Yosaku steps out, onto a balcony and looks down at his wife who stood in front of three male warriors.

"What is the meaning of this, wife?" Yosaku demanded.

His wife looked to be around the age 30, he wrinkles on her face started to show and her figure seemed less perfect then what it was. Her blonde hair hung loosely and blowing in the wind, she wore a decent dress yet covered more of her body. "You lied to me!" She yelled. "You told me you loved me and said I was the one you've been searching for!"

"Oh yes, you once were." Yosaku replied calmly. "Until I found out that your green eyes were fake."

"What is it about green eyes that intrigue you so?" The wife demanded.

"You see, in a prophecy tells about a woman with green eyes... real green eyes." Yosaku explained. "That she holds great power, beyond and demon Master. Now, I have no need of marring any fakes, when I have the real one." Yosaku then let out a sigh. "I would have willingly let you all leave intact, but now that you know so much... you are just food for my hungry shadow demons."

A monster with one eye and a huge mouth and long pointy teeth and tentacles for legs, wrapped itself around on of the warriors bitting into one side of his face then ripping half of it off. The monster jumped off the man where others jumped on the dead body eating what’s left of it. A flying monster then stabbed its hind claw through another one of the warrior's chest. Then pecked and ate his flesh as well. The last one fought a couple of monsters before getting eaten as well. The wife on the other hand had powers and put a shield around herself, keeping the monsters from getting her.

"You will not get me so easily." She then let out a scream and a blue like beam shot at Yosaku. Yosaku only held up his hand and the beam disappeared.

"Come now, you can't beat me. I'm too powerful for a weak old woman such as you." Yosaku said.

"You will pay for the pain you've caused me!" She screamed creating a huge fire ball above her then throwing it at Yosaku. When the ball came close to him, he only waved his hand making the fire ball disappear and his wife's force field faded away and the monsters soon got her as well.

Yosaku then turned to one of the guards. "Bring the beautiful Jade to me and you know what to do with the other."

"Yes, master." The guard bowed then quickly ran off.

Mitsuo and Niniane stood by each other even though the bars kept them separated. "What do you think that was all about?" Niniane asked.

"It could be Mingi and the others." Mitsuo guessed.

"No, I don't think they could get here that fast." Niniane said.

They then heard a door open and close. Niniane held up five fingers. Five guards appeared, two stood in front of Mitsuo's gate the other two in front of Niniane's. The fifth one opened Mitsuo's. "Take her to Yosaku." He ordered them. He then opened Niniane's and the guards held their swords up to her neck. "Take her to the 'Ring'."

The two guards escorted Mitsuo to a big room. It was mostly empty except for two white curtains that hung in hoop shapes. Below the curtains were two gold chairs. One said Jade the other Yosaku. Mitsuo then walked up and sat in the chair that said Jade. Yosaku was already seated in his chair. "I'm so glad you could join me, my dear." He smiled kissing Mitsuo's hand, but she doesn't look at him. "This is a kind of entertainment for me and my guards. We call it 'the Ring'. This is where a person would fight different kinds of my shadow demons."

"Is Niniane--" Mitsuo started.

"Oh, don't worry about your friend." Yosaku interrupted. He then held out a crystal ball that glowed a greenish color.

"What is this?" Mitsuo asked.

"A present," Yosaku replied. "Take it."

Mitsuo took the present and looked at it in her hands. "What's it supposed to do?" Mitsuo asked.

"Nothing if you have true green eyes," Yosaku said smiling. "But if your eyes were fake then it would practically burn your hands like fire." Yosaku then tossed the ball to one of his guards that stood next to Mitsuo. "Watch." The guard caught it and he then quickly dropped the ball to Mitsuo's hands. "You see." The guard jumped around in place then ran off with his hands red from the burn.

Horns then blew and music started playing. The crowd of guards cheered for the time has come. "Ah, finally the entertainment begins." Yosaku smiled getting more comfy in his chair.

One gate opened and Niniane stepped out, Mitsuo looked at her worried and Niniane only gave her a don't worry look. The other then opened and out crawled a monster that looked almost like a beatle. Niniane only smiled and glowed a blue color and then her axe like weapon appeared in her hands. She held her weapon up high then swung it straight down splitting the bug in half revealing it's guts. The bug the disappeared and the gates opened again, two praying mantises walked out. Only then times bigger then Niniane and have stingers on a tail and have big mouths with long pointy teeth.

Niniane swooshed her weapon around in a pattern then shoves the bottom of it into the ground, sending two strings of light toward either monster. It then wraps around them and squeezes, guts exploded everywhere from the force.

