Everyone grows up with that one place that no one goes to. The house with the crazy old mam, the house with the witch, the house with the ghosts. People fear these houses for no reason besides what they hear. However, this particular castle, that fear is rightfully kept. Gale, an infamous murder and warlock in he area, is known to live there. People would call this nonsense if it had many of the people in the country had not witnessed his rage. He'd been there for what seemed like eternity. He had created a huge castle for himself in an open field. The towers were gigantic and many rooms were filled with treasures and books. Despite this, the only other rooms were Gale's bedroom and a large living room. Almost everything else was empty. There were some lightly furnished rooms, but the rest were dusty and dark. Gale sat in one of those rooms, in the corner. Mumbling to himself. If you could see is face in the dark, most would be surpised. He seemed upset and confused. "I use to feel......then I lost all feeling. Still, now I feel something again...is it the feeling of nothing..? I don't know who I am anymore....I lost who I truelly was...what am I?!" Gale bows his head and covers his face with his hands. He sits there, not moving, not speaking. Just thinking.

((This is Gale's home. He goes here to be by himself. If your seeking information, treasure or even Gale himself, chances are he's here. He won't give much away, though. I can't say he likes guests either. Enter at your own risk. This is also serious, any goofiness is not to be tolerated.))

Wolf slinks into the castle, in her human form. Glancing about, she uneasily rests her hand on Fate and starts down a corrider. "I hope he has a library...and I really hope he's not home."

Gale finally stood. He walked out of the room and looked around. He needed to occupy himself. He started to walk down the hall.

Wolf continues down the hallway. She checks in each room, looking for the library. Scowling, she turns right suddenly and slams into Gale.

"...."

"...." Gale draws Sin. "How'd you get in?"

She draws Fate, taking a defense stance. "Th-through the door."

Gale approaches Wolf. "Oh come on. You know I live here."

"I'm just looking to do some research on demon possession and I know that you have a library somewhere...please don't bite my head off, Gale, I'm seriously not going to do anything wrong!"

She grins meekly.

"..You're still tresspassing." Gale spins Sin.

"Well, yeah, but...we're friends, so it's okay, right Gale old buddy old pal? You don't mind if I just read a book or two, do you?"

She tightens her grip on Fate, watching Sin carefully.

"Since when was I anyone's friend?"

"...er...you've always been my friend...well...at least that's how I view you..."

"You have five minutes." Gale lowers Sin.

"Five minutes to do my research or run?"

"Either, but you better be gone when times out."

"Aw, shilly, I can't do my research in five minutes. Maybe you can help me? I just need to find out how to either control or get rid of that damn demon in me!"

Gale turns around. "Not my area of research. Take books for all I care."

"Hey, where's the library?"

"Keep gong down the hall. The nicest door is the one."

"Um, thanks."

Five minutes later finds Wolf with her head buried in a book labeled "Demon Possession."

Gale sits and then walks into the library. "Times up."

Forgetting where she's at, she snaps a reply. "Well, that's just grand, but I'm not done here. Bug off."

"I said leave." Gale draws Sin.

Wolf looks up, annoyed. Her eyes widen in surprise and reconigtion. Still, she doesn't rise.

"I'm not done."

"Fine." Gale slashes at Wolf.

Sin's slash is met by Fate's slash. Wolf scowls. "Leave me alone. I'm not harming anybody. I'm just reading."

"I told you 5 minutes!" Gale slashes again.

*Walking slowly down the street is Dasumia, wearing a pitch-black hooded cape wrapped around her, the hood shadowing her face. She walks past the castle and, feeling some type of strong magic within, turns to look at it. If her hood were down, a passerby could see a sly smile upon her face as she steps onto the lawn and walks to the front door, now walking about 3 inches above the ground.*

Ducks the slash and leaps out of the chair. "And I'm telling you I'm not done!"

Gale sends a blast of energy at Wolf, but he avoids the books.

The blast bounces off of Fate. Wolf, now really annoyed, leaps at Gale, slashing.

Gale easily grabs Fate and tosses the sword, and Wolf to the side.

"Whatever. I'll leave when I'm finished."

She stalks back to her chair and sits down. She re-opens her book, but her hand remains on Fate.

*Upon reaching the front door, Das's feet touch the ground. She looks up at the castle, but resists the temptation to enter on her own. She watches as the doorknocker rises and falls, knocking once, twice, three times and then stops. She takes a step back and waits.*

Gale twitches as he hears the door. His eyes burn with rage. "Since when was my castle made a tourist attraction?!" Gale turns from Wolf. "I'll deal with you later."

"Uh-huh."

She digs out some paper and a pencil and starts taking notes.

*Das lifts her hood up and off her head as she waits for the door to open. Running her fingers through her hair, she becomes tempted to just walk in, but decides, once again, to act like a human.*

Gale walks to the door and locks it. "I suggest you leave."

*Her eyebrows knit together as she dissappears from his frornt step to directly behind him.*

That was rather rude.

"Who the hell are you?!" Gale draws Sin, again.

My name is Dasumia Eriabeth Raykilor. Not that you deserve to know, being so inconsiderate to your guests. I suggest you put your sword away as well, it will do you no good while I'm around.

