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©Virtual Reality Rush: The Shadow Tyrant-  Grant Kauppi

On the first day of summer the sun rose and shined its light in the room of the thirteen year old hero Torrado. When the sun reached Torrado’s face and hit his eyes he awoke very slowly. He brushed his blonde hair out of his face and his blue eyes shone glimmering in the sun light.

“Huh?” Torrado said blinking awake. “Oh! I forgot it is the first day of summer vacation! Whoo-hoo lets party!”

Torrado jumped out of bed and gazed around his room. His room is a medium sized room with a huge window on the east side of the room. And on the south side of his room he has a huge closet filled with copies of the clothes he wears, you know a scarlet red cloak (that has a hood, but he hardly ever wears it), blue jeans and a black t-shirt. On the north side is his computer place where he talks to his best friends Ziyran and Farin. And on the west side is his king sized bed.

“Oh yeah I need to talk to Ziyran and Farin!” Torrado said jumping. He ran toward his closet and leaped in. He took of his pajamas and quickly put on his t-shirt and jeans and on top of that was his cloak waving as he flung it around his neck and tied it.

Then he ran towards his computer and booted it up. Right as when he saw the screen light up he accessed the talk’onet.
“Ziyran? Farin? You guys there?” Torrado spoke into his head set.


“About time you got on here mister,” Came Ziyran’s deep cool voice and a screen popped up and showed his face. He had medium length brown hair that was all messy and it made him look like he just crawled out of bed. He wasn’t wearing his normal Trinity Robes that were all colorful. His green eyes were shining from the sun too.

“Yeah, seriously! Took you long enough” Farin’s soft sweet voice spoke, then once again a screen popped up and Farin’s face appeared. Her blonde beautiful hair was straight and not in her normal ponytail that she usually wore. Her soft blue eyes always shone brilliantly in the light.

“Sorry guys guess I’m not used of getting up on non-school days!” Torrado said rubbing the back of his head.

“I don’t blame you; I just got up as you can see...” Ziyran said rolling back his chair and showing that he too was still wearing his Pajamas.

“Well I was practically dragged out of bed and forced to do my chores!” Farin said flustered.

“Well anyways I’m sorry I keep you guys waiting” Torrado said lowering his head.

“Well let’s get back to this subject later” Ziyran said rolling back to his place.

“Yeah, what did you want to talk to us about?” Farin said.

“Well I was thinking you guys could come over for awhile and hang around.” Torrado said raising his head again.

“Yeah, sounds great, but I need to ask my parents first” Ziyran and Farin said in unison.

“Oh I need to ask my dad too...” Torrado replied

“Well...” Ziyran started

“Around when?” Farin said taking Ziyran’s words.

“Probably about two o’ clock. Well, talk to you later” Torrado said logging off.

“Bye!” Farin and Ziyran said logging off also.

Torrado spun around in his chair and jumped off. He walked to his door which was right next to his bed and walked out. When he closed his door he turned and walked down this pretty big hall and to the stairs.

When he reached the living room he turned and entered his kitchen (since that is where his dad is usually at in the morning reading the paper and drink a cup of hand made coffee).

“Well good morning son! I thought you were a dead man for a second” Torrado’s dad said smirking.

“Umm I have something to ask you dad...” Torrado said rubbing his shoulder. “Can Farin and Ziyran come over today at two o’ clock?” Torrado asked flinching a little cause he was expecting his dad to explode.

“Sure sounds great” Torrado’s dad said focusing on the paper.

“Awesome! Thanks dad” Torrado turned and ran for his room.
* * *
At two the door bell rang and Torrado ran from his room all the way down stairs to answer it. When he opened it Farin and Ziyran were standing there. Ziyran had his normal wizard Trinity robe on with the hat and cape. And Farin had her normal out fit on her white mage cape and boots and her scarlet red tank top on with her olive green capris.
“Well hey there. Did you guys bring your weapons to practice with?” Torrado asked leaning on the door. He remembered his teacher told them to practice over the break because when they get back he’ll be the principal and make every teacher hold tournaments.

“Well I don’t have a weapon but I did study my spells” Ziyran said standing there relaxing his feet by levitating.

“Yup, I brought my bow and arrows.” Farin smiled.

“Good now we can go out...” Torrado was cut off by a big crack of thunder. “No!” Torrado said falling to his knees.

“Well sorry kids but it looks like you can’t go outside right now” Came Torrado’s dad’s voice.

“Thanks for the update dad” Torrado said under his breath.

“Well I guess we can just explore your house a little. If that sounds fun...” Ziyran said running in the house and Farin following.

“Or we can just go up to your room and play on the computer.” Farin said cocking her head so her blonde pony tail fell that way.

“I suppose let’s go.” Torrado said walking towards the stairs and gesturing the other two to follow him up.

So the group was all laying around Torrado’s room just talking and frequently going on the talk’onet to check out what was happening with there school friends. And all the time in between they spent staring out Torrado’s huge window hoping that the rain would let up soon so they could go and train outside in the back. While they were sitting around the window more than often they caught themselves singing rain, rain go away come again another day. But that never worked.

Then a huge bolt of lightning lit up the sky and the bolt then caused the power to go out and they once again just started laying on his bed singing: rain, rain go away come again another day.

“Ugh! I’m boarded out of my mind here!” Torrado said sitting up.

“Me too I’m practically oozing boredom out of my head!” Ziyran said standing up.

“That was boredom? I thought it was rain” Farin said scrambling up.

“Well let’s go with Ziyran’s idea lets explore my house!” Torrado said jumping out of bed. He wanted to explore because his dad set up all these boundaries in his house.

“Anything is better than sitting around.” Farin said smiling even though it was hardly noticeable in the pitch blackness.

“Come on!” Torrado said jumping off his bed and walking toward the door.

“Coming!” Farin said following Torrado’s voice.

“Hey wait for me!” Ziyran said running after them. But Ziyran turned too soon and crashed into the wall, and fell back on his back.

Torrado walked in and dragged Ziyran out of the room. First the group made their way down to the kitchen to get three flashlights. When they found three flashlights they turned them on and made there way back up stairs.

The group looked around a little and found two things a trap door Torrado fell in which lead to the basement, and they also found a mini workshop next to Torrado’s dad’s room. After that they walked around a little more and found a huge door that only Farin noticed at first.

“What’s that?” Farin said turning her flashlight towards the door. “Has that always been there?”

Torrado walked backed and looked at it. “I don’t know, I’ve never noticed it before!” Torrado said aiming his flashlight toward the door too.

“What’s the hold up?” Ziyran said running back.

“That!” Farin said turning Ziyran’s head the way Torrado and she was looking.

“Huh?” Ziyran then turned his flashlight and pointed at the door. “I say we check it out!” Ziyran said running toward it.

Ziyran then tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge. Then he blasted a few spells at it but it still didn’t open.

“I have an idea!” Torrado said. He then turned and ran back toward his room. When he got half way there he fell through the trap door again and Farin and Ziyran (who could see him) just slapped their heads.

About fifteen minutes later Torrado ran back holding his and Farin’s weapons. When he reached Farin and Ziyran he said: “I got our weapons Farin!”

“Yay! Now we can bust open this door!” Farin loaded 5 arrows in the knock and was ready to fire.

“You read my mind Farin! Ok Ziyran when I say go shot your strongest spell at the door Farin will shot her arrows and I’ll slash at it!” Torrado ran towards the door and said: “GO!”

Farin shot her arrows that were in her knock at the door and Ziyran blasted the door with a fire blast spell, and Torrado franticly slashed the door. Then slowly but surly the door creaked open.

“Yes, it is open baby!” Torrado said jumping up and putting his sword away in its hilt.

“I knew we could do it!” Farin put her bow in its holder on her back next to her arrows. Then without thinking she ran up to Torrado and gave him a bear hug, and he hugged her back. When she realized what she was doing she jumped back and said: “ummm... sorry” and she blushed.

“It is ok” Torrado said clearing his throat and blushing also.

“Hey it may be dark but I can still see you!” Ziyran said waving his hands and shining the flashlight at the two.

“Calm down Ziyran!” Torrado yelled.

“Uh... guys can we just check in the room please?” Farin said interrupting the two boy’s argument.

“Yeah why not?” Torrado said turning to Farin.

“Sure, lets go in I’d like to see what is in this mysterious room” Ziyran said walking in through the door.

“Come on Farin lets go” Torrado said running into the room after Ziyran.

Farin followed them in but she didn’t run she walked carefully in. She was worried what was in there. So she walked in holding the flashlight in front of her. Wonder what is in there? It could be like gold or something! But what if it is like a torture room? I don’t know Farin thought. Farin’s mind was racing with thoughts of what could be in the room. I guess I’ll never know by waiting out here! But still thoughts evil and good things alike kept haunting her until...

“Farin come on in we need an extra flashlight in here!” Torrado said popping his head from the room.

“Oh! Sorry I’m coming.” Farin then ran in.

When she entered the room something came over her, but she couldn’t quite figure out what it was. She thought it was coldness but it felt more than ice than anything.

“Farin shine your light over here,” Ziyran’s voice came.

While she walked over to where she heard him, she shone her light every which way and she saw the most peculiar things. Like big pieces of machinery with cords of different colors hanging off of them. And some times she saw helmets hanging from the ceiling and sometimes she even ran into huge plugs that she tripped over. The room and all its items in it confused her because the room seemed small. But when she walked in the room seemed to jump up to a growing spree. What really puzzled her was how tall the ceiling was compared to the outside. Plus all the crazy shaped metal in that room.

“Farin! Where are you?” Torrado’s voice came from afar.

“Coming! Clam your little horses down!” Farin said taking off in a run towards the voice of Torrado.

When she reached them she saw the two boys standing at an odd capsule shaped machines.

“What is that?” Farin asked shining her light on the capsule.

“We don’t know that is why we asked you to get over here and give us more illumination on these!” Torrado said turning to Farin.

“Hey guys I found a little control box thing over here!” Ziyran said try to get the others attention.

“Really, where?” Farin said shining her light towards the voice of Ziyran.

“Right here” Ziyran said waving his light in the air.

Torrado and Farin ran over to check out the control box Ziyran said he saw over there. When they reached Ziyran they saw the control box. It was a rectangle shape with levers and buttons.

“This is odd, this looks like the control dad gave me for Christmas last year.” Torrado said touching the control box. “Hmm...” Torrado studied the control box up and down and didn’t miss one detail. “That is because it is! I wondered where it went” Torrado said trying to grab it and take it off. After a while Torrado gave up.

“I never noticed this button before!” Torrado saw a huge red button on the control box.

“Wonder what it does... Press it!” Ziyran said hitting the table next to the control box.

“Yeah!” Farin said jumping.

“Ok... I guess...” Torrado said lifting his finger from his side to press it.

When he reached it he pressed it down with great force. Then all of the sudden the contraptions sprang alive even the capsules.

The capsules seemed like they were the most effected when Torrado pressed the button, the reason why was when the room came to life the capsules started to move around and giant claws appeared from the sides. Then the capsule grabbed Ziyran with its huge claw a flung him into one of the capsules. Then another claw came and grabbed Torrado and flung him into one of the capsules. Then finally the last capsule grabbed Farin and flung her into the capsule. Then in the capsules they panicked. When the group was freaking out head bands came from the wall behind there heads and attached to them. After that lightning shocked the three and they passed out...

When they awoke again they found them selves lying in a desert of some sort.

“Ugh! What happened?” Ziyran said sitting up rubbing his head.

“The real question is where are we?” Torrado said getting up and dusting his clothes off.

“Huh?” Farin said come back from her unconscious state.

The group was sitting in the desert cross legged position thinking of what could have taken them to this strange place.

“The capsules!” Torrado said standing up.

“But, how could have the capsules taken us to a desert?” Ziyran said standing up also.

“Guys this is getting way hot out here!” Farin said jumping up from her crossed legged position.

“Yeah, it does feel hotter out here,” Torrado said rubbing the sweat off his head.

“Hey look at that!” Ziyran said pointing left.

“Huh?” Torrado and Farin said looking that way.

The group saw people, but they looked like people on fire. They had reddish orange-yellow colored skin. They also had like a fire for hair. One of the strange creatures turned and said: “What are you staring at? It is like you have never seen a sun being before!”

“Hey they are in our territory! Those creatures are supposed to be in the northern lands!” The other sun being said.

“Hey you are right! What are you doing in sun desert?” The first one said aiming it for Torrado.

“Uhh... That is kind of what we are trying to figure out.” Torrado said wiping his head.

“Well if we find your kind in our territory we have permission to kill you!” the second sun being said pulling out a sun blade.

“Hey we are not looking for trouble!” Ziyran said holding his hands up.

“Well too bad you got some!” The first sun being said pulling his sun blade out.

“Torrado! Look out!” Farin screamed.

“Huh? AHH!” Said Torrado jumping from the first sun beings blow to the head.

“Aww... you missed Red Hot!” The second sun being said drooping down.

“Don’t worry Little Steamy, I’ll get’em this time!” Red Hot said to the second sun being.

“Hey leave us alone!” Ziyran said holding his fist up to Red Hot.

“Hey, Ziyran, if they wanna fight we’ll fight back!” Torrado said pulling his sword from its hilt.

“What ever dude” Ziyran said getting ready to charge a spell.

“Ready when you are guys are!” Farin said pulling out her bow and loading arrows.

So the fight between the two groups started. Red Hot ran towards Ziyran holding out his sword for a lunge strike. Ziyran flew up and blasted Red Hot with a “Blizzard” spell, Red Hot flew far before he hit a rock.

“RED HOT!” Little Steamy said turning to face Red Hot. “Grrrr, I’ll get you for that!” Little Steamy then turned and faced the group and charged at Torrado with his sword out like Red Hot did for a lunge strike.

“Whoa calm down there!” Torrado said holding out his sword for a block.

When Little Steamy reached Torrado they clashed to see who had more brute strength, by pushing each other back. When Torrado felt Little Steamy let up a little he slashed his sword up to send Little Steamy flying up. When he reached Torrado’s level Torrado struck by jumping back a little and slashing real fast and powerful to send him flying the same way Red Hot went.

“Take this too!” Farin said shooting her arrows at the two sun beings. The arrows hit directly on her targets she was aiming for.

“Ugh!” The two sun beings said falling from the rock knocked out.

“We let you go easy this time!” Ziyran said glaring at the two knocked out sun beings.

“Whoa we didn’t even try!” Torrado said smiling.

Then the ground started to shake. Then a big explosion of sand puffed up in front of the group and a faint shape could be seen in the sand explosion.

“What the heck?” Torrado cried.

“Hey it feels cooler now!” Torrado said while he was waiting for the sand to clear up.

“Duh! The sun beings were making hotter and now that they are knocked out it cooled. And it is just in time because look!” Ziyran said pointing alarmed. Then two giant claws appeared from behind the wall of sand.

“Oh my gosh! We need to fight more?” Farin said.

“Yeah, and I guess it is good because this seems like it is going to be a long fight” Torrado said holding his sword in a battle ready position.

Then the sand cleared and a giant scorpion appeared. The scorpion was blood red with eyes like the flames of the underworld. The claws were an inky black color with a blood color at the tip of the claws. The tail was the most horrifying thing you could have ever seen because it was inky black with a tint of blood red, and poison from his tail dripped ready for a victim to inject his deadly poison into.

“AHH!” The group screamed dropping their weapons.

“Click clack snickle whack!” The scorpion said in its weird language.

The scorpion then swung its giant claws towards Torrado and his companions. They quickly jumped out of the way while grabbing their weapons in the process.

“Guys we are going to die!” Ziyran said shaking.

“Calm down, I think it’s trying to pick a fight.” Torrado said holding his weapon up again in the same battle position.

“Another fight?” Ziyran said longingly.

“Told you so!” Farin said loading arrows in her knock.

The scorpion ran towards the heroes with its claws out ready to crush anything in their path.

“Brace yourselves!” Torrado said aiming it towards his companions.

Farin and Ziyran nodded. The scorpion ran faster and faster until it came within about 12 feet of the group.

Farin jumped out of the rampaging scorpion’s path and shoot a couple of arrows at the eyes. Torrado dove out of the way and tried to slash the scorpion but the slash was no good it only made a scratch in the scorpion’s body like armor. Ziyran flew up out of the way and caste a blizzard spell at the scorpion. Farin’s arrows didn’t cause any damage what so ever. But Ziyran’s blizzard spell rammed the scorpion into the sand.

“Hey I saved the day!” Ziyran gloated.

A claw busted from the sand and grabbed Ziyran and flung him.

“Ahhh!” Ziyran said flying through the air. He flew about ten feet until he crashed into a rock, and made a huge crater. “Ow my aching head, nose, spine, foot....” Ziyran said lying in the crater he made.

“Ziyran!” Farin said holding her hand out. Then she felt a tingling feeling in her hand and a burst of green wind flew out towards Ziyran.

The green wind hit Ziyran and woke him up feeling great.

“I’m ok guys!” Ziyran said flying up.

“Huh? I just caste cure!” Farin said looking at her hand.

“Uhh... That is cool and all but help!” Torrado said in the scorpion’s right claw.

“Torrado!” Farin and Ziyran said in unison.

Farin loaded arrows and Ziyran started to chant a thunder spell while flying towards the fight.

Farin released her arrows and Ziyran successfully cast thunder. The arrows flew at a super fast speed and a thunder cloud appeared over the scorpion. The arrows landed a direct hit on the right claw and stuck in the claw.

The thunder cloud shocked the scorpion and the right claw fell off. The claw landed, and Torrado broke out of the claw.

“Thanks guys” Torrado said running over to his friends.

“Don’t...” Ziyran started.

“...Mention it!” Farin finished smiling.

“Let’s talk later now we need to finish this over sized scorpion off!” Torrado said turning and running toward the wounded scorpion.

“Ok” Ziyran said chasing after Torrado.

Farin looked at the claw and an idea came into mind.

“Hey guys!” Farin said trying to get the two’s attention.

Torrado and Ziyran turned: “What?” the two asked.

“I have an idea!” Farin said pointing at the claw.

“I get what you are saying!” Torrado said running back.

“She didn’t say anything!” Ziyran said turning around too.

“Ziyran levitate that claw!” Torrado stated.

“Ok, but I don’t know where you are going with this,” Ziyran said holding his hand out and lifting the claw from the ground.

“Good!” Torrado said leaping off the ground and doing and uppercut slash to make the claw soar into the sky.

Farin jumped onto the claw and put an arrow in her knock. The arrow almost immediately grew into a huge blue laser like arrow.

Torrado landed on the ground and jumped back up. He reached the level of the claw and slashed it to sending it screaming through the air. Farin stayed on the claw and stood idle. Then when the claw reached the scorpion Farin shot her arrow and jumped off. The laser arrow and the claw slammed into the scorpion and sent it soaring.

The scorpion landed and a big puff of sand shot up into the sky. The scorpion sank into the sand very slowly.

“Oh yeah, we are unbeatable!” Ziyran said doing a weird little dance.

“Gosh, I have had enough of this desert!” Torrado said putting his sword away.

“Why? We’ve just had two victories!” Ziyran said stopping his dance.

“We just got attacked two times right out of the blue!” Torrado said aggravated.

“Hey Torrado, we beat those obstacles!” Farin said placing her hand on Torrado’s shoulder.

“Oh well lets just try and find a town or something cause I’m beat!” Ziyran said.

“Ok let’s just keep walking straight.” Torrado said turning and walking the opposite direction. Farin and Ziyran followed Torrado.

What seemed like hours went by. But the group kept walking in the same direction they started in. The sun came and went from behind the clouds that were only little slivers.

“Goodness gracious!” Farin said agitated.

“Calm down I think we....” Torrado started and fell on his face.

“Torrado!” Farin yelled running towards the felled Torrado.

“Something is...” Ziyran started and fell flat on his face too.

