Xarius were thrown with a tremendous force into something hard, dazed and confused Xarius stood up. To his big suprise the place he had been transported to were the same room he had left. The training room, Xarius noticed however the unusual silence, no humming from the generator. No sign of Carniku's or Roos's energy signals either. Xarius moved out of the room and found himself in the basement of Castle Comealot. Xarius made his way upstairs, the electricity were shut off and there were no sign of life anywhere.
"Where are everybody?" Xarius said as he scratched his sore head. The drawbridge were down and the gates were wide open. Still there were no sign of life what so ever, there was not even any sign of wind. "Okay this is very strange...." Xarius said as he flew over to the fishermen's village, but there were no sign of them either. Xarius sat down on a bench in the village and put his head between his legs...he had an awful headache and the whole place confused him even more.
"The catch was rather good to day eh?" Xarius turned around quickly as he heard someone talking. But there was not a living soul around for miles. "Aye indeed...but it could have been better...the people over there are nuts I say." Xarius looked around again, but found nothing. "I'm going insane for sure." Xarius said as he began to laugh. But as Xarius looked up again, he saw two fishermen talking to each other. He saw them through some kind of a ripple, dimensional ripple. Xarius tried to push one hand through the ripple to see if it was real or if he was just losing it. But the suddenly electric jolt jerking him backwards were a fair enough answer to his sanity.
"What the hell is this place...?" Xarius said both confused and angry. "I belive I can help you with that answer...boy!" Xarius turned around and saw a human shaped being talking to him. He looked like a human and even talked like one, but his skin were all pale...and a human don't have wings on their back.
Xarius stood up and prepared himself, the being who talked to him had the air of evil around him. "Oh you can? Well can you tell me what place this is?" The being in front of him smiled, revealing a dreadful smile. "This place is called the Rift, a shadow of your dimension and most likely your tomb." The creature laughed out with a sinister laughter and flexed his muscles. "My tomb? Why is that....demon?" Xarius said as he went into a defensive stance and prepared himself if the creature should decide to attack. "My job is to kill intruders you see...and keep the Rift clean of filthy creatures like you...and I'm not a demon....I'm a Shade Stalker.."
"I don't care what you are. I'll just leave and be on my way...how about that?" Xarius really didn't want to fight the Shade Stalker. "By entering here you have already lost those options...but now...less talk...more fight....." The Shade Stalker said before he leaped at Xarius with a vicious sidekick. Xarius flipped backwards and avoided the kick, but not sooner than he had avoided the kick another kick followed up and hit Xarius in the head sending him spinning into a building.
The headache earlier were only a minor fluke compared to the one he suffered right now, in a blink of second the Shade Stalker were upon him and grabbed Xarius by his throat. He were lifted up and slammed hard into the ground were he bounced off hard and landed on his stomach. "You don't know what you're up against...you can't win..not while we're fighting in my own backyard." The Shade Stalker said as he threw out punch aimed for Xarius's jaw, strangely enough Xarius managed to dodge the punch but fell victim of another. "He's just too fast...*cough*..." Xarius said as he laid on his back coughing blood.
"You are not the first to come here...and you will surely not be the last...it's time for you to die...but then again you already know that...." The Shade Stalker said as he stood with his fist ready for the deathblow. The fist came down with an extreme force as the fiend just aimed to crush his victim with one mighty blow. He had however not counted with a Dark super saiyan as the fist were stopped just a few inches above Xarius's skull. "What...." The fiend said as he moved a little backwards... Xarius stood up, his green aura radiated violently from his body and the spiked up green hair glowed with energy. Now Xarius were on the offensive...he quickly teleported behind the Shade Stalker and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick aimed at the creatures spine, or where a spine normally would have been on a normal person.
The kick sent the Shade Stalker forward as he tumbled to the ground, "How dare you!!!" the Shade Stalker cried out as he go on his feets. He dashed towards Xarius and sent out a powerful punch aimed at Xarius's solar plexus, this were however blocked and led into a counter blow from Xarius...landing a knife chop to the creature's neck.
The knife chop hit the Shade Stalker and brought it's head down, just in the right position for a well placed knee. Sending the creature's head jerking backwards. The Shade Stalker landed on it's back, and ironically it was his turn to cough blood. "I'm through with you...fiend....now it's your turn to feel the bitterness of death!" Xarius said as he cupped his hands, a fire colored dark matter ball were charged up. "Blaze...Ball....HA!!!" The Blaze Ball were launched towards the Shade Stalker and vaporized his opponent....or so he thought.
Xarius sighed and walked away, his main priority was to find a way back to his own dimension. "Leaving so soon?" Xarius heard something talk behind him, "No way...I destroyd you..." Xarius said as he saw the Shade Stalker unharmed. The ground shook violently as a pitch black aura radiated from the Shade Stalker. "No you thought you destroyd me...thats two different things..." Suddenly the fiend smiled and dropped it's powerlevel. "You got real guts to stand up to a Shade Stalker...I like you boy..." Xarius had a confused look on his face, but remained on guard if this were yet one of the Shade Stalkers tricks.
"I'm Carnivorg...janitor of this place you might say..." Carnivorg said as he sat down on a bench and folded his wings, Xarius powered down to normal and sat down on the opposite bench. "It's a long time since I've encountered a Xennarian..." Xarius opened his mouth and looked at Carnivorg. "You mean you have met others like me?" The Shade Stalker laughed. "Yes for quite many years ago they used to travel through here quite alot...but that traffic died out for about..well 200 years ago." Xarius wiped some blood away from his face. "So why did you try to kill me?" Carnivorg laughed again, "I just wanted to see if they Xennarian race had grown weak over the passing years...no hard feelings right?" Xarius rubbed his head and spit out a lump of blood. "No hard feelings he say, when he punches like a sledgehammer..." Xarius thought to himself.
"Well it has been nice to meet you.....?" Carnivorg put out his hand and offered a handshake, "Xarius....I'm called Xarius." Xarius said has he shook hands with Carnivorg. "Well I have to get back to work...or my superiors will have my head..litterally, but you can drop by anytime for a chat." He said before he stood up and walked away, "But how do I get back to my world?" Xarius said, he didn't want to get stuck in the Rift forever. "The same way you got here...." Xarius could hear out in the distance. "The same way I got here?....I don't remember how I got here at all...I just sat and...." Xarius stood up and placed his right hand out, dark matter soon gathered in his right palm..."The same way I got in....could it be?" Xarius said as dark matter surged out of Xarius's palm. At first nothing happened, the energy sparks just danced around in the air. But shortly after a small purple streak appeared in the air, it slowly began to grow in size until it was much larger than Xarius himself. "Well I hope this is the right way..." Xarius said before he jumped into the rift...