CHAPTER 4

"Is he alive?" a faint voice asked in Klaus' mind. "I dunno! Poke 'im!" another voice rang. He reached out his hand and subconsciously caught a stick in his palm, "Don't even think about it..." he growled opening his eyes to slits. "Oops...sorry sir!" a young girl's voice giggled. "When we found you, we thought you were dead!" another child's voice, a boy's, said. "You okay?"

"How long was I out?"

"Dunno, we just found you lying there so we decided to poke you."

"Thanks. Who are you guys anyway? Where are we?" he grumbled lifting himself to his feet. "I'm Sakaki and my brother's name is Shuro." the little girl smiled as she introduced them. "We're twins!"

"Only I'M older!", Shuro broke into the conversation, "I'm 4 minutes older! Making me her big brother..." he taunted "Who cares! We're both 11 and that's what counts!" Sakaki yelled. "Please! Can you tell me where we are? I'm in a big rush! Is this Castle Oblivion or no-..." Klaus stopped as he saw Sakaki and Shuro dash away like road runners.

"Eh?" he whimpered. "WAIT! GET BACK HERE YOU BRATS!" he stormed after them, now very much annoyed. He turned a corner of a building to see the twins running toward a giant clock tower in the middle of the town. Klaus quickly followed, huffing and puffing, "Damn! They're too fast!" they ran into the tower as Klaus caught up. They closed the doors in his face, he summoned the Soul Eater and slashed the antique wooden door to pieces (What a shame!) He ran through the opening and saw Sakaki running up a flight of stairs and Shuro blocking it.

"I'm sorry Klaus, but you can't get Lady Tomo..."

"What are you talking about? How do you know me? Where's Tomo?" he demanded. "The Castle Oblivion will be destroyed soon. That way the light will be all there is again and we can live in peace! And in order to have the light triumph the Lady Tomo, the last Princess of Heart!"

"What? Tomo...is a Princess of Heart? Dammit! I knew something like this would happen! Listen, Shuro, you can help me, we can't kill Tomo, there must be another way!"

"The Castle of Nightmares, the Castle Oblivion can't be reached by us. You see, they took our mother, another Princess, the grand daughter of the King Sora himself! The first key bearer, and you are a key bearer too, so it is your destiny to kill Tomo!"

"Shut up! Get out of my way! Your sister knows how to get to Castle Oblivion! I can sense the Dusk in her!" Klaus charged toward Shuro, but he was blasted toward a wall after the little boy raised his arms and shouted "Stopera!". Klaus was pinned and couldn't move. "Face it Klaus, we all must sacrifice something dear to us..."

"He's an Egian mage...?" Klaus thought "This is going to be tougher than I thought! He's no ordinary kid!"