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Chapter 20

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Even if the creature resembled something of a giant gargoyle, it's wings were something of a giant bird. It made Scarlet shiver. "I need to return to Klaus and tell him what actually is going on." Without any more waiting Scarlet turned back the way she come from, and run back to the camp.

Usually Scarlet would have felt freedom from running, or something of a stress reliever, but now she could think less of the peace she got from running, now she was concentrating on getting back to the base without going deaf with the constant loud and ugly roars.

"That creature really is sounding like a half dead dragon." Scarlet would have laughed at her own joke if there was at least one person beside her, but it made her even more guilty. "If i would have at least told them more before running away like a coward." Scarlet's eyes become downcast, before raising back up and gaining determined glow.

"No, Klaus and others wouldn't say that, at this moment nothing matters, and Moonlight would probably have shouted painful encouragements. I can't lose hope now when everyone needs it the most." Scarlet continued on her way and hitting the last steps needing to see the entrance to the camp.

Everyone was standing outside the camp and staring at the giant gorgoyle in a daze. Scarlet run up to them and stopped few feet away and yet no one turned to aknoweledge her presence. "Hey, guys?" It seemed at the sound of her voice everyone turned to her and blinked as if they were sleeping with eyes open.

"Are you all okay?" Scarlet concerned looked at Klaus making sure if there isn't any visible wounds. "I'm not sure, i know one second i'm watching you run the other second your standing right in front of me." Klaus was confused and if Scarlet didn't now him good enough she would have missed the worry in his voice.

"Klaus do you remember why i run off?" Scarlet wanted to make sure if he didn't have a short memory lose. "Yeah i do, I asked you where is the real Damou." Scarlet breathed sigh of relief. "I will tell you everything i know when we will find Moonlight." Everyone brightened up a little before they started to walk.

"Where are you going?" Scarlet asked and Klaus turned to look at her. "Where do you think? We are going to find your dragon and sail the skies." At this Scarlet got confused. "Sorry? What?" Klaus breathed in some air. "I was trying to be poetic but i guess without Moonlight possesing you, i have to do a lot of explainig. What i meant was we will find Moonlight in the sky." Klaus smiled and pointed up into the sky for emphasis.

"Oh, right, sorry, follow me." Scarlet started walking while picking up a pace to walk in front of everyone. Everyone walked in silence for some time until Amelia couldn't keep her question in anymore. "Scarlet!" Amelia wanted just to call her name not shout it. "What!?" Scarlet jumped in suprise.

"Ummm, sorry, i didn't mean to shout." Amelia almost burst out laughing at Scarlet's reaction. "So, was there something you wanted?" Scarlet keept looking anywhere else except at the group. "I was gonna ask if you could just call Dragon of Time from distance, in place of us just walking all the way to him? But i changed my mind now, Scarlet are you okay?"

"Yeah, i'm fine, why?" Scarlet stopped looking elsewhere and concentrated on her shoes instead, only than she realised they stopped walking. Scarlet couldn't see what they were doing but she could feel them exchanging glances and then little later she heard them whispering.

"Well, we will go ahead, Klaus will talk to you." Luca ws the one to talk, he hurried away in a fast pace with others following him.

When the sounds of everyones footsteps disappeared, it was when Scarlet dared to look up at Klaus. He was looking curiously at her and expectant. "I guess you want answers?" Scarlet wanted to end it and look for Hugo. "Yeah, you seem kind of out of it." Klaus attempted to make the statment as funny as possible, but because of lack of humour in this atmosphere he failed.

Scarlet approached a tree and sat down hugging her knees. "You know when i ran away, i realized it seems it's everything i have left from Moonlight... She told me have, if i ever got in trouble i should run and not look back, i felt so weak, i wish i could do more then-" Scarlet stopped when she heard Klaus approaching, she untangled her hands from her knees to put them on the soft ground.

"You don't need to worry about it, i was partly at fault, i didn't need to ask you that question." Klaus lowered himself down on the grass and put his face just inches away from Scarlets. "You know, even if we are a couple we don't do any of the mushy stuff."

At his words, smile grew on Scarlet's lips. "I don't think it's the right thing to say, when there's a moster on the loose." Even if Scarlet did scold Klaus she couldn't keep in her own giggles.

Klaus took the oppurtunity of her being distracted and stole a kiss, that did shock Scarlet, but she still returned the kiss. When they parted there was a calm silence until one of them broke it. "We should do this more often." A laugh escaped from Sacrlet. "When did you become such a romantic guy?"

Klaus pulled himself closer to Scarlet's ear and whispered. "And how do you keep looking so beautiful all the time?" With this they both started laughing uncontrollably until a gurgled groan escaped from the monster. They both jumped up on their feet seeing the creature being match closer than before.

"I think it's time to go." Scarlet started running after she finished her sentence, Klaus didn't stay behind and followed Scarlet. To Klaus suprise Scarlet was running at the same speed as him. "Usually you don't run at the speed as the others." Scarlet turned to look at Klaus and smiled.

"I'm just tired of running." Klaus knew she wanted him to think that she's physically exchusted, but the look in her eyes was saying something else.

They go to their destination soon after the calm silence settled in, everyone was waiting just few metres away from school, not daring to venture any closer. "What the matter?" Scarlet stopped beside Luca. "No one wants to go away from the trees shadow, too scared." Scarlet looked at the monster that now was being distructed by dragons.

