The light was a sight to behold, even for the evil surrounding it, it was something that was breath taking. For General Smith, the light as it got closer became warm in a very soothing way..and for a moment it disgusted her..as she only had a moment left of thinking before this tidal wave of awesome power crashes down on her and her mistress. The phantom, though unable to stand the light, felt deep down in her that this is where she truely belonged...now in a pool of darkness but in a sea of light. In this moment of clarity, they raised their forearms above their eyes to shield them for the light then watched as it crashed down upon them like a tidal wave onto a sandy beach.

***Change of plans***

Kerri could only watch as Captain Durius held Scotty in his massive death grip, ready to kill him any moment now. She knew now that her fate and the other's fates were now sealed..there was no help coming and surely this army wasn't about to show any mercy. Scotty did all he could to escape the grasp of Captain Durius, but Captain Durius is too strong for Scotty and its like a fly trying to bring down a sturdy brick wall, Captain Durius's massive size only added onto the impressiveness of his being and she was surprised Scotty even bothered trying to put up a fight.

"Once again mortal, very valiant of you to try and save your friends...but it ends now and soon you'll be back on this plain as one of MY soldiers..a mindless oen at that..with only the thought of hurting those who oppose me....any last words?"

Laying limp in his hand, Scotty knew that this was it...this was his fate, to be killed by something so evil..so sinister..that it makes even Jory's old "Evil DM" self seem nice. If he was going to go down, then he was going to leave one lasting mark in this world...leave his one final mortal mark on Captain Durius that he will always remember.

"Yes sir, I have something I'd like to say."

"Then get it over with."

Scotty did as he wished and in a flash Scotty pulls out a hidden knife that was strapped along his forearm and quickly he stick it into the hard flesh of Captain Durius and drags it along his arm. Captain Durius lets out a small shriek of pain and drops Scotty to the ground where Scotty lands on his feet like a cat and gets into a fighting crouching position..ready to stab anything at any moment. Captain Durius checks his injury then lets his arm fall to his side where slowly he blood oozes out of his arm and hits the ground then makes a sizzling noise..his blood from what Scotty can tell is acidic...great.

"Sneaky, but it has only bought you a second of life before I rip it away from you."

"It wasn't to prove anything captain, it was simply to make you remember this night forever."

"Oh dont worry boy, I dont need this scar to remember this night."

Just then Kerri's body began to tingly as if her entire body was asleep. She looked over at Anita and noticed that she too was feeling something odd...something about the air had changed and they were the only two people who could feel it. It took her completely surprise to feel such a tingy sensation...such a power...and it wasn't an evil energy. Quickly Kerri turned her attention back to Captain Durius and Scotty who were staring at eachother with intent to kill...she had to distract Durius.

"Uhh...captain?"

He didn't hear her at first as his attentionw as so much into Scotty that her words flew right by him. She decided to give it a bit more force, see if she could really get his attention.

"CAPTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!"

Captain Durius spun around on his heels in a flash and lowered his evil gaze down onto Kerri, it made her heart feel like 1,000 needles were jabbing at it.

"Cant you see I'm busy foolish female?"

"Yes sir, and I'm sorry I interupted sir..but I wanted to say something before you slaughter him."

Scotty turned to Kerri with a confused look on his face and listened as Durius brought himself a little closer to hear what she had to say.

"You see, these soldiers of yours obviously have no manners and do not how to treat a lady...but you sir, you have manners and no how to treat a lady and I thought perhaps..maybe..I could be your.."personal assistant"?"

Though a minion of the underworld, Durius had a weird taste for human females that drove him wild. A small smile escaped his lips and he took a couple more steps towards Kerri...more interested in her now then before.

"Oh really? You'd want to be at my side all times everytime..even in my bed?"

If the tingly sensation told her anything, it was that Durius would be spending his nights alone.

"Of course, where else would I go?"

She gave him a seductive wink to "seal the deal" but in hermidn she knew that the only deal she sealed was his fate.

"Mmm....tasty..."

