21: Decent

Dark fireballs flew into the sky causing everyone to take evasive action. For while the girls could fly down between the shots, Skykal would take a lot of hits on the way in, even with Rachel putting her shield in the way he would be far too big to cover, but they needed to get to the ground fast, as they could see the tunnel down there that they needed to get to.

"Looks like we will have to jump" Hiloa called out as she positioned herself to look over the side of Skykal as he twisted about avoiding the shots as best he could but he still took a few which shook him around a bit.

"Is that safe for you all to do that?" Janet called to her a little concerned as she looked over the edge at the height they were at, at least approximately half a mile down to the ground possibly a lot more. "I only ask because if I try that I won't make it."

"We can take drops from higher then this while we are in our armour so we will be safe, but you will need a ride down if you won't make it" She called back before yelling across the sky to the guardians who were doing their best to protect Skykal from hits. "Air guardian, you need to give your friend a ride down! We are going to jump it."

Nearby in the air Emma was creating winds that blew away a few fireballs, she looked over to the others to see if she could go and grab Janet while they protect Skykal and themselves would the 5 of them there. "You all going to be fine covering us?"

"Go, I think we can handle some cover on this" Amy called back allowing Emma to fly off towards Skykal. She then realised something and exclaimed to herself. "They are doing what?!"

"They said jump it, so they must have something like a jet pack to act as a breaking system" Terri replied, not having a clue to what the Toa were planning by jumping as she launched streams of water around the air to extinguish the fireballs that flew up from the ground. "And this jump idea have given me a idea as to how to cover them."

On top of Skykal Janet watched as the Toa all stood up from where they were keeping tucked down on his back, she then realised something she had missed and called out "Before we go, anyone got anything like a bo staff I can borrow, as I didn't have time to get one before leaving earth for Kandrakar" she quickly asked them as they all slowly moved around the edge of Skykal's body ready to jump.

"Use this, I always carry a couple of them" Sauin spoke as he reached behind him and a short light brown pole formed, emerging from the armour. He then threw it across to Janet who caught it in her hands. "Just twist the 2 ends in opposite directions to extend it and then again to return it to normal."

"Got it" Janet called back to him as Emma flew above her and came down, grabbing her around the shoulders with her feet. Janet quickly stashed the pole in some straps of the armour she wore so she could grab Emma's legs with her hands.

"We go when told" Emma called to them all.

While Janet sorted out a bo staff the others had all grouped up to discuss a plan to cover the drop, all listing to Terri as she told them what they needed to do. "Ok, Rachel, you and me are to make some cloud cover, I will summon water and you heat it up so it evaporates. Once it cools we will have clouds, Holly you then use it to create a lightning storm while Amy you are to create illusions of everyone so they won't know who to hit as they drop." She then turned to face Skykal as he continued to circle around the area. "When we drop you best pull back till the others arrive as we won't be able to cover you."

"Got it" Both Amy and Holly spoke as they flew up a little higher, still defending against shots.

"I understand, I will re-group with the others while you all commence the assault" Skykal called out while both Terri and Rachel lowered themselves a little and held their arms out before them as then Terri summoned a large ball of water that Rachel then launched a stream of fire into it making it start to evaporate and the steam rose up and was quickly cooling and forming into clouds. Above them Amy was creating a army of illusion copies of the guardians and the Toa in the air as Holly was using her powers to keep them all covered till it was time. Skykal did large circles around the cloud as it grew bigger and them moved over it seeing Terri and Rachel stop what they were doing and flew up through the cloud and joined the others above it, he then flew over it and hovered above it at the same time Amy was grabbing onto Janet.

"On 3" Terri called to everyone as the Toa all stood looking outwards around the side of Skykal's body, while dark silver armour plating started to slide up their necks forming around their heads leaving their face's exposed for a moment before a darker coloured metal plate version of their mechanical skin slid over their faces completing a helmet over them with eye marking on. At the same time Emma used all four of her wings to lift Janet up into the air and flew out into the open, creating a small updraft of wind to help her carry the weight. Holly also went into action aiming her hands downwards before her launching a large bolt of lightning to leave them and go into the cloud ,small bolts could be seen starting to jump around within it.

