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Amidst the Moonlight

By: Crystal of Psyche

Chapter 24: Moonlight

Author's Note: Sorry, *laughs* I've been lazy for a while now. Haven't work on anything for a while now…been uh…..busy!

Twilight: *smacks her on the head* busy! What a lame excuse..

Crystal: *rubs her head* look whose talking!! What about your story you're supposed to be working on!! You're working on one story when I'm working on…*counts on fingers* four stories at the same time!

Twilight: …….

Crystal: *pats* but I forgive you always! *smiles at her friend*

Orpheus finally broke the kiss between him and Julia, the vortex closed and on the other side of the pedestal stood an older looking man. Dressed in a dark robe, like evil wizards wore back in the medieval times. He lifted his hands and removed the hood that was on his face. Kai and Max both had a quick intake of breath.

The man who stood in front of them raised his hands and smiled at all of them, "I'm baaaaacckkk." He looked around at all the Calains and Kai. His gaze went back to Kai, he lifted a finger and pointed at him. "What's he doing here?"

"Father, there wasn't a Calain that had survived the attacked that had the element of water, so Mother did the next best thing. She gave the power to a person. It was the only way," Orpheus explained not quite understanding why his father was glaring at Kai with utmost hatred. "Is there something wrong?"

The man went over and grabbed Kai by the neck, "This is the lad that put me away in that dimension four years ago!! Along with the help of two Calains and the Jewel…by the way." He said letting go of Kai and standing once more faced to Orpheus. He smiled to his son, "Where is the Jewel?" Orpheus smiled as well and stepped aside-revealing Julia still on the pedestal.

"Where she belongs," Orpheus said. Kai struggled to get out of his chains, as the man walked towards Julia. Julia in the state of unconsciousness had no idea that HE came back. He stood there looking at her face for a few moments, he let out a low chuckle.

"I'm not giving her the chance to wake up this time! Last time she did, she could've of destroyed me…but no. She chose to send me of to this empty place thinking that I won't get out, but I did. Thanks to her once again."

"You mean…" Max said suddenly realizing something very crucial, "You are…Sutekh!"

Sutekh bowed, "It is very nice to meet all of you once again." Everyone's voice seemed not to be working. They all stared at him, until a moan came from Tolaku. Sutekh turned around to face the fallen warrior. He smirked, "And what happened to Flame?"

Orpheus cleared his throat, "She got out of a hand when we thought that we killed the Serilkyu survivor. I had to fight her, and the results…" He said motioning towards the injuries all over Tolaku's body. Not to mention the big wound in her mid section.

"What!? The Serilkyu!!! We have to destroy him!" Sutekh shouted grabbing his son by the collar and shaking him. Orpheus looked shocked by his father's actions.

"But…can't you destroy him with the almighty power you have?"

Sutekh dropped Orpheus, "I can't my powers haven't come back to me yet. The Jewel is trying to stop me even while she is sleeping. Orpheus it is up to you until I can have my powers back." Orpheus nodded and bowed before backing out of the room, turning to leave. "And son." Orpheus turned to face him as he was at the door. "Be careful this survivor is different. And he has company with him." Orpheus nodded in understanding and walked out of the room. Sutekh turned back to all the Calains. "Well I guess it's a good thing that I spared you."

"Oh lucky us," Kai growled. Sutekh turned to him and looked at him with deep disgust.

"I would've killed you a long time ago but you got lucky that you were chosen to become the Calain of Water. But now you will be my puppet like the rest of them." Sutekh turned back to face Julia, he reached out to touch her face, but electricity shot out from her body and hit his hand. His hand shot back.

"Huh?" Kai looked towards Max who had his eyes closed, once Sutekh's hand moved away from Julia's face he opened his eyes again, looked at Kai, and smiled. Kai got the idea and looked at Damon who had the same look on his face as Max. Rose was looking at Tolaku, Kai could feel the slow energy transfer between the two. Kai's mind was slowly becoming less clouded and painful.

*****

Ray and Crystal slowly made their way through the castle. After a while Crystal's voice broke the dull silence between them, "Do you know where we are going?" Ray stopped walking, Crystal stopped too and stared at him. "Well?"

