Kenshin, Thomas, Gabriel, Sen, and Chibi all stand before the dome.  "Is everything ready?"  Kenshin asks.

                "The only thing left is the rounding up of prisoners."  Gabriel says.

                "We left that up to the soldiers."  Sen says.

                "Good."  Kenshin says.  <"Legend a healing spell if you please.">  Almost immediately Kenshin's wounds from his fight with the dragon disappear, and his tail grows back.  "One final obstical left to get by."  Kenshin says as his aura flares up.  "Stay here."  Everyone nods as Kenshin flies off.  He flies up about 50 feet and floats in front of the dome.  "Here goes nothing."  Kenshin builds up all of his ki and magic.  When he reaches his peak he flies straight for the dome and crashes into it.  The dome bends, but it does not break.  "I will not fail."  He says.  He continues to push against the dome trying to break through.  "Iris!"  Kenshin thinks.  He begins to think about his life and the memories he has of Iris.  He thinks about their childhood together, their training, their schooling, and what he now realizes as their love.  "Argo!"  Kenshin screams out in rage.  "She is not your's!  I will not let you have her!"  He screams out as a golden aura flares up around him.  The change only last for a second.  But it is long enough, the dome shatters.  Kenshin finally gets his first view of the capital in a very long time.  It hasn't changed.  The buildings and homes are all the same.  Kenshin lands as the others come running up to him.

                "Ready?"  Gabriel asks.

                "Yeah."  Kenshin says.  They run towards the castle with Kenshin in front.

                "So they are coming?"  Argo thinks as he looks out the window in the palace.  "His thirst for vengence will be his undoing.  Isn't that right?"  He asks someone.  He turns around to his throne.  There are two seats.  The one on the right is empty, obviously it is his seat.  But in the left chair Iris sits.  She is dressed in a regal gown and is wearing a crown upon her head.  But it is her eyes that are the most interesting.  They are blank.  She appears to be under a spell and shows no signs of life, other than breathing.

                "Ignore them!"  Kenshin yells out as the small group runs by some soldiers.  "We can't be slowed down now!"

                "Right!"  Thomas says as he puts his sword back into its sheath.

                "Legend, gauntlet left arm/hand mode."  Kenshin says.  Immediately an armored gauntlet appears on his left arm.  It extends up to just below his elbow.  The group arrives at the palace in no time.  "Knock, knock!"  Kenshin says as he crashes through the wooden door.  Kenshin looks around.  He looks straight up.

                "He's up a few floors.  Should we take the stairs?"  Gabriel asks.

                "Argo!"  Kenshin yells out in anger.  He flies right through the ceiling and continues up.

                "Oh well."  Sen grabs Chibi, and Gabriel grabs Thomas.  They float up through the holes Kenshin made and quickly catch up.

                "The throne room!"  Thomas says as they finally land.  They have gone up about ten floors and are nearly at the top of the castle.

                "I can sense them both."  Kenshin says as he moves to the door.  "Protect Iris and leave Argo to me."  Kenshin says.  Everyone nods.  Kenshin finally pushes the door open.  The room on the other side appears to be what one would expect to find in a medevil castle.  There is a large open space that could be used for parties.  Along the walls are many suits of armor.  And at the opposite end of the hall is the thrones.  There are two people sitting upon the thrones.  One, the male, arrives and steps forward.

                "Father?"  It is not Argo.  Instead it is the long dead king.  He is in his late 50's with a little gray beard, a balding head, and a sword at his side.

                As soon as Kenshin saw what was going on Legend appeared in his hands.  "So this is how you tricked the people of Camelot, Argo?"  Kenshin yells at false king.  "You took the disguise of the king so everyone would listen to you?"

                "Of course."  The false king says.  Thomas looks at him is shock.  The voice is not the kind voice of his beloved father.  Instead it is the cold emotionless voice of the hated sorcerer.  "It is the easiest way to accoplish my goals."  He says as the spell fades and Argo's true form appears.  "Are you still trying to avenge Daniel?"

