Hey, everyone, I decided to skip the review replies because everyone wanted me to update quickly. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this chapter because it will hopeful have a lot of fight scenes in it. I enjoy writing and I hope that you'll all enjoy reading it. Well, on with the next chapter.

Chapter 10: Enemies

"Pronyma," Storm growled as she stared at the half-elf. "You mean you haven't crawled into hell yet?" she asked her as she reached for her sword.

"No, but I'm about to send you there, and this time your friends aren't going to save you," Pronyma replied as she ran towards the girl ready to attack.

Storm jumped back as she dodged Pronyma's attack, but was soon caught off guard as she hit her with her Dark Sphere attack. Storm fell to the ground and managed to keep Pronyma from making direct contact with her as she used her sword to defend herself. She pushed against Pronyma with her swords to get her off of her. Pronyma hopped back a little as Storm got herself off the ground.

Storm came at Pronyma as she used her Tiger Blade attack, attempting to hack her way through Pronyma's defenses. Pronyma; however, managed to push her back with her Leonasium attack. Storm didn't completely fall over from the attack, but rather slid back a few feet, but maintaining her balance.

"Give up yet?" Pronyma asked her. "You know that you'll never be able to beat me on your own. You're not as strong as everyone make you out to be and you know it. You rely so much on others, and when you're alone you can't defeat anyone. You're just another pathetic human," Pronyma told her as she came at her once again.

Storm hated to admit it to herself, but it did seem like if it wasn't for her friends and family she would have been dead a long time ago. She snapped herself out of her thoughts when she saw that Pronyma was releasing a new spell. Storm was unable to escape unfortunately as her Holy Lance attack crashed into her knocking her to the ground. Storm attempted to get up, but she couldn't find her strength.

"Disappear Raine," Virginia repeated to the half-elf as she continued to stroke and rock her doll.

"Mother, you should know now that the doll is not real," Raine yelled at her desperately.

"This doll was a better daughter than you ever were. You should have never been born," Virginia hissed at the healer.

"It's not true, I've done a lot more good in the world than you ever tried to do. All you did was give up when the world made your life a little harder. You gave up on your own children when the world resented you...that's pathetic," Raine screamed at her.

"Raine, you can't let her affect you, she'll suck you in here too," Sheena shouted at Raine, but she received nothing from the half-elf. Sheena had to do something to stop the situation that her friends were in. They were all so sucked into these battles that they couldn't see that if they lost they would lose more than their lives. Their souls were at stake here.

"Sheena...it's been awhile," a voice said behind the ninja. Sheena spun around and gasped as she saw Kuchinawa standing before her.

"Ku...Kuchinawa? You mean that you're dead as well?" she asked him, stunned at the new information. "What happened?" she asked.

"I had a run in with the Desians when I tried to join them to help defeat you. Unfortunately, they didn't want anything to do with any humans and I was completely outnumbered," Kuchinawa explained. "I'm here now because I never was able to gain my revenge on you," Kuchinawa told her.

"You still think that I did all that on purpose?" she asked him as she prepared herself for his attack.

"Well, making pacts seems to be easier for you now," Kuchinawa yelled at her as he revealed the ninja stars that he was hiding as he threw them at her. Sheena was able to swiftly move out of the way as she ducked out of the way. She took out one of her cards as Kuchinawa ran up to her, unleashing many powerful punches and kicks to her in her chest and stomach. Sheena landed on the ground with a thud, but rolled out of the way as he threw another sharp ninja star where she was.

Sheena jumped to her feet and ran at the ninja, jumping over him as he tried to kick her once again. She landed beautifully behind him and attacked him with her Pyre Seal attack. Kuchinawa was knocked a couple of feet behind her, losing his balance in the process. He soon recovered himself and threw a few more of his weapons at her, these managed to slice into her arms before they landed in the barren earth behind her. Sheena grabbed one of her arms which was sliced pretty badly, and was unable to dodge Kuchinawa fast enough as Kuchinawa punched her hard in the stomach, sending her back to the ground, but this time she couldn't get up as easily.

"Heh, you seem to be a little bit jealous of me boy?" Forcystus laughed as Zelos came at him with his sword. Forcystus met his sword with his metal arm, defending himself easily as he pushed Zelos off of him. "Why would you be jealous of something like that? I only wanted her because I knew that she would eventually have to come to me. I would rather have Pronyma, but Storm could be my woman on the side. Mithos wanted it, I only obeyed his orders. If he wouldn't have offered, I wouldn't have really cared about the pathetic little maggot," he chuckled.

Zelos couldn't stand to listen to someone talk about anyone like that, but it really made his blood boil when it was his wife that he was talking about. "I'm gonna rip your tongue out of your mouth to teach you how to shut up and to teach you some manners. Storm's a better person than you ever were," he growled at the half-elf.

"Big words coming from someone who's betrayed everyone he cares about. I suppose that's why you and Storm get along so well, it's something you have in common," he laughed as he prepared his attack.

Zelos saw the attack coming and jumped out of the way to dodge his blast of mana from his arm. Zelos rushed up to him and attempted to attach him with his Demon Fang attack, but was cut short when he was slammed to the ground by Forcystus' metal arm. The half-elf laughed at his pain.

