Leo looked around, he was floating aimlessly and everything was pure white. He stared blankly into space until an image appeared it was Tania, crying. He watched her, the tears slippinng down her face until eventually tears filled his own eyes.
"Stop it" He said "Stop it!" Tania dissapeared in a swirl and Blaze appeared, he was crying also, Selly was attempting to comfort him. Leo tried to distract himself with the good things but the only things he could come up with where; Selly was looking as hot as ever, and Blaze was a boy again.
"Stop it!" Leo cried, Blaze dissapeared and Takoa appeared, then Laura, then Cieran, then Clueless, all of them crying, grieving, mourning.
"Stop it!" cried Leo desperately "STOP! IT!" Leo drew his katana and slashed at the changing image, it had a large cut through it now, the image sucked itself into the cut and then everything was white again. Leo fell until he hit what felt like ground, he got to his feet and then fell to his knees, another image appeared. He saw a large almost angelic building, then Takoa and Laura in pain, crying, screaming. Then, a beast, a large dark beast, it seemed to feed on pain and suffering it was enjoying Takoa and Laura's pain, it wasn't out of defence, it was for fun. Leo suddenly had an idea, he was in what would appear to be a void, the fabric of time and space, time it all came down to time. Those images couldn't all be now because it showed all of the events happening to Takoa and Laura though they where cleary at different times, Leo closed his eyes and muttered
"Now"

He was on a grassy hill, he could see Laura and Takoa, asleep in sleeping bags, he shouted, trying to wake them up but they couldn't hear him. At least they where safe, Leo then muttered
"Then" He was in the streets of Tsuba, Laura, Takoa and Tania where running towards ArkAngel and himself fighting in the sky. Leo saw no point in seeing his last moments again so he muttered
"Next" He saw all the happenings of Takoa and Laura in the building, so it was the future he had seen, what was to come. Leo focused and returned to the pure white void.
"Blimey" He said his voice echoing "I've gotta do something! Where's the bathroom!"

Yeah, I know Blaze usually starts 'em but I was posting an it got locked so here's my post! You might wanna move this to project A and then continue, chow!

It had been a few weeks since the death of Leo. Takoa and Laura hadn't returned yet everybody was kind of settling in again without their friend but Ruddar, just couldn't.It was early morning. Ruddar got out of bed without waking Threasa, took his bow and exited the bunker which he lived in. It was quite luxurious after the work Threasa had done on it. Ruddar walked along the beach. It felt weird that they didn't really have any enemies. There had always been demons or something that they had to watch out for. Ruddar walked up to the the beach house wanting to ask Leo to come out and come fishing with him. Just before he rang the doorbell of the beach house he remembered that Leo was dead and burst into tears. Ruddar walked back to the bunker took out his targets and set them up on the beach. They were made of steel. Ruddar filled up an arrow with Chaosol energy and fired it. Almost instantly a hole appeared directly in the centre of the steel target before the rest of it burst into purple flames. Ruddar smiled. He loved Chaosol archery. Ruddar was focusing so hard to get a good aim that he didn't notice Blaze walking up beside him. blaze pushed him over. Both of them started laughing.
"Want a bit of a practice battle?" asked Blaze pulling out his blade.
"OK," said Ruddar. Blaze charged right at Ruddar, but Ruddar seemed to just vanish. Blaze looked around. He could see a brown speck on a hill in the distance. Then he saw a purple stick becoming bigger and bigger and sharper and sharper. He ducked as he realised it was an arrow.The arrow skimmed off Blaze's left ear before landing in the sand. Blaze's fur caught purple fire. Although Blaze was a pyromancer, he had no defense against the Chaosol power in the flames. Blaze ran into the sea. When he was sure the flames were out he looked up to see Ruddar's Sol sword (or was it the Chaos one?) at his neck.
"You win," sighed Blaze, getting up. Ruddar put away his sword and Blaze went back to the beach house. Ruddar started target practice again but he became bored very quickly so he went back to bed but him and Threasa didn't exactly sleep.

Takoa and Laura woke up in the morning, refreshed and focused. They packed up their sleeping bags and started walking once more. They could reach the mansion in the distance in just about two hours of walking.

Two hours later, Takoa and Laura reached the mansion.There was a very long black metal fence around the mansion with two large black metal gates as the entrance. There was a long brick path leading up to the building with a lot of lush, healthy grass at either side of the path. It was very large with red bricks and had a green roof. It looked very peaceful.
"I wonder who owns this house. I'm starving and we have very little food left. Hopefully they'll be able to give us some food." Takoa said, optimisticly.
"Yeah. I want to see if they have a phone too so I can call the others and see how they are. We've not seen them in a while." Laura said.
They went up the long path and up to the white door. Takoa knocked on the door. They waited a few minutes but there was no reply, so Takoa knocked on the door once more. Again there was no answer.
"Hmm... Maybe they can't hear the knockings. It is a very large building and they could be on the other side of it." Takoa wondered.
He tried to open the door by turning the doorknob and it turned. He opened the door and they stepped in. The hall that they found themselves in was very dark.
"This is very spooky. I don't like it." Laura said to Takoa, grabbing hold of his hand.
"Heh. Don't worry. I'm sure it's fine really." Takoa replied, still holding her hand all the same. "Heeelllloooo?!" He called out to the darkness. "Anybody hoooome?"
Then suddenly the door behind them slammed shut and all the light that was to be seen was gone.
"What?!" Takoa exclaimed. "There are windows over there. They should at least let in some light." He walked over to the windows and looked out of them. The sky was completely dark. The grass outside had become brown and died, and there were now several gravestones arranged around the grass. From what he could see, the building now had some kind of glow to it. What he noticed next horrified him. Creatures came out of the ground and started stumbling around the grounds. They were Cat Mobians but their flesh appeared to be rotting.
"Aaaahhh!!!" Takoa yelled, backing away from the window.
"Uh, Takoa?" Laura said from behind him.
"What is it?" Takoa said in reply, still backing away from the window. He turned around.
"I don't think that this place is safe." Laura said. She was staring at more of the cat creatures, but they were inside the building, coming towards them.
"Aaaaahhh!!!" Takoa screamed. He drew his blades at once and ran towards the creatures. He hacked wildly at the creatures running around randomly, desperately attacking them. Eventually they were all piles of mush on the floor, but Takoa was still attacking their corpses. He stopped after a while, breathing heavily.
"I hate zombies." He said, a large breath between each word. "I f**king hate them!!!" He screamed. Tears had started coming down his face now. He had a look of intense fear in his eyes. Laura saw ran over to him and hugged him, conforting him from his fear.
What they didn't know was that there was a different type of creature watching them from the shadows...

Cilster ran through the forest, his 10 year old son behind him. His village had been attacked, again. A Dark Beast had just slaughtered everyone, it was madness. Scarlet was dead and so were his 2 year old telepatic twins. His whole family were gone, except for his adopted son Aaron. It was unlucky that he had taken his arm off before he had gone to bed. He ran throughthe forest until he came to a large town. He stoped and then turned around and waited for Aaron to come. " You okay?" asked Cilser. " Yeah", replied Aaron, " I'm fine". Cilster then walked to a shop that seemed to sell tents and supplies. They bought some and then went to a smithies and bought an arm gun. " I wan't to get revenge", Said Aaron suddenly, " I wan't to get revenge on that dilh*le Dark Beast". " No", replied Cilster, " Its too strong". " But dad,you said that you have some powerful friends that try to prevent evil", said Aaron, " If we could find them we could go with them". " Thats madness, we'd be dead in a few months, only if its that important to you would we do it". " It is that important to me", replied Aaron, "It is". Next thing Cilster knew they were past the city trying to find Blaze, Ruddar and Leo.

