Shune didn’t know why it was taking so long for her to hit the ground, but she was glad that everything seemed to be going in slow motion it gave her time to think and to get her shield. Concentrating briefly Shune made a light blue swirl circle appear around here. Pieces of the building fell onto the shield but they didn’t get through to Shune. She fell for what seemed forever until finally crashing into what was not the street. She opened her eyes and looked up to see something closing then it was closed leaving Shune in darkness. Panicking Shune didn’t know what to do. She was about to let out a yell for some kind of help when suddenly lights appeared and cut through the darkness. “Hello?” Shune asked uncertain of what was happening.

Shune seemed to be in a crystal white hallway at the end of it were two other hallways but there was an arrow pointing to one of the hallways. Shune got up and was happy that she hadn’t been injured at all. Slowly she walked towards the two hallways then went down the one the arrow pointed to. “I’ve been gone a while.” She muttered while walking down the halls. Shune noticed that as she continued the halls started to loose their shine and began to look dull and dark. “If I ever get out of here I’ll probably get the worst punishment ever.” Blinking Shune saw that if she took one more step she would be in utterly dark and fairly ominous looking hallways. She didn’t like that but something told her to keep going. A disturbing smell filled the place as soon as she took that one step. It was as if she was walking down into the pits of an underworld.

Slime covered the walls and occasionally Shune would walk past what looked to be bubbling lava on the side of her. The walls had fire behind them and fire shone through. “I don’t like this place.” Shune said to herself.

“Well I do,” Said a dark voice from ahead. Shune stopped dead and listened closely her sensitive hearing picking up nothing but the bubbling of the lava. “Keep going girl. Unless you’re scared, but something awaits you. If you can manage the journey.”

“Who are you?!” Shune said speaking a lot braver than she actually felt at the moment. “And where am I?!” Nothing answered her, nothing but a laugh.

“Something awaits me?” Shune asked herself silently while looking down at the dark ground. “Be it good or be it bad I feel I must find it.” Nodding she ran forward into the darkness. After running for a good distance Shune had to stop and had to stop fast or else she would fall into a pit with no end to it. The size of the hole was probably a good 125 feet or perhaps larger in width, who knows how deep it was. Looking at where she was standing Shune made out the faint traces that a bridge used to be here.

“I shall not give up that easily.” Shune said. Closing her eyes she saw everything around her in her mind. Concentrating the walls surrounding the hole began to move, but as soon as Shune had a bridge set up it began to crumble. “I don’t know if that’s playing fair.” Shune said but she began to run across the newly formed bridge as fast as she could. Rocks fell from the ceiling and crashed into the bridge. Shune once again called for a shield which was granted to her easily. The bridge on the last half side of the pit fell suddenly and Shune was stuck in the middle. She kept running though and suddenly leapt nobody would think somebody could jump that far, but as if Shune had wings she made it to the other side. Like a little child she stuck out her tongue and said, “You’ll have to do better than that!” To Shune this was beginning to be quite fun and the danger of it all seemed to slip away from the picture. Shune now had something she had to find and nothing was going to get in her way.

“Very well. Better than that? Certainly little girl.” The voice said suddenly.

Shune ran and turned a sharp corner to find herself in a large room. “What now? Hmm?” She asked. The answer was given to her almost immediately as three large monstrous things appeared in front of her. They had two long tails behind them which each had a sharp point on it. Their heads had many spikes all over them much like a porcupine. They stood on two legs and held in their hands large bats. “I do not wish to kill anything.” Shune said. “I don’t kill.”

One of the creatures laughed, “You couldn’t kill us. You’re just a weakling. For we are the Caglug. Nobody has beaten us, never.”

“I do not kill.” Shune said.

“Then don’t kill. You need but get past them, but then that’s not hard enough.” The voice said. Ten more of the Caglug appeared making it 12 in the room.

“I still say I do not kill, but if you say that I need but get past them so be it.” Shune’s blue circle swirled around her and she started to walk towards the other side of the room. The Caglug ran up to great her as she walked towards them. One by one they started to swing their bats at Shune, but the shield around Shune would not let anything pass through it and the bats did no damage. One gave up on bats and tried to slash Shune with their tails, but that did not work either.

The creatures began to get frustrated and one yelled, “Why don’t you fight us?!”

Shune kept walking but said, “I need but get past you.” And she had. Shune stepped up onto a small stair which signaled her getting past the Caglug. “And that I have done.”

“Why do you not fight us?!” One of them demanded.

