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Mortimer laied in the opening sweating and shivering. Once and awhile he would twitch. No one knew what was happening to him. When Hiro went to touch him he senced him but could not do anything. He was fighting teh demon in him.

"You cant escape me you know! Even that that Mars Master who sealed all of my powers cant keep me under your control!"

"Oh just shut up! You cant control me anymore! Your as weak as a little girl!"

"Oh thats just some small details! I maybe weak but I still can use your skills."

"Yeah, but I wont let you" Mortimer ran at him again with his sword in hand.

The demon laughed "Haha! This seems so familer! Its almost like five years ago when we fought for the first time!" Errtu(forgot how to spell it) ran forward as well his arms were turned into swords. "But this time I wont lose!"

"You will to lose! I cant let you control my men!" Mortimer swung his sword at Errtu's head. He doged it with ease.

"You bet me! HA! I maybe weak but im still your equal! I still have your powers!" He thrusted his arm toward Mortimers heart. He only doged it by a hair. That gave Errtu the time to run foward and punch Mortimer in the gut. He spatt out some blood in his head and in real life.

Mortimer whiped the blood away. "Thats all you got! Ice Angel!" An angel of ice appired next to Mortimer has is familer for the time. "Attack!"

At the same time Errtu smonned his own minons. Ten shadow demons came out of the darkness and made a wall around him. They rushed forward running into the angel.

((got to go finish when i get back))

The angle slashed that the demons cleving them in two. It flew forward to Errtu. Errtu slashed at it and the angel broke into thousands of peices of ice. Mortimer was right behind it wings open thrusting forward into Errtu's head.

"Be gone demon!"

"No I will not be gone! You only stop your death for a short time. I will come back and I will take this body for my master!"

"Your master is dead! There is no one else!"

Errty laughted a hearty laugh. "You think that he was my master! I was told to be his under-ling! You wont know who my master really is tell you know the truth about your past!" At that moment Mortimer woke up staring into Nami's eyes.

Matt paced around the top of the lighthouse. He looked at the sun again. It was late afternoon; Rika, Taylor, and Lance still have not arrived. Nor did Master Kinshou pay a visit to the top of the tower yet. The sun was stretched over the horizon, but it was not dusk. Not yet anyways.

"Maybe he doesn't visit the lighthouse daily like I do."

He turned his glance to the center of the aerie. Like the Venus Lighthouse, the aerie was missing the Mars Star. Matt never understood the importance of the stars, and thus he never bothered with that idea. There was a short icy breeze, and Matt responded by wrapping himself with his bright red cape. Matt shivered a bit, hoping the wind will die down. He went back to the edge of the lighthouse, observing the activity going on below.

"Perhaps he won't come up at all...I'll just wait until the others get here then I'm outty."

He turned away from the edge and drew his Gaia Blade. Just as a check, he swung the blade several times. With the sword still in his right hand, he reached out with his left hand and focused a minimal amount of psyenergy into solidifying. Satisfied with the thought that he was ready for the fight, he dropped the solid psyenergy shards and sheathed the Gaia Blade.

Walking outside of the bar, he only caught a glimpse of Kassion running past. Seeing that he was in his armor, he knew something was up. Already in his own, he rushed after him, glad that the axe wasn't weighing him down.
"Master! What's wrong?!" He yelled as he got not far behind, checking to make sure his sword was buckled tightly.

Rika sighed. She and Lance had been riding almost non-stop, and she was tired of it. All she wanted now was a nice bed, some fresh food, and to rid herself of the faint stench of monster blood. The pair rode into Vale, drawing strange lookes from the villagers. They found Taylor's horse, tied to a rock, and dismouted.
"Now, I wonder where Matt's gone off to? His horse isn't here."
"Who knows," Lance replyed. "Let's just find Taylor and get some rest."
"Fine with me."
They trugged through Vale, only to find Taylor talking to a villager. He noticed them out of the corner of his eye, and walked up when he had finished chatting.
"Hullo, Taylo-"
Rika was interupted by a swift scolding for taking too long, but she ignored it. She was used to it by now, and knew what he was going to say. But what caught her attention was at the vary end, when he said, "Hurry up, Matt's waiting for us at the Mars Lighthouse."
"Oh. Great. More riding."
"Ahhh, cheer up Rika. It'll be over soon enough." Lance stated happily. Rika only glared in response, and the three set out for the lighthouse.