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Eventually, they passed by a mansion, they heard screams coming from it. There were cat zombies everywhere. Whoever was in there they had tro save them. they climbed over the gates and to no surprise the cats attacked them. they hacked through them until they got to the door. They tried opening it, and then tried busting it down, nothing worked. Then Aaron noticed a window. He shot it and it broke. They climbed to the window and crawled in everything was dark, Cilster took out his torch and looked around, the screams didn't seem to be coming from the first floor. They climbed the stairs and saw Takoa and Laura hudled on the ground. Takoa got up and raised his sword to attack them when he realized that it was Cilster. Then Aaron noticed something oozing from the wall. He tipped Cilster on the shoulder and pointed. Then Cilster shot it, it kept on coming, then Takoa shouted " RRRRRRUUUUUUNNNNNNN". The group ran and jumped out the window. They hacked through the zombies and ran out the gate.

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Laura and Takoa were breathing heavily. Aaron and Cilster were just happy to see them, even though Aaron had never seen them before he knew that they were two of Cilsters friends. Cilster had so many questions on his mind, but knew it was a run now talk later kind of thing so he kept quiet. When Takoa and Laura caught their breath, they ran for two hours without talking until they came to the campsite where the rest of the group were staying. the first person Cilster saw was Blaze, he was walking from the beach, then he saw Selly and theresa walking towards the beach. Selly didn't even glance to say hello to Cilster but theresa stoped to say hello for a few seconds and then ran towards the beach chatting to Selly about something.Then Cilster asked " Where are Ruddar and Leo?" Blaze awnsered, "Ruddars at the beach". "And Leo...?". Takoa awnsered " Leo's dead Cilster".

Oh..." said Cilster before bursting into tears. Aaron stood there wondering what was going on. He wanted to ask who Leo was but decided not to. a bit later Cilster and Aaron, checked into Hotel de la Knux.
"Dad," said Aaron. "Who was Leo?"
"He was one of my friends." sighed Cilster, knowing all the questions which were to come.
"Who was that cat who ignored you?"
"That was Selly."
"Why doesn't she like you?"
"I'll tell you another day," laughed Cilster.
"Wait..." said Aaron, pointing at the scar on his father's face. "Is Blaze the one who gave you your scar?"
"Yes." After about an hour Aaronn had a good understanding of what had happened to his father before he had been adopted so he stopped asking questions.

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Ruddar was lying on the beach. Two hamsters approached him. One of them was Cilster. He didn't get up.
"Hello," said Cilster.
"Hi," said Ruddar. "You here for long?"
"I'm re-joining the group." Aaron is too. He's my adopted son."
"Hello" said Aaron.
"Hi," replied Ruddar. "Where's your blade arm Cilster?"
"I lost it. Think you could fix me up with something else?"
I think so," smiled Ruddar, walking the hamsters to the armory. Cilster picked out a blade and clicked it in. He swung it around once or twice.
"OK then," said Cilster. "We're gonna get goin'."
Bye," said Aaron.
"Seeya," replied Ruddar. Ruddar looked around the massive armory. He noticed a door on one wall. He pressed a button beside it and found himself looking at a huge lab. The scientists appeared to have put themselves in giant test tubes. their skin was a strange colour. They were demons. but not like any he had seen before. Ruddar picked up a notebook. it was a diary. He looked at the latest entry.


12 January 1968

Today my assistant and I are going to start our transformations into dark beasts (Project V)
Ruddar read on to the end.
On the 9th of July 2030 the test tubes will open. My brother has set his test tubes to open a week earlier.

Ruddar's chin dropped. That wads today. There was a loud noise. Two purple hedgehogs approached him. That's all he remembered when he was asked later. the hedgehogs got out of the bunker and left Angel Island.

"Hmm..." said Blaze "This is serious, they could destroy the island, it depends what they're capable of" He began to devise a plan in his head "Leo get the..." then he realised Leo was dead and he burst into tears again "Fine Takoa get the..."
"No can do" Ruddar stated handing Blaze a note, it was in Takoa's handwriting.

We're still heading North to find the place where the chaos angels gathered, this time making sure to avoid that mansion. We hope u r all alright from and
P.S Keep Cilster away from the kitchen utensils.

"Fine Ruddar, Cilster c'mon!" Blaze cried as they left the beach hut.

Cilster cursed at the sighting of this letter, he saved Takoa's life, and he tells him to keep away from the kitchen utensiles.

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Later, Cilster went to the beach house to apoligise to Selly so that they could maybe be friends, when he got to the Madter Bedroom door he decided not to go in. He apoligized in the morning, to his surprise, she excepted it. Cilster was over joyed, then he remembered that Scarlet was dead, he suddenly burst out crying. He remembered the graphic scenes in his village, his wife and children slaughtered before his eyes, the usually happy neibours hiding in their basements. Then he noticed something, why the village he was in all the time, why was he always... his thoughts were interupted by screams outside. He stoped crying and ran outside, this time he was going to focus his sadness and turn it into anger, but then he really felt anger what he was seeing was the thing that had killed his wife and children. he hacked through many black tentacal minions. Then the purple beings appeared, he was a slightly powerful pyronite that could just barely manage a fire, but then he was doing things Blaze copuldn't do, his whole body including his sword were on fire, then hundreds of robots saying riot on them appeared, Cilster haked though them. Aaron stared in disbelief as he saw his father destroy tens of robots, Aaron had always known his father as a peaceful man who couldn't cook, but what he was seeing was the complete opisite, Blae and Ruddar ran in and hacked through a few robots, Aaron joined in, he hacked through a couple of robots and then got his arm cut off, he screamed, robots were closing in on him and he was in too much pain too fght them back. Cilster saw this, he went out of this fire form and ran to his sons assistance, he carried him out of the battle, his arm was bleeding alot. he took out one of his spare attatchments for an arm and put one onto his sons left arm, then Cilster said, " there, just like your old man. he attached a gun to he attatchment. Then he said out loud, " how the f*** did I do that?"

Ruddar was scared. There had been shadow beasts in his home and he never even knew. It was still morning. They had decided they would move off at midnight. Ruddar went into the hidden lab. He looked around.As he walked past a row of chemicals, he accidentally knocked over a test tube of dark purple liquid on his tail. He turned his head around. His tail went dark purple. the purple spread up hos body until he was completely purple. then he faded back to his normal brown colour but he swore that his fur still had a slight tinge of purple. That's really weird, thought Ruddar. I probably just imagined it... Ruddar unsheathed walked outside. Threasa approached him.
"Hello," she said jumping on his back They both started laughing.
"Your fur looks different.." she commented, getting down. Ruddar and Threasa hand-in-hand walked to the beach house. Threasa wanted some chat and Ruddar wanted to fight Blaze again.
Ruddar and Blaze stood face to face. This time there would be no weapons.
"Bring it," said Blaze, going up in flames.
"Chaosol Hyper Form" shouted Ruddar. But nothing happened. He searched in his body but there was no Chaosol power any more. Instead there was a patch of darkness. Ruddar tried tapping into it. his fur went dark purple. He felt like a shadow beast but he had full control over himself. Although he no longer had a hyper form or any other Chaos or Sol related powers, he now had a Shadow Form.
"What the hell?" shouted Blaze.
"It's my Shadow Form!" replied Ruddar. Ruddar launched a black fireball.It missed Blaze. Blaze fired a line of Sol Blasts each one lower than the next. Ruddar was already ducking but there were still shots coming. Without even try he just fused himself with the ground. He wasn't taking up space. He wasn't even air. He was just in a way part of the ground. He came out of the ground right beside blaze and swung his sword. Blaze blocked and knocked him onto the ground.
"You win," smiled Ruddar, his fur returning back to it's normal colour but still with a slight purple tinge.

