The War of the Omens: #2: EarthBound Stars
Chapter 3: Lava, Fat Pigs and Horses

Legal Stuff[blah blah...]: There really is none... except certain characters are copyrights of certain companys... blah blah... yawn. You get the picture.

This is a seperate dimension, or an AU of many games, plus some people in real life, and the real world as well, so if you're wondering why you see DKC characters in EarthBound, or something else like Real People in Hexen, etc, that's why. Also, this following info is very important to remember: Since the WOTO universe is an AU, the pasts of the chosen four are somewhat different from what they probably are in the original, but not drastically different, but let's just say most of them had fighting experience since before their adventure as a group.

Note: I do not have characters shout out their PK attacks in these stories. PK is from the mind, not a magic spell, so what's the point in chanting it out? It might make it seem cooler, but it's not any more good for anything but just that.

Within a small, desolate-looking area outside of a large stone wall, the world ripple from the Rainy Circle suddenly opened, and Ness, then Paula, then Jeff, then Artemis, then Corvus, and finally Klump walked through it and onto the grassless ground. The portal then shrunk down to the size of a baseball once they got all through. Everyone took a good look at their surroundings. It was quiet, and devoid of life. A little too devoid of life to them. Corvus though, had a wide eyed expression. The Crater in Hell's Maw? Why this accursed place?! I thought Hell's Maw was destroyed. "Everyone listen closely!" he called to the others, getting their attention. "What's wrong Corvus?" asked Jeff. "I recognized this place. I've been here before. We're in some kind of middle world. It's a long story, but to make it short, I was through here when I went after D'Sparil the first time. I'm not sure about it, but there might be something very dangerous around here somewhere, so please keep your guard up, and follow me." "So you know how to get through this particular world?" Paula asked, "I should... if it hasn't changed a lot." Corvus muttered, looking at the small area for any changes. An opened wall was still opened up from the last time the Sidhe had come through here, but a steel door with two statues, carrying green spheres, was closes. Drat! They changed the door. We gotta go back into that horrid cave. To find the key, I bet. "Guys, be careful, and follow me." he said.

Corvus led the group into the opened up portion of the wall, which contained a few wide steps, or what at least seemed like steps to the others. At the base of these stair-like ledges was a large cave-like room with circular column like walls, seemingly holding the cave up. Corvus noticed upon entry the entire place was void of enemy life. He remembered too well the last time he came into this place, as there had been monsters everywhere, and he had to use a good deal of his weapons on that ordeal to survive. That was before he found his Tome of Power near the end of his old journey. Corvus led the group carefully around a long and wide wall, which he figured would reveal a large pool of fire ahead. He was not wrong when he got a glimpse of it. Same lava pit as before. he looked over a saw a green-plated symbol on the other side. Same location of the key, except last time it also was a yellow key. D'Sparil's playing some kind of personal game with me. This doesn't feel right. He looked back at everyone else. "Stay here. I'm going to use a technique I haven't used in a while." "Wait!" Paula cried, "Let me try and help first!" she aimed PK Freeze Omega and shot it into the fire. The fire suddenly froze into solid ice. Corvus sweatdropped, "Wow... I wish I could do that with my magic, but I know no ice magic whatsoever." "It isn't permanent. I just made a thick sheet of ice over it, so you better hurry." Paula warned him. "Right. Thanks." Corvus jumped down, and slipped a bit, but regained his composture. He could feel the heat coming up through the ice already. "This stuff's hotter than I thought!" he jumped up a bit, and running, slipping and sliding across the ice to the island. He grabbed the key, and saw something bad: there had been once a teleporter on the island that would've taken him back to the cave, but apparently D'Sparil had removed it in anticipation of Corvus's arrival. I'm gonna have to polevault out of here." Corvus then yelled, "Clear the way! I'm going to polevault out of there!" Everyone quickly took the warning and moved aside. Corvus gather his composture, and ran quickly along the melting ice, planting the staff down, and barely getting a good vault and flew up, over, and out of the pit, and was barely able to land on his feet. Corvus then rubbed one of his feet. "Hot hot hot!! D'Sparil made the lava hotter than last time!" Corvus however, had the green key, so he quickly led everyone else back outside, but they were greeted by a small surprise, and a somewhat dangerous yet welcome one for Ness, Paula and Jeff after all the other monsters they had faced so far. Two Ghost of Starmen and a Starman Deluxe where standing right outside the cave, waiting for them. "So, Giygas is take matters into his own hands now, eh?" Ness said. "Destroy them! *click*" The Deluxe ordered his underlings. "Yep, same old glitched language as always." Jeff inquired. "Too much of reminder of the old days." Paula mused. "Hey! I liked the old days!" Ness protested. "Yes, but those were very dangerous days too, Ness." Jeff replied. "Still, I personally enjoyed that adventure." Ness replied. "You think we didn't? We just weren't so eagar to fight back then." Paula sighed at Ness's old thoughts of the old day. "Can we destroy you *click* before we get old from the *whirrr* boredom?!" the Deluxe growled. "Fine, whatever." Ness growled and shot PK Special Omega at the Starmen. The two Ghosts took heavy damage, but Ness forgot about the Starman Deluxe using a deflective PK power shield. Ness was lucky the repelled blast barely missed him. "Nice memory, hot shot." Paula almost scolded him. "Sorry. This is the only other Starman of this type we've ever fought. I don't remember all the nooks about them." Ness meekly apologized. Klump aimed his cannon at a Ghost of Starman, and prompty blasted its head off with a cannonball attack. Jeff blasted the Starman Deluxe with a Big Bottle Rocket, reeling it back. Paula used PK Shield Omega on the entire group, and just in the nick of time. The remaining Ghost of Starman had casted PK Starstorm Alpha. The shield around the group repelled it back, destroying the Ghost. The Starmen Deluxe shot a beam at Klump, which Klump blocked with his helmet. What a way to use my head. He thought to himself. Artemis used his Slicer Beam and cut the Starman Deluxe a large gash in its shiny armor. Corvus finished it off by using and spinning roundhouse with his staff on the end, cutting the Starman into two seperate halves, wires exposed.

