Vengeance Begins Now

As the Lloyd and his group chased the knights, the knight who captured Colette sent for back up. He had found himself in the devastated village of Aerifdall. Colette was resisting far too much for him to take her any farther by himself. Another knight, the dragon riding Velociknight, arrived to assist him. But when Colette was released for just a second, she flew into the air, and used an angel spell to kill the dragon the knight was riding, but she couldn't keep up her strength, and she fell to the ground. The first knight ran up to her, and then hit her with his halberd. She screamed out in pain, and Lloyd heard her cry. He ran forward to see the knights. "You bastard! How dare you harm her!" he yelled. He thrusted his sword into the knight's helmet. The first knight fell dead.

"This… is… Aerifdall. My home…" Reiko said. "You are not going to defile this hollowed ground! Prepare to die! Magnum!" Reiko held Glam with its point facing the now dragon-less Velociknight. He slid his free hand in a fast motion over the blade and a ball of lightning shot out, slamming the knight into a burnt out wall, splitting the knight's body open.

Lloyd ran over to Colette after the two knights were killed. He tried to comfort her, but she wouldn't stop crying. "There are a lot of them. We're going to die… I really don't want to die…"

"Don't worry… we can take them. I promise I won't let you die." He said to her.

Shadow stood next to a tree, and heard two Commander Knights talking.

"I'm getting credit for capturing the criminals."

"No, I am!"

"I am!"

"Fine, both of us."

"No. I'm the only one getting credit for this"

After listening to the Commanders for a while Shadow started to get really tired. "Ok. This is getting boring," he said. Then he grabbed one of the commanders by the neck, slammed him into the other knight, and threw him into a nearby tree. The knight crumpled to the ground. "Oops… I think I killed it!"

"Dammit! That hurt… was I drinking too much Flanoir potion?" The knight who was hit by the other knight said. He opened his eyes to see shadow standing over him. "Hey dude… what's up!"

"Too bad. Game over for you." Shadow said with an emotionless look on his face. He grasped the other knight's halberd, and stabbed it into the knight's chest. Shadow then tried to rip it out, but the body lifted with the weapon. "Dammit. It's stuck. What the hell do I do with this thing?"

"I don't know. How about just throwing it away?" Reiko yelled.

"Whatever." Shadow said as he lifted the halberd and pitched it over his shoulder. It landed on a Velociknight.

"AHH! I CAN'T SEE!" The knight yelled. He then turned and charged randomly. But he headed for a knight in golden armor, trimmed in black. The knight with the armor had a massive shield on his left arm, and under it he had a crossbow. On his right arm he had a smaller shield, and he held a large battle-axe. It was Kyle Pittman III.

"You charge at me? You're useless." Kyle said, and then he fired his crossbow. Instead of hitting the dead knight and knocking it off of the Velociknight, he hit the Velociknight, and killed him.

"It's Kyle Pittman." Reiko gravely said.

"Kyle Pittman. You and your troops are dead. You first kill most of my family, then you come to cause havoc to innocents. It's time you paid for your crimes. Burn in hell!" Shadow yelled as he knocked the Velociknight that Kyle had slain off his dragon and then mounted it for his own purposes.

Reiko blew a whistle, and then Westerly dove down from the skies, and attacked the area with a massive blast of pepper breath. Reiko then mounted his dragon. "Let's go beat some sense into those papal knights. You hear that, brother?"

"Way ahead of you."

The battle that Reiko and Shadow had been waiting for, the Final Battle against Kyle Pittman III had begun.