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It was nearing midnight and Aaron was sound asleep. She could not sleep, cause she was worried about what the letter said. "I wonder who wants to met him." She whispered softly. She got up out of her chair and quietly left the room. She walked down the staris and out of the wooden doors. It was still raining and a shiver ran through her body. She started to look around and noticed a shadow. "Hello?" she called out in a whisper.

After Aaron and Kaguya checked into the inn, Raid had told them he was going to check out the town they were staying in. So far it seemed like an ok place. Some areas were a little shady but otherwise it was rather nice for an older place. It was getting late and Rain was heading back to the inn when he spotted a shadow carring a bulk leave the inn. Looking closer he spotted the knocked out Kaguya. 'Crap,' he thought. 'Were was Aaron?' Hissing, Rain sneaked after them.

A loud voice seemed to echo from all over. "Hello Aaron. Your friends are safe, for now. Meet me in the large field by the canyon before the town gate in two hours, and be prepare for a fight to the death." Dark clouds loomed overhead from the storms last night. "Soon Aaron, you will pay dearly for you crimes."

Kaguya didn't know what had happened to her. The only thing she remembered was whispering to a shadow in the night. She began to wake, her head pounding. Her eyes open and screamed. She was hanging off a cliff. She looked down. How did I get here. She was so scared, tears started to fall from her eyes. She yelled hoping someone could hear her. "Where am I? Where is Aaron?"

About an hour before the fight, Nero began to set up his plan. "You fought well, boy. What is your name?" he asked Rain. Rain told him his name with a bit of disgust. "Well, I have noticed that Aaron seems to be struggling, so I will use you and, Kaguya is it?, to force him to fight to his fullest." Nero dragged them to the cliff's edge. "Now, I am going to hang you two down this cliff, and I am setting a candle to burn the rope once the fight begins. Aaron will have to defeat me to free you." Once everything was in place, Nero sat comfortably near the edge by the rope. "Come to me Aaron, come and die."

Aaron ran towards the man his blade drawn. He drew lighining into his blade for aq more powerful impact, " Do not light that candle! " He yelled, " Let it be a fair fight! " He managed to hit him with the lightning-sword attack. But the problem was, did it affect him? He did a backflip so he got out of the man's range again.

"Aaron, you don't get it. This was never a fair fight. I am on a whole other field than you. This candle is an attempt to draw out all of your latent power in one final fight." With that, Nero stood up and drew his blade. "Aaron, you killed my wife and child and burned my home to the ground. But that isn't the worst part. The worst part is that the burns my body sustained from you have left me unable to feel anything but the most extreme pains. That is all I have, extreme loneliness and extreme pain. Now, come and die, foolish little boy." Before he moved, Nero's blue eyes turned black, his pupil turned red. Suddenly, his shadow shot out from under him and it stabbed the candle. A black flame sat on top of the candle. "That flame can never be extinhused except by me or my death. En Guarde!" Nero charged Aaron, every swing he made cause a hung arch of black energy to fly at Aaron.