“Ziyran?” Farin said concerned.

“Help!” Farin yelled. “Someone help!” Farin said. Tears formed in her eyes. Oh my gosh we are not going to make out of this desert alive! Farin thought.

***

The sun set over the mountains and Farin was sleeping in between the two unconscious boys. And then two very familiar sun beings walked up to them.

“Red Hot look!” Little Steamy said looking at the group.

“Hey what do you know it is those three tough guys that beat us today” Red Hot said walking over to Little Steamy.

“What should we do with them?” Little Steamy said kneeling down next to Farin to see if she was still breathing.

“I say we destroy them!” Red Hot said forming a fire ball in his hands.

“The girl is still breathing” Little Steamy said moving to Torrado.

“Did you hear me?” Red Hot said forming a bigger fire ball.

“Yeah, something about... something. Oh my gosh he isn’t breathing much, a-a-and neither is the other guy!” Little Steamy said jumping up upset.

“Seems like they have Sun Fever! Hahahaha!” Red Hot said content. “Leave’em Little Steamy.” Red Hot then turned away.

“I thought sun beings were supposed to be nice to all living things” Came a dwarfish voice.

“Huh? Dant!” Red Hot hissed.

“Yeah it is me!” Dant stepped out into the moonlight. Dant had hiking like shoes on and his pants were an olive green color. His shirt was a tan color that was like mixed with a dirt color. He had a small brown beard and he had a little brown hair on his head. His eyes were a crystal like color

The sun beings got scared and ran off into the darkness (even though wherever they went light was all around them).

Dant then looked down and saw the small party lying around. “Uh-oh...” Dant felt Torrado’s, Ziyran’s and Farin’s head.

“Oh no! They all have sun fever! Even though the girl seems like she just caught it, got to get them to Dwarfeinhiem.” Dant grabbed the party and walked north.

Torrado woke up the next morning to find him in a small room with a cool wash cloth on his head.

“Huh?” Torrado said sitting up.

Torrado looked around and saw a small room with one little window in the corner of the ceiling. He was lying in a dwarf sized bed with a rag of covers kicked over.

“Where am I?” Torrado said to himself.

“Oh good you are up!” came a small sweet voice from the door.

Torrado turned and saw a small woman with a bucket of cold water. She had brownish hair and her eyes were a bluish purple color. “Um, who are you?” Torrado asked studying the little lady.

“I’m Daunty, and my husband rescued you and your friends from the desert last night.” The small women said.

“Huh? Ziyran, Farin!” Torrado said remembering his friends. “Where are they? Are they all right?”

“Yes, they are in the dining room follow me.” Daunty said and turned.

Torrado followed Daunty down the hall to the dining room.

“So uh... why are you small?” Torrado asked glancing at Daunty.

“Well this is Dwarfeinhiem, this is a town filled with dwarves!” Daunty said studying her water.

“Oh.” Torrado said turning again. The hall he was in was quite small but just enough for a human to fit through.

“So uh... why are you and your friends so tall?” Daunty asked looking up a Torrado.

“Well, we are humans.” Torrado said looking forward.

“H-h-humans!” Daunty said dropping her bucket of water.

“Uh... yes.” Torrado said stopping.

“I’m terribly sorry master” Daunty said dropping to her knees.

“Huh?” Torrado said puzzled. “I don’t own you...” Torrado said grabbing Daunty’s arm and pulling her up.

“Oh would you look here we are here” Daunty said opening the door.

He came to a door he opened it and saw his friends sitting at a table and eating a pancake like food.

Ziyran looked up and saw Torrado standing in the door way and said with his mouth full: “Hey Torrado!”

Farin looked up too and also said with a mouthful: “Hey there!”

Daunty walked over to a dwarf at the stove on the far end of the kitchen. She whispered something to him and his eyes grew as big as dinner plates.

Daunty walked over to Torrado and said: “Here go and sit down we will make you some of our dwarfcakes.”

“Thanks,” Torrado said walking over to a chair at the table Farin and Ziyran were sitting.

A while later Daunty came to the table with two huge dwarfcakes.

“Here eat something after that Sun Fever you are probly starving.” Daunty laid the dwarfcakes in front of Torrado.

Torrado looked down at his stomach and it growled like an angry bear. “Come to think of it I am pretty hungry” Torrado said picking up a fork and sticking it in a dwarfcake and placing it on his plate.

While Torrado was eating the dwarf that was at the stove walked over and sat next to him.

The dwarf just sat next to Torrado drinking some sort of grayish drink. When Torrado finished the dwarf said: “Hi, I’m Dant, and last night I was walking in the desert when I saw you three about to be torched by two sun beings.”

Torrado looked up from his plate and asked: “What is Sun Fever?”

Daunty walked over and sat next to Dant and said: “Well Sun Fever is a deadly virus that is caught when you come in contact with a sun being.” Ziyran looked up then Farin.

“Then why didn’t we die?” Torrado asked.

“Well in the cure for deadly virus book it says the victim(s) need to be treated immediately with cold wash cloths” Daunty explained holding up the book.

“Well we did fight two sun beings.” Ziyran said.

“Yeah, and we beat them.” Farin said smiling.

“Anyway, my wife says you are humans, is that true?” Dant asked sipping his grayish drink.

“Yeah, but I don’t get what the big deal is about us being here” Torrado asked getting up and putting his plate in the sink.

“You didn’t tell him?” Dant whispered to his wife.

“No, I didn’t tell him.” Daunty whispered back.

“I guess I have to do it then, huh?” Dant said rubbing his bald head.

“Yes, that would be nice” Daunty said smiling.

“Well uh.... where should I start?” Dant said thinking for a moment.

“Oh! Ok a long time ago the god of light (goodness) named Ghaled got into a battle with the god of darkness (evil) named Cravil. They battled for what legends say decades. Anyway in the end Ghaled beat Cravil and locked him up in the world of darkness. So Ghaled carved into a rock about their battle they fought, the rock also stated that if Cravil ever showed up again (the people of this world would know because of the many dark beings) three heroes of light and their species human would show up and send him back into the dark oblivion once more.” Dant continued, “That was why my wife was surprised when you said you and your friends were human.”

“So uh... you think we are the heroes of light?” Torrado questioned.

“Yes!” Daunty said nodding.

“But we aren’t heroes except if you include the heroes of our class (Highest percentage of consecutive wins a new record)!!” Ziyran said shaking his head rapidly.

“Well, there is only one way to find out for sure!” Dant said pausing. “Did you guys encounter any evil beings that tried to kill you?” Dant said standing up.

“Well yeah there were those sun beings and...” Farin started.

“Besides them!” Dant said impatiently.

“...And that giant scorpion thing.” Farin finished.

“Then it is true!” Dant exclaimed.

“What?” Torrado said cocking his head.

“Well sweetie...” Daunty started, “the rock Ghaled carved the little prophecy (if that is what you like to call the little carving in rock) thing into said that to make sure the humans are the chosen heroes evil beings that work for Cravil will attack them.”

There was a silence. Then Torrado spoke: “So I guess we are the heroes of the prophecy...”

“Yes, you are.” Dant said smiling and sitting back down.

“Well I guess we should get going...” Farin said standing up.

“Before you go, can you guys help us around the house?” Dant said.

“Sure,” Ziyran said.

“So uh... you two can help me outside.” Dant said pointing at Torrado and Ziyran

“Ziyran, you didn’t tell him our names?” Torrado said whispering to Ziyran.

“No, I forgot,” Ziyran whispered back.

“Sure Dant we’ll help, but first you gotta know our names.” Torrado said sitting up.

“Ok...” Dant said also sitting up.

“Well I’m Torrado, that over there is Ziyran and the girl sitting next to me is Farin.” Torrado said pointing to each of his friends as he introduced them.

“So that white mage archer girl is Farin right? And the wizard is Ziyran right? And mister swordsman is Torrado.” Dant said confirming.

“Yes, you got it!” Torrado said smiling.

“So you’re Farin? What a beautiful name!” Daunty said running over to Farin.

“Yes, I am! And thank you.” Farin said.

“Come dear you can help me with the dishes.” Daunty grabbed Farin’s arm and took her over to the sink.

“Come on you two, we need to work all of today to be prepared for if that scorpion attacks us.” Dant said grabbing the two and dragging them outside.

Farin helped with the dishes. Torrado and Ziyran helped build a big barrier in front of the dwarf’s house.

“So why are we building such a big fence in front of your house, Dant?” Ziyran asked levitating a huge brick.

“Well because if that scorpion comes back he might be looking for you guys.” Dant said tossing a brick on top of the wall.

“That is impossible! We defeated that scorpion big time he even sunk into the sand!” Torrado said trying to lift a brick.

Dant dropped the brick. “Oh no we better hurry!” Dant said with a nervous tone of voice.

Torrado and Ziyran shot glances at each other. There eyes filled with confusion.

“What is so bad about that scorpion sinking in the sand Dant?” Torrado said catching up to the hurrying Dant.

“I’ll tell you later we need to hurry and finish the wall!” Dant said grabbing two bricks and throwing them on the top of the wall.

“Um... Ok...” Torrado climbed to the top and signaled Ziyran to throw a brick up.


Meanwhile in the kitchen Farin was telling her story and how she and her two friends had gotten here. Daunty listened quietly and every now and then she asked a question about their adventures here. Laughter came from Daunty when she heard funny parts and sometimes Daunty even gasped in excitement.

“...So there I was in the desert with Torrado and Ziyran unconscious. I was worried that a monster or something would come out of nowhere and try to eat me.” Farin said grabbing a plate and scrubbing it.

“Wow! This story is getting better! Are you serious this all happened?” Daunty said grabbing a bowl and drying it.

“Yep, positive! Anyway I just sat there glancing every which way looking for shadowy figures. Then I got tired and fell on my back and went to sleep, the next thing I remember is waking up with a wash cloth on my head.” Farin finished her story.

Daunty was filled with awe and she couldn’t talk for awhile. Then there was a silence except for the clanking of plates and bowls and other stuff they were washing.

“Well you couldn’t have come a worse time...” Daunty sighed.

“Sorry if we came here when you didn’t want us too!” Farin said getting a little mad.

“Let me finish dear. You did come at a bad time but also at a good time.” Daunty said looking at the plate she was scrubbing.

“What do you mean?” Farin said putting a plate she finished cleaning in a pile.

“Well this place wasn’t always this infested with dark beings dear; it actually was a beautiful place a few months ago. There where helpful fairies beautiful majestic dragons... But once Cravil escaped from his dark prison he made Vetual (that is what the planet is called) a horrid evil place.” Daunty said working faster on the dirty dishes.

“Vetual? It kind of sounds like Virtual...” Farin said thinking back to when she was still at Torrado’s house.

Farin remembered the storm starting up and the mysterious room that scared her at first, then she remembered the capsules. She remembered Ziyran getting pulled in one the capsules and Torrado also getting pulled into one of the capsules, then herself. Then she popped out of her daze.

“The capsules...” Farin said under her breath.

“What was that dear?” Daunty asked.

“I just remembered how I got here!” Farin asked grabbing the last dish.

“Really? Tell me!” Daunty smiled grabbing a towel to dry her hands.

“Ok so I was in Torrado’s house when we found a mysterious room so we checked it out, in that room we found three capsules, and there was a red button so Torrado pressed it and the capsules came to life and grabbed us and shocked us. When we woke up we were in that desert! This must be a virtual world! And those capsules were virtual capsules!” Farin said talking fast.

“Wow!” Daunty said handing the towel to Farin.
***
When every chore was done it was late at night and the group, Dant and Daunty just finished eating their dinner.

“We better get some sleep tonight because we need to leave on our journey tomorrow,” Dant said standing up.

“WE? What do you mean we?” Torrado asked.

“Well I’m going with you on your journey.” Dant said staring at Torrado.

“What? You can’t!” Farin said aggressively.

“Why?” Dant said staring at Farin.

“Because, we don’t want you to get hurt!” Ziyran said.

“Too bad I’m coming period!” Dant said walking out of the room.

“Oh well guys let’s just get some sleep...” Torrado said walking out the room.

“Goodnight Daunty!” Farin said smiling sweetly.

“Yeah g‘night!” Ziyran said walking out.

“Goodnight everyone!” Daunty said.

The next morning Torrado, Farin a Ziyran woke up with a slam of a door.

“What?” Torrado said jumping up.

“Huh whu-huh who?” Ziyran said falling out of the bed and on his face.

“What was that?!” Farin yelled.

“Oh no oh dear oh my oh no!” Daunty said running down the hall.

“What is up with her?” Ziyran stated getting up.

“Daunty looks scared let’s see what is wrong!” Farin said throwing her blankets off and jumping into her boots. Then grabbing her bow and arrows and her snow white cloak and running out.

“Wait I’m coming too!” Torrado yelled after her jumping out of bed and running out the room with his sword and its hilt and grabbing his cloak.


“Wait up guys!” Ziyran yelled after the two and jumping to his feet. Ziyran ran out forgetting his hat.

Farin, Torrado, and Ziyran caught up to Daunty and she was about to run into a room.

“Daunty, wait!” Farin said running toward her.

Torrado caught up to Farin just in time to see a scorpion break through the wall, splinters flew every which way and Torrado, Farin and Daunty stood idle.

Ziyran saw all this too and he cast a fire spell to blast the scorpion away, it worked. “Yeah direct hit!” Ziyran said flying up.

“Thank you, you three!” Daunty said running into the room she was about to enter.

A little while later Daunty came out of the room real pale.

“What is wrong Daunty?” Torrado said running up to her.

“Yeah, are you ok?” Farin followed.

“You seem sick...”Ziyran said landing next to Torrado.

“T-t-that s-s-scorpion t-t-t-took Dant!” Daunty said starting to cry.

“That fiend!” Torrado said getting furious. Torrado then took his sword out and ran out the huge hole that the scorpion made.

Torrado turned his head to look back and saw the medium sized dwarf house with its entire east wall blown out and even some of the roof. He saw the figure of Daunty crying and the figure of Farin patting her on the back and staring at Torrado. The figure of Ziyran flew past the two and caught up to Torrado.

“You think I’ll let you take on this scorpion by yourself? I don’t think so.” Ziyran said and stop flying and jumped out of it and he ran at the pace of Torrado.

“Hey, Daunty, Mind if I go beat that scorpion up?” Farin said staring towards Torrado and Ziyran.

“No, go get it for taking my husband.” Daunty said staring up then starting to cry again.

Farin ran after the two boys pulling out her bow and loading some arrows.

“Hey you two wait up!” Farin yelled towards Torrado and Ziyran.

The two just turned and glanced at her. “OK, but hurry!” Torrado yelled to Farin.

In a few minutes Farin was right next to the two boys and they started running again. In a couple of minutes they saw the figure of the scorpion in the dwarf city crushing buildings and throwing pieces of big buildings at other buildings.

Torrado stopped, and then Ziyran and Farin stopped behind him. “Only a little more and we will get Dant back and defeat this scorpion once and for all!” Torrado stated seriously.

Ziyran and Farin nodded and they ran towards the city.

When they got there they looked every which way and only saw destroyed buildings. Then in a matter of seconds a building came flying over their heads and crashed into a building that wasn’t destroyed.

“He is near get ready!” Torrado said holding his sword in a battle ready position.

Sure enough the giant scorpion’s face appeared over destroyed buildings.

“Hey ugly give our friend back!” Torrado yelled up to the scorpion.

The scorpion looked down and saw the small group and his eyes started to glow like fire. It then swung its giant right claw down and tried to smash Torrado to smithereens, but Torrado jumped out of the way. Torrado caught a glance of Dant in the scorpion’s claw.

“Guys! I saw Dant he was in the scorpion’s right claw!” Torrado said landing in between his two friends.

“I have and idea Torrado,” Ziyran started “If he swings another claw we should jump on it to get to his back! Then we can go to his right claw and get Dant.” Ziyran finished.

“Good idea.” Farin said smiling.

Sure enough the scorpion swung his left claw and the group jumped out of the way. The claw was going so fast with great power that when it hit the ground the ground exploded into a flurry of sand. The claw also got stuck in the ground.

“Now’s our chance guys!” Torrado told the two putting his sword away, and running towards the claw.

Farin and Ziyran nodded at each other and followed Torrado. When the three reached the trapped claw they jumped on it and hung on so if the scorpion gets free they would still be on it without getting thrown off.

“Guys I feel the claw loosening.” Torrado told the others.

“Us too!” Farin and Ziyran said at the same time.

The claw broke free from the sand trap and catapulted the three on to its back.

“That holding on thing didn’t work oh well, now to get Dant free!” Torrado said jumping up. Farin and Ziyran followed.

The group reached the right arm of the scorpion and carefully scaled down the arm to get to the claw.

“Come on guys lets break Dant free.” Torrado said pulling his sword out of its holder.

Farin loaded arrows and shot like crazy at the claw. Torrado kept slashing and stabbing at the claw and Ziyran repeatedly cast blizzard and thunder at the claw. In no time the claw fell off with Torrado, Farin and Ziyran falling off with it.

Torrado, Farin and Ziyran’s capes were flapping in the wind while they fell above the claw. The claw smashed into the ground and then Torrado landed on the claw Farin landed on the claw and Ziyran crashed into the ground next to the claw.

“Dant!” Torrado said remembering Dant trapped in the claw, he then ran towards the claw and tried to open it.

Farin and Ziyran tried prying the claw open too. Eventually it opened and Dant flopped out on his face.

Farin ran over to Dant and flipped him over and tried to feel a pulse. “I don’t feel a pulse!” Farin said shivering. Farin kept her hand on Dant’s neck and then saw a huge gash Farin then moved her hand to the scratch and then something strange happened.

Farin fainted and had a vision of what happened as if she were there. The vision was black and white. In her vision she saw Dant standing outside the house with bags of groceries trying to open the door when an explosion of sand blew down the barrier wall that the boys built the day before.

Farin also heard Dant say “No, not you!” The scorpion Farin, Torrado, and Ziyran fought the day before appeared from the cloud of sand. The scorpion stood idle just staring at Dant.

Farin saw the scorpion raise its tail and she tried to yell out ‘watch out!’ but when she opened her mouth nothing came out. The scorpion launched its tail at Dant and Dant jumped over it and grabbed a bronze pickaxe he was carrying and swung it at the scorpion.

The scorpion then batted Dant away and sent him hurtling into a shed. Dant limped out and jumped at the scorpion again. The scorpion slashed its deadly tail at Dant again and it actually slashed Dant. Dant let out a cry of pain and just stopped in the air and fell to the ground unconscious the scorpion then grabbed Dant and walked around the house. Farin started to cry and when she tried to get to the Scorpion the vision faded and she fell into the darkness.

“Farin? Farin? Farin are you ok?” Farin heard Torrado’s voice call out and then the darkness became light again.

“Huh? Oh yeah I’m fine...” Farin said sitting up.

“What happened Farin?” Ziyran asked.

“I had a vision, and I know what happened to Dant!” Farin said glancing around the cave the group was in. The cave was a medium sized one with drawings on the wall and a small window carved from the wall.

“So what happened?” Torrado asked.

“One second let me heal Dant” Farin said holding her hands over Dant’s wound and cast ‘Cure’ Dant’s scar vanished, but Dant still didn’t open his eyes.

“Oh no! Dant isn’t healing because he got poisoned!” Farin said standing up trembling.

“What does that mean?” Ziyran asked peering out the cave to make sure the scorpion wasn’t near.

“It means that my cure spell won’t have any affect!” Farin said falling to her knees still trembling.

“Well isn’t there a spell you can cast to get rid of poison?” Torrado said with a slight tone of worry in his voice.

“Well there is a spell called Poisonag, but I have never been able to cast it before!” Farin said with a little less shaky voice.

“Just try it! It may work you never know...” Torrado said reassuring her.

