Ok. So if you didn't know, the story of Spader and Bobby happen at the same time. So at the end of the last chapter, when Serenity said "I think that the lead Traveler has just met up with Saint Dane," that happened at the same time as events that happen in this chapter. Ok, so maybe I'm confusing you guys, 'cause I just kinda confused myself. But you'll understand when you read it…I hope.

A couple of minutes later, Bobby and Saangi landed on a craggy rock surface. Amazingly hot heat hit the couple, and Bobby winced. It appeared that the two of them were standing on the bottom of a steep cliff. There was a path up, and another path down. Down, was a humongous city. Up the cliff was a humongous tower. A flame-sheet was lying on the ground. Bobby bent down to pick it up. As soon as it touched Bobby's flesh, the flame-paper burst into flames and the message was delivered into Bobby's brain.

Pendragon,

Welcome to Ibara. You can meet me at the Tower of Flames. You might meet a few hardships on the way. If you do meet hardships, I have sent two of my assistants to meet you halfway. You must deal with the rest of the hardships on your own. Looking forward for your arrival, and good luck!

Saint Azarus

The flames disappeared from Bobby's hand, and Saangi stepped closer.

"What did it say?" she asked.

"It said to go up to that tower." Bobby pointed to the castle on top of the cliff. "That's where we gotta go. The Tower of Flames." Saangi nodded, and stared up at the tower.

"Let's go," she said softly. "Maybe…you should get this done quickly, Bobby."

"I have no clue how long this will take," Bobby said, worried about how Saangi was acting. He started up the stone path, and Saangi followed.

The path was narrow and steep. Cracks were everywhere. Bobby watched his step as chunks of rock fell off the ledge and into the lava below. Saangi started to shake beside Bobby.

"It's ok, Saangi." he said calmingly. Saangi still seemed cautious, but more relaxed than before. They continued to walk up the path, and Bobby heard a low growl from the right. Bobby turned, and saw a doglike creature growling at him, extremely long teeth bared. Four long spikes lined the back of the creature, and Bobby stepped backwards. The quig came closer, and Bobby stepped back.

Bobby checked his belt for the dagger, and realized that he didn't have his Second Earth clothes on anymore, and his dagger was on his Second Earth belt.

Damn it! He thought. The quig was approaching faster…The quig jumped into the air and lunged at Saangi.

"Saangi!" Bobby yelled, and lunged for the girl. He reached out his hand to catch the quig, but missed. "Dammit!" he yelled as the quig flew closer and closer to Saangi.

Bobby raised himself off the ground and ran towards Saangi as the quig hit her skin. It bit hard into her shoulder, and she yelled loudly in pain.

"Bobby!" she cried. "Get this thing off me!" the flames were starting to reach Saangi's skin. Bobby continued to run towards the girl, as the flames started to burn her skin.

Bobby reached Saangi, and pulled the quig off her arm instantly. The quig snarled, and dropped from Bobby's hands. It shuffled away back to where it came from.

"Saangi, are you alright?" Bobby said. Saangi's face was red, and blood was pouring from the small punctures on her shoulder.

"What the hell just happened here?" came a voice. Bobby was hoping that it was the assistant Saint Azarus had sent. But it was far from that.

A man stood in front of the pathway. He was about the same height as Bobby. He was thin, and extremely frail. His skin was pale white, and wispy brown hair was on the top of his head, revealing his scalp. In his pale hands was a small dagger, that was pointed at Bobby.

"Why are you here?" the man asked. His voice was sad, and like a child's. Bobby then noticed his eyes. They were pure white. No pupil. "Get out of here," the creature said.

"What the hell are you?" Bobby screamed. Is this what all the inhabitants of Ibara were like?

"They call me Yara." the creature said.

"You're a zombie…aren't you?" Bobby said.

"Bobby…." from beside him, Saangi had fallen to the ground. Ever since the arrival of this…thing, Bobby had forgotten about Saangi being hurt.

"Food…" the creature said, stepping closer to the fallen Saangi's body.

"Back away, zombie freak!" Bobby yelled. "Stay the hell away from her!" Bobby quickly bent down and picked up Saangi's body. The zombie came closer.

"Put her down…" he said, in the chilling voice that was different from before. "Or else I will kill you, right here and now."

"Never," Bobby spat. "I won't let you lay a finger on either of us." The zombie came closer and closer, the knife pointed at Bobby's chest. Zombie-man arrived at Bobby, and the knife met Bobby's flesh. The blood started to drip from the wound.

"I'm not afraid to kill." he whispered. He raised his arm up into the air, the now bloodstained dagger in his hand. Zombie-man suddenly fell to the ground, and blood poured from his back.

"What the hell?" Bobby said.