"Wait here, i'll try to find Hugo." Without any more words Scarlet run past everyone and towards the school grounds.

When she disappeared past the building she started running towards the place where she last saw her dragon.

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Everyone watched as Scarlet disappeared behind the building. They stood there akwardly when Klaus suddenly spotted carbuncle. "It seems he fell of her shoulder." Everyone looked at the little creature that was peacfully sleeping. "We can hold onto him for Scarlet." Luca said and left it at that.

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Upon reaching the spot, she saw Hugo staring at the spot where dragons are distructing the monster. "It's a really horrible creature." Scarlet was suprised, and it wasn't because dragon spoke, she heard him speak before, and it wasn't because she didn't expect him to start a conversation, the thing that suprised her was that he said it so softly and quitely.

"I know." I don't know why i said that, maybe i didn't want to have an akward silence or maybe it was just a natural responce. "I heard that the monster can reach half of the originals power, but using sacrifices increases the power capability." She heard it from Luca, but he's explenation wasn't as good as Hugo's.

"Has it reached more than half?" Looking at the monster Scarlet's expression told that she actually believed that monster reached more than half. "No it hasn't." He answered it so simply, as if he could tell the difference in the monsters power and Moonlights. "Does it mean that Moonlight can defeat it?"

There was a pause. "No, not in a human form, human body is suppressing the power."

"She needs to turn into that monster?"

"I don't know."

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Dragons have been doing a good job on distructing the creature, but the 5 Elemental's that have returned from wherever they have been had a hard time working in team with the hooded people. "Can't you do a normal job and point that telecope into the right direction?" One of the elementals was shouting at hooded guy.

"I want to see you, do better." No one was backing down from a verbal fight. "Don't talk back, and do what you're told." The guy wasn't listening anymore. "No you listen, if you want better results you will shut up and let me finish my thing." They had a staring contest for couple of minutes before Darkness had enough.

"Both of you, shut up, Fire let him do his job, and better go do what you were supposed to do." They both grumbled something under their breaths. "I heard it, both of you." If you thought they were slow, now they were flashing out of existence to appear on top of the closest dragons that were further away from Darkness.

With every hit that the monster took, it would roar and swing it's arm at the direction that the attack came from, only to be met with plain air.

Darkness train of thought was stopped by a roar, turning her head she saw Dragon of Time aprroaching her dragon. On top of the dragon of course was Scarlet.

She waited until the dragon was close enough, for them to hear each other if they talk. "Moonlight!" Scarlet shouted out. "I can hear you perfectly fine, you don't need to shout." Scarlet looked sheepish and murmured something. "I'm sorry." Both parties said nothing after that, just Scarlet looking uncomfortable and glancing from the monster to Darkness.

"Do you have something to say?"

"I wanted to ask you, will we be able to defeat it?" Darkness doesn't need to breath, that Scarlet knew for a fact, but on that second Scarlet could have sworn that she took a big intake of breath. "Does it really matter?" Darkness looked away not in the sense of being afraid of looking at them in the eye or being uncomfortable, but of actually feeling guilt.

"What do you mean it doesn't matter? Of course it does, if that monster is allowed to roam free, it could destroy towns, cities and more!" Scarlet was angry and Darkness could see it clear as day. "So you want me to stop it?" For everyone it was a simple question, but Scarlet knew better then trust Moonlight's simple questions.

"It won't be easy to defeat it, right?" Scarlet looked down dejected, knowing full well the answer. "No, it won't." Darkness was silent seeming to be deep in thought, but so was Scarlet, of course it didn't last when Dragon of Time and Dragon of Darkness suddenly started evading retreating dragons.

"W-What's going on!?" Scarlet houted out while grabbing onto draggons scales, but for Darkness she just stood as always unfazed by sudden move. "It seems the monster got tired of trying to swat dragons away and decided to ignore them." Darkness looket at the monster and the direction he was heading to.

"I think we can corner him." Anyone who didn't know Darkness would have thought she was ready to go on killing spree, with the creepy smile that was plastered across her face. "Corner him, how?" Scarlet wanted to make sure that her plan was 100% safe before agreeing to whatever she made up.

"We are going to face it ourselves." Darkness seemed to enjoy thinking of taking on a creature that probably was able to break every single bone in her body. "Moonlight we can't, what if we die!?" Scarlet swallowed to clear her moth, but the moment she did she regreated as her mouth felt dry.

"What's the matter? Are you scared?" Darkness was taunting, as if checking if Scarlet will come up to the silent challenge.

"Scarlet, i don't know what your talking about, but please hurry up, we are not used to flying." Klaus attempted to do normal raised voice, but it still was tainted with fear. "Okay, i accept your challenge, we'll go and face the monster ourselves."

"Where is carbuncle?"

"Why do you need him?" Scarlet narrowed her eyes. "I just thought a different target will get him distracted." Scarlet eyes widened. "YOU ARE NOT USING CARBUNCLE!" Darkness waited for Scarlet to calm down from that shout. "I won't send carbuncle into the monster jaws, i'll send the white carbuncles."

"You are not sending a single carbuncle, and i don't care what you have to say." Scarlet folded her hands and turned away. "They won't feel pain, they will just disappear in a puff of smoke." Scarlet knew that Moonlight couldn't express her emotions in human way, but the uncaring tone that she uses is not helping her case.

