It seems Harle was in a bad mess. Khias had his black tar creatures taking over Harlequin's personal Shadows. He told me what their names were, but I forgot. Something like Guinevere. Oh well, I've never been good with names. (I just thought of an experiment to help with my memory problem. Well since you can mind rape other people to get information, what if you were to do it to yourself? It should be ever easier than rape because I won't be resisting and it is my own mind, which I am very familiar with! I am contacting my own mind now and pulling up some deep memory that I never would have remembered. Something like what my neighbors' name was when I was 6 years old. Something like that. If direct mind contact doesn't seem to work, I'll try doing it with my own trump.....Well it didn't work. I just got a headache. Back to the drawing board.) Back to Harle. Well when the lot of us contacted him (Miyel, Raven, Ash, Kendrick, and I) he was being engulfed by the beasts. We did some trump shuffling and everybody began attacking it in every way from swordplay to mind blasts, to other odd things from my new "cousins." Finally the beast was dispelled and the only injuries were to Harlequin. Harle spent a few days healing and was back in half an hour.
Everybody bumbled around with what to do about Khias. (Flashback: we went to the Courts and Ash pulled one of Khias's seconds out of the air. How did he do that? I feel like I'm in a Palladium game. Each new addition is so much more powerful than the last one. Just kidding. Anyway, we scanned his puny mind for information about Khias. They just wanted to go into his mind and not use any of the "finer" points of interrogation. It's all right, I had my fun last week. The second told us how he survived the Abyss and how it gave him nifty powers. He also confirmed that Khias was here in Harle's Shadow. End of flashback.) After failing to reach Khias through Shadow, Harlequin grabbed Khias through the Logrus and began pulling him here. Of course, most of his minions came also. We had created fireproof suits for all of us, as well as liquid nitrogen fire extinguishers. We began a semi-successful combat. My container broke in a desperate roll away from a flaming jet. Did I forget to mention that Khias was surrounded in a fiery shield? In a burst of insight, I realized how stupid I was. (That sounds odd.) The arrows! I had the crossbow and I never even thought of the arrows! Well I brought them to the war, and when I never used them, I put them away in my collections and forgot about them. I mean, it's not like they were GIVEN TO ME FOR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSE OR ANYTHING. No one could have known that some time soon I was going to be fighting Khias, that he would have a fire shield, and that I would need the arrows to defeat him. Or could they? So after I remembered my stupidity, I remedied it as quickly as possible. Harlequin did not respond quickly enough when I asked him for the Trump of this room. Oh well, I would get back somehow. The Trump of the room would have been the easiest. People don't seem to think along the same lines as I do, and it takes so long to explain it to them. I had the same problem with the lord from the Golden Circle Shadow. He wouldn't believe me when I said I need his horse. Why can't people just realize that I need something and there is no time for explanation and they should just do as I say? So I Trumped to the castle, ran to my room, grabbed the arrows, my compound bow, and began running to the Pattern room. I flipped through my Trumps trying to get a contact. I got through on the third try and jumped through my host's response. Unfortunately I had to leave him on the ground in order to serve the greater good. I took a shot at the flaming monstrosity. It almost penetrated that shield of his. Then I noticed a dent being formed in the shield. I shifted my position, knowing that I would be overrun, and got my second shot off. It worked! Khias went down, clutching the wooded shaft from his chest. I was soon tackled by a black blob. I reached for one of my arrows and stabbed him with it. Naturally it was perfect for the job. The arrows, along with a little help from others, allowed us to kill the rest of the beasties. A decapitation of Khias ended all uncertainty.