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Ogenki still held the determined look in her eye as she made her way to her room. Along the way she heard whispers about the death of the king, and that his son was now ruler. She heard these whispers and stored them within her mind with everything else. She burst into the room, going over to the closet. There was one uniform left in it. Turning, she found Mars and Kao already in theirs. Mars took Ogenki's off the rack, handing it to her.
"We're going to be ready to fight him. We'll save Mast…Darth. He gave us these, and we will use them," Ogenki smiled slightly, shaking her head.
"No. Miyst's vision was very clear about your deaths. I will fight alone, I can beat whoever stands in my way." Kao stepped up.
"Ogenki, I'm very sorry about what I'm about to do, but I need to get some sense into your head," with that, she thwacked Ogenki upside the head. Ogenki blinked, waking up from her delusions about Mars and Kao not fighting. They would fight, and she needed them to help her fight. But when they left the room so she could change, she dragged a chair over to the bookshelf and, looking around just in case, pocketed the Book of Secret Arts.
"I'm sorry Mars," she thought as she obeyed a direct command issued to her. But she might need this.
Yugi stood before his father's council. They all stared down upon him. It was quite threatening. It didn't help that they were seated at a high table and he, like his father, was short. He was very much like a younger, softer version of his father. (Okay, I know what I'm about to say isn't true in the manga or anime series, but it's really the only way it works) His father had been twenty-nine, almost fit to rule a country, but he was only fourteen, a child in the eyes of the council. Perhaps they were right about that.
"Young Yugi, this is no time for a child to take command of your late father's country. He was murdered and that implies a war is brewing," the High Priest Kaiba repeated himself. Yugi gathered himself up as tall as he could.
"I am my father's only child and heir. I am capable of taking charge. His lands are no longer his. These lands are mine." Yugi dared all to challenge him. As they were about to, the doors burst open and Miyst strode in, wearing an unusual green dress that had no shoulders and was held up by a carved bone traveling around halfway down her shoulders (A.K.A. the Mystical Elf card). She glanced at the council, distaste clear in her expression.
"This boy can achieve ends his father could not. He can be and is stronger. Maybe it is not his destiny to force the evil away, but he is to rule once it's gone. Forsake him not, or you yourselves will be punished," with a sweep of her long sleeves, she exited as abruptly as she had come in. Just then a roar echoed outside the palace and the room shook violently. Yugi left the council room, sprinting down the hallways to see what was wrong.
He wasn't the first there. Chaz, Zen, Mars, and Kao were the first. A great white dragon screamed rage and terror, shooting beams of energy at the kingdom. Another, slightly smaller black dragon bore a man, who seemed to find the whole ideal funny. Kao noticed the new king and jumped in front of him with her shield and blocked an attack the man had thrown at him. Turning, she shoved the younger ruler towards the palace doors.
"Get yourself back inside, baka! (idiot) This is no time for the kingdom to have no ruler!" Yugi glared slightly, but ran back inside as another blast rocked the building. Chaz and Zen threw an answering blast. In the confusion, Sar and Henri had made their appearance, but it was clear they would all soon fall.
"Where is Ogenki?" Zen shouted over the noise. Kao didn't answer, her efforts concentrated on the shield barrier Sar and she were attempting to keep up. Mars hollered back that she didn't know. As she made that statement, however, an eerie silence fell across the battlefield. Ogenki came drifting out of the palace. Her eyes were burning green, the Black Pendant glowing around her neck. She had unlocked its hidden powers, and was, as a result, stronger than ever. She spoke, her voice projecting itself to all ears that needed to hear it.
"Enough. This is not the place for the deciding battle. What is there to fight for when you destroy everything? Follow me, and we shall settle this." Her eyes grew a deeper green and she brought a bubble around the group. Lifting her hands in the air, she teleported everyone to a barren field.
"Let it be known, oh evil one, that I will defeat you, and that you will let my master go." Her eyes returned to normal, "Now we may begin." The dragons took flight, diving in unison at the group. Zen let out a spell, freezing the beasts in midair. But dragons are not subdued by spells for long (except Malik's) and they broke free, taking to the air again. Chaz looked grimly at the group.
