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Chapter Twenty One
Ivan looked up to see Alex standing over him. He didn't feel like he was being squeezed by the vines anymore, and somehow was still alive. "What happened?" he asked. Alex replied, "I guess your armor was cursed. Didn't you find it a bit odd when it fit you perfectly? Most likely, Felix put it there with the hope that you would buy it."
Twelve year old Ivan stood at the entrance to Suhulla desert, watching Alex fighting a lizard. They still hadn't found Garet, Picard, or Isaac, nor had they had any more encounters with Felix. Ivan thought back on how week they had been three years ago when they left on their journey as he watched Alex effortlessly fighting off the lizard. Ivan sighed. 'The poor, stupid lizards,' he thought. They were attacking Suhulla commonly, so the three adepts trained their abilites while defending the town.
Justin entangled Picard with vines, and threw him into the air. The older Mercury adept landed a few feet away, and teleported before Justin could hit him. He caused a huge wave to come from no where and slam into Justin. The boy staggered, but didn't fall down. He adjusted the postion of his feet and aimed his hand at the ground. He shouted, "Boulder!" and a big boulder came out of the ground and rolled toward Picard. Picard hopped to the side, and the boulder disappeared. He threw ice at Justin, but a transparent sword quickly sliced it into tiny peices. Justin followed by throwing the sword towards Picard, which exploded a few feet away. Vines erupted from it and tied Picard to a tree. Justin smiled, and said, "Give up?" Picard didn't answer, but Justin thought he had had enough, so he let him down.
"One hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty one, one hundred and fifty two, one hundred and fifty three," counted Saturos, as Robin did pushups. He was wearing armor, but it was fairly light. "...One hundred and fifty seven?" asked Saturos, "Is that all you can do? We're going to have to come back to this after everything else." Robin groaned. He walked over to the weights and picked up the four hundred pound one. This one had been giving him trouble for several days, but he was convinced that he could do it now. He concentrated his psynergy and the weight flew into the sandbag, making a hole to the other side. Saturos congratulated Robin, as he lifted the four hundred and fifty pound weight. Again, he threw it and made another hole threw a sandbag. He did the same with the five hundred pound weight. "Good job," said Saturos. Robin sighed as he tackled the eighty ice gargoyles and fifteen wild griffons with only a sword. The griffons were more of a challenge, so he took them first. Within a few minutes, thirteen griffons and three gargoyles lay dead. Robin was wearing out, but he couldn't give up yet. He lunged at another griffon, slicing it's head off. 'Only one more griffon to go,' he thought, 'I can do this.' A gargoyle ventured to near and met it's death prematurely. Robin caught sight of the griffon at the other side of the room, seemingly taunting him. He ran through the group of gargoyles, struggling to dodge all their attacks. Soon, the griffon was within range, and Robin took his oppurtunity. He grinned to himself as the lifeless body of the griffon fell to the floor, and then turned to the gargoyles. Saturos restored his ability to use psynergy. Robin shouted, "Grand Gaia!" and the power of earth took over the job.
"Saturos," said Robin, "I don't know what happened. I've never been able to lift that weight before, and suddenly I can lift it and the others without any trouble." Saturos nodded. "Perhaps that power has been there before, you just never knew about it." Robin shrugged, and headed to his cot.
This was it. Robin had passed all of his training except one thing. He had to complete his pushups. That meant getting two hundred and fifty while wearing armor. "One hundred and eighty seven, one hundred and eighty eight..." Robin was sick of hearing Saturos count. He was sick of doing pushups. However, he was happy that he was that much stronger than he had been only a year ago. He concentrated all of his remaining psynergy to boost his strength, and continued. "Two hundred and twenty, two hundred and twenty one, two hundred and twenty two..." Robin thought of what he would have to do the next day if he failed. This motivated him greatly. He pushed harder. "Two hundred and fourty three, two hundred and fourty four..." Only six left... he couldn't fail. This was the closest he had ever made it, and he was not going to fail. "Two hundred and fifty! Congratulations, Robin, you passed your training."
Ivan looked at his new clothes. Purple, his favorite color. The top was green, and it matched his new cape. He pushed a bit of hair out of his face. A long strand of blonde, mudcaked hair. His hair fell down past his shoulders, as he hadn't cut it in quite a while. He pulled out his dagger, and cut off half of it. 'I doubt if it's even, but that's better than how long it was getting,' he thought, sheathing his dagger.
