A World Embroiled in Chaos

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Ancient Temples

A/N: Ok. This will be the last chapter before Monday. I'm not up to writing another one today, but, you can all enjoy the current chapter, and expect the next on Monday.

DISCLAIMER: Refer to chapter one's disclaimer.

In the desert…

"Hm. Do you sense your weapon, Kit?" Yureidoru asked. "Yeah… but it's still very far from here." Kit replied. "Interesting… I'm sensing mine, and it's actually a lot closer." Yureidoru stated. "Really?" Kit asked. "That figures. Mine is close as well." Harris stated. "So… where do we go first?" Kit asked. "We'll split up. Kit, go with Yureidoru. I'll be fine on my own." Harris said. "Are you sure?" Yureidoru asked. "Yes. Go find your legendary scroll. We'll meet again." Harris stated. "Very well." Yureidoru replied, as he and Kit walked off in the other direction. Harris walked off to where his legendary weapon was.

"I. Hate. This. Sand." Kit said, trudging through. "It makes things difficult, but the legendary scroll is close. It won't be much longer." Yureidoru replied. "Can you see it?" Kit asked. "Not yet." Yureidoru replied. Kit simply sighed.

Meanwhile, Harris was walking by himself. "Shouldn't be much longer, now." He muttered to himself. Suddenly, eight bandits came out of the sands. All were transformed. "Ready to die?" One of them asked. "…You're all merely underlings. No match for me. Go now, and you'll keep your lives." Harris stated. "Hm… cocky, aren't ya?" Another bandit asked. "No. It's just fact." Harris replied. "Grr… I've had enough of you! Die!" A bandit yelled, rushing forward. Harris sighed. "…I don't even have to transform to defeat you…" He stated.

"I see it!" Yureidoru yelled. "…Good! Let's go!" Kit replied, as the two began to run toward what looked like old ruins. There were only a few crumbled pillars. "Where's the entrance?" Kit asked. "…There… is none. The temple grounds are below here." Yureidoru replied. "What? I'm going to have to wait out here in this desert?" Kit asked. "No. There's a level below here which you can wait in… now… to find the entrance." Yureidoru sighed.

The bandit before Harris collapsed to the ground, dead. All the other bandits looked on in awe. "How'd you kill him without transforming?" A bandit asked. "During my studies, I've discovered some very powerful and ancient forms of martial arts, so I can take people on out of my forms… however, there has been one minor consequence… It took me so long to master it, that I never got the time to pay any attention to two of my three forms, making them obsolete. However, my greatest form has prospered from this. I've combined its power with these techniques. Shall I demonstrate?" Harris asked.

The bandits shook their heads in fear. "Good. Now get lost before I count to five." Harris said. The bandits began scrambling up to their feet. "One…" The bandits tried to run, but tripped on the desert sands. "…Two…" "Let's get out of here!" A bandit yelled. "…Three…" "We're running out of time!" Another yelled, as the bandits began to get up. "…Four…" The bandits finally got to their feet. "…Five." "We're screwed!" A bandit yelled. "…That you are." Harris stated, beginning to transform.

"Grr… Can't… find… entrance!" Yureidoru yelled. "Argh! Can't you just bust it open?" Kit asked. Yureidoru thought for a moment. "…Let me try." He stated, transforming into his Kirby form. He hit the ground repeatedly with his warhammer. "It's working!" Kit said, as the dusty marble floor beneath them began to crumble. "Almost… there…" Yureidoru stated. Suddenly, the floor beneath them broke, and the two fell into what looked like a dark void…

Harris sighed. He was back in his normal human form. Seven charred corpses now lay buried in the sand. "Pathetic. Silver Rogues are much tougher than them." Harris sighed, walking off. After five minutes, he found a large circle of quicksand in the desert. "…It's in there…" Harris muttered, jumping into the sands, and into the darkness below.