Cilster was in his bedroom watching the tv when a report about the riot robots came on......

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Cilster ran into the beach house, he was panting, he spoke a few words before passing out, " robots... take over... Tsuba"

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Running through the forest, not unusual these days, they were heading towards Tsuba. they got to the out skirts of Tsuba and realized that it way out of hand. the whole city was covered by a wall covered in a purple substance. on the wall ware thousand of Riot robots. they retreated.

soz for the short chapter.

"It's getting way too strange around here..." Blaze said as he changed into his female form. "I mean, Leo the soul guard. Ruddar's dark form. Cilster." She said before changing to her male form again. "So weird..." Blaze said as he headbutted the table and Selly walked in. "I know. He was your best friend. But, there is nothing we can do." Selly said as she stared at Blaze. "Well, there is something. I'm going to find him. Something about him. Trust me. I will." Blaze said as he stood and grabbed his bag. "I'm coming." Selly said as she grabbed her bag. "After all, I can't leave my husband alone now can I?" Blaze smiled at Selly and they kissed before writing a small note and leaving.

Ruddar didn't go to Tsuba. He was still looking at the lab and Threasa was designing the bunker again. Ruddar had worked out that the riot robots were all creations of Dr. Robotnik. Over the phone Robotnik had said that there had been about two hundred made. They couldn't be shut down but once they were destroyed there would be no more. Ruddar had worked out that all of them were in Tsua so him and Threasa went to help. They met up with Blaze and Selly on the way so they all turned around. When he got their everybody was outside Tsuba because there was a shadow barrier around it. Ruddar explained what he had found out.
"Well," said Blaze. "I bet there's at least one shadow beast in there too. Robots can't make barriers like that."
"So how can we get in?" asked Clueless.
"Well," said Blaze. "Ruddar has shadow powers. 'Think you could break it down?"
"I doubt it," said Ruddar. "I'll probably be able to make a hole in it though."
Ruddar went dark purple again. There were a fair few "What the hell?"s. Ruddar ran at the barrier and slashed it with his sword. There was a large hole in it now. All the robots robots and a shadow beast oozed out of the hole.
Ruddar outstretched his hand to the shadow beat.
"Shlekten Tou!" he shouted, in the language of shadows. The large black and purple monster obeyed and the barrier disappeared. Ruddar pulled out his bow and killed the shadow beast.
"How the hell?" shouted Clueless, confusedly and angrily.
"I'll explain when there's not two-hundred robots threatening to kill us!" shouted Ruddar. Blaze used fire, Ruddar used his bow, Clueless used wind, Pyres used fire, Selly used Telepathy, Cloud and Threasa used wind, Cilster used his arm, Aaron used his arm cannon, Stevo slashed, Cluette and Cieran had guns and after five minutes the group was standing unharmed with robot parts on the floor and Ruddar's fur was back to normal but of course wit h the purple tinge.
"now," said Clueless. "Why the hell can Ruddar go purple?"
"OK, I'll explain," said Ruddar. "I've lost all my Chaosol power, but I've now got Shadow Powers."
"What can you do so far?" asked Threasa.
"Well, so far," started Ruddar. "I can speak to shadow beasts., control weaker shadow beasts, become one with the ground or walls and infuse shadows with flames, swords and all that crap...."

Cilster suddenly burst out crying again, a shadow beast approached them, Cilster tried to turn it but couldn't, it was hard but he wasn't that angry. The shadow beast outstretched a long black tentacle, it entered Cilsters blood stream. Cluelette turned Aaron away, but Aaron wouldn't turn, everyone else didn't want to hack in case they it Cilster. aaron shot, it hit theShadow Beast right in the head, the Shadow Beast released and Cilster realized the pain Scarlet had gone through, he burst out in flames and hacked again. He killed it and entered normal form again, His fur seemed scorched. Whatever was happening, it wasn't him doing it. suddenly he wen't again, he turned on the rest of the group, "laste amne sharea" Said Cilster in shadow language. Ruddar said out loud, " Evil lurks upon you".

"S**t!" Takoa said loudly whilst running with Laura in his arms. They had decided that it would be quicker this way as he had a lot of energy left from the rest he had and he felt that he had to burn it off. Also they had time to make up for. He was running at double his normal speed with this extra energy. "I just realised that my Chaos Crystal isn't in my pocket! I must have dropped it in the zombie house! I was gonna use it to go into my Super Form for extra speed so that we could make up for all the lost time. Dammit! I'll have to go back in. It's only just ahead anyway."
"But what about the zombies?" Laura asked. "Last time we were in there you completely flipped out in fear. You couldn't even fight properly. How do you expect to be able to get in and out with your Chaos Crystal?"
"Hmm..." Takoa thought for a few seconds. "I'll just use Chaos Control to get out. No problem at all."
"Wait a minute... Why didn't you just use Chaos Control last time to get us out?" Laura asked, slightly annoyed.
"Well I uh... I guess I must have forgotten about it because of erm... the zombies. Eh he heh." Takoa replied slowly, scratching the back of his head as he said it. A sweat drop was going down the back of his quills.
"I guess it'll be ok to let you go alone this time then. Since you'll be so quick." Laura said to him with a smirk on her face.
"You just don't want to face the zombies again!" Takoa pointed out, laughing.
Laura's eyes widened. "No, um, that's not it at all. No. No. I just er..." She said before she burst out laughing too.
"Alright, hehe. I'll go in alone. Besides, I want to know what the place looks like from the outside when everything happens on the inside. How the hell can the sky get dark so quickly?! Is it a hologram or something?" Takoa wondered.
"Ok. I'll stay outside the gates and see what happens." Laura said. "See you when you get back." She smiled sweetly at him before he sprinted up to the mansion. He opened the front door and entered.

Inside the mansion, everything was as it had been before. The whole room was pitch black but light was coming in through the windows. Takoa remedied the darkness by flaring up the flames on his red and green quills to provide some light. Suddenly the door slammed shut behind him. The windows also stopped letting light in.
"At least I know what to expect this time." Takoa thought to himself.

Outside the mansion gates, Laura saw a dark veil or smog covered the house and its grounds. It was still light outside the gates, but the sky above the mansion suddenly turned black as night. Laura looked up at the sky above. "What could cause something like that? Some sort of dark magic?" She thought to herself.

Back inside the mansion, Takoa had just spotted the first zombie. He was walking towards where he thought the crystal would be and it had come out of the shadows at him. Even though he expected the zombies to be there, he was still nervous and scared even though he would never admit it to anyone. He drew his blades, ran over to the zombie and sliced its head off with a perfect Zantetsuken. (See Project 7y for what that move is and where Takoa first learnt it if you must.) He could see several zombies closing in around him and so he hurriedly started scanning the ground for his Chaos Crystal. He then saw it but it was behind a group of three zombies. Takoa then yelled and ran at the zombies with his eyes half closed. He knocked into them and they fell over. He then picked up his Chaos Crystal off the ground. The zombies were now dragging themselves towards Takoa. Just before they reached him he clutched his Crystal and used the Chaos Control to teleport from the house.

Outside the mansion, Laura was worried about Takoa. He had been in the mansion for more than ten minutes. He was being slower than usual. Maybe the zombies had got to him. Maybe she should have gone with him after all. She was about to go and enter the mansion to help him when he appeared in a green flash in front of her.
"You got it then. You took your time." She said to him, jokingly.
"Er... Yeah. I couldn't find the emerald for a few minutes. Uh... The zombies were fine though. I had no problem and I killed them all." Takoa said.
"I don't have to be able to read minds like Selly to know that you're lying, but I'll forgive you." Laura said, winking at Takoa cutely.
"It's that obvious, is it?" Takoa asked, knowing the answer was yes. "Anyway, we'd better get moving again. We've got to continue heading north."
"Right." Laura agreed.

