At last, chapter 10. I don't feel like spoiling anything for you, but be warned. There is a lot of cursing in this chapter. But, I doubt anyone cares. And Chrono has just told he me he got his grip back so he should be on the right track again and hopefully the strips will come pretty smoothly.

Chapter 10:Final Confrontations

The ground stopped rumbling around Kaos as he stood surrounded by 4 granite statues in the middle of the Zamorak circle. The statues spun to life with their flaming swords readied to strike down at Kaos in different positions. Kaos just stood there waiting for their blow to fall so that the statues were made vulnerable after the strike. As he anticipatated the statues struck down together with the same speed and strength and in the same position. The strike caused dust to arise from the cracked floor and in an instant the left statue swung out with his left hand striking Kaos halfway in his mid thrust of his right arm aimed for the statues chest.

Kaos recoiled at the fast movement of the gigantic rock statues. Spreading his dark wings, Kaos caught himself in mid air hovering above the burning lava. Another statue swung up at him with his flaming sword and while he was dodging the blow another statue slammed his fist into Kaos's tiny body sending him flying into the floor creating a crater. He was outnumbered many times before, he had fought countless mindless golems and giants and other minions of Chrono's like these but these were different. They some how were faster than they looked like and they worked together. They're movements were so well coordinated it seemed like they were one. Following each others move with another strike to bring Kaos down with all means necessary.

"Shit man. It's been a long time since I fought things as tough as this. Guess I'm gonna have to use my swords" Kaos said to himself.

Bursting from the crater he had created in his fall he flew at one of the statues with incredible speed that was not obtainable even to the strongest human being. With a swift motion he pulled out a dark blue and black sword out of it's sheath and striked immediately as he pulled the sword out. He was once again surprised at the fast reactions of the golem. It put it's left hand up to stop and attack and it did. Kaos backed off onto the ground with his sword Obsteeayer shining with blue light hin his right hand. Although he had inflicted a small amount of damage he wasn't sure if his parried blow had any effect on the statue.

To his surprise the left hand of the statue cracked open and then the granite fell off, and showed steel plating. Then the steel plating fell off showing a clay plating. Then the clay plating fell off and revealed blood and muscle pumping. The statue looked at it's hand and struck down at the puny human who had caused much damage to his hand. His master wouldn't have the time to rebuild it. Instead he will use petty magicians who were horrible at the protection magic to rebuild his coating.

Seeing an opening in the statue that he just struck and angered, he leapt at it again striking a perfect blow to it's head decapitating it completely. However a white mask with the mark of Zamorak inscribed on it took the shape of a head where the head of the statue once stood. The statue froze for a moment and then it dropped it's sword and clamped his hands to his head and screamed. It's scream was a human. A scream of a tortured soul. The other 3 statues disregarded Kaos as they plunged their swords into the statue and the screaming stopped but there was a small moan as the soul raised out of the statue and traveled towards the graveyard to join the ranks of the forever dead and unelightenable souls.

Gaping at what just happened infront of him, Kaos gritted his teeth in response to what he witnessed. Chrono was longer cruel and evil. He no longer sane in fact. He was mad. Understanding what he must do Kaos unsheathed his Soul Blade from it's sheath. The blade being incredibly large for it's size was a weapon that cleansed souls. Holding the soul blade in his right hands, Kaos spread his black wings and moved with a faster speed than before and impaled each of the three statues in the hear with his Obsteeayer and the armor coating of the statues cracked open to reveal the steel platings but 2 out of the 3 statues shed more coatings. One of the statues was down to the muscles. The second one was down to it's clay coating. The third one stood with it's steal coating.

The statues were amazed in the enhanced speed of the human that they formed a formation. Their flaming swords held ready in the same position. However when Kaos charged for another strike the statues counter attacled with 3 types of different slashes that Kaos barely dodged but he managed to land on the muscle statue and impale it's head with his Obsteeayer. Once the muscle was gone and the mask formed, Kaos then impaled it with his Soul Blade which left the soul to rest in peace. The statue crumbled and Kaos leapt back into his position in the middle of the circle the moment he saw the remaining 2 statues attempted to squash him with their blades.

