I am sorry it took ages to update. Truth to be told I had a temporary writer's block that annoyed me to headaches.

Anyway...

One word...

SUMMER!

Yeah, this authors has finally been released from the horrible amount of homework, exams and assignments for 75 whole days! And frankly she has promised herself not to count days until she starts again.

So, for her readers (the few that have time to read now) she says: This story will be finished before her holiday ends.

Shitza

Ps: There has been no real prophecies in this story, and I love prophecies so, a real one has finally been written down, all though there are very few chapters left in this story...

Chapter 20

Victory, No?

(Taken from the Seers Books)

Deep hidden in legend, the ancient tale of the vampire tells another tale about the Ultimate Darkness, the darkest will upon Earth, and it is the will to clear away all living from the planet. Whom are we telling about? Of course, the one we rarely mention in name...

Umbra...

It is not that we fear her darkness, or her strength. We fear what she is, her soul and her will. Her... determination. As we just sit down to write this warning, the ink freezes before our eyes. Her will stretches far away...

Her tale is shrouded in mystery, and no one is certain how she became as she was, she, like all other creatures, wasn't like this from birth. Everyone could confirm that...

No one knows for sure how she became evil, and why she acts like she does. Of all killers she is the queen, waiting for the king. Even though the king will never be able to court her, she will follow his will. And become his most obedient soldier.

Yet before she does, she will spread terror around our world, no one will be able to stop her.

Unless...

Thunder will crack the highest mountain,
Wind and Ice combine as one,
Darkness awaken from our ancient writings,
And the souls of fire, leave as gone...

Ice and cold the Darkness struggles
Against the tides that overcome
Light so pure fight the juggles
That crash down from the sky.

Fire lastly be the outcome
To victory for good or bad
And so thus we wait for some
Hero who doesn't belong to this world.

"Tell me again, whose idea was it to take the short cut?" Kouji asked with a growl, his hand clenching tightly to the branch.

Takuya sighed, not daring to look down. "I said I miscalculated this, just give me another minute and..."

Kouji sighed as well. "And what?"

The vampire looked up at the flying skeletons above them. It had been three weeks since they left everyone else behind.

"This is ridiculous!" the vampire said as his fangs and nails grew longer, wings grew from his back.

Takuya followed his example, spread his wings as well and flew upwards from the ravine the two of them had fallen into. Sometimes the ex-human forgot he really had wings on his back. Something you could find hard since well, they were there.

The two flew upwards, fending of the skeletons by some simple magic tricks. Even though Takuya wasn't dragon enough to change form, he knew how to spit fire. And well, that wasn't just something.

The skeletons hurried away, with fire chasing after them. Takuya cheered and Kouji simply smiled. During these weeks that has passed, Takuya's powers had grown incredibly from being the amateur to being the expert. As if that wasn't enough, he started to grow some habits that Dragon's loved. As much as shared with vampires.

Bites.

Needless to say, with the memories of the following days they had spent, Kouji probably would remember the endless amount of bites and nipping they had been, well... occupied with. Even though they were in a hurry, even though they had a mission to succeed, their not-so lonely nights turned out to be quite romantic. Takuya normally argued with the famous phrase: "Why wouldn't they be able to combine business with pleasure?

Their journey continued from a large amount of walking (they didn't fly unless they REALLY needed) to one day when they reached below the mountains, to Dead Species Dale. This nowadays green lands had been the legendary battleground, and until just recently the flowers had started to bloom again.

The two of them however had no time to watch this miracle, because above the clouds turned darker and darker. It went as bad as it could become, when they found out that this wasn't just clouds. In the middle of the Dale, four days of flying since the understood they were in a great hurry, they found a crack that lead downwards to a hidden chamber. And down there...

"We've found it!" Takuya gasped looking down. Great lanterns with red flames where lit, yet the walls looked dark blue, and where the light hit it turned from red, to purple, to indigo and lastly the same blue upon the walls. The ground was covered in a eerie mist that swirled around the creatures below them. They could see the darkest of all creatures, of different species. Black Dragons that had their eyes scarred, skeletons with wings and horns, ice unicorns that looked beautiful, but at the very touch would mean instant death. Sure enough, dark creatures lived upon the lands of Nemorisa, but there were a few unknown species that had been locked down with the demons themselves.

In the middle of the chamber they could gaze down upon, they saw a gigantic throne with around twenty steps to walk up to. There, Shinya sat dressed in his usual clothes, smirking. Umbra sat below the throne, looking oddly proud of herself.

"It's done, my Lord. The barriers protecting that valley have been even more damaged then our last attempt. In a few days, we will be able to crush the dragons. We don't even need their help, worthless scums being beaten by those Good-For-Nothing losers. Just you wait, my Lord. I will have your brother's head on a platter for you."