Evil Lurks upon you, the group couldn't get it out of their heads, Cilster had been out for two hours when he woke up to find that Aaron was beside him full of questions. " Dad, are you eveil now?" " No, not evil anymore, I felt different then, unclean, like I had just been put into a pool of diarreah!", Aaron laughed sarcasticly and then realized that his father was fine and left. Cilster got up out of bed, " Sh*t!", he said suddenly, " Did I just see Leo?"

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Cilster came rolling into the room in a ball, " New way of transport, eh?" said Blaze. Cilster laughed with the rest of the group, "any more problems in Tsuba?" asked Cilster. "Yeah, there still over run by Dark Beasts, wer'e gonna go after breaky." replied Ruddar. " Ooh, can I come?". " Eh, no." replied Blaze " wer'e afraid that you'll go Dark Beast again." "I felt completely different then," said Cilster, " I need to fight, c'mon, please? Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please? pppppppppppppppppppppppplllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???????????????????????????????? Pretty please with sugar on top?". " "Fine," said Blaze, " you can come."

Without Leo, Ruddar was the head-chef, so breakfast was fish that morning.
"Can we have proper breakfast?" asked Clueless.
"Shut up, Clueless," said Ruddar.
"Could I at least have a glass of orange juice?" Ruddar took some apple juice out of the cooler box and poured it in Clueless' plastic cup.
"This is app-" started Clueless.
"Shut up, Clueless," smiled Ruddar. Clueless stayed quiet for the rest of the meal.
After breakfast, the group went into Tsuba. All of the people were in their houses but that was because the streets were full of shadow beasts. Ruddar tapped into his Shadow Form. A shadow beast approached him. It was a large black dragon. It seemed to be the a very weak one.
"Tshgenskit fo kint?" said Ruddar.
The creature bent down.
"OK," said Ruddar. "We're going to climb on his back and attack the other shadow beasts from the sky. He can take me and three others. Who's comin'?"
Blaze, Cilster and Selly stepped forward.Ruddar climbed on at the front to direct the dragon. Blaze got on next, then Selly, then Cilster. Cilster and Blaze were to use fireballs, Ruddar was to use arrows and Selly was to use Telepathy.
"Fletko!" ordered Ruddar. The creature soared into the sky.
"Flekto means fly doesn't it?" asked Cilster.
"Yes," said Ruddar, firing an arrow.
Blaze threwa fireball.
Selly just put her hands on her head. Cilster saw three shadow beasts falling down. Cilster charged up a fireball but it turned black. Suddenly all of the hamster's fur went jet black. Cilster grabbed Takoa and threw him over his head towards the dragon's tail. Luckily Selly managed to grab the tail. Cilster tried to stab the dragon but it's scails were too tough.
"Laste amnea sharea!" screamed Cilster. Blaze noticed what had happened and drew his sword, trying to keep his balance while standing on a black dragon flying at a hundred miles an hour. Blaze and Cilster whacked each others swords off each other, before Blaze managed to knock Cilster off the dragon. Cilster wasn't as lucky as Takoa. He screamed as he plummeted down towards the ground.He hit the ground quite near where Clueless was fighting a shadow beast. Clueless killed the shadow beasts and picked up the unconscious Cilster. The impact of the fall had bot brought Cilster back to normal and knocked him unconscious.

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Ruddar continued firing arrows while Blaze helped Selly up the tail. From the looks of it the shadow beasts were all dead.
"Tell it to land!" shouted Selly.
"Lendiky!" shouted Ruddar sharply.
The dragon dived towards the ground, and surprisingly landed on it's feet.
Blaze and Selly hopped off the dragon and ran off. Ruddar stayed on. After a while everybody was gathered around the dragon.
"OK," said Cloud. "can we go home now?
"OK," laughed Blaze.
"You coming Ruddar?" asked Threasa.
"I'm gonna ride the dragon home. If we kept on angel Island we could train him. He'd be useful. Anyway Threasa why don't you hop on?"
"OK," said Threasa nervously as she climbed onto the dragon. She held Ruddar tightly as his fur went purple again.
"Flekto ot Angel Island!" commanded Ruddar. The dragon nodded and soared into the air.

( You might want to change Takoa to Clueless)

Cilster woke up, he was in the beach house, there seemed to be doctors around him, one of them spoke, " you are fixed". Cilster was angry with himself for letting himself go to Tsuba, he walked out of the room and went into the kitchen. Cloud screamed, Aaron looked shocked then Ruddar stood up and went purple. He said " Cilster, stop, don't hurt your friends, the form you are in is controllable." Cilster looked at himself, he was a fully powerful Dark Beast, he had a purple fire all around him. He walked outside, the Dark Beast nelt downat the sight of him, he was the king of Dark Beasts. but he couldn't always control it. At least he could leave the form now. Cilster left the form and fell over. He went for a wander and went for a look in the lab that Ruddar had found, it was locked, he tried knocking it down, and tried burning it down, nothing would work. He knew that this meant that there was someone in there. He ran back and told the rest of the group.

"Well, hate to leave you now. Well, I don't... But, see ya." Blaze said as he and Selly dived off the dragon and onto the ground. Blaze landed after many flips and Selly floated down. The two ran in the opposite direction of the dragon. "Now, we need to find something of Leo..." Blaze said as they ran closer to Tsuba. "Goody. Back to the dump." Selly said as she floated besides Blaze. "Want to learn some fire magic?" Blaze asked as he stopped running. Selly stopped and landed besides him. "Sure." Selly replied and Blaze began telling her about fire. "Unlike the other elements, fire can move alone. It doesn't need a controller to cause danger. Or, beautiful images." Blaze added as he made a fire dragon appear and fade into nothing. "So, concentrate on this leaf. Try and burn away as much as you can without burning your hands." Blaze said, handing Selly a leaf. To his surprise she was doing quite well. The fire began spreading out towards the sides of the leaf. "Careful." Blaze said as he calmed the flames. That night, Selly was able to make fireballs and small fire models. "Well done." Blaze said to her as they fell to sleep.

In the morning, Blaze taught Selly some sword fighting. "Ok. We've done the basics. Now, the back slice. You jump to dodge, then roll around your foe and slice." Blaze said as he showed Selly. "Now, attack me." "But, I'll hurt you." Selly said to Blaze as she held the sword tight. "Don't worry. I've got armour." Blaze smiled as Selly performed the move. "Well done." Blaze said as she learned the jump strike, the spin attack and she perfected them all. "Your a fast learner." Blaze smiled while they ran to Tsuba. "I learned from the best." She replied as they ran even faster.

They reached Tsuba in a couple of hours and began walking around. The smell of shadows lingered in the air. "You know, Ruddar and Cilster have those dark forms... I wonder if we do." Blaze said, slightly worried. "We may. But, I cannot sense it. So, we are lucky." Selly answered as they walked to a large building. Blaze pushed open the door and stared round. "No one's home." Blaze said as he looked out the window. He could see a large lake outside with a small waterfall.

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Shade stared around the temple, wondering if he was the ruler of time. "Am I meant for this place?" He asked himself. "I know all that has happened, all that will. But, I am willing to forget it." He added as he teleported and grabbed a mobian. "You are now, the time keeper." Shade said, passing a large necklace to the cat mobian. "Ok..." It said as Shade's memories and visions were passed to him. Shade teleported out and reappeared outside his home. "Blaze... Brother... I know your are alive and well and married. But me? I live in this dump with no friends."

