Third person:

The large figure of a woman sat before them in the room, a miniature army of demons before her. She lashed out with a tether of spiritual energy that latched onto Taiki and pulled her into the room. Taiki screamed as she desperately grabbed for something to stop her. The dark woman before them laughed coldly as her warrior's lifted their weapons. They were merely bodiless suits of armor, but they looked menacing enough.

"I am the dark sorceress Karen, you dare trespass on my hallowed home!" She screeched wildly. She laughed wickedly as a dark light fed its way up the tendril that held Taiki poised above her.

"Let her go!" William yelled as the party pilled into the room, a fire ball flashing from his hand towards the dark sorceress.

Alexia wasted no time in notching an arrow into her bow. She let it fly towards the first row of demons and gasped as it fell into the helmet and then down into it's armor and finally settling loudly in it's boot. Mandis was running head first into the oncoming warriors with Quel and Remus at her sides, blades flashing. Richard took to pummeling anything that came too near to himself or Angel.

William cast a soul sphere into the lines of armor and blew a path for me towards Karen. He dashed through it, ducking below and leaping over steel as the armor tried to stop him. He reached Karen and threw a burning fireball into her face. She stared at it coolly as it slowed to a stop before her and changed direction. William bent below it as it erupted against a wall on the other side of the room.

"It's useless!" Mandis yelled as her fallen foe stood back up before her, "Every time you knock one down-" She stopped to trip the attacking warrior and finished he sentence, "They get right back up."

"Not quite!" Quel hollered over to her, armor splayed out on the ground around him.

"We've delt with these filthy buggers before!" Remus yelled, "You have to knock the helmets off their bloody heads!" He swung his sword ferociously and decapited the armor before him. Alexia held her arrows tighter as she managed to pierce one the floating helmets and send it flying, the rest of it's body crumpling lifelessly to the floor. Richard let out a cry of agony as a sword pierced his arm. He slammed his fist into the helmet with the other arm and then collapsed as the lifeless amour collapsed beside him.

"Richard!" Angel screamed as she fell beside him, lifting his head and tilting it back so he could swallow the warm life giving liquid from the bottle she drew from her pocket. She gave a sigh of relief as he coughed and sat up. Another suit of amour loomed above them and Richard knocked the legs out from beneath it. He stood up with Angel's help and ran to William's aid. Quel and Remus were finishing off a few of the warriors attempting to kill Alexia then turned their eyes on Karen.

"You think you have one, don't you?" She laughed wickedly. She withdrew the tendril from Taiki who fell to the ground roughly beside William.

"Taiki!" William called out as he collapsed beside her body. Mandis, Quel and Remus coming up beside Richard. Alexia came around them and pulled an arrow back in her bow. Taiki's eyes snapped open and stared coldly into William's face.

Her skin and clothes had turned to a dull gray, and the eyes that stared at William were a cold, piercing gray that seemed to view into your soul.

"Taiki are you ok?" William asked as Taiki stood up. She looked around with unrecognizing, locking eyes again with William. She tilted her head to him quizzically.

"Meet my shadow novice! She will be the first of many! Hahahahahaha!" Karen cackled. Taiki looked back to Karen, who smiled wickedly to her. "Kill them all my pet!" Taiki turned back to William and glared at him coolly as she pulled her traveling dagger from her belt.

"Taiki, what are you doing, you wouldn't really hurt me would you?" William asked. She smiled wickedly as she jabbed out with the blade, stabbing him in the stomach. William gaped down at the wound in horror, crimson liquid soaking quickly into his clothing. He stepped back as Taiki raised her blade to strike at his face. William ducked down as she swung and rolled over to his friends.

"Kill Karen, maybe that will stop her!" Angel yelled to the others as she healed Williams wound, Richard and Quel standing in front to protect them, having a rough time blocking Taiki without hurting her. Remus and Mandis dashed out from behind them, running head on at Karen, weapons drawn. Karen waved her hand and a blue wave emitted from her, knocking them both over. Alexia notched an arrow in her bow and let it fly, catching Karen off guard as she rose her hand to stop it. The arrow pierced her hand and locked it across her chest, fastened to the chair she sat on. She tugged at it wildly as Alexia let loose another arrow, fastening the other hand beside the first at the wrist. She opened her eyes wide as she watched helpfully as Mandis and Remus stalked over to her quietly.

"You don't get it do you, I'm all powerful, you can't possibly hope to destroy me! I am a Goddess! And even if you could, it won't stop the master, nor will it stop my Shadow Novice, she is his forever!" She laughed wildly in desperation.

Mandis stomped up the steps to her thrown and pulled her head back by her hair. She held the blade of her main gauge to her throat.

"You talk too much," She spat as she dragged the blade across, cutting her deeply. Remus came up beside her and drove blacktear deeply into her heart. She screamed and writhed in agony as Mandis whispered into her ear. "Not as powerful as you thought you were, huh?" She turned her back to her as a bright purple light erupted from Karen's imploding body. Taiki glared back at Mandis then leapt in the air, landing behind Quel with her blade at the back of his neck. He turned to face her and as he did, she plunged the blade deep into his throat. He fell to the floor, the dagger still hilt deep in his throat. Remus let out a cry of rage and ran to Quel, falling beside him.

"Looks like you win the girlfriend," He coughed.

"Don't joke that way, you're gonna be fine." He tried desperately to calm him as Mandis and Richard held Taiki off.

"Aah!" An ear-piercing scream filled the air. Remus looked up to see Taiki, just in time to watch her snap Richards's neck.

"No!" Cried out Angel. She threw herself at Taiki, knocking her over and punching her over and over in the face. Taiki grabbed her wrists and gave her a hard head butt, knocking her out.

Taiki stood and tossed her aside, watching as Mandis, Alexia, and Remus closed in on her from the front, weapons poised. She backed up slowly and bumped into the now standing William. She turned around quickly and glared coldly at him as she backed away from the four enemies coming down on her. She held her dagger out before her as the closed in, each ready to take her on. She stopped cold and began laughing maniacally as a grey smoke piled out from her feet.
William coughed loudly as he had found himself caught in the smoke, waving the thick vapor from around his face. As the smoke cleared he saw Mandis and the other's starring quizzically to the wall. He turned around and saw…nothing! Taiki had disappeared!

"What the hell is going on here!" Mandis growled in rage. She walked up to the wall and punched it, blood beginning to pool around it as she had scraped her knuckles. Alexia walked over to Angel and woke her up, who immediately through her arms around Alexia and began to sob into her shoulder. Remus walked over to Quel's dead body and lifted him up. He turned to William and nodded to him.
William picked up Richard's dead body and turned to the others.
"Come on, let's go…" William told the girls.

"How can you be so calm!" Angel screamed at him.
"Billie's right…There's no use standing around here…Let's go." Remus turned and walked out the door they had entered, followed closely by a fuming Mandis. William looked down to Alexia and Angel.
"I'm not calm…I'm mourning...There's a difference." He left the room carrying Richard, Alexia holding the crying angel as the left the hellish room for ever.