                "That's one of the reasons why I'm here."  Kenshin says.  "But where is Iris, what have you done with her?"

                "Iris?"  Argo thinks for a second.  "Oh you mean the girl."  He motions behind him.  "She is here."  For the first time Kenshin focuses in on the other figure on the throne.

                "Iris."  He says softly.

                "She will be my queen when everything I wish to accomplish is accomplished."  Argo says with a smile.

                "Your queen?"  Kenshin asks.  "How can you says something like that?  She doesn't love you!  You've turned her into nothing more than a puppet!"

                "What's love got to do with it?"  Argo asks.  "Besides I'm sure I can find a spell to turn her feelings towards me into love.  If it comes to that."  He laughs.

                "Damn you!"  Kenshin yells as he jumps forward.  His gray aura flares up as he streaks forward.  He strikes at Argo with Legend.  Argo, however, blocks him with his own blade.  The two of them clash.  Their power flares up and begins to destroy some of the support collumns.  They break away from one another, then clash again and again and again.  The castle however was never meant to take such abuse.

                "Gabriel!"  Sen yells at the Paladrin.  Gabriel nods know what's about to happen.  He immediately casts a protection spell.  The spell forms a small dome over Gabriel, Sen, Chibi, Thomas, and, eventhough she was still a good ways away, Iris.  Kenshin and Argo clash again.  This time the result is the roof of the castle collapsed on them.  The stones that made up the roof and the two floors above them fall upon them.  Gabriel's spell held up easily so no one else was in any real danger.  Kenshin and Argo burst out of the rubble once everything has stopped crumbling.  They float a few feet above the rubble eyeing one another.  Neither one is breathing hard, and the fight appears to be a stalemate.

                Without warning Kenshin disappears.  He reappears next to Argo and stabs at him.  But the blade goes right through the phantom that blurs out of existance.  Suddenly Argo appears above Kenshin.  He slashes down.  His attack also goes through the blurring image of Kenshin.  This sort of thing continues for a minute until they finally clash again sending a shock wave out.  Kenshin and Argo strain against one another before breaking away.  Argo grins slightly as he looks upon Kenshin.  "You've improved.  But,"  Argo's shield forms around him.  "I can always stay behind here and kill you with my attacks."

                Kenshin grins slightly.  "You think so?"  Kenshin's gray aura appears around him.  "Take this!"  He yells out as ki attacks streak out towards Argo.  The attacks strike the shield.  After the explosions die down Kenshin can see that Argo is not there anymore.  But he knows that he's alive.  He turns around to see Argo appear.  "So?"  Kenshin asks.

                "You broke my shield."  Argo says.  There is no fear in his voice only a hint of surprise.  "Well I guess I have to take this fight serious now."  Argo says with a smile.

                "Damn."  Kenshin says as he feels Argo's magic and ki increase.  He is not afraid.  He is in shock.  Argo disappears.  He reappears with his fist buried within Kenshin's gut.  Now Kenshin is afraid.  "I didn't see him move."  Kenshin thinks.

                "Now then, lets have some fun with this."  Argo says as he preceeds to beat the shit out of Kenshin.  He punches, kicks, knees, and elbows him until he finally tosses Kenshin to the rubble that was once the throne room.  He crashes into the rubble and loses Legend.  He also feels something he wished he hadn't, a broken rib and a broken leg.

                "Damn it."  Kenshin says as he slowly gets up.

                "So you can stand.  I am impressed by your power and determination."  Argo says.  "But I wonder why do you get up?  Is your thirst for vengence so great that you wish to continue?"

                "I am not doing this for vengence!"  Kenshin yells at Argo as he floats up into the air.

                "Than why?"  Argo asks.

                "For Iris."  Kenshin simply says.  "You may not love her.  But...but I do!"  Kenshin yells out as he flies forward once again trying to beat Argo.