Cilster ran up to Ruddar.
"The Lab is locked! There must be another person or thing in there! By the way it turns out I'm the king of Shadow Beasts" He panted.
That's fine," said Ruddar, his fur going purple. "I locked the door earlier.... Anyway, I really doubt you're the king of Shadow Beasts?"
"OK then, watch this," said Cilster transforming. "I'll give you a command. I bet you'll have to obey it. Gukonflam!" Ruddar stood there without doing anything.
"I don't have to obey you," he smiled. "I don't think you're really the king after all."
"That's because you're not a proper shadow beast!" argued Cilster.
"I think I am," replied Ruddar. "Anyway, I'm going to go off on my dragon. I'll be back in a few days."
The shadow beast that bowed down to Cilster saw all this. Ruddar walked up to the dragon and it bowed to him.
"NO!" said Ruddar. "Don't be a lick-ass! Stai Dragok!"
Ruddar hopped up on his dragon.
"I'm coming too," said Threasa, hopping on the dragon. "Where are we going anyway?"
"I'm thinking about East Crystal City," said Ruddar turning to the Dragon. "Flekto ot Crystal City Esta!"
The dragon soared into the air and Threasa grabbed Ruddar.

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Cieran, Cilster, Aaron, Stevo, Clueless, Cluette, Cloud and Pyres stood outside the beach house wondering what they should do next.
"Screw them!" said Cilster after a while. "Me and Aaron are going back to the hotel."
The two hamsters walked away. Clueless and Cluette walked back to their room in the bunker and Cieran, Stevo, Cloud and Pyres went into the beach house.

Theresa and Ruddar came back later that evening, Cilster went into shadow form and ordered the beast to throw off Ruddar and theresa, it obeyed. Ruddar got up off the ground and said, " lousy ass licker." Cilster was on the ground laughing. Ruddar was laughing and Theresa didn't wan't to be a party pooper and laughed as well.

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later that evening some shadow beasts inveded Angel Island Ruddar and Cilster hacked through them.

Please note, all of this happens during Blaze's last post but before Ross man's. Thank you

Leo woke up from a long sleep, he thought of Tania and muttered
"Now" he saw only shadows, he focused harder and managed to force his way through the shadows, Tania and all the other citizens where inside the palace, all shaking with fear. Leo looked around, dark shadowy things where advancing, breaking through the barriers of magic. Leo flew up to the wall of shadows, everyone still oblivious to him, seeing as he was still in the void, he heard a miaow and looked about, a pet cat on floor got infected by the darkness, it felt extreme pain before going mad with evil. Leo stared at it horrified, he looked at the shadow and bellowed
"STOP! STOP NOW! YOU WILL GO NO FURTHER, AS LONG AS THE SOUL GUARD LIVES!" Leo wondered why he'd done this, they couldn't hear him, he looked around all of the monsters and beasts where staring at him, but they could see him, but they could. Leo appeared completley white to everyone else but himself. He dived straight through the shadows to what appeared to be a possessed hedgehog. Leo drews his katana and dived at it, his katana piered the creatures heart, light began to come from the wound, eventually it imploded, but the shadows still remained.
"What?!"Leo thought "The shadows should have stopped, there must be another shadow beast!" he scanned the area looking if any where the leaders, he looked beyond the barrier and saw nothing, he sensed something though, back at the beach hut, using the void he warped there. He saw Ruddar, he was giving off purple and black smog, how come no-one else could see it, did they not know? Leo flew down in fornt of Ruddar, Ruddar stared at the foox which seemed to be made of pure light. Leo said calmly
"Ruddar, you are a shadow beast. As long as you live Tsuba remains in shadow"
"Well, what, what am I supposed to do!? Kill myself?!" Ruddar cried
"No... HAH!" Leo stabbed Ruddar in the heart with his tanto, Ruddar fell to the floor blood pouring from his wound, Leo moved his arms around and a ball of shadow came from the wound, Leo then healed the wound and warped back to Tsuba, to his relief it was now clear of shadows. Leo saw Blaze and Selly riding on a dragon in the distance heading home, or at least that was what it looked like.

Leo landed, though back in the void so no-one could see him, and he saw Selly and Blaze. He was fed up of all these people damaging beautiful Tsuba, he had no choice. He came out of the void, once again as pure light, he fired wind at Blaze and Selly sending them flying, all the way out of Tsuba's boundres, he then summoned a barrier, it covered all of Tsuba's boundaries and nothing could get through it.
"And stay out"muttered Leo

"What the hell?" Blaze yelled as he slammed his fist on the invisible barrier. "Leo... You better not have done this." Blaze added. "But how. It's impossible." Selly said as she sat down. "Well, so much for finding out about the Soul Guard." Blaze said as he kicked the barrier. "You ok dear?" Selly asked, Blaze was holding his foot in pain. "I'm fine. The barrier is hard..." Blaze replied as the two began walking. "Well, maybe fire will work." Selly suggested as Blaze launched a fireball at the barrier. It just faded away to nothing and Blaze stood shocked. The two began walking away. "Next stop, home." Blaze said as the two teleported away.

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Shade sat in his home, his fur blowing in the wind. "Blaze. Where are you..."

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Blaze and Selly stepped inside the beach hut and noticed Cieran, Stevo, Pyres and Cloud. "Wait, Stevo. Weren't you eaten by a fish?" Blaze asked. "Nope. I got better. The fish missed you see. So I ate it. Then found my way back here." He said. "So, where is Ruddar." Blaze asked. "East Crystal City." Pyres said to him. "Well, I'm not finding him." Selly said as she dived onto the sofa. "Me neither." Blaze said as he grabbed his DS and started playing. "So much for finding stuff about Leo." Blaze thought as he changed to his female self.

Cilster went to play Mario Kart with Blaze and Ruddar when he remembered what he was remembering before, why was his village attacked twice? Chosen? But he was just an ordinary hamster, it would make no sense, he wondered about this but left it and played his DS

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Cilster decided to pay another little visit to the mansion he was in, Ruddar and Blaze came with him knowing that the zombies might over power Cilster.

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after two hours they reached the mansion, everything was bright. They entered the mansion and fought off some zombies, when they went upstairs everything changed, Cilster went shadow beast because of the oozing walls. Blaze stood all out of it and looked petrified. They walked through the house and found nothing. They decided to go into one last room, inside there was a book, they took it and left. Later they looked at the book.

Lies of RIOTS. Living dead arise. Evil lurks upon you. Shadows obey their master.

Whatever that meant was nothing to them, the rest of the pages were strangely blank. The only thing thaty bothered them was evel lurks upon you , they had heard it two times before, fom Cilsters mouth.

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Cilster decided never to go into shadow form again because of the side effects, it was like a drug, he got extremely sick.

Ruddar couldn't understand something. He had vague memories of Leo removing his shadow powers but he couldn't think when this had happened. He looked at his chest. there was a scar where his hear t is his heart. It must've happened but yet... Ruddar focused and his fur went purple. The shadows must've grown back inside him. . Then he realised. It had been at the beach house before he went to East Crystal City.
"Anyway," thought Ruddar. "I'm keeping my shadow powers. If the people in Tsuba don't want shadows, they can buy torches."
Him and Threasa walked outside of the bunker with their rucksacks to the dragon. It was nighttime. They had come back to get their bags in the evening.
"Stai Dragok!" commanded Ruddar. The dragon ducked and him and Theasa got on.
"What does that mean?" asked Threasa.
"Down dragon," replied Ruddar. "Flekto ot Crystal City Esta!"
Once agian the dragon shot into the air and flew to East Crystal City, landing in a field just outside the city.
"Let's set up our tents," said Ruddar.
"Actually," said Threasa with a smile. "we only need to set up one tent..."
"Sweet," thought Ruddar to himself. When the tent was up, Ruddar Apprached the dragon.
"Never take commands from Cilster. Nak kut telt farm Cilster!"
The dragon nodded. Ruddar chained the dragon to a pole and went into his tent.

