*minor blood warning, no gore*

"Niet!" I gasped, not believing vhat just happened. Suddenly ze screen vent black, und mike fizzled in, unconscious on ze ground. I glanced about noticing ze other three had also fainted.

"Pah! Calling Svetlana such a girl. Look who ist laughing now." I rolled my eyes and moved to avaken Mike, but then I noticed something from ze corner of my eye, a flicker of movement... But who could it be? I whirled around. Nothing.

"Hello? Who ist zere?" I called out, getting no reply. what was that!? Another flicker, further away. Vas zat? I glanced behind me. nope, still zere. Who could zis be?! I valked tovards ze last place I saw it.

"Come out!" I called again, nervously. "Svetlana is knowing you are zere!"

"And what does Svetlana intend to do about it?" Came a deep, gravelly voice directly in my ear. my heart nearly stopped. I stifled a scream and swung around. "Who are you!" I cried, twirling around again, scanning for signs of movement. "me?" The voice spoke from nowhere, then chuckled evilly. "Who I am is unimportant...it's what I am that you should be worried about." I saw a dark silhouetted figure in front of me, a malicious grin on its face.

"Fine, zen vhat ist zat?" I asked attempting to swallow the lump in my throat.

"FEAR." The face became clear, inches from mine. I squeaked and shut my eyes. No... It can't be! One of us? A new personality? I opened my eyes to get another look at ze stranger, but he vas gone again.

"But if you must have a name, you may call me your majesty." he appeared in front of me with a bow. He chuckled again and leaned on a rock. "Or Mal, I suppose, if you're boring." He shrugged. "Short for The Malevolent One... Your call." I raised my eyebrow at zis. he didn't look very scary... Emo maybe, unsettling for sure. But scary? Not really.

"Vhat are you doing here?"

"Just having some... fun. meeting my new roommates." He replied casually. so he is one of us...

"How did you get here?"

"Dunno. but it was FUN." he grinned again. statement withdrawn... he is scary!

"Ummm... So did you just get here?"

"Nah, I've been here for hours now. well... here...out there... A bit of everywhere really." He waved his had dismissively.

"You've been.. out there?!" Realization struck me like a slap to the face. I passed that "realization" literally on to him... well tried to anyways. I gasped in shock as he caught my wrist.

"Awww... and I thought I was making a friend." he said in a mocking tone, pushing me backwards. Rage boiled my blood.

"YOU! You put zose boys in ze hospital!"

"Geez, and here I was thinking you were Mike's friend. didn't you see what they did to him? What they were going to do? The Peon was lucky I stepped in when I did." His accusation threw me off, but I quickly recovered.

"Don't you know what you've done?" He hopped on top of the rock.

"Saved Mike from an unpleasant and merciless beating? Instead of remaining oblivious to his predicament like his 'friends'?" He asked, sounding bored. "it's his first offence, I'm sure-"

"He has been arrested, 'Mal'!" I spit out his name like sour milk.

"Ooooo... whoops?" He faked a pained face, then grinned, laughing once more.

"Rrrrgh!"

"Whoa, easy tiger! Or is it kitten?" He taunted. I leaped at him, fists clenched. My eyes widened vhen I made no connection, sailing over ze rock. I corrected my angle just in time to make a smooth landing. I jumped to my feet swivelling my head to see vhere he'd gone.

"Okay, so you wanna play rough." he came out of nowhere with a sharp right-hook. I nearly dodged, but he connected with my shoulder. "I can live with that." I dropped down and swiped at his feet with my leg, but he was once again gone, as quickly as he'd appeared.

"Vhy von't you fight fair, afraid of a girl?" I taunted, hoping to make him reveal himself.

"Psh, me? Afraid? Why that's your job." He replied from Behind me. I spun about, lashing at the voice with my leg. It connected, but as far as I could tell noplace helpful.

"Anyways, I'm Smart enough to know not to go up against an Olympian without an advantage. If I didn't have as much power as I do, I wouldn't have engaged you at all. I would have kept taunting, sneaking around, feeding off your building terror. Then, slipped away into the dark... Haunting your nightmares." He beamed with malice. "But it just so happens that I was itching for a fight, and you so willingly supplied the scratch. You make a nice pawn, sadly, one pawn of light is useless against the king of darkness." Ugh! Zat smug face again!I officially hate zis cocky идиот!

"Vell it vill be a fight you don't soon forget!" I shouted in a rage. He appeared several feet away.

"Oh, I know...It will be sooo satisfying." He said with a smirk. "and I will be reminded every time I see the bruises on your pretty face." His smirk grew into a maniacal grin.

"Vhy you little!" Vhy vas he so frustrating?! I leapt through ze air again, landing vhere he had been moments ago. of course he vasn't zere anymore. I heard a noise behind me and turned fists up, unfortunately I turned right into another punch, my momentum adding to his and sending me sprawling.

"Gotcha." He walked forwards, casually waiting for my next move. I went for his legs, managing to grasp one with my good reflexes. I tugged him to the ground but he slipped away and jumped to his feet, myself following shortly after him. I kicked at him, hitting him in the chest.

"Oof!" He stumbled back but disappeared behind a rock. I valked towards it cautiously, keeping my distance. I circled the rock but found no trace of him on the other side. I looked around warily but saw the rock too late. *crack* it connected with my skull, hard.

"Heads up." He chuckled from out of my sight. I reached up and touched the spot the rock had hit, it came back red. Disoriented, I moved to take cover, but he was already upon me, grabbing my arms and roughly pulling them behind me.

"Hello, there." He snarled.

"Niet! I called in surprise, struggling to free myself. I hooked my leg around behind his knees and leaned back, pulling them forward, causing us to topple over. His grip loosened on impact and I wrestled one arm away and punched him with it. he gripped the other arm tightly, ignoring the hit. I squirmed, trying to free my other arm but he held tight und started to twist my arm, applying pressure bit by bit... oh no you don't! I jerked my head back, connecting with his forehead.

"Argh!" he released my arm in surprise und I leapt away, turning to face him once aga... Vhere ist zat weasel! Him und his disappearing act! suddenly, he dashed in with a swift kick to my gut. I staggered backwards. 'come on Svetlana! Teach zis hooligan a lesson!' I recovered quickly, but had an idea. I stood doubled over, groaning. he laughed and walked closer.

"What's the matter, tapping out already? I expected more from you Svetty." I grinned, then snapped up, bringing my leg forwards und landing it right between his legs. He froze, zen fell to his knees, covering his sensitive region.

"Why would you do that!?" He cried, sounding more like Mike once he'd recovered his voice.

"You vere being a jerk, Und no one calls me 'Svetty'. You deserved it." I said simply, turning up my nose at him.

"Lady, NO ONE deserves that."his voice was returning to its former growl.

"Hmph." I glanced at him but he wasn't there. "Hey! Vhere have you gone?!"

"Away from you!" Came the distant reply. But you'd better watch yourself twinkle toes, you WILL regret this, I'll make sure of it!" Considering the state of those three boys, und the damage he nearly did to me, zat's probably not good...