be gone from this mortal coil!" he yelled. Omega raised his left hand, and the Prince's eyes glazed over. His tongue hung limply from his mouth, and his head hung low. Then, all of a sudden, his limps and head burst in a bloody explosion of gore. Blood splattered Link and the hunter. Omega began to laugh-a laugh colder than the first, if such a thing was possible. In a swirl of black mist, he was gone. Gemini looked sorrowfully at Link, and in a gray burst of light, he too, was gone. The hunter's ears twitched, sensing movement, and he shot away from into the trees. Link was left alone in the clearing, his sword and shield laying on the ground, with the slain prince in front of him. Two seconds later, three guards burst into the clearing, and took in the scene in the blink of an eye. "Halt!" they yelled, merely for effect. Link hadn't moved. "By order of King Farkor the First, you are under arrest for the murder of Prince Sosaria of Sosaria, for terrorism, and for high treason!" Link gasped. "No..." he mumbled, "I did not kill the Prince..." "LIES!" cried one of the soldiers, "His blood stains your blade!" Link started to explain that it was the blood of a hawk, but they had already charged forth. Run Link, run! They cannot reach you if you run! came a voice. Link obeyed, ran as fast and has hard as he could. He moved at supernatural speeds, hurtling over roots and ducking under branches. He ran for three hours flat, when he crashed to the ground. In front of him stood a man with black chain mail and dark skin. In front of him stood Gemini. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