                But it is his words that have done the most good.  Iris has been under Argo's spell for nearly a month.  She has been aware of everything that has gone on around her but could not do anything.  But when she heard Kenshin's words she was finally able to do something, a tear escaped her eye and trickled down her cheek.  Slowly she gathered her dormate magic and ki and began trying to break the spell.

                "Damn it!"  Kenshin yells out.  His attack was doomed to fail before it even began.  He didn't have enough strength left to put make a sufficient assult.  Now Argo holds one of his arms behind his back and while he chokes Kenshin with his free arm.  Kenshin squirms trying to get free.

                "What's wrong?"  Argo asks jokingly.  "Is this the best you can do?"  He laughs loudly as Kenshin tries to get free.  Finally Argo snaps Kenshin's left arm.  Kenshin screams out in pain and anger.

                "Sight!"

                Kenshin immediately stops screaming, and Argo stops torturing when they hear the female voice.  Almost immediately their own vision is replaced by the vision of another, someone watching their fight.  What they see is what is happening at that moment, Kenshin is being held in the air by Argo.  "What is this?"  Argo demands.  What Argo does not know is that everyone on the planet is now seeing what they are seeing.

                "Look now people of Camelot.  Look upon the face of your opressor, Argo.  He has killed the king and now looks to rule this world with an iron fist.  But even now strong warriors and sorcerers are fighting him in your place.  Even the prince has come to your aid.  Focus your anger on Argo, not upon those that wish to save you.  Focus your hope, your love, and most of all your strength upon the only one that can defeat him, Kenshin!"  The female voice finishes and the spell ends.  Everyone's sight returns to normal.  Immediately Kenshin and Argo focus their attentions on the now standing Iris.

                "Iris!"  Kenshin yells out.  "Thank Kami you're all right."

                "Of course did you expect..."  But she is far from all right.

                "You little bitch!"  Argo yells out as he lets two beams escape from his eyes.  Iris saw them coming but could do nothing.  Breaking free of Argo's spell and then using the sight spell had drained her completely.  The beams pierced her heart killing her almost instantly.

                "Kenshin..."  Was the final word that escaped her lips before she died.  She falls back upon the steps that led to the throne with a sickening thud.

                "Iris?"  Kenshin says just above a whisper.  "IRIS!!!"  He yelled out as his ki flared up.

                "What?"  The increase in power caught Argo off guard.  He let go of Kenshin and aloud him to fly down to the ground.

                "Iris?"  Kenshin again says barely above a whisper.  He grabs her and brings her up to his chest with his one good arm.  Thomas, Gabriel, Sen, and Chibi run up to them.

                "I'll cast a healing spell."  Gabriel says.  He steps forward to cast the spell, but Sen stops him.

                Sen shakes his head and says, "She's already gone."  He says softly.

                "She was a sorceress, huh?"  Argo finally says.  "Foolish girl, she could have been my queen and lived out her life in peace."

                "Damn you."  Kenshin says as he reaches into his pocket.  He slowly takes out the little box that he gave to Iris' mother while he was training.  He opens it and takes out a small golden ring with a small diamond on it.  He gives a half hearted laugh as he puts the ring on Iris' finger.  "I wanted to give this to you on your birthday."  He talks to her as if she is still alive.  "It's an engagement ring.  I realized a while ago that I have always loved you and will always love you."  Kenshin tries to keep talking, but Argo's laughter breaks his concentration.  "Damn you!"  Kenshin screams out as his ki begins to increase dramaticly.  "First my father, then Kaso, and now my beloved Iris!  How many people have died for your evil intentions?"  Argo doesn't answer.  He simply laughs.  Gabriel and Sen step away from Kenshin as his ki continues to increase and the rubble below him is wrench up into the air.  "You...you must pay...for your crimes.  I..."  Kenshin's hair changes to gold for a second then back to normal.  "Will...make...you...PAY!!!!"  He screams out as the transformation finally stays in effect. 