"3...2...1...GO!" Holly shouted to them all as then she called out "Quintessence!" A surge of lightning bolts jumped around her spikes and horns before jumping to her hands which then sent a larger bolt from her hands into the clouds causing a volley of lightning bolts to then launch from the clouds and fly down into the ground hitting several Dolgag's and the flash blinding the rest, the copy of Will and Jessica had to cover their eyes from the flash. As that happened Amy got the copies to then start flying down towards the ground as then the Toa all jumped from the side of Skykal going into a head-first dive that all the guardians followed with Emma pulling Janet down behind her. They all flew or fell downwards while Skykal pulled up and turned away from them before flying back off in the direction they came from.

On the ground the dark Will looked up as she lowered her arm from over her face having used it to cover her eyes and saw the guardians and Mechanax all falling to the ground, tho she was caught off guard by the amount of them coming down, but quickly focused herself to work out that they were trying to cover themselves for something but she wasn't certain exactly what. "Destroy them all!" She yelled to the Dolgag's who were looking at them all a bit confused having been a bit stunned by the lightning blasts and then seeing a army falling down towards them, but upon Will's orders they all started firing again, their fireballs were not very accurate at the fast dropping bodies due to them falling down and not being where the Dolgag's had been aiming anymore, and any that did hit just destroyed the copies, the real ones hidden well amongst them.

For everyone that was falling from the skies the Dolgag covered ground below was rushing up to them, the Toa all flipped themselves around to fall feet first and braced themselves for landing with their arms above their heads and legs tucked up a bit, while the girls spread their wings out and quickly pulled out of the dive, which for Emma was a little harder as she had to do it without losing grip on Janet or harming her as she pulled up. The Toa all landed, scattered out a bit amongst the Dolgag's, landing in a hard and loud thump, knocking up dust from their landing spots that had become small craters. As the dust cleared each of them was down on 1 knee and then stood up, all of them then grabbed a weapon that started to emerge from part of their armour and then formed into the weapon they used, each charged out at the Dolgag's that responded by launching the fireballs, lightning or had their hand(s) morph into a blade to fight them back in hand to hand combat.

The guardians all few over the Dolgag's quickly straight towards the tunnel entrance they could see ahead of them, which was where both Will and Jessica stood with the 4 larger Dolgag's alongside them blocking the path. "Fast hit to clear the way and then into the tunnel" Holly called to them as they all flew just above the main Dolgag army that were more interested in the Toa that were fighting against them amongst their forces.

"Give me Jessica and you all handle the rest" Janet called as she let go of Emma's legs and took the pole she had in her right hand ready.

"You asked, so you get" Emma replied as she flicked Janet before her, launching the girl straight at Jessica as she then used her feet to tackle a Dolgag out of the way, landing on it and pushing it hard into the ground. Both Terri and Holly also flicked around but both used their tails to each send a Dolgag flying out of the way while Amy gave a high-speed flying punch at the last to move it.

"They were right, spread the power out they more vulnerable" Amy giggled happily as she hovered in the air.

Rachel flew straight as the dark copy of Will, her left arm and hand covered in fire as she thrust that hand before her launching a fireball into the copy who just swung her right arm to blast it away only to see Rachel continue to fly straight at her, holding her right arm before her with a dome shield formed before her, hitting the copy straight on, knocking her back hard and to the floor.

Janet flew straight into Jessica who managed to stand the flying tackle that Janet came in with but was pushed back several feet. Janet rolled a little on the ground and quickly got to her feet, taking the pole in both hands and twisted it, causing the pole to extend from only a foot long to nearly 5 foot long, she twirled it around a little as Jessica looked back at her before looking across the area seeing Will being knocked to the floor.

"Mistress" She called out in a almost concerned emotionless voice as she started to move across to her only for Janet to run in the way.

"You are dealing with me!" Janet stubbornly called out, positioning herself to not let Jessica past. "So come on then."

"To stand before my master or mistress is to seek your death" Jessica darkly replied as a dark mist formed in her right hand and from it a black handled 4 foot long dark silver bladed sword emerged from it.

"I don't plan on dying today, and I am certain the real who is in there somewhere won't kill someone, she is coming back" Janet spoke as she swung her staff at Jessica who blocked using her sword and then had her tail swing round to try and sting Janet who jumped back a little before trying again. She called over her shoulder at the other girls who had grouped up by the entrance of the tunnel and looked at Janet as she fought Jessica. "Go, I can handle Jessica, just stop Demal" She called to them.

