I don't own Seiken Densetsu 3

A/N: I think I'm through this writer's block! ^_^ yey me! And to you who waited so long! And again… REVIEW! OR I'LL LET KEVIN AND EVIL DURAN AT YOU! :D

And another thing. I'm pretty sure my subconscious is playing tricks on me. I played the game with Angela, Kevin and Duran, and then played it with Carlie, Kevin and Duran. Now, Angela's kidnapped. Who comes in her place? X.x

Touches of Evil

"You're too late."

The Death Bringer came out of its resting place at Duran's side and automatically received a reddish glow to it. If it was flame sabered, it'd hurt him much, much more.

"Where are they, Koren?"

The Wizard of the Red Lotus smirked as he raised his arm in mock greeting.

"The master of the house and the mistress have left. I'm afraid they are unreachable at the moment."

"What do you mean by that?"

"what I just said. Or are you too dumb to get it?"

"Really? Oh that's great. So I guess we'll just go on our way and CUT THE CRAP KOREN WHERE ARE THEY!"

The blond smirked.

"My, my, my. What horrid manners, Duran! Hardly what I'd expect from a servant of the Dragon Emperor. Or should I say, 'former servant'?"

"Say what you want, you creep. It won't do you any good."

"Where's Angela?!"

Kevin finally found his tongue, and took a step forward. He made sure his claws were in Koren's range of sight.

"Well, it IS most unfortunate that we couldn't go on helping you, Kevin. Although, that speech problem seems to have improved. Perhaps you'd be best, sticking to two word sentences."

The tug Kevin felt at his pants from Carlie's direction and the pleading look in her eyes were the only things that kept Kevin from leaping at the blond, probably getting the two of them hurt.

"I see he won't cooperate. Kevin, Carlie, what do you say? Shall we make him talk?"

"Gladly."

"Bring it on."

A sick smirk decorated Koren's face as the four got ready for battle.

"Where… Where are you taking me?"

The princess of Altena asked her captor, less than half conscious.

"Hush, my dear. Soon you won't have any concerns at all."

He smiled as the girl closed her eyes and seemed to have drifted into sleep. Around them the environment began taking shape. Snow began falling in delicate pieces, decorating the already Christmas decorated trees. The entrance to the Labyrinth of Ice Walls laid before them, the few monsters in the area fleeing.

"Well, I suppose the Mana Stone of water is no longer here. But you're to blame, are you not, my dear?"

He walked into the cave and placed Angela's still form where the Mana Stone used to be and her body began glowing in an eerie blue light. Undine could do nothing but to hide in the shadows and watch.

"One of Altena, one of Forcena. One of the Beast Kingdom, and now also of Diorre. Are there warriors from Navarre and Rolante as well?"

He mused as he casually inspected the large hall.

"Such a pleasant place. Perhaps I shall relocate my palace here, my dear?"

Stars began rising from the princess's body as power she didn't know of began erupting from her body.

"Ah, a soul is such a beautiful thing at the time it leaves the human body…"

"EXPLODE!"

Duran shielded his face as he was thrown against the wall, the spot where he stood a mere moment ago now a burning blaze.

"HOLY BALL!"

Carlie's aim was apparently true, as Koren fall backwards in pain. Kevin, not one to let go of an opportunity, slashed away, sending some pieces of bloody cloth to the floor.

"Nice. Real nice, did your mama taught you that?"

The remark awarded Koren with another attempted slash by the half blood, only this time Kevin was on the receiving end, Koren having prepared three Fireballs with the werewolf's name on them.

"HEAL LIGHT!"

The sacred light healed the burn marks almost the instant they were formed, and soon Kevin was back on his feet.

"You have more lives than a cat, boy!"

"Can we say the same for you?!"

Spinning around, Koren tried to block Duran's sword; And failed.

"Good to see… ung…  That you're as loyal… ouch… As the Emperor thought you to be!"

Now cornered by the three warriors, Koren looked around him at the now destroyed throne room.

"Oo, the Emperor isn't going to like this, Koren!"

Duran said, taunting the young wizard. To his surprise and growing feeling of doom, the blond smirked.

"Oh, he will, if he'll find your corpses in the ruins!"

There was a soft buzz as Koren began chanting, which increased in volume as the walls of the room began to shake.

"Did you really expect the top servant of the great Dragon Emperor to fall before weaklings such as yourselves?!"

"Carlie doesn't like this…"

The little girl held onto Kevin's pants, a worried and scared expression on her face.

"Me no either."

Duran aimed his sword at the wizard's throat.

"Make it stop."

Koren chanted a few seconds more, then looked up with his largest smirk yet. The word he said was nothing more than a whisper.

"Ancient."

Duran's eyes widened as he redrew his sword.

"You bastard…"

His two companions lost some of their courage and looked at the brunette with question and confusion.

"Run. Now, come on, run!"

But even before Duran's own feet followed the simple orders, the ceiling began shaking harder and harder with each passing second.

"Run where, traitor?!"

Another explosion accord right in front of the door, blocking the only way out of the doomed chamber.

"Great going, smartie! You stuck with us here too, ya know!"

Carlie said, trying to show the others in the room she wasn't scared. Her yelp and clinging again to Kevin's trousers killed that hope.

"What happening, Duran?!"

Kevin asked the painfully simple and horrible question.

"In several more seconds this room's gonna collapse…"

The last part of his sentence was lost to them as a medium sized meteor smashed through the ceiling, landing next to the throne.

"Too. Late."

Koren began laughing like a madman as more and more meteors began falling down, larger and larger in size.

"Move, get out of the way!"

Much easier said than done. Koren ran to a corner of the room where the meteors couldn't reach, and watched the three heroes with twisted amuzemant. The first few meteors were avoidable, yet now there were meteors where a moment ago the three humans could run to.

"CARLIE DON'T LIKE THIS!"

In her confusion and fear, Carlie sent Holy Balls at multiply directions, not really seeing what she was hitting. Some of them hit right, sending meteors away from the party, and some shattered larger meteors, making them easier to avoid. But others merely diverted the meteors at her friends, and if it was possible, making the meteors angry.

Still a bit dazed and somewhat exhausted after the spell, Carlie could just stare up at the huge chunk of rock that came down at her in top speeds.

"Carlie, get out of there!"

Duran shouted as he himself jumped right from under another meteor. He managed to see Kevin run towards Carlie, but looking at his friends' direction was a fatal mistake as he just barely jumped from the way or another meteor. But he didn't land right and fell down, his head hitting the rock. He fell between the huge chunks, unconscious.

"WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Carlie whined from her spot in Kevin's arms as the young werewolf used all his beastial instincts to guide him and his young charge through the solid rain.

"Gah, Carlie! Shush!"

"ICE BLAST!"

The frozen water pieces threw the two straight at the path of a fallen meteor, burying them both.

Just as the final meteor landed, Koren's laughter was all the sound that rang through the destroyed throne room. Other than a high screeched cry from above. From the destroyed ceiling.

"Flammie?"

A/N: GOMEN FOR THE LONG WAIT! ;;;_;;; I just got my hands on Chrono Cross, and it kinda took a bit of the flame SD3 had. Now I'm replaying Chrono Trigger for a fic I started writing… but fear not! I shall finish this fic! Hopefully in two chapters or so… so stay tuned! Please?