22: Eclipsed

Meridian Underground, Large Cavern

The 4 Dolgag's each fired a large black lightning bolt from the orbs they formed at the girls. They looked at the bolts were coming at them, eyes open wide (well all except Rachel) at the sight that came to them of the fast moving bolts. There was a black flash through the room as the bolts collided with their targets, but when the flash subsided the Dolgag's looked on and saw the girls standing there still but then faded out, revealing behind them, squatting down on the ground the 4 were contained inside a shield that Rachel had formed around them as she held her arms out sideways, she then lowered the shield allowing Amy to have her vines grow out and wrap around the Dolgag's who were lost trying to work out what had happened to react, she then lifted them higher from the ground and tossed them into a pile over to one side as all 4 of the girls stood up with a smile on their faces.

"Good thinking on that one Amy" Terri commented as the patted her teammate on the shoulder as they looked at the Dolgag's trying to scramble out of the pile they were in, but the attempts only prevented each other from getting up, causing the girls to giggle a little at them.

"Who would have expected that little miss beat-things-up would have worked out something like that to save us" Emma teased a little as she flew up above them and then gave a quick burst of her high-pitched scream over the Dolgag's to keep them down.

"I was counting on you all spotting the illusions of us I created so you would all duck down, plus Rachel raising her shield too" Amy replied to them both in a proud manner.

"I do agree with Emma on this one, not something I would have not thought you would have come up with, an idea like that" Terri giggled a little as Amy just rolled her eyes. Rachel had remained silent this whole time, just staring at the Dolgag's. Terri spotted her just standing there and asked, "Rachel, something wrong?"

"There is something in them" Rachel quietly muttered a little confused.

"There is what?" Emma asked rather surprised on what was just said.

"Something within the Dolgag's" Rachel repeated. "I felt something reaching out to me, asking for help when they were hit by your sonic scream."

"You get any more than that?" Amy quickly asked as the 4 Dolgag's had finally managed to get out of the pile they were in and started to stand up.

"No the voice was silenced rather quickly" Rachel shook her head as she replied as they saw them free before them.

"Hit them hard with a couple of combo's we know. Emma, we will freeze them in place so Amy and Rachel can do the meteor strike thing, all keep focused for anything calling to us" Terri told them as she held her arms out to the side which started to be surrounded by water, while after all nodding the rest all flew up into the air (apart from Emma who was still up there). She then swing her hands before her launching a jet of water from each that formed a large blob of water from the ground up to where the knees would be on the Dolgag's. "Ok Emma, now" She then called out

"Right then, time for you all to chill out" Emma joked as she spread her arm wings, having only been using her guardian wings to fly, while around her arm wings a small tornado formed around each, she pulled her arms back as far as she could before flapping them forwards as hard as she could, launching the tornado's together into a strong blast of wind that chilled the air in their path, passing over the Dolgag's and freezing the water solid into ice. "Ok, ready for part 2" She called out as she flew out of the way.

Before taking flight Amy had knelt down pressing her hands to the floor causing the ground around her to crack up, then as she took flight she held her arms out to her side making the rocks that formed the ground around her fly up into the air around her, she then spread them out as she raised her arms above her making the rocks float up higher in the air. "Rachel, light them up" She called to Rachel who flew up behind the rocks.

"Be ready for who or whatever is calling out" Rachel called out to the others before looking to the 4 Dolgag's that were struggling to move because of the Ice that was trapping them. She held her arms out to her sides as her hands became engulfed in fire. "If you can hear me, reach out!" She called to what was trying to reach them. She then thrust her arms forwards launching the fire over the rocks that quickly started to glow red and became set alight. "Amy do it" She called out as her eyes closed she could focus to best hear what was calling out.

"Sorry if this harms those who are trying to get to us" Amy sighed to herself as she then threw her arms to face the Dolgag's which caused the flaming rocks to fly down into them causing a lot of dust and steam to be thrown up by the impact not allowing the girls to see what had happened but they could hear the Dolgag's screaming out in there monstrous voices, only to then hear human female screams mixed within them. All the girls kept listening out for anything else but as the screams faded Terri, Emma and Amy herd nothing else, but the 3 of them looked on as the dust cleared seeing the 4 Dolgag's lying on the ground, the 3 of them approached slowly, all prepared in case they moved. As they got close enough they could see the 4 of them were unconscious.

"I didn't get anything, you?" Amy asked as she crouched down and poked one of them in the head.