"Have no fear, Pendragon." said a voice. Two figures appeared out of the shadows. One familiar, one not so familiar. A man, wearing a black cloak, was standing next to Bokka.

"Bokka?" Bobby said. From his arms, Saangi moaned and spoke.

"Bokka….you….died." Then it hit Bobby. Bokka had died. What was going on here? Saangi closed her mouth, and went back to sleep. It appeared that she had a fever.

"What the hell, Bokka." Bobby said. "You can't come back to life." Bokka smiled, and suddenly began to transform. He now also wore an identical black cloak.

"You are good, Robert Pendragon." Bokka said. "I am only a servant of Saint Azarus. They call me Saint Xarax."

"And I am Saint Yuri," the other one said. Bobby hadn't noticed she was girl before. The girl had long, black hair and cold eyes. A sword was strapped to her belt, as with Xarax.

"That's cool and all, but Saangi here is sick. I need you guys to heal her."

"Can't do that, Pendragon." Yuri said. "Only Azarus do that."

"Then take me to him. Now. Azarus said in his message that you were her to guide me. So stop being a dumbass, and get me to the Tower of Flames." Yuri's face turned bright red, and she curled her fingers into a fist.

"Fine," Xarax said. "We'll take you to the Tower. You're sure as hell lucky that Azarus told us to do your bidding, Pendragon. Otherwise, I'd leave your friend to die."

"As would I." Yuri said. The two raised up their hands, and a humongous blast of white light appeared, and we were suddenly inside a spacious room, that looked to be an entrance hall.

"Bobby Pendragon." came a voice from all around me, and through a double doorway that was up the double staircase, appeared Saint Azarus. Or that's what Bobby thought at least. He wore a red, hooded cloak. A scarf covered his mouth, and his hair was brown, which was different from the gray of Saint Azarus's hair as it had been in the subway station.

"Azarus." Bobby glared at the demon.

Azarus snapped his fingers, and a new person wearing an identical black cloak to Yuri and Xarax appeared.
"Tiie, take the girl and cure her. She is very important." The soldier nodded, and took the body away from Bobby. As soon as Tiie was gone, Azarus got serious. "I never said you could bring the girl, Pendragon." he said with a glare.

"She stays." Bobby shot back. "Or else I leave. Take your pick."

"Fine," Azarus said, letting up. "She'll stay. But I'm not very happy about this." He began to proceed down the stairs.

"Come with me, Pendragon. It's time your training began." Azarus slapped Bobby on the back, sending a jolt of energy to every Traveler, showing that Bobby Pendragon, the lead Traveler, had arrived on Ibara.

:Spader:

"It doesn't necessarily mean that Bobby joined Saint Dane." Cid said, defending Bobby.

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't either." Raux said. "I'm thinking that it's a sign that the time when Bobby joins up with Saint Dane is approaching quickly."

"Yeah," Serenity said. "I think your right."

"Yeah, take his side for everything!" Spader yelled playfully to Serenity. "But yeah, I agree too. I think Bobby wouldn't just join up with Saint Dane like that." he snapped his fingers as he said the word 'that.'

"For now, I say we go to Quillan." Serenity said. "We can train. We've all been outta the game for six years. Do you think that any of us are really ready to fight Saint Dane, right here and now?" Everyone shook their heads. "Exactly. Now let's all go to Quillan. We can train, and have a good time. I think that we'll know when something new happens with Bobby."

The group walked back to the flume.

"Quillan!" they all screamed, and the flume rides began.

( . ) That's right, your jealous of my awesome not-so-Kirby-Kirby

The group arrived on Quillan, and to their surprise they found the flume was not destroyed to Zadaa.

"Strange," Serenity said. They stood in a grassy meadow of blue Quillan grass. A small cottage was to the left, and a castle where Serenity lived was to the right. They went to the castle. They opened the doors with handles shaped like clown noses, and walked inside the oddly colored castle. They walked up a flight of automatic moving stairs, and went into a long hallway.

"Here's your room, Cid." Serenity said, pointing to the first door on the left which was painted hot pink. The next room belonged to Raux. The doors, which changed colors to show your mood, was a mix of the colors red, and black.

"Hobey, Raux, what's up with your door?" Spader said.

"I…don't…know…." he replied. He opened the door to his room and locked the door.

"That was weird." Serenity said. "Moving on, Spader here's your room." The door was completely red. Serenity slapped her forehead.

"Spader, you lovesick loser!" she cried. "Well, its about time I hit the sack." she said, raising her arms over her head and yawning loudly.

"Goodnight." Cid said to Serenity, and stepped inside his room.

"Goodnight, Spader." Serenity said.

"'Night," he replied as Serenity walked out of the hall and to her room, since she was the princess of Quillan.