"Suhulla!" said Picard, suddenly. "Huh?" asked Garet. "He's in Suhulla. I don't know how I know, but I just do. Garet shrugged, but Picard teleported anyway. They walked to the inn, and Picard asked, "Do you have anyone here named Alex?" The innkeeper asked, "Why do you want to know?" Picard replied, "Becuase he's my brother." The man nodded. "Looks a lot like you too. Long blue hair." Picard thanked him, and they went out to look for him.
Robin approached the guards and said, "Move aside, I'm coming through." The guards standing outside of the building said, "Why should we? You don't know what's in there any more than we do." Robin snorted. "And what if I do?" he asked. One guard shook his head. "I'm sorry, son, but I really can't let you in." At this, Robin drew a dagger and stuck it into him. The man gasped, but didn't cry out. Before he fell, Robin pushed him against the wall for support. Robin turned to another guard, and said, "Don't mess with me. I could take you all with ease." With these words, Robin opened the door and walked into the building. He found himself in a darkly lit hall, with statues of dragons on the walls. Nobody was within sight, but the place made him feel uncomfortable. Suddenly, one of the statues began to glow, and a real dragon appeared in it's place. Robin drew his sword and rushed at the dragon. The huge beast flew slightly into the air, and began breathing fire down. Robin stabbed his sword into the dragon's breast, but it remained unharmed. 'This is a Venus clan, so maybe I should try using Venus moves,' he thought. He took a step back from the dragon, who was still trying to breathe fire on him, and let loose a wave of ragnaroks. One after another, the golden swords hit the dragon, causing him seemingly little pain. Robin muttered. This wasn't going to be as easy as he had thought. Suddenly, and idea came to him. He ran at the dragon and grabbed for his scales. With all his strength he tried to pry one off. He concentrated his move psynergy, and then followed with force. Finally, the scale fell off, and the dragon moaned. Before he could hit the dragon, however, it turned around and slammed him with it's tail. Robin screamed as he flew backwards and landed hard on the floor. He cast potent cure, and got back up. Charging at the dragon again, Robin flew off the ground and dug his sword deep into it's unprotected chest. The dragon moaned again, and then disappeared in a shower of sparks. In it's place stood Felix. Felix grinned evily, and said, "Well, well, if it isn't Robin." Robin nodded, and said, "What do you want, Felix?" The older adept smiled, and replied, "I wanted to welcome you to the Venus clan. There's nothing wrong with that, now, is there?" Robin shrugged. "Welcome me to the Venus clan, huh? Was killing that puny little dragon all I had to do?" Felix frowned. "Puny, was it? Perhaps I should have tried harder. Oh well, no worry, you'll get to fight much stronger enemies soon. Follow me." Felix rushed down the hall with Robin close behind. Suddenly, Felix stopped. He put his hand on the wall, and said, "Master, I have brought another adept." The wall immediately disappeared, and Felix walked down the hallway. Robin followed cautiously, making sure it was no trap. Finally, they made it to the end of the winding hallway, and a door stood in front of them. Felix opened the door, revealing a large room. The two adepts entered the room, and three men appeared from nowhere. The one in the middle stepped forward. He said to Felix, "Is he strong?" Felix bowed, and replied, "Indeed, he is strong, master." The other man looked unconvinced. Felix spoke up, "Master, he called our dragon puny. I was the last to do that, five years ago." The other man said, "Kakarot, test him." Felix shouted, "Master Raditz, I told you, he is strong! Perhaps stronger than I was when I came." Raditz stepped forward and Felix flew into the wall, several feet away. Raditz walked over to Felix, and revived him. "Never," he said, "is it permitted for you to question me. Nor is it permitted for you to call me Raditz. That right is only for myself and elites. You are not an elite, and you know that. You are a gallant, and you will remember that." Kakarot took Robin and entered a room. He pointed at a rock and said, "Lift that." Robin gasped. The rock was easily twice as big as anything he had lifted before. However, he walked to it and a light shown around him. The rock rose into the air a few feet, and then Robin dropped it. Kakarot nodded, and snapped his fingers three times. Three dragons appeared and attacked Robin. Kakarot grinned, and said, "You know what to do." Robin nodded, and stabbed his sword directly between the eyes of the first one. The second one began ripping apart his arm, but soon met a similar fate. The third one stayed back at first, and suddenly jumped at Robin. The boy dodged, and hurled his sword with perfect accuracy directly through the dragons stomach. Kakarot smiled, and said, "Well, well, wasn't that easy. Now for the hard part. You wait right here." Kakarot left, and in a second returned with the third of the three men. Kakarot grinned. "This is Garcia. He will be your first challenging opponent." Garcia grinned and said, "I will hold off slightly, but don't expect an easy victory." Kakarot smiled, and disappeared in a flash of gold light. The two adepts drew their swords and waited for the other to attack.
