"He snapped," Lloyd said, as he and Raven watched Meir walking towards the city.
"Losing Akemi was his final trigger," Raven said.
"Where is Akemi now? Isn't she supposed to stop him?" Lloyd asked.
"Let's go find her, quickly," Raven said, and Lloyd nodded in agreement.
The two quickly flew straight for the temple, as they entered the building.
"These weapons are pretty cool," Kaage said, as he waved his Platinum scimitar.
"Yes. I can feel the power within the weapons linking with my own," Belia said, as she looked at her Platinum shurikens.
"They're amazing!" Rai said, as he swirled his Platinum nunchunks in the air.
"Careful that you don't knock your face out," Adara said, as she was examining her Platinum sword.
"Extraordinary indeed," Nami said, as she examined the orb on her Platinum Staff.
"Interesting," Lerato said, as he was looking at the Platinum Gauntlets on his hands.
"Hm... I can fight, and keep cool," Makani said, as she fanned herself with her Platinum Fans.
"Nice," Peter said, as he looked at his reflection through the blade of his Platinum scythe.
"These weapons belong to you guys until you can master your powers. Of course, you may be able to keep them since your the only ones who can really use them," Garen said.
"That's nice, but where are Akemi and Meir? Aren't they supposed to help us too?" Adara asked.
"I'm not sure if Meir is going to come. He seemed out of it when I saw him in my village," Rai said.
"You saw him? Then you must have seen his fangs and tongue right?" Peter asked Rai.
"Yeah I did. It was weird, but pretty cool. Although, I don't think he thinks the same way," Rai replied.
"Fangs? What are you two talking about?" Adara asked.
"Meir came to your villages?" Belia asked.
As Peter and Rai described what happened with Meir to the other Leaders, Garen was concerned about where Elder Vidur, Akemi, and Meir were. Then he heard light mumbling in the next room behind the curtain, as he turned and entered the room.
This smaller room was where the staircase to the basement used to be. The room had Platinum stone walls, and a white ceiling and gray ground. There was a green carpet with purple trimming that led from the center of the flat wall where the entrance is on one side, to the center of the round wall on the other side. However, on the round side stood two stands; one of silver and one of gold, that stood about a foot away from each other. On the Silver stand stood a glowing purple orb, while on the Golden stand stood a glowing green orb. Garen noticed that a few of the temple guard ladies were in the room, while Akemi stood sitting on a step that was made around the stands, while covering her face with her hands and sobbing.
Lloyd and Raven entered the room, as they were somewhat surprised to see Akemi, but they gasped when they saw the two orbs.
"T-The Viporean Pearl- I mean, the Purple Ninja's orb!" Raven said, when she recognized the small purple orb.
Then they both looked at the green orb, which was similar to the Purple Ninja's orb.
"Raven... is that green orb what I think it is?" Lloyd asked her.
"I think it is Lloyd... I think it's the Green Ninja's orb. It looks like the Purple Ninja's," Raven said.
"But if there was a Green Ninja's orb, where is it?" Lloyd asked, and Raven shook her head, not knowing.
"Akemi? You were here the whole time... What happened? What's wrong?" Garen asked, as he stood a few feet away from Akemi since she was still crying.
Jetta, who wore a hood that covered her eyes and had her hand on Akemi's shoulder replied,
"Meir has done something terrible, but before Akemi could help him, Elder Vidur found out and he got involved. Now Meir is to be banished to the land below, and Akemi may not be able to see him often enough to help him."
"What? What did he do?" Garen asked, while Jetta turned her head away from him and replied,
"His father had been slayed by his son's blade."
After a moment of thinking it over, Garen gasped and said, "What?! Why?!"
"Vengeance," Jetta replied and added, "But I fear that this will take a heavier toll on Meir's heart than just the guilt of his actions."
Garen looked towards the weeping Akemi with sadness, and he signed. Then he said,
"I'm sorry Akemi... wait, I have to inform the other Leaders. They were already discussing Meir's strange behavior when he went to Peter and Rai's villages."
Garen quickly left the room to inform the other Leaders, while the three temple guard ladies focused their attention back on Akemi.
Then Lloyd and Raven decided to leave the temple to find Meir.
"Let's see what he's been doing," Lloyd said, and Raven nodded.