"And have will you get enought carbuncles to distract the monster?"

"There's a spell to do that."

"I don't want to use carbuncle friends as a target." Scarlets face fell. "Like i told you, they won't feel pain, when they will disappear in a puff of smoke. Where is carbuncle?" Scarlet looked from Darkness to Klaus, who on closer inspection was holding something. Scarlet said nothing allowing Darkness to get the message.

Darkness took couple steps before putting her leg on thin air and disappearing, after Scarlet turned her head couple times, she spotted Darkness bending down and telling something to Klaus, they had brief exchange of words, before Klaus give carbuncle to her.

When Darkness had Carbuncle secured in her hands she again disappeared in a flash. To reappear in front of Scarlet. "Scarlet remember i told you that there is a possibility of using magic without a wand?" Scarlet remembered that Darkness did mention it at times when she wasn't busy with sleeping. "Yeah."

"I will need you to perform it to me."

"What? The things you teached me are not enough to perform any kind of magic..." Scarlet looked into Darkness eyes and saw the uselessness of attempting to even try to argue back. "Fine, you win."

"You got my magic inside you, don't forget that." Scarlet looked at Darkness and still didn't feel any reasurrence at her words.

Scarlet took a deep breath and imagined the words for the spell and put all her magic into it, and at the same time making sure the flow is smooth and stable. From the outside nothing was happening until suddenly there started to rain White Carbuncles.

Darkness didn't waste her time and told the Carbuncles to distract the monster, the little fluffy creatures didn't take a second thought on deciding if it's an enemy or not, just the knowledge that they could make a new friend was flowing through their little minds. Scarlet continued to summon more carbuncles without knowing that.

Darkness didn't say anything, as she needed as many carbuncles as possible. Suddenly more carbuncles stopped appearing, but there was already more them enough carbuncles. "You could have told me it was successful!" Scarlet wasn't happy of seeing that many carbuncles or the smile on Darkness lips a creepy smile.

"You were doing the job perfectly." Darkness probably could have done a better job on congratulating if it wasn't for the sudden increase in speed. "What's going on? Hugo what are you doing?"

"Sorry, i was told to land." Scarlet didn't know what was going on, but she didn't argue as Darkness didn't even blink in suprise at the sudden change. Soon they were at a safe clearing were dragons landed safely. "Moonlight what are we doing?"

"Landing, what else?" Scarlet couldn't ask any more questions as Darkness jumped of her dragon. "I guess, i just have to do whatever she has planned." Scarlet followed suit jumping of the dragon, but this time making sure that she lands properly. Scarlet looked around the clearing, only thing that could work as a hiding place is behind a pile of carbuncles.

"Scarlet, who summoned all this carbuncles?" Scarlet froze at Klaus voice, but she turned to look at him anyways. "Who? I don't know, looks like something i wouldn't do, like ever." Scarlet finished with a big smile. "Okay? So did Moonlight need carbuncle for this?"

"Yes." The answer was instant but Klaus clearly wasn't there to ask questions about failed magic use. "You said you will tell us what's going on the moment we find Moonlight." Scarlet wanted to tell him all but she knew that she wasn't the one for the task. "Moonlight will be better at this think than i will."

Klaus gaze didn't disappear while he got closer to Scarlet, and unexpectedly he raised Scarlet's chin up so her eyes would meet his.

Any second it seemed that their lips would meet when- "I don't know if humans do that all the time or is it like a rare occasion?" At Darkness voice they both jumped away in fright, before their faces filled with blush. "You destroyed the moment." Scarlet mumbled some words to herself before realising that Darkness could hear her.

"Uhhhhhh, sorry?" Scarlet looked at Darkness Sheepishly. "Doesn't matter, you wanted me to explain the situation right?" For a second Scarlet wanted to shout 'no', but Klaus standing beside her stopped her and made her nod. "I wanted to stop the creature before it was created completely, so i wouldn't need to explain, but that of course is impossible now."

"Hey guys, look what i found." Amelia come bouncing to us, with what looked like carbuncles stuck to her. "Look, i call this carbuncle jacket-" She pointed to carbuncles stuck to her chest. "And this carbuncle hat-" She again pointed to her head to show a carbuncle sleeping on it. "And this carbuncle glows." She waved her hands for everyone to see the carbuncles, who seemed to be holding on to her hand for dear life so they wouldn't be thrown away.

Others were trailing behind her, exhausted for some reason. "Remind us to never do what Amelia asks as, ever again." Elias landed face first into the soft grass. "Okay?" Scarlet didn't know if to laugh or feel sorry for him. "Can we stop playing? We literally have a monster behind us, who probably is not into playing with carbuncles for long." Klaus stopped all the good mood that was developing.

"Yeah, you're right." Scarlet agreed even if she didn't want to. "Oh, is it a story time?" Amelia surprised everyone by her cheerful attitude. "Yeah, this is, sit down." Scarlet ushered Amelia to sit down. "Is she okay?" Darkness scanned Amelia as if she's a threat of some sort.

"I'm perfectly fine." Everyone stared at each other for few seconds and decided to ignore Amelias strange behavior. "Anyways i want to clarify one thing." Klaus looked at Darkness with folded hands. "And what's that?" Looking at both staring at each other as if they are childhood rivals, almost made everyone burst out in laughter.

