the race intensified as Polaris and aster started moving with all their might as fast as they could, neither giving an inch to the other,

At the Mysterious Castle,

The people in the castle all felt the tremors at the same time and could tell the direction in which they came from, everyone raced to the front of the castle to see what was happening, and what they saw was aster and Polaris racing towards the entrance of the castle wall, the children looked on in excitement, but the adults were getting more and more worried the closer the two got to the wall, but then the pillar of water disappeared and Polaris floated straight unto the top of the wall and landed without making much sound, and aster flew over the wall and landed in the pathway creating a huge crater and a lot of noise,

The impact from aster landing shook the whole castle and caused the young man sleeping in the tree to awake, he slowly opened his eyes and put the joint he was holding in his mouth and he proceed to light it, he took a puff and jumped down out of the tree and walked towards the commotion.

Polaris jumped down from the wall and joined aster in the walk way,

" I told you that there is no way you are faster than me", joked Polaris as he looked at aster, smiling ever so smug,

Aster stood there with his arms folded, his face clearly upset and displeased because he didn't beat Polaris,

When suddenly, BOOOM, lightning struck down where aster and Polaris stood , out walked barak from around the corner, looking seriously pissed,

He took another puff of the joint and exhaled slowly, "so it was you two who woke me up from my nap, I should bar-b-que you both, so what do I owe this visit to ?"

"The elders sent me for you" aster said with a very serious tone,

"YOU, that's cute, the elders thinking that you can bring me back by yourself, you're ten years to green to do that" Barak rebutted,

"I was just visiting" Polaris said smirking ,

"Its always been that way with you Rak, always thinking you're stronger than me, step out side the wall and let's spar again" an annoyed aster said provokingly,

"Sure", Barak complied and walked through the wall entrance.

Most of the residents of the castle stood on the wall, looking on at the spectacle that was about to take place,

"We're finally gonna see Lord Barak go all out" one of the kids said,

"You ready rak"aster asked,

Barak scoffed and drew his sword slowly, as he took it from the sheath lightning shot out from the swords blade scorching the sand and the wall repeatedly,

The sword was black with blue lightning like streaks running throughout it and everyone could feel the power radiating off of it. Barak slowly exhaled,placing the sword in front of him, stepping forward prepared for battle.

While he did this he thought back to the very first time he and aster had fought, it was right after he had left his household and was staying within aster's one, aster, who didn't like fighting as much back then was watching both him and his cousin, darik, spar, when they had decided to let Aster join in, this was the beginning of Aster and Barak's sparring sessions,

"so you gonna stand around daydreaming all day or are we going to fight", aster shouted to barak,