C26: I always try to keep four chapters ahead of the updates, stupid, but remember, at the end of this chapter it may seem like the end but remember, its NOT!

Chapter 9: The Golden Sun

The portal may have been more than Ivan could handle, but it eventually spat him and Piers out onto the aerie. As Ivan rose from his crumpled position on the floor, he spotted Isaac leaning against a statue next to the aerie. Ivan started towards Isaac, but stopped when Isaac held up a hand.

"Piers, thank you" Isaac laughed, Ivan turned round to see Piers raising a crossbow pointing at him. "You're not getting the better deal Piers" Ivan argued, but Isaac interrupted.

"Mia will not die and has sealed the entrance shut, so let's just hope I can play darts with something 13 miles away. "What d'ya mean?" Piers was confused now.

"It means your time has expired" Isaac held up one hand, and Piers began rising into the air, with another hand, Isaac shot a three foot long spire, impaling Piers through the heart, his body was blasted straight off the lighthouse shooting towards Saturn lighthouse at a thousand miles per hour.

"He'll get there" Isaac reassured himself "Now little Ivan, you're alone now, and ready for death" Ivan laughed harshly and drew his twin sabres. "Dare me!" Ivan had brought on a challenge, Isaac wouldn't back down, and surely enough he drew his muramasa long sword.

Isaac drew his sword back in stabbing position above his right shoulder, but he wasn't about to chuck his sword, Ivan knew he was aiming to cast a ragnorak. Ivan rolled across the floor, and arrived leaning against the wall of the staircase. "Ivan, Ivan, come out and play" Ivan wasn't about to be taunted, Ivan rose and sent 15 bursts of plasma flying at Isaac's chest, 5 ripped into Isaac ripping his chest open spilling a pool of blood.

"Y'see Isaac, I know that there is the spirit of the real you in there, I break it out, you can't stand up to yourself and me" As Isaac heavily lost blood, he started to become dizzy, he fell to the floor. At that moment, Morca stepped out from behind a statue.

"Perfect" she stated "delude yourself Ivan, it'll never work"

"Why Morca?" Ivan asked from his hiding place. She grinned.

"Ivan, didn't you hear the story of the old world? About Crossbone isle? Many theories have been said as to the reason for the construction of Crossbone, but the real reason lies in a story.

The old world people used Crossbone as a prison, guarded by the spirit of the most evil being ever to come into existence. The Deadbeard, the king of the dead. One was said to have escaped, a girl called Morca, she became intimate with the Deadbeard, in the end she made a deal with him, let her go and she will release him from the reigns of Weyard by doing one thing, by bringing this world into existence. Morca tried time and time again over millennia, for the Deadbeard granted her immortality whilst completing the task, but she failed. The Deadbeard possessed its slayer and left Crossbone in search of Morca, it joined her in search of the solution…" Morca was then interrupted by Ivan.

"You bitch!"

At that moment, the four colossal dishes around the unlit beacon rose into a position to collect light from four different directions. "And now the star will be created!"

The light was blasted out the back of the dishes in rays, these combined together to form a glowing orb, Ivan recognised it at once from books he's read.

"The Golden sun" he was immobilised by the spectacle, its marvellous blinding light, then it disappeared when Morca cast down a blade knocking it into the hole. As light poured from the beacon, Morca turned to Ivan.

"Now Ivan," she smiled "ready to die at the hands of the king of the dead?" before Ivan could reply, he felt Isaac approach him from behind, he whirled round as Isaac brought his sword through Ivan's chest. Ivan felt the blade sliced out of his back, sending his flesh flying, and he fell backwards into blackness...

Gust: GASP! OMG! OMG! OMG!

C26: Didn't you read the beginning note?

Gust: You mean Ivan isn't dead?

C26: Well he may be

Gust: You mean he is dead?

C26: NO!

Gust: So he isn't dead?

C26: Look! I'll decide next chapter

Gust: He's dead isn't he?

C26: NO!

Gust: You mean he's alive?

C26: OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!