"Look, its Picard!" said Ivan, "And Garet!" The friends rushed over. Justin asked, "Who are they?" Ivan replied, "I was just wondering, who are you." Justin said, "I met with Garet a few months ago, and then Picard found us, and we've been traveling together ever since. Off to save the world from some infinite power or something huh?" Ivan laughed. "Sort of," he replied, "I'm trying to stop my parent's murderer. Isaac and I-" at this Ivan broke off, but continued, "Where is Isaac? Did you find him?" Picard and Garet shook their heads sadly, and Ivan continued, "Anyway, my brother Isaac and I left to try to stop Felix about four years ago. Felix killed our parents and stole the elemental stars. He's trying to take over the world or something, and kill all of the adepts who live. We met with Garet after a day or two, and he saved our lives," at this Garet grinned, and Ivan continued, "by killing some men who were trying to kill us. We later met Alex," Ivan gestured to Alex, "whose city was being destroyed by Felix and his sister, Jenna. After failing to stop them, Alex decided to get the help of his brother, who, as you might have guessed, is Picard."
Robin raised his sword to block the swing of Garcia. His opponent was amazingly strong, and it took all of Robin's strength to stop him. "Grand Gaia!" he yelled. Rocks erupted from the floor, leaving it a slightly blackened color, and flew around in a flash of light hitting the walls and Garcia. The earth adept called up a shield to defend himself, but small bits of rocks hit him anyway. He grinned, and said, "Not bad, but I have better. Arrow rain!" Arrows fell down from the ceiling and exploded in a golden light. Robin tried to block with his sword, but it was too much for him. He created a barrier of rocks around him, and healed his wounds. Garcia laughed. "I didn't expect you to last this long, but this is the end!" he said. He began to glow, and slowly disappeared. Suddenly, Robin felt a dagger dig into him, and then he remembered nothing.
When he awoke, Robin found Garcia, Kakarot, Raditz, and Felix standing over him. Raditz was talking to Garcia, asking how well he had fought. Garcia complemented on his skill, and said that they should train him. Raditz finally agreed, and Robin sighed in relief. Kakarot said to Robin, "Come on, let's begin your training immediately." Robin stood up and followed. Kakarot said, "Your first technique to learn will be cloaking. If you master this, you will have done something Felix could never do. I don't know if you know, but he has a cloak ball, which allows him to cloak whoever he wants. He got this because he could never figure out how to cloak naturally. Kakarot demonstrated several times, and then let Robin try. At first, he accidently sent a ragnarok into the wall, but he soon figured it out. Kakarot nodded in approval and cloaked. He snapped his fingers and a huge dragon appeared. Kakarot said, "Cloak, and fight him. He is not the same type of dragon as you fought earlier, but rather a much stronger one." Robin disappeared and within a few minutes, the dragon lay dead. Next to it, a grinning Robin appeared. Kakarot nodded, and then looked at his sword. It looked extremely old. He frowned, and said, "We'll have to get you a better sword. That one is much too old." Kakarot snapped his fingers again and they appeared next to a rack of swords. He pulled out one of the smaller ones, which was very light silver with a clear handle. "Mithril," said Kakarot, "Very sturdy. With a diamond handle. This one is worth an awful lot." He handed the sword to Robin, who looked shocked. "I can keep it?" he asked. Kakarot nodded, and smiled. "Take your new sword, and hit your old one with it." Robin obeyed, and the old sword exploded. Kakarot then said, "Now, inspect your new sword for scratches." Robin lifted the sword, and looked carefully for any signs of use. There were none. Kakarot said, "That is an old sword, several hundreds years old, I believe. Now, what sort of armor do you have?" Robin said that he had none, and Kakarot led him to another room. He picked out a dark blue tunic and said, "This is made of dragon scales. The same type as you just fought." He handed it to Robin, who gasped at it's light weight. Kakarot laughed. "For someone who lifted one thousand two hundred and fifty thre pounds earlier, that shouldn't feel like much," he said. Robin thanked Kakarot, and put on his new armor. "Now," said Kakarot, "Let's see what you can do. He snapped his fingers ten times and suddenly disappeared. Robin found himself alone, with hundreds of huge trolls coming at him from all sides.
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Yay, everyone is back together now, except Isaac!
