Chapter IV: Apprentice
Part II: When Titans Clash
Chaos sat at a large table, finishing off a 'Human Buffet' as he called it. He ate the last of the meat off of a leg bone and through it in a large pile of human bones. "Finished, master?" Loki asked, sitting at the other end of the large table.
"Yes, burn the rest." Chaos said. Loki did as he was told and burned the bones to ash using a fire spell. Jake just sat quietly next to Chaos. "Jacob… lets go. We have much work to do." Chaos said.
"Yes sir." Jake responded. He got up and walked through the doorway, unknowingly lighting two torches near him.
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Dan and Hannah walked towards their home. "What just happened?" Dan asked rubbing his head.
"I don't know…" Hannah said, also rubbing her sore head.
"From what Kaje told me, you just lost your best friend…" Kaelyn walked out of the shadows, followed by Kaje.
"Him!" Dan said. "Where is Jake? I know you had something to do with this!" Dan asked angrily.
"Me?" Kaje asked. "I just know. Father and Loki are the ones you're searching for." Kaje said, walking out from behind Kaelyn.
"Loki… I remember! He knocked us out, remember?" Hannah asked.
"Oh yeah…" Dan said. "Wait a minute… Father? You can't be talking about Chaos… can you?"
"Yes. He created me." Kaje said, a bit sadly. "I don't remember much, but I remember I'm a clone, he created me for something. What, I don't know. I don't even know who I'm a clone of." Kaje took of his black shades and put them in his pocket. "Trust me, I'm just as confused as you are." Kaje said, smiling a bit. "But the real reason I came here is because you can help me, and I can help you. I know everything about any monster Chaos can dish out… I even know how to get to him. That's how I help you. You help me by getting me into his world. It won't let me through for some reason… but Kaelyn here thinks it has something to do with you."
"Us?" Dan and Hannah asked simultaneously. Kaje nodded.
"Chaos' world lives, it is a living, breathing creature. It doesn't want me in alone… it communicated with me somehow. It wanted three dragons." Kaje said.
"You're one dragon short." Dan said.
"Says who?" Kaelyn was engulfed in flames and transformed into a purple dragon. "I'm also a dragon." She said.
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"Master, they are coming." Jake said, bowing before Chaos.
"I know." Chaos said with his eyes closed. "Let them come. Its not like they'll survive." Chaos said, now grinning. "The end is near. Prepare, Jacob…" Chaos said.
"Yes sir." Jake disappeared in a burst of flames.
"They will pay this time." Chaos morphed into a large dragon-like creature. It had a tongue like a snake's with the teeth of a saber tooth tiger. His body was completely covered in thick black armor and a Yeti skull served as a helmet. The scales of a dragon along with the hide of a Jersey Devil served as a cape. His claws were also replaced with steel ones, which glowed with lighting and he also grew a large tail. The shape-shifting demon stood up and waited outside his citadel, patiently awaiting his guests. As if on cue, the four were thrown out of a portal and in front of Chaos, Jake, and Loki.
"Jake?" Hannah asked. Jake responded by grabbing Hannah and throwing her into a nearby rock.
"HHAA!" Jake's foot caught fire as he slammed it down of Dan's head and punched Kaje and Kaelyn out of the way. Kaje quickly got up and shoved past Dan, headed for Chaos, hate in his face.
"HHHHAAA!" Kaje trapped Chaos in a ball of shadows and had it slowly collapse in on him. Chaos only laughed as he warped out of it and behind Kaje.
"Peek-a-boo." Chaos kicked Kaje into the citadel as Jake and Loki took on the three dragons. "Kaje… you traitor. You belong to me." Kaje drew back in fear. "That's right… you fear me." Kaje closed his eyes tightly then opened them. He began to glow gold as he used telekinesis on several objects, hurling them into his 'father'. "You've learned the true extent of your power… haven't you?" Chaos said as the objects exploded into a million pieces on impact. He walked up to his 'son', and put his hand on hi shoulder. "Come, child." Chaos' claws sunk into his body, but the evil power just rushed back into Chaos, sending him flying.
"Get away from me!" Kaje screamed. Kaje dashed into Chaos, who was just getting up, hurling him through the wall and into Jake and Loki. Kaje repeatedly punched and kicked Chaos as he was down.
"Come child… Come child…. Come child…" The words repeated until the malfunctioning robot exploded into flames and metal shards.
"He lives on. This citadel is one of his many…" Before Kaje could finish his sentence, the mountain holding the citadel began to collapse. Jake and Loki disappeared as Kaje surrounded Dan, Hannah and Kaelyn as they faded into their world.
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Kaje and the others appeared back on earth as Kaje fell to the ground. "Kaje?" Dan asked.
"He's okay," Kaelyn began. "He can't use his full power, his body can't handle it. He let loose a little bit to much power on that last battle. He just needs some rest."
"How can he possess so much power?" Dan asked.
"Chaos DNA. Chaos mixed his own DNA with Kaje's, thus giving him all the power of the one who he's been cloned off of and Chaos." Kaelyn explained. "What scares me is what if that Chaos DNA somehow takes control of him? There'd be no way we could live…"
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