"You are not welcome here."

I am not welcome in many places Gale. But you will have to get used to me for the moment. You have something I want, and I'm not leaving until I find it.

"And what would that be?"

*Dasumia turns on her heel and heads towards the library.*

A book.

Gale sighs, it seems that his castle has become a library. "Of what? I don't have worthless crap here."

*Das smiles, but he only sees the back of her head*

You're correct. You have something very valuable, thought I'm sure you don't know it.

*She turns to look him up and down*

Hm.

*She continues towards the library.*

Once I find it I might just stay for some tea, how does that sound?

Gale frowns. "How does 'no' sound?"

Sounds like a dismissal, but I'll pretend I didn't hear it.

Gale twitches. He had just met this woman and she was already scalling his lost of most annoying people. He quickly goes to the library. He wasn't about to let anyone just take everything they pleased.

*Dasumia walks into the library and looks around.*

Don't worry, I'll only be a minute or two.

*She steps up a few steps of air and ascends to the top of shelf of books. She pulls one out, seems to reach into] the book, then frowns, putting the book back.*

Trust me, if you had annoyed me, I'd be much worse.

Gale shrugs. "Whatever, now leave."

Patience young grasshopper.

*She floats along to another area of the library, and descends a few shelves to grab another book, reaching into that one in the same way, still finding nothing but not looking as dissappointed.*

Gale keeps twitching. "I need to burn something........"
((Yeah you can and pyromaniac to one of Gale's many issues.))

ZF approaches the door to the castle and slams his fists on the large wooden door Is anyone there?

((I can be serious, don't worry))

"...YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ****TING ME!!!" Gale doesn't bother to go back to the door and simply yells. "Who the hell is it?!?!"

A friend I guess you could say ZF replies I shouldn't be long. I wish to examine an item of yours...

"Come in, look at it and leave!!" Gale sighed. What ever happend to being feared?

Why thank you. ZF tries to open the door, but to his dismay, it is locked Excuse me! It seems your door is locked! ZF yells back

"....****. Just ****." Gale trudges over to the door and unlocks it. He then walks back to the library. He was about to kill some one, he was not use to have people just walk into his home.

Thank you, Gale. Now where do you keep your odd trinkets and items at? ZF begins to snoop around, poking his head into random rooms.

"....I'm not going to just let you in my treasure room. Exactly, what are you looking for?" Gale lights a ciggerate. He desperately needed it. If not he might destroy the castle and all of his 'guests'.

Oh, nothing too much. I've been looking for a ring, you see. It is one of a pair. I currently hold the other, but I have been searching for the other for quite a while now you see.

"And why would you need such a thing?"

While apart, the two rings are nothing more than a worthless scrap of metal. But when together, they grant the owner a great power indeed.

"Fine." Gale tosses FD a key to his treasure room. "If I don't get the key back, or I find something missing besides a ring, I will hunt you down. I WILL know if you try to trick me."

Catches the key Oh, don't worry! All I wish is to have that one ring. Strolls off in search of the treasure room

Gale sighs and exhales smoke from his ciggerate. He leans against the wall. People have no respect anymore...

After checking several rooms, ZF finally finds the treasure room and unlocks it Ahh, finally! He steps into the giant room, filled with treasure Hmm, where to start? Begins digging through the treasure in search of the ring

Wolf turns the page of her book, accidently tearing it. "Oops...****, Gale ain't gonna like that."

She stares at the inch long tear, wondering what to do.

Realizing that he has no idea what the ring looks like, ZF pulls out the partner ring and holds it near each ring looking for some kind of reaction.

Directly in front of Gale, a patch of the floor starts to bulge. A clawed hand with spindly fingers emerges, followed by the rest of Garho Bloodscream's body. He appears older and much more scarred. "Hello, Gale. Pardon my rather rude intrusion but I was wondering where I might find your pantry. I believe you have a certain ingredient that I need." He looks behind him at the hole in the floor. "Oh...If you want me to, I'll just patch that up for you."

*Das emerges from the library, looking no different or any more burdened then when she entered. Smiling at Gale's new guests, she looks at Gale.*

I didn't know you were so popular.

"......." Gale seems ready to scream. Why did everyone know about what he collected? The problem was he didn't feel like fighting any of them. After his little skirmish with the archdemons he wasn't in condition for it. Besides, everyone here wanted to go where he kept valuable things. "Go. But if ANYONE takes something they're not supposed to or I don't approve off. I'll use your own spine to impale you."

Oh don't worry dear, what I took was mine anyway. You just had a book to get me there. I don't have the energy for a world-spanning teleportation spell at the moment.

*This, of course, is a lie. Das dosen't need sleep or food to keep her alive and energized, but she likes to let people think so.*

I think I'll leave you and your groupies alone for now.

*Das heads towards the door, smiling slyly once again, as she feels another strong magical force approaching the castle.*

After hours of searching, ZF finally comes across what he has been searching for. When he places the two rings together, they both begin to glow faintly. He rushes back toward Gale and Das, overjoyed. Ah yes! I have found what I have been looking for!

