Slowly and quietly, at first, what seemed like thousands of voices speaking in chorus. **YOU HAVE DEFILED MY HOUSE**BROKEN THE ANCIENT LAWS WHICH PROTECT THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE ITSELF** The boys looked at each other; they knew what they were hearing but couldn’t understand how. The many voices, speaking as one, and for all apparent reasons, knowing it was coming from the creature they now faced; they couldn’t understand why, while the voices ringing in there ears, seemed to not be coming from Death, but from the darkness which surrounded them. It was almost as a sucking of air, coming from all directions, yet most predominately, from the expanse of blackness from behind Death. -----“Did you hear that…” “No…I felt it…” -----“Yeah…it didn’t speak…it was more of a thought…” **YOU THINK THAT BY BEATING ME AT A GAME THAT I WILL LET HER SOUL RETURN?** **YOU THINK IT THAT SIMPLE?** **WHAT IS TO STOP ME FROM KEEPING THE TWO OF YOU HERE FOR ETERNITY?** The boys remained silent; staring blankly at the cloaked figure. The figure of Death held his skeletal hand in a cupped pose and a silvery orb appeared out of a formless mist. **ALL THIS TROUBLE FOR A SIMPLE MORTAL GIRL** Death watched the silvery orb with the bright blue orbs you’d call his eyes. **AND YET, THERE IS NO BODY LEFT TO PLACE HER SOUL IN. WHATEVER IS LEFT IS CONTAMINATED.** Upon this, the second boy spoke up. “I have a way, we just need the soul.” **YES…I SEE** The orb that was in Deaths’ hand disappeared. From all directions there was a mirthless laugh. **DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT LEGENDS ARE TRUE? THAT BY A SIMPLE GAME OF LOGIC YOU CAN WIN YOU OR ANYONES SOUL? NOOOOO…** “No. I know the real rules. The game’s not up to us, it’s up to you. And I’ll bet that it’s a game to the death.” Once again, the mirthless laugh rang out. **AND HERE’S A QUESTION FOR YOU TO ANSWER…HOW DOES ONE WIN, IN THIS CASE, KILL DEATH** “I don’t have to kill you…I just have to win…” Upon saying this, both boys pulled wands out of their back pockets.