"We cannot fight them in the air," his eyes turned to Ogenki, "At least not all of us. Focus the power of that jewel, dear lady, and you can, at least, hover." Ogenki nodded.
"I know." (And I know the Black Pendant card doesn't really give you flying capabilities, but this is my fic. I am queen!) Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she lifted off the ground. (Eyes are fun when your characters are doing magic!) The great beasts (Or kajons… OW! Hey, I thought we agreed no more soda cans. Oh. We didn't?) looked surprised and angered (well, we should have agreed! Oops, *duck*) at this new installment. Ogenki threw a purple blast at them. They fell, momentarily injured. Angrily, the black dragon shot a ball of fire at her. Ogenki's attention wavered at the memory of another being doing the same thing, and she started to fall through the air. Horrified at what she had almost done to herself, and her friends, she regained her aerial stance, but was still hit by the flames. She summoned magic water to put it out. And it worked! The uniform steamed, and she paralyzed the black and went after the white. The white screamed at her, and she saw, as a reflection through its blue eyes, an attack from below. She whipped around, positioning herself in a defensive stance, arms crossed and head bent down (just watch any fighting anime, you'll get the idea of what I mean). The attack damaged her slightly, and a VERY annoyed Malik floated up.
"How is it my dragons are not harming you? You can't possibly be that strong with Darth still alive." Then his eyebrows furled as he spotted the pendant around her neck, "So that's it, is it. Stupid Darth. He had to make this hard for me, didn't he? Well, that explains it. Carry on I suppose." He drifted back to the ground, where he had been fighting the others.
Darth struggled with his binds. He needed to escape. At the very least, he needed to die. Then his girls, but not the boys, somehow it didn't work with them, would get stronger from the apprentice/master relationship he had with them. More so than the others Ogenki. He could not live with himself if he let her die without doing everything within his power to stop it. There was a knife on the table on the other side of the cave. Malik had left it there to torment him.
"You could kill yourself and give those female apprentices of yours a boost. But then, you'd have to be out of those bonds, wouldn't you?" he had laughed then. Malik always laughed. Darth felt he was, at least, a little insane. He closed his eyes. He would escape.
And, if necessary-
He would die.
Ogenki fell to the ground with a loud thud. The dragons roared to each other in triumph. Trembling, Ogenki got to her feet. It would not end so soon. She pulled the book out. With a crystal voice, she read from it, despite it being in Elvish. Mars looked over to her.
"Ogenki! What are you doing?" But it was too late. Ogenki was engulfed in a gold light, disappearing from sight. Mars ran over, all ready to pull her out. But Ogenki's voice still echoed across the barren field.
From inside the light, this is what Ogenki experienced.
As like the first time she opened it, her energy was taken away. New energy replenished it, stronger, unique energy. Her physical Chi was replaced by another, firmer and more in touch with the new energy. But this time it did not hurt. It was not a painful experience; it was a welcome one.
Mars reached her hand inside the light. But the light faded away and Ogenki stood there, unharmed. Ogenki lifted up easily, staring down the beasts. Malik was screaming orders at the dragons, but Ogenki was rising to meet them once again.
She was more powerful than before.
But even that wasn't quite enough.
Ogenki was starting to lose, lose badly.
Down below, Malik was winning, just like his dragons. Zen had foolishly used most of his energy and Chi too early in the fight. Chaz could have won easily, in his prime. But he was old now, old and weaker. The others were simply too young and inexperienced to hold him at bay longer than they already had. With an evil grin, Malik shot a well-placed blast at Henri. Henri crumpled, a pale look in his eyes. Mars screamed, diving to catch him.
But he was dead before he hit the ground.
"Nonono, Henri, Henri, stay with me. Stay, stay. STAY!" Mars sobbed, clutching the fallen body of the blonde French man she had learned to love. As the fighters were distracted, Malik grabbed Sar around the neck, pointing another chunk of Chi at him.
