Disclaimer: I do not own any Sonic related characters, other than Klim and
Klime. I own my ideas, but that's pretty much it.
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Blackness was still all around me. Where was I? Did I die?
I looked around, but saw only blackness in every direction. Suddenly there was a flash and I saw stars all around me. Small specks of light were all around. It was as if I was standing in the middle of outer space. I looked to the side to see a planet. I really was in space!
"I really hoped I wouldn't have to see you here," A voice said out of nowhere.
"Huh? Where am I.and who are you?"
"Who I am is not important. Not now, anyway. Perhaps you'll find out later. But as of the moment, you are in quite the predicament yourself."
"That's true. What DID happen to me?"
"You were only knocked out, nothing to be worried about.but you didn't manage to beat Klime and Jynx."
"Those two are a lot tougher than I thought they'd be," I admitted.
"Not just tough. Nearly invincible. With Jynx's magic and Klime's speed, they make quite the formidable team."
"But.I don't even want to fight them! If they are protecting the Chaos Emerald, we're on the same side!"
"I know that. But they don't." I heard the voice sigh. "Remember when you met the mermaid queen? She didn't trust you either until you beat her shark."
"How do you know all of this?"
The voice laughed. "I know of everything that goes on in the worlds.but I am not the issue here. As much as I'd like to help you out, I'm not supposed to interfere."
"So.what am I to do?"
"The only way that I can think of to gain their trust is to beat them and not kill them. They may still be a bit suspicious after that, but at least it will get you the emerald."
"That's easier said than done. I've tried already.remember?"
"True.but you didn't have your powers then. You still don't."
"What?"
The voice laughed again. "Think about it, Klim. Or should I call you XPERT?" Another laugh. "Yes, I know everything.but seriously, you don't even know half your potential."
"Aw, cut it out.I'm not all that great."
"But you are! All you have to do is believe! Do you honestly believe you would create a character that is weak? The form you are in right now was created directly from the thoughts and emotions deep within you. Are you a weak person?"
"No!"
"Then there you have it. Remember, all you have to do is believe.in both yourself, and your friends."
Another bright flash lit up the area and everything was dark again. Until I opened my eyes, that is.
"What the.? Where am I?"
I looked around to find myself in a cell of sorts.
"The dungeon. Where else?" A voice to my left stated. I turned to see Lynx in the same cell.
"Well, at least you're OK. I thought you might've died back there," I stated.
"That's what I thought of you when I woke up. We're very fortunate that they didn't kill us right away. I think that Jynx guy healed us."
I nodded. They were nicer than I thought.
"We're still not in a very good situation, though. They plan to interrogate us, I bet."
"If they listen to us the same way they did when we tried to avoid fighting, this won't go so well."
"That's what I thought."
I looked at the bars of the cell. "I think we can break this."
"Even if you did, what would we do? They took our weapons AND our emeralds," Lynx said as he threw up his arms in despair. I looked to my side to find my all-too-familiar spear gone. I groaned and punched the bars.
"Guess we're stuck here then."
"Yeah."
"I wonder how long they'll take?"
"I don't know. Could take hours though."
"I hope Kit Kat's OK."
"Yeah."
The hours did pass by, very slowly, neither of us finding much to talk about. Every now and then one of us would say a single comment, and the other would reply with a one word answer. After awhile, we heard shouting.
"JYNX I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"
"Maybe you should have told me everything they said BEFORE you told me to attack them! Their story makes sense!"
"You hear that, Lynx?" I asked as I pressed against the bars of the cage, getting as close to the conversation as I could get.
"Sure did. Looks like Klime's ticked."
A few seconds later we heard two people stomping up to our cell.
"Jynx, you can't! You can't just let them go! Besides, they."
"Hush," Jynx commanded as he walked up to the cell door. "They don't look like any allies of Robotnik."
"Of course they don't! They look like US, Jynx, almost exactly like us," Klime yelled as he walked in-between Jynx and the cell door.
"Exactly my point. If Robotnik created clones of us, wouldn't they look identical to us?"
"Then perhaps he screwed up!"
"Highly unlikely. Come on, give him some credit. For being by himself, he causes us quite the problems and he rarely fails with his creations and experiments." "But."
"No but's! They are coming out and that is final!"
With this Jynx shoved Klime out of the way and made the lock explode, kicking down the cell door as he did so.
"Come on out. Let's talk a bit," Jynx said as he turned and walked down a corridor.
