Chapter 5

The hand that glowed light

Kang and Kirin started to sweat in the scarred desert, the heat was unbearable and impossible to ignore, even for a child who could withstand tremendous amounts of great heat, Kang was no match for the beating sun above them, Kirin felt like it would burn a hole straight through him, it was more then unbearable, it was killing.

"It's so hot out here, I wish we still had that water." Kang coughed from having a dry through, his tongue hanged out over his fangs and his eyes fixed on the never ending horizon.

"I think your hallucinating Kang, we never had water." Kirin replied with the same dried throat tone, his feet dragged across the blazing sand and his tail barely had the energy to fan him down.

"Sorry, I must be going insane from heat." Kang sighed and wiped the sweat of his glistening forehead, his weapon was becoming heavier to lift as he became weaker and weaker.

"I just said that." Kirin replied lowly yet sharply, his eyes fixed upon his sharpclaw companion.

"Alright mommy." Kang laughed insanly, swaying left and right, his arms flying to his sides with each hard sway.

"Err…okay, I'm going to take three steps away from you." Kirin slowly said as he took three steps to the side and continued down the sand wasteland.

Kirin looked around the sand and his eyes immediatly widened like dinner plates, he spotted something up way ahead in the horizon, a small hut was in the distance of the two.

"I hope that's not a mirage." Kirin put his paws together and prayed to the heavens, hoping that the hut was not a figment of hallucination or a desert trick.

The two ran towards the hut as fast as their little legs could, the thought of the weapons weights was uncared, but when they arrived at the entrance of the hut, they couldn't believe its size, it was a Earth Walker hut; After quickly observing its large size, they picked up their jaws and shut them.

"Wow! I have never seen such a huge hut in all my life." Kirin squeeked in awe, his pupils shrunk down to the size of a lady bug as they darted around, examining the structure.

"Kirin, this belongs to an Earth Walker." Kang explained, now forgetting the heat and his weak state, he rubbed his scaley muzzle and wondered what kind of Earth Walker would live out in the middle of nowhere.

A grumbling boomed from within the hut's interior, making the two step away from the entrance in sudden fear of what would come out.

"Who's out there?" An old and almost maniacal voice rose out from the entrance, directed at the two children.

An old Earth Walker stomped outside his hut, shook his body of sand and belched, his eyes opened quickly like a sharp pain struck him and looked down at the two children, he didn't know what to say about Kirin since the mere sight of his blue fur struck him with confusion, but he didn't like Kang, no Earth Walker would ever like a Sharpclaw.

"What's a Sharp Claw doing out here?" The old Earth Walker grumbled and coughed, fixing his sight on Kang, face to face with the young Sharpclaw.

"Recruiting for the rebellion, and not to get mauled by an Earth Walker." Kang calmly spoke, yet he shut his eyes in pure fear of being killed and the ghastly scent of the Earth Walkers odor.

"Well bless my horns, Kang, is it really you?" The Earth Walker gasped and lowered himself to Kangs height and raised a brow.

Kang opened his eyes as quick as the Earth Walker did and looked closely at the Earth walker with a confused look upon his face, he paused for a while then his face displayed great amazement.

"Gomez!" Kang cried out in joy, hugging the great neck of the Earth Walker.

"You two know each other as well?" Kirin asked, if it were some sort of anime, exclaimation points and question marks would be over Kirin's head.

"Yeah, Gomez here saved my life once."Kang replied as he sat ontop of the old Gomez's head.

"How?" Kirin asked and tilted his head, again if it were an anime, even more Exclaimation points and Question marks would appear over his head.

"I got him out of a torture camp because Kang was a traitor of the Sharp Claw tribe laws." Gomez spoke and turned to his hut, his old bones cracked as he walked inside.

Kang and Kirin entered the Hut along with Gomez at his sides and observed the interior, the place was dull and black like a shack but had water wells with fresh water dwelling within them.

"HALLELUIAH!" Kang screamed and fell to his knees, his arms in the air like he had just been saved by jesus himself, quickly he crawled and dunked his head into one well, drinking the water hard and fast, quenching his dying and painful thirst.

"So YOU must be the key, eh?" Gomez said as he looked down at the young cerulean vulpine.

"Yeah I guess, I don't really much understand it, but don't call me key, just call me by my name, Kirin." Kirin replied as he sat down on the sand, not quite thirsty anymore, but relieved to get out of the heat.

"Well of course not, you left the Soul Edge at the Cloud Runners temple." Gomez chuckled and coughed, sand particles filtered into the air from his breath.

"The Soul Edge has been moved to the Krazoa temple." Kirin replied intellegently, it seemed that he was, after all, paying attention to the queen Cloud Runner.

"Well that's a bit o' bad luck right there, aye? So you must need the soul of the Spirit of teleportation, the warpstone, right?" Gomez asked the vulpine, unable to see Kirin's colossal sized confusion.

Kang brought his head out of a well, licked his lips of any remains of cold water, and joined the conversation, asking how they could get it from General scales without being caught.

"Well I don't know how you could get it from that ol' cog pipe, but I think you can if the Key has figured out the inner power within him." Gomez explained to the two children, Kirin raised a brow and looked at Kang's mark on his hand.