"Surrender, or lose another comrade," Malik informed them all. Mars closed her eyes, mourning the death of Henri, her beloved Henri, hardly noticing his energy was becoming hers. Ogenki stopped her fight with the dragons and started to charge at Malik. He made the clump of Chi bigger.
"I wouldn't do that." Ogenki stopped, glaring at him furiously. Sar looked pleadingly at Kao.
"Save the kingdom, I'm an acceptable loss. Kill him. Do it now!" Kao shook her head, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"I can't do that," she choked out with a tear-croaked voice. Malik laughed (again).
"You females are so easy to manipulate. You fall in love too easily, then you let your emotions get in the way. How sad for you." Ogenki stood suspended in midair, Kao stood looking into the eyes of Sar. Mars clutched Henri's body, ready to kill Malik. Chaz rummaged around in his pocket and Zen heaved breaths, weak from dodging around, trying to protect all the fighters.
"You're running out of time to choose," Malik informed them in a singsong voice. Chaz's eyes brightened as his fingers closed around something in his pocket. He carefully made his way towards Mars.
"Don't let that body get destroyed." He moved to Kao.
"Do as Sar commands. Attack Malik, but make sure you recover the body, or you'll never see him again." Kao shook her head.
"I can't," she moaned. Chaz shook her by her shoulders.
"You MUST." Kao looked at Sar. His eyes pleaded with her to do it.
"I'm sorry," she said in barely more than a whisper, but took up an energy blast and charged down Malik. He fired the blast at Sar, and his body went flying. Kao leaped in the air, catching it as Chaz commanded, and fired her blast at Malik. He fell, and the dragons went into a shock-like state, holding a mindless position in the air.
"KAO! MARS! TOSS ME THE BODIES!" Chaz hollered. Mars gaped at him, to do so would be disrespectful. But Kao reluctantly tossed Sar's fallen body, so Mars handed Henri's over too. Chaz pulled out an amulet of life (you know, the Egyptian one on the MONSTER REBORN card).
"Life giver, have mercy upon these souls, resurrect them so they do not bring anguish." Chaz murmured. There was a surge of light, and the souls of Henri and Sar came back down from the heavens.
"Get in your bodies. Quickly, or the spell will wear off." Sar-Soul shook his head.
"No sir, I'm sorry, but right now Kao and Mars have our energy, and it will help you guys more than it would to have us back. The big guys up there," he lifted a finger skywards, "Promised we would come back, but not now. Be strong, Kao." The last part was directed directly at (duh) Kao. Henri-Soul went over to the tear-stricken Mars.
"Shush now, I'll be back. Just make sure you'll be here when I get back." Mars nodded. Henri hesitated. (WARNING! MUCH SAPPYNESS AHEAD!)
"I love you, you know. I don't know when I figured it out; it seems I always have. But you should know. And since you can't hit me now, it seemed the perfect time." He kissed her. Mars couldn't help but choke out a-
"Baka. I know. I've always known. I'll be here when you get back." Henri-Soul drifted upwards, waving. Sar-Soul had gone back to Kao by this time.
"Everything Henri just said to Mars applies to me. I will be back, I swear it. But make sure you are here to greet me." Kao sniffled, but nodded. Sar-Soul started back up, but fought his way back down. He too kissed his loved one.
A sudden clapping interrupted our remaining heroes. Malik was back on his feet, and ready to start again. Which means also that the dragons were out of the shock.
"How touching. That is the best soap opera drama I have ever heard of. Sadly, you won't be able to keep you're promise of being here when they return." Mars chuckled evilly, standing up.
"Oh really? We have their power. You'll have a MUCH harder time killing us off now."
Meanwhile, Ogenki had started with the dragons again. But this time, there was a shadow in their eyes. Suddenly she remembered Miyst's vision. She had said something about freeing the beast within. An odd thought occurred to her. What if these beasts were under Malik's control? That would make sense. If she could just get them next to each other…
Determined, she swooped between the two beasts, playing a game of cat and mouse. They bellowed, following along. Looking over her shoulder, Ogenki saw the dragons at a perfect position. She halted abruptly, the white and black blurs zooming past her. They stopped, their mouse gone, and Ogenki charged forward and put one hand firmly on each dragon's head. She started to chant a counter-curse, and the trio of being's eyes all glazed over. Ogenki let her hands drop, slightly weakened. If this hadn't worked…
But it did.
