Im going to do the UNTHINKABLE.
Give Dusk a... (wait for it) LOVE INTEREST!

Guess the ONLY female knight whos alive still, it's KO_MA (hint: Z)

Chapter Nineteen / Getting Back on the King

I slowly drifted off into sleep, by shooting myself with a sleep vial.
As I went off into my dreams, I couldn't help but feel sorry for everyone that i've killed.
I closed my eyes, only to open them again. Dreaming is so complicated.

Rubbing my eyes, and thinking it was reality, i tried to see it for myself. Opening the drapes that covered my tent, not seeing the base camp we made into the woods. But rather a "Graveyard" section of the clockworks. I turned around, my tent disappeared from view. I quivered and grabbed my sword, knowing well it wouldnt do much in a dream. And then, moans from the graves filled the air. The ground started to rumble, and out of the graves, came not Zombies, but Knights. Walking in a gait of a phantom, and wielding their sword so, they moaned and crawled over to where i was.
"Arrrrruuuuuusssss" They kept repeating over and over, slashing swords and firing guns. I knew it was just a dream, and let a blow go into my stomach. Bad move.
It hurted more than falling into a box of anvils, more than a Cold Iron Carver when your undead, to put it simply.
It hurt.
Alot.
I grabbed my sword out of my sash, only to find air where it was.
"Oh.. crap" I whispered to myself as i ran away from them.
"ARRRRUUUUUSSSS" They were screaming now, running, moaning, throwing swords, getting closer.
I saw the light of the elevator, and sighed of relief, i stepped on and watched as all traces of the nightmarish area ive been in fade into dust. Then another setting came into mind. My old room back in the core. I could remember when King Tinkenzar first gave me the plan, following his commands like a lapdog. King Tinkenzar came in through the doorway, and smiled.
"I want you to kill the knights, destroy the mist core, dont let anyone live, or you'll be killed for treason." Having the same weird face before disppearing, into dust. The room around me started to fall apart. Table crumbled into ashes, the window disintegrating, the floor falling into nothing. All leaving there was blackness. Then, all of a sudden, a voice filled the area like wind.
"NAME"
I didnt know what to say,
"Arus"
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ARUS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE KNIGHTS?"
"Who the Vog are you?"
"VOG, DEITY OF FIRE"
"Whoop, many apologies"
"WHY SO FORMAL?"
His voice boomed through the blackness, like thunder and lightning.
"ARUS, BE NO LAPDOG TO NO ONE"
"W-What?" Confused, im not exactly the best person to talk to, in terms on my personality.
"KING TINKENZAR HAS FORSAKEN YOU"
"Who? How did you know? Him, his plan, me, everything"
"I SEE ALL, AND HEAR ALL"
".....ok" I was getting creeped out by this Vog guy..
"FOR YOUR WRONGDOING, YOU MUST CORRECT IT BY SLAYING YOUR KING"
I didnt say anything, confused, and didnt get anything. I understood by what he meant by my wrongdoing, and i know what he means by me slaying the king.
"But, how the heck should I kill HIM?"
"Not even one of the crimson order has come to as so far as WOUNDING him"
"VERY WELL, YOU SHALL BE GRANTED A LOAN,"
"A, loan?"
"YOU SHALL BE GIVEN THE POWER TO KILL TINKENZAR, BUT YOU MUST GIVE SOMETHING IN RETURN WHEN THIS IS FINSHED"
"So, your telling me to do something random, and youll take soemthing from me when im done, and i cant say anything against it?"
"NO, YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE ARUS, CHOOSE TO ACCEPT, AND YOU WILL BE GRANTED THE LOAN AND KILL TINKENZAR"
"IF NOT, YOU WILL BE BURNT TO ASHES"
"How can you even burn me in a dream?" Taunting, not at all believing this "Vog". Another bad mistake, my arms started to burn like it fell into lava while getting caught between an oven and a toaster, all while being singed by an Ash of Agni.
"Gah, stop," Im surprised how i managed to say that when my arm felt like crap. The burning stopped, and then i remembered all those people that were killed, by me.
"I accept"
Those last words marked what little time i had to set everything right, and littler time i had to do it.

