A/N's: I'm back! Sorry for the long wait but it took a very long while before I got reviews.

Lloyd: so how many did you get?

Me: Meh, a few (eye twitch)

Yuan: ok then…

Me: what? (Eye twitch…again)

Lloyd: why is your eye twitching?

Me: ACK! It's been doing that all week. My mother told me to ignore but its (eye twitch) ACK! It's IMPOSSIBLE! Do you know how annoying it is? I swear I'm going to go completely insane!

Kratos: Maybe you should ignore it and wait for it to pass.

Me: … easier said than done…

Colette: (randomly pops up) Lloyd-forever does not own TOS or any of its characters.

Me: Thank you, Colette. Now on with the story! Lol oops I killed Selena… I think…

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Chapter 9: Goddess

"SELENA!" Nikila shouted as she ran to her sister's limb and suddenly cold body. She turned over her body and stared at her peaceful face. Selena was… smiling? Tears threatened to fall from Nikila's face as she clung onto to her elder sister's body.

"What a sentimental fool… my half-brother would probably laugh at her. She died shielding you when she could have lived if she had used you as a shield. That's what I would have done," Goddess said as Nikila burned with anger.

"Selena isn't like you!" Nikila shouted as she heard Lloyd gasping for breath as he tried to get up.

"Still alive are you?" Goddess muttered as Lloyd was soon standing up.

"You can't get rid of me that easily," he whispered with a hoarse voice. His knees wobbled as he took a step towards Nikila and looked down towards Selena.

"This is… horrible," Lloyd whispered as Goddess laughed.

"Oh please, Aurion. I don't want to hear any of your idealistic speeches. It's all a load of crap to me. I owe you for killing my half-brother for me. That fool had me locked up in Derris-Knarlan when he found out who I was. Then again I did try to kill him." Lloyd looked up.

"Half-brother… you don't mean…?"

"Of course I do! Mithos Yggdrasill, the Fallen Hero. The one who ended the Knarlan War. We share the same human father. I am a half-elf. My father had told me of his other son and told me to go and kill him along with his sister, Martel. He said that they were a threat to his plans for Knarlan War for he was making a huge profit from it. I found Mithos and Martel along with another half-elf and a human. I tried to kill Martel but the other half-elf blocked and when I tried to kill Mithos the human stopped me.

"They didn't kill me but instead left me to die on Derris Knarlan. Later, Mithos wanted to try out his little project and attached what he called a Cruxis crystal to me. Something he found pleased him and soon enough I realized that I had stopped aging. Mithos said that he had made some changes to it so mine is unique. It is unique because unless I absorb active mana I will continue to slowly age and if I do absorb mana then I will regain my youth from when the crystal was attached to me. So as you can see, I owe you. I hated my brother and sister. I was so happy to learn of her death and even happier to hear of my half-brother's." Lloyd clenched his fists as Nikila stared at Goddess with disbelief.

"How could you even think that way of your own family!" Lloyd shouted as Goddess laughed again.

"Family… they weren't my family. I had no family, Aurion. None what's so ever. I only want Hellk's power and that is what I have wanted since I took over this organization. Now hand over the three scales you have to me now. Or should I say… the four since you still have the scale of luck, Olympian's scale."

"There's no way I'll hand them over to you!" Goddess sneered and took one step forward as Nikila stood in front of Lloyd.

"Nikila, what are you doing?" Goddess asked.

"I won't let you win, Goddess. Kan will retake the throne to the Dragon Fang. You're finished," she told the women boldly.

"Oh please, those pathetic dragons are powerless compared to the power of Hellk and so is Kan. That pathetic child can't even stand without the power of the throne," Goddess replied as Nikila smirked. "What's so funny?"

"You forget, Goddess. You don't have Hellk's power yet," Nikila said as Goddess' face turned red from anger and embarrassment. She launched another energy attack that hit Nikila in her right shoulder.

"Nikila!" Lloyd shouted as the young girl fell to her knees.

