Chapter 5

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The city of Gygalo was huge by any standards. But after quite a bit of searching, Saga and Skeleton King finally found the Wizard's Academy of the Crimson Rose and were waiting to be sent home. The kid Saga had found had taken a job running errands for the professors, mostly because he was afraid that Saga would kill him otherwise.

"Gentlemen, if you will follow me?" came the voice of one of the wizards. Saga and Skeleton King silently walked after him. They entered a room that seemed to be made almost entirely of crystal. Everything that wasn't crystal was some type of strange metal.

"It should only take us a few hours to send you home," said a different wizard.

"Hours? We've already been here for hours!" said Skeleton King. If he didn't need those wizards, he would have blasted them and left. He'd wasted far too much time.

"It's either wait or don't leave," said the wizard who had led them in. Skeleton King had to focus to keep from killing the man right there, while Saga listened to the conversation silently.

Meanwhile, in the hills, a dark presence was stirring. Defeating a demon is often not without repercussions. Not only were the beast's former minions planning to take their revenge, but rival groups wanted to claim its territory. As the moon rose, an army, unorganized but an army nonetheless, headed towards the city of Gygalo, following the trail of the demonslayers. Some wished to kill them and their loved ones to take revenge, some wished to kill them and prove their strength. Some just wished to kill.

Saga and Skeleton King stood on a big platform with large crystal rings circling them. There were several wizards holding their hands up while chanting. Soon, they knew that they would be home. Once these hooded figures finished charging the rings, they would begin the process of transferring the two travelers home.

The chanting stopped, and the rings began to glow and spin faster. Suddenly, there came a crash. The wizards turned to see what had happened, and were immediately attacked by huge numbers of creatures. Many were torn apart before they could even react. The rest tried to cast spells and destroy the beasts, but they just kept coming. Saga would have tried to help, but he was being transported. He couldn't move. Skeleton King just watched and sighed, annoyed that things were taking so long. Then, a demon with a body in its mouth went past. It turned and Saga saw a familiar face. Then, everything went black.

Saga and Skeleton King appeared a few feat above the ground in Shuggazoom and floated down to the familiar soil. Skeleton King lifted his hand, apparently calling out to the Citadel of Bone or his formless or something. He was in no way fazed by what had just happened. Saga, however, was.

"What did we just do?" stammered Saga. He received nothing more than a laugh from the Skeleton King. "Do you even care?"

"Of course not. And why do you?" said Skeleton King. "You were made, less than a year ago. And it wasn't even by the girl who you think created you. She was able to persuade some of my minions to do her dirty work, and she just added a few things to you. She didn't know how to do much else. Although, I think that she was able to add more than she knew. You were a much stronger robot than you should have been, and smarter, too."

"What are you talking about? You wouldn't have let her join you if she wasn't as skilled as she said that she was!" said Saga.

"Fool. I was impressed by her nerve and her planning," answered Skeleton King.

"It doesn't matter how I came to be! I'm alive now!" shouted Saga.

"Yes, and you were made flesh so that it would be possible to kill you. The only reason that you yet live is because you escaped your fate, then tried to show that you could be "good." But you can't, can you?" said Skeleton King.

Saga looked down at the ground, and muttered something. He then looked back up at Skeleton King with a very pained expression on his face. Skeleton King simply laughed again.

"You can't even cry, can you?" he asked. Saga didn't answer immediately, and it seemed he would never get the chance, as a small ship, one designed for stealth, landed nearby. Skeleton King boarded it, and Saga didn't even try to stop him.

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