"That think is called Damou?" Klaus and Darkness never broke the eye contact. "It doesn't really have a name, but word Damou for some reason stuck."

"Is that you? The copy of you?" Everyone moved their eyes from Klaus to Darkness as they talked, even Amelia joined from playing with the carbuncles. "Yes." Klaus went silent to that. "Well, that's all from me, you can explain everything else." Klaus broke eye contact to look at Scarlet and give her a small smile.

"Okay, where should i start?" Darkness looked at everyone as if waiting for the answer. "Oh, oh, start from the beginning." Amelia jumped up and down, well at least as best as she could while she was sitting down. "I guess i can start from the beginning." No one was looking forward to the story because of her cold voice she was using.

"I guess it started when i was still a kid, with my own immortal body."

"oh" Scarlet in suprise mumbled to herself, while everyone else stayed silent.

"Before humans, there lived Elementals, and the other ones that you called hooded people-" Darkness was interrupted by Klaus. "What is their race name?" Klaus was looking at her expectantly, waiting for an answer. "Eternals, but they certainly don't last for forever, but i don't know how many years."

Everyone was silent, and Klaus now looked at Darkness with curiousity in his eyes. "Why is their race named eternals? If they don't even live for long?" Klaus seemed to be taunting their choice of their race name. "Why are you not called mortal when you can die?" I could swear i heard annoyance flush through her voice, but i took it as something i misheard, i left it alone, but it did shut Klaus up.

There was another glaring contest before Scarlet got tired of it. "Okay, have about if you continue Moonlight?" I probably would have continued standing at the side if it wasn't for the giant creature looming above us. "Okay... Our both races knew each other for a long time, so when Elemenetals went into literal extinction, Eternals where the one's to help."

She went silent, but the silence didn't last for long. "But there was nothing to save..." This must have been the first time Scarlet has heard her voice soften enough to reassure her, that she does have emotions. "Every single Elemental died in just two weeks, except me." Darkness for a second closed her eyes, but for Scarlet she just needed to see that to know that she was remembering that day.

No one knew if they can ask any questions, so they decided that they should stay quite. "I don't know how i survived, but i did. I was often told that i should celebrate that, but i didn't see any reason in celebrating of being the only survivor of my race." Her brows furrowed as if she realized something.

"I have a question." Scarlet looked at Klaus and with her facial expressions tried to tell him to shut up, but he in turn looked at her and said that he was too curious to pass. "Ask." Scarlet didn't know if she was pretending of not seeing their weird charade or was she really that cluless on reading people? "If you looked like that monster and was that, have can you be an Elemental?"

Everyone's attention perked up, even Scarlet's. "You do know that i was born an Elemental?" Her question seemed so plain as if we should have guessed that immediately. "But how were you born one?" Klaus continued questioning her. "I don't know, only think i do understand is, i paid a lot to be given this form."

Darkness looked down at her feet. "Is that enough of an answer?" Scarlet nodded her head seeing that she wanted to end the conversation. Everyone else followed Scarlet, probably knowing that in this moment Scarlets decisions are better. "I will skip all the unimportant details and will move were it all probably started."

It sometimes made Scarlet wonder if she really was uninterested in her past. "I guess it started when we first detected Elementals." Scarlet eyes widened. "But didn't you say all Elementals went extinct?" Scarlet's shock was clearly evident. "We had no idea from where they showed up, when we first saw them it was just 3 of them, Fire, Water and Earth."

"What about Wind or Light?"

"Like i said we had no idea from where they came, when Light and Wind showed up, the Kingdom of Elemental's was already established."

"So what happened that made one of those hooded people create the monster?" Scarlet wanted to ask something but Klaus got tired of listening, so he asked the most obvious. "I was getting to that." Even if Darkness did sound ungrateful, Klaus knew that she was actually little bit thankful for him stopping Scarlet's questions.

"At first Elemental's where fine with us living our own lifes and ignored us and never entered the city." Suddely Darkness stopped as if again remembering that time. "S-... But one day out of the blue they come barging into the town and killing anyone that dared to stop them..." It seemed it was getting harder for her to remember what happened.

She furrowed her brows in thought. "After that my memory become foggy, but i can remember few things, like fighting all of them, and only almost killing one, after that i have no clue what happened." We were silent, but thay all come to one conclusion. "They want revenge on Elementals, right?" Scarlet wanted to say that as well, but Klaus like always beat her to the punch.

Darkness nodded, still trying to piece together scattered puzzle pieces. "Have are we going to defeat it?" Scarlet looked at Damou and shivered involunterally. "I have no idea." Darkness answered plainly but Scarlet's eyes widened in hope. "Can't you just turn into that monster and defeat it?" Scarlet smiled in hope that she will say 'yes', but what was answered was something else.

"No, i can't transform, and even if i could only result that you would get is, half of the world destroyed." Scarlet's face fell, her brain still taking in the information. "So, you have no idea have to transform?" Scarlet looked at Darkness through her sad eyes. "Yes." Scarlet seemed to want to say something, but she stopped and decided against it.

"Why did Elementals attack?"

"Who knows, i never did find out, no matter how long i researched."

"You? Reaserched? I mean i can totally see you destroy things, but reasearch? If i am honest you don't look like that type." Luca looked at her in amazement. "Is he asking me to kill him?"

