Chapter 6: The Wrong Hands

She is standing outside, waiting for the eclipse to end. As constantly looked at her watched she noticed that the eclipse is the longest ever, three hours had past and the moon is still in front of the sun. She run into the house and dialed a number. Soon someone answered

"Hallo" a male voice said.

"Dewald, it me Irene we have a problem" she said

"Let me guess it has something to do with the eclipse" Dewald said

"Yes, I think it's time" Irene answered

"Must I get the brothers ready?" Dewald asked

"Yes, meet me at the Castle in less than hour." Irene said and hanged up the phone. She places the phone back in her pocket and transported herself some miles away from the Castle.

From far she could see a fight, with her night vision she could make out who is fighting who. She gasped when she noticed a man floating above the fight. As she looked to the Castle doors that opened, she heard foots steps behind her.

"We are here" a male voice said standing next to her, she looked at him

"Well, the Lux Veritatis is also here." She said pointing to the doors of the castle, two figures came out. Dewald looked and sees the two.

"Kurtis" he said

"Yes, and I think he has rebuild his order." She said

"Those warriors fighting the Nephilims" Dewald laughed "He should've come to us."

"He's not gonna do that, Dewald. He's just like his father" She said.

"That woman next to him" Dewald pointed out "Isn't that the famous adventurer, Lara Croft."

Irene looks again and sighted "it looks like her" she answered "Kurtis did pick the best fighter. She can kick-ass"

"Must we go and help" Dewald asked

"Yes, we must, this battle is going nowhere." She answered

Dewald turned to the people behind him and said "You heard the Master; we must stop this battle now" he said and with that they started walking down to the Castle.

Kurtis and Lara had exited the building; Lara looked around for Karel as Kurtis looked in the distance. He noticed a crowd of people heading their way. "Lara" Kurtis said and Lara looked at what he looked at

"Who are they?" she asked

"They are the cras pópuli" Kurtis answered and looked at Lara

"And they are?" Lara asked.

"They are like the Lux Veritatis but they have more abilities then we have." Kurtis answered.

The group stopped inches away from them, Irene and Dewald is in front of the group. "Kurtis, this war has gone onto long" Irene said stepping closer to him

"We have the Shard" Lara said

"Irene, we can use all the help we can get." Kurtis said

"So, you want us to help" Dewald said but Irene place her hand up in front of him, to be silence.

"We will fight and keep them away from you two, just go kill that bastard" Irene said and pointed up. Kurtis and Lara looked up and sees Karel floating above the war. They looked back at Irene and nodded to her. "Very well" Irene said and turned around to face her order. "We will fight these creatures until the very last one falls." She said

"Let's fight" Dewald said and run off, with the group behind him, Irene looked at Kurtis and Lara

"We will have your back now go" she said and followed the group.

Kurtis turned to Lara, and embraced her. She hugged him back and wondered why he just did that then she heard him whisper in her ear. "Lara, I love you" and she looked him in his blue eyes "I love you too, Kurtis." He broke the embrace and looked at her arm that at the symbol on it.

"For now, you will have half of my powers" he said, and she looked at him

"Let's do this then" she said and then walked off to Karel's direction. Killing Nephilims in their way.

When they arrived Karel came down to face them "So Kurtis Trent is back after his little girlfriend saved his life" Karel said in sarcasm.

"You're going down" Lara said and threw an energy bolt at him, he didn't see it come and it hit him hard, making him fall to the ground. He quickly got up and run up to her, but Kurtis jumped in front of him and threw him back. Wielding his Chirugai, Kurtis sent it toward Karel but somehow Karel managed to control it and threw it to the ground. He then attacked Kurtis while Lara turned her attention to a Nephilim who wanted to stab her. She made the creature fly backward and then she focused back on Karel, he is busy fighting Kurtis, slamming fists at each other, She sees the Chirugai and she wielded it, which is only lying a few meters away from her. She quickly made it spin and stabbed Karel in his back, but she is then taken by surprise. She expected him to scream in pain and fall but he did nothing, he turned around smiling devilishly at her. Then he hit Lara and she fell to the ground. After throwing the Chirugai away, he took the Shard out of her pocket.

Kurtis is lying on the ground in so much pain but sees Karel with the shard in his hand.

"No" Kurtis screamed trying to get up.

"We finally have the shard, it's over mortal, indeed its over for your kind" he said to Lara who tried to get up as she stared at him. He then attempted to destroy the shard, the only powerful weapon that could kill him.

His try is unsuccessful as Irene hit him on the head, making him drop the shard. Karel turned to face her. Irene looked at him in rage and pushed him to the ground hard with a powerful force but he never touched it. He had turned her energy and threw it back to her, sending her flying backward.

Kurtis tried to run towards Lara in order to help her, but he is prevented by an invisible force. Lara immediately stood up and ran to find the shard as Kurtis tried to get out of the force field. He looked at Karel in anger as he used his own powers to break the field, but it is no use. Karel then threw Kurtis to the ground, so hard that he couldn't get up.

Lara searched for the shard, trying to avoid the dead soldiers of both sides that were fallen on the ground. The violent fight between the two sides incommoded Lara's task, but she finally found the shard. The only soldiers that isn't falling is the cras pópuli's. She didn't understand what is going on with that order, but she had the shard and she could end Karel's life.

As Lara got up, a hand grabbed her throat and picked her up from the ground. She dropped the shard again, trying to free herself from the hands that were holding her.

"Let her go, I have what I want." Karel said behind the man who had picked up Lara. Lara fell to the ground after he lets her throat go. She breathed heavily as she looked up in sadness to see that the shard is in the wrong hands. Karel stood in front of her, Kurtis and Irene are on the ground unconscious just a few steps away from Karel, full of blood and wounds. Things weren't going well for them.

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cras pópuli - Tomorrow people