Summoning his dark demon in order to speed up the process of cleansing the souls, Kaos left the Clay statue to his demon while he tackled the steel statue. His attacks did not work this time. The statue parried blow after blow and counter attacked forcing Kaos back on his feat. Locking blades with the statue Kaos was fighting a hard struggle. The statues infinite strength was beggining to tire him out and he was being pushed into the ground.

Gathering as much strength as he could Kaos pushed the blade back which caused the statue to stumble back. Seeing the opening Kaos bursted from the holes dug by his foot and stabbed the statue with his Obsteeayer and the moment the mask formed, Kaos impaled it with his Soul Blade. Stepping away from the collapsing parts of the statue Kaos looked at how his demon was doing but his demon was no longer fighting a statue. From the statue rose a spiritual form of evil. It howled with rage which was enough to scare the bravest men out of their wits. It stopped in mid howl when it's neck was cut off by Kaos's Soul Blade.

"Psst, mindless fool. Giving off a warcry in the middle of a battle that leaves you vulnerable is inviting some one to kill you" stated Kaos as he sheathed his swords and made his way towards the light to the mind atlar.

Kaos reached the mind atlar to find Chrono who was already ready to confront him. With a wave of his hands Chtono summoned 3 green dragons already hovering in the air ready to fry Kaos.

"Come. Humor me Kaosss" said Chrono and with a clap of his hands the dragons breathed fire upon Kaos.

As expected of Kaos he was already in the air and the moment he was in the air, victory was almost ensured for him. The dragons breathed fire at him again but Kaos did what everyone thought was impossible and a foolish man's action. He ran straight into the flames and cut through them. His mantle flying behind him as he cut the flames and went straight through the middle dragon. Spinning around in the air he flew towards the dragon to his right and decapitated it with one downwards chop of his Obsteeayer. Flying into the clouds, Kaos stopped in mid rise and spun a 180 towards the ground and dived. Chrono was looking at the clouds when they swirled open with Kaos came through them and his left palm impaled the last dragon's head sending it crashing down as he continued pressing his left palm shining with blue light against the dragon's head until it exploded into a humongous mass of brain matter and blood. Chrono let out an outburst of maniacal laughter as he clapped his hands.

"Magnificient performance Kaos. Now the time has come. Come! Let us dance!" shouted Chrono as he unsheathed 2 swords from their sheath glowing with blue flames as the runes ecthed into them glowed.

"As you wish" Kaos replied as he sheathed his Soul Blade and Obsteeayer and unsheathed a black long sword which was even longer than his whole body and on it there were runes enscribed in red marks and the sword bursted into purple falmes as Kaos drew it.

Graveyard

"Damn. What the fuck was all that noise about?" asked Dritz as screeches of tortured soul came from the forbidding road ahead.

"No time to worry about that now. The zombies finally got a grip on themselves and stopped walking into trees" reported Red as he pointed a finger to the advancing undead.

"Come on let's go. We're gonna waste time fighting those slow fools" ordered Ace. "Come on! Move it!"

"Well, that's the problem. We can't" reported Dritz as he pointed at the corpses of the friends they had lost.

"It's been a long time. Comrades" said Gj Josh as he and Cool Dude stood infront of their path to the mind atlar. However the forms Gj Josh and Cool Dude took were not human. They were in the uniforms of black knights but the abscence of the helmets and the wielding of soul blades glowing with blue fire meant one thing. They were death knights. The once so glorious fighters of light has been ressurected to fight alongside the evil they were fighting.

"Damn that bastard Chrono" muttered Ace under his breath, cursing the the dark lord.

"Red! Bum! Go on! We'll take care of the undead pieces of shit here! Go take down that fucker Chrono!" ordered Ace.

"Yes sir!" they replied in unison as Ace and Jack dived into battle with the death knights and Dritz unleashed a fury of bolts at the undead dropping one after another at his fastest pace.

Ace locked blades with Gj Josh while Jack exchanged blades with Cool Dude using his speed and the high trees to his advantage. Ace parried blow after blow and counter attacked only to be pushed back again to a defensive pattern. Once again he locked swords, but this time he booted Josh in the stomach and hacked down at Josh's exposed neck but he lost his sword when Josh swung up with his disarming him. Comboing his disarm attack Josh booted Ace in the stomach and kicked him with inhuman strength against a tree. With a swift moment Josh stabbed his sword into Ace's sword shoulder. Causing him to cry out in pain as the burning blade bit through his flesh and armor and spread the poison of evil into his shoulders. Every second the blade was left in his blood stream it absorbed more energy from Ace and gave it to Josh. Ace attempted to pry the blade from his shoulder but he was already weak from the blood loss.