"I got nothing apart from those screams, but did you hear what I did in the screams?" Emma asked.

"If you mean something human, yes" Terri replied. She then looked around and saw Rachel was still up in the air with her eyes not glowing. "Rachel?" She asked quietly as she flew up to her which also got the other 2 girls to look round and watch what was going on. Terri arrived up at Rachel who still hadn't changed how she was positioned or acting, she placed her right hand on Rachel's left shoulder as she stared at Rachel.

"They are in them!" Rachel quickly called out after a few moments in a little bit of both surprise and panic as he eyes started to glow again (to her it was opening them). This cause Terri to jump a little and pull her hand back quickly from the shock she got from Rachel's call to them.

"Who is in them?" Emma called to Rachel as she flew down, past the other 2 girls and over to the Dolgag's.

"The previous guardians, the missing ones" She told them as she crouched down over the Dolgag's. Terri landed next to Amy and Emma as they all looked at her as if she had lost it.

"Rachel what are you on about, we didn't hear anything" Amy called over to her.

"I am not certain, but I can hear the voice of one of them in my head, saying that the others are there with her" Rachel explained as she tiled her head to the right while still staring at the Dolgag's. "Well 4 of them are here, seems the 5th one was never with them since they were caught."

The others just looked at each other for a moment trying to work out what Rachel was saying while she placed her right hand on the head of one of the Dolgag's.

"Telepathy" Terri muttered as she thought over things. "That must be it." She them exclaimed getting a little exited. "Remember what was said about our powers when we first went to Kandrakar."

"That we had developed different secondary powers if I recall correctly" Amy spoke as she thought back.

"Yes, the Fire guardian is meant to be telepathic, so if Rachel is hearing a voice in her head, then the fire guardian must be communicating with her." Terri smiled a little as she spoke.

"But what are they doing in the Dolgag's?" Emma asked curiously as they slowly went over to Rachel.

Rachel was focused on what she was doing as the others reached her, they just stood next to her as they looked on before Rachel eventually spoke. "Her voice is getting faint, seems the Dolgag's may be waking soon, seems they are a container for the spirits of the 4 guardians they contain, but she told me how to free them."

"So how?" Amy asked. "If it more hitting is needed to them, then I have no problem doing that."

"Not that, we need to form a circle around them, then we link our powers together to focus it on the Dolgag's, that will break the spell that keeps them trapped within them" Rachel explained as she stood up. "Least that is what she told me needs to be done."

The others just looked at each other for a moment before they decided to go with what Rachel was saying. They all moved around the pile of Dolgag's on the floor forming a ring around them as they each took the hand of the one next to them. They then each closed their eyes, summoning their powers and feeling the power of the others. Around their bodies the aura of their powers appeared: red for Rachel, blue for Terri, grey for Emma and green for Amy. The auras slowly moved between them as they all merged into a ball of aura energy mixed together as it then floated down over the Dolgag's. There was suddenly screams of pain in both types of voices that came from the Dolgag's, but the girls kept focus on what they were doing. Inside the aura orb the Dolgag's started to break apart revealing something inside them. Gradually the screams became more and more human before the Dolgag's screams had disappeared completely.

After a few moments of hearing just human screams the girls stopped what they were doing, releasing hands and opening their eyes, and saw what was getting up from the floor between them, 4 female spirits, all just shorter than 6 foot tall and wearing the same sort of robe that the other spirits they had met wore. One had short hair that you would normally see on a male, the next had her hair in pig tails that came over her shoulders, the 3rd had her hair tied in a high pony tail that came down to the base of her neck, and the last had her hair tied into 4 tails, 2 at each side of her neck at the back of her head and 2 just in front of her ears, the hair came down half way on her back.

"Thank you for freeing us" The one with the pony tail spoke as she gained her composure.

"Yea, being contained within those things was not pleasant" The one that had the 4 tails spoke in a rather unhappy tone.

"Apologies for Sally, earth guardians are very stubborn and often speak their minds" The short haired one spoke.

"Well sorry for speaking the truth" Sally stubbornly commented.

"Tell us about the earth guardian thing" Emma joked, only for Amy to look at her like she couldn't believe what was being said about her guardian type.

"I am glad once Demal spread the power of the Dolgag's I could get my telepathy through when the body I was trapped within was weakened from a hit, I have been trying since we first fought, but never could till now" The one with the pig tails spoke. "Seems the stronger powers they had at the start kept my telepathy silenced."

