Ch.3: The Battle of Lost Souls



Dart read the note again. He looked at the dagger to the note. After a few minutes he stood up and motioned for Shana to come along. She got up and followed Dart and started to speak. "Dart-----"She was cut off by Dart. "Shhhh" She nodded. Dart drew his sword as quietly as possible. Shana seeing this did the same with her bow. "I saw a sprit watching us,"he said in whisper. Out of nowhere a sprit came rushing down at Dart. Luckily, Dart dodged the Sprit from taking his body. (Sprits that are lost attack and posses them) Dart slashed at the one and it dissolved in smoke. "Dart duck!" Shana shot an arrow at an oncoming Sprit that was going for Dart's back. Shana and Dart closed in on each other. Shana turned Dragoon, and her bow was upgraded. She loaded 5 arrows into her bow. She shot once, they all came out. 5 Sprits flew up in smoke. Dart also turned Dragoon, and he made his sword a living flame. He spun around and slashed 5 at a time. They got closed in again. Dart tried to summon fire magic but he didn't have enough left from that Final Flame. Shana couldn't use magic because it would only heal. Dart had one plan left. "RUN!" They flew off into the sky. But a huge cloud of Sprits that had fused to make a barrier stopped them short. Dart had to summon all his magic but all he could manage was Final Burst. 'Good enough' he thought. "FINAL BURST!" He flew through the cloud making a huge hole appear, and all of the cloud turned to smoke. What Dart hadn't realized is that when you touch a Sprit that your own Sprit is taken from you. As Shana watched in dismay as Dart's Sprit rose she went up to catch it. Just as she sealed it, she flew down to Dart's body. Then, she took her staff and gave back Dart's Sprit.



Dart woke in the next 2 hours and it was still dark. "What happened?" "I gave you back your Sprit" Dart rested his head on the ground for another 2 hours.

It was the crack of dawn when he got up. "Awe man, we gotta' get to that Marquia place, to find Lavitz, maybe he knows more about what's happening" "I don't know Dart, I don't know…" Dart pulled out his map and finally found where they were. "Just outside of the forest" he said while walking. "There should be a lake about right…THERE!" He pulled back a bush and saw a beautiful lake in view. "Lake Drinian, its called" Shana was about to jump in when Dart stuck out his arm and pulled her down to the ground. "I saw guards," he said. "I'm gonna' go try and make peace" Dart got up slowly and walked back a couple of paces. He walked in slowly and acted like a traveler. "Who are you?" said one guard? "My name is Dart and I'm a traveler, is there a kingdom around here?" "Kingdom Drinian is about a mile from here," said the other guard. Dart drew his sword to clean it off. Bad idea. As soon as it was out of the sheath the guards arrested him and the hiding Shana and took them off to Kingdom Drinian.



DDX-Sorry about the shortness this time, but R/R!

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"So, you come within the kingdom perimeter with a sword and a bow. I should put you both in the dungeon!"