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Mountai'inos stepped forward, a large scroll in his paw. He unrolled it, and said, in an even more gravelly voice than Laikos:
"Zikar, we weep for your suffering. Because the Great Demon slew Ankaara when she was immobilized, we see that it is only fair to return the favor. I will send you with Rakkai, back to the Land of the Living, you will wake back up from fainting, and you will see Rakkai's task accomplished. Are you ready, Hatchling?" Zik looked to his left, and saw Rakkai there, ready to exit the Elder's Domain, and said:
"Okay. I'm ready to go back!" Laikos smiled, and exclaimed:
"Our dear friend Zikar today leaves us in the Elder's Domain, but, Hark!, he shall see us all shortly in the Land of the Living!" Zik had no time to think about what he meant by that, because Rakkai was dragging his arm with him as he passed. Zik? Arez you comin' er what?" Zik shrugged, and walked along with the insane Elder.
Before long, they came to a large golden gate, and Rakkai shouted:
"COCA-COLA RAMEN McCHICKEN NUGGET BOUFFANT!!" The gate creaked open slowly, and Rakkai ran for the opening, almost detaching Zik's arm. "Dis eez gon' be good jump todaiz!" Zik stared at him. What the hell are ya talkin abou-YAAAAAAAHH!", he screamed as he catapulted out of the gate and down into the clear blue sky. The ground came closer at a mind-boggling rate, and just when they were about to crash...

Zik shot up, panting. He was covered with blood from fainting in a giant puddle of it. He shook it off his scales, and ooked straight ahead. There was Rakkai, scythe drawn. HAIZ AGAIN!! He looked from left to right, and, spotting the demon, said: BYEZ AGAIN!!, and sped off towards Bana. He saw Sigilos, and said, "Wajjout, Sigilos! Imma take care 'a this one!"

(( Ok, no prob. 3nodding Well, Ank got severely wounded by the Demon, told Zik that he was her son, died. Zik passed out and had one kee-razy dream, you're gonna wanna read it, BTW, it's kind of important. One of the Elders has come to the Land of the Living with Zik also. Note: I'm not gonna post an action with this message, because I think that someone else should post their action first. =) ))

((God, this one is loooonger than I expected))

Rakkai put his hand to his mouth. "Yoops...I's sorreh. Now askooze me. I's has work to do."
The little, black dragon whipped out a scythe that was tremendous, and lunged for the demon. Zik wondered how he could even hold a scythe that size and how little Rakkai could turn air somersaults while flailing it, that concept was totally enigmatic to him.

Rakkai slashed the demon's back. A terrible laceration was left, leaking crimson blood. By the time Rakkai returned to the ground, finished with his attack, Bana was practically red with her own blood, but still alive. She roared. Her roar seemed weaker. "No! You'll never destroy me! You can try, but you'll never do it!", she growled angrily, and slashed at Rakkai. He promptly cut her other paw off, and walked over to Zik, who was still at Ank's side, crying. "Zik? I knowz the pain joo must be going through right nowz, an' joo are mad at Bana, yes?" Zik nodded solemnly. "Well, would joo like to do teh honors? Joo would feel bettah!" Zik looked up at Rakkai, and nodded, a slight smile crossing his face. Rakkai smiled, and backed away. "Watch out, demon, here I come..." He got up, carrying what looked like...A boombox? What the hell was he doing? He strode casually up to the Demon. His face darkened.