The group quickly rushed to the green door, hoping no other Starmen would arrive there. Corvus unlocked and opened the steel door, and they went inside, into another cave with more columns of rock, and small lava pits, but thankfully none that directly barred their way. However, Ness spotted an item on a ledge in a nearby lava pit. "Paula, could you freeze that lava pit. There's something on that small island." Ness pointed out the object. "Okay. One frozen lava patch coming up." Paula aimed PK Freeze Omega and formed a thick sheet of ice over the lava. Ness was about to jump down, but Paula pushed by him, "But I'm getting the item too." she jumped down, not wasting anytime to get heatstroke, and very quickly grabbed the item, ran back and made a impressive jump back up to where the others were. "Ok. Thanks." Ness sweatdropped. Why didn't I suggest her getting the key to Corvus earlier. He smirked. <I would've had hurt you if you did.> Paula replied through telepathy. Ness sweatdropped again and smiled nervously at her. Paula replied, "Ness, we have to move now. We'll talk later." "Alright, alright!" Ness said, following Corvus, who was a bit of a distance away from him now. Corvus had now opened a smaller door with a three prong symbol on it. Behind it was another world ripple. "Welcome, Pig's Butt!" the portal seemed to call to them. "Pokey?!" Ness immediately recognized the voice. "Well, it seems your last-class friends and you have found the way to my temporary lair. Come forth... and meet your doom if you dare." Pokey's voice taunted to them from the other side of the portal. "Pokey, I will stop you. Prepare for battle!" Ness took his bat out and charged into the ripple after him, and the others quickly followed.

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The world ripple dumped Ness and his restless group in a cold, icy room in the shape of a six-point star. From the look of the surroundings, the place had been made from solid ice. Ness shivered, "C.. cold. Where... are we?" Corvus tried to make sense of it. Something seemed familiar to him about this place. "Hah hah hah!! Come and get me turkeyheads!" Pokey's voice echoed throughout the room. "Pokey?! Where are you?!" Ness clenched his shivering fists and snarled, hoping he could rid himself and his friends of Pokey as soon as humanly possible. Corvus suddenly called, "It can't be! This place flooded years ago when I defeated D'Sparil! This... this is his old arena, but it's frozen over, somehow!" "This was D'Sparil's dome?" asked Artemis, remembering mention of D'Sparil living in a domed city while he ruled over Parthoris. "Yes. Pokey's found it and is using it for his hiding spot. Follow me!" Corvus led to group to a glittering red cube in a corner of the room with a blue magic energy rising from it. "This should take us to the main arena." he said, walking through it. The others slowly followed in, one by one.

On the other side, Corvus entered a wide, open and vast area. He recollected his old memories of the battle with D'Sparil...