Klime's mouth was hanging open, but he quickly regained his composure.
"I know who you are. and I am not trusting you one bit!" he said as he stormed off after Jynx.
"Whoa.talk about unexpected." I said quietly.
"No kidding."
I thought to myself for a bit. The dream I had must've been just that.a dream. I didn't have to fight anyone.
"Hey, we are we going to get out of here, or are we going to sit in here the rest of our life?" Lynx asked bringing me back to reality.
"Right. Let's try not to provoke them."
We walked out of the cell and headed the way Klime and Jynx went. Within a few moments we were in a room with a long table. It looked like a sort of meeting room. Jynx and Klime were already sitting down, still arguing. They quieted down and looked at Lynx and myself as we took a seat.
"First off, what are your names? Or, rather, what would you want us to call you?" Jynx asked.
"I'm Klim," I said.
"Call me Lynx," Lynx stated.
Klime growled. "Fakers." he muttered.
"Right, let's get straight to business," Jynx said. He pulled out a old book and began thumbing through it.
"What are you going to use, Jynx? Maybe a torture spell?" Klime said as he grinned.
"Klime, you're absolutely vicious lately. Knock it off!" Jynx said as he continued to look through the book. "Aha! Here it is."
"What is it?" Lynx asked uncertainly. He looked very comfortable without his weapon, and I didn't feel too secure either.
"A simple truth spell. No need to worry, it won't have any lasting effects," he said as he shot two orbs of white light at us. I didn't even make any move to dodge, and neither did Lynx. There was no point. We were pretty much helpless without our weapons, and besides, we were telling the truth after all.
"Right," Jynx said as he looked at us. "First question. Are you allies of Robotnik?"
I shoke my head and Lynx said, "No."
"Lies! You and your damn spells don't work, Jynx!" Klime yelled.
"Klime, SHUT UP or I will put a silence spell on you. You're making it impossible to think."
Jynx fired two more orbs at me and Lynx, and asked the question over.
"No," we both replied.
Klime held his head in his hands and proceeded to laugh.
"Hey, Jynx, maybe they don't even KNOW that they're working for Robotnik!"
"It's a possibility. He could be influencing them in some other way."
"This truth spell is no good then," Klime said. "If they think they're telling the truth, we really have no way of finding out."
"Perhaps you'd like to hear the whole story?" Lynx spoke up. I nodded in agreement.
"It may help," I said.
"Fine, I have nothing else better to do," Jynx said as a cup of coffee appeared in his hand.
"You'll have to teach me that sometime," Lynx said. "Anyways."
We proceeded to tell Jynx and Klime all about our adventure up to this point. They nodded and gasped in some places, and I myself was enjoying it. I always liked telling a good story.
"And then after we escaped that explosion trap, we were inside. You should know the rest," Lynx finished.
"Right. Well, your story does seem convincing.and you didn't attack until you were attacked first," Jynx said.
"Jynx! I can't believe you're buying this!" Klime shouted. "It's a trick of some sort, I know of it!"
"You know, for being this world's version of me, you aren't too smart," I spoke up.
"SHUT UP!" Klime shouted as he pulled out his daggers. "I should teach you a lesson!"
"Guys, guys, please, calm down," Jynx said as he sighed.
"No kidding! Klim, that was a little too aggressive," Lynx agreed.
I sighed. I was beginning to believe that Klime wouldn't believe us no matter what we did. unless.
"Klime.fancy going one on one?"
"More than happy too," he said as he bared his teeth. "It'll be great to finish you off."
"Klim? What are you thinking?" Lynx asked as he looked at me with concern.
"Don't worry," I said. "It's the only way I can think of to get this guy to believe us, and besides, I can take him."
"Fat chance!" Klime shouted as he raised his daggers.
"STOP!!!" Jynx commanded and Klime froze in place.
"If you're going to fight, don't do it in here. You'll thrash the place. Go ahead and have a bout in the arena, down that way," Jynx said as he pointed down the corridor. Klime was already gone, zooming off in the shadows towards the arena. "And take this," Jynx said as he grabbed my spear from the corner and tossed it to me. I caught it in mid-air. "You'll need it. Please, don't kill him.just try to get him to understand. Knock him out if you must," Jynx said.
"What about my Chaos Emeralds?" I asked. Jynx shook his head.
"He isn't using any, so you shouldn't have to. Go on, Lynx and I will stay here for the time being and try to sort this out."