"Ummm, i think he's being serious." Scarlet looked at Luca and than back to Darkness. "Anyways, how are we going to defeat it?" Klaus again got tired at listening to things that weren't supposed to be said. "Like i said, i doubt we can do much."

"If we just could turn you into that thing without you destroying half of the world." Scarlet looked at the monster and winced when she saw it smack Carbuncles, but just like Darkness said they disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Are you obsessed with me turning into that monster?" Scarlet heard that and sheepishly smiled. "Sorry."

But at that moment something clicked in Scarlet's mind and she brightened up immediately. "I know how to turn you into that thing." That came as a suprise to everyone even to Amelia who has come back to her senses and tried to take Carbuncles of her, but failing. "What are you talking about? I never knew that human can get that obsessed."

"No, no, remember Klaus? That man that give me that mask as a gift? The one that allows you to take any form." Scarlet was beaming with happiness at her smart idea. "Even if i did turn into that thing, with the help of the mask, i'm sure we'll be matching powers." Scarlet's face fell before brightening again. "Than you will be a distraction, but that means we will need to make a solid plan." That made her start mumbling.

There was sudden trembling when the creature got closer to the clearing.

Klaus didn't waste any time and took out his wand. "Globus Flau!" Klaus shouted out a spell and multiple fire balls lined up and flew towards the creature, but when it touched it, it didn't even make a slight sound of aknowledgment. "You are too weak to even scratch it." Darkness didn't mock him or anything, but she certainly said it as a fact.

"Klaus move away, let a professional do his job." Luca walked past Klaus and shouted out a spell. "Ira Tonitrus!" From the sky sudden lightning flashed and hit the creature but the monster was left unfazed. "I don't know why you thought you stood a chance." Darkness shook her head in disapproval. "Well i want to see you try be-."

Before Luca could fully finish his sentence, the monster roard as if he was in anger, and when everyone inspected they could see black swords sticking out of the monsters flesh. "That is how you harm something." The monster continued flailing it's claws in attempt to get rid off the swords.

After few seconds the monster stopped swinging it's claws, even if the swords were still sticking out. "I guess we don't stand a chance." Luca was convienced and said what he thought, Klaus for the first time agreed with Luca. "Can't we use one of your weapons, Moonlight?" Scarlet looked at Darkness expectantly. "Not really, every single weapon that i created has been taken under Kings and Queens supervision, except the Scale, and i doubt it wll be much of a help."

"Can't we get them?"

"Not if you want to return 5 hours later, when most carbuncles will be gone by then."

"We can borrow them."

"Then we will have to knock out every single guard, and we wouldn't want to leave the castle unprotected."

Scarlet went silent with nothing to say. "I give up, i don't know what to do after we turn you into that thing." Scarlet lay down on the soft grass and looked at the sky filled with Carbuncles. Scarlet sat there for a minute still thinking. "What if we try using Scales?" Scarlet said it more to herself then to anyone else, but she was heard by Darkness.

"It could work, if we knew what destroying capabilities it had."

"We could ask him!" The moment Klaus heard Scarlet say those words, he needed to see if she has gone crazy.

"Scarlet, scales can't talk." Klaus said. "No, Scarlet can talk to scales, just like me."

"Wait, if Scarlet and you can talk to them, why can't anyone else?" Klaus was confused, it was written all over his face. "Last time when he trusted humans, they tried to destroy it." Klaus nodded in understanding, but the next question come after that. "Why?"

"Why, what?"

"Why did people try to destroy it?"

"Because he stole human magic, after all it's job was to destroy, but for... it... to... destroy..." Darkness suddenly stopped what she was saying and looked at Klaus more closely. "Has anyone told you that you are a genius?"

"They have been telling that to me my whole life. Why?" Klaus raised his eyebrow in question. Darkness just ignored Klaus's question and turned to Sacrlet. "We can use Scales to destroy the monster." Sacrlet looked confused, she knew that Darkness was excited, even if her voice was saying she could care less. "Really? Why such change in ideas?"

Darkness ignored Scarlet, and turned towards the monster and whistled. She waited few minutes until dragons of 5 elements come fly towards them. "What's the matter?" Scarlet shrieked at the sudden male voice behind her. Scarlet turned to look at the man that tried to kill her hours prior to this moment. "Stop creeping on people."

"But weren't you the one who called me?" Ray looked puzzled, but only for few seconds, before turning to his not smiling face, but not as not smiling face as Darkness, there are still emotions playing in the mans eyes. "I would have prefered not fly through so many carbuncles, why are there so many anyways?" Fire jumped of her dragon.

"They are for distruction. Listen close everyone, except humans, they are useless." Darkness glanced at Luca. "Hey!" Luca looked disapproving at Darkness. "Anyways, i will need you to make sure that Damou stays at this clearing, while im gone with Scarlet."

"Ummm, can we not? Why can't the dude do it? He seemed evenly mached when we fought him." Fire rubbed back of her head and made up en excuse. "Because if i find out that the monster has gotten any closer to town, i will personally make sure you dont see the sun."

"On my way." Fire turned on the spot and walked towards her dragon. "Darkness." A man suddenly spoke up, until now he was a silent listener, he's voice was gruff but yet it was smooth at the same time. He was Earth, right?. "What?"

"We have to lock him in this clearing?"

