Here's the next chapter. I'm sure this chapter will seem rush, and it is. I'm wanting to finish this so badly that I'm very sorry if it's not as great as the other chapters. Please review.

Disclaimer: (This is the 34th time I've said this) I don't own Star Fox, Yugioh, or Star Wars.

Encounter

Chapter 33

Final Sacrifice

The battle kept raging on for a long period of time, but something happened to the morale. The monsters that they summoned to the front line are beginning to lose the fight. Fox, Falco, James, Lisa, and Serenity were all holding off the ambush unit that appeared behind them, but they now have another problem at hand. Lisa and Serenity ran for the front line, but when they got there, the whole field was obliterated of the monsters they summoned as well as the ones he summoned. The dead Sith army all disappeared as their duty was done.

"All right you all. Why don't we take this one with you guys?" the Dark Reaper asked.

"Sure, but you have to go through me first before you can get to them," Lisa said.

"And me as well," Serenity added.

Joey stood far away from Serenity as the two girls were ready to take on the Dark Reaper. Serenity stood there as she couldn't keep her fear locked back, but she also wanted to defend the others.

"I have to do this, and I can't fail them yet," Serenity thought.

The Dark Reaper charged in with his scythe spinning around, threatening to slice and dice the two girls. Lisa went into a side roll to her left and Serenity dove out of the way to the right. The Dark Reaper began to go after Lisa as he had his scythe up and back. He struck down as Lisa tried to block, but something else blocked the attack. James kept a firm grip on his lightsaber as he held back the Dark Reaper's scythe from getting to either him or anyone else. The Dark Reaper backed off and held his scythe in front of him, ready to strike anyone. James was standing there with his lightsaber slightly to the side while it points towards the Dark Reaper. The Dark Reaper began to exhume a strong aura of energy. James stood there as he began to feel this energy and began to run towards the Dark Reaper sop that he could prevent him from doing the one thing that he can do. By the time James could get to him, it was too late. He looked over to a falling body as the spirit was removed from it. James only stood there as the body hit the ground, calling to the others. Joey couldn't believe his eyes as one of his best friends was lost in battle.

"…No…Tristan!"

Joey began to proceed to the Dark Reaper in attempts to somehow destroy him. The Dark Reaper began to dodge his attacks effortlessly and began to charge his energy again. He dodged one more attack and shot out to someone in the back lines. Téa saw the energy coming at her, but she was too paralyzed in her fear to dodge it in time. When the energy got to the center of her chest, she flew back as if something blasted her back. Téa's eyes shot into a deep brown color as they could see nothing in her eyes except death as the energy removed itself from her and a sphere of light went back to the Dark Reaper. Fox looked over to see that Téa has just fallen to the ground.

"Damn it! I'm going to kill you!"

Fox began to charge in with his lightsaber high and back as his anger began to build up inside of him. The Dark Reaper saw Fox rushing in, but he didn't seem worried about Fox at all. The Dark Reaper merely rose his bony hand up and used the Force for a trick. Fox's body all of a sudden went numb from whatever power that the Dark Reaper used. Fox collapsed to the ground and could only lie there helplessly as the Dark Reaper could do his bidding.

"Now to take care of your other friends!"

The Dark Reaper charged energy again and was prepared to reach out to another person. The Dark Reaper has his sights on someone as he kept a good look out for the other's interference. The Dark Reaper shot out away from the back line as some unfortunate person was caught in it. Everyone looked over to see Bakura fall over as his eyes showed the same death animation as Téa did. The Dark Reaper received the light of Bakura's soul as he added that to his energy. Fox kept looking as he tried to regain his energy back to be able to stop him, but he could only lie there as his anger kept building. The Dark Reaper didn't expect anyone to come up from behind him, but he shot forward as someone slammed a staff from behind. The Dark Reaper was able to regain his composure and turn around quickly to see Falco standing there with his staff out in front of him, ready to attack the Dark Reaper.

"Don't think of me as a weak Jedi because I'm not!" Falco said.

"Well, you'll just have to join your friends here!"