:Raux:

:Hours Later:

Raux awoke in a cold sweat. He found himself breathing heavily, and a war of emotions was raging through his head.

"What…the hell is going on?" he said as beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. He looked over at the door. Jet black. Raux got out of bed, his forehead raging with fever. A flame note from his home territory of Ibara was lying on the ground. Raux bent down and picked it up. The flames engulfed his hand, and the message began.

Come to me, Raux

The message ended. The flames didn't. They began to grow, wrapping themselves around Raux's entire body. He didn't mind the pain at first, but soon it began. Raux managed to open his mouth to scream, but no sound came out as the pain of 1000 needles in each arm shot through his body.

After a while, the flames disappeared, leaving Raux in a black hooded cloak.

"I know where I have to go," he said, and left the room, not noticing what he had done.

. Be jealous of my smiley face

Raux arrived on Ibara.

"Home," he said. "I'm…home." he smiled weakly, and began to climb the cliff to get to the Tower of Flames. The trip was long, and the whole time, Raux thought of his family. How were they doing? Did his father finally win any money? Those thoughts distracted him, and Raux turned around. He needed to see his family. He stepped into town, and smiled. This is where he had grown up. Dropping assorted items, and sometimes people, off of the cliffs…those were the good old days. But those days had passed. Now Raux had to help the Travelers in the mission to defeat Saint Dane.

"Not another one," said a voice.

"They already sent one of those devils!" said another.

"And look what it's done for us!" said one last voice. Raux looked around. The town was in ruins.

"What the hell is going on here?" he said softly.

"You should know!" said the villagers. "That horrible Saint Azarus sent you!"

"Azarus…" A figure appeared from the flames of a newly destroyed building. It wore an identical cloak to Raux's, except with the hood up. On the hood were glowing letters that Raux couldn't read. The figure stepped closer, and dropped its hood. The face under it was familiar. Too familiar.

"Rose," Raux breathed. "How the hell can you work for that bitch Azarus?"

"How can I not?" she replied coldly. "He is the way to go, Raux. He's setting the territories straight."

"Straight?" Raux screamed. "More like destroying them!"

"Really?" Rose replied, brushing her pink hair out of her eyes. "Then why are you wearing his uniform?" Rose laughed at Raux's amazement. "Come with me. I'll show you the way." She held up her palm, and there was a blast of white light. They were suddenly inside the Tower of Flames. Saint Azarus appeared, wearing the same clothes he had when he had met Spader in the flume of Second Earth.

"Good work, Rose." Azarus said, acknowledging Raux's presence. "I trust the village is destroyed?" Rose nodded, and Azarus snapped his fingers. Rose left.

"Welcome to Ibara, my new puppet." Azarus said. He walked closer, and took a small knife and cut an entwining circle and triangle into the palm of Raux's hand. It glowed a blue color. "Now your one step closer to becoming a servant." he said. "Follow me, and all questions will be answered." Curious, Raux followed his sworn enemy up the double staircase.

:Spader:

Spader opened his eyes to bright sunlight. And yelling from Cid. But it was mostly the sunlight.

"Oh my GOD!" he yelled extremely loud. Spader jumped outta bed, and ran out into the hallway. Cid stood in the hallway wearing pink pajamas. A pink teddy bear was clutched in his right hand.

"Wha…wha happened?" Spader said, still dreary from sleep. Serenity appeared in the hallway, wearing a sexy nightgown that woke Spader up.

"Holy….!" he said, unable to finish his sentence. He wished he could see Serenity in a little less than that….

"Lookit!" Cid yelled, motioning towards the doorway to Raux's room. Spader and Serenity turned, and gasped.

The doorway to Raux's bedroom had burned down.

"Emotions must have run high here last night." Serenity commented. All three walked into the bedroom to tell Raux of the news. As they stepped inside, they noticed the emptiness of the room.

Raux had disappeared.

I know, I know…that was a kinda redundant ending. And this time, I went a whole chapter with only two reviewers. I just have to say that you two (who will be named later) are awesome for sticking with my story! I appreciate that. And….I just realized that all my reviewers are girls. And that's still cool! I can tell that none of you guys are girly-girls…so just so you know, I'm a boy. (awkward silence) Hah, so anyways, thanks to my reviewers now. PotatoPuff and Inu.Rox. You guys are awesome for sticking with my story. (I'm so redundant) Well, I'm hoping to get my old reviewers back, or new reviewers or something…cuz I like reviews. I accept flames by the way.

Till next time! Next time: the reason why this story is called Pendragon Darkness….dun dun DUN! One last thing and then I'll draw this extremely long authors note to a close. I am planning on a sequel already, and I don't enough know how this is gonna end….silly me hahaha