The white dragon tossed it's head around, as if to figure where it was. The black seemed annoyed, looking around. The task of the dragons done, Ogenki swooped down to obliterate Malik. And, most importantly, find where Darth was.
"THIS CAN'T BE!" Malik shrieked, "HOW could a mere apprentice like YOU defeat MY spell?" Mars stepped up, tutting.
"We are not MERE apprentices, Ogenki less than the two of us," she gestured towards herself and Kao, "we are Darth's apprentices. And that says a lot."
"And we'd like to kill you now, you've made us VERY unhappy." Kao added sweetly. Ogenki came down beside the girls. She looked at Zen and Chaz.
"Well? Should we all do it together?" The group nodded, the dragons even roared in approval. All powered up, and blasted that jerk Malik for all he'd done to them. (Okay, Malik fans-DO NOT hate me!) Malik chuckled as he lay dying on the ground.
"Fool," he directed at Ogenki, "There was a spell. You've killed your own master in killing me." Malik's eyes rolled back and he died. But Ogenki saw none of that as she sprinted in a different direction, where she suspected Darth, her beloved Darth, was being hidden.
Darth fell to his knees again, the cave going dark. With almost grim satisfaction, he realized he was dying. His mind apologized to Ogenki as the world closed around him.
Author's note: Well, there ya go, my longest chapter yet, and probably ever. It's SIX freakin' pages. Hope you enjoyed it. See I told you it would be interesting, if not good. Aren't you glad you kept reading? I'm a good author, right? At least I update fast, not every other week, like a certain Funny Bunny I could mention… Just kidding Funny Bunny, I know you've got other things in your life besides fanfiction. Unlike some people I know…
Ogenki still held the determined look in her eye as she made her way to her room. Along the way she heard whispers about the death of the king, and that his son was now ruler. She heard these whispers and stored them within her mind with everything else. She burst into the room, going over to the closet. There was one uniform left in it. Turning, she found Mars and Kao already in theirs. Mars took Ogenki's off the rack, handing it to her.
"We're going to be ready to fight him. We'll save Mast…Darth. He gave us these, and we will use them," Ogenki smiled slightly, shaking her head.
"No. Miyst's vision was very clear about your deaths. I will fight alone, I can beat whoever stands in my way." Kao stepped up.
"Ogenki, I'm very sorry about what I'm about to do, but I need to get some sense into your head," with that, she thwacked Ogenki upside the head. Ogenki blinked, waking up from her delusions about Mars and Kao not fighting. They would fight, and she needed them to help her fight. But when they left the room so she could change, she dragged a chair over to the bookshelf and, looking around just in case, pocketed the Book of Secret Arts.
"I'm sorry Mars," she thought as she obeyed a direct command issued to her. But she might need this.
Yugi stood before his father's council. They all stared down upon him. It was quite threatening. It didn't help that they were seated at a high table and he, like his father, was short. He was very much like a younger, softer version of his father. (Okay, I know what I'm about to say isn't true in the manga or anime series, but it's really the only way it works) His father had been twenty-nine, almost fit to rule a country, but he was only fourteen, a child in the eyes of the council. Perhaps they were right about that.
"Young Yugi, this is no time for a child to take command of your late father's country. He was murdered and that implies a war is brewing," the High Priest Kaiba repeated himself. Yugi gathered himself up as tall as he could.
"I am my father's only child and heir. I am capable of taking charge. His lands are no longer his. These lands are mine." Yugi dared all to challenge him. As they were about to, the doors burst open and Miyst strode in, wearing an unusual green dress that had no shoulders and was held up by a carved bone traveling around halfway down her shoulders (A.K.A. the Mystical Elf card). She glanced at the council, distaste clear in her expression.