“Ok, ok” Farin said clearing her thoughts. Farin started to hum a little then she stood up and started to glow a bright yellow. “Poisonag!” Farin said holding her hands above Dant’s head.

The bright yellow light that was around Farin all started to transfer to her hands and then from her hands it spiraled until the yellow covered Dant.

Dant opened his eyes and let out a gasp for breath. “Huh?” Dant said staring around the cave at Farin, Torrado, and Ziyran. “What are you three doing here?” Dant asked.

“Well we came here to save you from that rampaging scorpion.” Torrado said with a hint of anger in his voice.

“What that scorpion is still here?” Dant asked. “And why did you save me when you could’ve killed that scorpion?” Dant said standing up and pulling a hammer from his belt. Dant walked over to Torrado with fire in his eyes and whacked him with the hammer.

“AH!” Torrado said falling to the ground with a huge bump on his head. “That is the thanks I get for saving you?” Torrado said rubbing his bump.

“No, that is what you get for leaving the city while the scorpion is still alive!” Dant said putting his hammer away.

“Anyway! Farin what did you see when you fainted?” Torrado asked.

Farin told of the entire vision that she saw, and after Farin finished her story on the vision Dant told them that that is exactly what happened to him.

“Dang, I can’t believe everything that happened to Dant Farin saw...” Ziyran said putting his hands behind his head and leaning back a little. Farin stood there she knew why she was having the visions it was called Past Reflect, she didn’t tell them though.

“This is not time for relaxing!” Dant yelled into Ziyran’s ear.

Ziyran fell back his arms flapping trying to keep from falling but he did and hard too.

“There is a rampaging scorpion out there and we need to stop him!” Dant said taking out his pickaxe and running out of the cave.

“Wait!” Torrado said unsheathing his sword and followed Dant out.

“Wait up!” Ziyran and Farin said. Farin grabbed her bow and her arrows (which were leaning up against the wall near the caves entrance) and ran out. Ziyran started to chant ‘blizzard’ and flew out after the three.

When the small party reached the city it was nearly completely destroyed except for a building here and there.

“This is what happens when you save one small person!” Dant said glaring at Torrado.

Torrado smiled nervously, then the ground started to rumble and once again they saw the scorpion.

“Get ready!” Dant said holding his pickaxe in a battle ready position. Torrado followed, Farin loaded arrows, and Ziyran was still chanting ‘blizzard’.

The battle started with the scorpion lunging his tail and only claw at the party. The party jumped out of the way and counter attacked. Farin shot her arrows at the scorpion while Ziyran blasted the ‘blizzard’ and that did the most damage. Torrado and Dant closed in on the scorpion.

Once more the scorpion tried to strike the two with his claw but right before the claw impacted into the ground Torrado and Dant did a front flip onto the claw and ran up to the body. Soon after Ziyran flew up with Farin in his arms. He tossed Farin at the scorpions face; Farin pulled out arrows and threw them at the scorpion and did a front flip onto the back. Ziyran landed next to Farin and started to chant fire.

The scorpion’s tail kept trying to stab the party but every time Torrado kept blocking it. Once more the scorpion tried to stab the group with its tail but this time Torrado jumped on it a spun a around until he had enough power to slice the tail off. Torrado jumped off and was still spinning when he stopped and dove at the tail slicing it off. He then fell to the ground.

The scorpion screamed in pain and shook off the others. They landed on the ground and started to fight it again. Torrado looked at Ziyran and nodded assuring that he could cast the spell. Ziyran released the spell and blasted the remaining claw. The claw fell off and landed in the sand with grains of sand flying every where.

“Guys, just like in the desert!” Torrado said. Ziyran and Farin nodded and Dant stood there confused. “Dant just follow my lead!” Torrado told Dant.

Dant nodded. So the major attack started. Farin jumped on the claw and loaded an arrow the arrow grew once more into the laser arrow that she had before. Ziyran levitated the claw and flung it into the air.

“Jump now Dant and get your weapon ready!” Torrado told Dant and jumping into the air. Dant followed and got his weapon ready for whatever was happening.

Farin didn’t move at all while the claw fell it was almost as if she was glued to the claw. Torrado and Dant got ready to hit the claw at the scorpion when it got to their level. When the claw reached Torrado and Dant they hit the claw as hard as they could at the scorpion. Farin shot the arrow and jumped from the claw. The arrow and claw hit the scorpion and sent him hurtling back. The group walked up to where the scorpion was and saw it slowly disappear with the arrow stuck in its head.

“That is the end of that scorpion,” Dant said turning. “You guys better get back to my house and get some sleep you’re leaving tomorrow...” Dant told them over his shoulder

Torrado, Farin, and Ziyran were awoken by a clanging of a hammer against an anvil.

“Huh? What’s that?” Torrado asked sleepily.

“Well it is Dant making you guys some new weapons.” Came Daunty’s voice from the door.

“Really? How nice of him.” Farin said waking up slightly and falling back to sleep.

“You guys need to get up now your leaving in an hour.” Daunty said turning on the light.

Grumbles came from each of the beds. Daunty walked up to Farin and pulled her cover off her.

“Eiyee!” Farin said jumping awake shivering. “Why is it so cold?” Farin asked shivering.

“It is because you’re in the sun desert... When you live in sun desert and there is no sun to warm the desert it becomes as cold as the icebergs of Shiverkin” Daunty said pulling the covers off of Ziyran.

“AH! Cold cold cold!” Ziyran said rubbing his arms.

Daunty then tried pulling the cover off of Torrado, but Torrado sleeps with the covers wrapped around him like wrapping paper on a present. Daunty then looked for a piece of the blanket that wasn’t wrapped around Torrado. When she found it she tugged it as hard as she could and pulled the blankets off of him. Torrado spun like a top until he fell on the floor face first.

“Ok, I’m up!” Torrado growled.
***
After a quick breakfast of an oatmeal like substance called Dwarfmeal the group got ready to leave. Daunty gave each of them a backpack full of food and with fresh cool water.

“Don’t leave yet!” Dant yelled running from a shed holding a sack.

“What are you carrying?” Ziyran asked.

“New weapons fro you guys.” Dant said holding out his hands.

“But I don’t use any weapons...” Ziyran said.

“I can’t let you guys go out in the wild with those sad weapons you have.” Dant said. Torrado and Farin looked at their weapons. Torrado’s sword was about ten years old he got it from his dad when he turned ten. Farin’s bow was ok but her arrows were pitiful. They were bronze arrows that were rusting a little.

“Ok so what do you have?” Torrado asked dropping his sword on the ground.

“Here,” Dant said pulling out a weird looking sword from his sack. The sword looked like the scorpion’s tail that they defeated yesterday. It was curved slightly and at the point of the sword was the stinger of the scorpion. “And I got some new arrows for you Farin.” Dant said pulling out a quiver with regular arrow bottoms but where the point was supposed to be there was a small pointed claw. “I made a wand for you Ziyran.” Dant said pulling out a wand with a wooden bottom with a curved claw at the top. “Torrado your sword is called the ‘Stinger’, Farin your arrows are called the ‘Claws’, and Ziyran your wand is called ‘Scorpio’.” Dant said looking in his sack. “I had some left over so I made a new pickaxe for me I call it the Scorp Pick.” Dant turned and walked towards the house.

Torrado was examining his new weapon when he realized what a great partner Dant would be. “Dant? On second thought if you want to you can journey with us and besides you know this world better than us maybe you could help us....” Torrado smiled.

Dant turned slowly, “I’d love to!” Dant said running up next to Torrado. “Dear, we need another backpack!” Dant told his wife.

“On it!” Daunty said running into the house. A second later Daunty came out with a small backpack filled with the same supplies as the other three’s.

“Ok... to get to Cravil's palace our first stop is to go through the Jungle of Darr, which starts on the west side of town.” Dant said walking toward the city (which was still in shambles).

When the group reached the town a light beam came down from the sky and hit the center of town. In a few seconds the town started to rebuild right before their eyes.

“What is happening Dant?” Torrado asked shielding his eyes.

“Ghaled?” Dant asked.

“Heroes of light!” Came a deep voice out of no where. Then someone or something was starting to form. The group drew their weapons not knowing if it were a friend or foe.

When the entire figure was done forming a man that looked young was floating above the party. He had a crown of different light colors like orange yellow and a tint of red. His face kind of looked like Torrado’s but his hair was way more blonde. He had a shimmering cape of gold and silver, and he wore clothes that were fit for a king of great power. His shoes were made of pure gold. And he had a hilt with a sword that was called the blade of Karaja the most powerful weapon of all. Above all he glowed like the sun.

“Heroes of light...” he repeated. “I am Ghaled!” he said slowly. “And I must know if you are strong enough to stand the journey to Cravil’s palace.”

“You want us to fight you?” Torrado said making sure. Ghaled nodded and drew his sword.

Torrado jumped up and tried to slash Ghaled, but Ghaled merely blasted him with a beam of light and it hit the group on the ground too.

“You pass!” Ghaled said. Torrado stood up and looked at him confused.

“How did we pass?” Torrado asked puzzled.

“I felt it you held back you didn’t want to hurt me so you held back, and that is what a true hero of light does!” Ghaled said healing the party.

Torrado scratched his head even more perplexed than before. “Ok...” Torrado said still confused.

“Anyway in a matter of seconds this town will be completely rebuilt and the lives lost in the scorpion raid will be revived and think nothing has ever happened in this town.” Ghaled said smiling.

“That was easier than I thought!” Dant said putting his pick axe away. Torrado re-sheathed his sword, Farin strapped her bow around her and Ziyran’s wand vanished in a puff of light.

The group saw the town be re-built and also saw dwarves beginning to re-appear. “And one more thing...” Ghaled started, “I will protect this town with my light powers. Here watch.” With that Ghaled lifted his hands up and a little bubble flew out of his hand it popped in the air. After the bubble popped a light shield started to form. It covered the entire city and even Dant’s house. “If you are ever in any trouble come back here and the darkness will vanish,” Ghaled said smiling.

“So are you going to stay in this town?” Farin asked.

“No, I have much more important things to do like destroy the darkness that resides in the land of the gods.” Ghaled said. “Good luck and remember light will always be with you!” Ghaled than vanished in a laser of light.

“Well let’s get going” Dant said walking towards the jungle entrance (which was in site).

The group entered the jungle which was way dark. “I can’t see anything!” Torrado said.

“Don’t worry I have a lantern.” Came Dant’s voice a little in front of Torrado. Torrado then heard a squeaking sound and a light burst up.

There were then screeches from all around them. And they heard howls and growls and even cries of pain.

“What was that?” Torrado asked.

“I have no idea...” Dant said gazing around in the jungle.

“I’m scared...” Farin said and closed her eyes.

Then there were rustling in the bushes and low branches being broken off trees. “I’m scared too!” Ziyran said trembling.

There was a boom near them. “Dant shine your light over there!” Torrado said pointing his finger. Dant held his light to were Torrado said to point it and there stood a werewolf like zombie thing.

“AH!” Dant said dropping his lantern and it going out.

“Dant your smart!” Torrado said drawing his sword. Torrado slashed crazily all around him.

“AHHH!” Farin screamed.

“Farin? Farin where are you?!” Ziyran said his Scorpio wand appearing.

“HELP!!” Farin screamed even louder.

“Farin!” Ziyran said blasting a fire spell where he heard Farin’s voice. The fire spell blasted a tree giving only a second of light.

Dant dropped to his knees scrambling to find the lantern. Dant then turned it on and it illuminated the entire area around them. The entire area was covered in those weird wolf zombie creatures. He saw one grab Torrado and another grab Ziyran they were both unconscious. He then felt something hit him on the head and he fell down out cold. Farin was the only one awake and she saw the whole thing. But she couldn’t break free. All of them were prisoners of the wolf zombies.

When Dant woke up he saw Torrado, Farin, Ziyran, and himself tied up in vines on these wooden poles. And the wolf zombies were a few feet in front of them dancing around a fire. Dant stared at the wolf zombies with a weird look on his face. He then turned to Torrado (who was still out cold) and tried waking him up.

“Torrado! Hey Torrado wake up.” Dant whispered.

Torrado mumbled but didn’t budge. Dant thought to himself and looked at the ground. By his feet was a medium sized rock. Dant thought for a moment and came up with an idea.

Dant grabbed the rock with his feet and threw it at Torrado. It hit Torrado and bounced off his head and hit the ground. But Torrado’s entire pole got loose and feel to the ground with a crash.

One of the wolf Zombies turned and saw the pole on the ground it ran over and propped it up again. And it continued to dance.

“What was that for Dant?” Torrado asked.

“I needed to wake you up. And that was the only thing I could think of.” Dant whispered.

“We better wake up the others too.” Torrado said grabbing a small rock with his feet.

“Yeah just do not grab a big rock.” Dant said grabbing a smaller rock then before.

The two threw the rocks they bounced off of Farin and Ziyran’s head.

“OW!” They yelled.

“HUSH!” Torrado yelled.

All of the wolf zombies stopped in their tracks and saw the three arguing with each other.

“Guys don’t yell it’ll attract the...” Dant turned and saw the wolf zombies staring at the group.

“We were going to wait for the Zombie king but we are going to eat you now!” came a creepy low voice from the crowd of monsters.

Dant smiled and jumped from his pole and kicked The zombie that was in front of him.

“How’d you...” Torrado started.

“This,” Dant pulled out a small knife. “Perfect for cutting ropes!” Dant said running down the line and releasing Torrado and his friends.

“The prisoners are escaping!” Came the same voice from before.

“Now we can cause some major damage!” Torrado said.

“Not now let’s just run!” Farin screamed.

“But our weapons!” Ziyran said.

“I see them! They are over by that tree!” Dant said pointing at a tree next to a path.

They ran over to the tree and grabbed their weapons and started to run out the path but two wolf zombies stopped them.

“We have no choice we must fight!” Torrado said turning and un-sheathing his sword.

All of them drew their weapons except for Ziyran whose weapon just appears. One of the wolf zombies came from the crowd dashing towards Torrado. Torrado jumped over him and slashed it. Then another came out charging towards Farin. Farin loaded arrows and jumped on a branch and shot the arrows at the zombie thing sticking in its back.

Two more came out and Ziyran blasted a fire spell at the one that was near him. It flew back and into a tree. Dant jumped with his Scorp pick in hand tackled the one that as left and started hitting it.

“I forgot to tell you guys all of our weapons have the power to poison a foe!” Dant called.

“Cool!” Ziyran yelled, “Then maybe I can cast poison!” Ziyran jumped back and started chanting poison. Ziyran then pointed his wand at the wolf zombie he was beating up. Out of his wand came a purple and green cloud. When it hit the wolf zombie it collapsed and started to disappear.

Torrado was slashing away with his sword and eventually the zombie he was fighting fell and also disappear. Farin jumped from the branch she was on and shot more arrows at the zombie. It fell down and started to disappear. Dant finished defeating his zombie (since zombies can’t die they just get defeated) and it disappeared too.

“Why must we fight?” Came a voice from the forest. “Can’t we all just get along?” said the voice.

Then a red beam came from the path and imprisoned the party.

“Who is there?” Torrado asked.

The wolf zombies guarding the path stepped to the side and in came a big human zombie guy carrying a staff that was glowing red. He looked liked any other zombie some flesh missing and bones showing except he had a brown crown that barley shined by the fires light.

“I’m none other than the Zombie King!” the zombie said.

“Is it night already?” Ziyran asked.

“Duh! That is when zombies appear.” Farin said.

The Zombie King stared at the group and started to laugh soon all the wolf zombies started to laugh too.

“I don’t like the sound of this...” Torrado said. The group agreed, and stood up in the red cage staring at the Zombie King who was still laughing.

The Zombie king rose his arm up and the jungle went quite the echoes of the laughter dieing away.

“I have a little game that I always play with my prisoners…” The Zombie King smirked.

“We will not play your game!” Torrado said trying to break the cage.

“Oh but there is no choice either you play or you get crushed! And by the way trying to break that cage is futile it is a mixture of unicorn horn and the strongest black magic that is known!” Zombie King smiled bigger.

“Torrado stop you’ll waste your energy!” Dant said.

“Fine we accept your little game!” Torrado said panting and falling on his back.

“Ok,” The Zombie king laughed. He rose his staff like thing he was caring and the caged disappeared.

“Uhh… Why did you release us?” Ziyran asked.

“It is part of the game…” Zombie King still smiling. “Ok here is the game! I will release you four into the forest and we’ll hunt you down and if we catch you you will become our meal.” Zombie king said stepping away from the path he blocked. “Oh and by the way we will give you twenty seconds for a head start.”

“Let’s go guys!” Torrado said running into the jungle and the others following.

“One… Two… Three… Twenty.” Zombie King said running after them and the army of wolf zombies following.

“That cheat!” Farin snarled.

“I guess we have to even the playing field.” Torrado smiled.

“I get what you’re saying!” Dant said drawing his Scorp Pick.

They jumped onto a branch and ran up the tree. Pretty soon Zombie king and his army of the living dead ran by.

“Now let’s get them.” Torrado said drawing his sword.

“Fire!” Ziyran said and blasted a fire ball at the back of the army.

When the fire ball hit it made a giant explosion and completely obliterated at least fifty wolf zombies.

“Oh so they are playing dirty too. Well I never said I can’t call for back up!” Zombie king said and lifted his staff. And soon fifty human zombies rose from the ground.

“We need to get that staff from him!” Farin said.

“True, we will never get it from him up in this tree,” Dant said jumping down.

The others agreed and followed. The party nodded at each other and ran to the army. When they reached it they ran right through Torrado and Dant batting away any zombies that got in their way. Pretty soon they reached the front and Torrado slid and took Zombie King’s feet out from under him and knocking him over.

“HA! Take that you cheater!” Torrado said making a face at Zombie King.

“Grrr. Go my minions!” Zombie King said standing up.

The party ran off until they reached a fork in the road. “Which way? Which way?” Torrado said fast.

“Left!” Farin said. So they ran down the left path.

When the Zombie King and his minions reached the fork they went the opposite direction but the Zombie King sent five wolf zombies down the left path.

“I think we’re safe… for the time being anyway.” Dant said looking around.

“Whew!” Torrado said wiping his head.

“I sense something evil.” Farin said rubbing her head.

“What are you talking about Farin?” Ziyran asked.

“There is something evil near!” Farin said rubbing her head with both hands. “Torrado! Watch out!” Farin said.

Torrado pulled out his sword. “Farin where is the evil thing you sense!?” Torrado asked holding his sword out in front of him.

“On your right!” Farin said holding her hand out. Torrado turned and slashed horizontally. A wolf zombie dropped to the ground and disappeared. “There is more!” Farin said. “Ziyran watch out on your left!” Farin said pointing at the bushes near Ziyran.

Ziyran’s wand appeared and chanted a “fire” spell. “Fire!” Ziyran called out and it crashed into the bushes and out fell a wolf zombie and it disappeared too.

“Dant look out! It is coming from above you!” Farin yelled.

Dant took out his pick again and did a back flip and lunged into the tree out fell the wolf zombie and Dant dropped down and stepped back and did like a spinning lunge Dant said something under his breath and his pick soon started to glow and poison was emitting from it and it hit the wolf zombie.

“What was that Dant?” Torrado asked.

“What that move? It is called: Poisoning slice.” Dant said his pick returning to normal.

“There is two more and one is...” Farin trailed off. “Behind me!” Farin turned violently whipping here bow and arrows out.

“Shadow Claws!” Farin said and shot her arrow, when it was flying through the air it turned to a giant claw and hit a shadowy figure that was hiding.

“Torrado there is one more and he is near you!” Farin said putting her bow away.

“Huh?” Torrado said and then two boney paws came out of the trees near Torrado and grabbed him.

“TORRADO!!” Everyone yelled.

“Zix Zanon!” Torrado’s voice came from the trees. And then a little light formed in the trees and then a yellow blade was seen and then it started to spin and it cut down the trees it was near. Torrado then jumped from the trees he was standing on and walked to his friends.