The Dark Reaper shot out a beam of energy to Falco in attempts to get him as well. Falco merely dodged it effortlessly and began to charge again at the Dark Reaper. The Dark Reaper found his next target and waited for the most opportune moment to strike. He pinpointed two targets and kept his stance as Falco kept trying to land a hit. The Dark Reaper parried one of the attacks and blasted Falco aside. He then used both of his hands and shot out at two targets. The first one was Yugi and the second one was Duke. They both fell over in the same death animation as the Dark Reaper seemed gleeful, if he was. Joey was charging in to attack the Dark Reaper, but something caused him to stop. Joey saw the same energy come for him, indicating that he was his next target. Joey then fell to the side as he felt someone push him out of the way. He looked up to see someone there as she took the shot for him.

"No…S…Serenity!"

"Joey…I'm…sorry."

As the Dark Reaper removed the energy, Fox saw that Serenity fell over as the same look of death in her eyes appeared. Joey went to Serenity and held her lifeless body in his arms as tears began to form in his eyes. The Dark Reaper then set his sights on Yami, who he could sense a great energy coming off of him.

"Hm…this soul seems to be more powerful than the others combined."

The Dark Reaper began to charge energy again, but he stopped as he felt a great spike in someone's Force energy. He looked behind him to see Fox standing again, but something seemed different about him. James, Falco, and Lisa all stood there as they could sense the change in energy.

"Did…we lose him?" Falco asked.

"I don't know for sure," James answered.

The three remaining Jedi stood there as they could feel Fox's energy shift from energy of the Jedi to the energy that he had when Lauren was killed. Fox's eyes were burning with a passion to kill as he had his lightsaber high and back. He began to charge in at the Dark Reaper as a great amount of anger was exhuming off of him.

"Heh, so this is the Dark Side of Fox; the side of Fox that I've always heard about from the other Sith."

Fox managed to get up to the Dark Reaper and swing one powerful horizontal attack at the Dark Reaper. The Dark Reaper merely teleported behind Fox and tried to use the same trick that he used on the others again. Fox sensed the energy building up from behind and rolled to the left. Fox turned around and began to swing with another powerful horizontal strike. The Dark Reaper had to put up his energy scythe and managed to block the attack. He staggered back a bit, but then regained his composure and waited for Fox to strike again. Instead of charging in, Fox waited on something as he deactivated his lightsaber and stood there, waiting. The Dark Reaper began to see a bright light shining to his right as Yami was holding a card up, bringing back the dead, that is, if it works. He's was hoping that the card he was using will remove the souls he's taken and put them back to their proper bodies.

"I use the card Soul Release to regain my friends back!"

Out of the six that the Dark Reaper took, only five of them began to regain their strength. Tristan, Duke, Téa, Yugi, and Bakura all got up again on their knees and looked around them. The Dark Reaper felt a spike in his own energy as he felt weaker than before, but not too terribly weak as the one soul that remained was what kept his strength up.

"You fools, that was a meaningless effort! That girl I took was one of the key souls I needed!"

The Dark Reaper began to sense someone's energy as well as hearing someone's battle cry. He turned around to see Joey charging in with his sword high and back. The Dark Reaper began to charge his energy up again as Joey stopped at about 10 feet away. The Dark Reaper then shot at Joey, but he dodged the attack as Fox charged in right after. Fox took one powerful vertical strike and managed to cut the Dark Reaper's weapon in half, eliminating one threat. Fox wasn't thinking on anything as he began to strike at the Dark Reaper numerous times in attempts to destroy him. Fox backed off and wanted the Dark Reaper to do his trick again. Lisa sensed the energy in Fox as she knew exactly what he wanted to do.

"If anyone's going to be a sacrifice, it's going to be me!"

Lisa rushed in as the Dark Reaper blasted at Fox. Fox was about to take it until he saw someone jump in front of him. He saw the bright aura of violet energy begin to fade with each second as she was in attempts to do what Fox wanted.

"Fox…tell…Serenity…that I…did this…for her."

Lisa's body disappeared into a bright sphere of energy while another sphere of energy left his body. Serenity's eyes opened up once again to see the sacrificial attempt. Serenity sat there as a tear began to roll down her cheek.

"Lisa…I understand your sacrifice. You sacrificed your life the first time…now you sacrificed your existence. I'll make sure that I don't die for your sake."