Maybe Kozma will fall in love with Dusk, or maybe you both are going to fall over for her. where she'll rejeect you both and you will be like. ,_," in the corner over there. I have MY interest planned..
Oh, btw, Mystic, Its fun to kid around like a kid, (lol) but theres a distinct line between Having fun, and making fun.
Having fun
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Making fun

You get my point?
*Holds out singularity*

Yes, yes it is.

CHAPTER TWENTY / Yes, yes, NO!

Sunlight shoved itself through small holes in my tent drapes, leaving small patches of light on my sleeper. Sounds of people cooking something outside. (this something thing is popular, innit?) Smells of cooked snipe and fried wolver filled the morning air with the smell of a breakfest buffet. I groaned from my utterly too physical dream, and rolled off of the bed. When i finally got my strength to stand up, i glanced to where my Singularity used to be. Nothing was there, well, almost nothing. Sunlight gleamed off of the silver blade like a mirror, stones with no name for were etched on the hilt. The words END POINT carved into the handle.
"Vog, I think i believe you now,"
"You sure you didnt drink too much last night?" A familiar bark wrung through the room.
I whirled around, and my gaze caught Tony and Durr looking at me with an odd look on their faces.
"Come outside, theres a messege on the "Chat Box" waiting for you." Durr nodded to me and left my tent.
I went outside, and in a moment, i could feel every eye was looking straight at me. I simply grabbed the messaging pod and scooted back to my tent. I opened up the pod, set it on, and a familiar being in a hood came up in the monitor.
"Arus, you have failed me my friend," Tinkenzar sighed with a grim feeling.
"So? Its wrong just to simply kill them all out," I retorted, hatred welling up where respect used to be.
"You have betrayed my orders, and betrayed your people, and what happened to your lapdog attitude?"
"Believe me, any part of me that was a "Lapdog" before, its dead, or eaten up by another personality"
"Kill them, now"
"No"
"Are you going to further reject my commands?"
"I will, until you realize you made me do something wrong"
"I have done nothing wrong, Arus, you have made the mistake of betra-"
"Hell i care"s
"WHAT?"
"Hell i care about what you said tinkenzar, im going to come to your stinking castle, and kill you, and you wanna know what the funny part is? THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT" (OWNED)
"Wha- WHAT?!"
"You heard me tinkenzar, Im not going to be anyone's stupid lapdog, so its either you change your ways, or you die"
"IM not changing"
"Then prepare yourself, you are going to die"
I shut off the "Text box", and walked back outside. I gave it back to Durr and sat down near the fire. I grabbed something (something, yay) and began to chew on it. God, nothing like eating overcooked meat in the morning. :D

By noon, everyone was doing something, either its swordfighting eachother to whittle the time away, or stand gaurd near the edge of camp. Kozma, Dusk, and Mystic were in their tent, i dunno, talking I guess? Thats when Andrein came out of nowhere. I almost stabbed him with my wrench for a second.
"So.. what did Tinkenzar say?"
"He says i betrayed him"
"Well, its not hard to think that,"
"Not helping"
"Ok, so whats he going to do? Or better off, what are YOU going to do?"
"Kill him"
" 'scuse me?"
"I said, im going to kill that sick gremlin"
"Are you sure you didnt drink too much last night?"
I wacked him in the stomach with a random branch of redwood.
" OK OK, now i believe you"
"Gather up the others, and tell them we're going to kill Tinkenzar, have everyone here by evening"
"Yes, sir"
"Dont be a lapdog, Andrein"
".....are you sure you didn-
I again, whacked him with a random branch, but this time it was ironwood.
"Screw you, Arus"
I chuckled quietly as i walked away.

THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. >:)

Chapter Twenty One / R U SERIOUS? (Tinkenzar Narrative)

Closing the "Chat box", I laughed amusedly to myself, wow, Arus, I never knew you could be an IDIOT, going up against me, my army, and with what? YOURSELF. I chuckled on and on, never noticing that another member of the Crimson Order was staring at me in the hallway.
"Errr, my king.."
"Yes, yes, what may be the matter, Evan?"
"We have recieved word that a former member of the CO is rebelling against us, shall we take action?"
"You may, kill Arus with no mercy, and kill everyone else that opposes you with a blade"
"Whats the payment?"
"Half of all the crowns in my stash"
"And how many crowns do you have in all?"
"At least 60 trillion"
"Wow, you really want this Arus guy killed."
"Is this a deal?"
"Deal"
"Now go, assemble your legions and kill Arus, bring me his wrench as proof that you killed him"
"Yes, sire"
Evan walked out, the noble gunslinger carried a Sentenza and an Silversix in both pockets, and slowly nodded before leaving. Arus, you are screwed to hell.

(Arus Narrative)
It was getting dark, the night slowly turning the sunset from red, pink and yellow into shades of blue and black.
"May I have your attentions please," shouting at the top of my lungs while standing on a crate of something (YAY)
"King Tinkenzar thinks that I have betrayed him, and he is coming to kill us all" Muttering and whispering started within the crowd.
"But will be sit here like snipes and wait for him to come?" Growling at the crowd.
"NO!" A shout roared from the crowd like a bullet from a howlitzer.
"Ready your weapons, your tents, and defenses, we are going to kill HIM!"
"YES!" Everyone shouted, and scampered off to their tents.

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My Endpoint is shiny. :)

Watch it, i have a 7* Endpoint and an egostic attitude, and im not afraid to use them.
But im fond of those who wear dragon scale. Lucky. >,<

You read the title, its Twenty Three.

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE / It starts.
/BLAST FURNACE/
I peered over the broken wall ever so slightly, even so, a needleshot flew right above my head. I nodded towards Amber. I jumped up, and used my shield to block the incoming bullets, Amber shot the gremlin with an Argeant Peacemaker. The gremlin's body and clothing fell to the ground with a loud thud. I waved my hands, and Dusk, with Mystic and Tony ran through the corner. I looked upwards, and on a jagged peice of jutting upwards like a mountain, Durr was sitting on the edge, with Andrein. Loud growls filled the area, and inward came a legion of gremlins. (a legion is 3000 - 6000 troops in one squadron) I ran in, and grabbed my sword, gleaming light shone as it made a slice through a rank of Menders. Dusk made holes in their front lines with explosions from his Acheron. Tony curled up into a ball and burrowed into the ground, pushing enemies into the end of Amber's blade. Mystic was plowing through, shield in front and swinging his sword when he can. Andrein pushed random buttons on Durr's back, as he shot multiple lasers into the middle and back lines. I nodded when every gremlin in that squadron was either dead, or dead. (didnt have a choice, eh?) I stepped in a puddle of a random gremlin's blood as i walked through the mounds of dead, red almost everywhere. Flashes of pictures of the Knights i whom have killed burst into my mind like someonee pressed a fast forward button on me. Brushing off the memeories like rain, i continued on with the others onward.