"I'm fine, Lloyd Irving Aurion. Just make sure that you defeat her for me and my sister," she replied before falling face first to the floor. Lloyd clenched his fists and unsheathed his swords and launched at Goddess.

"You'll pay for that!" Goddess blocked suddenly with her own sword and she smiled when she noticed what swords Lloyd was using.

"Ah, so you do own the Vorpal and the Flamberge. I was wondering if these two still existed. Now I can take them from your cold body when I kill you!" she roared as she thrust her sword at him only to be blocked. He attacked, aiming for her side when she decided to play dirty and tripped him. She held the tip of her blade at his throat.

"Well, that was no challenge, Aurion. This was much easier than I-" she was cut off when a huge explosion cut through the walls of the temple. She screamed as rubble came flying in her direction. Lloyd dashed away from her as bits of rock landed where he once was.

"Lloyd!" he heard a voice shout as Colette, Genis, Presea and Raine came running over. "Lloyd, are you alright?" Colette asked as Lloyd nodded slowly.

"Yeah, I think I'm ok." The three dragons found their way through the walls and eventually surrounded Goddess, with their teeth bared. Treeforte took a step forward.

"You've taken lives away, Goddess and it's time that you've lost your own. You've taken mana from a friend of my companions so you shall pay the price," he growled. Goddess cringed in fear.

"But it's not fair! How did you find me?"

"When you stole mana from Lloyd Irving Aurion, Treeforte could smell the mana from the exchange. Just think about it, if you hadn't been so greedy for eternal youth we wouldn't have found you so fast," Fonirto told her. Venforfte glared at the women. She had taken so many lives of friends of his in the past… and to think that she almost done it again.

"Burn in the depths of hell, Goddess!" Venforfte roared as he spewed out a bright yellow fire that licked the marble tiled floor. No scream was heard for the only sound there was the sizzling of the air and the smoke that had floated outside of the temple. Goddess was gone.

"Leave this place now. I'll take care of it," Nikila said as sat next to her elder sister's body. The group stared at her before turning and leaving through the crack. Kratos stopped next to her.

"What are you planning?"

"I must make sure that Goddess can never return. The next members of the Dragon Fang will tell what's going on," Nikila replied and Kratos left feeling satisfied with her answer.

"Wait." Kratos turned. "Remember, that a dragon is strong and proud. We can live from the beginning of time and die at the ends of the earth but we warned that when the light of judgment strikes us we will be gone and so will anything surrounding us for a few miles." Knowing that he was dismissed, Kratos left.

While everyone was flying on the dragons back to the Rheairds, Kratos pondered her words. They were about two miles from the temple when it came to him.

"Venforfte, what happens to a dragon when they die?" he suddenly asked. Venforfte was taken by surprise.

"Well, we explode from what I've heard but it's not like I've died before."

"Then in that case we must go faster if we are to get out of here in one piece."

"What are you talking?" Sheena asked him as Kratos shook his head.

"I'll explain if we survive."

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Nikila held her sisters hand. This was it. Her sister was dead so there nothing left for her in this strange world. She always depended on her sister for things that she couldn't do. Sure Mikel was still there but she had a different destiny set for her. Mikel had to do something that she would never be able to do and she knew that Mikel had to be heartless in order to do it. Nikila looked to the rook only to see the sky. The dragons had completely torn the place apart. She held a sister's hand even tighter as she gathered all of the mana in her body together.

"Dragon's death," she whispered as she released all the mana in her body with those key words. A single light flew to the sky then her world went white and she knew that she would never she the world again…

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Lloyd: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

Me: … oops…

Yuan: Amazing. You won't kill us but you'll kill your own characters.

Me: Yup. Why not it's fun! I may have to end up killing one of you guys though… It'll have to be someone I hate.

Colette: And who would that be?

Me: … I apologize for the long wait! But I had to get Angel Soul caught up and all so ya… and sorry if this was a little short but I have a tincy bit of writers block so I couldn't think of anything.

Kratos: Please review.

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Preview: The Dragon Fang

"What's funny is that we can move to the other dragons much faster than those other failures could."