Said magical force is Leoran, who has no matter with Gale or any of Gale's possessions unlike many of the 'groupies' here. Leoran knocks on the door, much to his own egotisical disgrace, and waits for an answer.

"Waiting.." He snorts.

*Dasumia smiles and stops, waiting for Gale to become a gentleman (she could have to wait for eternity, but she had the time) and open the door for his new arrival.*

Knock knock darling.

Gale scowls. He leans against the wall. Refusing to open the door for anyone else. "This isn't a public museum.."

"You still haven't told me where your pantry is...Now, now, such naughty thoughts. Believe me, if you lay so much as a finger on me, you will have blood gushing from your ears in a matter of seconds. Anyway, you really should be more kind to your guests. Let this one in...Just for the hell of it."

"The only reason any of you are alive is because I'm wounded." He points to the pantery. "Get it and leave." He flicks his wrist and the door opens.

Wolf glances about then leaves the library with the book, looking in each room for some tape, and making a mess.

"Tape. I need tape...tape tape tape."

ZF taps Gale on the shoulder Excuse me, Gale. But, do you by any chance have any large open rooms? I wish to try out these rings but I have no idea of the damage it will do.

"..Look for a while. You'll find one." Gale hears Wolf and walks up to her. "Why would you need tape?"

Okay then. ZF walks off, exploring the castle, looking for a suitable location to try out the rings.

"Um, not to fix the book I tore."

Gale smiles and slashes at Wolf.

Wolf screeches in fear and uses the book as a shield, with the end result that the book is cut in half. "Now look what you did! I'm going to need a ****load of tape to fix this!"

Gale continuous to slash at wolf. "You're going to pay for that!"

"Why do I have to? YOU did it!" She draws Fate and blocks a slash in one move. Snarling a curse, she throws Sin back and thrusts out with Fate.

*Das rolls and smiles, standing against the wall in Gale's entryway, waiting for Leoran to come in, or leave.*

Gale sidesteps and attemps to maim Wolf "If you hadn't ripped it, then you wouldn't have came out here and got it cut."

Steps back and only gets a deep cut on her side. "Ow! Well, if you hadn't made me so mad with all of your stupid five minute limits, I wouldn't have ripped it!" Slashes wildly at Gale.

*Kleat, moving as steathily as possible, moves into the castle though a tower window*

I have researched this place for months, and now I must retrieve the stone, the stone that can complete my mystical tri-ad of power, the final stone of power. It will grant me all the strength in the world, and make me invincible....

*Kleat climbs though the tower window and looks around, using his stone of magic, he casts a spell that allows him to see like normal in the pitch black rooms of the castle. He moves quickly but quietly down the halls. Avoiding areas where he hears people talking, or moving, he escapes all detection*

Gale stops. He senses some one enter his castle through a window. He had put up an alarm system of sorts that would alert him of anyone entering. The intruder was pretty good, however. He was having difficulty keeping track of him. "You're lucky. I have an intruder."

"Seems I'm lucky a lot, doesn't it, 'fraidy cat?"

*Kleat, noticing he has been detected by the sound of fast moving feet, moves into a room and turns on his portable signal jammer, blocking all detection systems from noticing him, as long as he doesn't move MUCH*


Damnit...if i stay here and don't move, they won't find me...

((Kleat is a post-modern character just so ya know, he has advanced technology and what not...))

"Hm...he's clever. But I can can determine where he is..." Gale starts to walk through the hauls, closing in on Kleat.

Wolf looks desparingly at the two halves of the book. "Damn. There went my only way to ever become free. He's going to pay for this one!"

She runs after Gale.

"Damned canine, you can STILL read it! Christ..."

"You read it, blasted S.O.B!" Throws the remaining halves at Gale, spreading paper all over the hall way

"Hmph. Good luck finding another copy." Gale stops. "****, I can't sense the guy anymore." Gale starts to walk to wear the window was.

Damnit, they are gettin closer...

*Kleat readies a few of his weapons including his two auto pistols and one semi-automatic pistol*

Ok...how the hell does he know where I am?

*Kleat checks his detection equipment and it says that a sonar type detection system was turned on recently*

I see, easy enough.

*Kleat takes out his sonar/radar jamming equipment and sets it up. The sonar emiiter transmits a signal that gives a flase character on and sonar device, causeing the searcher to go in the wrong direction. The radar jammer just emits electromagnetic waves that scrambles rader*

Find me now ya dirty bastard...

*Kleat moves down the halls, closing in on his desired treasure*

"...Did you not hear me?"

"I damn heared you. But I don't have time to kick you. Go chew on some bones, ya mutt."

"Oh, like I haven't ever heard that before!" Picks up the cover and chucks it at the back of his head.

'Hard to be origional when all you have to work with is a oversized dog."

"Well, sorry I can't be more orginial, Mr. I'm-so-great-and-powerful-but-I-can't-kill-a-13-year-old-child!"

"Damn you're annoying. Go off and sniff someone's ass. Just leave me alone."

*Kleat finally reaches his destination in the castle, but before entering he drops a small device that automaticly rolls down the halls making faint noises that can hardly be heard. Kleat knows for sure that the castle's owner, gale, will hear these noises, and follow them. Kleat uses this as his distraction, since the device moves very fast, and has a stealth cloaking device, it will provide him much time*

Hahaha, the stone of power is mine, once and for all will I be the dominate force in the world.