"You mean just like Kang?" Kirin asked the old Earth Walker, tilting his head to the left, slightly less confused then before.

"What do you mean "just like Kang"?" Gomez raised a brow as he narrowed his gaze on Kirin, wondering what he meant.

Kang held his claw up to Gomez's face, it bore the tattoo of great power, Gomez backed away in surprise and shock at the sight of it, his heart pounded hard in his chest but he was amazed afterwords, like he had just witnessed an up coming miracle to be shared with everyone.

"Why Kang, you're the Lock?" Gomez asked in joy, looking down at the sharpclaw child.

"Yeah, I am and I didn't even know I was, kind of ironic though." Kang chuckled and rubbed the back of his head.

"I don't believe it, both key and lock inside my hut at this very moment, this must, no, this IS the glorious day for the rebellion that we've been waiting for!" Gomez laughed with triumph and glee, more insanity in his tone then before.

Kirin nugged his companion in the arm as he spun his finger around his ear and made a crazy face, his eyes twirling around, his tongue sticking out and flopping about, then he stopped and pointed at Gomez, who continued to talk to himself. Kang started to chuckle, trying to hold back the laughter, but it was no use, it was too funny to hold in, he blurted out his laughter, rolling on the sand, catching Gomez's immediate attention, the old Earth Walker sighed.

"Sand insanity, cursed sun, (sigh) we'll have to put him out of his misery." Gomez said sadly as he rose his tail up to smack down Kang.

"No I'm fine, I'm fine, just remembered something funny." Kang chuckled and waved his paw for Gomez to stop, he sat up and chuckled again with glee, Kang finally wiped his eyes of tears, he stopped laughing and looked at Kirin, almost ready to laugh again seeing that Kirin was about to make another face.

Later

"Well boys, I'm finished filling up these canteens, they contain a lot of water, so you might be dragging a lot of weight." Gomez explained as he tossed down two large, heavy canteens into the childrens arms from his upper horns.

"Thank you Gomez, I will make sure that Syphon does not see the light of day." Kang grunted as he tied the canteen to his side and saluted to the Earth Walker.

"I know you'll make me proud Kang, you'll make all of the rebellion proud." Gomez replied with a smile and saluted with his tail.

Gomez then looked at Kirin after finishing his conversation with Kang and waved his tail, signaling him to come closer, Kirin didn't disobey and walked over slowly to the towering Earth Walker.

"Kirin, I think you should learn how to use your power from legend, the same way Kang learned his power." Gomez explained quietly as Kang setted up for departure, he closed his eyes slowly and lowered his eyes, Gomez started to chant a couple of words of the saurian language, slowly Kirin started to float into the air with a low yelp, a surge of great, raw power flowed through him, slowly fusing to his veins and bone structure, his paw started to radiate a bright and burning light, then a tattoo formed in the palm of his left paw.

"There, now you can hold the Soul Edge with true power." Gomez explained and smiled, watching Kirin float gently down onto the ground.

"Thanks crazy Earth walker, I mean Gomez." Kirin quickly spoke and hoped that he wouldn't get hurt by the Earth Walker.

Gomez looked down at him silently then a smile came across his face, the Earth Walker, Kang, and Kirin started to laugh, then Kirin and Kang made their way out through the entrance of his home and across the desert, leaving Gomez in his hut far behind them.

"I have to tell you Kang, I have met some crazy characters during our journey, but I think I just met the president of the crazies!" Kirin chuckled and nugged Kang's arm again.

The two laughed as they travled up a large desert hill, they looked forward at the horizon, observing the environment for anything until they spotted something up ahead, quickly darting down the hill at a fast enough pace, the two looked over a sand pile and there it was, General scales battle camp, heavily guarded and fortified, but it was 25 miles away by flight, so it would take longer for them to walk the rest of the way.

"Okay, now I am pissed off." Kang growled and clenched the sand under his claws.

"Me too Kang, me too." Kirin replied and scowled, all they had been doing through out the desert was walking.

The two sighed and began their long walk towards the camp, where they would recover the soul of the warpstone and get closer to the soul edge, they never looked back to see if anything was chasing or creeping, they wanted to get to the camp as quick as possible, a chuckle came from a Sharpclaws througt as he looked at the two through a telescope.

"So you've grown a lot, eh Kirin? We'll just see how long it takes you to get to the soul edge. Everyone! Make your way to Krazoa palace, the final act of this charade as come at last!" General scales roared over his soldiers as they made their way to the center tent, followed by General scales as they vanished with a bright flash of celestial light.

Back on Corneria

Lazlo tightened a loose bolt with his fingers to keep it in place, reaching for the wrench outside, but accidentally started to electrocute himself from a loose wire, the electric surges only felt little painful due to the size of the wire and his protective equipment.

"OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! YARRGH! ERR…ouch." Lazlo twitched and coughed, wiping his face down with a cloth and grunted at the sore pain.

"Lazlo, are you okay?" Falco asked as he looked under the arwing and at his son.