“Wow!” Dant exclaimed. “Now I know you are heroes of light!”

“How?” Torrado asked.

“Because only heroes of light can pull off those moves.”

“Are you sure?”

“Positive!”

“Oh so you and Farin have cool moves what about me?” Ziyran complained.

“Zombie King is coming!” Farin yelled.

“Then we must stand and fight!” Torrado said.

“WHAT?!” Farin said.

“I’m tired of running we have to stop him!” Torrado said.

“I want to tear their eyes out and eat their stomachs!” A zombie like voice came from the distances.

“But of course running is always good.” Torrado said nervously.

“Yeah!” The others said.

Then they took off in a sprint down the path. When Zombie King and his army reached the spot where the four just left he halted his army and looked at the fallen trees.

“They have been here! Wolfy see if you can catch a scent on who did this!” Zombie King said and snapped his fingers.

Then a wolf zombie that was twitching walked out of the crowd and sniffed the trees. He caught a scent of Torrado. He pointed down the path and walked back in the crowd. Zombie King walked over and grinned evilly.

“They are heading towards my castle! We’ll meet them there and then we will kill them and Cavil will give me a huge promotion!” Zombie King then ran to a patch of grass that was in the middle of the dirt path and stomped on it twice. Then the ground opened up and the Zombie King and his army fell down into a portal and vanished then the ground returned to normal as if nothing ever happened.

After a while of running Ziyran fell on his face and was panting. “I can’t go on!” Ziyran said rolling over still panting.

“Come on we have to keep going I don’t wanna get eaten!” Torrado said trying to pull Ziyran up.

“I don’t sense Zombie King anymore!” Farin said.

“Let us rest for a while.” Dant said leaning against a tree.

“Yeah lets!” Ziyran said still laying down.

Farin found a patch of grass and laid down on it Torrado sat down leaning against a rock. Ziyran still lying in the spot he fell in. In a few seconds all of them were sound asleep Dant still leaning on that tree standing up. His lantern’s light flickering.

In a couple of minutes Torrado jolted up. “Are we eaten yet?” He asked a scared tone in his voice.

“No, we aren’t!” Dant said waking up too.

“It is about to rain!” Farin said standing up.

“How do you know this stuff Farin?” Ziyran asked.

“I knew that because of the clouds.” Farin said pointing up.

“Of course I knew that...” Ziyran said blushing for awhile.

“We need to find some shelter!” Torrado said standing up completely.

“There should be some where on this path. Let’s just keep walking.” Dant said starting to walk down the path. The others followed.

After awhile of walking down the path they spotted a giant castle. They were happy to find some shelter for the rest of the night.

“Come on guys I see the castles front entrance!” Torrado said running towards it.

“Do you think it is deserted?” Farin asked as the other three followed Torrado.

“I don’t really know...” Dant said.

“Who cares? It’s shelter!” Torrado said running towards the front door.

By this time the sky has opened up and drops of rain started to fall violently. Torrado knocked and knocked, but no one answered. Torrado knocked once more and the door opened by it self.

“That is weird...” Torrado said.

“Who cares?! It is pouring!” Farin said running in knocking Torrado over. Ziyran followed and stepped on Torrado Dant ran and also walked over Torrado.

“Ok... Let’s go in...” Torrado said lying at the entrance of the castle with footprints all over him. Torrado got up and walked in after his friends.

“Well let’s stay here until the rain stops.” Dant said looking around, and extinguishing his lantern, because there was a little light bulb lighting up four couches.

“Hmm... Sure looks abandoned.” Ziyran said ringing his cape out.

“Well this is the only shelter we got!” Torrado said sitting on a chair.

“I’m getting a little tired.” Farin said yawning.

“Who isn’t? We only slept for like ten minutes today.” Ziyran said lying on a couch.

“Well I’m guessing it is still night...” Dant said lying on a different couch.

“Let’s just get some rest and we can continue our journey tomorrow.” Torrado said lying on another couch.

“Well goodnight everyone!” Farin said lying on an additional couch.

“Goodnight!” Ziyran said.

“Do we have any blankets?” Torrado asked shivering a little.

“Yeah we should have sleeping bags in our packs.” Dant said taking his off.

“Oh yeah, they are annoying to carry around…” Ziyran said pulling his off too.

“We should have food too right?” Farin asked grabbing hers.

“Yeah, we should.” Torrado said looking in his.

“We have firewood too!” Dant said pulling out some logs.

“Do we have something to light it with?” Ziyran asked.

“Yup, I have a tinderbox.” Torrado said.

“Good, we can have nice warm food.” Farin said.

So Dant put his logs in a fire place and Torrado lit it. The flames blasted up lighting the entire room. Torrado could finally make out the room.

It was a large sized room with four couches placed around the fireplace. There were pictures throughout the room that no one could make out. There were small and medium sized windows around the entire room, and a door at the south side of the room. The fireplace was large and had beautiful carvings on it.

“So let’s have some dinner!” Dant said as he grabbed a wing of some bird. Torrado grabbed a stalk of corn and Farin and Ziyran each had a wing too. They started to cook their food and just sat around talking. Ziyran even said he’d enchant their cloaks to carry around their supplies without wearing the backpacks. Torrado agreed and so did Farin so Ziyran enchanted the three’s cloaks (except Dant he didn’t wear a cloak).

At the very top of the castle Zombie King was watching the party from a camera he placed in every room. “Issl, are you ready?” Zombie King asked.

“Yes, I am...” A small voice came from a shadowy corner. Then a girl stepped from that corner and started to laugh. And Zombie King joined in.

Torrado was awakened the next morning by clashes all around him. He opened his eyes slowly and saw the sun shining all through out the room.

“Good morning everyone!” Torrado yawned rubbing his eyes.

“Did you hear that Torrado?” Ziyran asked.

“Yeah, why?” Torrado replied.

“I was just wondering.” Ziyran said.

“What was that?” Farin asked.

“Who knows?” Dant said.

“I do,” a small voice said. From out of no where a girl that had a shirt that in the middle was purple and everything else was black her eyes were a jade green color, her pants were just black and her shoes were like boots a grey color that shined a little. She had her brown hair tied in a ponytail and only looked like she was thirteen.

“I’m Issl,” The girl said.

“Hi, Issl I’m Torrado.” Torrado said.

“I’m Ziyran” Ziyran said smiling.

“My names Farin!” Farin said enthusiastic.

“I’m Dant the dwarf!” Dant said. He stared at Issl for awhile and to be honest he didn’t trust her.

“Anyway that noise you heard was a zombie!” Issl explained.

“They are here too!?” Everyone said drawing there weapons.

“Well yeah! This is their home!” Issl said.

There was a silence and everyone dropped their weapons in amazement.

“I’m surprised they didn’t eat us!” Farin said picking up her bow and her arrow.

“That one was about to but I defeated it!” Issl said smirking.

“How you don’t have a weapon!” Ziyran said picking up his wand and making it disappear.

“Like this,” Issl then held out her hands and the fingers started to stick together then sharpen and soon enough her hands were no more half of her arm was gone too and all that were left were silver blades with a tint of red “See, I’m a shape shifter,” Issl then put her blades down and her hands reappeared.

“hmmm,” Dant said.

“What’s wrong Dant?” Farin asked.

“Hm? Oh nothing!” Dant said.

Then the ground seemed to open up. Zombies crawled from the ground eyes beaming red with anger.

“Uh-oh!” Torrado said drawing his sword.

“They have us surrounded!” Issl exclaimed.

“Sin carlo!” Ziyran yelled. His wand started to glow and a reddish-purple beam went flying all around the party destroying the zombies.

“Come on lets get to that door!” Issl said pointing.

They took off in a dash towards the door fending off zombies as they jumped for them. Issl’s hands turned back into the blades and slashed the zombies when she hit one it caught on fire and exploded. When they reached the door they swung it open and slammed it shut.

“Whew that was close!” Ziyran said.

Then two hands came from the ground and grabbed Ziyran’s feet. The hands then pulled him under ground.

“ARGH!” Ziyran yelled as his head went under.

“Ziyran!” Everyone screamed.

Torrado jumped to where Ziyran was a split second ago and crashed to the ground.

“NO! We have to save him!” Torrado said. Drawing his sword and stabbing it into the ground.

“We can’t let us get caught too!” Farin said holding him back.

“The only hope for Ziyran is for us to defeat Zombie King that IS the whole reason why I came here!” Issl said walking off her hands changing back to normal.

“Yeah, but first lets get some new weapons!” Dant said searching for something to smith on.

Dant spotted a worn out anvil but still workable. He grabbed a torch that was lit near them and grabbed the party’s weapons (accept of course Issl’s because hers are built in).

In a while Dant came back with a sword that was on engulfed in flames but when Torrado held it, it was as cool as any sword. Dant then gave Farin her arrow case with arrows that were on fire. Dant then held out a pick that was on fire.

“We are ready to battle these zombies!” Torrado said.

“Well? What are we waiting for lets get Zombie King!” Issl said walking forward.

Everyone nodded and followed Issl down the hallway that was dim with spikes jutting out from the ceiling and the walls and torches were placed evenly apart.

“This hallway is depressing...” Farin said.

“Yeah...” Torrado replied after awhile.

“Hmmm... I wonder...” Dant said under his breath.

How does Issl know where to go it is almost as if she has been here a billion times... Dant thought.

Dant snapped out of his train of thought when he heard a scream from down the hall.

“Dant, do you think that sounds like Issl?” Torrado asked.

“Yeah, does to me.” Dant said.

“Let’s go save her!” Farin said running after the screams.

They ran down the hall until they saw five zombies blocking the path. But two of them were holding Issl’s arms.

“Uh-oh!” Torrado said pulling out his sword.

“These zombies are really annoying!” Farin said loading five fire arrows in her bow.

“Let’s save her, she is our only hope in rescuing Ziyran!” Dant said pulling out his flaming pick ax.

Torrado ran at the zombies, but one came out of the group to meet him. The zombie drew a rusty sword that’s point was sharp. They clashed swords; sparks flew every which way from the two swords clanking against each other. Torrado pulled back and slashed down the zombie tried to block but the rusty sword shattered from the downward slash. Torrado cut through the zombie making it catch on fire and falling in a poof of dust.

Farin launched her arrows and a zombie turned with a shield blocking the projectiles. Farin growled under her breath and launched another arrow and quickly followed up with another. The zombie with the shield succeeded in blocking Farin’s first, but failed to block the second one making it land a direct hit on the chest it caught on fire and fell to the ground and turned to dust.

Dant ran towards the other zombie that wasn’t holding Issl’s arms. It turned and met Dant with a regular sword. The Zombie pulled away from the pick ax and slashed at Dant’s feet. Dant jumped over the blade and came down in a dive right on top of the zombie he was fighting. It turned to dust and fell to the floor.

Torrado ran to one of the zombies that were holding Issl prisoner He jumped up and the zombie released Issl’s arm and pulled a sword out Torrado front flipped and landed behind the zombie it turned with a rapid slash but Torrado ducked and slashed both of the zombie’s feet a flam crawled up both of them and the fell to dust.

“Am I dead!?” Issl said.

“No, you’re still alive.” Torrado said standing up.

“That’s good!” Issl said standing up too.

“So, can you take us to Zombie King?” Farin asked.

“I was just about to open the secret passage...” Issl said stopping to think, “That I found one time when I was here...” Issl stammered.

“Huh?” Torrado asked.

“I found a passage way that lead to Zombie King’s throne room; I was just about to open that when those zombies grabbed me... They must’ve destroyed it.” Issl said.

“That is ok we can still make to his throne room from here right?” Farin asked.

“Yeah we can, but it will take awhile with all the traps Zombie King set” Issl explained.

“How do you know about traps here?” Dant asked.

“Uhh... well... ohh... umm...” Issl stammered.

“Well?” Torrado said.

“Because... I’ve been here before!” Issl said. “You want your friend back or not?” Issl said putting her hands on her hips.

“Come on then...” Torrado said.

“Follow me!” Issl said pointing down the hall.

So the group followed Issl down the hall until they came to a place where they saw coffins lined down the hall.

“Uh... Issl what are in these coffins?” Farin asked grabbing Torrado’s right arm.

“Vampires... they are servants of Zombie King...” Issl said.

“So... will they spring out of their coffins and attack us?” Dant asked.

“No, but they will if you make a lot of noise.” Issl said.

“So uh... if we don’t make a lot of noise then they’ll stay asleep?” Torrado asked.

Issl nodded and gave out a smug grin. They started to walk down the hall Farin looking at every coffin so she would know the vampires are still asleep. Issl then walked over to a vase and knocked it off the table it was on. It went to the ground hard and shattered letting out a loud crash.

The coffins doors swung open and smoke rose from every single one. Torrado whipped around Farin and Dant did the same. Issl grinned a little then turned her face in to a terrified look.

The vampires slowly opened their eyes and smiled showing their huge teeth. Torrado glanced at the eyes and the redness terrified him. They jumped and started to fly around the room.

“This is not cool!” Torrado said taking out his sword.

“Sorry didn’t see that vase their!” Issl said.

The vampires flew down trying to grab someone. They all ducked out of the way and fought them back. Farin released five arrows and a straight line of five vampires flew over the arrows hit one vampire after another. The vampires then fell to the ground and vanished.

Dant looked at Issl and just saw her standing there her hands behind her back. Dant looked at Issl strangely and slashed a vampire. Then two vampires flew down and grabbed Issl. Her face filled with amazement as they lifted her from the ground.

“What are you doing!? Put me down!” Issl screamed kicking her legs.

“ISSL!” Torrado said striking away a vampire and running towards Issl.

“PUT ME DOWN NOW!!!” Issl screamed.

Torrado ran and jumped and did a front flip over the vampires that were holding Issl and slashed both of them at the same time. They dropped Issl and went for Torrado. They grabbed Torrado and flew up.

“Put him down!” Issl said her hands transforming into two over sized guns. She looked down at her hands and smiled.

She blasted two light blue lasers and the lasers landed a direct hit. The vampires dropped Torrado and fell to the ground the vampires vanishing.

“Thanks for the save!” Torrado said standing up.

“Don’t mention it!” Issl smiled.

“Hey, you two a little help over here!” Dant said.

Torrado nodded at Issl and Issl nodded back. They ran to the crowd of vampires and started to slash them. Issl alternating between her blades and her giant laser guns. Farin launching her arrows at any vampire that came near her. Dant was jumping all around the room and slashing down vampires. Torrado slashed at them and using his special move “Zix Zanon”.

“Slicing Laser!” Issl yelled out. Her right hand turned to one of those giant blades and her left hand turned to that laser gun. She slashed her blade and shot her laser gun at it they combined and turned to a giant laser sword and slashed a huge chunk of the vampires.

“Nice job!” Farin said shooting her fire arrows.

“Zanon Za cool!” Torrado said. His sword grew long and he spun around making like a yellow tornado. It sucked up the rest of the vampires and flung them every where.

“There goes the last vampire,” Issl said.

“Well where is Zombie King’s throne room?” Farin asked.

“Right through that door!” Issl said pointing at a large door with gold on it and diamonds incrusted on it.

“Ready guys?” Torrado asked.

“Yeah I’m ready to save Ziyran!” Farin said.

“Let’s get going’” Dant said.

The group walked to the door and it opened showing a large room with a chandelier that was lit with candles. A large throne sat on the other end with Zombie King sitting in it. It had windows that had bars on them. Ziyran was sitting in a cage right next to Zombie King’s throne. He also had zombies that were covered in heavy armor.

“Well, well glad to see you here!” Zombie king said smiling.

“We want our friend back!” Torrado yelled.

The Battle in the Un-dead of Night

“Tough luck!” Zombie King said standing up from his chair.

“Give our friend back or you’ll be defeated like your other zombie lackeys!” Torrado said pulling out his sword with force.

“I just have one thing to say, attack spy!” Zombie King said holding his hand in front.

Torrado stood there confused when he heard two thuds behind him. He turned to see Farin and Dant on the ground out cold.

“Who did that!?” Torrado asked.

“Me...” Issl said turning her right hand into a wand and blasting Torrado with electricity.

“Wait there is more!” Zombie King said snapping his fingers.

Ziyran’s cage rose and a red beam came shooting from somewhere in the room then Ziyran’s eyes turned red and flew up his cape waving crazily in the wind. Torrado looked up to see Ziyran getting ready to blast at Farin.

“Farin!” Torrado got up and ran towards Farin pushing her out of the way of the blast.

The blast didn’t stop there as it ricocheted off the ground and towards Issl. Torrado also saw this and did the same tackling Issl out of the way. The beam bounced off the ground and hit a wall and went for Ziyran, it hit him and he fell to the ground.

“Why... why’d you save me!?” Issl asked.

“I’m a hero of light that is what I do, and not even betrayers like you deserve a fate like that.” Torrado said turning and running to Ziyran.

Torrado ran over to Ziyran a grabbed him. “Ziyran are you ok?” Torrado asked.

Ziyran opened his eyes and his green eyes showed and he said: “Torrado... Help!” Ziyran then closed his eyes and opened them again and his eyes were the red color again.

Ziyran flew up and started to chant an eruption spell. Torrado jumped up and slashed Ziyran he just fell back a little and continued to chant ‘eruption’. The entire time Torrado’s words rang through Issl’s head.

“Maybe I am doing the wrong thing maybe I’m not meant to be a jerk like Zombie King... But I can’t betray Zombie King he gave me a home and shelter.” Issl said to her self.

“But what else has he done for you?” Dant’s voice came. Issl turned to see Dant standing up.

“He... hmm... he gave me food.” Issl said.

“Yes, but has he ever helped you through tough times like when you were about to be taken by those vampires?” Farin said standing up.

“No, he never did save me.” Issl said standing up.

“Just think about what you said and see if you want to help someone who never cared for your life who only cared for your powers.” Dant said turning and running toward the fight between Ziyran and Torrado.

“Yeah what Dant said.” Farin said not knowing what to say. She turned and took out her bow and arrows.

Issl stood there confused and not knowing who to turn to or who would be right for her. There was Zombie King who cared for her gave her food and shelter. On the other hand Torrado and his friends they cared for her and gave her friendship. Dant was right Zombie King only wanted Issl to help him get rid of the heroes of light.

Issl looked at the party fighting to get their friend back. They would do that for her and all she did was shove it back in their faces. She stood up taller now she had the right choice in her mind.

Ziyran finally finished chanting erupt. He held his wand out and blasted a huge wave of at lava at Torrado and his friends. Zombie King smiled knowing this was the end. Then Issl ran in front of the wave of lava and became a magic reversing mirror. The lava wave hit her it turned and blasted Ziyran.

“What are you doing Issl!?” Zombie King said standing up.

“Something that I should’ve done a long time ago turning to real friends,” Issl said turning back to normal.

Ziyran fell to the ground sizzling and twitching. Ziyran flew up and his eyes were their normal color again and he looked around. He saw that he was out of his cage and everyone was looking at him.

“What happened?” Ziyran asked floating down to the ground still confused.

Torrado put his sword away and walked over to Ziyran and explained it all to him. Ziyran jumped in astonishment as Torrado finished. Ziyran walked over to the group his head hanging low and said he was sorry.

“Don’t worry about it I know Zombie King can be really persuasive.” Issl said putting her hand on Ziyran’s shoulder smiling sweetly.

The entire time this was happening Zombie King was standing in front of his throne his face red with anger. “You four are going to die!!!!” Zombie King yelled out shaking the room.

Torrado jumped back and drew his sword Ziyran’s wand appeared Farin loaded her knock Dant took out his pick ax and Issl’s hands transformed into her blades. Zombie King looked at them not impressed as he took a deep breath and blew the group into a wall.

“Man, he is way tough!” Torrado said falling to the ground.

“How do we beat him Issl?” Farin asked also falling to the ground.