The crowd stayed silent through both battle Niniane fought. Yosaku then started clapping and the crowd started clapping as well and cheered. The gate rose and ten ninja's ran out and surrounded Niniane. "Kill them as many times as you want, but they'll never die!" Yosaku told Niniane.

The ninja's started to attack, Niniane cut up a couple of ninja's. One then struck his sword at Niniane, she quickly moved out of the way, but the sword had cut some of her hair. The ninja's then surrounded her, Mitsuo couldn't see anything, but the ninja's. A blue light flashed and Niniane stood there, dirt covered her entire body, her skirt was shredded and she looked angry.

The ninja's started to rise again, that's when blue light started to glow around Niniane's body and she slowly hovered up and blue strings shot at each ninja wrapping around them. Every time the ninjas moved they get shocked. Niniane stayed hovered and starring angrily at Yosaku and she shot a couple of blue strings at him.

Yosaku didn't get a chance to do anything before the strings grabbed him, pulling him out just above the 'rings' ground and slammed him deep into the ground. The blue light soon faded and Niniane fell to the ground tired. The crowd stayed silent, waiting for something to happen.

The ground started rumbling and Yosaku burst out of the ground screaming with rage. His entire body glowed an emerald green. "You die!" He angrily told Niniane.

He started to charge at Niniane, but was hit in the back by a white light. "Leave her alone!" Mitsuo yelled, floating just outside the balcony they sat in.

"Stay out of this, my love." Yosaku warned. "I don't want to hurt you."

"Then I'll hurt you." Mitsuo challenged.

"Have it your way." Yosaku replied floating as well, just across from Mitsuo.

"Stop!" Mitsuo yelled and Yosaku fell back down to the ground. She then closed her eyes and white light shot down into the ground and the dirt started to swirl like a whirlpool. Yosaku was soon sucked down into the dirt.

He stayed under for sometime, but Mitsuo didn't move her eyes form the now still sand. He then suddenly burst from the ground and made a huge fireball in between his hands. Before he could shoot it at Mitsuo a shadow moved and swiftly sliced at Yosaku's back. The fireball disappeared and Mingi appeared to the left of him, far away.

Yosaku was then hit in the back again by Jun and Yuni. They then jumped separate ways. "Why you--" Yosaku started, but Kannuki landed on Yosaku's shoulders and started beating at Yosaku's head with the hilt of his sword. Yosaku then got a hold of Kannuki and threw him high in the air, but Mitsuo shined white light around Kannuki and made him land softly to the ground.

Yosaku started to glow red with anger, then shot beams of light at everyone, they all dodged, blocked or jumped away from the beams of light. He then shot some at Mitsuo. She blocked it for sometime, but her strength couldn't hold it back for long. Mitsuo then let out a scream and the red light engulfed her. Mitsuo used probably what was left of her power and shot the red light back at Yosaku. Mitsuo then started to fall, Tickashi jumped and caught Mitsuo.

"Are you alright?" Tickahi asked Mitsuo.

Mitsuo smiled, "I'm alright. Don't worry about me."

"Get away from her!" Yosaku screamed at Tickashi. Yosaku then shot a fireball at Tickashi.

Cyrus jumped in front of the fireball and the massamune hit the fire ball back at Yosaku like a bat hitting a ball. Yosaku fell back and hit the wall hard, just under the crowd of guards. "What are you sitting there for?!?" Yosaku yelled at his guards. "Get them! All but my lovely!"

All the guards jumped from the seats. Suddenly a red line exploded down the rows of the seats killing a lot of the guards. Raziel jumped and slashed some of the guards that flew from the explosion he created. He landed next to Niniane, "Need some help?" He asked her.

"If only you'd shown up earlier." Niniane said.

They all killed out the remaining guards easily. Yosaku started laughing as he staggered up to stand. "You can't beat me that easily." He disappeared and showed up behind Mitsuo and grabbed her. A short sword appeared and held it up to Mitsuo's neck. "Get them!" He screamed. Suddenly monsters started showing up, then Yosaku disappeared with Mitsuo.

Mingi sliced three bugs with one swing of her sword. She then swung her sword behind her and stabbed a six handed monster, then pulled her sword up word splitting the monster from the stomach up. Suddenly ninja's shown up, Mingi looked at each one and noticed she was fighting the difficult kind of shadow demons. Some of them didn't hesitate to stick and Mingi, dodged and blocked each one of them. Mingi jumped up high and stabbed her sword into the ground. Her and the sword started to glow and the ground then burst open and roots twisted around the ninja's pulling them under. "Now, those weren't so hard."