It was boring now. Very, very boring. It was boring before, but now it was just dull. Cieran didn't even watch the news anymore it was so dull.
"Everyone," he announced to the few people left in the house, "I'm leaving. I have a ticket for a plane flying to Mobiatropolis [capital city] in 4 hours. I want to do this on my own. I'm going for research purposes and because I'm bored of staying here. I plan to research the demons at the International Library there. So, yeah, bye y'all. Erm...well, just Selly."
"Do you want to write it down so the others can see it?" she asked. Everyone else was outside. It occurred to him he should have made the speech outside"
"Yeah, best do that actually."

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The journey to the nearest airport took about an hour by car. He parked the car in the long stay car park and went to check in. He was then waiting for a couple of hours after check-in in the departures lounge.
"Grrr, why do we have to check in two hours before the flight?!" he asked himself, on his fourth walk around the duty free shop. He went to one of the chairs and sat down. It was late afternoon and the sunlight was streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hall. Someone dressed in dark robes came and sat next to him.
"Erm, s'cuse me, do you really have to sit there? There's a whole row of seats to my left and right" complained Cieran.
"I need to talk to you Cieran."
"Oh great, it's one of you guys again isn't it? The government."
"Got it in one."
"What is it this time, you gonna tell me about the lab again?"
"The lab was destroyed. We didn't feel the need for it after all the 7Y demons were destroyed. They made up the bulk of inmates"
"So what do you want this time?"
"Here is too public. Meet me at the Parliament building in Mobiatropolis. You have an appointment for 6pm the day after tomorrow."
"Who should I say I'm visiting?-" asked Cieran, but the person had already gone, walking off down the aisle. The intercom buzzed.
"All passengers on MobiAir flight MA-167 to Mobiatropolis please proceed to the departures gate."
"I guess that's me then," said Cieran, picking up his bag and making his way to the gate...

Leo sat meditating in the void, he sensed the peace and the calm, but also the confusion. Eventually he decided to do another round of seeing if is friends where OK. He went through them all with nothing being unusual, eventually he came to Cieran. He was asleep in a plane, drooling from the corner of his mouth, he looked like an idiot.
"Nothing different here then" Leo thought, he whizzed back to the airport and attempted to see where Cieran was headed, the plane had the markings MA-167 or 176, the MA-167 one was headed to Mobiatropolis and the MA-176 one was heading to the South pole. Although Leo wouldn't put going to the South Pole beyond Cieran, he doubted he'd be that stupid. Just for fun Leo flew up to Cieran's car, came out of the void as pure light and kicked its tail light out.

The next morning Ruddar and Threasa went shopping. Shadow Beasts kept approaching Ruddar and trying to bring him over to the dark side and Ruddar had to casually destroy them without gathering too much attention. After killing five Ruddar snapped.
"I'm sick of this!! shouted Ruddar.
"Sick of what?" asked Threasa who hadn't noticed the Shadow Beasts.
"Shadow beasts won't leave me alone, I need to find out what they want from me and in what way are my powers connected to Tsuba!"
"Should I come too?" asked Threasa.
"I dunno..." said Ruddar. "You up for some fighting with Shadow Beasts?"
Ruddar fell to the ground after being hit by some wind.
"I'll take that as a yes," said Ruddar. Threasa smiled.
Ruddar and Threasa walked back to their tent.
"Let's leave our tents back in the bunker" said Threasa. "We should only bring weapons and food... Think you could show me the basics of fighting with weapons?"
"I think so," said Ruddar. "I use katanas but I only need one now that I don't have Sol or Chaos power.. Which do you want? It doesn't matter to me..."
"I'll take the Sol sword..." said Threasa. "But do you think as well as that, you could put the power from the Chaos sword into me? It'll make your sword lighter and me stronger."
"That's a good idea..." said Ruddar taking out two katanas and handing one with an orange handle to Threasa and keeping the blue-handled one "But it'll hurt...". I'm gonna have to stab you with the sword ad you can take the power out of it. i don't need to cut you deeply though... "
"Go ahead then," said Threasa, slightly pulling up her top and closing her eyes. "Stab me in the stomach!" Ruddar forcefully put he sword about half an an inch into his wife's stomach. She winced but didn't scream. Ruddar felt the sword getting lighter he pulled it out.
"Can you heal heal?" asked Ruddar.
"No," said Threasa. "I'll just bandage it up."

As Cilster made his way to the bech house, he noticed his blade was blunt, he decided to go to East Cristol City. He went and bought a fire retardent blade. When he was in the shop he noticed a new design for his attachment. It was a hand that opens and becomes a blade, you needed a attachable blade or gun. He bought one for himself and Aaron and left the shop, he got a Coke and set up camp for the night. He fell asleep quite instantly and was woke from noises out side. He wen't outside and saw that itwas some shadow beasts, he expected them to be following him, he wen't into shadow form and commanded them to leave them alone, all of them left except one, it wasn't Ruddar because his form was the same look as his normal fom.The beast spoke, "I cupo ou erw", I cripled your wife, " agh ou cou." And your kids. ( He is the shadow beast in my avatar) Cilster stood there for a minute, he burst into flames in his shadow form, he didn't wan't to fight it on his own because he could tell it was strong, the beast ran off after saying, " laste amne sherea ate amkatea, " Evil lurks upon your horizon.

Ruddar and Threasa put away their tent and rode the dragon back to the bunker on Angel Island. He walked inside his room and threw the tent under the bed. Threasa Threasa started packing her bag and after finding his bow Ruddar did too. After a while the bags were packed. It was about midnight. Ruddar's phone that he'd gotten for his sixteenth birthday rang. It was Cilster.
"Ruddar!" said Cilster.
"Yeah?" replied Ruddar. "'Cha want?"
"A few Shadow Beasts just attacked me. All of them pissed of when I told them to but one stayed there. I was going to fight him but he just said "evil lurks upon your horizon" and ran off. Anyway I think I'm quite near you, I'm on the outskirts of East Crystal city. where are you?"
"Actually," said Ruddar. "We went back to the bunker. We're going t o Tsuba now. I need to find out how my powers are connected with that place..."
"OK," said Cilster. "I don't think I'll join you so, bye."
"Bye," said Ruddar putting away his phone. Ruddar and Threasa locked up the bunker. Ruddar closed his eyes and his fur went dark purple.
"Stai Dragok!" he ordered. The dragon ducked and he hopped on and pulled Threasa up.
"Flekto ot Tsuba!" said Ruddar before the dragon shot up into the air. He turned around and him and Threasa kissed, Ruddar almost falling. When the the dragon landed outside Tsuba at about two in the morning Ruddar and Threasa climbed down.

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Leo looked around in the void. Eventually he went to went to Tsuba. H saw Ruddar and Threasa getting off a dragon and Ruddar's fur going from purple to it's normal brown. He exited the void once again as pure light. Threasa screamed. Ruddar looked around and was almost blinded.
"What the hell is that?"he asked. The light turned into Leo.
"You?" said Ruddar.
"I thought he was dead..." said Threasa before fainting.
"Hello," said Leo. "I see your keeping your powers?"
"Yes," said Ruddar. "they grew back yesterday when you tried to take them. We're here to find out what they have to do with the place.."
"It's simple, well maybe not for someone like you" said Leo. "One of your parents must have been from one of the royal families here. Here the royal families have their blood bound to the place. It's strange."
Ruddar thought back to when he was younger. His father had told stories about growing up in a golden city.
"Actually," said Ruddar. "my father was Tsubian... But how do my powers affect the city?"
"OK," said Leo. "If you died, part of Tsubia would crumble, so since you are filled with shadows you are too and obviously Shadow Beasts spawn in shadows. Duh!"
"So what should I do?" asked Ruddar.

