Whoah, I got horribly carried away by other things! Many, many apologies!

Anyhoos, after making stuff happen during dream sequences, I think it's time we got back to this, yes? Away the latest chapter of Legend!

Chapter 5: Past Phase 2

The group found themselves back in the clearing that they had arrived in the first time they had gone to the past. Almost without hesitation, Cecilia looked ahead of them before turning back to them.

"Okay, so apparently if we let that Nergal escape, then we're dead," said Maria. "It also appears that if we let the non-Kuranga dragon live, that won't be such a great thing either. And we're the only people that can go back in time too. I mean, I don't see anybody else here, so that must mean we're the ones that the crystal will send back in time."

"So down with both of them is what you're saying?" asked Calvin.

"Yeah, that sounds about right," said Ike. "Now we know where we need to go and what to do, so let's move!"

The group then ran off in the direction that they knew the great mountain temple to be in, and they promptly headed in that direction as quickly as they could.

As soon as Ike and his friends had made it all the way into the pathways on the temple, they thought they saw Roy's group rushing into the grand room in which the grand fight had taken place.

"My, they're already there!" cried the mercenary as he pointed at them. "Quick!"

"I just hope there's no pointless exposition when we get there!" replied Cecilia "I'm just tired of everything being handed to me on a silver plate!"

Maria shook her head, rolling her eyes as she held on to Ike's arm. "Oh, shut up," she said, trying to go a little slower to make up for the fact that she had been getting deeper into pregnancy lately.

The group then continued walking along the narrow walkways, eventually arriving at the point where the fight had started the last time they were there. However, they had gotten there just when the dragon that Kuranga had fought the last time they were there was shifting into her dragon form. Ike paused at the stairs, Cecilia and Maria stopping as Calvin managed to catch up while leading Fiordiligi to the room. The five of them then caught sight of the huge beast, all of them entering the room slowly as they waited for the beast to make the first move.

The dragon had indeed made the first move, breathing a grey mist into everybody that was already in the room. Everybody that was already in the room jumped to the side to dodge. Thankfully, the mist did not go far enough that it would affect Ike.

Seeing his opportunity, the mercenary of Tellius jumped into the room, Ragnell raised high as he leapt into the air with a yell. He managed to cut down the dragon's front, and he looked up as the smoke cleared.

"Wet de hell?" asked the all-too familiar voice of Willie. "Ike? Wet?"

Fiordiligi, whom had just been led into the room by Calvin, suddenly darted her head to the side upon hearing Willie's all-too familiar voice. "Willie?" she asked. "Did you just say an 'h' syllable?"

As the smoke cleared, Ike was able to see Willie turn around and tackle Fiordiligi to the ground. "Viordiligi!" cried the Cockney boy in less of an accent than Ike and the crew remembered. "Yer okay!"

"We don't have time to think about that!" said Cecilia as she rushed for the dragon. "We've still got this thing to take down!"

As the smoke cleared, the army under general Roy blinked in surprise. However, Kuranga, who had shifted into his own dragon form by this time, seemed to pay no mind. Ike leapt back, nodding at the dragon laguz before jumping in to attack the dark dragon again.

Shrugging, Roy decided to play along with this, and so he rushed into the battle as well.

Ike and Roy were then seen both slashing at the dragon quickly. The small force that Roy had brought over, as well as the group that Ike had brought with him were soon fighting against the dragon as well. Some of the people had to split away when suddenly a pair of dragons had been summoned, but overall things were going quite well for the small force that was there. The two subsidiary groups that had broken up were quick with dealing with the two dragons, and so the onslaught against the dark dragon herself continued quite quickly.

The group fighting against the dark dragon only took a few minutes to fight it. They still had a rather difficult time trying to dodge the many claw swipes that the dragon was sending its way, however. Even with this, they were slowly chipping away at its health.

The war dragons were going down very quickly, as well. Willie seemed to have claimed a new set of spells, and this helped immensely against both of the war dragons. The two groups facing off against the war dragons soon had then taken down, and then they rejoined the fight against the dark dragon herself.

With this onslaught of manpower, the dark dragon was beginning to get greatly overwhelmed. This was such that when the lord known as Roy stepped forward, everybody knew it was time for the dragon's death to occur.

However, just as Roy was about to land the finishing blow, a scream suddenly rang out within the room. All of the action seemed to stop, and right when Roy plunged the legendary Sword of Seals into the dark dragon, all heads turned to the center of the room.

There, a woman with blue hair seemed to be crumbled over herself, with a lone figure hovering above her. The look on his face exuded evil, and it was at the long flowing black tunics that Ike scowled.

Roy had turned around very quickly as soon as he drew the blade from within the dark dragon. Seeing the woman down on the ground, however, he let out a scream of fright.

"Lilina!" cried the young lord loudly. "No!"

He then leapt towards the blue haired woman. Ike suddenly seemed to realize that this woman seemed to have some significance on Roy.

Oh, dear... he thought. That can't be good...

"Hey!" cried Willie at the robed man. "Wet de hell was dat for?"

"Shut up, you impudent brat!" shouted the man angrily, holding out a sphere of black magic at the boy. "I'll have you know that it does not really matter!"

"You...!" exclaimed Cecilia as all heads turned to the man in the center of the room. "You don't talk like that and expect to get away with it!"

"Besides, we're not going to let you take over the world!" shouted Ike, holding up Ragnell as he spoke.

The undead man smiled wickedly at the mercenary. "Ah, but see, you don't know everything that could change the future..." he said menacingly. "And may I remind you that you only have six more tries to get it right?"

Willie glanced confusedly to his friends from Greljedo. "Wet's he talkin' about?" he asked.

"It... it won't matter in a bit, Willie," replied Maria as she gulped nervously. "You'll see what I mean."

"And you only know the basics. Why don't I get you acquainted with the outside elements?" asked the man Ike knew was definitely Nergal with acid oozing from his voice.

"You'll do that over my dead body!" cried Ike.

And with this, he rushed forward, moving to slash at the evil man in front of him.

you have no chance make your time

Crap... thought Ike as his slash missed.

However, Fiordiligi was quick to act. Seizing the opportunity to do so, the capturing circle appeared under Nergal. And just like the first time, the evil magician simply disappeared into thin air, only to teleport to the other end of the room.

This time, Willie was not ready to throw a fireball at the evil magician. However, Kuranga was directly over head. Before he could breathe on the magician, however, Nergal had teleported next to Roy, who was still in shock over the death of the lady.

"I'll collect my prize then," he said, waving his hand in front of the Lycian lord.

And as he teleported away, he laughed maniacally.

It was what Roy did next that scared everybody, however. He slowly stood up, and then he gazed at the assembled warriors, his eyes blank as he looked at them.

"Oh, shi--!"

And before Cecilia could comment further, the familiar blackness took over Ike's being.