Wrote this last night and I couldn't wait to put it up, so am doing it before I leave. Also a big part of the story line happens now. Enjoy!:)

Chapter 9

As they got closer to Duncan's Castle, Sky's smile got bigger and bigger as she had always dreamt that she would one day try to find it. It had a massive hole on one side but other than that it was still standing they way it did when the war started.

"God, it feels good to be home" Duncan said as they walked into the castle. They dumped they stuff in one of the corners and began to search through all the chests to find materials to make as many weapons as they could. Unfortunately most of the chest had been already been searched by Sips Co guards when they had defeated Duncan.

"Bastards, they took everything", Sky had gave up on searching a couple of minutes before everyone else and had sat down to read her book. She looked up from her book to see Duncan throw a chest at a wall, it smashed into pieces.

"That are we going to do now" Kim looked worried. "I dunno Kim, this was our best shot, I had all the materials even if it there was a couple of ingots we could have gone mining, but there is nothing. Sky looked at all of them and suddenly remembered what Lee had given her. She grabbed her backpack and pulled out a dark matter pickaxe. "Duncan, I completely forgot Lee gave me this a few months ago, he won it in a duel with someone."

The four stood in front of her with mouths open. It seemed like hours before anyone talked when Hannah said "Isn't that Rythain's pickaxe".

"I think it might be. So Sky you say Lee won it of someone in a duel, did he say what they looked like." Sky went to say something when they heard a thud from the floor above.

Duncan, Lewis and Sky got their swords out and Lewis told Hannah and Kim to stay where they were while they checked it out. The three made their way up the slightly broken stairs and moved quickly but quietly to the doorway of the room where the thud came from.

"On three we attack" Sky and Duncan nodded. "One...Two...Three"! They ran into the room ready to attack. They skidded to a stop when they saw a seriously injured boy laying on the floor. "LEE" Sky ran over to him and fell beside him, lifting his head slightly, resting it on her knee. "What happened to you... Who did this"? She was in shock, he had a hole in his stomach from where a he had been shot.

"I dunno... I was walking through the desert trying to get as far away from my thought as I could then I heard something from behide a sand dune. I walked up to it, but before I got there, someone shot me. All I could think about was you Sky and how I acted like a massive jerk." He winced in pain but continued the story "I closed my eyes and then I felt myself teleporting somewhere, that when I fell over that box and you appeared with Duncan and... is that Lewis"?

"Yes, we found him, Hannah and Kim." Lee laughed and than winced in pain again "I never doubted you" Lee wiped a tear from Sky's cheek, "then why did you leave, this wouldn't of happened then, you wouldn't be dying"

"I had to, this is you destiny, not mine." He coughed in pain "Just remember that I will always be with you" and with he closed his eyes and took his last breath. "Lee...LEE don't leave me... Please". Sky was crying into Lee now, not wanting to let him go.

Hannah and Kim had come up now, after Lewis had told them it was clear. They didn't know what to say, but they all knew who had done this. "Lee please, I can't do this without you".

"We should leave her for a while, to morn" they all nodded and walked downstairs, apart from Duncan who looked back at Sky and walked over to her.

"Duncan, who could have done this, you must know" she looked up at him, tears still rolling down her face. "I have an idea who it could have been, but I don't think they knew they were doing it".

"Why would you think that"? Sky was confused by Duncan idea.

"Sips Co made this special mind control device that is implanted into the back on a persons neck. This means that Sips can control the persons actions and can make the person carry out plans."

Sky looked down and Lee's body, then up at Duncan, "So who did this to Lee then".

"Teep".