Chapter Twenty One
Ivan looked up to see Alex standing over him. He didn't feel like he was being squeezed by the vines anymore, and somehow was still alive. "What happened?" he asked. Alex replied, "I guess your armor was cursed. Didn't you find it a bit odd when it fit you perfectly? Most likely, Felix put it there with the hope that you would buy it."
Twelve year old Ivan stood at the entrance to Suhulla desert, watching Alex fighting a lizard. They still hadn't found Garet, Picard, or Isaac, nor had they had any more encounters with Felix. Ivan thought back on how week they had been three years ago when they left on their journey as he watched Alex effortlessly fighting off the lizard. Ivan sighed. 'The poor, stupid lizards,' he thought. They were attacking Suhulla commonly, so the three adepts trained their abilites while defending the town.
Justin entangled Picard with vines, and threw him into the air. The older Mercury adept landed a few feet away, and teleported before Justin could hit him. He caused a huge wave to come from no where and slam into Justin. The boy staggered, but didn't fall down. He adjusted the postion of his feet and aimed his hand at the ground. He shouted, "Boulder!" and a big boulder came out of the ground and rolled toward Picard. Picard hopped to the side, and the boulder disappeared. He threw ice at Justin, but a transparent sword quickly sliced it into tiny peices. Justin followed by throwing the sword towards Picard, which exploded a few feet away. Vines erupted from it and tied Picard to a tree. Justin smiled, and said, "Give up?" Picard didn't answer, but Justin thought he had had enough, so he let him down.
"One hundred and fifty, one hundred and fifty one, one hundred and fifty two, one hundred and fifty three," counted Saturos, as Robin did pushups. He was wearing armor, but it was fairly light. "...One hundred and fifty seven?" asked Saturos, "Is that all you can do? We're going to have to come back to this after everything else." Robin groaned. He walked over to the weights and picked up the four hundred pound one. This one had been giving him trouble for several days, but he was convinced that he could do it now. He concentrated his psynergy and the weight flew into the sandbag, making a hole to the other side. Saturos congratulated Robin, as he lifted the four hundred and fifty pound weight. Again, he threw it and made another hole threw a sandbag. He did the same with the five hundred pound weight. "Good job," said Saturos. Robin sighed as he tackled the eighty ice gargoyles and fifteen wild griffons with only a sword. The griffons were more of a challenge, so he took them first. Within a few minutes, thirteen griffons and three gargoyles lay dead. Robin was wearing out, but he couldn't give up yet. He lunged at another griffon, slicing it's head off. 'Only one more griffon to go,' he thought, 'I can do this.' A gargoyle ventured to near and met it's death prematurely. Robin caught sight of the griffon at the other side of the room, seemingly taunting him. He ran through the group of gargoyles, struggling to dodge all their attacks. Soon, the griffon was within range, and Robin took his oppurtunity. He grinned to himself as the lifeless body of the griffon fell to the floor, and then turned to the gargoyles. Saturos restored his ability to use psynergy. Robin shouted, "Grand Gaia!" and the power of earth took over the job.
"Saturos," said Robin, "I don't know what happened. I've never been able to lift that weight before, and suddenly I can lift it and the others without any trouble." Saturos nodded. "Perhaps that power has been there before, you just never knew about it." Robin shrugged, and headed to his cot.
This was it. Robin had passed all of his training except one thing. He had to complete his pushups. That meant getting two hundred and fifty while wearing armor. "One hundred and eighty seven, one hundred and eighty eight..." Robin was sick of hearing Saturos count. He was sick of doing pushups. However, he was happy that he was that much stronger than he had been only a year ago. He concentrated all of his remaining psynergy to boost his strength, and continued. "Two hundred and twenty, two hundred and twenty one, two hundred and twenty two..." Robin thought of what he would have to do the next day if he failed. This motivated him greatly. He pushed harder. "Two hundred and fourty three, two hundred and fourty four..." Only six left... he couldn't fail. This was the closest he had ever made it, and he was not going to fail. "Two hundred and fifty! Congratulations, Robin, you passed your training."
Ivan looked at his new clothes. Purple, his favorite color. The top was green, and it matched his new cape. He pushed a bit of hair out of his face. A long strand of blonde, mudcaked hair. His hair fell down past his shoulders, as he hadn't cut it in quite a while. He pulled out his dagger, and cut off half of it. 'I doubt if it's even, but that's better than how long it was getting,' he thought, sheathing his dagger.