/WASTEWORKS/
I find it hard to believe a creature can stay alive in this environmeent, Toxic gases seep from every direction, our team is an exception, we have gas masks. A heavy mist surrounds us like fog, then an army of Drouls walk through the mist. Chaos. Ribs were broken, poison was spewed, Grim totems were.. erm.. Grim.
"Geez, its like an endless stream of them," Andrein complained, then sunk his sword into a Droul.
"Just wait till its over," Dusk answered, his Acheron didnt seem to do much.
Dusk was right, when it was over, we were again walking in the middle of nowhere. I suddenly got an idea. I shot an ember bolt through the haze, it illuminated the fog like fireworks. I could see the sillhoutte of.. a.. square... no, a square with a little knob on the top... with sides that arch up a bit.. an elevator. I sighed of relief, but relief was just for a second. I heard a jelly-like sound, and then someone shouted.
"TOXILARGO!"
A big bulbous creature emerged into view, rushing at us with purple spikes on it's back and head. It spun quickly, pushing me, Dusk, and Durr flying out of the elevator. Durr shot his laser, green stalks of energy flooded the vicinity with explosions, and the Toxilargo didnt do much as flinch. Dusk, knowing that jellies are weak against shadow, brought his Acheron up to a charge. I distracted the monster by flashing my sword into it's....... eye? Spikes flew from it like gunfire, and mist covered the area like wildfire. Amber stepped off the elevator, and took out her Divine Avenger. Dusk let out the charge, and sent the creature reeling into Amber's vicinity. Slashing through it's jellylike flesh, she pushed it back into Durr's area. Durr let out a large continious laser, and it fell off the edge. Everybody walked back to the elevator, and i walked back to the edge it fell into. I couldnt see the bottom, but a squishy THUD echoed from the black abyss. Then, i suddenly had ANOTHER idea...

"This is totally weird, you know.." Dusk muttered.
"Its a weird idea, but it should help." Trying not to make it sound that bad.
My idea was to get a large plank or something, a HUGE plank, and attach the striker shield to the bottom, making a slow falling platform we could use to get to the bottom quicker.
"Hey... you guys hear that?" Amber whispered, looking around the vicinity of the area.
"I think its just some clockwork clockwork, we're in a huge air shaft." I pointed to the gears on the walls.
"Maybe, yeah" Mystic piped in.
Tony suddenly started barking, and in another horizontal section of the air shaft, i could see something... something PINK, SMALL, FANGED, and had a MASTER BLAST BOMB in it's mouth.
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Ether ho!

Weewooweewooweewoo

Chapter Twenty Four / I Hate Mew

The spookat was gliding in one of the airways in the main shaft, as soon as it saw us, the cute wittle, lovable face that would even make DONOVAN (deceased) drool, turned into the face only a mother can love. It started to charge the bomb in it's mouth, and Dusk took out a Killowatt Pulsar.
"Guns, and maybe bombs should have effect" Dusk shouted over to the rest of us.
I nodded and drew a Deconstructor. The Spookat was finished, and threw the bomb at us, the explosion knocking an unlucky gremlin over the edge. It screamed before a thud echoed through the area.
"Gah, dont fall off." Mystic warned, looking off the edge where the gremlin fell. Kozma rolled her eyes before drawing her Valiance. Sky-Blue orbs flew at the Kat, some hitting, some missing. The Spookat then shot shadow bullets at the Striker-Shields, I gasped before blocking them with my shield.
"Dont let it hit them" Shouting at the top of my lungs, we really didnt want to plummet all he way to the bottom. After a couple defending and shooting at the Spookat, some MORE spookats joined in the party.
"Oh... crap," Durr muttered, as he charged up for another shot. The spookat seemed to laugh at us, smiling through that macabre face. The whole thing was chaos, bullets here, and there, someone shooting or charging up a bomb, over there, and Tony was simply flinging his armor by the strap to reflect bullets.
"I think we got them all," Tony sighed of relief.
*BOOM*
"What the-"
All of a sudden, the whole plank started to fall apart. That darn spookat was under us the whole time. Andrein fell off first, screaming. Kozma started to scream, but she was interupted when the floor under her disapeared. The planks started to sink under Mystic's weight, then gave way. Dusk and Amber feel off the edge, due to the Striker Shield's exploding. Durr and Tony fell as well, both of them hugging eachother for dear life. I stared at the plank, and everyone falling off it. Then, I noticed. Cracks from the others started to go to my area. I didnt have time to say "OH CRAP!" I was busy falling off.
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SUSPENSE!

2 Gremlins,
A Skolver,
A Isotrode,
3 Knights,
a were-Trojan,
and a Spookat,
All going together to kill Tinky.
What were the odds?