"Whats the matter comrade? Unable to fight already? What a disappointment" said Josh with a cocky tone as he dropped his guard.

While Josh was busy taunting, Ace grasped his left hand on his spare sword and grabbed Josh by the collar and pulled him down as he unsheathed his Sword of Fury cut off the death knight's arms and then decapitated him while he was screaming in agony. Pushing the dead death knight aside, Ace pulled the soul blade from his shoulder and dropped it on to the ground with a clang. He lost feel in his left arm as well and before everything went black he saw the spirit of Josh disappearing with as smile on his face and everything went black when the orange fire of the Sword of Fury died out.

Jack was having difficulties with Cool Dude as well. The death knight stood unready, vunerable to any attack but all his diving attacks and sneak attacks and extremely offensive ones were blocked or parried. Neither he or his opponent had landed a scratch on each other. However, Jack knew that the death knights knew no fatigue. After all, they were not living.

Jack himself knew his movements were slowing down. Sitting down on a tree branch he began to formulate a plan with his eyes closed. After several minutes of resting and planning, Jack finally came up with a plan but he only had one shot. Taking off into the air, he threw a handful of throwing knives at Cool Dude, but he just stood there and twirled his sword in a circle deflecting the projectiles and while he was doing this Jack attacked from his left side but he parried the blow fast enough and then Jack attacked from the right but this time he was barely fast enough to keep up. The Death Knight began to pick up his alert level but he was beginning to panic know.

The human moved faster than he had before even though he was fatigued. After blocking slash after slash, Cool Dude could barely keep up with Jack's movements. It was a blur all of a sudden and then he swung his sword to the right but he cutted nothing but a dead leaf and then he felt something stab him in the stomach and ripped his intestines. He looked down and saw Jack with his sword in his stomach and with an upwards swipe, Cool Dude's body was split in two. Sitting down exhausted as he saw the spirit of Cool Dude depart into the high heavens, the zombie mass began to over power Dritz. He was out of bolts so he resorted to his short sword to kill the zombies.

Horns blew and a cavlary of men and horses charged through the graveyard and a battle begun between the living and the dead. Hookman unmounted his horse and greeted Jack.with a quick nod and ran towards the tree where Ace lied and got him on a horse.

"Next time, think twice before forgetting to invite me into the adventure" said Hookman.

"Sorry, but you weren't there during the mini unofficial meeting" said Jack as he sat behind Ace and rode the horse out of the battlefield with Dritz following him.

Bum and Red ran into a room full of statues but in the middle of the room there were already remains of broken statues. As Bum and Red made their way towards the middle of the room with the circle, they were stopped halfway when all the 20 feet statues came to life and began to walk towards Bum and Red.

"Go! Go kill Chrono! I can take down these oversized golems myself!" shouted Red as he pushed Bum into the middle of the room and parried slash after slash from the statues. Bum hesitated for a moment but he changed his mind when a yell of pain was heard and a bloody mantle flew out of mind atlar. Bum identified the mantle belonging to Kaos. Without a second thought he ran towards the light that led to the mind atlar.

Hmmmm. Maybe I shouldn't have told him to go. Ace thought to himself while he parried another strike. Shit. I can hold out against these bastards much longer. I gotta take them on one by one. With them around me is just to hard. The moment Ace finished his train of thoughts, Hookman bursted through the tunnel and jumped off his horse and landed on the first statue and decapitated it with a swift stroke. As the horse ran through the legs of the statues, Red grabbed on to it and swung himself onto the saddle as he reached the center of the room where he can confront the statues in a one on one fight due to it's narrow passage way. Hookmen made his way to Red to help him in his one on one combat with the statues as he did Mario and stepped on every statues head to get there and decapitating a few along his way. By the time Hookman had made his to Red's side, only 9 statues remain.

"How's your magic enchanment holding up?" asked Hookman as he blocked a hack.

