Everyone grabbed onto Forge. He was about to teleport them, but a demon traveled across the desert plain and knocked Forge in his back. He fell and winced in pain. "Ahh!" The energy flew into his chest. "I got the energy, Guys!"

The demon was taller and nastier than the first. Forge stood and sized up to the beast. "After I saw the Dark Wizard, I didn't think I could see anything uglier. Thanks, you proved me wrong." The staff flew to his hand and transformed into..a forge! Well ain't that ironic. Let's just call it a oversized battlehammer.

Kriston looked at the weapon. "So Forge's signature weapon is a forge?" Dukestep pulled him and BlackStone behind a boulder. "Ironic, huh. I said the same thing when we first met." Forge ran at the beast and whacked it with his hammer.

"How can his weapon hit a demon if a demon is a shadow spirit?" BlackStone answered, "Two reasons. One, he has studied Dark Magic. He knows how to deal with demons. Two, the only thing that can touch Dark Magic is more dark magic or White Magic, and White Magic is the magic of mages. Forge's a mage."

The demon snarled. "You really don't remember, Forge Zritmas? The Mystic War? Our Mystic Link....The link between Earth and Artahiém...the Dark Legion has recovered it. Now we can control who goes to Earth and who stays in this Realm. And you interfere with the Dark Prophecy..."

Kriston ran up next to Forge from behind the boulder. "Evil spirits put Dark in front of everything they say. The Dark Wizard is the leader of the Dark Forces with the Dark Champion as his lieutenant who is leader over the Dark Legion of Demons destined to fulfill the Dark Prophecy."

Forge laughed. "I know right!" The demon screeched, "Enough! I will cast you to another realm!" Dukestep flew over the boulder. "We can handle Earth!" The demon agreed. "That tactic was quite foolish, and we can blame the First three of the Dark Wizards for that. Earthlings do not know of magic, so they couldn't harm you if they tried...

.I will send you to a land that knows if magic. A realm that knows of Artahiém..." Kriston thought back about his ancient legend teachings. "Do you mean--" The demon nodded. "I have you enjoy this challenge, son of Aaron."

Dukestep asked, "What is it, Kriston?" Kriston replied, "What the Dark Wizard said!" He scratched his neck awkwardly and blushed. "The next set of kids who failed the Alpha Exam. They failed and have been sent to the Realm of Annihilaters. He will send us there because with all of us prodigies in the same place..."

Forge finished. "Instead of killing us, they can study our elements and unlock unlimited power. Then Atoaquinn will reveal his true colors not only to Artahiém, but to ALL realms and literally rule as King of All Realms, King of Universes if you will."

The demon said, "Enjoy..." and threw black dust at them. They stood before all the kids of Archamium and 20 more. Kriston pointed at them. "These are the latest who have failed the Alpha Exam. One screamed and smiled from ear to ear. She ran and kissed Kriston smack on the lips. Forge chuckled loudly.

"Kriston, you Dawg!" Kriston grinned. "Yeah, this is my girlfriend." BlackStone leaned on his obsidian sword like a cane. "Why are you so uncomfortable talking about her." Kriston replied uncertainty, "She is with us now, but she personally almost killed Forge in the Mystic War."

The girl awkwardly snapped her fingers and her clothes turned all black with a glowing purple logo on the shoulder pads. Dukestep's eyes widened. "That uniform is worn by people who worked directly for the first Dark Wizard! Kriston, how'd you meet?" Kriston answered,

"During the Mystic War, before I came here, I fought only using Kingtillium Magic, because it was the only enchanting I knew. I was an amazing warrior, and was sent by my dad Sir Aaron on a quest directly from King Atoaquinn. I agreed. My mission was to infiltrate The Dark Palace and find out what The First of the Four Wizards had in mind.

Mykenzie's mission was to get the Titan they called Forge Zritmas and annihilate him in her torture laboratory. After Forge escaped from Mykenzie's possession, the First Dark Wizard was preparing to kill her. He called her useless and commanded her to kill Forge. Forge was on the ground, defeated and scuffed up.

The Dark Wizard handed her a sword. 'Kill him!' He yelled. Mykenzie said, 'No' and dropped the sword. The Dark Wizard said, 'Fine. If you won't do it, then I will kill you both personally and feed you to the Demon Dragon!' Since she rejected the Dark Forces, she was technically on our side, so I broke cover and rescued Forge and Mykenzie."

Forge snapped his fingers, clapped and pumped his fist in the air. "I knew I recognized you!" Everyone stared at him silently. Forge realized. "Oh, sorry. Go on." Kriston continued. "Not much more to the story. Kyrie and I attacked the palace. We blew up the First of the Four Dark Castles which was AWESOME by the way.

Then, after the war, I comforted Mykenzie for her father and older brother both fought in the Dark Forces. We got closer...Then we started dating. 4 months later, I failed the Alpha Exam and came to Archamium. 6 weeks later, I see Mykenzie failed too. So now, she is here, with the rest of the Archamium prodigies." He put his arm around her.

"No hard feelings. I am with you all. I know about Tithan Atoaquinn and the Rebellion.
I'm sorry, Forge. And you are also welcome I didn't kill you when the First of the Four Dark King asked me too." Forge nodded. "Its okay. Now, I gotta find the other Titans and rally our troops. We can only stop Atoaquinn if we work together. And have a happy reunion, Kriston! We should give em some privacy." With a trollish grin, the heroes backed away from the two. Kriston shoved his hands in his pockets and fixed his silk robe.

"So..Uh, where do I begin?"