                <"The old Kenshin is gone.">  Legend thinks.  <"He is now a Super Saiya-jin.">

                Everyone looks upon the new Kenshin.  All of his hair, save his ponytail, is standing straight up, his eyes are now green, his hair golden, his aura golden, his muscle bulging, his injures healed, his doubts gone, his confidence returned, and a look of determination upon his saddened teary eyed face.

                "According to what I have learned from the journals of our ancestors, a Super Saiya-jin's power comes from anger.  Not just anger, extreme rage.  A rage and hatred so great that it could very well drive someone too weak to control insane."  The words of Kenshin's face reverberate in his mind.

                "I will avenge Iris.  Watch over her."  He says to the others as he floats into the air.

                "I see you've gotten your second wind.  Too bad it was too late to save your little woman."  Argo says trying to make Kenshin make a mistake.  But Kenshin stays in control.  "What's going on here?"  Argo asks himself.  "This isn't a spell to make himself appear this way.  He really has changed." 

                "Shall we continue?"  Kenshin asks.

                "Lets."  If Argo could sense the level of ki that Kenshin was emmitting he might have thought twice about continuing.  But since he can't he attacked first.  He blurred to the right of Kenshin and punched at him.  His punch connected with Kenshin's cheek.  "Huh?"  But Kenshin is uneffected by it.  Kenshin grinned slightly.  He quickly did a spin kick to the back of Argo's head sending him sailing.  Argo recovered after flying through the air.  He turns back to Kenshin, or rather where Kenshin was.  Argo looks in every direction trying to find Kenshin.  Finally the young Saiyan appears right in front of him.

                "Boo."  He says as he slams a fist in Argo's gut.  "Lets see how you like it!"  Kenshin says as he preceeds to beat the living shit out of Argo.  After delivering the same number of kicks, punches, elbows, and knees as he recieved he smacks Argo.  Argo regains control of his body just in time to avoid hitting the rocks below him.

                He floats back up making sure to stay a good deal away from Kenshin.  "This is most surprising."  He says.  "I never expect this would happen.  Oh well I guess I have no choice."  Argo brings his hands up in front of him.

                "What are you up to?"  Kenshin asks.

                "Elemental Shield!"  Argo yells out as a shield forms around him.

                Kenshin is shocked.  "An Elemental Shield!?!"  He says in shock.  "The secrets of that spell have been lost for centuries!  How do you know how to cast it?"

                "I'm surprised you even know about this spell.  As to how I can cast it...that's none of your business."

                "The Elemental Shield is the most powerful protection spell known on this world."  Kenshin thinks.  "It can repel all elemental spells and most attacks."

                "You might be stronger than I am, but now there is no need for me to continue this fight."  Argo says.

                "Why is that?"  Kenshin asks.  Argo simply points up.  Kenshin looks up and is shocked to see a few ghost like images in the sky.  "Spaceships?"  Kenshin says remembering the files of his father on the improved scouter.

                "My allies have arrived and the shield protecting this planet has grown weaker.  Soon nothing will stop us."  Argo says as he disappears.

                "Damn it."  Kenshin flies down to the ground.  He picks up Legend, which almost immediately goes back to its gems form.  Then Kenshin blasts off and flies off in golden streak.

                Argo reappears in the stratosphere above Camelot.  He laughes to hmself as the barrior protecting Camelot is weak and almost nonexistant.  "Soon I will have everything."  He say as he looks at the waiting spaceships.

                "Like hell you will!"  Someone yells at him.  Kenshin stops in front of Argo.

                "You still persist in this futile effort?"  Kenshin nods.  "Very well.  Elemental Shield."  The shield reappears around Argo.  "Do whatever you want.  It won't change the outcome."