"P*** OFF!" Leo cried blasting light at Ruddar, Ruddar was sent flying back, Leo didn't really see the point in this because they'd never break the barrier, but he was just p***** off.
"And... you'll remember my words but not me..." Leo fired light at both Threasa and Ruddar's heads, they'd not remember him, he made sure of that, yet they could still heed his words, no matter how little use they'd probably be. He noticed the dragon
"Nach akto saiian" keep them safe, the dragon nodded, picked them up and flew them into the canyon. Leo returned to the void and focused on finding a way out of the void but not being light.

Cilster fell asleep, but it was impossible with the "evil lurks upon your horizon" in his head. He felt like just like staying up all night and try to figure it out, it was a good idea apart from the point that he was really, really tired. Another thing poped into his head, where did he get Ruddar's phone number? He wondered for a minute and then gave up and dozed off. He woke in the morning and went back to the beach house. He gave the arm to Aaron, he was extremely happy with it. Cilster was already wearing his. Later on, Cilster went to check on the book he had found, maybe disipher it, but he found something way more astounding than that, therre was more writng in the book, this time in shadow language, orge, erge, ast. Laste amne sherea ate amketea , Pain, hope, sorrow. Evil lurks upon your horizon. He ran back in and showed the others. They were amazed and woried at this find. They couldn't come up with a logical answer, there had been not a difference from when Cilster had last seen the room, no scratches no nothing. Eventually they agreed on a shadow beast was in the house at the time and there a connection between the head and the book.

"Ah. Finally. A place we can go to get some food. I'm starving." Takoa said as he stood outside an all you can eat restaurant.
"Yeah, me too. We've not eaten properly for a few days now. We've had to ration all our food." Laura agreed.

Takoa and Laura had been travelling for a few days now, heading north all the time. It now turned out that they had reached the seaside port of Surferio. They had found out that if they wanted to head any further to the north they would have to cross the sea to the north to reach the continient of Postilla. There was a boat that left from the port every day at half past ten in the morning. It was now six o'clock in the afternoon. They had decided that they would stay one night in the port before setting off on the boat the next day. So they had a whole day to rest and do what they want while they waited. They had booked two rooms at the port's hotel for the night and were free till nine o'clock at night when they could go to their rooms.

Takoa sighed with satisfaction, five empty plates in front of him. "Ah, that was great food. I've not eaten like that in ages. I'm so full." he said happily.
"You ate loads, Takoa! Where does all that food go? Won't you get fat, eating all that food?" Laura asked him, stunned. There was only two plates in front of her, both empty.
"I don't ever seem to put on weight. I dunno why. Maybe it's because I'm always active with training and stuff all the time." Takoa said in reply. "I think the fact that I can control the fire element must have something to do with it too. Maybe I burn off fat quicker."
"Even so, that was still a lot of food." Laura commented. "I don't even have room for that much. How can you eat all that without being full before the end? I think you overdid it a bit."
"Well, I was quite full half-way through my last plate to be honest." Takoa said, rubbing his quills on the back of his head.
"Then why didn't you stop eating?" Laura asked, puzzled.
"Well it was all so delicious, I couldn't let a bite go to waste." Takoa replied.
"I really don't understand you sometimes." Laura said, shaking her head.

They got back to the hotel at half past nine. They were very tired after all the travelling they had done recently and were glad to sleep in comfy beds for once instead of sleeping bags on the ground. They both entered their rooms and instantly fell asleep in their beds because they were so tired. They would get on board the ship in the morning and travel across the sea.

Ruddar woke up with the wind in his face flying towards Tsuba. He didn't know why he was here, but he knew how he was connected to Tsuba so he didn't need to go there. He didn't have a clue where ha had got the explanation of his royal Tsubian blood, but he didn't care either.
"Flekto ot Angel Island!" shouted Ruddar, waking Threasa up. The dragon turned around and headed upwards too. After about an hour of flight and conversation about what had happened to them the dragon landed outside the bunker. Threasa slided down the dragon's side. Ruddar was about to jump but he was pushed by a gust of wind and he fell off the other side. Ruddar chased Threasa along the beach, both of them laughing. After a while they sat down in the sand and fell asleep. It was still early morning. When Blaze came down to the beach later on he saw Ruddar and Threasa and couldn't resist drawing a mustache on Ruddar's face. Ruddar woke up, with a permanent marker pointing at him and blaze leaning down.
"Damn," said Blaze. Ruddar turned purple and fused with the ground.
"Not again!" shouted Blaze. A large crack circled Blaze. Suddenly the ground under Blaze's feet disappeared and he fell into a deep hole. Threasa woke up at the noise.
Ruddar came out of the ground beside the hole.
"I can fly, dumbass!" shouted Blaze. Ruddar poured a bucket of water on blaze's tails making them extremely heavy.
"Not for the next hour or so!" replied Ruddar, with a laugh.
"Ruddar," said Threasa. "I don't care why you have a mustache drawn on your face, let's go to to the bunker."
"Why asked Ruddar. Threasa put her right index finger into a circle she had formed with her left index finger and thumb.
"Sweet..." thought Ruddar to himself.

Leo decided to do another round of his friends, Blaze was holding a lighter to his tails, Selly was reading a book, Cieran was vomiting up a in-flight meal and Takoa and Laura seemed fine. He eventually got to Ruddar, he was in the bunker so Leo entered, he heard strange noises coming from the bedroom. He decided he really didn't want to see what was in there, so he closed the image and returned to meditating in the void. Leo drew his katana and began to practice various stances, he then realised he hadn't checked on Tania, he quickly summoned up an image. She was in a kimono made from dark purple satin, she looked very sad and she was just leaning on a market stall selling fruit and veg in Tsuba. She seemed OK, for now.

Blaze sat in the hole. "B######." He mumbled as he teleported out of the hole. He appeared outside the beach hut and stared at the sea. He got a lighter and began thawing his tails. "Wait, why didn't I just use my fire powers?" He asked himself, the feeling he was being watched. He turned, but no one was around. He stepped towards the sea and sat in the sand. "I wonder..." He said as he tried lifting a small stone. "Dammit." Blaze said as the stone didn't move. "Burning things is fun anyway." Blaze said as he moved. The dragon amulet fell out of his pocket and onto the floor. "Time to burn!" Blaze yelled as he melted some rocks, the dragon amulet included. "Oh no..." He muttered as the melted remains slowly dripped into the water.

Blaze opened his eyes, he was lying in the water. The afternoon sun beating down on his body. The sun shined, reflecting off the water. Blaze closed his eyes again and stayed floating. A few minutes later he swam back to the sand and got an ice-cream from the freezer. He ate it quickly and got brain freeze. He curled up and clutched his head, yelling brain freeze multiple times.

Ruddar walked into the kitchen looking very happy, he saw Blaze running around on the floor crying
& quot;BrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfr
eezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreezeBrainfreeze!" Ruddar merely shouted
"OK, who let Blaze at the ice cream again!?"

"Wow. The moon reflects beautifully on the water..." Laura said, staring out off the boat into the water below. "Don't you think so, Takoa?" She turned to Takoa, beside her, who was also staring out from the boat at the moon and the water.
"Yeah. It looks great." Takoa said in reply.
"You know, I remember when you really didn't like boats, and travelling across the sea." She said to him, laughing a little.
"Heh. Yeah, I always hated water before. I think all my travels and adventures recently with you and everyone else have helped me conquer that fear though." He said, looking at her and smiling. She replied to this with a smile of her own.

