WORLDS COLLIDE
    EPISODE FOUR
 
    Dagger and Steiner had finally made it to South Gate after going through many challenges along the way. They battled many monsters, Steiner wisely used his abilities as a swordsman creatively, and Dagger had always healed him (and herself) whenever they were seriously hurt. When they reached there, Dagger knew that the guards would automatically recognize her and would send her back to the palace in an uncomfortable situation. So the young teenager told Steiner to take a sack and put tons of the pickles from Lindblum in it. Then she would have to be in the sack as well, so when the guards searched it, they wouldn't notice her.
 
    Of course, Steiner didn't enjoy the thought at first, but when Dagger commanded him to, it had to be done her way at any cost. She told him that when they where in, to find a hidden place for Dagger to get out. When he found it, he would say a password: " 'Tis foolishness! If all where so easy, why, non would suffer in this world!", the line from "I Want to be Your Canary". So the two made it into South Gate with no problems at all. Steiner made it through, sweet-talked a few helpless people, got a gate pass, and hid in an alley. Then he said the password, and Dagger got out. Then the two made it on there way into a trolley and headed towards Alexandria.
 

 
    Raziel was overwhelmed that he was not burning from the acidic touch from the rain as he would when he was a vampire instead of the Angel of Death. He was relieved because it rained endlessly in this kingdom, and was surprised that the area wasn't under water and flooded. Lara was pretty shocked too that the kingdom was like this. She thought in her mind, How on Earth could Freya live in a place such as this? It was a rather good question to her opinion. When the troupe made it into the kingdom, the two clowns appeared again and through black mages at them.
 
    Now Lara and Raziel had enough of all this nonsense of black mages and killer clowns from Gaia. The two charged at the mages and clawed at them endlessly, shot them with shotguns with a never-ending rage, it was carnage breaking out! Zidane, after standing for a few moments, open-mouthed and shocked, decided to join them. Freya, Vivi and Quina hopped in as well. After the brawling was over, the two clowns came out again. The blue one was called Zorn, the pink one was Thorn. Lara found them quite annoying, and as for Raziel, he began thinking of his next dinner.
 
    "Pay dearly for this you two will!" Thorn shouted.
    "He is correct! The general will get you for this!" Zorn added in.
    "Yes! Very scary it is, when the general gets angry!" Thorn chirped.
    "Don't sing it, sweethearts! Just bring it!" Lara roared.
 
    With a strong leap, Lara jumped for those two and chased after them. The two clowns would've hit her with some magic, but they where so terrified they couldn't move! Lara went chasing after them and Zidane and the others were left watching. They decided to help her chase Zorn and Thorn before they lost her. So while Freya jumped ahead and Raziel glided near the ground while the others ran, they followed Lara. Finally, the tomb raider lost her patience. She pulled out her pistols and released a few shells, the noise ringing in the air, piercing the silence of Burmecia.
 
    Zorn and Thorn felt an unspeakable pain impact into their bodies. They were just running from a woman...an ordinary woman, or so they thought. Before they knew it, about six burning, utterly painful objects struck them hard in their backs. It was as if somebody had picked them up and thrown them after the impact, for that the force was unbelievably strong for them to handle. They crashed into a statue of a large, tall rat. Blood came squirting out of their backs, the two began gasping for air. The jokers took their last breaths... and then all was darkness for them...
 
    "Lara! What have you done?" Zidane cried out.
    "What?" Lara snapped.
    "This is murder, Lara! Surely you were brought up better then THAT!" Freya sputtered.
   
    "They were sending creatures out to kill us, so I decided to destroy the source of that threat to us..." Lara explained.
   
    "Have you no feelings? That bad! They might be bad jokers, but commerade killing bad jokers is like sour grapes! Taste bad!" Quina shouted.
 
    "I think she did nothing wrong." Raziel said, walking to Lara and placing a claw on her shoulder.
    "What?" Zidane stammered.
    "Those black mages were threating us, and those clowns were the source of our attackers. Nothing wrong with what Lara did. Now can we carry on?" Raziel protested.
 
    "Sure, whatever..." Zidane said.
 
And for sure, the troupe was heading for more danger...