"Alright," I said as I walked out the door. "Wish me luck!" With that I ran down the corridor towards the arena.
"Let's settle this!" Klime shouted from the other side of the room.
"Yes, let's!" I yelled back. "Just bring it on!"
"I took you out once, and I'll do it again," Klime said as he pulled out his daggers. "Just try me! Nothing matches my speed!"
"We'll just see about that," I said as I pulled out my spear. "I won't lose!"
Klime ran towards me, daggers stretched out in front of him. I smashed one with my spear and then quickly pulled it back into a defensive position, blocking the other.
"Darn you!" he shouted as he swiped again.
"Gotta love a spear," I said as I jumped backwards. "It has excellent range!" I thrust forward, but Klime caught it between his daggers and knocked it away from him.
"Time to try this... Speed Slash!"
I was waiting for this move, since he used it on me before. Taking my spear, I stretched it out in front of me. As Klime barreled after me he knocked the spear out of the way with one dagger, but managed the other one down on my shoulder.
"Ugh!" I shouted as I took a step back. "You'll pay for that! Deathspike!"
I shoved my spear into the ground and Klime jumped at the last second, dodging the attack.
"Nice try!"
I growled. This guy was beginning to tick me off.
"Come on!" he taunted as he took a few steps back. "Eat this! Spark Storm!"
With that he started rapidly running his two daggers against each other, causing several sparks to fly. These sparks didn't just disappear, though. They grew to about the size of a baseball each and then flew after me. I jumped to the side and ducked and rolled many times to try and avoid all the projectiles, but I couldn't dodge them all and several of them cut and burnt my skin.
"Give up? Hah!"
"I'll take you out yet, Klime!" I charged at him, my spear in front of me. I practically launched myself at him, putting my weight against the spear as I ran.
Klime moved his daggers to block, but he couldn't knock the spear away since there was too much force coming at him. At the last second he tried jumping to the side, but the spear jabbed him nicely in the arm.
"Not so cocky now, are you?"
"Bah! A mere flesh wound!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Don't get me started. I'm not even half trying."
"BULL!" I yelled.
"It's true. Don't make me show you."
"Bring it on! I can take whatever you can dish out," I said as I got into my fighting stance. He laughed.
"So be it. Combine!"
With this said, his daggers began to glow a dark blue light. He spun them around a couple times in the air, and then spun them so fast that I couldn't even see them anymore. When he stopped, the two daggers were melded together. It looked like two swords put together at the handle, which was at the middle. It kind of reminded me of the light saber Darth Maul had in Star Wars Episode 1, but that's getting off topic.
"Try me now!"
I put my spear in front of me. It looked so feeble compared to his new weapon. My spear was dull gray, and looked rather worn. It looked like it could have been a hundred years old...and it could have had many users before me.
"I won't give up!" I shouted as I charged forward at him.
"You fool..."
My spear was easily deflected by his weapon, which he now swung at me. I dodged to the side and it hit nothing but air. I jabbed forward with my spear again, jabbing him in the side.
"URGH!" he fell to his knee, his sword in front of him.
"Give up. You have lost," I said as I pointed my spear at his face.
"NEVER!" he shouted as he smashed it away. "I'm taking you out here and now! Deathstrike!"
With that his weapon glew an even brighter blue and he flew at me, too fast to see. I was expecting a few hits, but he didn't let up. Every second he would hit me roughly ten times, and it didn't seem to end. I fell to the ground, blood soaking the floor beneath me.
"Just goes to show that good always prevails!" Klime said as he stood over me.
"You...don't..." I couldn't say anything...it hurt too much.
"What was that?" I started to feel newfound strength and rage building inside me.
"I...won't...give up..." I said as I got up on one knee.
"You're got determination, I'll give you that," Klime said as he raised his weapon. "But it isn't enough."
He brought his sword down and I blocked it with my spear.
"Just...give up!" he shouted.
"That's the thing I never do," I said as I stood up. Anger flowed through me, and the pain seemed to go away.
"Im...impossible!"
"It's time for payback," I said as I growled. I pulled back with my spear and lunged at him, flipping my spear around just before I struck. The blunt end of the spear smashed into his head and he fell over. Unconscious.
"You're lucky Jynx likes you," I said as I put my spear away.
The pain began to return, a little at first, but it got stronger and harder every step I took. I headed back towards the meeting room, where I last saw Lynx and Jynx.
"Lynx..." I said out loud. I opened the door to the meeting room...and fell in face-first.