*Kleat enters the room and examines the entire place for tripwires and any form of sensors*

Roars in rage and charges at Gale, slashing wildly with Fate.

Gale catches Fate without looking and tosses Wolf into a wall.

Stops before crashing into the wall and leaps at him again, this time ducking before he can catch Fate.

*Kleat, after running extensive scans of the room and disabling all senors and alarms, picks up the stone of power and places it around his neck. The stone begins to glow as it's power combines with that of the stone of magic and of control. Kleat, already being able to move faster runs towards the exit with all speed, almost impossible to catch*

If he is like any evil villan, he will try to close the gate on me at the last second.

Gale simply lifts his foot and kicks, knocking Wolf away. "You're rather sluggish...Now...where would I go? Damnit the treasure room." Gale walks off to his treasure room, hoping the intruder is there.

"Yeah, you're right. This human form never worked for me."

She turns into her normal self and flies at Gale, turning more demonish in the process to add to her speed and agilitly.

Gale turns to Wolf. Very annoyed. "Stop!" A green light flashes around Wolf and she becomes imobile. "Hmph." He continuous to the treasure room.

"Gale! You S.O.B. Bastard! GET BACK HERE!"

*His speed increasing every second as the stones complete the combination process, Kleat has already exited the castle due to gale forgetting to seal all exits. Kleat speeds down the path towards his airship and hops in*

HAHAHA GALE! LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE FINALLY BEAT YOU! I hope you wanted you castle remodeled, cause I am going to be removing a few walls now! hahaha

*Kleat presses a button and all the weapons his airship has pop out. Including the three .60 caliber roatation guns, missle launchers, and laser accelorators. Kleat fires a missle at the casles main tower*

Gale's eyes widen. The lack of stealth let's him figure out Kleat's location. "That bastard..." He teleports to the entrance of the castle and stops the missile. He knocks it away and see the ship. He teleports to it and looks at Kleat. "It was a mistake to fire."

Garho sticks his head in the room Kleat is destroying, carrying a bag of what looks horribly like shrunken heads. "Pure genius, Kleat! He's going to be very pissed, though. Well, I'm not going to get in trouble...bye!" With that, he zips back out of the room and walks down the hall.

ZF finally returns wearing the two rings with an overjoyed smile on his face. The rings of Earth and Sky! ZF's look of surprise suddenly turns to confusion as he observes the damage. He steps outside and stumbles in surprise. What is that?!

Ha, you think you can kill me now, I am invincible! Nothing can stop me!!!

*Kleat moves with amazing speed and force and throws gale off the side of his ship*

I'M UNSTOPPABLE NOW!

*Kleat unleashes a fury of missles and rockets on the castle and then speeds away and disappears a few moments later, off in the distace all that can be seen is a white dot from his engines*

ZF's rings begin to glow bright blue and the sky seems to darken above him Your not going anywhere... A horrible storm appears above the airship as powerful bolts of lightning begin to pelt the ship as well as thousands of golf ball sized hail. Powerful winds throw the ship around in the air. Can you handle the rest Gale?

Please, you think I can be stopped? I have the stones of magic, power, and control. I can cast most any spell. And a protection spell is simple!

*Kleat casts a spell of protection and an orb appears around his ship deflecting all damage and harm*

I'll be back to take care of you....later.

*Kleat speeds away with the orb protecting him*

Indeed.
*changes into a time mage and summons a blackhole*
*as soon as the ship is sucked up, collapses the blackhole*

*Abandons his main ship as it gets sucked into the black hole*

No matter, I have multiple ships, in an array of colours. But for now, I can run even faster than my ship can fly with these stones!

Gale creates a barrier around his castle to protect it. After the Rand incident, he wasn't taking chances. He teleports above Kleat, again. "You still don't understand the powers of those stones. The knowledge of them would be wasted on you."

It seems you don't understand, I have the power, and you don't!

*Kleat fires a magical blast at gale*

Gale slashes it and it misses him. The Abbis sighs. "Without understanding, all you're doing is playing with fire."

ZF teleports over about ten yards away from Kleat and charges for him, producing a razor sharp knife

*With heightned senses, kleat notices ZK and turns around and preforms a very hard kick right to his chest*

ZF falls to the ground clutching his chest. He quickly recovers though and grabs at Kleat's necklace. He pulls as hard as possible and the necklace slowly begins to come apart.

((I don't think the necklace would be THAT EASY to break....))

*While he is grabbing at the necklace, kleat grabs his neck in one hand, and starts to strangle him, while with the other hand he beats him in the chest*

LET GO FOOL!!!

((What's it made of? Nothing's too strong for the almighty ZF! :P))

ZF tries to take the abuse stoically, but his grip loosens. His rings begin to glow again and several vines begin to wrap and twist around Kleat's feet.

You fool...

*Kleat kicks ZF away quickly, then leans over and appears to be suming up energy, when he is finished, he flings his arms out to the sides and a blast of light comes off of him. After the light has died down, Kleat is slightly taller, more muscular, and the vines are gone*

What now my friend?!

