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Amidst the Moonlight

By: Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 22: Hopeless

Author's Note: Guess what guys!!!! I'm officially 16!!!! YES!!!!

Tolaku stood up with new found rage, her eyes glowing more fiercely than before. Her agony fueled her anger. She threw off the blood on her hands and kept her stance strong even though her own energy was dropping drastically.

Orpheus eyes widened with fright as Tolaku towered over him with wings at its full wingspan. "Care to say that statement again?" Tolaku's cold voice shot a shiver down Ray's spine.

"That's not possible!!!! No living thing could be standing after an attack like that!!!" Orpheus' voice said shaking. Tolaku grabbed him by the color and pulled him up so that they were making direct eye contact.

"I'm no ordinary living thing!! I'm one pissed off Calain!!"

Orpheus' scared face tried to look brave but with no success, "You don't scare me!!!"

Tolaku's eyebrow rose, "Are you so sure?" She raised her free hand and so that Orpheus could see it, fire started swirling around it. A smirk came upon Tolaku's flaming face, she then closed her eyes. And the fire started to spread all over her body. The flames were so close to Orpheus that he started to feel his skin melting.

"AAAAHHHH!!!!" He yelled with pain, he swung a punch and it hit her on her face making her drop him. Saving him from burning to death. "Calain my ass, more like a flaming bitch!!" He yelled at her once he got to a safer distance.

Tolaku's brows furrowed together as her tightened fist started swirling fire around it again, "You will regret saying those words!!!!" With the ability to control fire at will Tolaku made the fire surround Orpheus. The fire grew, coming closer to Orpheus. He looked around in fright, he then tried to think of way to get out alive but nothing came to mind. Suddenly he felt himself being lifted off the ground. Tolaku growled with frustration that was the last of her strength to make that fire surround him.

Orpheus turned around in the air and peered up at, "Mother!!"

The Muse that was his mother stood there looking down at him, "I warned you my son." She said with a calm almost musical voice, "The Warrior of Flame is not something to joke about…. But you got lucky. You wounded her enough for her to drain the immense power from her…. excellent."

Ray stood there and looked around wondering how he could help, 'what to do? What to do? What to do? What to do? What to do? What to do? What to do? What to do?" He took in what he had…to his left there was Drigger and the mysterious Calain Rose, then to his right there was the mighty phoenix Dranzer. "Guys, what do you think of attacking that witch and her son?"

Dranzer turned his head, 'It would be unwise, and there is not enough of us to take on that woman.'

Drigger snorted, 'Dranzer stop thinking negative here!'

"Yes, we need to waste time till we get some help," Rose said as she made a flower rose appear in her hand. She smiled with unknowing knowledge.

"Help?" Ray said glancing in her direction, "How do you know that help is on its way?"

Rose smiled, "I have a connection with a certain Calain who is on his way." Ray knew at once whom she was talking about. He only hoped that there was enough time for him to get here.

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Kai gasped as the gem around Julia shattered into pieces. "NO!! DON'T GO!!!" It looked like she was slowly turning into a glowing white vapor. (Author's note: Like in Final Fantasy 10) For an instant he saw her open her eyes and the red pupils stared at him as if begging him to help her. But then they to faded into a glowing vapor and soon disappeared.

"COME BACK!!!…." He shouted to the nothingness around him and then hung his head with sadness, "We were finally together again."

"Kai!" a familiar voice called out.

"J..Julia!" he said hopefully looking wildly around. But no one was there. "Where are you?"

"I don't know, I think I'm unconscious at the moment. I don't like the feeling of this place!" Her frightened voice said.

"Don't worry!!! I'm coming to rescue you!!!" He called out, but this time nothing answered him back. Someone had cut off Julia's connection to him. He clenched his fist and walked over to the door and kicked it down. His body looked like it was melting until it was just a puddle. Suddenly the puddle began to move across the floor!

Going faster through the hallways until it came to the wall that Tolaku had rammed into. The water puddle simply went over the debris and outside where it formed back into a body. Kai stood there and viewed the situation. Tolaku still mad but no energy to express her anger, then he glanced up in the air and saw the head muse and her brat son. He looked down at Tolaku.

'I have to protect her!!! I promised Ray that I would!!!' he thought as he ran out in front of Tolaku. "Stay put Tolaku!!" he shouted at her.

"Kai…Where's Julia?" Tolaku asked breathing heavily, she collapsed onto one knee.

"I d..don't know," he said softly. He unsheathed his sword and stood protectively in front of Tolaku who was still a flaming person but her flames had died down a lot. The muse looked down at Kai and smiled.

"Thank you for coming to us, this makes things a lot easier!" she said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "I suppose you know what happened to the Jewel. Don't you?" She said as she eyed Kai with glee. Tolaku's eyes widened who turned to Kai expecting him to answer the question. Kai stood there not saying a thing. Tolaku looked like she was going to explode again, but she had no energy left to do so. So she just sat there clutching her wound and hug her head in sadness.