"Yes." Darkness finished it with a simple word and pointed to Scarlet that she needs to get on her dragon. Not soon after she does, walls of earth start to surround Damou, the walls went up to the monsters waist, but it ignored it. "Who created the walls?"

"Earth."

"Will they hold?"

"Earths magic is strong."

Scarlet didn't ask any more questions, but she looked up to the night sky that was getting closer.

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Elementals looked at the gradually disappearing dragons before going to their businesses. Earth created walls and Fire made lions of fire that immediatelly charged the monster, teeth showing. Light blinded the creature and it immediatelly become angry and started stomping the ground. "Move out of my way." Ray turned into a demon and disappeared in a flash, just to appear at the cretures chest in mid air, kicking it.

The monster stumbled backwards, crashing into the wall, but the wall didn't budge but the creature roared in pain. Huh, never though i could have pushed it back." Ray disappeared and showed up back in the clearing. "How do you do that?" Ray was about to go for another round when he was stopped by a sudden voice.

"Do what?" Ray looked questioningly at the man with blond hair and purple eyes. "How do you disappear and reappear in different locations?"

Ray looked at him even more puzzled before realization struck him. "Ohhhhhh, right, humans are not capable of such things, well, i'm just able to move at high speed, and i can fly using my magic." Ray grinned, feeling proud. "Is everyoneone of your kind able to do that?"

"yes, and elementals are able to do that too." Ray pointed at Elemental's that are no where close in using physical power to fight. "They don't look like they are able to do that."

"Hey, back me up here!" Ray shouted at Elemental's. "We could, but we don't like you that much." Ray glared at Fire, but turned towards Klaus with a smile. "As you can see, we are not that similar."

"Why won't you speak up?" Klaus arched his brows in irritation. "Speak up to what?" Ray looked at Klaus confused. "Elemental's started all this, you don't have to listen to them."

"The one's who started are long dead, my people are just stuck on revenge, they don't want to listen to reason. If elementals kill their own, they die as well, with no change of returning." Ray shook his head with a smile. "You want to say Moonlight died, when they attacked?"

"You know she has a name."

"Sorry, Scarlet told me to call her Moonlight."

"It doesn't really matter, she's Darkness now." Ray looked at the direction the Dragons left. "Was she killed?"

"Yes, i was suppoed to protect her, but i wasn't there when i was needed." He didn't sound sad, but regretful. "She said she doesn't remember what happened after she fought with them."

"Memory loss, it happens often now, when Elementals die." He looked grim, but not 5 seconds later he was back to that awfully cheery person. "Well, i should go, no one's saving the day for me." He smiled before disappearing and reappearing kicking the monster again.

{...}

"The school is eerily quite." Scarlet was looking around as if she was there for the first time. Darkness was walking like ususal, with emotionless eyes and straight posture. "It seems fine to me."

"I'm sure it does."

"Are you trying to imply something?" Darkness turned towards Scarlet and glared at her. "Me? No, no, no, i wasn't implying anything." Scarlet looked at Darkness sheepishly. "I thought so."

"So where are we going?"

"After the mask." After that Darkness procceded to walk towards the dorms. "If i am honest i forgot all about it."

"About that mask?"

"Yeah."

"Watching how you just throw it into the drawer and never took it out again, i would be shocked if you even did remember it." They exited the school building and went into the direction of girls dorms. "What is that even supposed to mean? Are you sayng i don't have a good memory? I would have wanted to see you remember it."

"I was gonna leave the monster to it's own devices." They passed by the bushes. "What? Really? You were just going to allow it to cause havoc?"

"It's not like i could just make it disappear."

"You could have fought."

"It would have done nothing."

"It would have proved to us that you care."

"It would have meant nothing to me."

"It would have meant something to us- me, to anyone who you are friends with."

Darkness abruptly stopped, and Scarlet who was watching Darkness intently almost bumped into her. "What happened?"

"I thought i was friends with just you." Darkness looked confused at Scarlet. Scarlet looked confused back at Darkness until she remembered the problem. "I mean you can be called friends with anyone who you consider to be in stable relationship." Scarlet tried hard to explain it in Darkness level. "So? I'm friends with Amelia?"

"Yes, if you don't believe me, ask her." Scarlet smiled reassuringly at Darkness. "I guess i can do that." Darkness shrugged and continued walking towards the dorms. "Strange..." Scarlet started but trailed off at the end.

In the dorms Scarlet was throwing everything out of her cupboard. "Come on, i know i left it somewhere here."

"How do you not remember where you left it?" Darkness was looking into her wardrobe. "How do you not remember where i left it?" Scarlet's hand stumbled on something and she attempted to pull it out. "Well, i ahhh, wasn't looking, okay?" when Darkness finishing her sentence, she walked over to Scarlet to see what she was struggling to get out of her drover.

"What have you left there?"

"I don't know, but it certainly has a weird shape." Scarlet stopped pulling and started feeling the shape of the object. "Here let me try to pull it out." Scarlet let go and moved back. Darkness twisted it and eventually pulled it out, it come out easily. "It's that mask! Yes! But why was it stuck?" Scarlet scratched her head in confusion at her question.

"It twisted itself in clothe, you seriously need to do a clean up." Darkness looked at Sacrlet seriously, Scarlet in turn laughed as if it was a joke. "Yeah, i'll get to it when i can." Scarlet turned towards the door and started walking as if it's going to fix the problem. "We need to go for the scales now."