After flying around Aeroplane, Lloyd and Raven found Meir, as he was slowly walking through the streets of Aeroplane, heading towards the temple. Lloyd and Raven moved a little closer to Meir, as they noticed that his pupils were still red, although his hair was mostly over his eyes.
"Hey Meir! I mean, Purple Ninja, you came back," a random dude said, as he stood a few feet in front of Meir, as other people walking around looked towards him.
"..." Meir didn't say anything, as he stopped walking.
"Hey, dude, are you okay?" The random dude asked Meir, as he stepped closer to him.
"..." Meir still didn't speak, as the people watching them were growing curious.
"Hey, what's the matter? Snake got your tongue?" The random dude asked.
Then the random dude started choking as Meir grabbed his neck with one hand, while the other people around gasped. Meir lifted his head up, as his hair moved away from his eyes to reveal his red pupils, and he said,
"Ssssomething like that."
Then Meir released the random dude's neck, as he quickly moved his other hand and used wind to blow the man out of his way. Two people caught the dude before he hit a wall. The people looked at Meir in nervousness, as he closed his eyes. Then Meir lifted his hands halfway up, as dark silver energy charged up in his hands with smoke rising up, as the people gasped and stepped back. Meir opened his eyes and he looked around at the people, as a devious grin began to form on his face.
"Run cowardss," Meir said, and then the people started running away while screaming.
"... Heh heh... Ha ha... Hahaha... Hahahahaha. Ah hahahahahahaha! HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Meir laughed, as his eyes fully changed red.
"No..." Raven whispered, as she held onto Lloyd's arm.
"He's Darkness now," Lloyd said, as he placed his free hand on Raven's hand.
'I'll blow them away... I'll blow them all away. Then there will be no law, and Akemi and I can be together... forever,' Meir thought, although Lloyd and Raven were able to hear that thought.
Then Meir shot a beam of dark silver at the top of one of the buildings and cut a chunk of it off. As the chunk fell off and crashed onto the ground, Meir shot a ball of dark silver at another building, as it blew up in front of it and the whole wall came crumbling down. The people in the building started running, as a guy in a bathtub opened his eyes and screamed in high pitched terror as he grabbed a towel and covered himself to run away.
As Meir laughed and continued to attack the buildings, he didn't notice that a group of people were sneaking over towards him. Then, when Meir threw a ball of dark water at a man and woman who fell over, Nami jumped in front of it, and redirected the attack upward with her staff. The man and woman got up and continued running after saying thank you to Nami.
Meir arched an eyebrow when he saw Nami, and then he half-closed his eyes when the other Leaders jumped out and stood a few feet away from him.
"Meir! What are you doing? Have you lost your mind?" Lerato asked.
"Why are you attacking everyone? What did they do to you?" Makani asked.
"It's not like they lied and hurt you," Kaage said.
"... so you all know?" Meir asked, with a stoic expression.
"Yes Meir. We do, and we want to help you," Nami said.
Meir chuckled and said, "Do you guys really think that you can help me now? I already slayed my father and am banished from Aeroplane by Vidur. I also got him out of my way just like how I'm going to get this city and it's people out of my way!"
The Leaders gasped.
"Meir don't! We know that your not normal like us, but it doesn't make a difference," Peter said.
"Yeah man. Your not any less human than the rest of us. We still like you," Rai added.
"Your sudden burst of insanity is understandable, but just calm down and we can talk about this," Belia said.
"All we want to do is talk Meir," Adara said.
After a moment of silence, Meir smirked and said, "If that was the case, then why did you all bring your weapons... drawn?"
"We only brought them because we just got them. We didn't come to fight," Lerato said.
"Heh heh heh. But I do," Meir said, as he charged more dark silver energy into his arms.
The Leaders looked at one another in surprise, while Lerato looked downward and signed. Then the leaders looked towards Lerato for a decision, as he glanced towards them, and then he looked forward. He looked at Meir more intensely, as Meir smiled more devious and anxiously at him.
"Fine then. You want a fight? Then we'll give you one! Maybe then you'll see the light!" Lerato said, as he curled his hands wearing the Gauntlets into fist while they were glowing yellow.
The other Mountain leaders readied themselves to fight, as their weapons started glowing their own colors too.
"Or maybe you'll see the dark... and tremble!" Meir shouted, as he ran forward, while the Mountain leaders jumped at him.