The Risk of the Unknown

"Whaaaaaaat!?... ARE WE STILL DOING HEEEEEEERE!?" yelled out a guard, frustrated with his situation. Guarding a cave for years now, that seems to have no special reason to be guarded. "We have been guarding this cave for so long that I can't even remember when we started." Continued the guard with an angry tone.

"Calm down. What are you complaining about? This has got to be the easiest job in the world. We are practically getting payed to stand here and do nothing." Explained the other guard standing next to him.

"No...I joined to make a difference" Exclaimed the first guard, but before he could continue, a tiny bird landed and perched itself on the guards shoulders. "What the hell..." the guard mumbled as he suddenly began fall forward. The birds beak was glowing a light rose color as it pecked the guard lightly on the shoulder before the guard fell. The guard next to him was distraught and tried to help his fellow guard, but the bird swiftly flew towards him and pecked him on the arm causing the same affect as the first guard. They both were now unconscious on the floor as well as the tiny bird. Though the situation might be confusing, it did have an explanation. The tiny bird had been put to sleep with Sleep Magic and then was taken control of with Shadow Magic, or more precisely a spell called Shadow Emperor. A spell belonging to a mage by the name of Kaishi Maskara, who was now emerging from the shadows of a tree at a distance from the cave the guards were placed at. Kai had also infused the tiny birds beak with Sleeping Magic, which enabled him to knock the guards out with one tiny peck.

"Well. That was easier than I thought." Claimed Kai as he approached the sleeping guards. Once he got to them he approached each one and began to search them, looking for a key or device he may need when he gets inside the cave, but found nothing of use. All they were carrying with them was a small light lacrima that seemed to emit small amounts of light. A bit unusual, but nothing of importance he thought. Kai had been scoping the place out for weeks now, but never ventured inside until today. "Well, here goes nothing." he whispered to himself as he began to walk forward and enter the cave. When he was inside he couldn't believe what he found. Which was absolutely nothing. In fact the cave was perfectly lit to the point there was almost no shadows around. No where to hide anything. Kai began to inspect the cave, but after searching tirelessly, found nothing at all. No hidden doors,levers or any of the sort. "''Why the guards? They could leave this place alone and no one would bother with it.What are they hiding?" ''Thought Kai who was now a little annoyed to have spent his time for nothing. Kai not realizing the time he spent enthralled by his search began to hear the guards outside begin to wake up."Damn! already time?" thought Kai as he began to survey his situation as he didn't want to be seen, so he decided on his next course of action be to get rid of the light and merge with the darkness to make his escape. Kai quickly created multiple Shadow Needles and fired them at the numerous lacrimas emitting the light completely destroying them, though it was at this time Kai made a grave mistake.

White Deaths
Once the light from the cave disappeared, numerous sharp white teeth appeared in front of Kai ready to chomp down on his face, though luckily his reflexes allowed him to move out of the way just in time, though a bit of his hair wasn't so lucky. Kai quickly moved from place and began to regain his composure as he began to stare at two luminous floating creatures. Which happened to look like large fish with long bodies. Though the more Kai looked at them the more he realized their bodies were re-generating. Their bodies began to inflate slightly, their fins began to become full and not torn. In mere seconds they took on a different look as if they were given new life. At this moment, pieces began to click in Kai's brain. Knowing the reason the cave was perfectly illuminated with almost no shadows anywhere. Their bodies seemed to decompose in the light and in fact, they were not even visible when the cave was illuminated. The only reason Kai could see them now, was because their bodies gave off a faint white light. It seemed they could only interact in the dark. Kai guessed he must have been attacked numerous times, but with the lacrimas still in effect, the creatures could do nothing. Kai prepared himself to attack, but the two guards came rushing in. Unfortunately the moment they stepped in, one of the creatures attacked one of the guards. With it's ferocious bite it seemed the creature pierced through part of the guards arm, though it looked a bit unusual. No blood came out and in fact the guard seemed to be in no pain. All there was left was a white light where the wound occured. The creature attacked again aiming for the chest this time, though it was abruptly repelled by a small light coming from the guards necklace. One of the light lacrimas had repelled the creature and saved the guard from further harm. The other guard standing dumbfounded snapped out of it and used his spear to attack the creature, though it was futile as the spear disintegrated as soon as it made contact with the white fish. The two fish began to circle the two guards at a distance looking for openings where the small light did not reach. Their speed seemed to increase as time passed and they began to mercilessly attack the guards in areas they would not be affected. In no time the two guards were riddled with wounds, but again. They felt no pain and no blood seem to gush outward at all. Kai unfortunately was intrigued at the moment and didn't act to help the guards, since he knew nothing of the fish and whether his attacks would work.