"So you said she is Sally the previous guardian of earth" Terri spoke as she pointed to Sally. "And the rest of you are?"

"Of course introductions, I am Elle, the one who previously held fire" The pig tailed one introduced herself.

"I was water, Isabelle" The short haired one said.

"And Mille, Quintessence" The one with the pony tail smiled as she spoke.

They quickly discussed notes about what had happened, how Demal killed them so he could take the heart from them once they were all dead due to it bonded to the next nearest guardian, a defensive spell placed on the heart to prevent someone taking the heart when there were other guardians nearby. Once Demal had killed them he then trapped their spirits within a Dolgag he created to make them suffer for refusing to give him what he wanted and in case he needed them to access the heart. But their final member: Laura, they had no idea where she was, they had attacked her while within the Dolgag's with Demal, but when he killed her for some reason he wasn't able to find her spirit to take. In addition the new team told what they knew of what was going on, only for them to be interrupted by a large blast of black lightning coming from the tunnel that both Demal and Holly went down. All 8 girls looked at the tunnel. Fear shown on their faces as to what could have happened to Holly as black lightning started to spark from out of that tunnel.

Meridian Surface

Dark Will swung her sword towards Undia who prepared herself for what was coming, but just as the blade was about to reach her neck a series of explosions were heard. Will stopped her swing just short of her neck and turned to see what was going on. Half a dozen explosions had appeared in the middle of the Dolgag army that were still trying to fight off the other 6 Toa. Suddenly overhead a large shadow flew over the eclipsed sun as the moon started to move off total coverage. As the shadow flew over her head a bird-like screech was heard as it turned around and hovered in the air facing the Dolgag's, It was Skykal, now with a cannon formed on his back, it fired a couple of red energy orbs from it into the Dolgag's that sent several flying in the explosions that come from the impacts. In the distance on the path that came into the valley they were in marched up about a hundred warriors all in armour, from all humanoid species on Meridian, all wearing armour and had weapons drawn, some were also riding animals that varied from rhino-like, horse-like to even some large birds. Drikal was also there as he towered over them while he now had a set of 5 blades had formed around his head in a drill-like manner, they retracted to allow him to breath a burst of fire over the Dolgag army.

"Warriors of Meridian!" A voice called out from within the arriving reinforcements. "Defend our world!"

Will looked on a little unsettled by what was going on as Skykal flew back over to join the main army as they charged into the Dolgag's and joined the Toa in fighting them off. She screamed out in anger as Undia just smiled and then leaped up tackling the copy back into the ground loosing grip on her sword as it slid away. Will responded by covering her fists with dark fire and lightning and punching Undia in the face to knock her back. They both rolled over quickly as they stood up facing straight at each other while the sound of blades cashing from the reinforcements and the Dolgag's as those that the aerial strike had hit recovered from the blasts and went back to fight, along with some the Toa had already knocked down.

"Give up, you won't accomplish anything" Undia called to Will hoping to get through to anything of the original in her. "There has to be a bit of you that knows that this is wrong."

"No! Never, you will all suffer for this!" She screamed out as she held her head in her hands for a moment before a black mist surrounded her. Undia looked on as the mist got bigger, forming into a mist-shaped dragon, standing 25 foot high, red eyes, with fore and hind legs. "The other me was weak, rejecting this power, I will destroy you, then her!" the copy's voice echoed out from the dragon, clearly angered and in panic as from its mouth it launched a blast of lightning at Undia, who jumped to the side to dodge, the fireball hitting the ground and exploding.

"She is becoming unstable" Undia muttered to herself a little concerned as she looked on. "You are the weak one, it takes a lot of strength to resist something, and for a person to resist the darkness in them takes everything they have." she called back to Will, seeing one of her daggers lying on the ground by the cliff walls. She ran for it, only for the dragon to launch more fireballs at it creating another small explosion that sent Undia flying in 1 direction and the dagger another. She got to her feet and stared at the Dragon and it took flight before her and gave a roar. "Past power of fire, lend me the power to stop this" Undia spoke to herself as the handle of the sword she received formed on her back, she reached her right hand over her shoulder and pulled the handle removing it from her back as the rest of the sword formed, she then flipped it round to hold it back-handed as the blade became covered in fire.

"You really think you can stop me" Will screamed out as she had her dragon form launch a stream of fire from the mouth.