~Flashback~

The great and hulking Chaos Serpent, which had been D'Sparil's mount, had just fallen to the ground in pieces. D'Sparil had suddenly vanished as the mount fall into its death throes. D'Sparil soon rerose from a lone robe on the ground. Their battle was long and tiring, D'Sparil shooting blue bolts of electrical magic energy. Both Corvus and D'Sparil had traded massive blows. Suddenly D'Sparil appeared in front of Corvus and had blindsided him with a bolt, knocking Corvus on his rear. D'Sparil advanced on the weakened Corvus. "A valient effort, Corvus. You did so well, and yet so poorly." he pointed his staff at Corvus, about to lay the finishing blow. Corvus had one last bit of Salvation, and suddenly whipped out an old weapon of his, the Pheonix Rod, and threw a massive blast of energy, fueled by the opression of Parthoris. D'Sparil was unable to defend himself and was set ablaze. "AAAAAHHHH!!! CURSE YOU CORVUS!!!" he growled as energy rended him to bits. He muttered a final, untranlatable phrase, which would later set part of the elf's fate into motion...

~End Flashback~

The curse is over, and I survived the Outer Worlds, but why is his lair still intact? The dome broke open the second I stepped through the old portal out of here and into the Outer Worlds. The others had come through the portal now, and they were all now looking for some kind of sign of Pokey's presence. "Pokey!! Come out, wherever you are!!" Ness called. "Patience, Pig's butt. I'm coming." Pokey was heard, as the Spider Mech suddenly materialized in front of them all. Pokey smiled the way he always did in a situation like this. He looked at the growing group of friends. "Six of you, eh? Where's the prince?" he asked, referring to their friend Poo, who they had not met yet. "Not here... yet." Ness growled, pointing his bat at Pokey. "I'm crushed Ness. I'd hope you'd not be so eager to die. My mech has been enhanced by Giygas, and Korax isn't half bad either, nor is D'Sparil. Reanimating his old lair for my own use has its purposes." Corvus had suddenly remembered back in Pokey's house when he, Artemis, Ness and Paula were hiding on the steps. He remembered D'Sparil mention Pokey reanimating something of his, but wasn't able to recall what it was, until now. Corvus suddenly snapped out of his memories, as the battle had just started with Jeff pulling out one of his last multi-bottle rockets, and blasting Pokey with a direct hit, blowing the mech into a wall. Pokey regained his composture. "You still have those stupid rockets, eh kid?" Pokey charged at Jeff and sent him flying across the arena, landing on his back. Jeff painfully got back up. Pokey shot a missile at the group of other friends, causing them all to scatter. Corvus unsheathed the bow on his back, and took an arrow and aimed it. The arrow suddenly lit aflame. Pokey took notice of this and charged at the elf, but Artemis jumped up and landed on the glass dome of Pokey's mech, throwing his aim off. "Get off my viewport you stupid feline!" a tentacle from the mech lashed out and tried to slap Artemis off, but Artemis jumped off anyways. Corvus had then shot the flaming arrow at Pokey. It hit the mech directly, and erupted into a flame in the shape of a Pheonix. The mech had also caught fire. Pokey was angry now, and lashed a quick tentacle and slapped Corvus to the ground, knocking the wind out of him. Ness and Paula again combined PK attacks, this time Flash Omega with Fire Omega, creating a large flare attack. The flare slammed into Pokey, blasting him clear through a wall nearby. The mech slowly got up, smoking and sparking. Pokey glared at Ness and Paula with rage in his eyes, and keyed something in on the mech. "Let's see you handle this!" a laser cannon formed, and began chugging out rapid fire laser blasts at Ness and Paula at random. Both of them began frantically running around trying to avoid the blasts. Klump took this as a perfect opportunity and climbed a nearby wall, and positioned himself right above the mech. The mech was still trying to hit Ness and Paula with laser fire, and Klump jumped down like a reptilian cannonball and crashed right through the dome of Pokey's mech. His helmet hit a button on the control deck. "NO!! Not that button!!" Pokey screamed in fright. Klump feared the worse and got himself loose as quick as possible, and scampered back to the others. They saw electricity form around the mech. This wasn't normal electricity, though. It was a strange like of magic energy. Corvus went wide-eyed again, "He's going to tear open a world ripple on top of himself!! Run!! Get behind something now!!" they all scampered behind a corner, the best protection they had. Suddenly, a large mass of unstable energy formed into a strangely formed portal. Pokey screamed as the mech was sucked in, and began sucking in various objects in it's range, including chunks of destroyed rock and other debris. it then began to lose force, and the pull of the portal became almost non-existant, and the portal then totally vanished. The others fearfully and nervously came out from their hiding place, to see Pokey and the portal totally gone. "Where'd... where'd he go?" asked Ness, with a slight sweatdrop. "Hopefully somewhere we'll never have to deal with him again." Jeff sounded satisfied with the results. Suddenly another world ripple materialized right in front of them with a flash of energy. They backed up in fear, expecting it to try and suck them in as well, but it remained stable. However, the ice began melting all around the arena, and the arena began to flood. "We better get out of here fast!!" Paula screamed, "Water's rising quick!" "We have to use the ripple. It's the only way out right now." Jeff advised. He didn't have to repeat himself. Everyone had already started bolting through the ripple. "At least I didn't have to repeat myself that time." Jeff then hurriedly jumped into the ripple.

