First off i'd like to say that im glad i have such good reviews on this story, as a gift i will continue the story, just for the dedicated fans. Thank you all.

Stay with Me

"Okay, we're in the temple, now what?" asked Lloyd as he gazed around the dark realms of the Shadow Temple. He looked at Zelos and Sheena, the only reliable sources for this temple, since Presea was in Meltokio her whole life basically, and Regal was in Prison. "You guys know some stuff bout this place right?" he asked with a curious look.

"Well, all I know is that Shadow's Shrine is guarded by Skeleton Soldiers, and exiled dark mages." Zelos said as he pointed down the lower floor of the Temple.

"Well on top of that, Shadow is not in full form when a new summoner enters the Temple, he splits himself into 5 smaller forms, and we have to track them all down and refuse them at the shrine, only then he will come and offer his assistance..so I have been told" Sheena said as started to look around for the spirits.

Raine then stood by the temple's balcony and pondered for while, "Hmm perhaps...we could make this easier on ourselves..." she said while looking down the lower floors. Everyone turned to her in confusion, and Raine just nodded, "we split up into two teams, one will find the spirits, the others fight the guards. I belive since Sheena knows about the spirits, I suggest she leads the search team," Sheena gave a nod, and stood on one side to make herslef stand out as a leader, "and, as odd as it may sound, Zelos should lead the battling team to take down the guards," Zelos didnt ask questions, and just mimicked Sheena and stood across from her. "Well then, with that decided, I believe it's time to choose who goes with who." She gave it a silent thought, and stood next to Zelos, "I'll go along with Zelos, in case any translation or healign needs to be done."

Regal didn't say anythign, and just next to Zelos as well, nobody ask questions either. Colette gave out a long hum, and then stood next to Zelos, "I'll go with Zelos, I wanna make sure everyone will be safe." She said with a light smile. Zelos smiled at her, and nodded contently.

Lloyd, Genis and Presea then made the assumption to go with Sheena, Lloyd wanted to go with her anyway, to keep her in good protection. "Well, I'll go with Sheena, I wanna see what Shadow looks like." Genis said with a little bit of excitement. Presea satyed silent, but stood very close to Genis, it wa sthe first time in her life, where she was actually scared, she hated the dark. Genis then relaized that soon as they split only his side will get the ligth from the blue candle. He then looked around for pieces of debri, thus finding a stick, and lit it a bit on fire with fireball. "Here, you guys will need this." Raine carefully took it and thanked Genis.

Lloyd then clenched his fists and grinned, "Aight let's get this started!"

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Sheena and her team kept an open eye for Shadow's spirits, Sheena said they looked just liek black blobs with a white dot in the middle of their body. Genis kept a small fireball close to him for extra light. He didn't tell anymore he was a bit far sighted, so it was kidna hard for him to see well. Lloyd was just walign and looking, kinda not payign attention well, so in about 5 minutes of walking, he tripped over something..kinda squishy. After getting aid from Sheena, he looked up to see a black blob next to him as well. "Say..is this it?" he asked, starting to poke at it, which mnade it giggle like gelatin. but then his hand fell through and he fell back down.

Sheena giggled at him and smiled, "Yep this is one of Shadow's spirit, luckily you found it..but in a rather odd way." She then reached down and grab the white ball out of it, "We hold onto this, and the spirit should follow us from now on." She placed the ball into her robe and smiled, "Now let's go get the others"

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Meanwhile, in the other team, it was more of a problem...

"Grr..SONIC THRUST!!"

"WOLVERINE!!!"
"PHOTON BLAST!!"
"ANGEL FEATHERS!!"

Wave after wave of enemies were charging at Zelos' team. They kept pushing them back, almost runnign otu breath.

"Zelos...when you...mentioned...about the guardians...why didnt you specify how many...?" Raine asked short of breath...
"Well..I woudl have..if I knew just how many..." He said while holdign off a skelo-guard, "Grr damn bones...Light Spear!!!" He said with massive fury in his heart.

The battle rages on inside this darkness, as the four warriors try to survive as Sheena and her group run fast to find the rest the Shadow Spirits and rescue the other group from pure demise...can they make it in time?

End of Part 6

yea...kinda short, Im really sorry, but it's a start from delay...damn school. I will work on chap 7 in the meantime as well...fans keep reading...and thnx for the support.