"Sis!" Amy called back deeply concerned for her safety as the others started to fly into the tunnel.

"Come on" Holly spoke softly as she placed her right hand on Amy's right shoulder. "We need to trust her on this."

"Right" Amy softly spoke as she turned around but kept facing her sister, a tear fell from her eye. "We will be back soon" She smiled to Janet who quickly turned to face her back and gave a nod and a smile before keeping on with her attack on Jessica. Amy then followed Holly after the others in the tunnel after wiping the tear away, afraid that leaving her sister behind may be a mistake, despite her plan.

Will slowly got back to her feet seeing the girls fly off in the tunnel, she hissed a little and turned to see Jessica and Janet fighting, she then turned to the 4 Dolgag's who also had just stood back up. "After the guardians" She yelled at them, to which they immediately nodded before floating off the ground and flew into the tunnel after them. She then turned back to face the 2 girls fighting before her, she charged up some lighting in her hands as she started to walk towards them.

Jessica swung her sword, tail and her left hand around trying to get at Janet, slowly pushing her back to the cliff wall, she then swing her tail round knocking Janet to the floor. "You were a fool to reject the masters power." She deeply spoke as she swing the sword down at the ground, only for Janet to twist the staff again to shrink it to allow her to roll out of the way.

"He forced me like you to serve him, I will not allow myself to be used as a puppet, and nor do you want that" She replied as she quickly got to her feet and then tackled her like Amy does to her. Pushing her back she quickly released Jessica with one hand, reaching inside her own armour and pulled out the Tonga tooth, she swung it in the air before her (behind Jessica) causing a fold to open, she then started to push Jessica towards it, but only to see Will walk between them and the fold.

"You are not going anywhere with her" Will angrily spoke as she raised her hands up alongside her as 2 small black lightning orbs formed between her fingers. Jessica looked on a little shocked as Jessica started to push back hard against her, hitting her back with the hilt of the sword, causing her to drop the shrunk staff and close her eyes from both the pain and from what was about to happen. Will then started to thrust her hands forwards to launch the lightning orbs only for her to then be tackled from the left causing the orbs to fly off into the cliff above them.

Janet opened her eyes and saw that Will was pushed aside and starting to stand back up, with between her and the fold was Undia, standing there holding a pair of daggers in a backhand stance ready to fight the Will copy, both blades were slightly shorter then her lower arms and both covered in fire, her faceplate opened up as she turned her head to face Janet and spoke. "Do whatever it is you plan with that one, I will deal with this imposter of the Overseer." She then turned back to face Will as she now stood back up fully looking very angrily.

"Thank you Undia" Janet spoke as she then kneed Jessica in the side of her legs and then pushed her hard and took her through the fold that closed after they both passed through.

"You ungrateful creature" Will angrily yelled out at Undia. "I helped save your kind from extinction, and this is the repayment you give me!"

"You may look like the one who helped saved my kind, but you are not her" Undia called back as the rest of the armour plates that formed the helmet lowered from her head allowing her dreadlocks to fall down the back of her neck, as in Will's right hand formed a slightly shorter bladed sword like the one Jessica was using but this one had black lightning jumping around the blade.

"Then join your fallen in the afterlife" Will cursed her as she charged forwards as another sword formed in her left hand. She swung her blades as Undia responded by blocking with her daggers, sparks of lightning and fire blasted away from them as they both exchanged blows to each other's blades. "After all, it was fire that died last time, so why don't you just follow in his fate of death on this day. In the sky the moon now fully covered the sun.

Within the tunnels the girls flew through them as fast as their little wings would lets them, Emma having to have her arm ones tucked in due to there wasn't the room for her to use them as the tunnel was only just big enough for them to fit in, the whole place was illuminated by the odd glowing crystal scattered around the place. Eventually they reached a large cavern and they landed seeing Demal standing at the other end as he was firing a black energy beam from his hand, blasting apart what appeared to be a collapsed passage way, he stopped and turned around seeing the girls standing in the middle of the cavern. "I was hoping to see you after I get the power that is rightfully mine" He spoke with a slight bit of disappointment in his voice.

"There is no power for you, only the destruction of everything, not give you power" Terri called over to him, trying to get him to realise the mistake he is going to make if he succeeded.