"This boy can achieve ends his father could not. He can be and is stronger. Maybe it is not his destiny to force the evil away, but he is to rule once it's gone. Forsake him not, or you yourselves will be punished," with a sweep of her long sleeves, she exited as abruptly as she had come in. Just then a roar echoed outside the palace and the room shook violently. Yugi left the council room, sprinting down the hallways to see what was wrong.
He wasn't the first there. Chaz, Zen, Mars, and Kao were the first. A great white dragon screamed rage and terror, shooting beams of energy at the kingdom. Another, slightly smaller black dragon bore a man, who seemed to find the whole ideal funny. Kao noticed the new king and jumped in front of him with her shield and blocked an attack the man had thrown at him. Turning, she shoved the younger ruler towards the palace doors.
"Get yourself back inside, baka! (idiot) This is no time for the kingdom to have no ruler!" Yugi glared slightly, but ran back inside as another blast rocked the building. Chaz and Zen threw an answering blast. In the confusion, Sar and Henri had made their appearance, but it was clear they would all soon fall.
"Where is Ogenki?" Zen shouted over the noise. Kao didn't answer, her efforts concentrated on the shield barrier Sar and she were attempting to keep up. Mars hollered back that she didn't know. As she made that statement, however, an eerie silence fell across the battlefield. Ogenki came drifting out of the palace. Her eyes were burning green, the Black Pendant glowing around her neck. She had unlocked its hidden powers, and was, as a result, stronger than ever. She spoke, her voice projecting itself to all ears that needed to hear it.
"Enough. This is not the place for the deciding battle. What is there to fight for when you destroy everything? Follow me, and we shall settle this." Her eyes grew a deeper green and she brought a bubble around the group. Lifting her hands in the air, she teleported everyone to a barren field.
"Let it be known, oh evil one, that I will defeat you, and that you will let my master go." Her eyes returned to normal, "Now we may begin." The dragons took flight, diving in unison at the group. Zen let out a spell, freezing the beasts in midair. But dragons are not subdued by spells for long (except Malik's) and they broke free, taking to the air again. Chaz looked grimly at the group.
"We cannot fight them in the air," his eyes turned to Ogenki, "At least not all of us. Focus the power of that jewel, dear lady, and you can, at least, hover." Ogenki nodded.
"I know." (And I know the Black Pendant card doesn't really give you flying capabilities, but this is my fic. I am queen!) Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she lifted off the ground. (Eyes are fun when your characters are doing magic!) The great beasts (Or kajons… OW! Hey, I thought we agreed no more soda cans. Oh. We didn't?) looked surprised and angered (well, we should have agreed! Oops, *duck*) at this new installment. Ogenki threw a purple blast at them. They fell, momentarily injured. Angrily, the black dragon shot a ball of fire at her. Ogenki's attention wavered at the memory of another being doing the same thing, and she started to fall through the air. Horrified at what she had almost done to herself, and her friends, she regained her aerial stance, but was still hit by the flames. She summoned magic water to put it out. And it worked! The uniform steamed, and she paralyzed the black and went after the white. The white screamed at her, and she saw, as a reflection through its blue eyes, an attack from below. She whipped around, positioning herself in a defensive stance, arms crossed and head bent down (just watch any fighting anime, you'll get the idea of what I mean). The attack damaged her slightly, and a VERY annoyed Malik floated up.
"How is it my dragons are not harming you? You can't possibly be that strong with Darth still alive." Then his eyebrows furled as he spotted the pendant around her neck, "So that's it, is it. Stupid Darth. He had to make this hard for me, didn't he? Well, that explains it. Carry on I suppose." He drifted back to the ground, where he had been fighting the others.
Darth struggled with his binds. He needed to escape. At the very least, he needed to die. Then his girls, but not the boys, somehow it didn't work with them, would get stronger from the apprentice/master relationship he had with them. More so than the others Ogenki. He could not live with himself if he let her die without doing everything within his power to stop it. There was a knife on the table on the other side of the cave. Malik had left it there to torment him.