"When I'm done with you, Storm will be so heartbroken, it'll be easy to kill her off too," he told the red-head, who got up with a new rage in his eyes.

"You bastard, Eruption," Zelos screamed as he got up and unleashed the burning fury of his attack on Forcystus who landed on his back from the attack. He managed to release his own mana attack before he hit the ground, hitting Zelos directly. Zelos fell to the ground and couldn't get back up.

Kvar and Kratos were still going at it, neither of them backing down and neither losing or gaining any ground on the other.

"Are you ready to die yet, or should I have you watch as I kill Storm and Lloyd in front of you?" Kvar asked him cruelly as he fought him.

"When I defeat you this time, I will make sure you make it to hell," Kratos told him through gritted teeth as they continued to exchange blows with their sword.

"Once I kill you off Yuan I can finally get out of this place. It's because of you and Storm that I ended up here anyway. I was going to recreate Cruxis, but you and your Renegades somehow managed to stop me, but I almost killed your little girlfriend. I can't believe that you would fall in love with a human. All humans are weak-hearted, she will betray you one day," Magnius told Yuan as they prepared to fight.

Yuan pulled out his weapon, showing it off to Magnius who smirked a little, knowing that he had hit a nerve. Yuan came at Magnius, as the cardinal pulled out his sword to defend himself.

"Do not speak about someone that you know nothing of. She's a good person and she would never hurt me," Yuan told him.

"She betrayed Zelos by seeing you, didn't she?" Magnius said as he smiled a little.

Yuan glared at the man as he hacked at him even harder for his last comment. Magnius couldn't help but laugh at how he could affect the man with a few words.

"I trust her, you wouldn't understand how things happened," Yuan told him as he came at him again.

Sutra watched as her new friends all faced their enemies of the past. She didn't quite know what to do, in fact, she didn't really understand what was going on in most of the battles. She didn't know who a large majority of the people were, and she couldn't really help the others because she didn't know the problems.

"Sutra...we I can't believe that you failed us. You've failed everyone," a voice said from behind her. Sutra spun around and couldn't believe her eyes. She didn't want to believe that the people she was facing were actually residing in this horrible place. But, there in front of her, were her parents.

"What you wanted wasn't anything that Mithos could help with. You had him all wrong. He wasn't the person you promised me he would be," Sutra cried out to them.

"You joined the enemy, the people who killed us. How could you betray your family like that? How could you betray your race?" her mother asked her accusingly.

"This isn't about race anymore, this is about people wanting revenge on each other. Mithos was only concerned about taking revenge on those that killed him, and also those that killed his sister. He never wanted to help the half-elves when he created Cruxis. That dream of his died when his sister did," Sutra yelled at them. "You have to believe me, you're my parents!"

"We wish we could, but now you are also an enemy," Sutra's father replied. Sutra's eyes widened at their response, would they really try to hurt her. She only did what she thought was right for the half-elves, not for herself. She wasn't betraying anyone, and she wasn't being selfish. She just wished that she could show them that.

"Presea, why couldn't you have been killed instead of your sister? She would have taken better care of me," Presea's father told her. Presea looked at him, her eyes on the verge of tears, a strange sight for the young woman.

'Daddy, I never meant to abandon you, but they wouldn't let me come back, please forgive me," Presea cried out to him.

"There is only one way to forgive what you did," Presea's father told her. "You must take my place in hell," he explained.

"I...I...don't think...it was not my fault," Presea said meekly, her father could tell that she was slowly beginning to give in.

"Lloyd, do you realize that what you're doing is hopeless. There is no way to end discrimination. The only thing that you can do is to get rid of race altogether," Yggdrasil told Lloyd as they battled with their swords against one another. Lloyd attempted to use his power from the Eternal Sword, but soon found that it was no use.

"Origin had no power here, you're in the land of the dead, he controls the living," Yggdrasil laughed at Lloyd's vain attempts.

He raised his sword to the Eternal Swordsman and slashed him in the side, sending him to the ground.

"Get away from him!" Genis yelled as he attacked the half-elf with his Grave attack. Yggdrasil was thrown into the air as spiked began to pierce through him all over his body. When he finally crashed into the ground, Lloyd came at him with his Beast attack, but was stopped by Mithos' Outburst attack, sending Genis and Mithos backwards. Lloyd, backflipped and managed to land on his feet as he ran towards the mad man once again. He didn't know how long he and Genis, not to mention all the others would be able to handle their enemies on their own.

Well, that's the end of this chapter. It's got to be hard for them to fight these big time enemies on their own, basically one-on-one. Let's just say that I'm glad I'm not them. I know that the whole Yuan and Magnius thing might be confusing, but hopefully the story that I will possibly be writing after this one will help. It will be the story of how Yuan and Storm fell in love. Remember back to the end of Return of the Queen? That's where they talk about Storm and Yuan planning on going to kick his butt. Anyway, I hope that you like this chapter and please review to tell me what you think. Thanks! Next chapter, outcome of the battles.