"Suhulla!" said Picard, suddenly. "Huh?" asked Garet. "He's in Suhulla. I don't know how I know, but I just do. Garet shrugged, but Picard teleported anyway. They walked to the inn, and Picard asked, "Do you have anyone here named Alex?" The innkeeper asked, "Why do you want to know?" Picard replied, "Becuase he's my brother." The man nodded. "Looks a lot like you too. Long blue hair." Picard thanked him, and they went out to look for him.
Robin approached the guards and said, "Move aside, I'm coming through." The guards standing outside of the building said, "Why should we? You don't know what's in there any more than we do." Robin snorted. "And what if I do?" he asked. One guard shook his head. "I'm sorry, son, but I really can't let you in." At this, Robin drew a dagger and stuck it into him. The man gasped, but didn't cry out. Before he fell, Robin pushed him against the wall for support. Robin turned to another guard, and said, "Don't mess with me. I could take you all with ease." With these words, Robin opened the door and walked into the building. He found himself in a darkly lit hall, with statues of dragons on the walls. Nobody was within sight, but the place made him feel uncomfortable. Suddenly, one of the statues began to glow, and a real dragon appeared in it's place. Robin drew his sword and rushed at the dragon. The huge beast flew slightly into the air, and began breathing fire down. Robin stabbed his sword into the dragon's breast, but it remained unharmed. 'This is a Venus clan, so maybe I should try using Venus moves,' he thought. He took a step back from the dragon, who was still trying to breathe fire on him, and let loose a wave of ragnaroks. One after another, the golden swords hit the dragon, causing him seemingly little pain. Robin muttered. This wasn't going to be as easy as he had thought. Suddenly, and idea came to him. He ran at the dragon and grabbed for his scales. With all his strength he tried to pry one off. He concentrated his move psynergy, and then followed with force. Finally, the scale fell off, and the dragon moaned. Before he could hit the dragon, however, it turned around and slammed him with it's tail. Robin screamed as he flew backwards and landed hard on the floor. He cast potent cure, and got back up. Charging at the dragon again, Robin flew off the ground and dug his sword deep into it's unprotected chest. The dragon moaned again, and then disappeared in a shower of sparks. In it's place stood Felix. Felix grinned evily, and said, "Well, well, if it isn't Robin." Robin nodded, and said, "What do you want, Felix?" The older adept smiled, and replied, "I wanted to welcome you to the Venus clan. There's nothing wrong with that, now, is there?" Robin shrugged. "Welcome me to the Venus clan, huh? Was killing that puny little dragon all I had to do?" Felix frowned. "Puny, was it? Perhaps I should have tried harder. Oh well, no worry, you'll get to fight much stronger enemies soon. Follow me." Felix rushed down the hall with Robin close behind. Suddenly, Felix stopped. He put his hand on the wall, and said, "Master, I have brought another adept." The wall immediately disappeared, and Felix walked down the hallway. Robin followed cautiously, making sure it was no trap. Finally, they made it to the end of the winding hallway, and a door stood in front of them. Felix opened the door, revealing a large room. The two adepts entered the room, and three men appeared from nowhere. The one in the middle stepped forward. He said to Felix, "Is he strong?" Felix bowed, and replied, "Indeed, he is strong, master." The other man looked unconvinced. Felix spoke up, "Master, he called our dragon puny. I was the last to do that, five years ago." The other man said, "Kakarot, test him." Felix shouted, "Master Raditz, I told you, he is strong! Perhaps stronger than I was when I came." Raditz stepped forward and Felix flew into the wall, several feet away. Raditz walked over to Felix, and revived him. "Never," he said, "is it permitted for you to question me. Nor is it permitted for you to call me Raditz. That right is only for myself and elites. You are not an elite, and you know that. You are a gallant, and you will remember that." Kakarot took Robin and entered a room. He pointed at a rock and said, "Lift that." Robin gasped. The rock was easily twice as big as anything he had lifted before. However, he walked to it and a light shown around him. The rock rose into the air a few feet, and then Robin dropped it. Kakarot nodded, and snapped his fingers three times. Three dragons appeared and attacked Robin. Kakarot grinned, and said, "You know what to do." Robin nodded, and stabbed his sword directly between the eyes of the first one. The second one began ripping apart his arm, but soon met a similar fate. The third one stayed back at first, and suddenly jumped at Robin. The boy dodged, and hurled his sword with perfect accuracy directly through the dragons stomach. Kakarot smiled, and said, "Well, well, wasn't that easy. Now for the hard part. You wait right here." Kakarot left, and in a second returned with the third of the three men. Kakarot grinned. "This is Garcia. He will be your first challenging opponent." Garcia grinned and said, "I will hold off slightly, but don't expect an easy victory." Kakarot smiled, and disappeared in a flash of gold light. The two adepts drew their swords and waited for the other to attack.