I welcomed the darkness gratefully as the pain went away, but along with it my consciousness.
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Blackness was still all around me. Where was I? Did I die?
I looked around, but saw only blackness in every direction. Suddenly there was a flash and I saw stars all around me. Small specks of light were all around. It was as if I was standing in the middle of outer space. I looked to the side to see a planet. I really was in space!
"I really hoped I wouldn't have to see you here," A voice said out of nowhere.
"Huh? Where am I.and who are you?"
"Who I am is not important. Not now, anyway. Perhaps you'll find out later. But as of the moment, you are in quite the predicament yourself."
"That's true. What DID happen to me?"
"You were only knocked out, nothing to be worried about.but you didn't manage to beat Klime and Jynx."
"Those two are a lot tougher than I thought they'd be," I admitted.
"Not just tough. Nearly invincible. With Jynx's magic and Klime's speed, they make quite the formidable team."
"But.I don't even want to fight them! If they are protecting the Chaos Emerald, we're on the same side!"
"I know that. But they don't." I heard the voice sigh. "Remember when you met the mermaid queen? She didn't trust you either until you beat her shark."
"How do you know all of this?"
The voice laughed. "I know of everything that goes on in the worlds.but I am not the issue here. As much as I'd like to help you out, I'm not supposed to interfere."
"So.what am I to do?"
"The only way that I can think of to gain their trust is to beat them and not kill them. They may still be a bit suspicious after that, but at least it will get you the emerald."
"That's easier said than done. I've tried already.remember?"
"True.but you didn't have your powers then. You still don't."
"What?"
The voice laughed again. "Think about it, Klim. Or should I call you XPERT?" Another laugh. "Yes, I know everything.but seriously, you don't even know half your potential."
"Aw, cut it out.I'm not all that great."
"But you are! All you have to do is believe! Do you honestly believe you would create a character that is weak? The form you are in right now was created directly from the thoughts and emotions deep within you. Are you a weak person?"
"No!"
"Then there you have it. Remember, all you have to do is believe.in both yourself, and your friends."
Another bright flash lit up the area and everything was dark again. Until I opened my eyes, that is.
"What the.? Where am I?"
I looked around to find myself in a cell of sorts.
"The dungeon. Where else?" A voice to my left stated. I turned to see Lynx in the same cell.
"Well, at least you're OK. I thought you might've died back there," I stated.
"That's what I thought of you when I woke up. We're very fortunate that they didn't kill us right away. I think that Jynx guy healed us."
I nodded. They were nicer than I thought.
"We're still not in a very good situation, though. They plan to interrogate us, I bet."
"If they listen to us the same way they did when we tried to avoid fighting, this won't go so well."
"That's what I thought."
I looked at the bars of the cell. "I think we can break this."
"Even if you did, what would we do? They took our weapons AND our emeralds," Lynx said as he threw up his arms in despair. I looked to my side to find my all-too-familiar spear gone. I groaned and punched the bars.
"Guess we're stuck here then."
"Yeah."
"I wonder how long they'll take?"
"I don't know. Could take hours though."
"I hope Kit Kat's OK."
"Yeah."
The hours did pass by, very slowly, neither of us finding much to talk about. Every now and then one of us would say a single comment, and the other would reply with a one word answer. After awhile, we heard shouting.
"JYNX I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"
"Maybe you should have told me everything they said BEFORE you told me to attack them! Their story makes sense!"
"You hear that, Lynx?" I asked as I pressed against the bars of the cage, getting as close to the conversation as I could get.
"Sure did. Looks like Klime's ticked."
A few seconds later we heard two people stomping up to our cell.
"Jynx, you can't! You can't just let them go! Besides, they."
"Hush," Jynx commanded as he walked up to the cell door. "They don't look like any allies of Robotnik."
"Of course they don't! They look like US, Jynx, almost exactly like us," Klime yelled as he walked in-between Jynx and the cell door.
"Exactly my point. If Robotnik created clones of us, wouldn't they look identical to us?"
"Then perhaps he screwed up!"
"Highly unlikely. Come on, give him some credit. For being by himself, he causes us quite the problems and he rarely fails with his creations and experiments." "But."
"No but's! They are coming out and that is final!"
With this Jynx shoved Klime out of the way and made the lock explode, kicking down the cell door as he did so.
"Come on out. Let's talk a bit," Jynx said as he turned and walked down a corridor.
Klime's mouth was hanging open, but he quickly regained his composure.
