Lita's ankle healed within two days. She was ready to kill Kyda by herself, and no one doubted it.

"I'm concerned though." Rowen said, out of the blue.

"Why?" Kaylynn asked.

"We don't even know where the world of Darkness and Pain is. How are we going to find it?"

"We won't need to. Well...not you guys at least." Lita answered in a dull and emotionless voice.

"Why not?" Sekhmet asked.

Lita said nothing. She walked out the door, and was gone.

"That isn't unusual for her to do that. Especially because she is used to being alone." Kaylynn explained.

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Sage found himself in what must be the darkest spot on Earth. The lanterns were red with a light that gave no light and the torches too.

"......where? Where am I?" He said to the darkness surrounding him. A cruel laughter shook the damp air.

"Why do you wonder? You volunteered to come instead of Windstorm. Your nobility disgusts me Halo. But it will be the undoing of the Storms." Kyda said.

"The Storms?"

"Halo, you are so dense. Windstorm and Darkstorm. Kaylynn and Lita. Simple?"

No answer.

"Anyway, you will find no way to shine brightly down here Halo. To you, darkness leads to pain and vice-versa. Nothing escapes the dark."

Sage didn't reply. He knew it was true. If there was no light, there was no Sage of Halo.

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"Lita Himemya! Wait!" Rowen shouted, running to catch up to her. She turned.

"What do you want Strata?" She answered in a cold voice, her eyes like ice daggers.

"You can't fight alone! Please, let us help." Rowen replied, grabbing her hand.

SLAP!

Lita smacked Rowen across the face.

"Fool. I'm going to the Dark world. It's the most that I can do." She said, colder than before.

"But you don't have to go alone."

Lita froze. The way he said it made her stop.

She suddenly grabbed his throat, lifting him above the ground.
"Strata, you deserve to burn in the very darkness that I live in. I don't need anyone else. Kaylynn ands I make a better team than you fools." She dropped him and whispered in his ear.

"You, Anubis, Miki and Kaylynn. Meet me here at midnight, ready to leave." She left Rowen as he ran off.

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Kyda studied the ancient marks on the wall. They weren't exactly marks; they were bloodstains. He traced his finger along them. They were the blood marks of Windstorm. Kyda lost his friends to the Storm armors, and his friends being the demons, beasts, and shadows of this world. He wanted to see them wriggling in pain; drowning in their own blood. He didn't care if he died with them, as long as at least one of them dies.

"You can't defeat them as they are." A small demon cat (Pop; think Buffy sized) said. This cat had blades sticking out of it's shoulders and along it's back; it's back was bloodvery