It has begun

James leaped out of his bed grabbing his jacket as he raced out of his room. "DAD! WE'VE GOT TO GO!" He roared as he raced for the stairs.

Angus bounded out of his room with his peacemaker ready and raced after James as he almost flew down stairs and out of the front door. He kept running looking in the skies.

Angus caught up with him saying nothing he followed him. James kept looking around turning his head from side to side until he caught the glimpse of gold in the sky. He pointed up. "It's there. Master Chen sent you a sword for you. Watch out when you get up there because some asshole tried to steal it from you. You have to take back Dad. It's important Dad. You've got to take back from him. You have to fly up there!"

"Fly!? Son I can't fly." Angus said.

James frowned looking at him. "Master Chen said you could. You must have learned something of the ability to fly right?"

Angus grimaced. "Well yeah. But I don't have the talent or ability to do. It was one of talents I couldn't do in-"

"Dad you've got to move now. Master Chen said you had to do it. I know you can. You have to do it. Please dad you've got to move now before he destroys the sword because he can't have it. You've got to move now dad."

"Stand back!" Angus said after he holstered his peacemaker in his gun belt.

James stared as he felt that powerful atmosphere of energy circling around him. This time was different now. James heart beat against his chest as he felt that something amazing was about to happen. "Kick some ass dad."

Angus snorted in laughter as crunched down like a racer about to take off. "Dawn straight son. That's what we do best." He said in an echoing voice. Golden fire and energy raced up his legs and ward marks on his clothes as the ground began to shake at the force of what he was doing.

James was pushed backward as Angus exploded from the ground launching himself upward toward the location of the sword. He seemed to slow down after a few moments and fall a bit.

"Come on Dad. Push it! You can do it. Push it!"

Angus set his face upward as his jacket glowed and he launched upward toward the skies. James smiled looking up at him. All he could do was stare up in pride in wonder.

He wanted to see the battle but he also knew Angus wouldn't want him to close to the fight.

A hand was laid on his shoulder and he turned to see Mara. He frowned at her shrugging off her touch before he turned his eyes up to the sky and seeing lightning flashing in the sky. He smiled as he heard the sounds of explosions going off powers hitting each other.

"He's amazing!" Mara said softly.

"Damn straight. He can do anything." James said with awe in his voice.

"How much of my past have you've seen? I have an explanation for why I was working for them." Mara asked.

James shook his head. "What's between us can be put on hold. It's not our time. It's his time and I have to witness it for my family's history and later to follow him up into the new era of our people."

"Your right. I'll be here with you to see it." Mara said.

"Come dad. You can do it!" James said. He frowned up at the sky as the bolts of lightning halted for a second and then there was silence.

"James. James look. It's your father." Mara screamed.

James watched as he saw something falling fast to the ground. He leaped into apparition. He moved fast keeping his focus on his father's falling body. When he got close he could see Angus was somehow still holding the sword. He caught up to Angus.

Mara appeared next to Angus grabbing him. Her eyes went wide. "JAMES!"

Pain moved through James body until he felt it everywhere inside him. "Get him out of here." He roared at Mara before he turned to his enemy grabbing his shirt and kneed him in the balls.

They went into a apparition as they began to pound each other. They fought in the air, water and then James head butted him and they apparition onto the land next to his home.

James punched the master in the face twice before the wusxia master chopped him in the throat. James coughed letting go of his enemy and rolled away. The master got up and got in one kick on James before someone hit him in the back with a sword.

The wusxia master stiffened before he fell to the ground. Angus swung his leg and kicked the master in the stomach lifting him up from the ground. "Get off my land."

The master started to say something and Angus kicked him again in the stomach and kicking him until the master finally disappeared. Angus turned on his heel swinging his leg around. He kicked his opponent in the stomach and sent him flying backward to the ground.

"Get the hell off my land husk before I stomp your ass out and send you to HELL." Angus roared at him in an echoing voice.

The master bleed from the mouth and glared at Angus. "I yield." He said spitting blood on the ground before turning and disappearing into smoke and fire twister.

Angus spat blood and a tooth onto the ground before he finally looked at James. "You alright?" He asked in tired voice.

James nodded though he was far from it. "I'm alright. You did it. I knew you could beat him." He said.

Angus shook his head. "I won the sword but lost the fight with Sand Dragon because I ran out of gas in the air. I'm going to have to push my practice with flight. Mara said that asshole got you with his lightning fire magic. I'll get your mother over to make one of her special baths for you. But I got something to tell you son."

James nodded. "I already know. He was just the first."

Angus nodded. "Yeah. More will be coming. This is just the beginning. I don't know what master Chen was thinking sending this sword over here. He doesn't know what he's just started. We had a couple of watchers during the battle. Can you get up?"

James tried to raise but quickly fell back to the ground. "Damn it!"

Angus held up his hand. "It's alright. I'll help you out. Just catch your breath for a second. We got time. Did you see who was watching us when Mara came here?"

James nodded. "He's a western wizard. He was hovering in the clouds watching you. He was using some type of levitation and speed in combination with ward magi spell craft. It was strong spell similar to the one you use on your clothes and on the house and ranch."

Angus snorted. "That is funny. Western wizards thieving old ward protection peasant spells. Alright. I suspect you couldn't see his face either."

James nodded. "Yeah. I couldn't see his face but I think he was around his early forties and he looked kind ah well built like you are. Hmm. That was the weird part. He didn't look like or behave as a western wizard. Could he have been the dark wizard that's coming?"

Angus made a face and shook his head. "I don't know son. To early to call that if he even is one person working to take us out. I more expect the dark wizard maybe more of a small group at this point and the person you spotted was maybe one of their agents. I don't know. Alright let's get you up." Angus said and swinging the sword around behind his back and shivering it into sword belt that appeared.

James held out his hand and Angus caught his arm lifting him up to his feet and supported his weight. A second later and they were inside the downstairs bathroom. Angus started ripping off James shirt as Mara and Ava came into the bathroom. Ava had a messenger bag and Mara looked worried at the sight of James' face.

"Hey, Mom." James said.

There was a hitch in Ava's voice but she didn't say anything and quickly started making a potion with the materials from her messenger bag. "It's alright. It's alright. We'll just fix up your bath and get you healed up."

Mara started crying staring at James back. James looked at Angus. "Pretty bad, huh?"

Angus shrugged. "Depends on how you look at it. Really. It's bad and it will have a permanent scar, son. But on the other hand it'll never be as cool as the I got. I'm sorry."

James stared at him and snorted grimacing in pain. "Your full it dad."

Angus shrugged. "I'm just telling you the truth." He said.

"Angus, stop being a jackass and help Mara get his pants off. I got to his bath ready for use."