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The group bolted out of the other end of the world ripple, escaping the doomed arena of Pokey, along with some water, which stopped as the ripple disappeared once again after the last of them bolted out of the ripple's proximity. They all sighed with relief, panting and gasping. They then regained their bearings and took a look at the new surroundings. This new place was one of the most interesting places for a world ripple to spit them out of. They had now found themselves to be on a large cloud, presumably in the high skies of somewhere. They cloud stretched on for a distance all around them. They didn't have much time to react, as they saw a group of figures headed right towards them. "Woah! Those guys are moving at us fast!" Artemis looked at them with a curious look. As their view more clear, they could make out four figures, and one of them suddenly made Ness, Paula and Jeff form smiles. "Hey that's..." Paula started. "That's Poo!" Jeff confirmed for her. "Poo! Good to see you again!" Ness called. Poo replied in a slight Dalaamese accent, "Ness, I see we're finally united again. Paula and Jeff are also with you, and it seems you've found some friends as well." "Poo, who are your friends?" asked Paula. Three other men were along with Poo. Two of them wore the same helmet, but one wore a large breastplate for armor, another had a black vest with a blue cape. The bulkier of the two helmeted men carried a large sword, the other carried a strangle symbolic looking object. The other was a man in a blue robe, which covered some of his face, but not all of it, and carried a large stick a strange skull shape on the end, looking to animate with red energy. "Ness, remember when I told you I was having some dilemmas with a dream of mine? These three men suddenly found themselves in Dalaam. They are Baratus, the man with the sword. Daedolon, in the cloak with the staff, and Parias, in the black and blue cape with the holy symbol. According to them, they had come from a world of undead creatures, after an encounter with a powerful force known as Korax." "Korax?! You must be... the three warriors who slayed Korax 100s of years ago!" Artemis realized what was going on. Baratus replied, "Correct... and trust us... Korax is no pushover... and now we've learned he was alive again, along with another of the blasted Serpent Riders." Artemis decided to explain what his group had been through with D'Sparil, Giygas and Korax's forces. Both groups thoroughly introduced each other, and recuperated. "Hmmm, well. This cloud is strange." Poo replied, "The cloud is right alongside Dalaam right now, and we noticed something big in the distance, so we set off and checked the cloud to see if it was safe. Along the way, we saw that pesky world ripple open up and spit what was appearently you guys out of it." "Something in the distance?" asked Jeff. "It's behind you guys. It's hard to see right now, but it's there." Poo replied. The other group turned around and looked carefully. Klump was the first to spot the structure. "Hmmm... it looks like a small crypt or something from here." he said, "I guess that's where we have to go." "I guess we're all one large group now." Parias replied, still looking towards the crypt-like place. "Well, let's the best of it. We're probably going to be going through this for a while." Paula replied. 

The group set off to the large structure which seemed miles ahead. It was a long 3 hours of walking, and some Starmen had tried to ambush them from behind and caused a lot of problems for the group then. Poo had to destroy the last Final Starman with PK Starstorm Omega, as everyone else had been blasted away by a Starstorm Alpha blast, and he was the only one close enough to hit the Starman. At last though, they had come to the large crypt-looking place. The walked onto more solid ground and saw two huge double doors made of stone. The group walked up, wondering how to budge it. "I wonder what's inside this place." Ness said, examining the door for any type of trigger that would open it. Poo spotted a small stone slab on the ground around the door, that seemed suspicious to him. He picked it up and examined it. One side had what seemed to be the shapes of four symbols engraved into it. Poo studied it closer. Underneath the engravings were small symbols. One looked like a ripple of water. Another looked like a small gust of wind. The third resembled a flame, and the last one looked like a large, jagged rock. Something suddenly flashed in his mind, and he for a split second saw four objects, one each embedded into where the engravings were. He then realized something. "Ness, I believe we have found a serious lead." Poo showed him, Paula and Jeff the engravement. "The Four Elements?" Paula asked, getting a good look. "So you also think the same thing I do, Paula." Poo replied. "The four elements?" asked Ness, "You mean like water and fire and such?" "Yes. There's something about this slab of stone. We need to hold onto it for now."