"Stay Strong Tolaku!" Kai whispered to her. She merely nodded not really paying attention to the urgency in those hidden words. She felt something like an invisible lasso loop around her. She merely glanced at this strange feeling before being yanked into a direction. Kai had just turned around to see her flying through the air. "TOLAKU!!!"

She felt someone catch her and then she opened her eyes to meet golden ones. Her vision became better and then it focused on something she thought she lost a long time ago. Immediately the flames covering her body vanished at his touch. He smiled at her, she just stared at him tempting whether to believe it or not.

"Tolaku, everything's going to be alright," Ray said softly wrapping his arms around her. She smiled tears coming to her eyes, then those eyes closed and she passed out. Ray panicked and found the problem. The sword wound from Orpheus' attack still bleeding badly. He quickly took off his shirt and wrapped up Tolaku in hope to stop the bleeding.

"She needs to get some medical help quickly or she will die!" Rose said as she sank next to Ray, her silky red hair cascading down her shoulders. She gently placed a hand on Tolaku's head as if reading her mind or something. "Yes, she is really injured!"

A small girl with bright green hair appeared on the other side of Ray grabbed Tolaku before Ray could react, stuck her tongue at him, and then disappeared along with Tolaku. Ray now angry shouted, "That was Urania!! She's still alive!" He turned to Rose who was equally uncomfortable. "Where did she take her!?!" Rose's eyes met with Ray's.

"Where they have Max and the Jewel, all they need now is three more Calains," she said with that mystic knowledge again. Ray calculated in his head for a second, then looked back at Rose confused.

"But they already have Max and Tolaku, that's two, then the only other Calains is you and Damon, that's just two! Who is the fifth Calain!?!" Ray said very loudly. Drigger and Dranzer were listening very carefully curious as well. Rose sucked in a deep breath and then looked at something that seemed to be on the other side of the wide balcony. Ray, Drigger, and Dranzer all followed her gaze and it landed on Kai. All three drew a sharp intake of breath. Finally Ray managed to speak, "But how is that possible?"

"He's not a real Calain, but the muses somehow infused him with the Calain ability to control water. That makes all the Elements at their command, with that type of power they control the world and combining the power with the Jewel means they can expand it so they can control the whole galaxy!" Rose explained at the three shocked beings.

Kai ran over to them, all four of them looked at him, as he tried to catch his breathe, "Where's Tolaku?" Everyone looked at each other, but then Rose eyes widened. She jumped up and pushed Kai out of the way, a second later a beam hit her and she disappeared. "What the?" They all looked at Orpheus and his mother, then Urania and Euterpe appeared next to them smiling like they have won a prize.

"How are we going to fight all five of them!!!" Ray shouted looking up at the floating figures in the sky. "We had trouble fighting one at a time with everybody on our side here!!!" He felt that the situation was hopeless, but then a ray of shining light appeared. A figure with wings landed right next to Kai and got out his sword. Damon stood ready to take on these muses.

"I felt Rose's aura so I came as quick as possible," he looked around, "Where is she anyway?"

"They already took her!!" Kai growled as he stood next to Damon also with his sword out. Damon didn't like that news.

"This isn't good that just leaves me and you, Kai," Damon said as his eyebrows furrowed together . Ray ran up next to him, both Damon and Kai looked at him shocked.

"I might not be able to control the elements but I have to be of some help!!!" Damon smiled at Ray's comment while Kai just nodded his head. Suddenly Dranzer and Drigger came up from behind them.

"Can't forget about us!! We're in this too!" Drigger said growling and retracting out his claws while Dranzer flew in the air a few feet from the ground.

"THE CALVARY HAS ARRIVED!!!!!" a cheerful voice called out. Everyone turned and saw Crystal riding Shimmer, with Tekero, Draciel, and Tyson and Flamerion on Dragoon. Everyone except the muses sighed out with relief. Damon started laughing, then turned to Kai and smiled.

"What?" Kai asked as he noticed Damon smiling at him. Damon laughed leaned closer to Kai and whispered.

"You got the advantage here. Look around……it's raining!" Kai looked up at the sky as he saw the small drops of water falling downward. He then smiled realizing what Damon had told him.

Author's Note: There you go!! Things are heating up aren't they? Well, I hope you liked this chapter!

I have a lot of cool pictures I've done for this story but I can't scan them in because at the moment I have no scanner…there's two I worked really hard on. One is with a flaming Tolaku and Ray and Drigger, the other was with Crystal and Tyson. They both are really well done.

Anyways I was really upset that nobody checked out my original story on Fictionpress.net, Remember the Past

PLEASE REVIEW BOTH STORIES!!!