*Continues to beat ZF*

((it's magic infused metal, simple steel, but about 20x as strong. almighty one :P))

((Are you beating me with your arms or your legs? o_O))

Instinctively, ZF grabs Kleat by the arms and delivers a devastating head butt to Kleat's torso

*flinches a little, not knowing how strong he truely is with the stones combined power, but the head butt only knocks him back a little, without pain*

Please, to me you are but a child...

*raises a fist, and moves with lightning speed landing a hard punch right in ZF's ribs*
((Both really, I am huge now, for human standards anyway..))

((Well that sucks. How am I supposed to counter that? All I have is the power over weather and earth. :())

OOF! ZF takes the blow and falls unconscious.

I will not kill you....now.

*Kleat continues his escape*

((I really should make a whole RP where I am the evil guy, but I suck at making RP's...someone would have to help 0_0))

((All my RPs are a failure so I can't help you there, but if you do make one, I'll be sure to join! :D))

ZF drifts back to consciousness and watches as Kleat gets away. We shall meet again, I am sure of it...

((It could be all about stopping kleat with the stones and stuff, classic storyline, modern figures :D))

*Kleat, once at a safe distance, enters his backup ship and flies away*

You can be sure we will meet again Gale. Once I finish the combination of the stones, I will be ultimatly invincible!

What an young and misguided fool. In the end, he will still know nothing. Power is meaningless without knowledge. He is severly lacking in that department.

The voice comes from the familiar Angel, Chaos, who has apparently appeared from nowhere.

Wolf sprints down the hall, finally free of Gale's spell. She turns and whacks into Chaos. "Ow...again? Well, at least your not Gale. Has anyone seen him?"

He seems to have disappeared after Kleat ran away. Make yourself at home, I suppose.

"Last time I did that I was nearly cut into two. See?" Points to her bloody side.

"Why are you here?"

"I'm still here you morons."

I am here in search for the First One. Apparenly, this mentally challenged Kleat fellow is him.

Forgive me Gale, but for a moment, you were not here.

"What do you mean, 'the First One'?"

Reincarnation of the first of their species and the first one's mate. In this case, Adam of the Homo sapiens.

"That's great for you. Hey, Gale! That book pulled itself together! Literally! See? I think it's possessed, to tell you the truth. But now you can't kill me! So ha! But I'm mad at you so I'm going to go rob you blind."

Throws the possessed book at him then takes off towards the treasury.

*fd appears, holding his N. tropy clock* oooh....so THAT is why...for a second I thought this whole thing happened on accident. hmm. ah, well...whatever.

Who would you be? I would suggest you leave, as Gale does not particularly enjoy guests who invite themselves in.

sorry ID. I just came back from the future, and I didn't know this castle was here. *fd's eyes turn a midnight black, and he vanishes in a cloud of darkness*

"I'm starting to get pissed." Gale teleports to his treasurey. Awaiting Wolf.

Wolf shrugs, expecting to be dead by now. Opening the door to the treasury, her mouth falls open.

"Hello Riches!"

Grabbing a sack, she begins to stuff it full of Gale's treasures.

Gale taps Wolf on the shoulder and punches her in the face. "Idiot."

Wolf winces and stands up. She swings the rather full bag at Gale's head. "Dummy."

Gale whistles and ducks. "Please." He slashes at Wolf.

A flash of thunder, an aura of power and wisdom.

The familiar escense of an Archangel is felt within the mysterious castle. A sleek figure approaches the majestic and corrupted castle before her. She quietly stands at the entrance. Her pale fingers encircling a shimmering "peice of wood." Her face is carefully hidden behind extremely large black robes.

...If he's here, he'll come running...

Even her voice seems to ease the aching building. She slowly releases one hand from the shimmering "peice of wood," and she knocks slowly in a droning fasion on the entrance door. She smiles mischevious under her robes, waiting for a response.

Gale snapped and stopped fighting Wolf. "I hate intruders....but what I hate more is PHANTOMS HAUNTING ME!!" Gale sighs. "Well..if more of those angels show up, I'll just kill them." Gale casts Stop on Wolf. "I'll be back to kill you."

A strong but soothing voice echoes throughout the shadowy castle.

"Gale Onarov.. Your ass, this door. Pronto."

The figure clapses her frail fingers around her "shiny stick," and awaits the mans presence.

".....HOW THE HELL ARE YOU ****ING ALIVE?!?!?!" Gale bolts off to the door to his castle. That damned angel was alive. Damnit, there were three people he couldn't kil. His brother, Shiloko, that bitch, Ayn, and this DAMNED ANGEL. He continuous to run to walk to the door. He had a list of enemies he hated, but the last thign he needed was some of the coming back from the grave.

"Haha.. unchanged and paranoid as ever..." She mumbles to herself.

"Couldn't catch Shiloko, eh? Too fast for your old legs?"

She smiles as she speaks this, familiar memories flooding into her mind.

"Why aren't you dead? Damnit it seems every bitch I run into never dies!" He walks up to the door and opens it. Sin drawn.