"Look, just give us the key and order your forces to stand down, so we can all go our separate ways" Emma then yelled over.

"Like I would do what 5 pesky little girls would say" Demal angrily yelled back to them. "Not back then, not ever, you all are a insignificant pest that should just disappear!".

"Then why?" Holly asked a little upset, causing the others to look at her funny. "Why do you seek this power and cause so much pain to people?"

"You are all too young to understand, losing the one you love because of invaders to your world." He yelled to them in both anger and a little depression. "Despite coming from a race of magic users, we were nothing compared to what came, they killed anyone who stood in their way. In response our strongest mages decided to tap into dark magic, something that was normally forbidden, it worked but they were all changed, now lost to the power of the darkness they had accessed, something my love tired to get me to understand the power she now had, while I ignored her trying to get me to allow the darkness in I still loved her and stuck around her while the others were cast aside by our society, for they saw that war, destruction and tyranny over the world was the way to protect everyone. Then the invaders came back again they attacked those mages first, killing them all, including my love before my eyes. In that moment of hate and rage I decided to take revenge, to stop things like that happening again I then did what my love told me, and access the dark powers and then I pulled all the power from those that died and added to my own, allowing me to defeat the invaders. I too had changed like they had, now an outcast of my own people, they saw me as a threat because of what I had done, I was cast off from my world and left to wonder the stars. Over the time I saw how much this was happening on other worlds, and it was then I decided that to stop it happening, I will rule over everything to keep order and destroy any who resist. But first I need the power that is behind that door so I can do what I must to make order over the worlds and maintain it."

"Did you ever think about those you have harmed in what you are doing?" Rachel quietly asked him a little sadness in her voice too. "Those lives you have already ruined, and all those you will ruin if you did succeed with your plan?"

Demal stepped back a little, caught off by Rachel's question. Eventually he replied. "I will harm all those needed, for the few that get harmed is nothing if it brings order to everything!"

"And what about anyone who stands against you?" Emma asked him.

"I will destroy anyone who tries to disrupt my new order" He called back. "I lost the one I loved originally, and I will not allow anyone to disrupt the utopia I will create for me and love's re-birthed form, for while she will never replace my true previous one, I know I can never fully bring her back fully, but her body and darkness did return, for you see, she looked exactly like little Wilhelmina when she was killed, and both her death and Wilhelmina's birth was on the same day. It was fate for her to be re-born, she came back and tho she stood against me, I could sense the darkness suppressed deep within in her, and it matched the same darkness my love had when she was killed, and while I could not get the original to embrace the darkness she had buried deep within her, I was able to create the copy with your help heart bearer that was made from her dark part, allowing my wife to return to me, granted she doesn't remember her previous life, but she thinks like I remember she did, only with Wilhelmina's memories."

"You are just like the mages who used those powers, lost to the darkness" Holly muttered a little sad. "And like the invaders, you will take what you want just so you can rule, destroy what you cannot and don't care for anyone you harm doing it. We are going to stop you. Plus as your copy has the Overseer's memories, I am certain eventually she will see past you."

"So does this mean I get to hit him some?" Amy asked with a smirk on her face. "Been wanting to give him payback for what he did to my sister."

"Maybe once I have my power little earth guardian, you will help me" Demal smiled darkly back. "You would do what you need to in order to protect your sister, and granted I underestimated you when I took her and sent her to stop you get the key part. But you want to know something, she begged me to kill her as the Dolgag entered her as she resisted falling to the power I tried to use on her like Jessica fell for, maybe I will kill her or just put a Dolgag in her again if you refuse to aid me after this is over."

Amy clenched her fists and tried to move forwards only for Terri and Holly to grab her to restrain her. "Don't listen to him" Terri told her in a soft and quiet whisper. "He is just trying to get to you."

"Oh the darkness I sense you trying to suppress" Demal smirked as he looked straight as Amy's angry eyes. "But like I said, you don't need to think on things yet, because right now you are not of interest to me." He turned around and started to blast more energy at the rocks causing a blast of dust to come from them that filled the chamber. Once the dust cleared the tunnel he was re-opening was cleared and he stood before it. "Now if you don't mind girls, I have a power to claim." He calmly spoke looking over his shoulder at them. "I hope you all will serve me after this is over, providing your backs are up to it." He smirked one more time as he started to calmly walked down the new tunnel.