"You people had best run along home now..." they then heard from above them. "What?! Who's there?!" Corvus jumped up, holding his staff out, looking for the source of the voice. "Surely, you wouldn't think of facing the lord of all hunger, would you?" the same voice said again. "Who are you?!" Poo called out to the voice. The culprit suddenly lowered down in front of them. He looked like a living... skeleton, except not still with some white hair, and he was riding on a shirveled up horse, and he also had a strange scale in his hands. "Who is that?" asked Klump, scratching his head. "I am called Famine, lord and master of starvation and suffering! I have been sent by Korax to stop you from finding the stone parchment you have there." he pointed to Poo. "So, the four elements are important to find Korax, are they?" Poo asked it. "Very perceptive, little man. I must say you've been smart and bold to get this far, but your luck runs out here!" Famine held out a large green ball of energy in his hand. He then hurled it at Poo, who rolled under it and shot PK Starstorm Omega. Famine laughed and vanished before the stars pummeled him. "Ha hah hah!! What's wrong?! Can't hit me?" Famine's voice cackled at Poo. Famine reappeared behind Poo. Ness saw this and tried to warn him, "Poo look out!!" Famine shot a strange beam which locked onto Poo. Poo began to struggle against the beam, growling in pain. Something about this beam was weakening him. He tried to let out at Famine with a series of punches and kicks, but the drain on his power was working quickly and he was unable to hit Famine. Suddenly a blast from one of Jeff's less powerful bottle rockets slammed into Famine's head. Famine lost his attack on Poo, and Poo fell to his knees, weakened. "That beam... it... it's like suffering from a famine..." Poo gasped and collasped. "Poo! Hold on!" Ness rushed to Poo and used Healing Gamma, bringing Poo back into consciousness. "Poo, you said that beam... it causes someone's personal famine?" "I believe so, Ness. When he hit me, my energy drained out of me quickly." As they discussed this, Baratus had swung his sword at Famine launching 6 green shots which pelted him and dissolved some of his already rotting bones. Parias held out the holy symbol in his hand and blast a large ball into Famine, which split into several ghostly creatures, which began attacking Famine relentlessly. Ness growled, "You'll pay for that Famine!!" and gathered up his energy like he had never before, and shot a new version of PK Special, it felt like many instances of his Alpha level, but they overall equaled more damage to Famine then his original PK Special Omega could ever do. Ness panted, "W... wow... I learned a new power... sweet..." Famine was, needless to say, enraged by Ness's new attack. Jeff slipped the HP monitor over his eye and scanned Famine. The reading was a "2791". "He's still got a good deal of energy left in him!" Jeff told everyone else. Artemis quickly reacted and formed himself into a ball and charged right at Famine. However, the horseman shot out three bolts of green energy, which all hit Artemis. While he was barely damaged, it had knocked the cat out of his attack. "Darn!" he growled, "I can't hit him with that, so... Slicer Beam!!" he arced his cutting beam through Famine and his horse, leaving a large mark on both. Jeff was now reading a "2455" on Famine. Famine had now recollected his attention on Ness. He was bent on getting even for this little attack of his. He blasted Ness with a few bolts, knocking him backwards, and suddenly teleported behind Ness, cackling. Ness felt a blow to the head and went flying onto his face near the large doors. "Stop it!!" Jeff growled and shot Famine with another Bottle Rocket, but he blasted it aside with his energy, and started shooting bolts towards Jeff. Corvus was now focusing energy into his hands, and threw a large, spiked ball of energy at Famine. Famine screamed as the ball slammed into both him and his horse, knocking them aside from their attack on Jeff. Famine looked at Corvus in rage. "Die, slayer of D'Sparil!!" he formed another beam and prepared to shoot Corvus and charged forth, but at the last moment, he jerked over and began to fall, and was flung from his horse. He got a glimpse at the cause of the problem: Paula had suddenly had enough and nailed the horse with a hard kick at mid-attack, knocking Famine into the air. He suddenly growled, as Paula foot landed in his own face, sending him up into the air and onto the ground. It didn't hurt him that much, but it enraged him that this puny girl could knock his horse right out from under him. "Who do you think you are, you little homewrecker?!" he growled at Paula. Paula merely scowled, she seemed angered with him over something personal. "So you were the one.." Paula scolded him. "Huh? What one?!" Famine asked. "Your the one responsible for my horrible nightmares I was having in the last year! Yes. I can recognized the chaos you're causing now is similar to the one in all my dreams. I even heard your cackle once!" Paula was now charging up her power, and creating a new attack of her own. Famine growled, "Just what makes you think you can.. b... b. AAAHHH!!" he ended in a scream when he looked up above Paula's head. Everyone else looked up and gaped in surprised. A large bird of fire was forming a few yards above the angered Paula. "Erk.. she doesn't get this mad too often, but when she does..." Ness gulped, not finishing. The large bird grew a little more and squawked down at Famine. "N... no... you can't..." "I can." she said in a cold voice and threw her hands out at Famine, and the bird of fire swooped down at him. He screamed as it blazed down at him, and then through him, setting him ablaze, and causing him to fall to the ground, wasting away from the licking flames. " Paula gasped from the energy usage, and fell to one knee. The new attack was awesome in power, but it used it a lot of her PK power to use it. "You won't survive... my friends... will be the end of you..." Famine's voice weakened as the fire completely consumed him. 

