"Bloks dead ahead!" Ulrich drew his sword and sliced one of the tan, cube shaped colored creatures apart. It exploded before disappearing. The other four bloks turned and shot at him. The blasts hit Cantankerous, sending him crashing to the ground. Ulrich tried to get him to stand but he seemed to be paralyzed.

"Laser arrow!" Odd quickly destroyed two of the bloks. Umi disposed of the other two with her fan. She then turned to the frightened couple.

"I'd suggest that you get home." The couple nodded and ran away. Aelita magged off of Skelina and ran over to Ulrich and Cantankerous. She rubbed Cantankerous' head and tried to focus her energy into him. He slightly moved his claws before slowly standing. Ulrich magged onto him and walked him over to Artha and the others.

"Where to next?" A loud crash answered him.

"Wow, I'm so glad that they keep telling us where they are!"

"Agreed!" They raced off towards the source of the sound.

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"Creepers!" The tan serpentlike creatures turned away from the frightened civilians and fired at Aelita. She focused her energy and blasted one of them. The other two creatures took aim at Umi. She raced Cassie towards them. After she was close enough, she threw her fan at them. Unfortunately, a mag blast destroyed it. She turned to see who had destroyed it and saw the teenager from the Dragon Eye Compound. He jumped his dragon down from the ledge he was on, causing Umi to slightly back up. A creeper took this opportunity to blast her. She flew off of her dragon and hit Beau. Cassie was covered in a layer of ice.

"Moordryd, stop!" The boy, apparently named Moordryd, growled and mag blasted Artha, who crashed into Kitt and Parm. Aelita gasped.

"Guys! Look at his eyes! He's being controlled by X.A.N.A."

"Then he's fair game! Take this, laser arrow!" As the arrow neared, a sword materialized in Moordryd's right hand. He sliced the arrow in half, causing it to explode and disappear.

"That's William's sword!"

"Not anymore!" Moordryd growled and made his dragon charge them. He magged off at the last second and tried to slice Odd in half. Odd somersaulted and shot another arrow at Moordryd. It hit his sword and left a little patch of ice.

"All right, frost arrows!" He took aim at Moordryd's arm and shot a barrage of arrows at it. The arrows hit and froze his arm and part of the sword. Moordryd growled and mag-jumped at him. Odd took aim and tried to fire. However, the only response was a clicking sound. "Out of arrows? Aw man!" Moordryd tackled him and commanded a newly summoned tarantula to attack him.

Ulrich managed to stop the attack but Moordryd's dragon mag blasted him into a wall before he could attack Moordryd. Odd growled and scratched Moordryd's face, leaving three deep gashes on it. Moordryd drew his hand back and let the darkness cover his hand. He moved his hand, revealing a large set of claws made of the darkness. He struck at Odd, leaving a gash in his shoulder. Odd kicked him off and limped over to his friends. "Guys. We gotta run."

"For once, I agree with Odd. We gotta go." Ulrich nodded and they magged onto their dragons before racing away, Moordryd and Decepshun followed closely behind them. Artha thought for a few seconds before stopping Beau and getting ready to fight.

"Art-I mean, Dragon Booster!"

"Just keep running! I'll hold him off until you're safe!"

"But-"

"No buts now go!" They obeyed and left Artha and Beau to singlehandedly fight off Moordryd, Decepshun, and an army of X.A.N.A.'s monsters.

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