"What are you doing on our grounds uninvited?! This is an obvious display of disrespect! How dare you!?"

Matt turned around to the entrance of the stairs to find Master Kinshou, along with another unfamiliar Mars Adept.

"Well? Explain yourself!"

"Well well. Took you long enough. For a moment there, I thought I could waltz right into the Mars Lighthouse without anyone noticing."

Matt walked a bit closer to where Master Kinshou and his escort adept were. The escort was already prepared to fight, as he reached to draw his sword.

"Ugh, I hope I won't need to fight that escort adept."

Matt signaled the Mars Adept to stop.

"You, stay out of this. It wouldn't be very fair for two adepts to fight a single one, now wouldn't it?"

Matt turned to look at Kassion. He recalled all the events from the past: the dissapearance of Rohiko, Spectrum, the shadow demons, and even Idele. Recollecting his reasons for confronting Kassion, his own anger was lit.

"I remember the first and last time we met, you ran out of nowhere to freeze Mortimer and I. Heh, I'm not that helpless anymore. All the crimes you've commited in the past years...And the worst of all, you attempted to wipe out the Venus Clan. And not even with your own hands. However, you failed to wipe out the Venus Clan. For that mistake, it's about time you've paid."

Matt thought back when he was fighting the shadow demons, the slaughtering of his fellow Venus Adepts, the endless black he saw over the horizon, the five adepts who later returned in an attempt to save the Venus Star. And how Matt failed to save them.

"I don't think you need me to tell you what the other crimes you've commited were. You have done too much to be forgiven. As long as you stand, there will be a war between the Venus and Mars Clan, not to mention all of Weyard."

With his psyenergy, Matt drew all three of his blades from their sheaths. Two of them remained hovering on each side of Matt, while Matt grabbed the Gaia Blade from their air with his right hand. His triple wield stance.

"After all, there cannot be peace until you are dead...Master Kinshou."

((Sorry I'm not posting today,my head's all fluffy from pain meds,got all four wisdom teeth out yesterday.))

"Fine. You obviously don't care to hear anything that I have to say. So, if it is death that you wish, then so be it!"

Matt then saw Kassion draw two warhammers instead of the expected one.

"Great, I missed a fact. But I still have one more weapon than him. I bet I could keep both of his hands occupied while I..."

"Come at me if you will. It is your accusations that bring us to this in the first place."

Matt ignored Kassion's lines and braced himself for an attack. Kassion had a fairly light armor on him, but it was still better than Matt's lack of armor.

"Ugh, another advantage for him."

Keeping his cool, Matt cautiously walked towards Kassion and floated his two blades around the Mars Master, thus effectively surrounding him on three sides. Matt wasn't sure when to attack, as he saw no weak spot in Kassion's stance. However, there was a way to break it, and it could possibly open new possibilities to Matt.

"Well, I haven't seen anyone else use them before, so I safely assume that he will have no way to defend himself from it. And for a moment there, I thought that ancient psyenergy had no use too..."

Matt ominously circled Kassion for several seconds before pausing and activiating [Coal]. Feeling the rush of speed, Matt took Kassion by surprise by suddenly sending both his Mystery Blade and Assassin's Blade in a flurry of swipes at Kassion from different directions. Following this, Matt rushed in himself and prepared to slash upwards when he was within striking distance of Kassion.

"Okay, with this many attacks at him, I have to pray that at least one of the swords will activate its powers..."