"Wow... I've never seen her do that before..." Jeff said, a little surprised. Ness ran to Paula, who was still weakened from her attack. "Where did you learn that? And... what dreams were you talking about?" he asked. "Ness... remember all the times you saw me training myself? Well... I was having terrible nightmares about Eagleland. Something like a plauge or a famine was consuming the entire country. I had even felt the pain a few times, although not many. Famine... somehow he was the cause of most of this. When I recognized his voice, something in me snapped, and I had to destroy him. Perhaps that will finally stop my nightmares..." Paula said, beginning to cry into his shirt a little. Ness comforted her, "Paula.. I... didn't realize this... so this... was why you train your powers all the time. I guess it's a useful excuse, but you destroyed him. He's gone now Paula. You don't have to worry anymore." Paula looked up, and wiped her eyes, "Yeah, I guess I can rest easy, but I'm still worried about Giygas. What if we can't defeat these guys?" "There's always a way." Ness assured her. "Yes, but everyone's luck can't last forever either." Paula responded. "Paula, you've changed a lot since I first met you. You used to be nervous in many situations when I first got to know you. You've become a lot braver." Ness told her. "Yeah, your influence of bravery has rubbed off on a lot of us. Jeff was quite the scaredy cat once, but even he was brave enough to inspect a raid on Snow Wood, so I think it's safe to say your courage rubs off on us." Paula smiled slightly, and Ness felt a bit at ease. But Paula then looked down at the ground with a strange expression. "Or perhaps a small tad of my past is coming back..." she whispered to herself too quietly for anyone else to hear. Meanwhile, the flames from Famine's demise had disappeared, and Poo's eyes widened as he spotted an object in Famine's place. He thought very closely and recalled the symbol. It was on the stone parchment that he found when that image flashed through his head. He walked over and picked it up and studied it. After a few second, he inserted the object into the second engraved spot, and he felt it seal itself into it. "Guys! I've found one the four elements! Famine dropped when he perished." Poo said. "Hmmm... we must have to have the four elements to find Korax. The problem is, we don't know where the other elements are." said Jeff. "Hey, I really hate to stop us all short, but when was the last time we all took a good rest?" asked Artemis, "I know that vitalization machine of Jeff's dad is nice and all, but nothing truly beats a good rest." "You're tried already?" asked Parias. "Sorry if you guys just got rest, but the rest of us haven't slept in a quite some time." Artemis retorted. "Very well, I guess we could sack out for now." Ness said, "Paula, Poo and I need to regenerate our PK powers anyways after all that fighting." After a bit of talking and preparation, the group all lied down on the ground and decided to go to sleep for a while. While they were asleep, the double doors in their way, slowly creaked opened, as if they were waiting for the group to wake up and go inside...

[Well, I got that one done. Thanks for waiting on me, and thanks more for reading this! ^_^]