"Hold it!" Emma called as they all started to charge forwards only for suddenly something to hit them all in the back causing the spot that was hit to feel like it was burning, they all fell to the ground on their fronts knowing what had been done by what they felt. They all stumbled as they got back to their feet seeing the 4 Dolgag's float around them to block the tunnel Demal went down.

"I have had it with those things giving cheap shots at me" Amy angrily spat out and she had her vines extend and wave around a little. "It is like I have a target painted on my back with the amount of times I have been hit by them."

"You are not the only one who had a dislike of them getting us in the back" Terri told Amy remembering what happened when she was struck as she was about to get the key part from Irma.

"Sadly we don't have time for this" Emma told them as she braced herself for any more shots.

"We not going to be able to get to Demal without them getting in the way" Rachel muttered looking at the 4 Dolgag's.

"Go 1 on 1, you 4 deal with these, I will take Demal" Holly told the girls. "I know the plan is to destroy the key quickly, but if I can absorb it into the heart then we can at least get it away from Demal long enough for him to disappear into the shadows again or to restrain him, either way we can get it somewhere safe to destroy it."

"You really want to put that thing in there?" Terri asked Holly as she had her tail slap the ground hard.

"Not really" Holly muttered back. "But right not I can't think of any other way, you heard what witch said, the combined powers are needed, tapping into the core power of those dragons we get them from."

"And they did, plus they also said they had more power overall because they had that direct merge with the aurameres that we don't have, only linked to a shard of it" Terri reminded her. "Plus despite all the power they had, they only were able to break it, not destroy it."

"They did say that because the key was broken when they did it originally possibly could have weakened the rest of it so doing the same again may work, just because it only broke before, they never thought of trying again, along with not wanting any of the parts to be in the same place for safety" Rachel replied to Terri's point about the powers.

"We can work things out once we have stopped Demal and retrieved the key from him as to how we are destroying that key" Holly calmly told them. 'But Terri is right, they had more power and only broke it, if we fail I will try the other method' She then thought to herself. "So long as he doesn't open the door, cover me, I am going after him, and I have a plan for at least occupying him until you can join me."

"So long as you save some of him for us, taking these 4 on will be my pleasure, all the cheap shots in the back are about to come back to harm them from the front" Amy smiled as she flew straight at one of them, grabbing it in her hands and he vines also wrapping around its arms as she flew across to one side of the chamber.

"We will join you as soon as we can" Emma nodded to Holly as she then spread all 4 of her wings and flew at another of the Dolgag's grabbing it in her feet as she carried it out of the way before tossing it aside.

Rachel just stared at Holly before giving a unsettled nod before flying at the next one putting a shield up before her as she rammed into it and pushed it away.

"Just be careful" Terri sadly smiled to Holly as they gave each other a hug.

"I will be" Holly replied, a part of her didn't want to do what she had as a plan B for taking on Demal, but it was something she was only going to do if there was no other option left in fighting him. 'If this all goes wrong and he opens that door, we only have one other way to stop him, but the Overseer wasn't certain about whether it would work, or if we can supply enough power' She thought as she smiled to Terri, trying to not let her thoughts get to her.

As the 2 girls ended the hug Terri flew up and holding her arms out before shot a large jet of water at the final Dolgag in the way and she flew into the jet and pushed the last one out of the way allowing Holly to fly quickly into the tunnel and disappear from view as she went after Demal.

All 4 girls then stood in different corners of the cavern with a Dolgag before them as they prepared to take these ones out. Each of them quickly recovered from what happened to them from the girls attacks and then all quickly fired a blast of dark energy at all the girls knocking them back into each other in the middle of the chamber, this attack was something they hadn't seen them do before and despite the fact they can now touch them because of the spread power, it felt like their magic being used offensively wasn't any weaker. They all stumbled a little as they got to their feet as they recovered from the surprise attack seeing the Dolgag's all charging up a large black lightning orb between their hands, almost as big as each of them and then they launched it towards the girls.

Meridian Surface

Outside Will was gaining the upper hand on Undia as she tossed one of her sword aside and fired a black energy beam straight into Undia's chest and sent her flying back into the cliff, her impact made a slight imprint on the wall before she fell to the ground on her front, her daggers fell from her hands and bounced to just be out of reach.