The figure stares at him, her steady gaze unwavering. Her shimmering eyes seemingly bore a hole in Gale's soul. She smiles mischeviously, small fangs reflecting off the dim light casted from her "Stick." She raises a frail looking hand, and Sin fades from view. She stares coldly. Remembering slowly who this man was.

"I'm only going to ask one last time. How are you alive?!"

Suddenly, an icey breeze sweeps through the castle. The strong/soothing voice gains an icey undertone. Her voice gaining the echoes of souls long forgotten. She finally speaks:

"I have been alive for a many years, Gale Onarov. A pitiful maddened mortal existance like yours cannot end the existance of those who cannot die.

"You're still foolish. Immortality is an illusion weaved by those who desperately flee in fear of the truth infront of them. This world does not need such illogical ideas to poison it. The again. I also believe it's to late for this world. So that is why I must destroy it. But I'd be surpised if you didn't already know that."

The archdemon Calish watches. Apparently, the Morning Star Generals have stayed in the area since the fight in the arena. "Hmph. Such scum has returned. How pathetic. Though....father says that our problem is not these angels. They are pawns. No matter how powerful they are only pawns..." Calish fades away into nothing.

The angel snaps at attention, at the cold presence that came and gone. She speaks once more, her voice growing more menacing.

"The Archangel is merely a pawn. .. The corrupted are minds of their own.. I do not care if humanity dies, they deserve to suffer and boil in their own sin. I care not of the mortal existance. I only care that you are not the one to bring it's end."

*fd appears from nowhere* YOU'RE destroying earth?!?!?! ha! I'll have it gone by the end of the week! worthless planet....*plants geostationary laser sattelite*

*Kleat, currently in his own castle, but using his magic he is observing Gale and his goings on*

Ah gale, I believe we can work together for a little while, we have a common goal now...

*Kleat speaks to gale using his magic*

Ah gale....you look so hapless right now. So weak, so afraid of this angel. But we share a common goal, the ending of this world, I will help you...for a time. ((That time being till saturday at the latest, and I won't play a MAJOR part. note that, cause I just got Skies of Arcadia and hardly pull myself away from it)) You cannot expect me to help you much, for we are still enemies.

"Fear? Please. I fear no one. This angel is just a shadow of the past. Nothing more."

You make me laugh. The look in your eyes when you heard the voice of the angel. You were scared. You seem like you will need a little help...

"If you, Gale Onarov, would like a demonstration of your 'Shadow of the past's' power. I can demonstrate with ease. Though, within my demonstration the world would cease to exist. Care to see?"

She clapses her hands tight to the shimmering stick and waits eagerly for a response. Her now yellow eyes twinkle maliciously from under her hood, and the fanged mouth smiles with malicious ecstasy.

"My statement was not a question of power. You do not belong in the realm of existance, despite your belief. Then again, some could say that I do not belong in this world. However, we are here. So what do you want?"

"If you, Gale Onarov, would like a demonstration of your 'Shadow of the past's' power. I can demonstrate with ease. Though, within my demonstration the world would cease to exist. Care to see?"

She clapses her hands tight to the shimmering stick and waits eagerly for a response. Her now yellow eyes twinkle maliciously from under her hood, and the fanged mouth smiles with malicious ecstasy.

*fd appears behind her and places his hand on her head* OMNI DRAIN! *fd absorbs the extra power, deactivating the spell, temporarily* sorry. I'm afraid that's a bit drastic. plus, it interferes with my evil genius plan.

"... I take it as a personal insult that I do not belong on this realm. I beleive you, but nevertheless, I feel like I do. My corrupted husk no longer needs to live a breathing life. But.. alas, here I am.. Unable to succomb to the fate that meets us all.."

Whenever your ready gale...I will be around as soon as I can, just say the word...heheh

((FD, you may not want to interfear, I assume we are into somethin serious now...))

Why is there a large number of beings who want to destroy the world for a reason that is nothing more than an illusion?

"The fact of the matter is, there are some who shouldn't exist, who've have truely died but still live. Though I carry the same name, who I really was, the 'true' Gale Onarav, died in the Abbis Angel War. I'm not quite sure who I am now, but I still carry that name. A shadow of my former self. In a similliar way, the archangel Marin is dead. So who does that make you?"

Wolf pokes her head into the conversation. "Heh, Marin. I remember her. She died? Shame. Saved me a couple times, as I recall. Hey, Gale, if the old you was an Abbis, is Shiloko one too?"

Gale turns to Wolf, oddly calm. A rarity for Gale. "Me and Shiloko are both Abbis. I'm physically who I was since birth, but mentally is a entire diffrent story. I'm sure Shiloko had a similliar experience, since my father ALSO went insane. My mother was dead, and I have no idea if I have any older siblings."

"Oh. That's great. I didn't know he was an Abbis, too. Not really that great, is it? I mean...no offense or anything, Gale, but Shiloko is more powerful then you are and...yeah."

"He's more in tune with Abbis magic. Very gifted infact. The diffrence is his power comes from rage. My own power doesn't spike up but I rarely become drained of it. In the end, if every Abbis trained for eternity they would only be a slight power diffrence. But for now his raw poor exceeds my own. But like I said, that isn't my style."

"Oh. That's good, right?"