Ray sighed and hung his head, "No." Crystal didn't seem the least bit surprised for some reason. "Do you?" Crystal made a face then sunk to the floor hugging her knees.

"No."

"Terrific," Ray said sinking to the floor on the other side of the hall. "Let's think of a plan of action here." They sat in silence.

"Sooo… I know you have some sort of powers, but what is all of it? It might help us get to the others." Crystal asked trying to form a plan, at the moment she was twirling the hilt of her sword on the ground.

Ray leaned his head into his two hands, "Well let's see. I somehow transported some of the Calains here, and call forth Bit beasts out of their beyblades…and…" trying to recall anything from his memory. "Something about using the Calains powers I know of."

"So idiot!! Try breaking the walls with the power of earth from Rose!! Or melt the ceiling with Tolaku's powers so we can get to the top easier!! Or melt us into puddles so we can get through the cracks with Kai's power!!" crystal shouted, pinning Ray to the wall.

"Alright! I'll try!" Ray took Crystal's hand and concentrated. Both of them slowly turned into a puddle and scurried up the wall into the cracks on the ceiling. Just as the liquid disappeared, a figure appeared walking down the hallway. He looked around trying to find clues.

"Where did they go I swear they were down here." Orpheus said.

*****

A small puddle formed around where Damon was chained up, Sutekh was too busy to notice, the puddle formed into two people. Damon smiled with relief and whispered, "I'm glad to see you guys, things were starting to get bad." He motioned with his eyes towards Sutekh. Both Ray and Crystal followed his gaze and stopped themselves from crying out with surprise.

"Damon what should we do?" Ray whispered, hopefully the older Calain could come up with something better. Damon thought for a moment.

"Cut my chains…Quietly! So Sutekh won't notice," he said quietly. Ray put his hands on the chains near Damon's hands. Steam started coming from his hands. Crystal looked at him with a worried expression.

"Do you know what your doing?" Ray looked at her face.

"No, let's just keep our hopes up," Ray said focusing back onto the chains. Crystal just looked at him with some doubt. "Go try to get the others chains off, and tell them not to move until Damon says so." Crystal nodded, and crawled on ground to Max, took out her Lightning Strike. The blade was made as small as a dagger now. She whispered the instructions to him in his ear. Eventually all of them were free. But a problem came.

"HAHAHAHHA!!! MY POWERS ARE STARTING TO RETURN TO ME!!!" Sutekh laughed holdings his fists in the air above him. He then pointed a finger towards Damon. "This is it!!! You can't interfere anymore!!!

Damon smiled and got up, letting the lose chains fall to the floor, "They just don't make them like they used to," Damon said as he brushed off dust off his sleeves. Sutekh looked around and saw that all the Calains (except for Tolaku) and Kai stood up. He then noticed that there were two new people in the room.

"This not happening!!!" Sutekh cried out, "My powers aren't fully returned yet!! Must get the Jewel!!" He turned to snatch Julia but she was gone! He turned to the left and saw that Kai holding her in his arms, had gotten her before he could. "YOU!!"

"Max make a hole in the roof!!" Kai shouted as he saw that Sutekh was advancing towards him. Max threw his hand towards the ceiling sending a chain of electrical currents towards it, blasting through making a hole. Kai jumped through and noticed that it had stopped raining, all that was left was puddles and some clouds in the sky covering the full moon.

"GET BACK HERE!!!" Sutekh shouted as he jumped out of the hole, followed by Max, Damon, Rose, and Crystal. Ray had stayed behind to help Tolaku. "YOU IDIOT!!! YOU HAVE TO KEEP HER OUT OF THE MOONLIGHT!!!" The clouds cleared, the light from the moon shone down on Kai who was still holding Julia. As the light hit Julia her body started to glow a light bluish color. Sutekh looked at her with fright, as the others stared with confusion.

Author's Note: Again I am sorry that this took a long time, but this time I made it a little longer than usual! =^__^= I've been in a comic mood so lately I've been drawing comics, I was thinking of doing an original comic strip, about me and my friends probably going to Japan and having a hell of a time! I'm thinking about it, sounds like fun. What do you guys think of that?