Luckily the black smokes emitting from the crack in the roof hid both Takuya and Kouji from their sights, or they would have been dead by now. Even though the two down there spoke of Takuya's death the dragon didn't seem as pale as he normally would hearing such. His face more shined of determination to finish this once and for all.

"You or me?" Takuya asked.

Kouji nodded, took two of his fingers into his mouth and whistled.

Let the chase begin.

Tomoki was brought back, unconscious but unhurt mostly. Kouichi was reviving from a huge shock, but the ghost seemed as if he would be his usual cheerful self soon.

Izumi had some serious poisonous wounds, but they had been treatable. However, they medics had to treat her for hours before she was left alone to rest. The victory over a total of Four of the Horrors shook the whole World and the three of them were treated as heroes. Like they were, they had just done their destined job.

And all of them knew what awaited them now.

And it didn't grow any better when Kouichi reported that his brother and Takuya had escaped from the Valley, to chase after the remains alone.

It more like grew to a disastrous chaos.

The leaders of the different creatures summoned, like Taichi, Yamato, Takato and so on were devastated to learn about the escape since all of them, out of experience knew how long normal wars lasted here. (From 1 year too forever), and they were expecting a second blow. Izumi, after her recovery, bit her nails spending all nights trying to solve the political problems. Tomoki had gone down to talk to the average people, and Junpei kept to the loners who had decided to take a deal or too. Kouichi spoke with ghosts, they never listened to living people anyway.

However, it seemed no matter how much they tried to tell people to calm down and stay strategic, nothing seemed to work. They mostly received a "yes" but then, people or creatures didn't seem to follow the things they said. One "yes" and then they continued rambling about how the sky would fall down over them. Tiring and a waste of time.

As the days passed the four remaining warriors tried to find a way to bring both of them back, with little luck. Sure enough, if Kouichi would have tried harder, he could be able to locate an extreme light thanks to an elven invention that looked like two sticks. But of all the warriors, Kouichi, happened to be the one who didn't put his soul into this. Mainly cause he knew Kouji better then the others, and Takuya as well.

In the end they all gave up, and that is what destiny waited for. Some solutions cannot be solved by seeking for them, they come to you.

And this solution came through a message written by a highly posted person, a Lord above Lords and a power that once could have been able to take over Nemorisa three times over, if he had wanted.

Alpha...

So it happened that the Four Warriors found themselves with what many creatures dreamed of. An entrance to the Dimension which the 13 Royal Knights stayed in. For a meeting like this, they all (except for Kouichi) had decided to dress up formally. Izumi had taken her finest light blue silk dress, with a silver belt and matching jewellery. Tomoki had taken white pants and shirt, with soft white fur laced to the brims, and a cloak which was made of the same fur they normally used for their Yeti transformations. Junpei was dressed in what shockingly looked like a suit of stone, yet looking closer you could see it was really made of mixed sand from gold and silver, striped to resemble the immense lightning that everyone knew came from his hands.

And as mentioned before, Kouichi hadn't, (couldn't) dress up for this, so he came with his usual attire. Then again, few ghosts where expected to arrive in their bests because few died in their best clothes.

The Entrance was two huge oak doors, filled with magical symbols to keep things inside. This didn't however affect the visitors, but very much the creatures trapped there. Izumi was shaking nervously and Junpei fidgeted with a headband he wore. Kouichi stayed cool, however his eyes travelled around and Tomoki was as quiet as you could be.

They came to a hall with thirteen portraits, one for each Knight. Two of them seemed gigantic resembling Alpha in black armour and Omni in white armour. These two were the highest ranked Knights and had a spiritual connection back to Nemorisa, which allowed them to send messages and invitations, mostly when something bad was about to happen.

And nervously, it was them the Four Warriors waited for...

and waited...

and waited...

and waited...

still waiting...

waiting...

would they come?

Waiting...

waiting...

hopelessness...

waiting...

anxiety...

still waiting...

No one!

The Four warriors stood by the doorway, not daring to take one more step. But the longer they waited the more their anxiety and nervousness grew to annoyance. It was growing dark, the roof had small small windows that could show them sunlight, and that light was fading.

"Where the hell are they?" Izumi said out-loud slowly getting really angry. Junpei was biting on his finger nails and Tomoki was dozing of. Kouichi had left his spot and went to look at the chairs that stood in the room, thirteen of them. "Whom do they think they are, letting the princess of Aquilas wait for this long! They better show their dirty faces soon or...

And yet, that wasn't something she should have said, because seconds later the floor was filled with smoke, and the sound of armour walking and swords being drawn.

A warrior clad in a white armour, with a long black cloak walked towards them.

"I would shut up, if I were you, young lady. Older and wiser royalties then you have waited for days to see us, and never uttered a word to insult us. After all, we are the Royal Nights!"

TBC

Sorry for a long wait, hope you enjoyed! Please review, it lightens so much!