Loses intrest and looks out the window. "Hey, look, someone is coming!"

Gale frowns. "Who the hell is it now?"

She shrugs. "I dunno, they've masked themselves up."

"Christ you'd think people would have something better to do then pester me."

"Neat. Blue cape. Blue cape...Hey, I know who that is!" turns around and laughs at Gale. "She's going to kick your ass!"

"Oh that bitch? We'll she's pretty damn brave to come back here. Pretty damn foolish too."

So who does that make you?
You could say that I changed after I ate the Fruit of Knowledge. It imbued me with some of God's plan, changing my agenda. Before, I merely was a creature. Killing those who threatened me and only thinking of how to advance control by the Angels over the universe.

It was not till I ate the Fruit of Knowledge that I knew of a path to God. I seek the means to transverse this path, regardless of the cost.

True enough, Rikali is crossing the grounds to the castle. Her hood is drawn up over her face, and she is walking quickly.

Katayk, at an inn several miles from Gale's Castle, pulls a nearby waitress to the side. He whispers something in her ear and she whispers back. Katayk curses and exits the inn. Once outside, the familiar purple mist engulfs him and he reappears sitting in the branches of a tree.

"Don't you have a daughter you should be taking care of?"

Wolf giggles. "Someone's gonna lose their head."

"I hate being here. But I have to. This is the only way. I hate Gale. I fear him, but no longer will that fear be a weakness. I will turn it into a strength." Rikali tries to keep her mind on a daydream of Gale's head rolling across the floor as she passes by too familar lands.

She jumps at the sound of Katayk's voice. Turning her head to glare at him through the mask, she keeps going. "Yes. And that is why I am doing this."

Katayk drops from the branch and tries to keep himself from yelling.

"Just turn around now."

"I can't. Relax, I'm not going there to kill him. I want some information and he has it."

"I don't give a damn if he dies, I'm more..." He stops for a second to think about his wording. "...He'll kill you."

She halts. "I know that there's that risk, but from I've heard he is injured. If there was any other way, I wouldn't be here right now. But I have to know." She turns her head to the side. "I'm going to need your help."

Katayk sighs and draws his sword. "Your child is with a complete stranger right now." He raises his blade and then tosses it down at her feet.

"I'm going back to her."

"I want information on what the current workings of the Axis are. We need money to raise Rose. I don't care if that money is earned by blood."

Katayk halts at the sound of the word Axis. "You don't want to work for Axis. Trust me."

"Do you think anyone else would hire me? I want to keep Rose, not have her taken away by some Youth Service ****. The Axis is the only option."

Katayk turns towards Riki and steps in front of her face. He stares her in the eye leans down in front of her, picking up his sword. He sheathes it and begins to walk off towards Gale's Castle.

She freezes momentarily and stands indecisive. She then catches up to Katayk in three quick steps and walks quietly next to him. Her eyes are ahead, at the castle. "You could die."

He continues to walk. "So try and stop me."

"If I turn around, would you stop? Or will you walk into this darkness anyway?"

"If you turned around, I'd have no reason to go up there. But you won't be turning around, will you?" Katayk intertwined his fingers and rested them on the back of his head, his pace not slowing.

"I don't want you to get hurt."

After overhearding the conversation in a nearby room, Chaos feels the need to comment. Caring for others. What an illogical delusion. I laugh at those who pretend to care for others.

Katayk shrugs. "I don't care if I'm hurt." They are growing dangerously close to the castle by this time.

She laspes into silence, observing the castle.

"You know...for an Abbis living by himself, he sure has one ****ing big house."

"It's going to be a pain in the ass to find him."

Katayk stops in front of two large wooden doors, the entrance to the castle.

Gale looks down at the two. He's moved to one of his tower. He jumps down infront of Katayk and Riki. "God don't any of you LEARN anything?"

"Hey, Gale, I didn't want to be here." He half-heartedly draws his sword. "Women."

Riki shrugs. "That wasn't so hard. Learn? Of course not. We're just demons." Riki gives a humorless laugh.

"I taught YOU not to tresspass. But I suppose I'll just have to kill the both of you. I have enough un-invited guests."

Her face flushes in memory. Her hands wrap around Bliss's handle and Riki looks over at Katayk.

He lifts Kotoko and leans it on his shoulders. He looks over at Riki. "So, which one of us goes first?"

"Ladies first."

She draws Bliss and takes a step forward. "You know, Gale, I didn't come here after your head. But now that I have the chance, well, I'm going to take my full revenge for what you did to me."

"Hmph. Whatever. Gale draws Sin.

((You know why I lose battles? Or a reason, anyway? Cause losers like Gale never attack first.))

Riki lowers her hood.

Gale sends a large blast of dark energy at Riki.

She sidesteps it and begins to twirl Bliss in a large arc.

Gale turns Sin into a gun and fires a few times.

Ping. One bullet flies off Bliss. The other grazes Riki's arm. She leaps forward, Bliss now a twirling blurr.

Katayk watches on from his seat at the base of a tree.

Gale rolls to the side and fires. "How predictable."

She dodges the shot again and swings upwards.