Captain Durius takes one last look at Kerri before turning back around to Scotty who is staring at Kerri in complete amazement. Captain Durius lashed out at Scotty and grabs him by the neck before he can react and slowly begins to put pressure on Scotty's windpipe.

"You've been more trouble then your worth human, time to say goodbye."

Suddenly a sonic boom flies over the camp creating a huge BOOM all around it. Everyone then falls to the ground as it begins to qauke from under them as if a volcano is about to erupt from under them. Captain Durius was able to keep Scotty up when the sonic boom hit but now loses his footing and both him and Scotty drop to the rumbling ground.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?"

Before anyone could answer, Captain Durius feels his back suddenly begin to warm up as if he was bundled up against a fireplace at winter time. He turned to see what it was and became atonished to see a huge flood of white light racing towards them at great speeds. The camp follows Durius's gaze and they too are mesmorized by the glow of awesome power coming at them. This is what Kerri and Anita had felt, they had felt this coming before it even appeared to them...this is Jory's work. Captain Durius can only watch on now as the white flood of power zooms over to them then crashes down with uncontainable fury. All those who are the enemy of Jory are quickly swept away in the light, either being killed by the power or helpless being dragged to an almost certain doom. Scotty was able to crawl over to Kerri and together they bundle up and stay low to the ground. Their ally forces do the same, staying low and keeping their eyes from the light..they know they are in no danger but still..it is an awesome power.

As soon as it began, the power began to fade as well as the light until eventually the entire area was clear of it. Scotty & Kerri raise their heads to see the camp in shambles, very few of the army remained in the camp and those that did were severly injured..allowing an easy kill. Scotty gets to his feet then helps Kerri to hers and they watch as the door keeping Zedd in his cage suddenly unlocks and opens on its own and immediately Zedd leaps out and starts killing the wounded. Taking notice of Zedd..everyone else finds whatever weapons that are closest to them and one by one they pick off all thats left of the army..slowly taking back what was once theirs.

***A painful blow***

It was over now, in what was once a huge win for evil was now a stunning turn of events for Jory. Standing in the spot where only moments ago he was bloody, torn apart, and barely hanging onto life..he was now completely healed..well, the wounds are healed..his clothes are still bloodied and torn..but other then that all was well. It was deathly quiet around him, not even a cricket made a sound as he made his way over to the two fallen bodies of his enemies. Before them lies his sword which he used to fend them off for a duration of the night and with a smile on his face he picks it up and grips it in his right hand..if they weren't dead he was going to make sure that they had died and gone back to Hell.

First, he checked on General Smith who, after checking her pulse, was only unconcious on the ground. With the energy flowing through his body at the time, he could have sworn that it was enough to kill...but in the end it was only enough to save him from death for now..at least one of his foes was still alive. His thoughts then turn to the phantom, who like General Smith is sprawled out across the ground and looking dead. Jory knew in his mind that his attack must have done more damage to the phantom considering her weakness to the light..this had to be it.

Taking his time and trying to calm his heart beat, he walks over to the phantom with the hopes that if she is dead..then this war must surely be dead as well and he can finally go home and be a normal person once again. Once at the phantom, Jory kneels down and though she was dead, he checked her pulse anyways...it was a steady beat..she was alive. This must be a different form to the phantom..a form that keeps her alive in the mortal world Jory was going to have to fix that.

Raising his sword high above his head, Jory took one last look at his foe and couldn't help but admire her..she came very close to killing him, closer then all his other enemies at that. With that, Jory drove his sword down toward the chest of the phantom but suddenly he felt himself being stopped...a force of some kind was keeping Jory's sword from entering the body of the phantom and it was only a few short inches from her heart. Looking around Jory didn't see anything at first, but then the air around him began to crackle and pop and from the shadows a big big presence draped in a black cloak appeared to Jory.

"Impressive necroscope..I dont think I've ever seen that done before..at least by one of your kind."

"Uh..who are you?"

"Me? Well..lets just say I'm the Puppetmaster..and those are my puppets you just knocked down."

A sense of danger then passed through Jory's body, if this man is telling the truth then surely he is stronger then what hes just had to put up with. The only thing he could tell about this thing was that it had a really deep manly voice...but it was a voice not of this world.

