1 I was lost and now I'm found Part Two

The energy from Kuragari kept flowing faster and faster. He was pissed at the deaths of two of his loyal servants, Otto and A1. Psylocke, Bishop, Deck and Beast are the only four now left to take down Kuragari.

"You infidels come into my kingdom hoping to topple me down from throne! I say death unto you and your entire world!" Kuragari yelled in fury as different foes from the X-Men's memories began to take form out of thin air.

"Damn! I knew I should have done this alone! Kuragari can't use his powers to bring my memories to life."

"Don't worry about it Deck. We've beat these guys once I think we can do it again."

"I pray you are right Bishop. I pray you are right."

The three X-Men and their ally where up against Griffin*, Sabertooth, Spiral, Mimic and Cyclops. For the most part the three mutants were expecting to fight former enemies, but to see Cyclops caught them off- guard, but only for the slightest moment.

(* An old enemy of the Beast)

"Deck I suggest you take on Griffin. Bishop I believe you can most of what Mimic will throw at you. Psylocke your powers should be quite effective in taking out Spiral and Sabertooth quickly. Then you can help me handle Cyclops," Beast commanded. No one disputed his decisions because they were sound ones.

Deck charged at the large brute Griffin kicking the monster in the groin and sending him into a bunch of chairs that were carved by the teeth of the Crimson Dragons. Griffin shook off Deck's blow and responded in kind with one of his own. Deck caught himself in mid-air and landed on the ground with a hard thud. Of course he could have went into a nearby pillar and cracked his head open. Deck got up slowly only to find Griffin standing over him. Every colossal punch Griffin delivered crippled Deck more and more until his body began to glow a bright yellow. Griffin delivered one last punch before he saw this change happen and because of his carelessness he turned into an energy statue. The yellow energy suddenly left Deck's body and he could barely get up because doing that stunt exhausted him to the point of near death. He would be back in action shortly though thanks to the fact he was wearing a magic amulet that healed him faster than normal.

Psylocke watched and laughed as Spiral and Sabertooth stupidly charged at her thinking they had the easy advantage. She created hundreds of shadow spikes using her Crimson Dawn power and sent them flying at Sabertooth. She used her telepathy to shut down the mind of Spiral just as easily as Xavier had done to Wolverine. An agonized cry was all that was left of Spiral. She then went to help Beast against Cyclops. He wasn't faring too well because he couldn't land a punch on Cyclops. Psylocke got the drop on Cyclops though and delivered a kick to the head that knocked him out cold.

Bishop was having an extremely difficult time with Mimic. The guy wasn't using any energy attacks so Bishop didn't have himself an unwilling supply and Mimic was constantly teleporting with Nightcrawler's power making it hard to pinpoint a shot. Psylocke and Beast came to assist Bishop, but they were only having the same problems he was. Psylocke then used her telepathy to feel out Mimic, but he was using Jean and Xavier's telepathy to block her out.

Just then Deck got up off the ground recovered from his injuries to see that his friends were stuck between a rock and a hard place. He then pulled out a capsule he was saving for only the utmost of occasions. He threw the capsule at Mimic and he foolishly turned around and caught it in his steel hand. Mimic turned into blue dust and it all flew into Deck seemingly merging with him.

"A piece of my brother's power is mine and so it shall increase my powers. Now let's handle my Kuragari!"

"I've never heard better words luv."

"Don't think you are going to have that easy of a time against me X- Men. My power is great as you shall soon see," Kuragari laughed as all of the X-Men suddenly found themselves lifted up off the ground and being hurled into a telekinetic wall of energy. All four heroes hit with a sickening (but pleasing to Kuragari) thud. Psylocke while still on the floor began hurtling shadow spikes at Kuragari. Every one of them hit Kuragari, but he only grew more massive from them.

"Keep feeding me Psylocke and it will be the end of you!" Kuragari cackled. Psylocke grinded her teeth angry with herself, but refusing to let Kuragari see it. While this was going on Beast was getting up off of his feet. He pulled out a miniature device that was in one of the compartments on his blue belt which blended in perfectly with his fur. Beast with the device in hand leaped into the air and threw the bomb at Kuragari causing an explosion of light. Kuragari stumbled back unable to bear the light blast. Psylocke was feeding him. Beast was starving him. Kuragari was looked now like a little weakling.