“He never got this strong around me when I was still working for him. Just keep hitting him with attacks!” Issl said kicking off the wall and doing a front flip in the air and coming down on Zombie King with her blades bursting with flames.

Zombie King just brushed it off and blasted Issl with a yellowish blue beam launching her off the ground and crashing into the wall again. Dant charged his pick a blaze. He jumped and dove on top of Zombie King. Zombie King seemed unharmed and blasted Dant with a red beam launching him back and landing on top of Issl (who was half way up).

Farin shot her arrows and they just stuck in Zombie King not hurting him. Zombie King Jumped and stomped on Farin, when Zombie King lifted his foot Farin was in a foot print all bruised. Ziyran blasted his fire spells and those seemed to do a little damage but hardly any. Zombie King faced Ziyran and took a deep breath and blew out a purple beam and hit him blasting him into a wall.

Torrado looked around and saw his friends heavily wounded. Torrado gulped and ran at Zombie King. Zombie King saw Torrado and laughed lightly and slammed his fist down on top of him. Zombie King lifted his fist and saw Torrado crushed. Zombie King laughed triumphantly, and put the group in a pile.

“Looks like the heroes of light won’t rid the world of darkness after all.” Zombie King smiled as he saw the heroes lying there. He turned and walked to a black orb on the table.

The entire time this was happening a thief who was wearing a black ninja type outfit with black jeans and black shoes that shined a little and he also had a mask on with a black cape that attached to his jacket. Was up on the ceiling looking down at the battle field. He had what he came here for and was just about to leave when he heard Zombie King say something about ‘Heroes of Light’. He turned away from the window and saw the group lying on the ground.

“So those five are the only hope for Vetual eh? Well I guess I have to help them.” The thief said jumping from the ceiling down to the group without Zombie King noticing. He pulled out a blue bottle with a pink potion in it. He pulled the cap off and dripped a little in each of the five’s mouth.

The five sprang up spitting and spattering. The thief smiled under his mask and was just about to run off when he felt a tug on his cape he fell to the ground and saw Torrado holding it.

“Who are you?” Torrado asked letting go of his cape.

“Well my name is Kain and I’m a master thief and a master cook I just use thieving to get all my supplies.” The thief said standing up and brushing off his uniform.

“Well I’m Torrado that is Farin the wizard over there is Ziyran the dwarf is Dant and that is Issl.” Torrado said pointing to each of his friends as he introduced them. They all smiled and shoke Kain’s hand.

Kain took off his mask and brushed his hair out of his purple eyes he shook their hands back Issl blushed when he got to her. Zombie King turned and saw them all up and ok and Zombie King filled up with rage again. Zombie King ran over to the party and growled with a lot of rage.

“Who helped you get up?” Zombie King asked his hands brimming with the yellowish blue beam.

“Him,” Issl said pointing at Kain.

Zombie King walked over and started levitating Kain. Zombie King examined him for a while before he released him. Zombie King stepped back and glared at Kain with fire in his eyes.

“You’re the one who has been stealing from my supply closet haven’t you?” Zombie King yelled with rage.

Zombie King then grew to two times his size and started to power up a black beam. Torrado and everyone else ran behind Zombie Kings throne to catch their breathes and buy some time.

“Guys I can whip up a power raising potion in a few minutes but I need protection!” Kain said.

“Consider yourself protected!” Torrado said as he leaned up against the throne. Then the throne turned black and it fell to the ground in ashes. Torrado fell to the ground and whipped up and around and ran under Zombie King’s legs everyone else but Kain followed. Kain sat down and pulled out a cauldron and started to fill it up with water.

Zombie King was blasting all sorts of colored rays at the party but each one was only a little off. One almost hit Issl but she turned into a mirror again and reflected it back at Zombie King. Zombie King got blown back and into a wall. Kain looked up worried as he saw Zombie King opening his eyes and staring at him.

“Just one final ingredient the magic of a zombie... Oh great!” Kain said looking in his potion book. He then stood up holding his cauldron. He took a deep breath and yelled out: “Zombie King you wanna get me her I am!” Zombie King turned and started calling forth a red beam.

“KAIN! What are you doing!?” Torrado said turning towards Kain.

“The final ingredient the magic of a zombie... I don’t have any in a bottle I’m out of it.” Kain said.

Zombie King unleashed the beam and it went right into the cauldron. It blasted back Kain the cauldron landed on the ground and was glowing purple. Kain was lying on the ground sizzling. The group walked over to the cauldron and took a sip of it they started to glow red and felt stronger.

All five got ready to fight their weapons drawn and in a battle ready position. They ran at the giant Zombie King. Zombie King started to laugh.

Torrado jumped up and sliced down flinging Zombie King into a wall. Farin jumped up and shot her arrows Zombie King took the full on blast from the fire arrows. Issl ran her blades skimming the ground making sparks fly up from the blades tip. Issl then jumped and slashed down on Zombie King making him crash further into the wall and making it fall apart. They saw that it was dark out the whole day was spent trekking to reach Zombie King. The moon was half full and shone a weak light in making the room light up a little more.

“How Can this be!?” Zombie King said standing up.

“Thanks to my potion!” Kain’s voice came from behind the group. They turned to see Kain holding his arm and hobbled over to the group.

“I can’t believe it! I’m getting beat by puny humans!?” Zombie King growled. His hands got a red aura around them and his eyes turned blank he also had so much energy brimming from him that some was being released from his eyes.

“Kain, let me heal your wounds!” Farin said she held out here hands and called out cure the green wind came out from her hands and landed on Kain. Kain glowed for awhile and then was standing up strait.

“Let’s get this jerk!” Kain said pulling out two medium sized knives with markings on them and were glowing red and a little flame was on top of both of the knives. Kain then ran over to his potion and took a gulp then he ran back to the group.

Zombie King swung his hands up and blasted the red beam the group jumped over it and ran towards Zombie King. Kain ran towards Zombie King twirling his knives and dodging any beams that Zombie King launched at him. He then got close enough to get an attack in, he ran at a wall and he got enough speed and shot up the wall when he got to about Zombie King’s height he jumped off the wall and flew at his face he slashed and Zombie King fell back to the ground in pain.

“Guys we are winning!” Torrado said.

Zombie King stood back up and grabbed Kain and tossed him making him crash into a torch. Torrado ran up behind Zombie King while he was occupied with trying to kill Kain. He jumped up and slashed his sword horizontally. Zombie King took a step back holding his side. Ziyran and Farin then teamed up, Farin shot her arrows as Ziyran blasted each of the arrows with a fire spell then the arrows were covered in fire and stuck in Zombie King.

Zombie King fell to the ground once again but his time he didn’t show any signs of movement. The group gathered around to make sure Zombie King wasn’t going to get up again. They then heard armor crashing to the ground. They turned to see the zombie knights that were standing next to Zombie King have turned to dust.

“I think it is over,” Torrado said putting his sword away. They all put there weapons away and stood there for awhile.

“Well I’d better get going!” Kain said turning and jumping to a window sill. “Wait before I go I have something for you!” Kain turned and pulled out a red book and threw it down to Torrado. Torrado grabbed and saw it was a battered book with pages that had tares on the side.

“What is it?” Torrado asked a little confused. He studied it and blew off dust.

“It is a legend book! It gives information on anything you can think of!” Kain said and turned to the window again.

“Wait! Kain would you wanna join us on our journey?” Torrado asked looking up at Kain.

“Hmm... sure why not?” Kain said and jumped down to the group. He smiled as he landed.

“Well I guess I should get going!” Issl said and turned into a bird and flew up to the windowsill Kain was at.

“Issl wait! Do you wanna join us too?” Torrado asked.

Issl turned and smiled big and her eyes sparkled. So she turned back into a bird and flew down and turned back to normal. So with two new allies attained Torrado and his friends set out for their next destination.

Right before they exited the throne room a ghost appeared in front of them. It looked like Zombie King but smaller. It spoke and said: “You may have beaten me but the other four of the Fearsome Five will demolish you! The next one waits for you in Shiverkin!” With that the ghost slowly disappeared.

After the group’s strange encounter with Zombie King’s ghost Zombie King’s final words rang in their heads: “The rest of the Fearsome Five will demolish you!” They continued down the path thinking about it. The silence went on for most of there trip down the path. No one said a word; Kain was reading his potion and cook book. The jungle was less dense so the lantern wasn’t needed, but since it was night, they needed it to see the path, the next morning they continued and kept walking all day in silence.

“It is getting dark we might as well stop here for the night...” Dant finally said after walking for a few hours. The group looked up and was surprised by how low the sun has gone since they left Zombie Castle. The others nodded at Dant’s remark and Torrado, Farin, Ziyran, and Dant reached into their inventories. Kain looked from his book and saw the four pull out these spheres.

“What are those?” Kain asked Torrado with curiosity.

“These are tents Daunty gave us they are so portable and can be re-used five times” Torrado said tossing the orb up. It broke open and a tent that was already assembled fell down near a tree. Farin, Ziyran, and Dant did the same with their orbs and tents fell down under trees.

“Uhh... where are Kain and I supposed to sleep?” Issl asked looking at the four tents.

“Oh... Here Kain you can sleep in my tent if you want,” Torrado said.

“No thanks I prefer to sleep under the stars at night.” Kain said un-rolling a sleeping bag under a spot in the trees where there are no leaves or anything above him. Torrado shrugged and walked in his tent.

“Well get some sleep everyone! We are continuing our journey tomorrow,” Dant said closing his tent’s door.

“Issl you can sleep in my tent tonight!” Farin said. Issl nodded happily and ran into Farin’s tent. When in there Issl turned into a dog and curled up in a corner and fell asleep.

Torrado un-folded his sleeping bag and climbed in it. He laid his head on his pillow and fell asleep, in what seemed like only a few seconds later he darted awake. He thought he heard high pitched screams outside. He walked out grabbing his sword and cloak. When he was outside he saw all his friends in a circle around a fire.

“Did you guys hear the screams too?” Torrado asked holding the bottom of his sword.

“You just now heard them? They have been going on for about an hour now,” Dant said turning to Torrado.

“Wow, How long have we been sleeping?” Torrado asked letting go of his swords bottom.

“About three hours,” Kain peeped out from the circle.

“Really? Wow...” Torrado was cut off by another high pitched scream; this one seemed closer than the first one Torrado heard. He turned and faced the darkness.

Farin ran over and grabbed on to Torrado’s arm and asked: “What is that!?”

Torrado, blushing, replied: “I dunno maybe Kain knows.”

“Well if I were to guess it was either a gargoyle or an imp or maybe even worse a Shadow Snake!” Kain said looking in his own legend book.

“What is a Shadow Snake?” Ziyran asked scratching his head.

“Ask Torrado he has the most updated one my just says: ‘No information on this monster’” Kain said closing his book and looking at Torrado.

“Ok but I think mine is still in my tent, let me go get it real quick” Torrado then ran back into his tent. A few seconds later he ran out holding the bright red legend book. Torrado opened it and started to read aloud: “SHADOW SNAKE: This reptile only hunts at night its red eyes are the only thing that doesn’t blend into the darkness of night. It mostly hunts with its eyes closed so it doesn’t give it self away to its prey. When it successfully captures some prey it lets out a high pitched scream that can make even trolls (page 1,000) tremble in fear. Un-quote...” Torrado slowly closed his book.

“Wow trolls... those are the toughest beasts ever!” Kain said starting to tremble a little.

This entire time Issl was staring at the fire like she was in some trance. Issl stood up and transformed one ear into a rabbit ear. It wiggled and she jumped. She ran over to Ziyran and tackled him.

“What the?!” Ziyran yelled.

“T-t-the Shadow Snake it is near by i-i-it hissed and moved I heard it creep over and moving a dead leaf!” Issl got up and was shaking.

“The Shadow Snake is near!?” Ziyran exclaimed.

Issl slowly nodded. Everyone got their weapons ready Issl changing her arms into her fire blades. Everyone was trembling in fear, knowing that the Shadow Snake has the advantage at night. They saw giant red eyes open in the darkness and a gust came and blew the fire out. Dant’s lantern squeaked on, everyone was waiting for the Shadow Snakes attack.

Torrado stood idle and the only noise they could hear was the tiny flame in Dant’s lantern. The red eyes opened again it slithered out and curled up in front of the group. A giant black snake with super long fangs stared at the party. Farin holding her bow ready was shaking so hard that she let go of the string and an arrow shot into the ground in front of the Shadow Snake. The red eyes looked at the arrow stuck in the ground. It shifted its eyes back to the group and rage filled up the red eyes.

“Good job Farin the Shadow Snake took that as a challenge!” Kain whispered. Farin frowned and looked at the ground.

The Snake shifted its head back and forth as if looking for a weakness. It then tilted its head back and darted at the group venom dripping from its teeth. The snake darted so fast like wind blowing through the tops of the mountains that the group just barley got out of the way. Torrado jumped up and ran towards the snake his sword held high. Torrado slashed down and cut the snake. The wound angered the snake and it whipped its tail and smashed Torrado against a tree. He got up and ran to the group.

“There needs to be a weakness!” Farin exclaimed.

“Lemme check!” Torrado pulled out his legend book and read aloud: “Oh here! According to legend it says the snake has only one weakness light and it has to be a big enough source that means Dant’s lantern won’t work at all, and this might be useful... It says here according to legend once it has gotten weaken it is said to have leveled entire forests and has destroyed giant ships! The only way to quell this rapid rampage is to make it a huge light source!”

“How can we get a big enough light source?” Ziyran complained.

Thinking for a moment Torrado snapped his fingers. “I got it!” Torrado said, “We will use Dant’s lantern and Ziyran’s fire spell to make a huge enough explosion to light up this forest and get rid of that snake!”

Dant nodded and threw his lantern towards Torrado who caught it. Ziyran was chanting fire really fast. Torrado put the lantern down and opened the little door to let Ziyran’s spell in.

“FIRE!!!” Ziyran yelled. A huge swirl of fire spun into a shape of a dragon’s head. The flame dragon let out a blood curtailing roar and dove into the lantern. The fire quickly spread through the lantern and it shattered it into shards of glass and iron. The flash that was let off was really big and caused everyone to shield their eyes.

The snake screeched and started to vanish. Its body was slowly evaporating into the darkness like little fireflies. When it came to its head it blew up into a fire that lit up the already bright jungle even more bright.

There was an eerie silence before Torrado spoke, “Well that is the end of that evil snake!”

“Yeah but who knows how many there are some that are twice the size of the one we just fought” Issl said pointing to a scorch mark where the Shadow Snake was.

Just then another screech came but it didn’t sound anything like the cry a Shadow Snake makes. Then the trees started to rattle and then the group felt chills crawl down there backs. Then they saw a bush turn into ice, the bush got plowed down by and strange looking creature that had blue skin a darker blue dress that at the end spiked out. Its hair was spiked up also and had what looked like snowflakes all dotted on the body and hair.

The creatures eyes were a snow white and it had smaller snowflakes that looked like freckles. It was wearing no shoes just bare feet; it was running so fast that it didn’t realize a good size rock until it tripped over it.

“What is that thing?” Kain asked. Staring at the snow being.

“I don’t know but it looks hurt let’s bring it in my tent.” Torrado said grabbing the head. Ziyran grabbed the feet and they took it in Torrado’s tent.

Awhile later the snow being jolted up. “AHH! Where am I?” It said

“Whoa calm down!” Torrado said laying her back down.

“But I came looking for the warriors of light!” It said starting to get up again.

“Well you came to the right place! We are the warriors of light!” Torrado jumped up and pulled out his sword posing, Farin Jumped up to pulling back on her bow string with an arrow in it. Ziyran did the same but looked as if he was chanting, the other three just smiled and pointed at them.

“No seriously where are they, I heard they were traveling in these woods. By the way I’m Umky” she said sitting up all the way.

Torrado fell down and so did Farin and Ziyran. The other three just scooted away. “But we are the warriors of light!” Torrado said his voice muffled by the ground.

“Fine I’ll play your game…” Umky said smirking a little.

“What did you need us for?” Farin said getting up from the ground.

“Well where I live which is the ice city of Shiverkin, two shadowy sun beings came and started wreaking havoc on our beautiful ice city…” Umky said still smirking.

“Shadow sun beings?” Dant asked puzzled.

“Yes, we usually call them the Shadows of Shiverkin…” Umky said trailing off. “They destroyed half our town already!” Umky saying in a sudden outburst.

“Wow… well we can stop them!” Torrado said in his best heroic voice.

Umky fell on her back and busted into a laugh her legs kicking and she was rolling all over the floor. Torrado hung his head low and Ziyran made a little storm cloud appear above his head. “This was fun but I seriously need to see to real heroes of light!” Umky said whipping a tear off her face.

“WE ARE THE HEROES OF LIGHT!!!!!!” Torrado yelled at the top of his lungs.

“Whoa calm down there buddy!” Umky said, “I believe you.” Torrado feeling like he accomplished something smiled.

“Well there is no use in going now it is late we should get some sleep.” Umky said falling back on the pillow. Torrado grabbed a different pillow and grabbed his sleeping bag and covered himself in it. “Don’t you need covers?” Torrado asked looking over his shoulder.

“No! If I heat up in anyway I melt!” Umky said over her shoulder. The others left and went back to their tents and for Kain his sleeping bag under the stars.

Everyone was asleep except for Kain he was too busy thinking about “The Shadows of Shiverkin”, he turned over to his pack and grabbed out his Legend Book. He turned through the table of contents until he saw the word “shadow sun beings”. He opened the page until he saw a normal looking sun being but the flames were black and it eyes filled of hatred (of course this was a sketch). He read what it said in his head.

Shadow sun beings are the dark forms of shadows; according to legend each sun being no matter how good has an evil shadow and when those shadows come to be to evil break away from their possessor and cause evil the only way to stop them is by…

“Dang it! The next page is missing!” Kain said. “I guess we’ll never know how to beat them!” Kain then threw his legend book on his pack and rolled over and fell asleep.

The next morning Kain got up before anyone else was and he went to a near by lake. He took out his fishing rod and threw out in the lake in five minutes he caught seven fish and walked back to the camp site. He made a fire and put a pot over the fire and cooked the fish. In an hour he made seven gourmet meals and one was frozen by his magical un-cook pot.

In five minutes everyone was awaken by the delicious smell that Kain’s gourmet meals made. They all sat around the fire eating their breakfast and chatting about everything really. After the meals were done their plates crumbled away and vanished.

“Ready to go to Shiverkin?” Umky asked standing up.

“Yes, we are ready to go!” Torrado said going back in his tent and getting his cloak on and grabbing his sword. Farin nodded and walked in her tent putting on her cloak and grabbing her weapons. Ziyran nodded to a clapped his hands and his trinity cape appeared on his back.

“I’ll lead the way stay close because near it can get foggy around Shiverkin.” Umky said walking over the shattered ice bush.

“Ok let’s go guys!” Torrado said leading the group near Umky.

After a long walk mist started to appear around the group. “Ok guys join hands! We need to stick together!” Umky said holding her hand out. Farin grabbed her hand and Torrado grabbed Farin’s hand, Ziyran grabbed Torrado’s arm, Dant grabbed Ziyran’s arm, Issl and Kain joined hands Issl grabbing Dant’s hand.

“Everyone together?” Umky asked her head just barely visible.

“YES!” everyone said in unison.

“OK ‘cause it will get really hard to see anything.” Umky’s voice was heard.

After a long walk a freezing cold air came brushing through the group. Torrado shivered and felt the whole chain of people shiver too. “Ok everyone we are at Shiverkin! The fog will clear soon!” Umky said her body starting to re-appear.

“Is it alright to let go?” Farin said.

“Yeah, the fog should be gone in a second!” Umky said. And sure enough the fog was cleared and Torrado saw beautiful huts and houses made of ice gleaming in the sun.