Darkness followed with straight posture and never faltering steps.

Outside Scarlet studied Darkness intently. "Why do you walk so stifly?"

"Why do you walk as if you need to be ready for suprises?" Darkness briefly glanced at Scarlet. "Weren't you the one who told me to be ready for unexpected?"

"Just like you were told to walk that way, i walk the way i was told."

"Who told you to walk that way?" Scarlet's eyes widened in surprise and she intently looked at Darkness. "My parents, people who surrounded me."

"But didn't your parents die?"

"Not the first generation, they were alive long enough to tell me how to walk and act around certain people, not that i had any reason to show emotion. You see when i was born into Elementals i was a special case, i was first Darkness to be born, Light was already known to be born in rare cases. I was something else, my parents become famous fast, even known over the seas. So the only peace i ever got was when i went for holidays to my parents friends house, they actually owned a whole country, Ray was something of a cool off machine, and i'm sure he never minded that, he was quite happy actually."

Darkness stopped talking to see that Scarlet was actually paying attention. "So where your parents using the attention as an advantage?"

"As far as i remember they hated it, i remember them always complaining how people never left their house more then 5 feet." They were walking towards the big doors that contained the scales. Scarlet wanted Darkness to talk more about her past, but Darkness had other ideas and she picked up her pace to go and open the doors.

Scarlet followed Darkness inside, Darkness ignored everything around her and stopped right in front of the scales. "I need your help." At first it was quite and Scarlet started to think that the Scale was not in the mood to talk. "I never thought that you will ever say those words."

"Ha ha, of course i could never say those words." Darkness was sarcastic and it took Scarlet a few seconds to realize that she was pretending.

"Anyways, you want me to help you with that creature?"

"Yes."

"So you have guessed that i do have properties that allow me to be used as a weapon?"

"Pretty much."

"I'll help you, in exchange you say this to no one."

"But how will she hide it? We literally want to use you in front of people." Scarlet butted in when Scales finished his sentence. "Than make them promise to never tell anyone about me. I don't want to be bothered by humans, i'm perfectly fine pretending to be a magical scale." Scarlet went silent, but after few more minutes Scarlet's expression went to confident. "I promise, your secret is with me and others who find out."

There was silence and Scarlet started to think that she must have said something wrong, so she started to apologize before being interrupted. "I'm-"

"I like you girl."

"Huh?"

"I like your determination, i look forward to helping you." By scales voice, both Darkness and Scarlet could hear his happiness. "I look forward to it too!" Scarlet smiled and fist bumped thin air. "I'll be taking you then." Darkness took scales in her hands, turned towards the doors and walked towards them.

When they walked out of the hall and outside where they left their dragons, Scarlet couldn't help but realize that Darkness kept throwing glances at the mask. "Is something wrong?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know, you keep looking at the mask."

"I'm not." It was hard for Scarlet to say if Darkness was saying the truth, but she didn't need to listen to Darkness voice to say if there was something wrong. "I know something's bothering you."

"Are you expecting me to tell you what is bothering me?" Darkness raised her brow. "You know you don't actually have to pretend that you feel something at certain moments."

"It's not like i don't feel anything, it's just i don't understand them. I can distinguish negative emotions, but when it comes to positive one's, they become annoying to deal with." They both approached Dragons and started getting on them. "I would have thougt that positive emotions would be better to deal with." Scarlet looked confused at Darkness.

"For humans yes, but i'm a creature of Darkness i find negative things easier to understand." When Darkness finished dragons shot towards the sky. "Should i feel bad for you or what?"

"It's your choice it doesn't matter to me."

"I'll feel bad for you then."

"Why bad?" Scarlet could swear on her life that she saw amusement dance through her demon like eyes. "Well, you are missing out on how great love is, or happiness." Scarlet attempted to get through Darkness. "I doubt i am missing out on it, i never knew how good happiness or love can be, and i never cared to try to find out."

Darkness looked ahead to indicate that she is not interested in talking anymore, Scarlet's expression become downcast, but the same second her eyes were filled with curiosity. "Is that why you don't break under pressure?" Darkness raised her brows at her sudden question. "I never thought about that, but probably, yes."

{...}

Elementals at the clearing so far how succeeded in annoying the creature, Ray has been the only one, so far, who fought with his fists not magic. "Why won't you guys try fighting with your fists? Afraid that you are going to get hurt?" And to mention Ray was having the best moments to annoy the hell out of Elementals.

"Like we said for the last hundred times we won't fight along side you, it is better that we stand as far apart as possible." Fire was in middle of creating a giant fireball, for a few seconds she aimed the fireball at Ray, but at the last second she moved her hand so it would fly just right past him. Ray froze up as he felt it fly past him. "Hey, what was that for?"

"Sorry, my hand slipped." Fire looked at him innocently. "Yeah right, and i can fly. Wait i can fly, never mind i have no bizzare comebacks." Ray's shoulders lowered in defeat and they reapeated their usual routine, Ray hits and kicks the monster, elementals use magic.

Elemental's and Ray stopped doing what they were and turned to look at approaching dragons, at least what they could see from the dragons, carbuncles still covered almost everything. Everyone give space for the dragons to land. "Did you get it?" Ray looked at Darkness who was holding the scales, then his eyes slowly trailed to Scarlet who was holding the mask. "Looks like you have."