"If they are merely puppets, then they must be disposable."

"In a different situation maybe, but in this one..even with them losing to your little light show..they still have use for me."

"What purpose do they serve to you then if its been proven that they are no match for me?"

It stood there for a moment, staring at Jory and sizing him up..possibly thinking of an answer that would satisfy Jory but keep him in the dark.

"Well, these two hold something of value to both you and I..it strengthens me...and it weakens you."

Somehow this thing had found a weakness in Jory and oddly enough it was the pahtnom and General Smith who held the keys to his weakness.

"I wont give EVERYTHING away necroscope, but if you'd be so kind as to remove the hood from my phantom's head...I think you'd give you at least some clue as to what your dealing with."

Letting his curiosity get the best of him, Jory lowered his sword to the ground then reached over and pulled the hood off of the head of the phantom and stared down at the face of the being that has been trying to kill him. It took him a moment to realize that this wasn't just no ordinary face...it was the face of a person from his past...a face that once his brain computed who it was crushed his heart into a million pieces.

"Its......."

"Hahahaha, thats right my dear boy..this is a product of your selfishness...this is what happens when you tamper with things you know nothing about."

All he wanted to do at that point was pick up his sword and ram it down this thing's throat...but he was too paralyed by what he saw before him to even more.

"And now that some of the puzzle has been solved necroscope, its time to advance to the next level and make your life an even bigger Hell then before."

With a wave of his hand the phantom faded away from vision right before Jory's eyes.

"The stakes are higher then ever before necroscope...I hope your a gambler because your about to step up and feel the true luck of the draw my friend..hahahahaha"

And with that, the being disappears back into the darkness, leaving behind a stunned Jory and a still unconcious General Smith....the battle was won tonight Jory thought..but the war was now only truely beginning.

***Reunion***

The camp was now under the command of one Zeddicus Rahl after they flood of light leveled the enemy force..leaving only stragglers which were easily killed. Zedd was proud of the surprise victory, mainly due to the fact that it was actually a trap he dumbly fell for..but was surprised to see that all the bodies had been recovered but one...Captain Durius was missing. Captain Durius's main tent was now Zedd's and he awaited in there with Anita and the three vampires while Scotty and Kerri were outside with the soldiers "directing traffic" so to speak....it was goign to be a long day.

Scotty and Kerri had looked death in the face and in it they saw their fates. At first they believed it to be death, but after their ordeal and watching the enemy force being carried away by the light's own vengeance..it was clear that it was not death..but re-birth. Scotty had come close to dying several times tonight..from falling off of a highway, to an encounter with a vampire...to going toe to toe with Captain Durius himself, Scotty stared death in the face and spit in it's mouth. While standing beside Kerri, who was holding up a lot better then he thought she would, he heard a distant sound coming from the direction where Jory's grandma's house was. He and Kerri turn to see Jory coming at them in a fast walk carrying a limp woman's body in his massive arms.

To Scotty and Kerri, it was a huge weight off their shoulders to see their friend alive and well. They knew that he was the one who saved them with the light flood..but weren't quite sure if infact he was still alive..but now its been confirmed. Quickly, Jory storms into the camp and he tosses the woman into the arms of a werewolf who was repairing a tent damaged by the light.

"Get her to some medical tent and do it now."

Knowing who it was, the werewolf wasted no time in taking the woman to a medical tent to get her treated. With the woman off of his arms, Jory turns towards the main tent and without missing a beat begins to run to the tent. Curious as to whats going on with him, Scotty and Kerri run over to Jory and stop him before he can get to the tent.

"Hey man, whats going on?"

Jory looks at them for a second then moves past them and continues walking to the tent. Scotty turns and he then notices that Jory's clothes are bloodied up and torn to shreds.

"Yo man, what the hell happened!?"

Not one to keep secrets from his friends too long, Jory slowly turns around and faces his best friend and "twin sister"....it takes him a second to be able to get it out..but he does.

"This phantom...this thing that has been terrorizing us for however long its been...well.....I've come to find out its none other then...my grandma....and this "war"? Its only just begun guys...its only just begun"