C26: Hello! I am talking to you from the past technically seeing as I wrote this before putting it up so ha I'm right for once!

Chapter 12: Sword of Saturn

Ivan marched ahead of Rhy into Saturn tower and slid across the floor to Mia's position in her block of ice. Rhy held back the guards watching Ivan in hope that he could do it.

Ivan cast his psyenergy sending a tempest of wind blasting from his left hand, the wind whittled at the ice like thousands of tiny knives doing their work. Mia was one of the most powerful adepts Ivan knew so it was no wonder they hadn't been able to revive her from her frozen block of ice. Ivan knew he could match it.

The wind had blasted away the top few layers of ice now, sending huge chunks flying randomly around the lighthouse foyer. Eventually, the final slither of ice broke away.

Mia didn't fall to the floor as had been expected, she still stood, her eyes closed.

"I saw it coming" she said to Ivan, and then she opened her vast blue eyes and stared at him.

"It's begun" she said quietly.

"Looks like I wasn't the only one to experience weird dreams" Ivan grinned. Mia ignored the fact that Ivan was barely a corpse, she then said "at the top of this lighthouse, we will find the power to destroy Isaac forever" with that, Mia threw her hands in the air, and sent a shockwave of psyenergy blasting through the lighthouse, shattering every shard of ice she had created fifteen years ago. The ice flickered in existence for a second as it shattered, and then vanished.

Mia closely followed by Ivan started towards the now unfrozen doorway to the aerie portal. They both stopped when they reached the swirling vortex. "Ready?" asked Mia, Ivan nodded gritting his teeth "yeah!"

They stepped through, and then reappeared on the aerie after a strange burst of dancing lights of the vortex. The glowing orb, the beacon stood ahead of them. The glowing light reflected off an object by its side. Ivan dashed over and examined the object.

Piers had been lucky to reach the lighthouse, the spire Isaac had sent through him was still there, but Piers' skin wasn't, Ivan tried not to look at the gruesome skeleton. Instead he distracted his attention with the sword sticking in the ground about two feet away. When he went over to it, Mia shouted over at him.

"Mayas, it means power Ivan" the sword had the inscription Mayas on the side, with knowledge of the meaning brought Ivan confidence it would make a handy weapon. He drew the sword from its place in the lighthouse floor.

Suddenly, a voice from above boomed out "Prove me you can handle it!" Ivan knew this wouldn't mean a good thing, and at that moment, another ghostly apparition of Isaac appeared, also unsheathing a sword. Ivan grinned, and swiped for Isaac, but Isaac brought up his sword in defence. It wasn't going to be that easy.

The two deadly swordsmen battled their way across the arena, avoiding each other's swipes by blocking the other's attack, like master duellists. Ivan leapt over Isaac's body, arcing round bringing his sword around meaning to slice Isaac's head off, but Isaac was too quick for him, bringing his sword around to block the fatal attack. Ivan back flipped ten feet away from Isaac and blasted five bursts of plasma at his chest like last time. Isaac yelled in pain, clutching his chest. That was when Ivan struck, running up to Isaac and ripping his sword straight through Isaac's stomach, separating his upper body from the lower in seconds. Blood poured out from the wounds as the two halves fell to the floor, and disappeared, and the pool of blood along with it.

Ivan swung his sword around in his right hand, flicking the blood away, the real Isaac would be a piece of cake.

"Your control is becoming unstable!" Isaac announced smugly, the voice seemed annoyed.

"You'll be dead before I let you go Isaac, you are mine! MINE! MINE!" oh whatever voice.

C26: Those who wanted Mia to save the day Tough noogies! Ivan does! I don't really like Ivan myself but hopefully I can find out a way of killing him right at the end.