"I know who you are. and I am not trusting you one bit!" he said as he stormed off after Jynx.
"Whoa.talk about unexpected." I said quietly.
"No kidding."
I thought to myself for a bit. The dream I had must've been just that.a dream. I didn't have to fight anyone.
"Hey, we are we going to get out of here, or are we going to sit in here the rest of our life?" Lynx asked bringing me back to reality.
"Right. Let's try not to provoke them."
We walked out of the cell and headed the way Klime and Jynx went. Within a few moments we were in a room with a long table. It looked like a sort of meeting room. Jynx and Klime were already sitting down, still arguing. They quieted down and looked at Lynx and myself as we took a seat.
"First off, what are your names? Or, rather, what would you want us to call you?" Jynx asked.
"I'm Klim," I said.
"Call me Lynx," Lynx stated.
Klime growled. "Fakers." he muttered.
"Right, let's get straight to business," Jynx said. He pulled out a old book and began thumbing through it.
"What are you going to use, Jynx? Maybe a torture spell?" Klime said as he grinned.
"Klime, you're absolutely vicious lately. Knock it off!" Jynx said as he continued to look through the book. "Aha! Here it is."
"What is it?" Lynx asked uncertainly. He looked very comfortable without his weapon, and I didn't feel too secure either.
"A simple truth spell. No need to worry, it won't have any lasting effects," he said as he shot two orbs of white light at us. I didn't even make any move to dodge, and neither did Lynx. There was no point. We were pretty much helpless without our weapons, and besides, we were telling the truth after all.
"Right," Jynx said as he looked at us. "First question. Are you allies of Robotnik?"
I shoke my head and Lynx said, "No."
"Lies! You and your damn spells don't work, Jynx!" Klime yelled.
"Klime, SHUT UP or I will put a silence spell on you. You're making it impossible to think."
Jynx fired two more orbs at me and Lynx, and asked the question over.
"No," we both replied.
Klime held his head in his hands and proceeded to laugh.
"Hey, Jynx, maybe they don't even KNOW that they're working for Robotnik!"
"It's a possibility. He could be influencing them in some other way."
"This truth spell is no good then," Klime said. "If they think they're telling the truth, we really have no way of finding out."
"Perhaps you'd like to hear the whole story?" Lynx spoke up. I nodded in agreement.
"It may help," I said.
"Fine, I have nothing else better to do," Jynx said as a cup of coffee appeared in his hand.
"You'll have to teach me that sometime," Lynx said. "Anyways."
We proceeded to tell Jynx and Klime all about our adventure up to this point. They nodded and gasped in some places, and I myself was enjoying it. I always liked telling a good story.
"And then after we escaped that explosion trap, we were inside. You should know the rest," Lynx finished.
"Right. Well, your story does seem convincing.and you didn't attack until you were attacked first," Jynx said.
"Jynx! I can't believe you're buying this!" Klime shouted. "It's a trick of some sort, I know of it!"
"You know, for being this world's version of me, you aren't too smart," I spoke up.
"SHUT UP!" Klime shouted as he pulled out his daggers. "I should teach you a lesson!"
"Guys, guys, please, calm down," Jynx said as he sighed.
"No kidding! Klim, that was a little too aggressive," Lynx agreed.
I sighed. I was beginning to believe that Klime wouldn't believe us no matter what we did. unless.
"Klime.fancy going one on one?"
"More than happy too," he said as he bared his teeth. "It'll be great to finish you off."
"Klim? What are you thinking?" Lynx asked as he looked at me with concern.
"Don't worry," I said. "It's the only way I can think of to get this guy to believe us, and besides, I can take him."
"Fat chance!" Klime shouted as he raised his daggers.
"STOP!!!" Jynx commanded and Klime froze in place.
"If you're going to fight, don't do it in here. You'll thrash the place. Go ahead and have a bout in the arena, down that way," Jynx said as he pointed down the corridor. Klime was already gone, zooming off in the shadows towards the arena. "And take this," Jynx said as he grabbed my spear from the corner and tossed it to me. I caught it in mid-air. "You'll need it. Please, don't kill him.just try to get him to understand. Knock him out if you must," Jynx said.
"What about my Chaos Emeralds?" I asked. Jynx shook his head.
"He isn't using any, so you shouldn't have to. Go on, Lynx and I will stay here for the time being and try to sort this out."
"Alright," I said as I walked out the door. "Wish me luck!" With that I ran down the corridor towards the arena.