"You could kill yourself and give those female apprentices of yours a boost. But then, you'd have to be out of those bonds, wouldn't you?" he had laughed then. Malik always laughed. Darth felt he was, at least, a little insane. He closed his eyes. He would escape.
And, if necessary-
He would die.
Ogenki fell to the ground with a loud thud. The dragons roared to each other in triumph. Trembling, Ogenki got to her feet. It would not end so soon. She pulled the book out. With a crystal voice, she read from it, despite it being in Elvish. Mars looked over to her.
"Ogenki! What are you doing?" But it was too late. Ogenki was engulfed in a gold light, disappearing from sight. Mars ran over, all ready to pull her out. But Ogenki's voice still echoed across the barren field.
From inside the light, this is what Ogenki experienced.
As like the first time she opened it, her energy was taken away. New energy replenished it, stronger, unique energy. Her physical Chi was replaced by another, firmer and more in touch with the new energy. But this time it did not hurt. It was not a painful experience; it was a welcome one.
Mars reached her hand inside the light. But the light faded away and Ogenki stood there, unharmed. Ogenki lifted up easily, staring down the beasts. Malik was screaming orders at the dragons, but Ogenki was rising to meet them once again.
She was more powerful than before.
But even that wasn't quite enough.
Ogenki was starting to lose, lose badly.
Down below, Malik was winning, just like his dragons. Zen had foolishly used most of his energy and Chi too early in the fight. Chaz could have won easily, in his prime. But he was old now, old and weaker. The others were simply too young and inexperienced to hold him at bay longer than they already had. With an evil grin, Malik shot a well-placed blast at Henri. Henri crumpled, a pale look in his eyes. Mars screamed, diving to catch him.
But he was dead before he hit the ground.
"Nonono, Henri, Henri, stay with me. Stay, stay. STAY!" Mars sobbed, clutching the fallen body of the blonde French man she had learned to love. As the fighters were distracted, Malik grabbed Sar around the neck, pointing another chunk of Chi at him.
"Surrender, or lose another comrade," Malik informed them all. Mars closed her eyes, mourning the death of Henri, her beloved Henri, hardly noticing his energy was becoming hers. Ogenki stopped her fight with the dragons and started to charge at Malik. He made the clump of Chi bigger.
"I wouldn't do that." Ogenki stopped, glaring at him furiously. Sar looked pleadingly at Kao.
"Save the kingdom, I'm an acceptable loss. Kill him. Do it now!" Kao shook her head, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"I can't do that," she choked out with a tear-croaked voice. Malik laughed (again).
"You females are so easy to manipulate. You fall in love too easily, then you let your emotions get in the way. How sad for you." Ogenki stood suspended in midair, Kao stood looking into the eyes of Sar. Mars clutched Henri's body, ready to kill Malik. Chaz rummaged around in his pocket and Zen heaved breaths, weak from dodging around, trying to protect all the fighters.
"You're running out of time to choose," Malik informed them in a singsong voice. Chaz's eyes brightened as his fingers closed around something in his pocket. He carefully made his way towards Mars.
"Don't let that body get destroyed." He moved to Kao.
"Do as Sar commands. Attack Malik, but make sure you recover the body, or you'll never see him again." Kao shook her head.
"I can't," she moaned. Chaz shook her by her shoulders.
"You MUST." Kao looked at Sar. His eyes pleaded with her to do it.
"I'm sorry," she said in barely more than a whisper, but took up an energy blast and charged down Malik. He fired the blast at Sar, and his body went flying. Kao leaped in the air, catching it as Chaz commanded, and fired her blast at Malik. He fell, and the dragons went into a shock-like state, holding a mindless position in the air.
"KAO! MARS! TOSS ME THE BODIES!" Chaz hollered. Mars gaped at him, to do so would be disrespectful. But Kao reluctantly tossed Sar's fallen body, so Mars handed Henri's over too. Chaz pulled out an amulet of life (you know, the Egyptian one on the MONSTER REBORN card).