Klaus and everyone else run up to the group.

"What are scales gonna do?" Klaus asked while looking at the Scales doubtingly. "We need to discuss something important." Scarlet jumped off her dragon and looked at everyone serious.

The sudden change in atmosphere was heavy, but Elementals, Ray and Darkness looked fine and unbothered. "No one here, is to let out any information that you see here, got it?" Scarlet looked at everyone, everyone else nodded except Yukiya who was being silent him. "I don't see myself gossiping with humans, after all i am a king, i don't gossip."

"You are the king now? What about your father?"

"He stepped down from his position when he declared that he's too old to be a king." Ray shrugged his shoulders as if it's not a big deal.

"I was wondering when his going to do that, i even did some maths."

"What did your calculations say?" Everyone could swear on their life that their serious tone changed to that of flirting.

"At least a century ago." Everyone's heart almost stopped as they clearly could hear that Darkness purred, purred! But being smart they said nothing.

"Well, you are correct." His voice become husky, filled with lust, everyone started counting down the seconds of his death, but it never came because Darkness did something unexpected.

"Okay, i'm done." Suddenly Darkness expression went to cold stare and a little bit of annoyance. "Wow, 3 minutes and 20 seconds, that's a new score."

"You still keep the records?"

"Of course."

No one knew if they should be amused or afraid at this scene. Ray took out a notebook and started writing something down.

"How about if we try to break the other records?" He smiled cunningly, as if he already could tell the answer. "No, thank you." Darkness narrowed her eyes daring him to go on. "Fine, fine, you don't have to look like you're about to kill me." Ray raised his hands in defeat.

"Do you both act like that all the time?" Scarlet looked at them both and realized that Ray must know more about Darkness than her, because she could clearly see that Darkness has lowered her guard, and with just little playfulness from one side. He tried to prepare her for the uneventful, tried to prepare her for something she was afraid of.

"But on second thought i don't want to know." Scarlet smiled reassuringly at Darkness. "Moonlight, go and kick that monsters ass." At that moment the sun rose indicating new day. The way it rose Scarlet was engulfed in sunlight that made her in that moment look like a godess. Klaus silently blushed and eyed Scarlet as if it will be the last time he sees her.

"Wow Scarlet, have you ever thought about becoming a model?" Luca intervened and destroyed the mood. Fire got irritated at that, and walked closer to Luca, she grabbed his head in her hand, and squeezed it. "Can you shut up at least for a second?" Luca winced at the pain that Fire caused and pleading said. "I'm sorry, i won't do it again."

Everyone but Darkness laughed at that little display. For a second it seemed like few friends gathering, but when laughs ended so did the desire to go along with the plan. "Well, Darkness it's time to put on the mask." Ray glanced at the mask that Darkness held. "Who is going to use the scales?" Darkness looked at the scales, that Scarlet held, but her eyes a second later moved towards the mask.

"I'll do it." Ray suddenly volunteered.

"Why would you want to volunteer?" Light suddenly spoke up, she was quite until now. "As you might know, no one of you can fly without using a dragon and i can easily make myself pair of wings." Ray at the last sentence almost laughed. "I think i should have phrased it better."

"Yeah, you should have." Light smiled at that.

"Wait!" Amelia pushed her way to the front. "Shouldn't we at least be somewhere further from here? What if one of your attacks hits us?" She worriedly looked at everyone that stood in front of her. "Scarlet please get them as far as possible, don't use dragons, it will be too dangerous for a flight. I will teleport you close to the walls, Earth get one of the walls down." The silent man just nodded and Scarlet said nothing as well.

Scarlet walked to the group before they disappeared and reappeared close to the wall, but not close enough. "Shouldn't we help them?" Luca asked. "Even if we did try to help, we would have done nothing but get in the way."

"How can you be so sure? Don't you believe in our powers?"

Scarlet wanted just to get over this conversation so she blurted out first thing that came to mind. "That's the problem, i don't." The moment the words left her mouth, she instantly regreated it. "Luca... I'm sorry i-"

"Save it!" His words come out more harsh than Luca wished. "I mean, i undestand what you mean, i won't bother you." Lucas gaze became down cast and he walked further from the group. Scarlet stopped and turned to look back, and she just got to see how Darkness started to turn into that monster. It wasn't gruesome, it was fairly okay, but the difference between does two things was obvious.

Darkness was just a shadow, she was actually a head bigger than her copy, she had black shadow wings, her claws were twice bigger then of her copies. Everything about her said 'destruction'. "Was i too harsh?" Scarlet asked that more to herself then to anyone else, but the answer came anyways. "He's going to get over it." Yukiya quiteley answered.

"I didn't mean to say it that way, after all i'm useless as well." Scarlet looked at Klaus, he was already intently studying her. Scarlet walked to Klaus and hugged him, she didn't care if he didn't want to hug her, she just wanted him to be there.

Klaus didn't hesitate hugging her back and returned the hug. "It doesn't matter, as long as you're fine." Klaus whispered in Scarlet's ear. " Thank you, Klaus. I think we should hurry." Scarlet left the hug and restarted walking.

I'm done, i'm way behind with uploading this chapter. There are just few more chapters to go and i'm finished. I'm thinking of when i'm done with this story i will make another story, it will be updated version of this one.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and goodbye.