Chapter 20: Battle Cry

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"What's our strategy?" Comet asked as they huddled together.

"Their only weakness is fire," Ericka said, "so I say we send the dragons in with Posiontail first." They agreed and prepared to fight. They slid down the cliff and waited to attack. The shapeshifters were close enough so that you could see each individual one. They were all turning into different animals, most of them were polar bears with armor.


They all stopped when they saw them standing together. They parted and a wolf walked out with the Darkness on it's back. The Darkness drew the sword out of the wolf's sword holder.


The Darkness hopped off of the wolf and the wolf trotted back into the crowd of Shape shifters. The Darkness raised the sword and the Shape shifters charged. "POSIONTAIL!" Ericka yelled and Posiontail with the other dragons ran forward and breathed fire everywhere, making the Shape shifters bubble down into a puddle and melting the snow into slush. Drac and Comet's family rushed forward after the first wave of Shape shifters were melted. They knew if they chopped off the Shape shifters heads they would melt as well. Ericka scanned through the turmoil and saw the Darkness staring right back at her. It nodded it's head and she felt something pierce her back. She looked at saw a bright blue arrow sticking out of her back. She yanked it out and another one flew passed her. She looked up on the cliff and saw a human figure with a bright blue bow and arrow up on the cliff, aiming another arrow at her. She dodged it and flew up to the archer. It was already running away from her when she got up their. "Hey! Come back!" She said, running after it. She found out it had run into a maze of some sort and went inside. It was deathly quiet as she went along. She walked through the maze and ran into a dead end. Something was behind her and she turned around. It was the archer, and it was pointing the bow at her head.

"Don't move." It said in a gravelly voice, probably a voice changer.

Archer:

"What do you want?" She asked

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"What do you want?" She asked.

"Revenge," The archer said, tossing it's bow into its back, "for my wife."

"What?" She said. It reached for it's mask and tore it off. She was speechless when she saw Ryder's face.

"I'm sorry." He said as a Shapeshifter held a hand over her mouth and nose so she couldn't breath.

"I TRUSTED YOU!" She said in a muffled voice as she started to drift off.

"There's a lot of people in the cemetery who trusted me." He said as she fainted. She woke up in some sort of ice palace. She was in a throne room. She saw a window and staggered over to it. They were on a high hill and below was the fight. "Welcome back." Ryder said, standing behind her. She reached to take her helmet off, but noticed it was on the ground. "We did that for you." He said.

"What do you mean in 'we'?" She asked. Ryder grinned and looked at a door. It opened and the Darkness stepped into the room. It walked over to Ryder and rested a hand on Ryder's shoulder. "I can't believe you." She said as the Darkness shape shifted into Atom.

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