"Think? no...Because I can and will" Undia replied as she calmed and focused herself before she charged forwards, summoning all the power she could causing a red aura to form over her as she rolled to the side of the flames as they hit the ground causing another small explosion. Will responded by sending lightning at Undia from the dragon's front claws, who just continued her charge and jumped to dodge as she got closer, only for Will to fly higher up and then launched a large fireball at Undia who leaped up over it, the fireball hit the ground beneath her and throwing large rocks up into the air allowing Undia to leap around them.

Will's dragon eyes got wide seeing the Toa leap up above her, she then twisted herself to flip round to her left, raising the sword up higher and the flames covering it get bigger, as the blade got vertical the copy also saw the position matched something from the original's memories, Undia was doing a back-hand version of the strike Tahu would use in final strikes, she saw his spirit alongside Undia, looking just as a male version of her but without the cyan arm markings. The fire blade grew as long as her dragon form was and then the blade came down with Undia striking though the mist dragon. There was both a roar and scream from the copy as she lost her dragon from and thrown back into the ground, Undia landing before her down on 1 knee, the aura around her stopped, and then a white glow came from the sword and it broke into light particles and started to disappear.

"Thank you for aiding me" Undia whispered to the last of the light particles as they finished disappearing. She then stood up and looked at Will who was struggling to get up from lying on the ground.

"I won't lose like this!" The copy called out weakly in anger as a black flash went over her, reverting her to the back outfit she originally had and without the wings.

"Seems that you used up all your power for now, but don't worry, we have ways to prevent you using powers until your fate is decided by the council of Kandrakar" Undia smiled as she stood over the copy. They then both looked over upon hearing something pop, the Dolgag's were all popping into dark mist and disappearing. "Looks like they did it" She then smiled as the copy just sat up onto her knees as the reinforcements surrounded her, she lowered her head, refusing to accept her defeat, but knowing right now she could not do anything.

Everyone took a moment to organise a defence around the entrance of the tunnel as the copy was restrained and moved aside, ready to be taken to Kandrakar to be dealt with once the guardians return. A few moments past before the whole area started to quake and the sky got darker, blocking out the half-revealed sun that the moon was clearing with clouds that seemed to bring a storm with them.

"Were they too late in getting to him?" Undia asked herself, afraid that the worst could be happening. "Or did he defeat them?"

Kandrakar

As Jessica went to strike at Janet, the original Will had a glowing gold orb appear in her right hand that filled it, she then tossed it towards both girls. "Janet, use this!" She called across to her as the orb grew triple its size.

The orb hit Jessica side on, throwing her back a bit and to the ground, it then hovered before Janet as she stood up, she looked over to Will who gave a nod to her, she took a deep breath then reached inside the orb with both hands and felt something in there with each, she took grip and pulled what she felt out. In her right hand was a sword that had a black handle with a gold base, there was also a gold lion head on one side that had a slot in the mouth. On the opposite side of the handle to that was a black wheel, then on 1 side between them was a dark silver box with a single red dot in it. The blade was a pale silver with a gold ring on it half way up and a told tip. In her left hand she saw a back rectangular ring with a dark green chameleon on top of it. She looked over them both a little confused as the orb she pulled them from disappeared. Jessica slowly got up and screamed out as she charged at Janet again who immediately used the sword to defend herself from strikes from Jessica's sword and tail.

"What exactly am I to do with these?" Janet called to Will a bit confused by what she got as she kept defending herself from Jessica's relentless attacks, trying to keep grip on the ring as she held the sword with both hands.

"Place the ring on your middle right finger, spin the wheel on the sword and then press the ring into the slot, a energy ring will then from, once it does strike it with the sword and think of what you want to happen to Jessica" Will instructed to her in a clam manner.

"This better work" Janet called back as she gave Jessica a hard kick to her stomach to push her back and to the floor again. She then slid the ring onto her middle right finger, passing the sword to her left hand, she quickly turned the slot to face to her right so she could press the ring in quickly. Using her right hand she pressed it against the wheel on the sword, flicked the wheel starting it spinning, the red dot also spun, changed between 1 and 6 dots in order as it spun. She took another deep breath as pressed the ring in. A second later the spinning stopped with 6 red dots up.

"Six!" A strange male voice called out from the sword and it gave off a quick exited jingle as she pulled the ring out of the sword and a dark green energy ring appeared before her with a lion face in the middle of it, the ring was nearly as big as she was. "Sabre Strike!" It then also spoke as Janet took the handle of the sword in both hands, seeing Jessica stand back up and prepaid to charge at her. Janet focused on what she wanted to happen next and struck the sword over the energy ring, shattering it and making 6 green energy chameleons appear from it, all of them the size a chameleon would be. They all jumped before her, surrounded Jessica as she moved forwards and then shot their tongues out that wrapped around her arms, legs and tail, restraining her in place. Janet took a moment to believe what she saw happen, Jessica dropped her sword trying to struggle free of her restraints. Janet walked up to her and placed both her hands on the girl's shoulders.