The group reached a frozen path the lead into the town. There were enormous skyscrapers that were completely formed of ice. Cars that were made of ice were driving on the roads. Then Torrado saw some more huts and Ice people walking in and out of the buildings and the huts.

“Wow!” Farin said dazed by the site of the whole town glimmering in the sun’s rays. “Why would anyone want to destroy such a beautiful city!?”

“People from the Fearsome Five that’s who!” Umky said seeming to be watching out for the shadow suns.

High pitched screams came and one of the huts melted away the Ice beings running their hands raised high. The shadow sun beings floating above the ground laughing evilly.

“There they are! The Shadow’s of Shiverkin!!!” Umky said pointing at the evil beings.

“Come on guys lets go and save this town!” Torrado said running down the path to Shiverkin un-sheathing his sword. The others followed pulling out their weapons Umky also had a weapon an ice whip with spikes jutting from the sides. Kain realized that the sun beings looked exactly like the sketch he saw last night.

Torrado ran down the slope his sword at his side. Ziyran came flying by holding his wand at the ready. Farin jumped and slid down the slope that was covered in ice shooting arrows toward the Shadow Sun Beings. The Shadow Sun beings heard them coming and dodged Farin’s Arrows.

“Drat,” Farin said skidding to a halt, “I missed!” Farin got to the bottom and loaded more arrows into her knock.

“Don’t worry Farin I’ll get them!” Issl said running by Farin her two blade arms at her side. “Watch how it is done!” Issl said cocky, and jumped from where she was at and came diving down at the Shadow Sun Beings.

“HA! This foolish shape shifter thinks she can hit us!” said the taller sun being in a tiny voice, “HA watch this!” The sun being then held out its left arm and shot a blast of blackish fire out at Issl who hit her directly. Issl let out a scream and shot back crashing into a frozen tree breaking it in half and the top half fell on top of her. Issl climbed out of the rubble rubbing her neck.

“Nicely done!” Farin laughed a little then let loose another barrage of arrows. The arrows scored a direct hit on the smaller Shadow Sun Being and it fell to the ground melting the ice away and making a crater.

“Laugh while you can Farin I’ll get these guys.” Issl said jumping up and changing into a giant dragon. “HA HA HA!” Issl-the-Dragon laughed in a deep voice, “Fear my Ice breath!” Issl-the-Dragon then blew out a bluish purple flame that froze the bigger sun being and it fell into the same crater as the little one.

“Nice job you two!” Torrado said reaching the bottom of the hill, “You guys beat those two on your own!”

“Thanks!” Farin smiled.

“Yeah, it was pretty easy too!” Issl said changing back into her original form.

“Guys don’t let your guard down yet… Those two are known to bounce back from any injury, real fast!” Umky said holding her whip in a battle ready position.

Right after Umky said that the ground started to shake violently making Ziyran slip and crash hard on the ground. Torrado was sliding all over the place and Umky was still. “I told you guys!” Umky yelled over the noise, “They are getting ready to come back even more powerful!”

They turned toward the crater and a huge geyser of flames of the blackish color shot from it and two pairs of red eyes were rising. “BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! THOSE FOOLISH HUMANS AND OTHER CREATURES THINK THEY CAN GET RID OF US LIKE THAT!” Came a deep voice.

“YEA AND THEY THINK WE WILL STAY DOWN WELL THEY ARE WAY WRONG!!!!!!” Came a tinier voice. “BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” The two voices rang through the air.

“ACK! They seem way more powerful!” Torrado yelled over the commotion that was made by the two Shadow Sun Beings laughing evilly and the ice creatures running around in fear.

“We have to fight!” Umky yelled.

“Yea I agree!” Issl said turning back into that giant dragon. “This time I’ll freeze them for good!” Issl-the-Dragon said in that deep voice.

“I’m ready too!” Farin said loading more arrows, “We’ll take them down!”

“Let’s get this done!” Ziyran said holding his wand out.

The giant geyser of flames vanished and the two Shadow Sun Beings flew down looking more powerful and touched their feet to the ground. The ice melted away and all that was under their feet was a black mark. “You will suffer!” Said the tall Shadow Sun Being.

“We’ll see about that!” Dant said in a rough voice, his pick axe at the ready.

The tall being smirked and held out his right hand and a sun sword that had a black flame coming out from the sides appeared in his hands. The little one copied and a smaller sword like the tall one’s appeared. “RAWR!” The sun beings yelled and both slashed their swords at Dant. “Sheildieri!” Farin yelled and out of her hands came a blue sphere and it flew towards Dant and covered him in it, the sun swords bounced harmlessly off the shield and flung back into the ground.

“Zix Zanon Zook!” Torrado yelled, and his sword started to glow and it grew huge and he grabbed the bottom of it and spun around crashing into the sun beings. They went flying and landed next to their swords. Torrado was still spinning around when both the sun beings grabbed their swords and held them out in a blocking position and Torrado crashed into them and he went flying back and crashed into the ground. Torrado lay there as if lifelessly.

“TORRADO!!!!” Farin and Ziyran yelled, they sprinted over to Torrado’s side and dropped to their knees. Torrado lay there still and cold on the ground. Farin started to cry a little, and Ziyran turned away.

“That human, didn’t realize we put tons of our shadow power into that block!” said the smaller sun being.

“Farin give me some of you white magic in this vial,” Kain said pulling out a small vial.

“Ummm… why?” Farin asked confused.

“I know a potion that can heal anything even death!” Kain said holding the vial out further. Farin nodded and held out her hands, they started to glow a brilliant white color and she shot a little beam out and it landed in the vial filling it up half way. “Great! Now I need frozen snape weed ground into a powder,” Kain said looking franticly around.

“Ummm, there is some over there” Umky said pointing to a little patch of blue stringy grass. Kain smiled and grabbed a handful; he took out his pestle and motor and crushed it in to a fine powder. Kain then pulled out his portable cauldron and dumped the two ingredients in. He grabbed a fresh vial from his pack and dunked it in the cauldron (which was now bubbling).

“Yes, it is completed!” Kain pulled out a vial full of a golden yellow colored substance.

“WE CAN’T LET THEM REVIVE HIM!” the taller sun being sneered. He held out his sword and ran for them his sword ready.

“WATER WAVE!” Ziyran yelled, and out of his wand came a wave of water that struck the being directly. The taller sun being collapsed and the smaller one ran over to him.

“Now, let’s pour this potion on Torrado!” Kain said, running over Torrado’s body. He took off the cap and poured the substance all over Torrado. Torrado started to glow and he jumped up gasping for air.

“Wha-what happened?” Torrado asked standing up.

“The sun beings put a whole lot of the shadow sun energy into their block so when you crashed into them you almost completely died… Well good thing we have an awesome potion master!” Farin said smiling toward Kain.

“Guys! We have a little dilemma her!” Umky said pointing toward the sun being on the ground. It grew a bright purplish black color and jumped up.

“BWUHAHAHAHA!!!!” it laughed evilly, “WE CAN REGENERATE WHEN THERE ARE TWO OF US! SO YOU’LL NEVER WIN WITHOUT DEFEATING US BOTH AT THE SAME TIME!”

“We’ll see about that! Let’s go guys!” Torrado said grabbing his sword, and running toward the two shadow sun beings. Torrado lunged at them but they quickly dodged and tried to counter but Umky slashed her whip which caught the smaller sun beings arms. She pulled as hard as she could and it pulled him back.

The second one was still coming down but Torrado side stepped at the last second and spun around and slashed down on it. It went soaring back and Dant jumped up and swatted it down on the ground. The small one was still flying towards Umky when Kain jumped in with his knives. He brought it down hard on the blunt side which got the sun being out of Umky’s whip but flying down on top of his partner.

“Yes! We did it we defeated those shadow sun beings!” Issl cheered changing back to her normal self.

“ BWUHAHAHAHAHA! Or did you!?” A sinister voice came.

“Huh? Who is that?” Farin asked confused.

“BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You don’t realize the ultimate evil!? The god of Darkness it self?” The voice rang still sounding evil.

“The god of darkness?” Torrado asked really confused.

“NO! IT CAN’T BE! CRAVIL!” Dant said awe struck.

“BWUHAHAHAHAHA! THE SHORT MAN KNOWS WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT! ANYWAY MINIONS RISE RISE YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT BEATEN! Cravil’s evil voice cackled.

The ground once more began to shake with anger, the sun turned a sickish purple color and it was dark. The giant geyser of flames came spinning up from the hole the sun beings had left. Then a giant pillar rose in the middle of the vortex of flames. The spinning vortex was so powerful it took the groups feet out from under them and brought them up into the Tornado they huddled together so they didn’t get separated.

“Her Umky, drink this, it’ll make you fire proof!” Kain said throwing a potion into Umky’s mouth.

“What is happening, Torrado!?” Farin squealed, trying her hardest to hold on to her friends.

“I don’t know, Dant! What is happening?” Torrado said turning towards Dant who wasn’t paying attention, “DANT!!” Torrado yelled at him.

“What!?” Dant asked.

“What is happening!? “Torrado repeated.

“The shadow sun beings they are coming back from the darkness even more powerful! If we don’t hang on tight we’ll all be goners! And the world will be sucked into everlasting Darkness!” Dant said and face of worry coming over his face.

“I have an idea guys!” Ziyran said, “I have a spell that can turn us to stone! But we will need to shake out of it!” Ziyran said, they all nodded and he let go and called out ‘Stonera’ the group froze and fell out of the tornado. The statues shook really fast and the broke out. The sun beings stopped spinning and started to power up.

“Nice job!” Torrado said smiling.

“We need new weapons if we ever hope to defeat these guys! We need ice weapons!” Dant said collecting the weapons and this time even grabbing Farin’s bow. He ran over to a flat rock and grabbed the ice around him after a series of clanks he came back. He gave Torrado an ice sword, she gave Ziyran a wand with icicles hanging off of it, he gave Farin her bow that was shiny and pretty cold but where she holds it it was warm. He gave Kain ice knives and he threw a huge pile of snow on Issl’s swords and they turned blue. Dant pulled out an ice pick ax for himself. “We are ready!” He smirked.

“BWUHAHAHAHA!!!! You think Ice weapons will help?” The tall sun being sneered.

“Yes, yes we do!” Torrado said spinning his sword in his hands.

The small sun being glared and blasted a huge ball of flames out of his hands. “Sun Bomb!” Dant yelled, “Dodge it!!!” They jumped out of the way a split second before the giant ball hit the ground.

“What was that!?” Ziyran said jumping up and brushing off the soot that covered him.

“Their special attack Sun bomb!” Torrado said, “My legend book said that when they are powered up enough they can do that two times each hour!”

“Great! That’s all we need a huge attack like that!” Farin said sarcastically getting up. She brushed the soot that covered her off too.

“Calm down!” Issl said, “My ice dragon will put these guys down!” Issl then jumped up and did a bunch of front flips and she landed on her feet again but was a twenty-foot blue dragon that had what looked like icicles for horns. “See!? I’m unbeatable!” Issl-the-Dragon said in a deep voice. Then a giant blackish fireball came and hit Issl-the-Dragon in the head.

“Ugh…” Torrado said slapping his head, “I guess I better hold those guys off so Issl can charge up the Freezing Fire.” Torrado said jumping at the sun beings and slashing horizontally making both of them fly back.

“RAWR! No puny thing hits me like that!” Issl-the-Dragon growled, and was about to blast the two sun beings (who were fighting Torrado) when Farin ran up to Issl-the-Dragon and told her to charge up her ice flame while they held off the sun beings. Umky also said she would help by throwing her ice into Issl’s flames. Issl-the-Dragon agreed and started to charge up.

“Ok!” Farin said running into the fight. “Blizzard Barrage!” Farin said letting loose a whole bunch of ice arrows that soon grew huge. They hit the sun beings and they went flying back.

“Nice one Farin!” Torrado said turning around. “Now watch this! Icicle Crush!” Torrado took his sword and held it in the air. Then He threw it down at the taller sun being and a whole bunch of huge icicles followed crushing it.

“Urgh…” The taller one said getting up and leaning against a tree.

“Brother, they are really strong!” The smaller one said helping its brother up.

“Yea, well that is what you get for wrecking havoc on these citizens!” Ziyran said flying down. “And for that take this! Blizzard Beam!” Ziyran held out his ice wand and it started to glow a really light blue. Then a giant beam came out the top and struck the Sun beings sending them flying. Ziyran turned around and gave them thumbs up when two sun swords came out of the smoke and put the sharp ends of the blades up to Ziyran’s neck.

“Urk!” Ziyran said dropping his wand.

“No!” Torrado said stepping forward and grabbing his sword.

“No sudden movements or your little wizard friend here will get it!” A deep voice came. The smoke cleared and revealed Red Hot and Little Steamy. “He he he.” Red Hot smirked. “Thank you for getting our Shadow Sun Being counter parts back! I was feeling way too nice!”

“Grrrrr.” Torrado growled, “Fine,” Torrado said dropping his sword.

“He He He! Now well just leave here with your little friend and you’ll do nothing about it!” Red Hot said an evil edge in is voice. Little Steamy was standing their on the left side of Ziyran looking disappointed. “I’m sure Cravil will give a nice reward to me for giving him one of the Legendary Heroes of Light.”

“NO!” Kain said throwing his ice knives at Red Hot.


“Grrrr, Go my shadow” Red Hot said, His shadow sun being swooped down and grabbed Kain. “HAHAHA!” Red Hot laughed. “I got two heroes of light!”

“No, no you don’t!” Dant smiled, “ISSL, UMKY NOW!” Dant yelled.

“Thought you’d never call!” Issl-the- Dragon and Umky said. They let loose the Flame and it went flying at the Sun beings. Ziyran and Kain smirked and jumped behind their captors and threw them at the flames.

“GRRRRRRR!” Red Hot and his Shadow Sun Being yelled. The flame blasted the three and sent them flying off into the distance freezing them in blocks of ice. “We’ll be back!!!!” Red Hot’s sinister voice came.
***
“Well…” Torrado said as they started to leave the city, “We saved this city from utter disaster…” Torrado was walking against the sunset.

“And we also got to knock out two more of the fearsome five!” Farin added.

“Well this beautiful city will live on!” Issl said following the group her hands behind her head.

“Wait!” Came a voice, they turned and saw Umky running up to them, “Don’t think I’ll let you have all of the adventure to your self!” Umky said. “The king wants to speak with you guys! He has some information on the Fearsome Five!” So they ran back to Shiverkin to see the king and to find out what information he had on the mysterious fearsome five.

The sun reached the horizon and nearly had disappeared before they reached Shiverkin Castle. They walked up to the huge doors and Torrado knocked once and the doors swung open. Torrado stood their surprised and walked in followed by the group.

“Wow,” Farin called her ‘wow’ echoing through the corridors, “This castle is huge!” That also echoing.

The castle was huge it was colored like a sky blue color with frozen torches with frozen flames coming up from them. The hall the group was in was dotted with past leaders all looking pretty closely the same other then a facial mark or another appearance different. Torrado walked down the hall and he caught the view of a huge portrait of one leader that looked really evil. Its eyes were circular with his pupil’s red. It also looked like he was wearing really sharp armor made of ice with icicles poking out from the sides of it. He also had a really sharp ice sword.

“Hey, Umky…” Torrado said over his shoulder with out losing eye contact with the portrait as if it would vanish if he looked away, “Who- who is this guy?”

Umky turned and saw the huge portrait too, “Oh, him? He was the first leader of this castle he and his elite wizard and archer team discovered this area and froze it, it is said that the huge party traveled the whole world, it is only legend thought that they discovered an island not touched by time…” Umky said signaling the others to come down the hall.

“I heard of that place!” Dant said, “I heard that a team of dwarves discovered it though…”

“Well The first leader had a huge group of all the creatures that live on this planet. But it is just legend!” Umky said opening a huge dark blue colored door. The whole group ran in except for Torrado who was mesmerized by this evil looking king. The King seemed to be staring down at him. “Torrado!” Umky said snapping Torrado out of his daze, “Come one!” Torrado nodded and looked back at the portrait but something was really weird, the king had disappeared! Torrado surprised ran in to catch up with the group.

How can a portrait just get up and leave!? Torrado thought he was walking at a fast pace and thinking of it when he tripped over someone. He landed flat on his face and he heard a trumpet playing. He sat up and saw Umky in the middle of the path on one knee and her head bowed. He saw the others doing it too and quickly did the same.

“Oh, stand up!” A huge voice rang through the room. “I am king Freeze; I’m the current king of this ice haven.” King Freeze said, “Ah I see I have the heroes of light and their little party in my castle and I have had no time to clean up…” King Freeze said a little embarrassed.

Torrado stood up and saw the king, he was a short plump king that had a frozen crown with different jewels embed in it he had a blue beard that was frozen and all out of place his skin was an off blue like the other ice beings. “Hi, your majesty.” Torrado said bowing.

“No need to bow son, we in Shiverkin don’t do that, we do this…” The King walked down and jumped up to Torrado and hit him with his stomach knocking Torrado on his back. “See? “The King said then walked up to his throne and sat down.

“Ok…” Kain said under his breath.

“Anyway, I have some information that’ll knock your socks off when I tell you!” King Freeze said smiling happily. “The Fearsome Five is an evil organization set up by Cravil; he set it up soon after you three came here,” He said pointing at Torrado, Ziyran and Farin, “They are the badest of the bad! They will stop at nothing until Cravil has the Three Main Heroes of Lights! The next one is in the Dragon Spine Mountains he is a master of dragons he tamed both the Inferno Dragons and the Frost Dragons. He got controlled by the power and now lives in the mountains he sometimes wrecks havoc on the small villages that worship either the Frost or Inferno dragons. The walk to the Dragon Spine Mountains is about three days, and that walk is through the evil dragon’s forest it has the evil form of the fire dragon, water dragon, air dragon, earth dragon and the king of all dragons The King Shadow Dragon! It has three heads that can shoot balls of all the elements out!” The King paused then continued, “Though each dragon, once defeated, will drop something special for the swordsman of the heroes of lights the elemental stones which can be used to defeat Cravil! Here is the sword that will hold the stones,” The king grabbed a sword from the side of his throne and threw it at Torrado.

“Ahhh!” Torrado said catching the sword, “It’s heavy!” Torrado un-wrapped it and revealed a sword that was made of mithiril (the strongest substance on Vetual) and on the hilt had six circular indentations with a symbol of fire in the first one, a symbol of water in the second one, a symbol of air in the third one, a symbol of earth in the forth one, the second to last indentation was really dark and shadowy while the last indentation was really light.

“Anyway, you will be leaving tomorrow after our feast, you’d seven better get a good rest!” King Freeze said getting off his throne and smiling, “Oh and by the way, this castle is said to be haunted by the three spirits called the Frozen Fears, I’ve never seen one, probly because my throne room isn’t haunted… but anyway get a good sleep.” The King then walked off behind his throne.

“I’ll show you seven to your rooms!” A butler said walking up to the group. They shrugged and followed.

“Yes, I’m joining you guys on your journey.” Umky said answering the question Torrado was about to ask. She turned and smiled.

“Ok, but we will be traveling through really hot places and that fire dragon…” Torrado stated. Thinking of what would happen to Umky when the fire dragon blasted a flame breath at her. Torrado just shuddered.

“Don’t worry about that Torrado,” Kain said intercepting Torrado’s thought, “I can whip up a massively powerful heat resistance potion!” Kain said.

“Here is your room sir Torrado! And you other six’s rooms are along this corridor!” The butler said opening a normal shaped door that was light blue He then pointed to a row of rooms that were about ten feet apart from each other.

Torrado waved his friends good-bye and walked in, his room was a medium sized room with a huge king sized bed up against the wall between a balcony and a window. The bed was nice and soft and had really warm blankets. On the opposite side of the room was a dresser type thing with a big mirror and a bunch of drawers.

