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Thanks to Inda and Queen Diamond, you guys are the best! Thanks too to Thundebird, sorry for the plot line, but it was my first fic, so I didn't really worry too much about the plot!

Er... Thanks to Beatrice and H-chan, for actually bothering to leave a review if it's really crap, cause I wouldn't have!

There was someone who didn't leave a name who told me my French wasn't correct. Sorry, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It might be what the French call un langage soutenu but it's a teacher talking most of the time, so that's to be expected.

Chapter 12

Someone yelled. Mia nearly jumped out of her skin in fright, before running to the door of her study to find out what it was. She ran down the stairs, taking them two at a time, almost crashing into Kayura at the bottom. They both headed outside to find out, as Mia phrased it, what the hell was going on.

They arrived at the edge of the lake, where Karala and Ryo had been standing, and they were soon joined by everyone else, except, as Kayura soon noticed, Kal and Ryo.

Sage cleared his throat. "I guess this means they're gone."

Kento snorted. "State the obvious, Sage!"

"Shut up, you two, the last thing we need is for you to start fighting!" Sekhmet interpolated.

They both subsided immediately.

Kayura took a deep breath and spoke, her voice still shaking. "We're going to have to go after them."

Kento rolled his eyes. "Are we having a competition of state-the-obvious now?"

"Kento!"

"Sorry."

Kayura continued, her voice a little steadier. "If Ryo stays there too long, he'll probably switch sides. I can only hope Kal will be able to stop the process long enough for us to get him out of there. If not, well, as the prophecy says, we're doomed."

Anubis grinned. "I have the utmost confidence in Karala's ability to drive them all up the wall!"

Karala woke up in a dingy cell on her own.

'Oh great! Just bloody wonderful! On my own in a cell, without Ryo, and no hope of getting out cause they took my armour crystal.'

She got up and looked around. The cell was dark, and judging from the scuffling she could hear, infested by rats. She sat back down. They weren't coming back for a while.

A few hours later, a key turned in the lock and Rokayu came in.

"Get up."

She complied, but in a slow movement designed to irritate him. It worked.

"Come with me."

She followed him along the corridor. Apparently, she had been the only inmate of the dungeons for quite some time. Which reminded her...

"Where's Ryo?"

Rokayu smiled slightly, a smile that bore an extraordinary resemblance to his master's. "Wildfire? You'll see him in a minute."

They reached what Karala knew to be Ayato's throne room. She followed Rokayu through the huge double doors, and found herself for the first time in a room with the emperor of the Dynasty. He watched her carefully as Rokayu pushed her into the centre of the room.

"You would be Ayato, then."

He smiled. "Yes, I am. Although I prefer master."

"Well I don't."

"How strange. Wildfire did."

Sorry, this was a really short chapter, but I thought this would be a good place to stop. I'm sure you've all guessed what's happened, haven't you?

Carline