"Jessica, listen to me" Janet spoke firmly to her. "You can be freed from what is happening to you, but you need to let this person into your mind, I know she looks like one of the people controlling you but you know that the one that was helping to control you was a copy, this is the true person, but she needs your permission to enter."

There was a few moments more of Jessica resisting the restraints as she closed her eyes, and between grunts of resistance, Jessica's normal voice spoke through. "Enter... I don't want...Stop me..."

"The permission is given" Will spoke as she walked up, Jessica stepped to one side standing with the guards as Will placed her hands on Jessica's forehead and closed her eyes. A soft white glow came from Will that covered over Jessica, and then came a scream of pain in both of Jessica's voices for a few moments before a black mist appeared over her body and then faded, revealing Jessica back in what she was wearing when Demal took her, tho her physical changes were still there, minus the wings. Will removed her hands as the white glow faded. "It is done" She spoke weakly as she fell to her knees.

"You certain that was the only way?" Janet asked Will. "You look like that took a lot."

"It took most of my energy" Will replied as she got her breath back. "And while there is another method, it is just we don't have anyone who can use it at the moment." She smiled to Janet. "But that may change soon."

After a couple more seconds the chameleons fades away releasing Jessica who started to fall over. Janet ran over to her, dropping the sword she had and caught the falling girl on her knees. Slowly Jessica opened her eyes. "Welcome back it seems" Janet smiled to her.

"Thank you" Jessica weakly replied. "Despite everything I did you and everyone else, you helped me."

"It was the right thing to do" Janet smiled as She helped both Jessica and Will back to their feet. She then looked at Will. "You feeling all right now Overseer?"

"I will be fine, so we best get her somewhere she can rest" Will replied before something made the whole of Kandrakar shake. "To the main chamber quickly" Will quickly called out as she started to move for the door out of the room they were in, Janet passing Jessica to a pair of guards to help her while she grabbed the sword she dropped and followed after with the other 2 guards.

Meridian Underground, Deep chamber

Demal screamed out as the volley of fireballs flew straight at Holly, she covered her face with her arms as she turned into her pink energy form for going intangible, allowing the fireballs to pass through her and explode as they hit the wall behind her, but she felt pain of the heat they gave off as they went through. She quickly returned to normal, breathing heavily as she let the pain pass, before giving a deep growl to Demal.

"Clever little witch" Demal cursed her as her then launched a bolt of black lightning towards her that she flew up to avoid. "But I won't be defeated by the likes of the guardians again, not so close to my prize."

"1: Witch was the name for the team back when you tried this before, and 2: you will be stopped by a guardian because I don't see any crash-test dummies from the 21st century around here" Holly teased him while dodging another lightning bolt before she held both her hands together "Quintessence!" she then called launching a large pale blue bolt at Demal who just held his left hand at it and stopped the bolt.

"You powers are weak, not even a challenge like your ancestors provided" He teased as he gave a evil grin to Holly as she landed, keeping between him and the key.

"You may be right about that" Holly responded, flying around quickly as Demal launched another volley of fireballs and lightning bolts at her. "They had more powers then us, but I came prepared for that."

"What do you mean by that?" Demal asked a little confused by what she said.

Holly smiled as she landed and then was engulfed by a pink flash as she reverted back to her normal self with the heart still around her neck. "Wild, that was a theory behind why I may have been chosen." She told Demal as she reached in her left trouser pocket and pulled out a small brown packet the easily fitted in her hand, part of her mind was screaming not to do this. "What do you know about my non human side then?" She asked.

"Gives you scales, tail, claws and those spikes. So what about it?" Demal replied not really caring about what she was saying.

"There is that, but there is also the feral side, something I have gone through 9 times now" She spoke as she opened the packet, the smell of bacon came from the open packet as she pulled out a small rectangular slice of meat that was in the packet. "If my kind eat meat, we get very dangerous, enhanced stemma and strength come but the loss of control comes." Demal look at her realising what she was about to do, his face went into shock. "But there is a tale of someone who as able to control their feral side, by not resisting it coming, but letting it overcome them and becoming part of the mind that is feral, allowing them to do limited control of it as they dealt with whatever it was they had to do it for without any kills or serious injury, which is rare for a feral one of us to not cause." She continued before trying to slow her breathing down, the back of her mind screamed out more as she looked at the meat in her hand.

