Cursed lighting rains down from the sky and strikes Apollo's back.
Apollo starts to drop.
Some of the lighting goes into Taiyo's blade.
Taiyo jumps and goes to slash Apollo in the air.
Apollo just barely blocks it.
Taiyo moved his blade over and stabbed Apollo.
Apollo grabbed the blade and threw it away.
Taiyo caught it and then kicked him, with both feet, onto the ground.
Apollo uses the recoil of his ground slamming and gets back on his feet.
Taiyo lands on the ground as well.
Apollo spits out blood.
"Pretty nice combo you did there." Apollo says as he loosens up.
"You were holding up pretty nicely as well." Taiyo acknowledges.
Apollo and Taiyo gets back into fighting stance.
'I'll lure him in with a stab but change directions and go for a slash in the middle of his face' Taiyo thought to himself.
Apollo's legs starts to glow yellow.
'This is a bad idea.' Taiyo thought as he dashed in.
Taiyo goes in for the fake-out stab.
'Bad idea' Taiyo thought.
Apollo guards the spot where Taiyo was about to stab.
Taiyo switches to a slash at the last second.
Apollo looks surprised for a second.
'Bad idea.' he thought once again
Taiyo is about to slash Apollo when suddenly Apollo's sword goes two times the speed of sound.
'I knew it was a bad idea.'
Taiyo slashes Apollo's face slightly, which hinders him for a second, and just barely blocks most of the attack.
Taiyo still got hit though.
Suddenly two large shadow hands pushes Taiyo and Apollo away from each other.
"Aww, come on Yami, you stopped the fight right at the good part." Apollo complained.
'Yami?' Taiyo looks up and sees his former teammate, Yami.
Taiyo gasps.
"Yami?" Taiyo said, shocked.
"Oh, hello, old friend." Yami said as he looked down on him smirking.
"So this is what you meant by increasing your powers by ten-fold, it wasn't a tool, it was an ancient ritual. And you brought Hanage on board with this too?!" Taiyo said angrily.
Yami starts chuckling and bursts out into a menacing laugh.
The light behind Yami turns dark and the forest fog starts to roll in.
Yami's eyes glow red.
"YES I DID, AND WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?" Yami yelled with a menacing smile.
Taiyo becomes very angry.
"I should've known you wouldn't change." Taiyo said in a very angry voice.
Apollo joins Yami on the tree branch.
"Too bad you didn't." Yami said as he turns away and vanishes.
Apollo follows suit.
All Taiyo could hear was Yami's menacing laugh, echoing throughout the forest.
Taiyo looks down and laughs.
"That son of a gun, Taiyo said laughing, "really had to make it so dramatic with the fog and the sudden darkness."
On the ground, Yami used his shadow powers to say:
"I hope you know that i'm just acting right? Hanage and I are just gonna get a power boost and then leave them."
"I know you were." Taiyo said as he walks back to his little cottage.