There was a door on the east side of the wall that led to a bathroom. And on the west side was a door that he thought lead to another room. The room was dotted with little lights and on the left side of the bed was a side table with a small oil lamp; above the bed was a huge chandelier. Torrado walked to his bed and plopped down on it he took off his belt (which had his sword attached to it). He took off his cloak and hung it up on the side of the bed and pulled off his shoes and laid them next to the bed. He crawled under his covers and laid his head on the soft pillow and fell asleep.

“I can’t believe that they would do this to me!” An eerie voice came making Torrado jump up pulling out his sword (which he had had his hands on it).

“W-who’s there!?” Torrado said holding out the sharp side of the sword in front of him.

“I was the one who brought this castle to what it is today!” The same voice rang out.

“B-but sir please do under-,” A second voice said tremulous.

“I will not understand! Leave me at once or face the consequences!” The first voice said. Torrado, baffled, dropped his sword to his side and lay back down and when he turned he saw two ghostly figures standing next to his bed. Torrado jumped out of bed and held his sword out the mithirl blade shimmering in the moon light.
* * *
Ziyran was fast asleep in his room when he heard a moaning coming from close by. He slowly opened his eyes he saw a girl, a human girl. She had pretty misty blue eyes and long black hair streaming from her head.

“Erm, you ok?” Ziyran said sitting up and looking at the girl.

“What?” The girl said whining a little, “you can see me?”

“Well of course, you’re right there…” Ziyran said climbing out of bed and pulling on his shoes.

“Well I’m a ghost… cursed to haunt this room until a human comes to help.” The girl said.

“Well, I’m a human and I’ll be willing to help…” Ziyran said standing all the way up, “So what do I have to do?”

The girl gave an evil smirk and grabbed Ziyran, “You have to give your life!” The girl said her black hair now flying up in to a spiky style, she blew a blue mist and it went to Ziyran. It went into his ear and his eyes turned blank his pupils covering his whole eye.

“Yes, I will…” Ziyran turned and followed the girl out of the room her evil crooked smile crawling to her face.
* * *
Farin was brushing her hair in her mirror; she was too excited about the journey to sleep. So as all girls did to pass the time away she brushed her hair. Her long blonde hair shimmering in the light. Hopefully we’ll be able to make it through the dragon forest un-scathed…But when we get to dragon spine mountain that dragon tamer will be there…Farin looked back in the mirror and saw something really shocking in the reflection, a ghostly figure covered in a hood was standing there both hands out from the cloak all green and its long fingers rubbing together.

Farin dropped her brush and had to cover her mouth from shrieking. The figure floated over to Farin holding its hands out to grab her. She jumped off the stool she was on and slid under the figure feeling a freezing cold air covering her. She grabbed her bow and aimed it at it. It turned and two red eyes opened from underneath the hood. It let out a soft evil laugh that left Farin shivering.
* * *
Torrado was holding out his sword and shaking really hard. He stopped and realized that the figures were too busy arguing to notice Torrado. He lowered his sword and the two figures kept arguing. The one that was taller looked like the king in the portrait he saw earlier. The smaller one looked like a gnome but a wizard gnome. Shock hit him as he realized the first figure WAS the king.

“Grrr, you’ll pay for your betrayal!” The King said sinisterly he raised a huge sharp blade and came down on top of the gnome. The gnome let out a screech and fell to the ground still, the gnome ghost vanished from the scene Torrado saw then the king walked through the bed passing through Torrado stiffening him. “That gnome deserved it… But he was a faithful servant, I can always get another,” The king then stopped suddenly and grabbed his sword again. “Another betrayer!” The King turned and brought his sword down at Torrado. Torrado, surprised, jumped back and the king’s sword sliced a little of the covers.

“You shall suffer the same fate as that gnome!” The King growled.
* * *
Ziyran hypnotized walked to the edge of the balcony and stepped up on it. The evil little girl laughed. Dant, who happened, to have heard it on his way back from brushing his teeth in the main bathroom burst open the door. “Ziyran! What are you doing!?” Dant yelled the evil girl turning. “Snap out of it Ziyran you need to save Vetual!” Ziyran snapped out of it and jumped off the rail. The little girl confused flew up and out of the room. She was struck by a fire spell. She let out and evil growl and her image blurred away.

“Thank you for freeing my soul Hero!” The girl said right before vanishing. Ziyran smiled and jumped back in his bed dropping his shoes on the side. Dant feeling like he accomplished something returned to his dwarf sized room.
* * *
Farin let loose her arrows and they went right through the ghost and sticking into the wall. Issl who was walking by the room heard the arrows hitting the wall with a thump. She tore the door open and saw the figure standing there and Farin in a corner aiming more arrows at the ghost. The ghost (who probably sensed another presence) turned and a purple aura covered Issl taking her off her feet and stopping in front of the ghost. The ghost laughed a little and held her there.

“Farin, what is going on here?” Issl asked scared and confused.

“I-I don’t know!” Farin said lowering her bow. The ghost once again laughed and used his other hand to open a rift that he flew in taking Issl with her. Farin shocked jump in after them. Farin thought she’d fall on a ground but floated there. The ghost looked and growled still holding Issl with its physic powers. Farin shot more arrows and they went in slow motion but when they got near the ghost they went shooting fast at it. It struck the ghost sending it flying. Issl got let go and scrambled over to Farin.

I got it! In his world, everything hits the ghost! Farin thought a smirk of confidence coming across her fast. The ghost recovered and flew back up he waved his hands and a purple ball flew out from the hands. Farin flew up dodging it and let more arrows fly. The ghost flew back and floated there not moving at all. Farin turned and saw the gateway between the world closing. Farin grabbed Issl’s arms and threw her through it and right when Farin got to the Gateway it vanished. Farin looked around and the weird world started to blur away.

The ghosts blue misty figure blurred away and then the world turned dark and she stopped floating and she fell into the darkness. This sure brings back memories… Farin said remembering her vision of the scorpion attacking Dant and how it broke apart after it finished. I’m sure that’ll happen again… Then the room regained color and she landed flat on her bed. She got up and saw Issl standing there staring at her. “Hi!” Farin said cheerfully.
* * *
Torrado stood there looking at the king. It IS the king from the painting the very first king of Shiverkin! Torrado thought ready to fight. The king lunged across the bed and tried to slash Torrado. Torrado did a back flip and landed on the wall he then jumped off the wall and spun around. He struck the King and sent him flying into the bed cracking it in half the mattress folded in half.

“Now what will I sleep on!?” Torrado said complaining seeing his bed in ruins.

“Boo-hoo… Deal with it!” The King’s red eyes flaming.

The king then tried to slash downward on top of Torrado’s head. Torrado side-stepped and did a full turn and slashed diagonally making the evil king fly through the glass doors that leads to the balcony. Torrado walked out and the king smirked he stood on his hands and knees and spun around his right leg out. The leg caught Torrado’s heel and made Torrado fall down. The king jumped up and pulled his sword on Torrado’s neck.

“Hehehe… I will kill you like I did that gnome!” The king said getting ready to cut Torrado’s neck.

“Nope… Not today!” Torrado said giving out a smile. The king glared at Torrado and put his sword on the left side of his body (he wielded his sword in the right hand) and came down getting ready to be-head Torrado. Torrado slide under the king (since the ground was ice) and jumped up. Man, what I wouldn’t give to have that fire dragons stone about now… Torrado thought to him self remembering what the king said. Oh well I have good enough sword skills to finish off this evil king Torrado thought grabbing his sword with his other hand.

The King turned and saw the sword being lifted shock came over his face and he closed his eyes. Torrado swung down hard on the ghost king and the king flew back sliding into the room. The ghost growled before he was silent and then the picture faded away leaving only a faint blue mist on the floor. Torrado put his sword away and walked back into the room. His entire room was destroyed his bed cracked in half his balcony door blown apart. He walked to his bed and saw that the mist grew darker. It spun around in like a cyclone of blue mist it spun and whipped Torrado’s cloak around and then the mist turned into a line and flew out the balcony door and then the door slammed shut, and the whole room was back to normal.

That king fixed my room? Hmmm he wanted to kill me a second ago… Torrado shrugged and took off his belt and his cloak and put them at either side of the bed and lay down. In a few seconds he drifted off into a deep sleep.

“Torrado wake-up!” A familiar voice said, “Common wake up!” It was Farin’s voice. Torrado opened his eyes and smiled. “I had a weird dream last night!” Farin said, “A weird ghost was in my room with a hood and he just stood there, he reached for me but I grabbed my bow and shot at him nothing happened! Issl came in and she got captured by the ghost and it went to a weird world, I saved Issl and defeated the ghost but it was just a dream right?”

“It wasn’t a dream!” Issl said leaning against the door, “I remember it too!”

“Guys!” Umky said looking into the room, “Why you all lying around! We have to get going! The king is holding a feast for us!”

Torrado jumped out of bed and put his belt and his cloak on and ran out of the room to get to the grand hall. Issl, Umky and Farin followed. At the feast Torrado saw all his friends already there. The feast was great even though most of the food was frozen solid Ziyran was caught heating up his frozen alligator-bird leg and it was immediately frozen again (Shiverkininians believe frozen food is a great treat). After the feast which was about noon earth time they were seen off by the king into the Dragon Forest. Shiverkin’s knights could only go so far before they had to turn back because it got to hot. The group was off into the Dragon Forest not knowing what adventures would follow soon enough.

“This forest doesn’t seem as bad as it was said to be!” Ziyran said resting his head on his hands.

“Well of course we’ve only walked for like ten minutes tops,” Dant said pulling out his map.

Dant was pointing them in all different directions and Issl was watching the ground because she was bored and saw footprints. “Hey guys look!” Issl said calling everyone over, “there must be other people in this forest!” Issl said happy.

“No, it is our foot prints see?” Kain said putting his foot in a footprint and it fit perfectly, “Dant lemme see that map you have there!” Kain said walking over and grabbing Dant’s map. “I see why, you have been holding it upside down Dant!” Kain said taking the bottom of the map and flipping it over.

“Whoops, he he he…” Dant laughed nervously, “Ok we go this way!” Dant said pointing north.

“Guys,” Umky said all of the sudden, “we’d better make camp for tonight it is nearly dark! Besides I’ve heard it isn’t safe to travel in The Dragon Forest at night!”

Torrado looked up and saw that stars were starting to appear in the sky. “Yea, Umky is right!” Torrado said reaching into his cloak and pulling out another Tent Sphere. He tossed it up and a fully assembled tent landed on the ground.

“How fancy...” Umky said walking to a blank spot on the ground and pulling up a cocoon of ice that covered her.

“Now that is what I call fancy,” Kain said un-rolling his sleeping bag and crawling in it.

“Are you sure you guys won’t be too warm?” Umky said popping her head out of the cocoon. “I could always make it cold!”

“Yea, we’re sure Umky just go to bed and we’ll see you in the morning!” Torrado said crawling into his tent and closing the door.

“Come on Issl lets go to bed!” Farin said opening her flap like door and signaling Issl to come in. Issl walked in and turned into a dog again and wagged her tail rapidly. Issl curled up next to Farin and her sleeping bag and fell asleep in five minutes.

“Let’s all get a good night sleep and continue early tomorrow morning ok?” Dant said Dant turning from his tent. There was a series of grumbles then but everyone agreed.

The next morning was a frigid type of day where everyone could see their breath. Dant woke up first put on a small jacket that Daunty made for him and climbed out of his tent. Pretty darn cold out this morning hope everyone is ready for a cold day of traveling Dant thought walking over to Kain’s sleeping bag Dant poked Kain on a pressure point and he jumped up. “Man, it is way too early!” Kain complained climbing out of his sleeping bag and rolling it up.

“Quit your whining and help me wake the others!” Dant said crossly. Kain walked over to Umky’s ice cocoon and knocked on it lightly. Then he did it even harder there was no answering. Dant walked by each of the tents pushing a small red button on the bottom. After he walked by each tent the tents jumped up and spun around spitting out the people and their possessions that were in them then going back into the sphere.

“Did you have to do that Dant?” Torrado said grumbling and putting his cloak on and putting his belt around his jeans his sword hanging there. Farin put on her cloak and put the bows knock across her chest and her arrows hanging at her side in its quiver.

“Ok everyone!” Dant called echoing through the quiet forest. Issl changed back to her human self and stood up rubbing her eyes. “This is one of three days in this forest so we better make the best of it!” Dant said pointing down a path.

“GOOOODDD MOOORNING EVERYONE!” Umky said shattering her cocoon and sharp ice splinters flying everywhere. “We gonna start walking?” Umky asked. Dant nodded and Umky smiled.

They walked for what seemed like hours in silence everyone thinking of their own stuff Umky kept making snowballs and throwing them at the others hitting them and making their hair all wet. After awhile Torrado said: “Man it is getting freezing out here!” Then it started to snow. Torrado and Farin pulled their hood over their heads while Ziyran shielded the others with a force field. Then after a little while it got hot then cold then hot then cold again.

“What’s going on here?” Ziyran asked. The others shrugged and then a blue fire flew out from between the trees and striking Kain up against a tree. Then the weather kept changing and two dragons flew out from the trees.

The first dragon on the left side was a tall slender dragon that was red and the little hair that grew out from its head looked like little flames dancing around the head. The two horns came up both sides of its head and that was glowing like fire too. The second dragon was still tall and a little plumper but his skin tone was a light blue. His hands had like water drops dripping off and splashing on the ground creating a puddle. His hair was like ice stiff and blue no sign of movement in it. He had one horn and it looked like an upright icicle. Their bodies were emitting a fire except the blue dragons which like spouts of water kept splashing up from the back.

“What are those things suppose to be!?” Kain said getting up and brushing off the dirt.

“We are the Fire and Water dragon” The red dragon said, “We heard three heroes of light were traveling through here and the Shadow King, Cravil, Told us to hunt them down!” The red dragon said smiling evilly.

“Well let’s see you try and beat us!” Torrado said taking out his mithiril sword. “You’ll regret taking orders from that evil God!”

“We’ll see!” The blue dragon smiled. “Freezing Inferno!” It called out it opened its mouth wide and blasted out a bluish flame. It came spiraling towards Ziyran.

“Sheildera!” Farin said sending out a bubble of a bluish color. It covered Ziyran and the blue flame bounced off harmlessly. The red dragon ran up and with his tail smashed down on the shield shattering it a knocking Farin and Ziyran back. Ziyran landed a little ways away from where the shield was shattered out cold and covered in the shards. Farin flew back and Kain caught her before she hit a tree.

“Guys!” Torrado said looking at his hurt friends. Torrado growled and looked at the Fire Dragon who was about to grab Ziyran. “No, you’re not taking him away!” Torrado said getting angry he dashed at the dragon and kicked him in the stomach the dragon flew back into the other dragon. Torrado dashed at them his sword at his side; he jumped and slashed the two dragons.

“Humph, your doing better then Cravil and Our Leader said you would!” The Blue dragon said panting. “Humph, but we were taking it easy on you!”

Their leader? Who’s their leader? Torrado thought hen he thought of something horrible: Their leader! Their leader has to be that three headed shadow king dragon! He must be super tough! Torrado stopped thinking just in time to dodge a huge red fireball. Torrado jumped up and slashed down hard on the Fire Dragon. The dragon caught the blade right before Torrado hit him and threw him crashing and breaking trees in half. Man they are really tough!

“Ugh, I’ll help you Torrado!” Ziyran said clambering out of the shards which quickly disappeared. Farin got up to, “come on guys Torrado needs our help!” Ziyran said making his wand appear.

“Water Wave!” Ziyran called out unleashing a tidal wave of water. The Water dragon smiled and jumped in front of it taking the full strike. The Dragon emerged completely unscathed.

“Judgment Vine!” a small voice said from behind the bushes. A huge vine came out from the bushes and struck the Water dragon it crashed to the ground. The fire dragon turned and saw a small green dragon that looked like a girl walk out from behind the bushes its wings were puffy like clouds and there were two small horns coming out of either side of its head. The dragon glared and started to charge up giant fireball.

“Mind Bomb!” Another voice said. A purplish sphere shot out from behind the green dragon and struck the red dragon it flew and crashed into the blue dragon, who, was just about to get up. A purple dragon that was standing on two legs walked out his wings were strong and folded in and he had one short horn in the middle of his head.

“Frozen Fl-!” both the dragons began but a giant lightning bolt came from the sky and struck them making them cry in agony and run off. Then a yellow and gray dragon walked out form the bushes and stood next to the other two it had sharp spike like spin and two huge wings that looked super strong, it had two medium sized horns that were growing up from either side of his head.

“Dang it… I didn’t get the stones!” Torrado said looking at the first two indents on his sword. He put his blonde hair back into place and turned to the dragons, “Tanks for your help you three!”

“Don’t mention it!” The taller dragon said, “I’m Drakon, the little green dragon is Komoy, and the purple one there is Sorsa,” The dragon said pointing to each of them he then continued, “We don’t get many travelers here, well we are the lesser element dragons I’m lightning Komoy is nature and Sorsa is physic.” Drakon said smiling.

“Hey, I’m Torrado this is Farin, Ziyran, Dant, Issl, Kain, and Umky.” Torrado said pointing to each of his friends has he introduced them.

“Finally, more girls!” Komoy suddenly said running over to the three girls, “I’m a girl too you can’t really tell but I am!” Komoy said smiling.

“Well out here in this forest is no place to talk we have a house just past these bushes here,” Drakon said, “Follow me and I’ll show you to the house.” So Drakon walked off and the party followed. Drakon lead them through a dense part of the forest and you could barely see the path the group was following. It was silent for most of the time except the whispers of the wind and the beasts in the jungle. Finally, after walking for awhile the saw an opening in the dense jungle light shining through it. Drakon signaled them to follow him out.

The group did and when the big party got out of the dense jungle they saw a small crude wooden shack with hay as a roof. It was built on pillars of wood that were stuck together with a white paste that was from a plant that never gave away. There were wooden stairs that were also put together by the same paste as the pillars t stood up on.

“Well, this is our home… Sort of bad I know but its home!” Komoy smiled, “Come in it looks like a storm is coming in!” Komoy said pointing her puffy wing up in the sky. The group ran in and right as when they got into the house it started to pour rain.

Farin walked in and when she stepped in the house she felt light headed and she fainted falling to the ground with a thump. Before she blacked out she saw the scene that followed her light headedness in slow motion, Torrado turned and ran towards her, the others wondering why Torrado had turned suddenly spun around and saw her fainting the also ran. Drakon and Komoy were just staring at her saying something to the others and Sorsa stood there looking at her, he smiled as if he knew what was going on

She opened her eyes and saw a black and white vision like the one in the cave when she touched Dant. She saw the Fire and Water/Ice dragon sneak up on the small house that she recognized as Drakon’s house. The said something and shot out a flame that was huge blowing up the house. Farin shocked grabbed her bow and arrow and shot an arrow it just froze in the picture and the two dragons flew off smiling evilly.

Farin ran to the destroyed house and dug through the rubble and saw everyone laying in the house cold and dead, they slowly disappeared and they completely vanished, Farin was crying and the vision broke like glass there was a ray of light shining on her, she fell to her knees and started to sob, even though it was just a vision she felt like it was real life. She stood up wiped her tears away and the light went out she fell through the darkness and she woke up.

“Guys! Get outside now something bad is going to happen!” Farin said darting up, she ran outside, everyone else rather confused ran outside too.

“Farin, what’s wrong!?” Torrado asked stopping next to Farin, Farin’s eyes were darting everywhere in the little area, “Is something the matter?”

“Icicle Arrow!” Farin shot one of her ice arrows and shot it into the bush a small fire like imp fell out of the bush frozen. “A spy! They must be near!”

“Who?” Torrado asked pulling out his sword, “Is something bad going to happen!?”

“Ok, you know one of those visions I had when I touched Dant in that cave? Well I had another one and the fire and water dragon are coming here! In my vision they blew up the house and killed us all!” Farin said lowering her bow, “I don’t want that to happen!” Farin put her arrow back in the quiver.