“I do fight, but not you. I do not kill. If there is something to settle then it shall not be settled with violence unless that was the only way.”

“What about you having to protect yourself against something? Will you fight then?”

“My light shall protect me. If ever I am called upon to fight. I will. But my heart will not be in it. I do not kill.”

“So you say, but if ever you fight I shall wish to see it. Power swims within you greatly. I wish to see that unleashed.” Yet another said.

Shune did not answer for what the Caglug had said she had already known herself. Instead she looked up at the ceiling and said, “I have past the creatures called Caglug.” In answer to her statement a door swung open behind her.

Just as Shune was about to turn to go through the door the same creature that had spoken before spoke again. “Your control over your other side is slipping. I sense it.”

Shune sighed and merely said, “No.”

“Say that as many times as you like, but you cannot ignore it. Even if currently you are filled with more light than darkness the other grows.”

Shune walked through the door. She didn’t want to talk with the Caglug any more. “Your second little challenge was anything but a challenge.” Shune said as she walked down another dark hallway. “Are there any more challenges?” Shune asked.

“Only one.” The voice answered sounding disappointed that Shune didn’t get slaughtered in its last little challenge.

“I am ready,” said Shune as she came upon a door. Opening it she walked into yet another large room. Seeing nothing that proved harmful Shune walked out into the room’s center. A fire burst up around her and the floor in front of her opened up to let a large creature into the room. It looked much like a Caglug only much larger and quite a bit uglier than any Shune had seen before. “What is this?”

“You must kill him.”

“I don’t kill.”

“I know, but if you wish to go any further you must.”

Shune bit her lower lip and started to think. Just as the large Caglug like creature swung his fist down to squish Shune her shield appeared while she was still thinking. The large fist slammed down onto the shield with a force that could make a few cars stacked onto each other as thin as a pancake. It did nothing to Shune and she continued to think. Finally Shune nodded and said, “I accept this challenge.” She closed her eyes and her shield began to send spark flying awake from it until a shockwave like thing emitted out of it and the beast fell to the ground.

The voice seemed shocked while it said, “You killed him.”

“No.” Shune said. “He is not dead, merely unconscious. As I said before. I don’t kill.”

“You are designed to kill, but you don’t. They made you for that, but you don’t kill.”

“You know more about me than I would have guessed, but yes you are correct. I was made to kill, but I do not. Not one do I know whom was created like me that was made to kill and has killed.”

“You do know of one.”

“Who might that be?”

“The one in which you looked for.”

“Than?”

“Correct.”

“That information is irrelevant. Than is gone along with his small Hirgyae.” Shune said and walked through the fire to the other side of the room. “I have passed the challenge. I wish to meet what awaits me.”

“So be it.”

Through doors of twisted metal Shune walked. Another room this one far larger than the others. In a large chair sat an evil looking man far older than Shune thought men could live. “You are the voice?” Shune asked.

“Yes young girl. I am the voice you heard.” Shune couldn’t see his face and she thought he didn’t really want to be seen.

“Where is what awaits me?”

The old man lifted his hand and pointed to a table on one side of the room. “This little thing does not wish to be with me. It wishes to go with you.”

Shune stepped over to the table and saw sitting on it a strange blue like rock with lighter blue spots. “What is it?”

“It is an egg.” The man said. “A Bishel dragon I think though I may be wrong. Female. If I’m correct.” He paused then said, “Strange how the two of you fell into my home at the same time, but the egg wishes to go with you for some reason.”

Shune reached towards the egg and picked it up. “Why me?”

“I don’t know. I want you two to leave. I don’t like visitors.”

“I am sorry for having fallen into your home.” Shune said. “But I fear I cannot leave. I don’t know how to get back to my home.”

“You actually call that place you are from your home? Poor dear. Alas though it probably is the only thing you know to call home. I will send you back along with your new companion.”

“How?”

“Just forget everything and be silent.” The man said. Shune shrugged and held onto the blue egg tightly. In a flash she was no longer in the old man’s home. She was back in her room. Looking at the clock she found that time hadn’t passed at all. She was in here room as if she had never left.

“That was an interesting night. I fear I shall not want to do that again.” Shune turned her attention to the egg in her arms. “Why do you want to be with me? I am nothing special. Just Shune.” The egg didn’t answer and Shune sighed. “I’ll have to hide you. I fear you are in danger here.” Shune laid back on her bed. “I must sleep now. Goodnight little egg.”