                "We'll see about that."  Kenshin's golden aura flares up as he brings his hands together palms touching, just like the kamehameha.  He begins drawing in magic and ki for his attack.  Flames leap from his hands as the attack grows stronger.  Kenshin brings his hands back by his waist.  Finally after a moment of concentration Kenshin prepares to unleash his attack.  "Fire...."  He says as he slowly brings his hands forward.  "Storm!"  He screams out.  Fire gathers to his hands, in an almost cyclone like fashion, then blasts forward engulfing Argo.

                But Argo is left unscaved by the assult.  "I told you, nothing you do will change the outcome of this fight.  You even know that the Elemental Shield can withstand any elemental attack, and yet you still used one.  What a fool!"

                "Maybe, maybe not."  Kenshin says as he drops out of Super Saiya-jin form.  The Fire Storm attack completely drained him, and he simply could not maintain it.  "Look."  Kenshin says motioning behind Argo.

                "Look at...What?!?"  Argo yells out in amazement.  Where once his allies floated waiting for the dome to disappearthere is only metal debris.  "You knew you couldn't beat me so you destroyed them."  Argo says realizing Kenshin's plan.

                "Yep."  Kenshin says.  Even though he is completely exhausted he gives a little chuckle.

                "Damn you!  You ruined my plans!"  Argo yells at Kenshin.

                "That would make us even then."

                Argo does not laugh at the joke.  Instead he lunges at Kenshin.  He grabs him by the throat and begins to beat him merciously.  Finally he stops.  And just in time, if the beating had continued Kenshin might not have been able to float let alone fight.  "Go to hell."  Argo says as he prepares a descent sized fire ball.  He lets the attack go.  It strikes Kenshin and blows up.  "What the hell?"  Argo asks in shock.  When the explosion ended and the smoke cleared, Kenshin was still there.

                "How?"  They both ponder.

                <"It is because Argo is no longer the Kami of Camelot.">  Legend says.  <"Thanks to Iris' spell the people of Camelot no longer see him as their savior and protector.  Instead they now see you as their savior and protector, their,">

                "Kami."  Kenshin finishes.  He looks up at the barrior protecting the planet.  It is now thick and strong once more.  "The people have turned back to the way they were."  Kenshin says with a painful smile.  He then turns back to Argo.

                Argo is looking at his hands in shock and amazement.  "It can't be."  He says.  He obviously knows what has happened.  He looks to Kenshin as he gathers enough strength to transform into a Super Saiya-jin.  "Elemental Shield!"  Argo puts up the shield in desparation.

                "Legend!"  Kenshin yells out.  Immediately the sword appears in his hands.  He points the blade towards Argo.  The blade glows with a golden tint.  Then the entire blade changes its color to gold.  <"Legend, were you serious about what you said during our training?">

                <"About making Argo pay for his crimes?  Yeah.">  Legend says.

                <"All right, get ready to do it.">  Kenshin lunges forward at Argo.  The tip of Legend meets the shield and begins to push into the shield.

                "No!"  Argo screams in fear.  "You can't break my shield!  It's impossible."

                "Nothing is impossible!"  Kenshin says as Legend shatters the shield and digs into Argo's chest.

                He coughs up some blood and struggles against the blade.  "It...it looks as though you will...have you revenge."  Argo says.  "But what good will it....do you?  You have lost ...lost everything."

                "You don't get it.  Don't you remember what I said earlier?  I will make you pay.  Now you will pay for you crimes by undoing them."  Light streams from Argo's back.  "Legend!  Sword upon which song and myth are based.  I call upon you to undo this man's evil deeds!"  The light coming from the sword and Argo become blinding.  After a minute they fade revealing only Kenshin and Legend, no Argo what so ever.  Kenshin is no longer a Super Saiya-jin and is breathing hard.

                <"Nicely done Kenshin.  After I heal you, you can...">  Kenshin's grip on Legend losens.  <"Kenshin?">  The sword begins to slip out of his hands.  <"Don't let go of me yet!  I haven't healed you yet!  If you fall from here you'll..">  But it is too late.  Kenshin loses his grip upon the sword.  They both fall back to the ground with no way of stopping.  No way of surviving.

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