Chapter five: Clashes

A/N: The actions heating up now in this fic as Li's plan unfolds (I just can't wait to reveal what he's After!)

Kei's castle. . . A zombie charged at Li and thrusted it forward, Shadow Scythe protected his master by cutting the zombie apart with his scythe. The zombies body faded away instantly, the rest of the zombies charged forward but Night Wolf and Shadow Scythe fought them. The zombies were clearly no match for their powers but with every one that fell two more came to replace them, Li quickly grew tired of the fighting taking place around him impeding his opening attack on Kei. "That's enough" he said "Night Wolf, Shadow Scythe take this outside" He outstretched his hand and fired a black ball of dark magic that smacked into a zombie sending it back into a wall, the ball exploded blowing the right wall of the throne room out. Shadow Scythe and Night Wolf took off into the air, the zombies levitated and followed them out of the throne room leaving Li and Kei alone. Li turned back to Kei and with a smirk said "finely we're alone" Kei gritted her teeth "I will kill you Li Showron!!!" Li's smirk stayed on his face "I doubt that. . . you never should have given me the powers of the SHADOW book Kei! But one cannot fight destiny and your destiny is to die like you should have long ago"

Unknown location. . . Three shadowy creatures stood around a magic circle showing Li and Kei, one had a white aura, one had a black while the last didn't even have a colour.

"His powers have grown" the one with the black aura said. "Indeed I do not think that even myself the guardian of the light magic door will be able to stop him now. . . he will pass that door and possibly the black magic door as well" the one with the white aura said. "Yes both of our doors will definitely be breached before this is over" the black one agreed. "Once the light and dark magic doors have been breached both kinds of magic will loose stability and he will be the only one who will be able to use those two magic's still. . . I will have to stop him before he upsets the balance of all three kinds of magic" the one with the colourless aura said "for I am the strongest of the three guardians of magic. . . I will not be defeated and let 4600 million years of our guardian ship go down the drain!"

Kei's castle. . . Li smashed Kei in the stomach sending her through the large double doors from the throne room into the corridor. She stood up and started shooting blast after blast of dark magic at Li who walked towards her calmly, the blasts disappeared just in front of him but Kei kept firing edging backwards as she did. Li smiled and stretched his hand out a ball of green magic materialising on the end, still walking towards her he fired it. Kei jumped out of the way just in time and ducked into a nearby room while the blast hit the wall at the end of the corridor blowing it up completely. Li stopped in front of the room Kei went into "how long can you keep this up Kei?"

Out side Kei's castle. . . The slaves stared up at the sky in awe as zombie after zombie was decapitated by Shadow Scythe and Night Wolf. Zombies continued to materialise out of thin air and yet they weren't gaining any ground against the two guardians. Two of the zombies surrounded the two guardians and flew at them, they flew upwards at the last second and formed a large black ball radiating energy and shot it downwards. The two Zombies were annihilated but the blast which continued to go down towards the ground, the slaves tried to run but alas it was too late for them. The blast made a gigantic crater which killed all of the slaves sparing nothing while the two guardians laughed evilly.

Kei's castle. . . Li walked through the large room that Kei had retreated into, the room was extremely large with a high ceiling and pillars dotted around in no particular pattern, the only light came from the torches on each pillar. Kei watched Li her eyes burning with hatred as she watched Li scanning the room for her. "I don't get it Kei what was Hastusha to you?" Li asked. Kei whimpered quietly "she was. . . she was my daughter. . ." Li smiled "oh really? I didn't know you had a daughter" "You don't live for several hundred years and not want a child" "I wouldn't understand a feeling like that all I ever understood. . . was POWER!" He pulled out a card and threw it into the air "EMPOWER!!!" Li started to glow a bright green, he glanced over to where Kei was and charged at her. Kei summoned several Zombies to attack him but Li blocked and parried the attacks easily before slicing the Zombies apart then turning his attention back to Kei. He charged at her his sword scraping the floor sending up a shower of sparks. Kei closed her eyes and shot a magic blast containing all of the magic she had left which hit Li dead on sending him into the wall on the other side of the room creating a huge explosion. Kei dropped to her knees breathing heavily then grinned "how do. . . you like that?" "Not impressed" Kei's eyes widened "no. . ." As the smoke cleared Kei could see Li, perfectly unharmed by her attack, he calmly started to walk towards her calmly with a smirk on his face. "Quite an impressive attack Kei. . . but I'm much too powerful for you. . ." Li said stopping right in front of her. Kei gazed up at him, fear filling her eyes "it's. . . just not possible. . ." Li's sword materialised in his hand and he raised it above his head ready to bring it down on Kei "you know the origin of the SHADOW book. . . so you know its possible. . ." "What do you want!?" "The destruction of all magic. . . and the creation of my magic. . . the ultimate magic that will be controlled by me and me alone. . . goodbye Kei" Li brought his sword down on Kei's head, ending her life instantly. . .

Outside Kei's castle. . . The zombies around Shadow Scythe and Night Wolf crumbled to dust, their armour rusted in seconds and without a sound the two Shadow guardians of Li Showron took off into the throne room of Kei's castle.

Kei's castle, Throne room. . . Shadow Scythe and Night Wolf landed into the throne room and walked up to their master who sat in the throne of the now deceased Kei. "What now master?" Night Wolf asked. "*Sigh* I tire of this Night Wolf. . . but now only one thing remains before I can truly begin my plan" Li grinned "the negative magic circle of the Li clan's greatest warrior. . . Setophidor!"

Preview of next chapter. . . Li's plans are beginning to unravel as he battle the Li clan's greatest warrior, a man whose name is Setophidor. He is one of the few users of Negative type magic and holds the most powerful negative magic circle in the world. Li must battle and defeat this warrior on his own and betray the people who raised him. . .