"Life giver, have mercy upon these souls, resurrect them so they do not bring anguish." Chaz murmured. There was a surge of light, and the souls of Henri and Sar came back down from the heavens.
"Get in your bodies. Quickly, or the spell will wear off." Sar-Soul shook his head.
"No sir, I'm sorry, but right now Kao and Mars have our energy, and it will help you guys more than it would to have us back. The big guys up there," he lifted a finger skywards, "Promised we would come back, but not now. Be strong, Kao." The last part was directed directly at (duh) Kao. Henri-Soul went over to the tear-stricken Mars.
"Shush now, I'll be back. Just make sure you'll be here when I get back." Mars nodded. Henri hesitated. (WARNING! MUCH SAPPYNESS AHEAD!)
"I love you, you know. I don't know when I figured it out; it seems I always have. But you should know. And since you can't hit me now, it seemed the perfect time." He kissed her. Mars couldn't help but choke out a-
"Baka. I know. I've always known. I'll be here when you get back." Henri-Soul drifted upwards, waving. Sar-Soul had gone back to Kao by this time.
"Everything Henri just said to Mars applies to me. I will be back, I swear it. But make sure you are here to greet me." Kao sniffled, but nodded. Sar-Soul started back up, but fought his way back down. He too kissed his loved one.
A sudden clapping interrupted our remaining heroes. Malik was back on his feet, and ready to start again. Which means also that the dragons were out of the shock.
"How touching. That is the best soap opera drama I have ever heard of. Sadly, you won't be able to keep you're promise of being here when they return." Mars chuckled evilly, standing up.
"Oh really? We have their power. You'll have a MUCH harder time killing us off now."
Meanwhile, Ogenki had started with the dragons again. But this time, there was a shadow in their eyes. Suddenly she remembered Miyst's vision. She had said something about freeing the beast within. An odd thought occurred to her. What if these beasts were under Malik's control? That would make sense. If she could just get them next to each other…
Determined, she swooped between the two beasts, playing a game of cat and mouse. They bellowed, following along. Looking over her shoulder, Ogenki saw the dragons at a perfect position. She halted abruptly, the white and black blurs zooming past her. They stopped, their mouse gone, and Ogenki charged forward and put one hand firmly on each dragon's head. She started to chant a counter-curse, and the trio of being's eyes all glazed over. Ogenki let her hands drop, slightly weakened. If this hadn't worked…
But it did.
The white dragon tossed it's head around, as if to figure where it was. The black seemed annoyed, looking around. The task of the dragons done, Ogenki swooped down to obliterate Malik. And, most importantly, find where Darth was.
"THIS CAN'T BE!" Malik shrieked, "HOW could a mere apprentice like YOU defeat MY spell?" Mars stepped up, tutting.
"We are not MERE apprentices, Ogenki less than the two of us," she gestured towards herself and Kao, "we are Darth's apprentices. And that says a lot."
"And we'd like to kill you now, you've made us VERY unhappy." Kao added sweetly. Ogenki came down beside the girls. She looked at Zen and Chaz.
"Well? Should we all do it together?" The group nodded, the dragons even roared in approval. All powered up, and blasted that jerk Malik for all he'd done to them. (Okay, Malik fans-DO NOT hate me!) Malik chuckled as he lay dying on the ground.
"Fool," he directed at Ogenki, "There was a spell. You've killed your own master in killing me." Malik's eyes rolled back and he died. But Ogenki saw none of that as she sprinted in a different direction, where she suspected Darth, her beloved Darth, was being hidden.
Darth fell to his knees again, the cave going dark. With almost grim satisfaction, he realized he was dying. His mind apologized to Ogenki as the world closed around him.
Author's note: Well, there ya go, my longest chapter yet, and probably ever. It's SIX freakin' pages. Hope you enjoyed it. See I told you it would be interesting, if not good. Aren't you glad you kept reading? I'm a good author, right? At least I update fast, not every other week, like a certain Funny Bunny I could mention… Just kidding Funny Bunny, I know you've got other things in your life besides fanfiction. Unlike some people I know…