“Ah, so it is true! You’re a white mage eh?” Sorsa said these were the first words any of the party heard him say since he blasted his mind bomb spell on the dragons, “Do you know what you’re experiencing?”

“Kind of it is something white mages get I don’t exactly know what it is called though,” Farin turning to Sorsa.

“It’s called ‘Flash’ you can see the past or future! It is activated by touch, like the time where you touched the dwarf you fainted and saw what happened to him you saw the past, and when you stepped in the house and set your foot on the floor that happened again but this time you saw the future! You faint to see the vision of the past or future, I’m positive you’ll experience more of Flash now that you know you won’t be so confused when it happens,” Sorsa finished crossing his arms.

“Oh…” Farin said turning back to searching the forest, “Thanks for telling me! There they are!” Farin said pointing at the two dragons crawling out of the bushes, “Icicle Arrows!” Five arrows shot out and struck the two dragons.

“Grrrr, they’re one step ahead of us!” The fire dragon growled standing up, “fine! Meteor Sunshine!” The fire dragon shot out a huge ball of flames and started flying towards the group.

Issl jumped out of the group and turned into a giant mirror which swallowed the fire. Issl smiled and changed back into her self, “Reflector!” Issl then turned her hands into a miniature version of the magic mirror and shot out the giant fire ball and struck the two dragons launching them back into a few trees.

They growled a little then jumped back up, the Fire Dragon blasted another fireball and the Water/Ice dragon launched a water and ice ball at the group. Umky jumped in front of it and absorb the ice ball but the water half hit her hard she launched back and crashed into the ground unconscious. Kain took out his knifes and twirled them and jumped at the dragons. “Agile Slash,” Kain called and right before he hit the fire dragon he vanished, then a whole bunch of slashes made the fire dragon fall down. “He he he!” Kain said then landed right next to Torrado.

“Interesting move Kain,” Torrado said staring at the gasping Fire dragon, “Now let me finish this,” Torrado pulled out his sword and held it with both hands out in front of him he closed his eyes and his mithiril blade started to shine then his cloak and hood were being whipped around by a wind that came from the ground. “Humph, PURIFY!” Torrado said and jumped back a little spun his sword and held the tip out aiming it at the weakened Fire dragon.

A beam of light shot from the blade’s tip and struck the fire dragon, “ARGH!” It yelled and fell to the ground and started to burn up. When it vanished a small stone lay on the ground. The Ice dragon stood in awe speechless. He then glared at Torrado and picked up the stone.

“Torrado let us weaken this dragon so you can purify it!” Drakon said running in front of the group. Torrado nodded and Sorsa and Komoy ran up beside Drakon. Komoy jumped up and struck her head to the ground causing a flurry of vines to come up and wrap around the dragon. Sorsa stood there and then a violet colored beam shot out of his eyes making the dragon stop moving. Drakon flew up his wings spread out and a mass of lightning bolts struck down on the dragon.

“Wow that was fast.” Torrado said starting to repeat the whole purification process. He jumped back and shot the Water/Ice dragon with the beam it fell and right before it vanished it yelled out: “CRAVIL! THE WARRIORS HAVE WON!” the dragon vanished and the two stones fell to the ground. Torrado picked them up and stuck them in the two appropriate slots on his sword.

“SO, The Warriors have won again he he he, doesn’t surprise me.” Cravil’s evil voice cackled the sky dimmed and a giant shadow covered the group, Drakon, Komoy and Sorsa fell in the shadows. Torrado tried to save them but it was too late Cravil’s shadow had vanished along with Drakon, Komoy and Sorsa. Then a shadowy figure accompanied by a three headed figure started to form. Everyone drew their weapons and Kain awoke Umky.

“GRAGH! My two loyal servants defeated by a child!” The figures became clearer. Everyone winced as a cold feeling crossed them the shadows were Cravil and The King Shadow Dragon.

The group continued walking down the path the only talking was if Dant told them which way to go. There was little conversation between the group only to the point talk; Torrado was walking polishing his mithiril sword’s blade and the stones which he now had three of them. He also pulled off his scabbard to clean it which now that he realized it was very nicely built. It was hard steel that was dyed a blue color which was Torrado’s favorite color; he got it for his tenth birthday when he got his original sword. At the bottom was a dragon that was silver and shined brilliantly.
* * *
At that same time far away on a small desolate island called Shadow Isle, that island was covered in big shadowy trees. On that island were strange creatures, monsters to be more specific monsters that were taken by the shadows. And in the middle of that desolate island was a castle that stood about one hundred feet tall and was a sinister black color and the owner of that castle the only person crazy enough to tread that island was Cravil. On the very top story stood Cravil in a large room, it was completely dark except for some candle light and the light that the sun gave but since the forest was so dense only a little of it shown, just how Cravil liked it. On the far side of the room was a giant throne that was a demon red color with jewels incrusted in it.

In the middle of the room where Cravil stood was a table and on that table was a large sphere that was glowing a bright white. And in that ball walked Torrado and his friends. “BWUHAHAHAHA!” Cravil laughed evilly, “SO those fools are heading toward the two dragon villages, which is why they are traveling through Dragon Forest.” Cravil stared blindly into the orb, “Zalim resides there hopefully his dragon taming skills will be enough to take care of those pests. The Earth Dragon could take care of them maybe. But just in case...”

“What are you thinking Cravil? You are going to send him to take care of them aren’t you?” Shadow Dragon asked walking up to the orb.

“Yes, but first, Dragon of Earth, defeat those pests so Zalim doesn’t have to waste his energy.” Cravil turned rapidly making his cloak spin around he held out his hand and a dark portal appeared on the far side of the room.

“My pleasure....” A brown dragon whose hair was limp and hanging down over his face walked out from a dark corner he was tall and really strong and his wings were big and strong too he was a dirt color and his eyes were red you could tell he was being controlled. He spread out his wings and lifted off the ground and with great speed he flew into the portal.

“Those kids are a threat to my plans, luckily, one of them has dark in there body. That will provide a perfect chance to make one of the great saviors turn against the others and eliminate them and for that job I’ll send, my own secret weapon.” Cravil stared deeply into the orb and it zoomed in on Ziyran who walked beside Torrado smiling, “BWUHAHAHAHAHA!” Cravil laughed sinisterly. “Sarmin, get ready to awaken the darkness within the wizard.”

“Yes, Cravil sir.” Said a deep voice then a beam sword appeared and out of the darkness walked a man of about twenty years old that had a mechanical suit that was an orange-red color that looked like armor, but you could tell it was an advanced piece of technology because of the beam sword and you could see places where guns and other weapons could come out. The only part that wasn’t covered with the bionic suit was his head he had green eyes and a dirty blonde hair. Cravil started to laugh and then Sarmin joined in then the Shadow Dragon laughed.

“A good place to start is in the forest heading form the dragon villages to Port Sal, legend has it that the first darkness rose from there. That person is my idol.” Cravil held out his hand again and another portal appeared and Sarmin walked in the portal his beam sword retracting and his hands appearing. The portal closed leaving only Cravil and Shadow Dragon in the room.

* * *


“Wonder which dragon Cravil will send at us next?” Torrado suddenly said shattering the silence.

“Hard to tell Torrado,” Dant said not looking from the map. “Could be earth or even the Shadow Dragon himself, or even the light dragon hard to tell.”

“Light Dragon?” Farin asked stopping suddenly, the others stopped too. “I thought the light couldn’t be taken by darkness.”

“Everyone there is something that you need to know.” Dant stopped and turned folding the map up.

“What do you need to tell us?” Kain said looking up from his potion book.

Dant took a deep breath in and began, “light a dark are equal, why do you think there are shadows in the daytime and the moon and stars at night?” The group was silent, “exactly, there are shadows in the daytime to give a balance of darkness in with the light and the same goes for nighttime the stars and moon give off light to balance the two out. So the two most powerful elements are equal!” Dant looked around to see if everyone comprehended what he just said.

“So you are saying even the most pure of people still has darkness in them? Because of the shadows the sun gives off?” Torrado asked turning and looking at his shadow.
“Exactly, so you are probably wondering why someone can’t be pure light or pure dark right?” The group nodded, “It’s because people with too much light in them become naive and let people push them around. And people with too much darkness in them become evil and never learn to love or even live normally because they are too caught up with destruction, mayhem and the destruction of others. So even Cravil has light in him!”

“Would ya look at that the little dwarf knows his stuff.” A voice that sounded kind of obnoxious said. The earth then opened up under the group and the fell into the crack. “Looks like the heroes have fallen... Oh well BWUHAHAHA!” Said the same obnoxious voice, Torrado jolted up releasing his sword from its scabbard. There was only one light source and that came from the crack in the ground and Torrado stood in it holding his sword at the ready. “The little swordsman thinks he can beat me?” The voice said in a baby talking voice.

Then the dragon stepped out from the darkness and it was him with the obnoxious voice. “I don’t know about Torrado, but I can!” Then Ziyran flew from the other side of Torrado and Torrado saw Ziyran’s staff start glowing and a ball of lightning started to form around the head of Ziyran’s staff and it just kept growing bigger. Ziyran flew super fast at the dragon and struck it with the ball of lightning right in the stomach. IT shot the dragon back into the darkness. “HA! Take that dragon boy!” Ziyran taunted.

“Cure!” Farin’s voice called from the darkness behind Torrado and Ziyran. The two turned and saw a green light light up Farin’s face lit up also and the green beams of light flew into a few figures on the ground and the figures jumped up. The others ran up next to Torrado and Ziyran their weapons in a battle ready position. The cave lit up little torches were placed along the sides except on the north side of the cave was completely dark and that is where the dragon hid.

“You guys aren’t worth my time...” The dragon’s voice said from the darkness then two red eyes flickered open and glared at the group. “If it was up to me I would’ve killed all of you now, but Cravil has given me strict orders to just evoke the darkness in one of you to open up...” The eyes shifted to another spot, “I’ll do that now...” suddenly the ground gave away from under the group but this time they didn’t fall in they sunk.

“What!?” Farin exclaimed sinking into the dirt. Torrado felt this move and jumped up right before the ground gave away. Torrado put his sword up and stuck it into the ceiling above them and hung on to it. Everyone but Torrado sunk into the ground even Ziyran who can fly, but Ziyran wasn’t fast enough to lift up before he started to sink.

The red eyes widened with surprise, “This is not going according to plans!” Torrado smirked and started to swing back and forth getting enough momentum to make it to the dragon. Torrado got the momentum he needed and pulled his sword out of the ceiling did a back flip and dove into the darkness where the ground was still solid.

“Gotcha’” Torrado said and slashed the dragon into the light. “Now, release my friends and we’ll give you a pummeling!” Torrado said holding his sword out.

“Fine, but just one, and I get to pick who. Oh, and I get to bring some friends.” The dragon said smirking, Torrado shrugged and the dragon smiled evilly. It stood up and snapped its fingers, and Ziyran got flung out of the sinking sand and next to Torrado.

“Ready Ziyran?” Torrado asked. Ziyran nodded and made his wand appear. The dragon smiled and held his hands out and all around them sprung up huge earth golems. Torrado and Ziyran went back to back and smiled. The golems transformed into giant boulders and started rolling towards Torrado and Ziyran. Torrado glanced out of the corner of his eyes and nodded Ziyran smirked as if it was a sign.

As if on cue, Torrado and Ziyran right before the boulders hit them sprung off the ground and did a back flip symmetrically. The boulders crashed and crumbled to dust. “Impressive puny humans,” the rock golem said. “Too bad that didn’t hurt the golems.”

“Huh?” Torrado asked looking at the dirty brown dragon.

“Observe,” The dragon snapped his fingers again and the dust started to dance about on the floor. Then a giant cyclone of dust spun up with threads of dust spinning around it and stalagmites and other rocks were taken up and tangled in the mass cyclone. The five in the ground closed their eyes and mouths so they didn’t get any dirt flung into their mouths. Soon the show was done and Torrado and Ziyran looked in awe at what the cyclone of dirt created. In front of them was a giant golem that was about forty five feet tall it had six arms and long legs, the body was still egg shaped but the mouth was huge with sharp pointed rocks probably the stalagmites that were taken up by the cyclone. The eyes were nothing but slits in the head it looked like there was a red light or something shining behind the eyes because the eyes shimmered a sinister red. “Like it?” The Dragon asked smirking evilly.

“Not really.” Torrado said and turned to the dragon. “I say you put your little friend back into the ground and face the two of us, equally.”

“How is two on one equal? That is why I have my little friend. He is Golrem.” The Dragon said smiling. “I have Golrem because it evens us out while you fight Golrem I’ll take on Ziyran. Good enough?”

“No, but Ziyran can easily defeat you.” Torrado said grabbing his sword and holding it with two hands. “Ziyran lets switch!” Torrado ran up to Ziyran and Ziyran turned they jumped up and gave each other a high five and each was ready to fight their nemesis. Perfect my plan is going great! The Dragon thought smiling to himself.

“GOLREM SMASH!” The golem roared pulling up two house sized boulders and holding them in two of his hands. Then another set of arms grabbed two giant stalagmites and held them and the final two hands held two more house sized boulders.

“Oh man, Torrado is in trouble.” Torrado said not knowing that he had referred to himself in third person. Torrado shakily held his sword out as proud as he could and was ready to attack.

“Hello Ziyran,” The Dragon said adding more parts to his evil plan as he figured them out. “My name is…” The dragon quickly thought one up since the dragons of the forest didn’t have a name. “Rock-oo… Yea, Rockoo!” The dragon smiled at his quick name making ability.

“So? I don’t care!” Ziyran then launched a small water ball at The Dragon. The Dragon quickly flew up with its big wings almost knocking Ziyran off his feet with the giant wind force. Ziyran continually blasted small water balls at Rockoo (or so the dragon calls himself) but he dodged too quickly. “Fine, take this!” Ziyran’s eyes started to glow a dark blue color. A spout of water shot up under Ziyran and lifted him off the ground. Ziyran lifted up his arms and the water formed a giant ball above him, Ziyran then stabbed his wand into it and flung it at the dragon. It scored a direct hit and knocked the dragon to the ground.

Torrado ran at the giant golem with his sword held out to his side ready. Golrem then started flinging his boulders at Torrado cutting through the air. Torrado ran getting up enough speed and jumped, he landed on the boulder running across it as it spun through the air he threw his sword up and jumped off doing a front flip grabbing his sword in the air and landing on the next boulder in the line that Golrem kept flinging at him. Torrado repeated this process until he came to the last boulder in the line. He tossed his sword up again and jumped; in mid air he grabbed it and pressed in a random stone. His sword started to dance with flames and Torrado came down at Golrem. Golrem grab- bed his two stalagmites he was holding and attacked Torrado. Torrado slashed down on the first stalagmite and saw the second one was coming up he pressed down on the one he was occupied with and it was thrown back Torrado did a three sixty meeting the next one right before it hit him. Torrado than pushed down on it and did another three sixty and struck Golrem right between the eyes. Golrem’s eyes became black and he crumbled into dust.

Torrado turned his head and saw the earth dragon lying on the ground panting heavily. Ziyran stood in front of the dragon holding his wand out ready to deal the final blow. Rockoo looked up and placed his palm on the ground Ziyran didn’t see this but To-rrado did and he started to run toward Ziyran. “Ziyran! Watch out!” Torrado said starting picking up his pace holding his sword out again. Rockoo looked at Torrado and glared at him Rockoo stood up and jammed his foot in the ground. Soon the ground gave out under Torrado and he fell into sinking sand. Pretty soon Torrado was completely under ground.

“TORRADO!” Everyone yelled. Ziyran turned and saw Torrado’s sword lying on the ground. Ziyran looked at Torrado’s sword in sadness he knew Torrado’s oxygen wouldn’t last long. He turned from the dragon that was wearing a sinister smirk and ran towards where Torrado’s sword lay. He tried digging into the ground but when he cleared some dirt it’d just fall back in place.

Ziyran looked at the ground in hurt. He then clenched his fists and he felt a st-range power tingling in him. He stood up and glared at the dragon his eyes color changed from his normal green color to a blood red color. His wand then appeared from beams of darkness and wasn’t the blue ice wand but an onyx tipped black staff that looked like it was made of some kind of black gem. Not onyx but a different black gem. His robes changed as well, the once colorful Trinity Robes were now replaced by dark robes that were like armor there were little metal flaps that were made of what turned out to be onyx as well.

Dant saw the staff and gasped. Dant’s eyes grew big with shock, “It can’t be… The Shadow Staff!?” Dant exclaimed. The others looked at him strangely. “Come on, I know Farin doesn’t know what it is but Kain, Issl and Umky? It is hard to say that you are from Vetual.” The others continued to stare. Dant sighed an exasperated sigh.

“Just tell us,” Issl said rolling her eyes.

“The Shadow Staff when I was a child my parents told me of three legendary weapons, these weapons were equally powerful as the weapons used by the gods. There was the Holy Light Dragon Sword the Shadow Staff and the Bow of Balance. The gods thought these were too powerful so they locked them up. Legend has it that these weapons were sent to a far off land and could only be received by the chosen ones.” Dant looked around at the group and saw that they were totally lost. “Never mind.”

Ziyran glared at Rockoo with a piercing stare. “Release him now!” Ziyran said but something was wrong and Farin realized it right away. His regular voice was still there but it seemed as though over his voice was a demonic deep voice Rockoo trembled.

“This isn’t good.” Rockoo said under his breath. Ziyran lifted up his new wand and a dark shadow ball appeared atop of it. It grew bigger and Ziyran launched it at Rockoo. The giant ball of dark energy exploded as soon as it made contact with Rockoo. Rockoo crumbled and vanished leaving only the earth stone behind. Ziyran started to change back to normal and fell to the ground unconscious Torrado was then launched up out of the ground and landed right next to Ziyran also unconscious. Everyone was thrown out of the ground and everyone did exactly as the other they ran over to Ziyran and Torrado to see if they were okay.
* * *

Back in Cravil’s castle Cravil and the King Dragon stood there pacing back and forth in front of the giant crystal ball they saw everything that happened. “This is perfect.” Cravil said looking at the crystal ball, “Ziyran’s dark energy is growing all he needs is a little incentive and his dark energy will be mine… he needs to keep getting angry soon he’ll be able to go in and out of his dark form freely.”

“Yes, then you’ll be able to control him!” King Shadow Dragon said enthusiastically.

“Exactly… BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Cravil started to laugh evilly. “GO! Shadow Dragon… tis your turn now!” Cravil opened a dark portal and Shadow Dragon walked through it. “Ziyran, don’t get angry now…”

* * *

Torrado woke-up with a bright light in his face. Once his eyes adjusted he saw he was lying out on the forest floor with the sun shining in his face. Torrado quickly came to his senses and jumped up. Torrado looked around and he saw all of his friends lying around him sleeping. Torrado looked around and saw Ziyran out cold on the ground next to him. Torrado got up and ran over to him to make sure he was alright. Torrado checked Ziyran’s pulse and it was fine Torrado was relieved and sat down next to him.


“Torrado?” Said a soft voice. Torrado turned and saw Farin getting up and rubbing her eyes. “You’re okay!” Farin ran to Torrado throwing her arms around him.

“Yea, I’m fine.” Torrado hugged Farin back and saw that everyone else was getting up. Everyone was relieved to see he was alright.

“What’s all the commotion?” Said a voice from behind everyone. Torrado saw Ziyran up and smiling. “Why are you all standing around for? We are almost through this forest we are almost to another member of the Fearsome Five!”

“Ziyran’s right,” Torrado said, “We only need a little more to go!”

“OH! Torrado here is the stone of earth!” Farin said holding out a stone without anything on it. Torrado smiled and grabbed it a placed it in the correct slot in his sword and signaled everyone to follow.