Chapter 2
"So, you've returned," said Skeleton King coolly.
"Shut up and fight," said Saga.
"You don't want to try and find out my plans, or tell me why you chose that form?" asked Skeleton King, feigning hurt.
"It should be obvious," said Saga. His body had taken the shape of a large monkey with grayish fur, one red eye, pointed ears, and a long powerful tail. In fact, his entire form looked strong, perhaps more like a silverback gorilla than a monkey. However, the most striking feature was the large, bluish crystal claw/blade coming out of each arm just above the wrist. Suddenly, the claw on his right arm extended and Saga rushed forward, striking out with it. Skeleton King blocked the attack with his staff.
"I expected better," sneered Skeleton King.
"How's this?" said Saga. As he spoke, he jumped at Skeleton King, attacking with both claws. There was a gray energy radiating from the claws as well. Skeleton King countered with dark magical energy. He disrupted Saga's energy and slammed him away with his staff, breaking Saga's left arm.
"On your own, you're weak!" taunted Skeleton King. Saga shot a blast of energy from his right hand, then dashed forward, attacking with his claw yet again.
"Fool, if it didn't work last time, how can you expect it to work now?" said Skeleton King. He reached out his left hand and used dark energy, this time with a touch of anima magic, too. Saga's fur caught fire, but the fire was darkest black. Skeleton King began to laugh, then lifted his staff for the final blow…and got a big surprise.
"What's the matter, did you think that my other arm was totally useless?" inquired Saga. His left hand was tightly clamped onto Skeleton King's staff. Saga began to pump his energy into the staff, and it flowed through it into Skeleton King, much the way an electric current travels through metal. Then, suddenly, the world began to warp around the two combatants. Reality itself began to strain, and in only a few seconds, there was a burst of energy not unlike an explosion. However, it was totally silent; in fact, it seemed to remove all sound from the room. Then, the energy collapsed in on itself, then faded away, leaving an empty, quiet room.
A little later, Saga and Skeleton King began to wake up in a wondrous new world. The sky was blue and gray, with lights spiraling around each other. The trees seemed to sparkle and, indeed, glow. The fruit shone like lighthouse beacons from the emerald green canopy. The soil was a pale gray color and several clear crystals could be seen growing out of the ground.
"What just happened?" blurted Saga.
"Isn't it obvious? I was using dark and anima magic, while you were using that gray mess that you control. Being made of light and dark energy, your power is chaotic in nature. When you grabbed my staff, the combination was 2 parts dark, one part anima, and one part light. Normally the dark energy would cause a powerful explosion that would hurt us both. But the nature of the light energy caused it to work against that. It wasn't powerful enough on its own, so it reacted with the anima magic, causing the dark energy to attack the natural realm. This created a tear in the very fabric of reality, which the remaining light energy tried to neutralize, causing the formation of a portal. Duh," said Skeleton King.
"Okay... We didn't all take advanced sorcery in high school, or whatever it is you did to learn that stuff," said Saga.
"Do you want me to repeat that for you?" said Skeleton King smugly.
"No, I understood what you said. But there was no way I was going to get that one by myself," responded Saga. "So I guess that if either one of us wants to get back, he shouldn't kill the other just yet."
"Why else would you still be alive?" said Skeleton King.
"Because you can't beat me," said Saga. Skeleton King tried to attack him, but he only caused a few sparks.
"What the…" he muttered. Saga decided to check his own powers out, and found that his energy had also dwindled, and he could only turn switch between his current form and his normal one. Then, as if to make matters worse, a terrified voice rang out, "Demons!"
Saga and Skeleton King turned towards where the sound had come from and saw what was apparently an elf woman. Behind her were several heavily armed guards. Saga and Skeleton King soon found themselves in the back of a prison wagon.