"Let's settle this!" Klime shouted from the other side of the room.
"Yes, let's!" I yelled back. "Just bring it on!"
"I took you out once, and I'll do it again," Klime said as he pulled out his daggers. "Just try me! Nothing matches my speed!"
"We'll just see about that," I said as I pulled out my spear. "I won't lose!"
Klime ran towards me, daggers stretched out in front of him. I smashed one with my spear and then quickly pulled it back into a defensive position, blocking the other.
"Darn you!" he shouted as he swiped again.
"Gotta love a spear," I said as I jumped backwards. "It has excellent range!" I thrust forward, but Klime caught it between his daggers and knocked it away from him.
"Time to try this... Speed Slash!"
I was waiting for this move, since he used it on me before. Taking my spear, I stretched it out in front of me. As Klime barreled after me he knocked the spear out of the way with one dagger, but managed the other one down on my shoulder.
"Ugh!" I shouted as I took a step back. "You'll pay for that! Deathspike!"
I shoved my spear into the ground and Klime jumped at the last second, dodging the attack.
"Nice try!"
I growled. This guy was beginning to tick me off.
"Come on!" he taunted as he took a few steps back. "Eat this! Spark Storm!"
With that he started rapidly running his two daggers against each other, causing several sparks to fly. These sparks didn't just disappear, though. They grew to about the size of a baseball each and then flew after me. I jumped to the side and ducked and rolled many times to try and avoid all the projectiles, but I couldn't dodge them all and several of them cut and burnt my skin.
"Give up? Hah!"
"I'll take you out yet, Klime!" I charged at him, my spear in front of me. I practically launched myself at him, putting my weight against the spear as I ran.
Klime moved his daggers to block, but he couldn't knock the spear away since there was too much force coming at him. At the last second he tried jumping to the side, but the spear jabbed him nicely in the arm.
"Not so cocky now, are you?"
"Bah! A mere flesh wound!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Don't get me started. I'm not even half trying."
"BULL!" I yelled.
"It's true. Don't make me show you."
"Bring it on! I can take whatever you can dish out," I said as I got into my fighting stance. He laughed.
"So be it. Combine!"
With this said, his daggers began to glow a dark blue light. He spun them around a couple times in the air, and then spun them so fast that I couldn't even see them anymore. When he stopped, the two daggers were melded together. It looked like two swords put together at the handle, which was at the middle. It kind of reminded me of the light saber Darth Maul had in Star Wars Episode 1, but that's getting off topic.
"Try me now!"
I put my spear in front of me. It looked so feeble compared to his new weapon. My spear was dull gray, and looked rather worn. It looked like it could have been a hundred years old...and it could have had many users before me.
"I won't give up!" I shouted as I charged forward at him.
"You fool..."
My spear was easily deflected by his weapon, which he now swung at me. I dodged to the side and it hit nothing but air. I jabbed forward with my spear again, jabbing him in the side.
"URGH!" he fell to his knee, his sword in front of him.
"Give up. You have lost," I said as I pointed my spear at his face.
"NEVER!" he shouted as he smashed it away. "I'm taking you out here and now! Deathstrike!"
With that his weapon glew an even brighter blue and he flew at me, too fast to see. I was expecting a few hits, but he didn't let up. Every second he would hit me roughly ten times, and it didn't seem to end. I fell to the ground, blood soaking the floor beneath me.
"Just goes to show that good always prevails!" Klime said as he stood over me.
"You...don't..." I couldn't say anything...it hurt too much.
"What was that?" I started to feel newfound strength and rage building inside me.
"I...won't...give up..." I said as I got up on one knee.
"You're got determination, I'll give you that," Klime said as he raised his weapon. "But it isn't enough."
He brought his sword down and I blocked it with my spear.
"Just...give up!" he shouted.
"That's the thing I never do," I said as I stood up. Anger flowed through me, and the pain seemed to go away.
"Im...impossible!"
"It's time for payback," I said as I growled. I pulled back with my spear and lunged at him, flipping my spear around just before I struck. The blunt end of the spear smashed into his head and he fell over. Unconscious.
"You're lucky Jynx likes you," I said as I put my spear away.
The pain began to return, a little at first, but it got stronger and harder every step I took. I headed back towards the meeting room, where I last saw Lynx and Jynx.
"Lynx..." I said out loud. I opened the door to the meeting room...and fell in face-first.
I welcomed the darkness gratefully as the pain went away, but along with it my consciousness.
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