"I can't keep it up much longer. I never thought I would have to fight these things. I thought we had to fight at least a army of undead or demons, but not granite statues. ARGH!" replied Red with a heavy growl as he was holding his sword against the statue's after he slew the last one. Hookman jumped onto the statue's sword and ran up his arms and the with a quick slash he decapitated the statue. However they were unable to hold their line at the passageway and retreated to the center where they were eventually surrounded by 5 granite statues. Then a loud boom was heard from the entrance of the passageway as Hookman's troops fired round after rounds of cannon balls from the dwarfven multicannon into the statues, desintegrating them into debris and dust.

Mind Atlar

"Only human" said Chrono as he kicked Kaos all the way into a pillar and he coughed up more blood. Kaos layed on the floor like a mutt coughing blood and feeling weak. The feeling of being inferior had returned to him from his childhood.

"Die Chrono!" shouted Killerbum as he charged at him with his family sword but he was also thrown back into a pillar with a weak fire blast from Chrono's finger tips. "Your way too behind junior. It took your friend Kaos 5 years to achieve that tremendous power but look at the way he is kneeling before me. Like your friend, you are only human. Wielding that family sword of yours, Killerine used to wield does not mean anything. You might fight like her, but I tell you, your combat level is nothing near your sisters" said Chrono as he spitted onto Killerbum's face which was distorted in agonizing pain. Then Chrono began to cry out in pain and hold grasp his head in his clenching fingers. He began to writhe in pain and stumble all around the atlar until the glow of the necklaces given to Kaos and Bum were shining with light. Then another Chrono came out of the body and Killerine and Alexandra came out of the necklaces.Kaos and Bum gaped at what was happening.

"Sis?" asked Killerbum as he was unsure if this was real or was this a dream.

"Don't ask. My form will not be here for long. Nor will Alexandra's. Our spirits were encrusted into the necklaces to help you defeat the evil Chronomage and set free the real one. The oracle did this. Kaos. The Chronomage that stands before you with the Sword of Bond is the one you knew a long time ago. The one that promised our friendship. Side with him once again and destroy the true evil that was within him" ordered Killerine.

"Yo. You alright man? Litsen, I'm sorry about all the shit that happened but for now, let's take that fucker down that messed up all of our lives" Chrono. "You with me brother?" asked Chronomage as he offered his hand to help Kaos up.

"Like old times. Come on Bum. Let's kill the ugly son of a bitch right now" said Kaos as he accepted Chrono's hand and got up.

The evil Chronomage has finally transformed into a demon with 6 hands and 2 legs and a tail. His face was extremely horrifyingly ugly, so ugly that I couldn't describe it because... well you get the idea. (Think of Diablo, Mephisto and Baa's demon faces combined. If you don't know who they are, they are the 3 evils from Diablo.)

Chronomage lauched blizzard and lightning spells down at the demon but stopped when Kaos and Killerbum was in melee range. He jumped into the combat himself. Bum hacked down and decapitated one arm while Kaos made an ugly gash on the demon's back side and decapitated another arm. The demon swung his arms out knocking all 3 of the guys back into pillars and onto the floor as Alexandra finished her spell and encased the demon in a box of white light. As the boys stood back up they saw Killerine's angelic form fly towards the demon with her Gates of Heaven blade ready and in a eye blink she went around the whole box slashing and cutting it everywhere. She finished her run with a stab down on top the box which caused the box of light to explode into tiny pieces and the demon inside explode as well with his last words: "Evil never dies! There will be more to take my place!"

The dark clouds around Chrono's realm disappeared and the landscape around the realm also returned to normal. Hookman's troops filed into the atlar and witnessed the angelic form of Alexandra and Killerine speaking to them about Chrono's innocence.

"Can you really not stay?" asked Kaos.

"I'm sorry. But I can't. Even if I did, I can never bond with you since the wings you have are wings of evil" said Alexandra with remorse. "But they can be changed" she said again as she planted a light kiss on Kaos's forehead and half of the wings turned into the wings of angels while the other half remained the darkness of evil. "Kaos, you were the one destined to keep balance between the world of evil and the world of heavens. Therefore, you stay on this land until your time is up."

"Good-bye dear brother. Our time is up. Tell the others that I'll catch them later for a drink. And forget about the idea of resurrecting me. It is forbidden" said Killerine as she and Alexandra both descended into the air, their forms disappearing slowly as the setting sun began to shine it's light through the atlar and the land that was once full of death.

"Finally. The war is over" said Hookman as he looked into the setting sun and had his men help Chrono, Bum, and Kaos up and back to the City of Knights.