It is a cold fall morning when Tatsu awakens and screams.

"What's wrong Tatsu?" mumbles Heather half awake covered by nearly clear sheets lying next to Tatsu.

"N-Nothing, Honeycombe." Tatsu stutters, wiping sweat from his forehead he adds "I guess i'd better get ready for the battles of today." He pulls on his tight black jeans followed by his skintight white t-shirt. he then adds his black boots and his black oilskin duster. Tatsu then grabs his bloodred staff with the black onyx on top and hides it amongst the many folds of his duster. He then reaches for his nearly identical katanas, one with a black dragon with red eyes etched on the blade and the other one has a white tiger with blue eyes etched on the blade. Both of them have a hard black wood sheath with Tatsu engraved in gold. he grabs them and adds them to his staff amongst the folds of his duster. He then fills the right hand side pockets of his duster with rare nine-point shurikens, and six inch throwing daggers in the left hand side pockets. Testing the placement of the objects and appearing pleased Tatsu bends over the bed and gives Heather a kiss that lasts just a few seconds longer than normal which causes her to awaken fully. He follows the first kiss with a series of kisses on her neck saying "See ya later, Honeycombe." in between each soft kiss. Tatsu straightens and walks out the door of his home on the edge of the 'Dragon's Love Clearing' in the very center of the "Dragon Fern Forest'. Near the edge of the 'Dragon's Love' is a deep bloodred colored dragon named Draakkonn amusing itself watching an extremely strange looking creature excercising itself. "Hey Byrn, take it easy. You don't want to get a talon caught in the ground and tore off, now do ya?"

Don't worry about me Tatsu, I'm not the one who woke up screaming this morning, am I? retorts Byrn through some mental means due to the fact that he has no mouth.

"I-didn't-wake-up-screaming. You-probably-just-imagined-it." Tatsu says slowly but sternly speaking each sound of the word separately.

Yea,when pigs fly. Byrn replies in a very sour and mistrustful tone.

"Huh, up there goes one. You missed it, didn't ya?" Chuckles Tatsu as a big grin crooses his face. "Besides it doesn't matter. Ain't nothing bad going to happen." Tatsu adds in a more serious voice.

Yes it does Tatsu, and you know it. You know that what you see and what happens in your dreams come true. And if i can't make you see that then this world will be destroyed as well and then the balance will be completely disrupted. Byrn explains in an extremely serious and definite tone.

I awaken to the clash of steel and the goblin war cry, I instinctively reach for my slim war sword… but it is not there, neither is Saya. I bet the crazy b!%$& took it when I was sleeping and probably jumped up front and center, of course she was probably waiting for them. I thought to myself. I groan as I push myself off the floor similar to a military pushup. Just then, a sword slashes though the side of the sentry housing. I swiftly grab and throw a foot long dagger out of my boot at the point where the center of a goblin’s head should be located and hear a deep thud of the blade hitting wood followed by the squish of the blade hitting flesh. I then slide through the door and I break the goblins arm to grab the handle of his blade then wrench the blade out of the wall of my sentry housing. As I’m heading to the battlefield, I’m attacked from both sides and instinctively jump up and grab the tree branches and throw the goblin sword through one of the goblins heads and point my open left hand palm at the other goblin aiming with my middle finger covering his head and I yell Incendia causing the other goblin to burst into flames with the sound of a large explosion. I jump from the tree branch and tear one sword out of the one goblins head and jerk the other one out of his hand and head once more towards the battlefield.

When I reached the battlefield, I at first scream from the sheer size of the goblin army before me, then I spot Saya, a monster of a goblin sneaking up behind her, I quickly put up my right hand dropping the sword tip down in the ground aim with my middle finger and yell Incendia causing him to also burst into flames. Saya looks up to me, flashes me a crazed smile and mouths “sorry” which causes me to laugh out loud as I run down to the battlefield and start into a crazy spin with both swords out chopping any goblins to get within three feet of me ending up being cut in half. I’m 50 feet from Saya…30…15…10…8…4 two goblins jump her from behind taking her down. I’m too far away, I dive toward her through the mass of goblins, I clutch her in my arms using my body as a shield and scream Incantantem Incendia causing my whole body bursts into flames while standing up. I then mutter Expello; all the energy from the flames I have harnessed forced itself out killing all the goblins. Then everything goes black, I hear nothing, I feel nothing. I see nothing but a white speck in the distance getting larger. I desperately hope the goblins I have killed will not be wherever I’m going.

The end…of all things living.