"Look, its Picard!" said Ivan, "And Garet!" The friends rushed over. Justin asked, "Who are they?" Ivan replied, "I was just wondering, who are you." Justin said, "I met with Garet a few months ago, and then Picard found us, and we've been traveling together ever since. Off to save the world from some infinite power or something huh?" Ivan laughed. "Sort of," he replied, "I'm trying to stop my parent's murderer. Isaac and I-" at this Ivan broke off, but continued, "Where is Isaac? Did you find him?" Picard and Garet shook their heads sadly, and Ivan continued, "Anyway, my brother Isaac and I left to try to stop Felix about four years ago. Felix killed our parents and stole the elemental stars. He's trying to take over the world or something, and kill all of the adepts who live. We met with Garet after a day or two, and he saved our lives," at this Garet grinned, and Ivan continued, "by killing some men who were trying to kill us. We later met Alex," Ivan gestured to Alex, "whose city was being destroyed by Felix and his sister, Jenna. After failing to stop them, Alex decided to get the help of his brother, who, as you might have guessed, is Picard."
Robin raised his sword to block the swing of Garcia. His opponent was amazingly strong, and it took all of Robin's strength to stop him. "Grand Gaia!" he yelled. Rocks erupted from the floor, leaving it a slightly blackened color, and flew around in a flash of light hitting the walls and Garcia. The earth adept called up a shield to defend himself, but small bits of rocks hit him anyway. He grinned, and said, "Not bad, but I have better. Arrow rain!" Arrows fell down from the ceiling and exploded in a golden light. Robin tried to block with his sword, but it was too much for him. He created a barrier of rocks around him, and healed his wounds. Garcia laughed. "I didn't expect you to last this long, but this is the end!" he said. He began to glow, and slowly disappeared. Suddenly, Robin felt a dagger dig into him, and then he remembered nothing.
When he awoke, Robin found Garcia, Kakarot, Raditz, and Felix standing over him. Raditz was talking to Garcia, asking how well he had fought. Garcia complemented on his skill, and said that they should train him. Raditz finally agreed, and Robin sighed in relief. Kakarot said to Robin, "Come on, let's begin your training immediately." Robin stood up and followed. Kakarot said, "Your first technique to learn will be cloaking. If you master this, you will have done something Felix could never do. I don't know if you know, but he has a cloak ball, which allows him to cloak whoever he wants. He got this because he could never figure out how to cloak naturally. Kakarot demonstrated several times, and then let Robin try. At first, he accidently sent a ragnarok into the wall, but he soon figured it out. Kakarot nodded in approval and cloaked. He snapped his fingers and a huge dragon appeared. Kakarot said, "Cloak, and fight him. He is not the same type of dragon as you fought earlier, but rather a much stronger one." Robin disappeared and within a few minutes, the dragon lay dead. Next to it, a grinning Robin appeared. Kakarot nodded, and then looked at his sword. It looked extremely old. He frowned, and said, "We'll have to get you a better sword. That one is much too old." Kakarot snapped his fingers again and they appeared next to a rack of swords. He pulled out one of the smaller ones, which was very light silver with a clear handle. "Mithril," said Kakarot, "Very sturdy. With a diamond handle. This one is worth an awful lot." He handed the sword to Robin, who looked shocked. "I can keep it?" he asked. Kakarot nodded, and smiled. "Take your new sword, and hit your old one with it." Robin obeyed, and the old sword exploded. Kakarot then said, "Now, inspect your new sword for scratches." Robin lifted the sword, and looked carefully for any signs of use. There were none. Kakarot said, "That is an old sword, several hundreds years old, I believe. Now, what sort of armor do you have?" Robin said that he had none, and Kakarot led him to another room. He picked out a dark blue tunic and said, "This is made of dragon scales. The same type as you just fought." He handed it to Robin, who gasped at it's light weight. Kakarot laughed. "For someone who lifted one thousand two hundred and fifty thre pounds earlier, that shouldn't feel like much," he said. Robin thanked Kakarot, and put on his new armor. "Now," said Kakarot, "Let's see what you can do. He snapped his fingers ten times and suddenly disappeared. Robin found himself alone, with hundreds of huge trolls coming at him from all sides.
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Yay, everyone is back together now, except Isaac!