"Are you alright?" Kit asked. "Fine… and you?" Yureidoru replied. The two had fallen far below, and hit the hard marble floor that awaited them hard. However, they seemed fine, and got up. "Ok… so how do we get back up?" Kit asked. "…We'll worry about that when the time comes. Wait here. I'm going to get my legendary weapon." Yureidoru stated. "Ok…" Kit sighed, as Yureidoru went down a stairway. Kit simply looked up from where they fell. She could barely see the top.

Harris landed to the ground but what he saw surprised him. He was on a marble platform, amidst an endless sea of lava. "…Who would've thought that such a place existed under the sands…" He asked himself, and then transformed into his one useful form. It was a taller, and more muscular looking Mario, with Harris's normal hair and eye color. He jumped to another platform, which began to sink. With great agility, however, he jumped to the next, which also began to sink. The next platform he jumped to after that, however, was stable. "Still a ways to go." He said, jumping off the platform onto a marble staircase.

Yureidoru sighed to himself. "It sure is dark down here." He said. He decided to transform into his Mewtwo form. His hand began to glow with energy, which lit up the area a bit. '…If I exert too much power with the lighting, then I won't have enough energy left when I reach the weapon…' He thought. A large bat flew out of nowhere at him. His left hand was being used for lighting, so with his right hand, he blasted the creature, which, upon contact, shriveled up, and died. Yureidoru smirked. "Too easy." He muttered.

Harris reached the top of the staircase, and looked around. "Now… I know that somewhere across this sea of lava is staircase to the altar of the legendary scroll…" He sighed, jumping to a raised platform. It seemed like it was a dead end. Walls surrounded him. He looked at the wall for a minute, but then punched it down with a mighty swing of his fist. He then saw the stairway down. "Perfect." He said, jumping to that platform, and going down.

Yureidoru sighed. He'd been in this dungeon long enough… the legendary scroll had to be coming up, soon. Fortunately for him, the room with the altar came into view… the bright walls illuminating the darkness. 'Finally!' He thought, running toward the altar, where an ornate scroll rested. '…I am the essence of this scroll. You who have been chosen to be able to read me… you must prove you right by destroying your inner demons!' The great voice rang out. A Mewtwo made out of pure darkness appeared.

Harris looked upon the great altar before him. There rested an ancient scroll. The one he needed. The one he was looking for. 'I am the essence of this scroll. You must fight your inner demons to read me, chosen one. Are you prepared?' The great voice asked. Harris nodded. A dark Mario appeared.

Yureidoru shot a large ball of psychic energy at the demonic being, which warped from out of the attack's path, and reappeared behind Yureidoru, and threw a flaming punch at him. Yureidoru quickly grabbed the punch with his own flaming hand, and disabled his demonic counterpart, with his glowing eyes. "Weak." Yureidoru muttered, while giving the dark being the final blow.

Harris looked at his own dark counterpart. "Ready to die?" The dark being yelled, running at Harris. "Actually, you're the one who's dying, here." Harris stated, jumping clear over the demon's attack, drop kicking him, followed by a back flip kick, and three flaming punches to the stomach. "…How…?" The demon asked. "…You're strength in insufficient. You will vanish, here." Harris stated, driving another flaming fist through the demon's stomach. The demonic being coughed up some sort of liquid, and vanished into nothingness. Harris sighed, and grabbed his scroll of the altar. He read what there was inside of it. "Hm… Firebrand Fist of Judgment… this is exactly what I've been searching for." He said, walking off.

Kit sighed. She had been waiting for a good hour. "When's he coming back?" She asked herself. It was then that Yureidoru emerged from the staircase. "Do you have the scroll?" Kit asked. "Right here." Yureidoru replied, showing the scroll. "Great. So, let's get out of here." Kit replied. "Ok." Yureidoru replied. He was still in his Mewtwo form, so he simply surrounded the two with psychic energy, and they warped out of the ruins, and back to the sands above…

Coming up: Ok. There will simply be no more chapters until Monday. I would like to thank you all in advance for your patience. Expect a Dark Chapter next.

Until Next Chapter,

Biggoron