"Beg me to put you out of your misery you little pest" She angrily cursed her with. "And I will make your death quick and with as little pain as possible, rather than slow and extremely painful."

Undia just laughed a little and she slowly got onto her knees. "Just do it, for you have her memories, you know we would rather take the slow and painful option with honour and dignity then beg." She stared at Will with a stern look on her face.

"Then so be it" Will smirked as she ran the tip of her swords blade along the bottom of Undia's chin before swinging the sword back and raising it above her head, griping the handle in both hands as black lighting covered the blade. Undia raised her head, ready to take her fate as Will started to swing her blade round at Undia's neck.

Kandrakar

A fold opened in a large room that no wall, floor or ceiling could be seen, it just appeared to be clouds in the sky, but there was a stone archway in the distance with a wooden door in it. In the room stood Will with 4 guards, all with their swords drawn, expecting what was coming. Through the fold Janet pushed Jessica who once was through managed to recover from the kneeing Janet did to her and knee her back in the stomach area causing Janet to lose her grip, she then tossed her aside, letting her roll on the ground a little as then she suddenly screamed out in pain.

"That is it Jessica" Janet said trying to catch her breath as she slowly stood up, signalling to Will and the guards not to come yet. "Fight what Demal did to you, he or his partner aren't here to keep you under that spell."

Jessica kept screaming as she placed her hands on her head and fell to her knees and managed to speak a few words between screams. "It...hurts...my head...get out of it."

"You can do this" Janet smiled as she walked over to her slowly. "Remember who you are, I know you have hated the half-breeds like me, but you are not the type to be used, controlled or kill, so come back." She begged as she reached Jessica and kneeled down next to her. She placed her right hand on her shoulder and after a couple of moments the screams stopped and Jessica's head and arms dropped down as her eyes were tightly closed. Janet gave a sigh of relief and turned to Will and gave a smile as Will's smiled back, but that quickly became a scared look that caused Janet to look back at Jessica who had opened her eyes again, they were still red and she gave a dark smile to Janet before placing her left hand to Janet's stomach area again and launch a fireball that threw Janet back over 12 feet, and onto her back.

"You will pay for separating me from my master" Jessica angrily spoke as she stood up and took her sword as she started to walk towards Janet who just was getting onto her knees, trying to get her breath as she kept a hand on her stomach, clearly in pain and the armour had a hole in it, her top could be seen underneath. Will watched on afraid, she knew her part that Yan Lin had told her to do in this plan which meant she couldn't fight Jessica outside of the mental realm which meant Jessica had to be physically unable to act, she had to conserve as much energy as possible for what she had to do so she had to just stand back and watch, the guards were to protect her in case she was attacked while mentally linked, yet she didn't want to let Janet to pay for trying to save Jessica with her life. She quickly thought of a idea of what to do that would still let her have the power she needed and help Janet, but there was always the chance this would be too late.

"Jessica please you don't want to do this" Janet spoke, a tear fell from her eyes as she closed them as Jessica waked before her, the tip of her tail pressed gently against Janet's head to keep her still as she then raised her sword ready to strike the defenceless girl before her, a slight wobble came from a arm as she held the sword sideways, something within her was resisting, but it wasn't enough, she started to swing.

Meridian Underground

In the final chamber Demal Walked in, it was exactly like he remembered from all those years before. He started to make his way towards the large gold and red door as the candles around the room seemed to react to the presence of a person being there and lit themselves. As he made his way he took the key out from under his cloak. "Finally my prize, soon all will kneel before me." He gave a little laugh to himself as he made it half way before a female voice yelled out behind him.

"You are not opening it!" The voice called as Holly flew in quickly, spun around clockwise allowing the side of her tail to slam into his chest as he turned around to see who was speaking, knocking him back, across the chamber and into the door with a loud thud before falling to the ground while the key was knocked from his hand in the impact of the tail, it went flying to the side of the chamber.

"You pathetic little beast" He angrily spat to her as he stood back up and removed his cloak to show he was still in his normal clothing underneath. "You will pay for that."

"I am not afraid of you" Holly growled back as she stood on the ground and bared her teeth and positioned herself ready for what he does next.

"It isn't me you need to be afraid of, it is DEATH!" He shouted at her deeply annoyed as he thrust his right hand forwards launching a volley of dark fireballs at her.

Next Time: Are one of them about to be the death in the prophesy?