"Beast you infidel!" Kuragari yelled. Beast felt sick suddenly and then he felt pain. His fingertips were turning into snakes. The eagle wings coming out of his back was extremely painful. Beast could feel his mouth begin to squish and squash into the form of a fly's. In both pain and terror Beast yelled out.

"What the hell are you doing to him?" Psylocke screamed as she charged at Kuragari kicking him in the chin. Kuragari flew into a table splitting it in half. Psylocke though was relentless and punched Kuragari in the gut making him let out a wheezing sound. She then lifted him up into the air and slammed him into the ground.

While all of this was happening Sage awoke from her unconsciousness. She looked around to see Neal, Ororo and Rogue all knocked out cold. She then saw her remaining comrades fighting against Kuragari.

"We have a 34% percent chance to beat both Kuragari and save Havok while we have a 75% chance to save Havok and retreat. I guess there shouldn't be too much debate on what I do," Tessa said as she began to use her telepathy to feel out for the slightest sign of Havok. She knew it wouldn't be too hard since he would be one of the few human minds she would pick up on. Of course for all she knew the guy might not even be human anymore. She got up ever so slightly so she wouldn't catch the attention of Kuragari. When she got past him she took off down a hall and used her ability to feel out mutants along with her telepathy. She ran down a few large corridors edging closer and closer to Havok, but it was neither of her powers that clued her in where Havok was for sure. No, it was the agonized screams of something that could only be a man that told Tessa she was in the right place.

Up two flights of spiraling stairs Tessa went until she came to the torture room of the X-Man Havok. There were four ghostly figures that were poking Havok repeatedly with darts. Upon seeing Tessa they promptly ran away. The ghosts didn't get very far because the one thing that could destroy them was fear itself. Kuragari had especially created that guard just in case the ghosts ever decided to rebel. Kuragari created weaknesses in all his creatures, because he feared rebellion.

"Help me," Havok muttered under his breath. Tessa ran to him and unchained him from the wall. Putting him over her shoulder she made her way back to the X-men.

Meanwhile 20 Deathbirds surrounded Psylocke and her companions. Bishop was blasting them left and right. Beast was doing his best to hold them back with a device of his that created sonic waves that could be specified to hurt a specific person or race. Deck was using his shadow blasts to reduce the numbers of the violent Shiar women. Just then Tessa came down the stairs Havok in hand. Deck seeing this knew what he had to do next. The X-Men didn't have any chance here against his brother right now. Maybe some day they would, but not right now. With all of his remaining power Deck teleported the X-Men back to their Australian base. It would be the last time he would ever see them.

2 Australia

The X-men were disoriented when they found themselves back at their base. "Okay someone care to explain how the hell we got here?"

"Well Psylocke it's logical to assume Deck had some role in it since he's the only one who isn't here," Tessa said.

"Bloody Christ! I just realized that! He can't fight Kuragari alone!"

"I think you underestimate our friend Betsy"

"No Beast I'm not! Kuragari wasn't even the full scope of his power when he was beating the crap out of us. Deck doesn't have a chance," Psylocke said sadly beginning to break down. Beast went to comfort her filling in the role of the unconscious Savitar.

3 Epilogue

Kuragari was covered in his brother's blood as he sat on his throne. He laughed a wicked, horrid laugh to himself. The menace known as the X-Men thought they had escaped especially the winch Psylocke, but unknown to her Kuragari did have some time to read the Book of Truth he did have. One particular verse stood out to him. It was in native Crimson Dawn so the X- Men would never be able to decipher it.

The Ninja Woman of two connected to the Crimson Dawn

Shall return to her master Kuragari after the rescue of Havok

And when the bomb is placed in his chest.

Psylocke would return to Kuragari soon enough when the time is right and she would never again return to her friends amongst the X-Men.