The Legend of the Eclipse Twins

THE NEXT STEP

Tereus stood as he watched from the fumes of green sparks rising into the air. Emerald skulls of the ghosts eaten by the Soothsayer rising into the air. Freed of their indigested prison the souls roamed across the air like fireflies in the air.

"I can see now; this place is a resting place. A graveyard of long ancient civilization that can move their buildings from one place to another. The same civilization that was destroyed and lies in the lands of the unknown and the ruins were a part of that. These ruins are remnants of that civilization, and those are the souls of the dead that got cut off from the Unknown Lands to be drifted here near life that still flourishes. Oh, well. Not my problem the ancient peoples, whoever they are, got too greedy and killed themselves when they tried to find immortality!"

Tereus walked away with the Moon Sword in hand. He walked across the shredded land to find the dark elf and he soon found her standing in place to the entrance to the building they entered earlier that was now just a crash, smashed, crumpled pile of rocks and boulders.

"You want to down beneath the warm light of the moon?" asked the dark elf.

"Only if you are ready smoked burnt from the steam from the hot springs," answered the Yin Warrior.

They both looked each other with glaring eyes before a pair of unseen eyes was trailing them from aside. A loud snap was heard like a step breaking a twig on the ground.

They both turned to see their eyes to see a single guard standing in position with damaged armor and a broken sword with a golden hilt.

"Carvilius!" Tereus moaned, seeing his old friend standing there.

"Don't sound like you are seeing an enemy or a friend," said Carvilius.

"I don't who I am seeing: the childish friend or fiendish enemy," said Tereus.

Carvilius looked at Tereus's naked body head-to-toe and saw deep heavy scars on every square inch of his tall carcass. Deep piercings and stabs into all holes made clear Tereus was hard to kill, and one flesh wound still barely bled from Tereus's stomach.

"Eat some shitty food, Yin Twin?" asked Carvilius.

"The only one who should eat on shitty food is you." Tereus pointed the Moon Sword toward Carvilius. With Carvilius in damaged armor and a broken sword, he stood alone in the face of death of his old friend. "You are my enemy now, and that is what it has come down to. You serve the three rulers of the city, but in this case, now two. The Commander and the King. What last words do you have to say to me before your soul departs from this world?"

"My last words, Twin of the Moon, is the Sun Bow lies in the Devil's Tower," said Carvilius with a smile. A sign that he is planning on dying to say Teriel's weapon in the place. "The Commander is there, trying to find a way to unhook it."

"Well, he can forget about it," said Arelzi. Her voice caught the attention of Carvilius; his eyes focus on his old friend he didn't see the dark elf standing yards away from the Yin Twin.

"The dark elves have the weapons concealed by the dark magic that only they can unlock, not a human's or a devil's power can unlock it since the dark elves were once invested by black magic given to them by the devils of ancient times?"

"You a dark elf? I thought you were extinct!"

"You blind and deaf, human!" Arelzi leaned her elbows over one of Tereus's shoulders. "I am the last of the dark elves, and I already chosen the one I want to have a hard time with."

Carvilius stepped backward to keep away from the dark elf's ambitious expressions she wants to get her own way of life intimate with Tereus. "I though you only traveled with your sister."

"Yes, but this time I left her behind. This was the Moon Sword I was getting." Tereus lifted the Sword to show Carvilius. "The Soothsayer did display a good match, trying to eat the souls still buried after centuries. Still like others, he was no match against the power of the moon!"

"Yous no win. No!" hissed a voice.

The three looked toward the spot where the smoke from the dragon exploded into tiny particles of dust. A lone figure of a large two-legged lizard walked out of the smoke, with many wounds visdable and green blood dripping out like waterfall pouring from a mountainside.

"Carvilius, yous traitors! Yous dies dis..." Then the Soothsayer collapsed to the soil, barely crawling on all his fours like his dragon-self.

Arelzi lost her smug face and walked over to the Soothsayer not moving. Her face was lit of anger and butter hatred. The baring of wrath, the sin of wrath on her face. Her eyes glared with extreme hanger of wanting to massacre every member of the Soothsayer's people, just the way it killed all the dark elves.

"Yous! Dark elf! Extincts!"

"Yes, and I am the last one, lizard. And this is for my race, you goddamn son of a bitch!"

Arelzi signally stomped on the lizard's face and crushed its skull, spilling the living brain into a flat substance surrounding by thick green liquid like acid.

"No wonder why she is called a dark elf, but what are you going to do now?" asked Carvilius.

"What else? Go back, tell my sister about the Bow, and have her set out on her own with a little help for her to retrieve it."

Carvilius only nodded.

"With the Soothsayer gone, the King is now going to be desperate. Without someone to foresee the future, the King will be having the Commander to try to do things harder to get the Bow. But she did say the Bow was sealed by dark elven magic?"

"Yes," said Tereus.

"Then Teriel better have a big armor with her. With the Moon Sword in your hands, things will become more desperate. The King or the Commander will have an army to defend the Devil's Tower from her and you."

"The Devil's Tower? If I remember correctly that tower was once built by the first human king over four thousand years ago. It was supposed to serve as a watch tower over the human border to watch for smuggling or signs of invasion. Now, it has become a home to the dark arts of black magic of devilry."

"Then tell your sister to move out quickly. When word passes out, all hell will break lose."

Tereus nodded and spun his Sword once. Sharp glows roamed around him and a black cloak surrounded his body in the nude. An array of black clothes covered him from neck to the feet and he felt the power of the Moon with him again; he awakened the as the Black Dragon Warrior. Now all he needed was for Teriel to awaken her divine power and become the White Tiger Warrior.

Tereus gave a whistle, and the griffin came soaring from the air. It landed near the Yin Twin and mounted quickly on it. Before he thought of taking off, he saw the dark elf squishing her foot on the broken head, crushed skull shattered into five pieces, and the lizard brain. Her smile was vain and vile, just like a devil's smile.

Then the smile faded, and she walked away from the dead lizard. She passed Carvilius without looking at him and hopped on the griffin. "Vengeance is sweet, isn't it?" she asked, with a satisfied tone.

With that question, Tereus remained silent, and the griffin flew away into the darkness of the night. Clouds covered the moonlight and filing the land below in sheer blackness. And Carvilius soon walked away in the blackness and away from the battlefield, being silent as the grave.