The Mission

Stealth Elf's suspicions were confirmed when she and Flameslinger found themselves in Eon's study, where Hex stood waiting for them.

"So the two finally decided to show up." The dark Elvin sorceress mumbled to herself.

"I am glad you two could make it."

"Eon"

"Sir. If you don't mind my asking, why are you pair us with…her?" Asked SE

"You see young warrior," began the wise Eon. "I can sense there are some you who have yet to find a friendship and trust, as such, I want you to see just what can be accomplished upon forfeiting misconceptions and learning to trust those you must fight along side."

"And I?" Asked Flameslinger.

"I hope that you could keep them on task, and fighting our enemies, and not each other."

"I wouldn't waste my time fight her." Said Hex, and earning a scowl from SE.

"I will not fail Sir." She said, while keeping her glare on Hex

"Good…Now for the mission."

A viewing portal appeared before them, in it, they saw an ancient statue on an alter deep within a forest, a glowing red jewel embedded in it's forehead.

"This is statue is one of the last remaining testaments to an ancient and destructive tribe of beings that once dwelled in Skylands. The jewel you see is one of their last remaining chances to be resurrected. If that should happen, then the darkness, allied with those monsters, will be able to end the war before it begins."

"How do you stop that?" Asked the archer.

"We remove the stone before the stroke of midnight on the third night of it's return to the statue, and without the stone, the creature shall remain a statue" Answered Hex.

"Hex is absolutely correct, you still have time before then, but Cyclopes have been seen in the area, it's because of them the stone was able to find the statute in the first place."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go." Said SE

"As you wish" With that, a portal appeared, they entered, and their mission began.

From the moment they entered, they went their separate ways. Stealth Elf always worked alone, Flameslinger concentrated better alone, and Hex didn't want them to get in her way. The agreed that thinning out the Cyclops's before going after the jewel would the best course of action.

Stealth's POV

Due to her advanced physical state, Stealth chose to jump among the treetops to reach her destination, she took down any Cyclops's she came across, until she found a caravan of the one eye'd beasts, with them were with four of their mammoth monsters. She had to choose her targets carefully.

She started by luring the smaller weaker ones away from the group and taking them out, since they were moving, they're disappearances would go un-noticed for a short amount of time.

"This is too easy." She said after taking out her 7th foe, but no sooner did she say that did one of the mammoth monsters catch her scene and let out a sound that her two comrades could hear at the other end of the forest.

They Cyclops's wasted no time, the released the mammoths, SE quickly fled into tree tops, but the mammoths followed her, with their masters following behind them, she couldn't get away.

She was starting to get desperate, the large armed members of the one eye'd forces were throwing everything they could grasp, be it a rock, or a tree, or even their smaller companions, they wanted her stopped, and one managed to succeed, because in mid air from one tree to another, one of their rocks slammed into her, and together into a tree, it was a miracle she wasn't crushed between the two.

She plummeted, but as she fell, she looked into the gapping mauls of the mammoth, and saw death within.

"No…It won't end…not like this!"

She regained control in mid-air, she took out her blades and ended the life of one of the 4 beasts that tried to make her their meal, she didn't wait for the other three, she ran towards the army that was chasing her, with the mammoth's following her in close pursuit.

With her b;lades ready, she pounced on the first Cyclops she could, and used him to propel herself onto the next and brought him down, and as he fell, returned to the confused jumping board and took him down, but the mammoths finally caught up.

There was 4 rock chuckers, and 6 wielding a small axe, and the 3 mammoths. She couldn't risk attacking the mammoths despite being the currently biggest threat, but if she tried, she'd get an axe taking her head off or a rock crushing her, but they were waiting it out, SE was, at the moment, waiting for one of the smaller threats to make a move.

Two axe wielders broke the tiny deadlock and tried to charge her, one was ended, and the other thrown into a chucker, she vanished, and reappeared behind a chucker that had 3 axe men cowering in front of, a cut of the back of the shin, and a push took the three out, and SE finished the chucker.

"Five down, seven to go-" One of the mammoths began it's attack, it pounced on her, but before it could actually attack, she smashed her blade into it's eye, it howled an sound that had never been heard before and took off, taking her blade with it, embedded in his eye.

"No!"

Before she could even think about retrieving it, she had two more mammoths, two axe men, and 3 chuckers, she vanished and reappeared and steadily attacked each one of them, she knew if she tried taking them out one at a time, she'd be pounced and finished, she up three of her dummies to distract them when she removed one mammoth, two chuckers, and one of the axe wielders. With the odds now in her favor, she finished the duo, but not before having her stomach deeply slashed by claws.

Only after the battle was over did she start to feel the effects of almost being crushed, she body ached, she limped to a tree, she couldn't climb it anymore, she lacked her other blade, and she was too exhausted.

"I…I may not make it… -cough- my first mission as a Skylander…a failure…I guess I didn't deserve to be one after all…" She froze when she heard snarling, the mammoth she blinded returned, she took off into the forest, hoping to lose it, she fell a few times, and hid behind many tree's.

She hid, and held her breath, she heard the mammoth approach, she heard growling and sniffing, and the beast move out into a different part of the forest.

She let out a sigh, but then she realized she was dead, the beast pinned her to the tree she had hoped would save her.

"I -cough- guess this is my end…" she could smell blood and death on the breath of the mammoth "I guess your going to enjoy ripping my flesh off, after all, I blinded you…-cough-" She closed her eyes. "End it quick."

The beast lunged, but instead of feeling teeth rip her throat out, she felt the beast go limp.

"What…" She looked and found that something crushed the beast, freeing her.

"Come now. Your giving up already? I almost feel ashamed to be in this forest with you." A cold voice she knew well had broken SE's confusion.

"You…saved me? Why?"

"Well I didn't want to have to drag your body back to Eon."

SE could see that Hex carried a few of FS's arrows. Stealth grabbed her other blade and tackled Hex.

"What did you do to him!" yelled Stealth Elf, her blades inches from Hex's throat.

"Get off of me you fool!" A hand of bones rose from the ground and restrained SE.

"LET ME GO! I'LL KILL YOU!" Stealth was convinced that Hex betrayed them, that she sold Flameslinger out to the Cyclops's and kept his arrows as a trophy.

"Calm down." Hex said as she stood up, she was restraining herself. For now.

"Where is he! What did you do to him!" SE cried.

Hex slapped her.

"I said calm down!" Shocked, Stealth did as she was told.

"Now if your willing to behave and not tackle me again, I'll let you go."

Stealth nodded, she was at a loss of words. The hand released her and returned to the earth.

"What happened to Flame-"

"All in good time, for now, you need to rest and get your wounds treated."

"But-"

"No buts, it's shut up and listen time, understood?" SE gave in and did as Hex said.

After all, if she was going to kill her, she already would have done it…right?