"You wouldn't" Demal exclaimed as he took a step back, concerned at what was coming if she did it.

Holly looked at him one more time. 'Terri, please don't come down here for now for your own safety' She thought to herself as she closed her eyes and ate the meat. She tossed the packet aside as she opened her eyes again. "I have only moments before it takes effect as we have a fast absorption rate." She spoke as she quickly used her medical band and silenced it.

Demal said nothing, glancing between her and the key, even with his powers he only had a slim chance to make it to the key before she could dodge an attack and intercept him, even if he teleported, the only way would be if she jumped the wrong way, but he had no guarantee that she would go the way he wanted. Holly's breathing was getting deeper and she was starting to growl deeply. "If you insist on doing this, I will put you down like the beast you are choosing to unleash" He angrily spat at her before launching a fireball at her feet. The shot hit, throwing her back away from the key, something he expected her to dodge. She now just lay on the floor with her heavy breathing and growls. Demal calmly walked over and picked up the key, keeping an eye on the girl, he was unsettled by how easy that was.

Holly's breathing slowed as in her mind she put up no resistance to the thoughts that were overcoming her mind, it was in that moment she felt the other part of her merging with her mind rather than burying it like it normally had done in the past. Her pupils dilated as she started to laugh between growls, causing Demal to get rather uncomfortable by what he was hearing from her.

"You best be ready, as I fell every instinct fully of my feral side, and it feels very exiting" She spoke in a deeper voice then normal as she looked up at him as she stood on all fours with a aggressive smile on her face, aiming at him. "You have the honour of being around on my 10th feral rampage, so let's do this" She then growled out almost like a roar as she charged at him.

"Keep back!" He panicked as he shot some lightning bolts at her, to which she jumped around and charged into him, knocking him to the ground, the key sliding away from his hand.

She gave a loud growl into his face showing off her sharp teeth, before raising her right hand and started to swing her claw down at his face, but only to be hit by a couple of fireballs, knocking her over to one side. Both got up quickly(Demal standing up fully and Holly using all fours), Staring at each other for a couple of moments before Demal shot another lightning bolt at her, to which she growled out "Quintessence!" Launching a blast of lightning from herself that collided with his bolt, causing a small explosion where they met.

"That shouldn't happen, you aren't in guardian form, your powers are weak" Demal angrily called a little caught off before he spotted something, between her spikes lightning bolts were sparking around, slowly but clearly becoming more frequent. "Clever little pest, using your physiology to built up a charge from your power constantly so when you do use it, it will be as strong as if you were in guardian form. Those spikes do make good spots to store electricity. It shows you are a fast learner it seems, but I learn fast too." He smirked before launching another volley of lightning bolts at her from his right hand. She jumped up to dodge to which he launched a fireball from his left hand that hit her front on, blasting a hole in her top that now revealed her tummy, she had a black scorch mark now on her scales while the shot also throw her back into the wall hard with her back. The collision with her back against the wall caused a cracking and snapping sound before she fell to the floor, 3 of her back spikes had broken off just away from the base of the spike, while a few others had cracks in them, she roared out in pain as she tried to stand but collapsed down, her right leg had twisted a little while she had also lost feeling in her tail which lay not moving on the ground. This allowed him to give her another blast of lightning to make certain she was not going to come after him, but not shocking her enough to pass out, he wanted her to watch what was about to happen.

"It was a nice try, using a deadly part of yourself like that" He complemented her as he picked the key up again and walked over to the door. "That side of you may come in handy in my rule." He smiled darkly as he reached the door, holding the key up before him, the red of the key started to glow as he placed it into the engraving on the door that matched the key. "Now, my time is at hand!" He called out as the door started to open, leaving the key on a stand in the middle.

Holly looked up recovering from her feral state as she only had eaten a small amount of meat, so it had all been burned up in her system now, her eyes opened wide with fear at what she saw, inside the door was a black vortex. Demal turned to face her and smiled as the place started to shake, before suddenly a black lightning bolt came from the vortex, struck him in the back and threw him across the room, landing on his front on the floor next to her. She looked back in horror as more bolts started to come out of the door, a few started heading up the tunnel she came down.

Next Time: Is the end at hand?