Pride slowly climbs from the moat. His face bears a wide grin and his knives glow a dark-blood red. He walks over to me. I stumble to my feet as he gets closer.

  "You're stubborn! I kind of like that." Pride chuckles.

  I grip the hilt of my sword and step forward. In an instant, Pride lunges forward, sweeping his leg towards my head. I bend down, dodging his kick, and slice at his leg. A rge gash forms in his ankle, blood spews from the cut. Pride steps back, I jump up and forward. My sword in a piercing motion, flying towards his chest. He tosses one of his daggers and throws his hand in front of my sword. The tip of my sword stops right before his chest, Pride still smiles, even though my sword is stabbed straight through his hand.

  "Chill out man!" Pride ughs, "Let me catch my breath at least."

  I push my sword with all of my strength, but it doesn't budge. His hand stops me with no effort, his leg wound already healed, steam slowly coming from a small scar. Pride grabs my sword with his other hand and pulls it away. I take a few steps back from him. Nothing fazes him! How the hell am I supposed to kill this guy? He wipes his hand on the side of his pants.

  "I usually keep myself clean, especially during fights, but I can make an exception." Pride says, "I'll tell you Caleb, you're a lot better than most adventures I meet."

  "I'm honored to hear such kind words!" I sneer.

  Pride slowly walks over to his dagger that he threw earlier. He bends down and picks it up. His back is turned! I should attack now! I charge towards him, bringing my sword above my head. I ssh down towards his back. A sharp, burning pain hits the side of my face. My right eye floods with a bckish-grey color and blood spills down my face, into my mouth, the taste of iron covers my tongue. Pride stands in front of me, he's holding my sword up with just a finger and his knife dripping with blood. I reach up at my eye, but all that's there is flesh. I just lost my eye, didn't I...

  "What..." I mutter.

  "Something wrong?" Pride giggles.

  My neckce glows a bright red and steam hisses from my face. The bckish color slowly fades away as my vision returns. Pride's smile fades, he stares at his daggers.

  "You're not supposed to do that..." Pride whispers.

  I pull my sword back from his hand, but before I fully pull it away, he grips the bde. Blood drips from his hand, onto the ground. He reaches his other hand back, and forms a fist. Before I can react, Pride flies back, spinning through the air before crashing into his throne. Cole stands over me, his fist is covered in blood.

  "Fucking Prides!" Cole says.

  Cole walks over to Pride, who's ying on the ground. He grabs him by the hair and pulls him up to eye level.

  "Want a kiss or something!" Pride jokes.

  Cole punches Pride in the face. The force sends him straight into the wall of the arena, the crash creates a rge hole. Cole unches himself at Pride, reeling back for a punch. A rge, explosive like sound rings out. Cole hangs on the wall, covered in blood. Pride's once bright skin and flesh, covers the wall.

  Cole jumps from his spot on the wall. The sand from the grounds floats up around him and continues to float as he walks over to me. He swipes small clunks of flesh from his shirt and face.

  "Sorry I took so long... He had some kind of magic keeping me back." Cole tells me.

  "It's fine." I say, "I never knew you were so..."

  "Awesome!" Cole chuckles.

  "Scary..." I reply.

  Cole's grin fades and his chuckles stop. His shoulders drop slightly.

  "I didn't mean to trick you or anything!" Cole says.

  "I know. It's just kind of ego fracturing man." I ugh, "It wouldn't be such a surprise if I'd seen you fight before. This was a weird way to see you're actual power!"

  A rge blue portal slowly forms from behind Cole. Loud screeches come from the portal, I feel the aura around it. It's not evil or... Bad really, just strange. It's nothing like I've ever seen before. I look up towards Pyra and the others, but they're not there. They must've left or something.

  "Should we..?" I ask.

  "Yeah, doesn't seem like a trick." Cole answers.

  He slowly steps towards the portal. His hand reaches inside, his body slowly follows. I walk behind him, and step into the portal. We walk out onto a small ptform, overlooking the demon territory. We're at the top of the tower. I guess we beat the challenge?

  The sky is a bright red, beams of magic bst all around the demon territory. The wind blows strong, and smoke fills the air. The once chaotic nd, grows even worse than before. What could have happened in the few minutes we've been gone?

  "What's... What the hell is happening?" I ask.

  "Hades is mad... We did kill one of his sins." Cole answers.

  "What do we do now?" I ask.

  "I don't know." Cole says, "Having Hades and the sins after us is certainly a death sentence."

  We stand, overlooking the nd for a while. Cole's fists clench harder and harder, the longer we look.

  "We should look for the others. They might be in danger." I say.

  "Alright... That's fine." Cole replies.

  We walk down the steps, passing by the mirrors we already saw. It takes about an hour to reach the bottom. Going down is quite a bit quicker than going up. It was mostly silent all the way down, the only sounds were the echoes of our foot steps. We step out of the front entrance. It's raining outside, the ground is already soaked, must've started quickly after we started heading down. But the others aren't anywhere in sight. Where the hell could they be?