Page 2  So he would have to cast a spell and send it back to it's other relem. The speaker announces taht they were coming in for a landing as, he wipes his blades on the cats fur coat and places the casting stones about the caranage. By the time they were placing the ramp up to the luggage doors there was no sign of the cat or the darkness, the dog was joyfully bouncing around that horrible cat was gone and he was out of his cage.  As soon as the door was open far enought for him to leap out her was off running, he race across the airfield with a small blue trollie clinging to his back.
    Agata had her back pack on over her sweat shirt and jeans she was wearing the new boots she bought just before the summer break.  When she look in the she thought she look a lot like L on death note, not sure if that was good or bad. Pulling the door shut behind her she locks the door and slips the key into the pocket of her jeans, as she heads towards stairs that  would lead to the cobble stone streets. Soon she was outside heading away from the mountians that luck behind her, she heads towards the shopping district. Agata went inside the bakery first, she bought some bread and scones. As she step back outside, she almost collids with a big furry dog who races past her heading towards the mountains, he soon stops and turns around lurd back by the smells from the butcher shop. Once more the dog runs pass her, she smiles as she heads into the Jelly shop.
   The blue trollie was having a hard time getting the dog to do as he wanted, so when the big dumb beast stop in front of the butchers shop the sword master leaps off his back and races off towards the mountains. He hadn't gotten far when he notice that the humans coming towards him had black marks on their ankles. quickly drawing his swords he races back and forth across the cobblestone street slicing at the ankles of the unexpecting humans who yell and grab their injured ankles. Agata steps back out into the now darkening streets. She watches as the people along the street in front of her grab at their ankles one at a time. Agata sees a small streak of blue zip from one person to the next right up to her. She reaches  down her hand and draws it back in pain what ever it was it was fast and bites. Agata turns to follow the flas of blue, she notice that it stops in front of a large black looking puddle. She moves in closers she watches as the puddle moves in and surrounds the tiny blue mouse. Shaking her head that can't be right, but there stood a small blue mouse in long robes facing a moving black puddle. It quickly advances on the mouse, Agata watches as the mouse begins to slash away at the black inky substance that covered the cobblestone street.
   Agata grabs out a loaf of hard bread that she had bought earlier and races up to the battle. Up closer she could see that it wasn't a puddle but a glob of oozing mass like tar, it had root like tentacles spread out ward, one of the tenclies grab the mouse. Agata swings the loaf of bread down up on the root that had begun to wrap it's self around the mose. It quickly lets go of its smaller for and looks at Agata. Agata quicekly reaches down and grabs up the mouse by it's collar she brings him up level with her face. The sword master anger grew at the human who had taken advange of the darkness attack to grab him up, he starts cussing at her in his own tongue.
   Agata couldn't believe her ears this mouse was speaking Japanese? She uttered the only word taht pop in to her head "Hijikata," In that instant a clam came over the sword master. Then a popping sound surrounded the two as a wave of electricity ran from the trollie up Agata's arm and seem to enter her head. Hijikata the sword master has been giving a name linking him to this human Agata. That's when a large oozing mass started to rise up off the street. But now standing in front of it were not one but two sword masters, a tall young women with short messy hair, that ever one swore look a lot like L from death notes, wearing matching brown and red samara robes with a blue mouse standing on her right shoulder. A blue eye skull earring dancing in the light as they dance in slicing up the darkness that stood before them.
   In a flash it was over with and they went about setting up casting stones, in no time the people were walking around like nothing happen. Agata stood with her backpack in her hands. She looks around trying to remember what she was doing. Seeing the loaf of bread broken up on the ground she shook her head how did she drop this, she turns and heads back to the bakery and buys more bread then heads back to the Jelly shop and fills her back pack with Jelly not sure why she feels like she needs supplies.
   Back at the apartment, Agata is surprise to see Sara back and standing in the window staring up at the mountain. When Agata ask her what happen  Sara turns around, her eyes were black and her skin gray, there came that electric sound as the blue trollie appeared on Agata shoulder. Once again Agata has become the sword master, Agata heart ach she knew what she had to do her friend Sara fell victum to the darkness that was pouring into their world Sara was dead but the darkness was alive with in her friends body. Sara open her mouth and the drakness came spewing forth and the battle was on, it was a short battle, soon it was over and Saras lifeless body fell upon the couch that just a short time ago Agata had slept.
    Tears flowed down Agata face as they went about placing the casting stones. Sometime later Agata stood in the kitchen filling her back pack with bread, water and the Jelly she had bought eariler. She tryed not to think of the vacant spot in the living room where the couch use to stand as Hijikata told her about the trollies who were cousins to the trolls but smarter and smaller. That they came to her world when ever the darkness enter to stop them. because if they took hold of her world then it would be a matter of time before they enter his world. That the doorway to that the darkness had open laid deep with in the mountains and that it was up to them to shut it. When Agata asked if that had every happen if the darkness ever taken over her world. Hijikata just shook his head still he wore the cat who ate the cannery grin, not since the time of the great beast had the darkness come close to entering his world. Are you talking about the age of the dinosaurs, she ask? Hijikata just shrugged his shoulders, I guess it too our most powerful of magi to cast a great ball of fire to drop out of the sky and kill off all life here, the drakness needs other life forms to feed off of until they have a foot hold in this relem.
   The next moring Agata stood in front of Sara's apartment building and looks up at the mountain in the distance, sure last night Hijikata told her everything about the darkness, that his tribe sent him to close this gateway here and that because she name him the were now bond until death. Of course the fact that if one dies so dose the other wasn't very reassuring at all. He went on to explain why she had the same powers that he has but he made it sound like she was his pet. "Simple I'm the most powerful of the two of us so you take my abilities if not we would bothe be teaching in a classroon, some where while the world was being destroyed.
   Agata sets out ont the cobble stone streets heading towards the mountians. He told her just follow the cobblestones they would lead them into the mountains. Agata didn't believe him she had followed the cobblestones until the end. The stop at an old well, but he just yawn and fell asleep his last words were we'll see.  Agata walk on with the strange feeling that many eyes were watching them. This sent a chill down her spine. The streets were already eerie and quiet. The only sound was her boots upon the cobblestone street and the gentle snoring ot Hijikata.