Watches the intensifying battle with eagnerness, her body quivering for the sight of blood. She grins more maliciously now, and her staff glows a bright azure. She clenches the staff with every muscle in her hands in anticipation, and a tense aura is about her. She then begins to prepare a devestating spell, when suddenly.. The familiar voice that scares the crap out of anyone that hears it...

"Excuse me miss, if you don't mind I wouldn't want to see any intervention at this time."

The burning eyes filled with hate, the long narrow blade of darkness, and the smirk that can egg even the calmest man on. This, was indeed, Shiloko Onarov.

He calmly boggles the now angered being before him, and laughs.

"What's the matter? Didn't quite make it in angel school?"

He smiles charmingly, and unsheathes his blade, and all in one motion, slices her staff in half and emits a gigantic stream of flame with his other hand. The flame engulfs the corrupted angel, and the terrified woman disappears in the blink of an eye. Shiloko then turns to the battle, and waits.

Gale backflips but he looks to Shiloko. A lot of the time he and his brother had been enemies, but Shiloko had a knack for getting rid of annoyances to him. Gale supposed there was some type of bond between them, but the whole 'brotherly love' idea died with his race. "Ah, Shiloko. It seems that you are pretty good at escaping death."

Ah. Yes, I've been waiting for you, Shiloko. It seems that you may be the First One of the Abbis. As you may guess, I need to confirm this fact.

((I'm an idiot who didn't know Marin was back under a new name. Yup. I'm a dork. Thanks for saying hi, Marin. *twitch* I'm so happy! Marin and Shilly return!))

Riki grins. Gale's distraction is going to cost him. Twirling Bliss around in her hands, she turns the upward swing into a downward slash.

((I wuv that move.))

Wolf joins the party outside. She sees Shiloko and stops dead. "...Uh..."

Katayk walks over the newly formed group, his blade resting at his side. He looks over to the man everyone seems to be so uncomforble around.

"Gale does seem to get a rather large amount of visitors."

*Kleat, ever watching, remarks on the events that are passing*

Oh this is indeed entertaining. You all look so pitiful when your enemys come back from the grave. If you can't handle the dead without losing your cool, what will you do when I come around?

*Kleat sips some tea*

"Ah...uhm...Katayk, meet Shiloko. He ended the world once. And he's Gale's little brother."

Grins and starts to back up.

Gale jumps to the side. He made a mistake in turning around, however, and the ax cuts into his should. He slashes at Riki in retort.

Most of the slash is caught by the ax handle, but the tip of the blade gorges a hole in Riki's stomach. She curses and pulls back momentarily to try and staunch the bleeding.

((Wait, it gets worse!))

A dark, familiar figure walks into view nearby. His face is shadowed by an old worn baseball cap, and the rest of him is concealed by a gray trenchcoat. A eerie silence surrounds him despite the activity around him. "Beautiful, you're all gathered in one place for a change... Even Shiloko." A small cloud of dust picks up and rises around him, and a pair of piercing red eyes light up behind the cap's shadow.

Gale turns from Riki, but not before firing a bullet at her chest. He looks at the newcomer and aims his gun. "Hmph, and who are you?"

"Nyx." An arm flies out of his trenchcoat, aiming a long barrelled revolver in response to Gale's.

"Oh. Rand's pet pitbull. Shouldn't you be hunting Ayn or your brother?"

"I'm really sick of you, Riki, and that mutt. Shiloko's plans interfere as well. I figure if I can hit four birds with one stone, that girl can wait." Nyx fires and the revolver jerks up in recoil.

I'm incredibly insulted that you just happened to ignore me, Nyx. Of course, a being like you is most likely hoplessly ignorant of the world outside your feeble little mind and will.

Riki uses Bliss to block both shots, wondering what is happening. "What did I ever do to you, Nyx? I've never seen you before!"

Wolf growls. "You people seriously need to come up with a better insult then mutt."

Hahahaha, more people, just freaking grand! You work so well under pressure...hahaha.

Sometime, you will have to deal with me. But not soon, I must gather my power, just prepare yourself...

Shiloko blinks, noticing the place becoming more crowded.

"Oh fuggin' great..."

Shiloko contains the inner-urge to cause some cataclysmic explosion, and teleports away from the crowd, waving a 'Good bye' to Gale. The now furious Corrupted angel scurries after him.

"So it begins.." She mumbles under her breath.

"You never really interfere, Chaos, correct?" Nyx spins around and aims the revolver at Shiloko's previous position, only to see he's gone. "Hmph. Shiloko will have to wait for another day." He turns back to the others. "So, who goes first? Katayk? You should have let Sadik kill you when you had the chance."

"Stupid move." As soon as Nyx's revovler moves Gale fires and teleports to somewhere else in his castle.

Wolf watches Shiloko go, uneasy at letting him run off with a corrupted angel. Hesitating, she glances at the castle and the thought of the upcoming fight before taking off after Shiloko. "I've never stopped him before following him. But I can breathe easier knowing what he is up to." She thinks.

Riki scowls and takes a step back. She doesn't want to fight Nyx. She wanted to kill Gale, but he dissappeared. Thoughts of Rose enter her head. Shouldering Bliss, she leans against a tree. "I can't leave. Not without knowing. Rose will be okay."