Chapter 13: Pandemonium!
As Shawn and his brother had walked for about a day, Dallwinz told him to stop.

"What's the matter?" asked Shawn.

"Were here," muttered his brother.

"Well let's get to business then," Shawn said.

"Don't get to overconfident," said Dallwinz.

"Yaya who cares lets just finish him off," said Shawn.

" Whatever you say," said Dallwinz shrugging.

They were besides the opening of a volcano. So they moved slowly through the winding pathways. The ground was surely rocky. There seemed to be a lot of passageways and none of them seemed to be continuous. When after a very long time they had reached the end of the passageway just to see a giant hole in the middle.

"Well the 2 brothers come into volcano just to die isn't it?" asked a voice in the middle of a platform. A man, carrying a sword encrusted with fiery marks was just standing on a platform that seemed to off led to a lava flow.

"You beast! You may have beaten many of our kind of men but it stops here!" shouted Dallwinz.

"Then face me as a man," the fire lord said calmly.

"Alright I will. In fact both of us will," said Shawn. "You're gonna lose as if you were a baby," said the fire lord laughing.

"Only the weak speak loudly," said Shawn back at him.

"Hehe you're the weak ones," said the fire lord. Then at a furious might jabbed his sword at Dallwinz. Dallwinz was forced to pull back, doing so he pulled out his crossbow and lined an arrow and shot it at him. Put it bounced of his sword.

"So you've proven to defeat my ancestors, but not me!" shouted Dallwinz as he started swordplay with him. Clanging and clashing were the sounds of 2 swords hitting each other before the fire lord pushed him back. But not to miss a moment, Shawn was already doing swordplay on the fire lord hoping for him to run out of strength. But the fire lord still pushed him back to the ground.

"Expect me to run out of energy? I won't until I crush you!" shouted the fire lord.

"We must somehow push him off the cliff!" murmured Shawn to his brother. His brother nodded in agreement. Back with the other group, they were walking around the area they went and had slain many monsters easily.

"I fear that Shawn and his brother are in trouble," said Miras.

"Me too," said Laura.

"Then what's the rush?" asked Elliot. The group of four-quickend there pace. But still they were very far away.

Meanwhile the fire lord was actually winning. They needed more help.

"Weaklings! You fools to try and face the fire lord!" said the fire lord.

"Were not done yet."said Shawn as lifted himself to duel with the lord. But in moments he fell down again.

"You keep on trying but never make a close hit. What a pity," said the fire lord. "Humph!" said Dallwinz. Quietly Shawn had been knocked out. Well not really just keeping silent as the fire lord looked at him.

"Well he is not waking up for a while, so stand up or i will kill you unarmed!" said the fire lord. But Shawn sprang to life as slashed at the fire lords back. But all he made was a cut in his back.

"What! A surprise attack," said the fire lord gasping.

"Another trick i can play on you lords.... hehehe," said Shawn laughing.

"Don't celebrate just yet he is not dead," said Dallwinz.

"Right on guard!" shouted Shawn.

"Yeah on guard for your death!" said Fire lord jumping at Shawn with his sword out. Shawn desperately pull back to the edge and did another swordplay with the fire lord. This time Shawn broke free of it and had the fire lord on the edge and him on the safe side. But the fire lord had more tricks, first he struck Shawn's blade so hard that Shawn stumbled backwards. Then he jumped over him and was going to slash him when Dallwinz stopped him and his crossbow was at his head.

"You're forgetting me," said the smiling Dallwinz and the arrow sunk through the fire lord's head.

"I may die but the lava flow shall rise! Only one way to stop it..." an then the fire lord died.

"What! Tell us fool!" shouted Shawn.

"He is already dead but someone must sacrifice their life to stop It." said Dallwinz. They were silent until Dallwinz had an idea.

"I'll sacrifice myself," said Dallwinz.

"No you shan't" said Shawn.

"Yes i will Shawn my only brother...I am not part of your prophecy and I knew that my time of aid would come for you.... this is it bye my brother," said Dallwinz calmly.

"No I'll kill you first," said Shawn raising his sword.

"No I'll kill you first," said Dallwinz raising his crossbow.

Then with a rush Laura, Eilliot, Miras, and Sicoriat came tumbling into the cave and saw Shawn and his brother still raising thier weapons.

"Please and i mean please fullfill your duty and make our family proud and me.....farewell," said Dallwinz as he jump out of the ledge and into the fire.

"Noooooooooooooo!" shouted Shawn as he looked over the edge for the last glimpse of his brother but he was too late.

"I'm sorry but he is dead," said Miras.

"I know.... lets get out of here ," said Shawn.

So the group left the cave and started on Elliot's Blimp that they had recovered and flew towards the sunset. But Shawn started to see figures in the sky and they came closer forcing them to land.

"I know who these are...," said Shawn.

This is the end of part 1 of my story. The next part contains how Shanw and Miras fare and maybe new dark powers grow by the second.