"That's it. You've messed around with me...and my friends...for too long now. Although we have just met. But I don't think it really was that way. You stole my egg, and brought me to a planet where you thought my mom could never find me. You were wrong. You shouldn't have made us angry. You have murdered my mother, and countless others. The injustice ends now" A feral snarl escaped Zik's lips. He was ready to meet his destiny. The demon laughed, a sound that was like nails scraping across a blackboard.
"What? The little idiot thinks he can beat me, a being millions upon millions of years older than a pathetic creature such as you, with a little radio? HA! That's funny. I'm going to let you try before I kill you, simply because you never cease to amuse me. Go on. Try! See where that gets you!" Zik scowled.
"Bring...It...On...", she said, tauntingly.
"Oh, don't you worry," He said darkly. "I will." And with that simple command, a great blast of techno music suddenly escaped the small radio. The singer boomed:
"Dansa med oss! Klappa era hdner! Gr som vi gr! Ta ngra steg t vnster! Lyssna och lyr! Missa inte chansen! Nu r vi hr med, mi Caramelldansen!"
The demon's eyes widened, fear showing in them.
"No! NO! This-This can't be! How did you know?!? I-I...AAAARGH!! A screech came as her brain imploded from the annoying music. It had been her strongest weaknesses. Hyper music. Who would've known about it? it had only been a wild guess, but they can pay off big-time.

So Bana was dead. One problem down, one much bigger one to go. What was he going to do without his mum? He should've still been in his egg, and he knew that. He sighed, and sat down next to Ank. He didn't care if the scene was drenched. Wait-what was that, glinting in the bloody dust? He picked it up, and dusted it off. He looked at it for a minute, and said:
"Sigilos? is this thing yours? I think you dropped it."

Zik shrugged. "Dunno. But here you go, it's not mine, you can keep it." He handed Sigilos the vial.

Suddenly, a large shape appeared over the horizon, and swooped into the glade. It was Skelegar, back again. "What happened? I-What did I miss?" He saw the bright red body of the Demon and his poor daughter lying motionless on the grass, which ran red with blood.

Rakkai came out of the trees, and spoke: "Ah, Zik and friends have slain dah demon! Everybody shall be frees nao!" Cries of joy and fluttering sounds were heard as prisoners and slaves were freed from her spell, and the sun was blocked out by flying dragons.

Zik sighed, and looked at Ank's body one last time before he had to look away. He couldn't bear to look anymore, and so he looked at the ground. "Grandpa?" Skelegar bowed his head, and put his fist over his heart. "Yes, my king? What do you desire?"
Wait...Did he just say KING? What the hell did he mean by that?, Zik thought to himself. No matter, he was going to do what he planned to do in such an event.

"Would you please tell everybody back at the castle to start the preparations?" Skelegar nodded solemnly. He then let out an earth-shattering, mournful roar that reached all the way back to the castle. Ankaara's dragons had rebuilt the castle by now, only to get this news? This was terrible...

Zik sighed, and picked up his mother's lifeless corpse."C'mon guys, we need to go back where we started now. Follow me, please." He spread his wings, and pushed off from the ground. He hovered in the air, waiting for the others to take wing as well.

Zik looked at the ground forlornly. A tear formed in his eye.

Why am I crying?, he thought. Me! An alien conqueror, showing this weakness? No way... He would've put a hand to his chin for that dramatic "I'm thinking about it" look, but he couldn't, for obvious reasons. Wait. I was an alien conqueror, or at least I thought I was, before I came on this journey. I am a king now, and must behave as such!

"I'll tell you the truth, Lex," , he said, his voice shaking slightly. "I'm not." He sighed, and more tears fell to the ground. "Rakkai? You can go now."

"As you command, King Zik." Rakkai looked at Zik worriedly, and then vanished into the shadow of a tree. Zik noticed something was wrong about him. He was talking in proper English, not all weird...This day was getting odder and odder...

"Come quickly, the villagers are expecting us...and we can't disappoint."

Zik almost lost his grip on Ankaara when Sigilos grabbed his leg.

"I don't know what I did! I don't know when it dropped, either! I have no clue why it's not working, whatever it does! Just let me go!"

"How about thisss," , a slithering voice replied sinisterly, " I destroy the potion, and the High Queen remains dead, as planned."

A red tail lashed out, and whipped Sigilos across the face. Zik recoiled, and looked for the source of the tail. Standing before him, badly injured, was Bana.