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A/N: If you're wondering why I didn't pull a Knudson and had the Byogen arrested... They'll be back later. Just sayin'. (And this time they got Whit!)

NOTE: Recycled this one from the oneshot story I made for this 'verse, as this chapter is literally that story but with a surprise at the end...

Chapter Seventeen: The Higher Love We've Been Thinking Of! Eagle Astra vs. Eagle Compass... Together at Last?

"I don't know, Tom! We're just friends, okay?" Kaz started, putting his hands up in defense.

"Don't you dare come on to me, we've come this far already!"

Tom smiled awkwardly, as he held his hands back.

"Sorry, Kaz... our hands brushed, and I felt..."

"Gay?" Kaz asked.

"Absolutely."

Tom felt a little emasculated to admit that.

Kaz noticed his tone when he admitted it, and frowned.

"What... you think that's bad?" He asked.

Tom hung his head a bit.

"No, Kaz, it's not bad, it's just..."

Kaz crossed his arms, quirking a brow.

"Ah, you don't think you're manly enough. That's it."

Tom looked up, his eyes flashing like a blue flash of lightning, before his expression changed to that of sadness.

"...Okay, you got me. I don't think I'm manly enough, just because... I dunno, I'm probably bi, who knows."

Kaz raised his eyebrows fully.

"Tom."

Tom looked confused when Kaz said his name.

"If you're that confused by your own sexuality... then let's do it like the Spartans did."

Tom seemed even more confused.

"By...?"

"Fighting."

Tom crossed his fingers and closed his eyes.

"As our magical forms." Kaz continued.

Tom opened one eye.

"What? Really?"

Kaz knew exactly what the Spartans did after fighting, so instead he suggested a different outcome.

"Whoever loses gets to be the one being made out with."

Tom looked at Kaz, then smiled in a cocky way.

"Okay, you're on."

A/N: My god! These guys gay! Good for them, good for them.

ANYWAYS, WEIRD TRANSITION TIME!

*plays Batman '66 transition jingle*

[CUE - HIGHER LOVE (DISCONET EXTENDED REMIX) - STEVE WINWOOD]

The two started stepping around each other in a circular motion, with the power of a UFC match, the grace of ballet dancers, and the rhythm of a hip hop dancer, to the beat of the background music cue, even though they didn't hear it themselves.

They glared at each other as they did so, as Eagle Astra (Kaz) smirked, and Eagle Compass (Tom) grinned, his eyebrows lowered.

Eagle Astra raised up his halberd, as Eagle Compass raised up his mace, as they looked into each other's eyes.

They readied themselves.

They backed up slowly, still readying themselves a slight bit.

And then they charged at each other.

They clashed their weapons multiple times, (to the beat of the lyrics), and Eagle Compass agilely flipped over Eagle Astra using his halberd like a spear, and then leapt at Eagle Astra in the air, about to whap him with his mace.

Eagle Astra dodged, and then grabbed the back of his coat, throwing him to the ground, as Eagle Compass fell roughly on the ground, his back falling first, and then his hands, and then his head.

Eagle Compass slowly got up, rubbing his head, and then glared at Astra, as he slowly stumbled towards him.

Compass and Astra continued clashing weapons, as flashes of lightning and morality-based magic came out from them.

They started floating up in a circular motion around each other, the wings on their shoes glowing as they did such, but were still clashing weapons.

Compass was ready to strangle Astra, as they continued clashing weapons in the air.

They clashed their weapons for more then a minute, to the beat of the music.

And then...

Astra charged his weapon's magic...

As Compass charged his weapon's magic as well...

They stood there for a bit, and then...

To the beat of the music, fired off their attacks.

But it still wasn't enough, as they continued clashing their weapons.

And then.

BAM!

Compass was sent flying to the wall by Astra's astral lightning.

He fell to the ground, as Astra landed near him, as puffs of astral lightning came forth from his feet.

Yet Compass was still going, as he got up and rushed Astra real quickly.

The two dropped their weapons, wrestling for dominance on the ground, like tongues in a bad yaoi fanfiction.

The two wrestled and kicked, as they screamed like feral cats on a moonlit night.

They touched noses, as one tried to overpower the other, their intertwined hands sparking with their magic, and their faces filled with utter rage.

They continued for more then a minute, flipping around like a hamster on a hamster wheel, before...

Compass got kicked into the wall again, and turned back into Tom, stumbling to the ground, a different part of his body hitting the floor to the ending drums of the song.

Astra turned back to Kaz, as he approached Tom rather quickly.

"Tom? Are you alright? I didn't beat you up too badly, did I?"

Tom grunted, rubbing the side of his head.

"Other then the bruises I'll get later, I'm sure I'm fine."

Kaz kneeled down to Tom, picking his chin up with his hands.

"I won, though, Tom...'

Tom blushed sharply.

"We gotta make out, as promised." Kaz continued.

Kaz got down on ground level, seeing eye-to-eye with Tom...

And then leapt forth, making out with Tom.

Tom never felt this loved before.

Meanwhile, in Odyssey...

Whit was ready to go to bed, having worked a long day at Whit's End, when...

Someone knocked on his door.

Whit approached the door, knocking.

"Hello?" He asked, and then looked at the people up and down.

"Good Lord, it's a little early to be wearing such sinful Halloween costumes, isn't it?"

It was the Byogen.

The three grabbed him, and with a jolt of their magic...

Corrupted Whit.

Making him, personality-wise, like his recent Rydell Revelations/Millstones self...

And appearance-wise?

A rather beefy older man, with horned hair, and a black and red suit.

His eyes glowed red, as he chuckled.

"Time to hurt some children." Daruizen said, smirking as the newly christened Dariest walked out the door.

END CHAPTER SEVENTEEN