Niniane and Raziel fought back to back, Niniane killed a couple of monsters with her weapon and every once in awhile used her power. Raziel had everything under control, anything that twitched got cut to pieces. Niniane then heard a flying monster above them. It circled around once or twice them came flying down with it's sharp claws pointed at Raziel. He had his hands full at the moment and didn't notice the flying monster. Niniane had stopped fighting the monsters she was fighting to move Raziel out of the way. One of the monsters she was fighting tried to stab her with it's bladed arms, but she side stepped it, but the blade had cut her arm. She grabbed her bleeding arm, then saw the monster charging back at her. Niniane started to glow blue and starred hard at the monster and it exploded.

Niniane quickly ran, jumped and somersaulted in the air over some monsters, her back then landed on Raziel's back. Raziel didn't fall, only bent into like a ducking position with a shocked face. When the flying monster came close enough, Niniane swung her weapon around and cut off one of the monsters clawed feet. It started to fly away and Niniane didn't hesitate to use Raziel as a spring. She then landed on the flying monsters back. It cawed furiously, but before it could do any moves to knock Niniane off she jabbed her weapon deep into it's back and all the way through to it's chest.

It then started to fall and Niniane had to use some force to pull her weapon back out. She allowed herself to fall and saw a big bunch of monsters waiting to get a hold of her. "Bloody Tornado!!" Niniane yelled and started spinning. It then transformed into a tornado, picking up any monsters in it's reach. The monsters were swept in and only pieces of monsters flew out. The tornado then disappeared and there stood Niniane covered in blood.

"No wonder she calls it 'Bloody Tornado." Raziel said.

Jun spins her walking stick in her hand then stops it just behind her back and is in a fighting stance. "Come and get me." Jun challenged. Monsters then charged at her. She swung her stick around very swiftly and knocked each monster out of her path. She then spins the stick again in her hand and it glows a greenish color, when she stopped spinning it and held it in front of her, the stick transformed into a double bladed spear. She spun the spear around and cut up any monsters that was in the spears path. She had killed all the monsters around her, that's when the ninja's appeared. Jun then looked around her, her spear then changed back into her walking stick. She lifted the stick high above her head and yelled "Earth quack flare!!" Then stabbed the stick into the ground. A red light shined starting at the stick then created a circle around her. Then it divided into other lives directly at the ninjas creating circles around them. The lights around the ninjas shot up, then faded away. Suddenly the land started to shake violently, then split open under their feet. The ninjas fell into hot lava. The lava melted them slowly, their clothes had burst into flames. Under the clothes that covered their mouths you could see their mouths wide open in a scream, but no sound came out. One by one they all melted within the lava's grasp, until all ninja's were gone.

Jun then pulled her stick out from the ground and the lava holes closed. "Wow," she said with surprise of all the power she held with in her. "Now that was cool."

Cyrus stood in a firm stance, killing any monster that came within the range of his sword. They soon started to come in more and more, he tried to fight quickly for they were surrounding him. One monster shot it's arm out to kill Cyrus, but she quickly moved to the side and the monster got more of his coat. Cyrus stood back in his firm stance then a scratch revealed itself.

With an angered look upon his face, he starred at the monsters. There were so many of them that they started to pile up, yet keeping their distance. "No one," Cyrus began. "Has ever been able to put a scratch on me without dying first. NOW! You all die!" He screamed slashing his sword into the ground. Waves of light started to vibrate from his sword and every monster it touched exploded as if a bomb were inside it. Guts flew everywhere and the ground turned red as the monsters continued to explode. When the last of them finally died Cyrus lifted his sword from the ground.

A flying monster then charged at his back, it moved so silently no a sound came from it. It saw Cyrus jump, but couldn't see where he went, Cyrus then appeared before the bird. The bird tried to move away, but it wasn't fast enough, Cyrus had already swung his sword. Blood spurted from the birds neck and it's head fell. "Weakling," was all Cyrus said before continuing to fight monsters off.

Kannuki sat leaned against the wall of a temple. He then looked at everyone around him, Yuni, Tickashi, Cyrus, Jun, Mingi, Niniane and Raziel. They were all busy fighting all kinds of monsters. Yet here he was sitting with only one monster that had came after him. He had thought about trying to save Mitsuo, but, he didn't know where to go, plus there were no doors anywhere and he couldn't see any holds to climb up the walls. "Man this sucks." He said to himself, continuing to watch everyone fight. He then noticed something. Cat! Cat wasn't there, she wasn't fighting.

Just then he saw Cat jump from the guarding wall, onto the back of a flying monster and quickly jumped into a window. Kannuki saw the flying monster Cat jumped from spot him and dodged straight at him. Kannuki was ready, when the flying monster came in range he jumped up and the flying monster slammed into the ground. Kannuki jumped off the flying monster and into the window Cat entered.

Part Twelve