They had been travelling on the boat for half a day now. It was a very large boat. When they had heard the term boat, they had expected something much smaller, but in fact it was as large as a ship. The only reason it wasn't called a ship was because the captain insisted that it was still a boat for some reason. No-one actually knew why that was, even his crew. They all just figured that he missed his old fishing boat which had been destroyed in a storm a decade ago.
Takoa and Laura had a cabin each which they were to stay in whilst they were travelling on the boat. They were next to each other. Cabin numbers 20 and 21. There were 75 on the boat in total, all next to each other in a big line of rooms.

"We should probably get some sleep on this boat while we can. I feel that we'll still have a very long way to go when we reach Postilla. It's only about another day away according to the captain." Takoa told Laura when they were outside their cabins.
"Yeah, ok. See you in the morning. Good night." Laura said, hugging Takoa. He hugged her back. They then went into their own separate rooms and went to sleep. They would explore the boat in the morning.

Ruddar grabbed Blaze's left foot and dragged him up the stairs to the master Bedroom, where Selly was reading. He dragged Blaze threw the door and dumped him on the bed.
"Here's your husband," said Ruddar. "I think it can officially be said. Blaze is an idiot." Ruddar walked out of the beach house and back to the bunker. As he was approaching his room, the door off the other room opened and a shadow beast came out carrying Clueless and Cluette. It walked into his room and came out with Threasa too. they were squirming so using it's mind it tied them up with shadows. It pointed the palm of it's "hand" at Ruddar and formed a fist. Ruddar fell unconscious. The Shadow Beast teleported

Takoa woke up suddenly. It was still the middle of the night. He had heard a crash on the boat. He jumped up from the bed and equipped himself with his swords and crystal. The crash had sounded very loud and dangerous. He walked out of his room.
"Takoa!" Laura said, also coming out of her room. "What was that sound?"
"I dunno. It didn't sound good though. It came from the direction of the deck." Takoa said, pointing where he had heard the sounds coming from.
"Should we check it out?" Laura asked him.
"Yeah. If it's a big problem it could damage the boat. We're in the middle of the sea, if the boat goes down now we're screwed." Takoa explained to her. "Let's go." They started walking up onto the deck.

On the deck, they found an orange cat mobian and a black panther mobian fighting against a giant squid. The orange cat had a very large broadsword and the panther had a large machine gun in his hands. They were trying to attack fiercely but the squid kept sweeping them back with his tentacles before they could get close enough.
"How the hell did a squid get onto the boat? And who are those guys?" Takoa asked a nearby grey rabbit mobian.
"It may sound stupid but the squid jumped onto the boat, right out of the water..." The rabbit replied, his grey fur getting slightly wet from rain that was falling from the sky.
"That would explain the crash we heard." Laura commented.
"...And those two people are travellers who offered to fight the squid. They don't seem to be doing too well though." The rabbit finished.
"We'll give them a hand then. If we don't get rid of that squid soon then the boat'll sink. You up for that, Laura?" Takoa asked her.
"Yeah, I'll try my best." Laura agreed.

Takoa ran up and yelled to the two other fighters. "Looks like you guys need a little help. My name's Takoa, this is Laura. We're here to help you out. Who are you two, anyway?"
"I'm Click and this is Razor." The orange cat said, pointing to the black panther.
"Good to see that someone's willing to help. But we don't have time to chat now!" Razor growled.
"He gets a bit impatient for fighting sometimes." Click said, laughing.
"All right! Let's rock then!" Takoa said happily. He drew his blades and prepared to join the fight.

After a few minutes, Takoa and Laura had already helped sway the fight in their favour. Takoa was teleporting all around the place, slashing the squid from various sides, causing many large cuts. Laura was firing many shells of concentrated Chaos energy from her guns. She had been teaching herself to do this for a while and felt that she had now perfected it. The shells sliced through the squid with relative ease. Click was running back and forth, swinging his gigantic broadsword whilst Razor was covering him, spraying bullets back and forth at the squid, making it recoil backwards. The squid was trying to look around and was so confused by all four of the fighters that it didn't know which one it should attack. It just stood there, confused. Then it saw, one of the fighters wasn't actually moving around. The other three were running around attacking the squid but Laura was just standing there for exact, perfect aim. The squid obviously noticed this because the next thing it did was to leap into the air. It started falling next, falling down towards Laura below. It would crush and seriously injure her if it landed on her. Laura knew she wasn't fast enough to avoid this and so she just stood there, looking very scared fo what was to come. The squid then landed on her, or that was what had happened to people who couldn't see what had actually happened. In actuality, Laura had been thrown out of the way of the squid. Takoa had somehow got to her in time to prevent her being crushed. He was less fortunate, however. He had been crushed by the squid instead.
"Takoa!" Laura cried, staring in shock at the squid at the place where she had been a few seconds ago. "Takoa!"
The squid then started to rumble and shake. It looked like it was about to explode. Everyone stepped back from it. Then a yellow/orange blur came bursting out of the top of the squid's head and shot to the sky. The squid just flopped to the floor, dead. It's blood was pouring out of the large wound quite rappidly. The blur became a dot in the sky, then it changed colours into a red dot with a bit of blue on one side.
Takoa fell to the deck, exhausted. It had taken all his energy to go into his Super Form and rip free from underneath the squid. He had got out his wings just as he had released his Super Form. He had been unable to keep it intact anymore with too little energy at the moment. His wings were the reason he hadn't crashed through the boat when he fell from the sky. They had gradually reduced his velocity and acceleration so that he was unharmed by the fall.
"N-no creature harms Laura while I'm around..." He said weakly before passing out.
"Takoa..." Laura said, staring at him, worried.

"teak teya!" clueless shouted, the teloportation reversed and they were back were they had started "seyala deraya Incantartum" clueless whispered, then the wholde dark beasts skin glew white and dissolved. ruddar woke up when he hit the floor, clueless was stood very still, suddenly a swirling black mist covered him and when it had faded clueless was wearing a black robe and in front of him a bright white portal had appeared, "no wait stop!" ruddar shouted getting up and dashing towards him "niak tay kata!" clueless shouted and a black mist like the previous one hit him sending him flying into the sand "find the necromancers moon then you can locate me" clueless whispered before disappearing into the glowing white portal. as clueless disappeared the dark beast reformed and began an attack on ruddar

Leo was zooming upwards as high as he could get in the void, he got so far and then saw aomething that looked slightly like the ARK. He flew over to it and realised it was the ARK, just in the void in pure white, Leo then realised he must be in space in the void. He was wondering how he was breathing, until he realised he wasn't, he went into the real world as light and picked up a rat scurrying around on the floor. Back in the void he flew up to the "ARK" again and the rat exploded under the pressure.
"That means the void must have an atmosphere" thought Leo, "but me being able to breathe must mean I don't exist. But I must exist because I could pick up the rat and I've done other stuff... GAH! This is all too confusing! I can't take it anymore!" Leo let himself go limp and he began to hurtle towards the "void mobius" he ignited as he entered the atmosphere, yet he didn't burn. He kept falling, hurtling towards the ground, likely to be smashed into a million pieces. He reached the clouds and saw a pure white sea with a pure white boat sailing along it, he closed his eyes and braced himself for the impact.

What Leo didn't realise was that he was no longer in the void, he was in the real world, and he wasn't invisible or light, he was just normal Leo. He splashed into the ocean, going down several metres, he floated to the top unconscious. Razor, who had heard a splash, peered over the edge of the boat, he saw Leo's limp body floating there, he instantly cried
"Man overboard!" he grabbed the safety ring and tied the rope to the barrier, he then dived into the water. He placed the ring around Leo and then cried for someone to yank them up. Takoa, the grey rabbit and Click began to hoist them up, Takoa almost let go of the rope as soon as he saw Leo, still in his samurai armour. They managed to haul them onto the boat where Click began to perform CPR on Leo.