Loki was about to make a move, but Lyon was faster, much faster. 

Loki looked at the blade in front of his eye. Lyon's hand wasn't trembling, which was why the blade was so close to Loki's eyeball. If he even blinked, his eyelid would be slashed in half. Loki could have taken a step back, but still, if he died. Then he could see her face again. He could see her smile again. He stepped back and shook his head, no he had to survive, the mission was more important. Even with that step, the blade stayed in front of his eye. Lyon's steady hands, speed, and control were phenomenal.  It felt like they hadn't moved at all, the blade not trembling or moving an inch. "Die!" Lyon pushed his hand forward, luckily, Loki could move his head fast enough to keep his eye. However, his ear wasn't as lucky. He let out a small grunt of pain. Lyon smiled, "Gotcha." Lyon began to slash wildly, but with great precision, strength, and speed. Lyon had never been able to do anything else right, neither did Loki. The one thing that they could do right... was kill. "Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!" Loki barely dodged each attack, he could feel the breeze from each slash. Loki's eyes tried to read his moves, but his brother was impossible to read. Loki frowned, he is going to die, he felt at the side of his head and jumped back a few meters. That had hurt... more than it should have. Loki lifted his blades, and as soon as he did, his brother's blade was pointed at his chest. "You've gotten slower big brother. I've only aged." Loki looked at the old man before him, his little brother should have been dead! "How is an old fossil like you still alive?" Lyon grinned and his dark black cloak fell to the ground. Revealing something quite intriguing... What have you done?

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Gale fell to the ground, coughing uncontrollably. "Gale! What's wrong?" Gale's vision was blurring, was this going to be the end? Was this really where it all ended? He clenched the dagger's hilt in his hand, it couldn't be, he still had a mission. "Gale!" He took a deep breath, which only made it worse. He couldn't breathe, his throat burned, the taste of blood was clear in his mouth.  His vision cleared and he saw the ground below him had splatters of blood. "What the...? Gale, what's going on?" He sat up and pushed his green hair out of his eyes. "Terra..." He was breathing heavily, Terra started to tear up. "What?" He placed the dagger in her hands, "If I die, you're going to have to take the dagger to our customer." Terra's mind raced, he hadn't been injured much or at all, the only time that something hit him was when... "You've been hurting since we started?" Gale smiled weakly, "The teacher was set on killing me. He wanted to be a hero I believe." Terra frowned, Gale... "So you'll take it?" Terra nodded and took the dagger. She lifted him onto her back, "What are you doing?" She smiled, "Taking you with me of course. We're almost there right? I'll just need you to navigate." Gale nodded, "Fine, if you're that set on me living." "I'm not gonna give up on you." Gale laughed, "We're going to miss our deadline." Terra laughed too, "If anything, we'll just use the dagger to get away if he gets mad." Gale smiled, this girl cared about him. She wouldn't abandon him, even though he's going to make them late by a week. "Thank you Terra." She started to walk forward, the sun beginning to set. "What are friends for?" Friends...?

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"Lyon!" Loki couldn't even recognize the beast before him as his brother. He did this all for revenge? Just so that he would be able to live as long as his brother. He had actually made a contract with a Fantom. Lyon's body was human enough, but he had the physique and build of a teenager. He grinned, his face had given no hint that he had done anything like this. "That's going to far!" Lyon's sclera had turned black around his pupils, his teeth had turned completely into fangs. "This is what I had to do... to stay strong enough to defeat you!" Loki ducked to dodge a swift, horizontal slash, but as soon as that move finished, the same sword came from a completely different direction for a vertical slash. Then the sword came down, and sliced off Loki's arm. Loki was about to scream, but that was an old illusion. Pain. He lifted his arm, no blood was lost, "So you don't have the ability." Loki tilted his head and looked at his brother, his face gleeful. "You can't kill me." Loki pulled the out blade that was strapped onto his waist, "But I sure know that I can kill you." 

Lyon's eyes widened, "Impossible... There has to be some way to kill you..." He shot towards Loki and punched him, he flew backwards, knocking down dozens of trees. Loki got up, his arms and neck were bent at an awkward angle. Loki pushed his head back into position, "There is, sadly. You don't know it." Loki dashed forward and grabbed Lyon's neck. Lyon flailed in Loki's intense grip, "How are you so strong?" He started to cry, "My dream was really impossible." Loki frowned, "I'm sorry Lyon." 

Archon pushed him into the wall, "What was that?" Loki looked Archon in the eyes and smiled, "What? You've never killed a man before?" Archon dropped him, "I understand that you did it to save lives. But killing a person, it doesn't feel right." The others only stared at Loki in disappointment. He put his hands over his eyes, and he started to laugh uncontrollably. They could only stare, and Ray clenched his fists. "Why are you laughing?" Speedy frowned, "Sometimes we forget that he can be a maniac at times." Then, they saw the tears. Archon frowned, "Doesn't it hurt?" Loki pulled his hands off of his eyes, he put one of his hands on his heart. It revealed that he wasn't laughing, he was crying. They gathered around him and patted him on the back. Then, Skyler hugged him, "I know it's not as good as Blue's but..." The others moved in and hugged him. A group hug. A family hug. Loki couldn't stop crying, "Well, well. Everyone nice and cozy?" Loki's eyes widened, "You." Loki pushed through everyone, "You're the reason that I had to do that..." His menacing eyes burned through the creature of chaos, "I'm gonna rip you apart!"