Okay, okay, I guess you're right. Hn, here's the next chapter, but not all of it.

Mwaha, now that I've forced myself through this part, the creative juices flow again where they were once stagnant, expect more soon.



Chapter Twenty Five: Legacy



It had a turqoise carapace, and was humanoid, it was damp with a strange liquid and it's undeniably insect wings clung to it's back. Cautiously, Tymen, Juiso and Seraph plodded torward it. Seraph grabbed it by it's shoulder and turned it over. It's head was odd, flat on the face with a mouth part and two eyes, but the rest of the head was a ribbed membrane with a V shaped piece of carapace laid over it. Suddenly, it sputtered, fluid bubbling out of it's mandibles and it's eyes opening, bright and yellow. Silently, it pulled itself up, and turned to the three of them, as they stared at it awkwardly.

"Who are you?" It asked. Or did it? It's mouth didn't move, but it's haunting voice was undeniably present in there minds.

"Wh...I..." They fumbled, until Seraph stood ahead of them, stating,

"I am Seraph, leader of the clan Konitar. Who are you is a more fitting question."

"I...have no name." It...said.

"Well, then what is this place?" Seraph posed, more than a little intimitaded by the telepathic insect which stood two feet taller than all of them.

"I...don't know." The insect intoned psychicly.

"What do you mean you don't know, this is you're planet, isn't it?"

"Intruth, yes, but the only names I have for it a green and gold, blue and black. It cannot be summed in a single word." Seraph paused for a moment, then asked again.

"Fine, have you seen something resembling this?" Tymen, feeling her cue, lifted the nearly complete map.

"I remeber that, though I have never seen it." Seraph begame enraged, and grabbed the insect by the neck, which was a feat considering it's height.

"Stop talking in riddles! Have you seen it or--" Seraph was cut off when the large insect, smacked Seraph to the other side of the clearing with his massive claw.

"It is in the Temples of Gold, which from here is away from the sun once it dies." Tymen thought,

"Does he mean the last piece is torward the sun during nightfall?" Seraph drew a blaster, preparing to shoot the insect. But Tymen merely raised his hand in protest.

"No, don't, the next shard is that way." Tymen pointed westward. He didn't question the insects words. Seraph's mouth opened, shakingly, as if to say something, but Juiso beat her to it,

"C'mon, Seraph, let's give it a shot, what've we to lose?" Seraph thought a moment, then sighed in resignation, and they trudged on westwardly.



They had been walking for some time, and once the excitement had passed into memory, the whining of there stomachs became prominent.

"Are any of these plants good to eat?" Juiso asked, touching a large leaf as he walked past it. Insect reached up and grabbed a fruit from a tall tree, a height untouchable to the much shorter rabbits.

"My father ate of these fruits, as did my mother." He held out the orange-yellowish fruit to them. In the hour they had been walking, his appearance had already changed. He was atleast half a foot taller, the ribbed membrane of his skull had fused and become a single, smooth orb. His wings had dried, becoming long, wide, colorful, elegant wings that the weld with ease. And a white line like a tear had begun to extend from the bottom of his eyes. It was something none of them were willing to venture a guess at.

Insect tossed the fruit he picked to Seraph, who brought it up to her nose and sniffed it, then took a small, cautious bite out of it. Instantly, color returned to her paled skin, and she delved her face into it, the yellowish juice lining her mouth.

"Well, it's certaintly not toxic, Insect, could you pick some more?" She said, the hostile air of a hour before gone.

"It is done." His wings transformed into a smear, a crisp buzz filling the rabbit's ears as he hovered up, picking a dozen of the fruit. They all feasted on it quickly, energy flowing through there blood once again. Insect merely ate one, and it was a small one at that. When asked why he ate so little, he merely replied,

"I hunger not." After there meal on alien food, they began the journey through the planet once again, spirits lifted. In another thirty minutes they saw massive golden caps peaking over the horizon,

"The Temples of Gold beckon."



After another hour of walking, they reached a massive clearing, in which sat three massive, golden pyramids. Accompanying it, however, was a not so welcome sight.

Strew all around and through the clearing and on the temples were skeletons and corpses, some of rabbit-like nature, and some in the nature of a decidedly large beast.

"What...happened here?" Tymen asked, rising from one of the bodies, questioning Insect.

"I have not known."

"You said you've been here." Seraph stated.

"My great-great-great-great-great-grand father was here for a minute, and he sensed energy like that which you showed me." Insect explained, and he, at this point, had the white tear like things reach his chin, and a wonderful red crest had sprouted from his simian ridge.

"Do you sense the energies now?" Juiso asked.

"The energies are the same." Reluctantly, they trode into the middle golden temple, as it seemed the one of paramount importance, as Insect could not exactly determine the energies location, only it's ambience. Throught the hallways of the golden temple lay the corpses of thease rabbit like, and beast like beings, weapons lying about, toppled structures, and sprayings of blood.

"Evil energy fills this place. I fear." Insect said, as calmly as he could. And though the others wouldn't state it quite so planily, dispite all the action they'd seen recently, they were afraid, aswell. After walking the morbid maze for what seemed like days, but was really only two hours, they arrived at what appeared to be a central room.

"This is a Heart of Darkness, but here also exists a tinge of goodness, the item you seek."