"Yeah, just shocked myself." Lazlo said slowly as he tried to calm himself out of the pain.

"Where?" Falco asked, quite curious.

"Well…you don't want to know." Lazlo replied with a sigh.

"Oh! That had to hurt!" Falco gasped and chuckled slightly, finding it a funny thought "Where" his son was shocked.

"No it felt like a breeze, OF COURSE IT HURT!" Lazlo barked at him and grunted, his crotch was in severe pain.

Lazlo felt around from under the Arwing, reaching for the wrench again, very frustrated on not knowing where it was.

"Can you pass me the wrench?" Lazlo asked out to his father, unable to see the wrench anywhere around him.

Falco kicked the wrench under the Arwing; Lazlo reached out and took the tool, spinning it between his feathery fingers and tightened the bolt into place.

"Hey Dad, Mom called, said something about this balloon falling on her head." Lazlo explained as he crawled out from under arwing, completed with it, all that was left was just one tiny bolt to take care of.

"Oh man, the prank!" Falco yelped in panick and quickly thought of an excuse, Falco looked at his son and stepped close to him so no one would look, handing him a nice amount credits as a bribe, Lazlo eyed around and smirked as he looked up at him and accepted the bribe.

"If your mother asks?" Falco asked like a question frequently asked like a commander at a boot camp.

"Fox did it!" Lalzo replied like a soldier at a boot camp, making sure that Fox didn't hear.

"Your going to make me proud when you become a great man that frames others." Falco chuckeld and rubbed his sons head as he ran out.

"How many times has he said that in these past three days?" Lazlo thought and rolled his eyes, turning back to the untightened bolt. With a quick whip of his arm and a fast turn, Lazlo tightened the bolt into completion, he let out a sigh of relief knowing it was done; the Arwing was finally fixed and ready to fly.

"Done, it will be able to fit two pilots, a little add on of mine, make sure that when you get your son, he doesn't have anything huge, or its going to be a tight trip." Lazlo spoke out to the two foxes and wiped himself of oil, he quickly caught their attention.

Krystal and Fox quickly entered the Arwing as they rushed by Lazlo, powering up the engines to the maximum capacity and flew away into space and towards the dinosaur inhabited planet, Sauria.

"At least I made some Credits out of this." Lazlo chuckled and stretched his back, it was finally his time to relax and pamper himself.

Lazlo walked out of the repair bay with clean clothes on instead of his work clothes, his spear resting on his shoulder in his dorment hold, as he turned from locking up the bay, a bunch of Sharp Claw soldiers waited with clubs in their claws in an attempt to stop Fox and Krystal from leaving, but it was already too late, but at least that had someone to take their anger out on.

"Finally what I need." Lazlo grinned as he removed his shirt.

Lazlo grabbed is spear and pointed it the group of Soldiers, his grin shimmered off the sun as he spun the spear into the air and flipped back into a excellent stance, the bottom of the shaft in the air and the head of the spear downward like pointing southeast and northwest.

"A workout on real targets!" Lalzo spoke as he charged at the large group.

General scales battle camp

"Alright, we have to make our way in there, possibly risking out lives and killing others, and snatch the soul of the warpstone, then we'll be on our way to Krazoa palace." Kang explained and smiled, his weapon readied in his claws.

"Got it." Kirin replied as the two darted out to the entrance into battle stances, until they saw that the camp was completly empty of Sharp Claw, the two looked at each other and shrugged.

Kirin and Kang slowly moved inside the camp, looking for where the soul of the warpstone might be, the two searched high and low through the camp tents and armories; Kirin gazed down at his tattoo and nugged Kang as a tiny arrow of celestial energy formed from the tattoo's aura, pointing like it was like a compass, pointing the small ray of light towards General scales war tent.

"Alright, lets go while no one's around...since no one IS around, so lets just go inside as loudly as we want." Kang sighed, he had never felt so stupid to make a sentence without thinking it out.

Kirin and Kang moved quickly into the War tent, searching its contents quickly, they were in awe by all the artifacts that the general had, their gazes fixed on his study and, right in the middle of the room, there it was, the soul of the saurian warpstone, but that fact that no one was around was still a floating question in the air, this made Kirin wonder why with worry.

Kang grabbed the soul and held it gently as he removed it from its pedestal, feelings its deep warmth in and between his fingers; it started to glow bright in front of the two and,within a flash of bright celestial light, Kirin and Kang were sent through a portal at an uncontrollable speed, the universe dart all around them, they floated around in space and time, traveling at a higher speed then mach 2, then it stopped instantly as they landed on hard concrete with rain dripping onto their faces.

Kirin stood up in ache, then Kang stood up in more ache since it was more of an impact for dinosaurs to teleport, they looked around their environment and slowly Kirin stepped forward, looking at the great palace and the temple above it.

"Is this…" Kirin started to speak, eyes going left and right in gazing at the palace.

Kirin took a good look at the temple and wondered.

"Is this the Krazoa temple?" He asked himself, wondering if this is the final destination that the two would finally find the almighty soul edge, Kirin had to make it to the top, quickly forgetting the ache in his body, he turned to the temple, it was time for him save sauria, it was now or never.