Backstory[Be warned, this is VERY VERY VERY long, so read only if you have 45 minutes or more of spare time(of if you read slow, at least 2-3 hours)]:

    Sandra and her fracturnal twin Paula were both on May 5th, 1981, to James and Penelope Polestar at Threed Municipal Hospital. Sandra started her life much different than most of her family, looking much different from the rest of her family, even her own sister. The oddity was that the rest of her family were blonde-haired, and blue/black eyed, but Sandra herself was Pink-haired and purple-eyed, creating an initial stir. The first of the twins major accomplishments in life was on the very first day of their existance. When taken to be cared for by the doctors after their birth, they had both come down with a very rare, but deadly 104-degree fever known as "Caronavas" that had been said to kill many newborns in those days. The doctors and James feared the very worst, but only 5 minutes after the fever had been discovered, it had broken down like a tower of ashes, and both twins were perfectly healthy again, never catching the fever again in their life. James and Penelope realized that Paula and Sandra were both appearantly blessed children. It was also learned that the two sisters had created a special telepathic link which seemed natural to them, allowing then to communicate even when asleep or unconscious. However that had been only the beginning.

    At the simple age of 1 year, Sandra, despite still being a mere infant, learned she had possessed incredible physical strength. It had come to her one day when she and Paula wanted to go get cookies from the Polestar's kitchen. The playpen however was in the way. Paula stubbed her toe on the playpen door, and Sandra had come over to the door and grabbed, and with one yank from a single arm, ripped the door right from the hinges, and proceeded to bang it on the floor to test her arm strength. James and Penelope were speechless to why she possessed strength like such. However later on it was learned Paula had mastery over the element of telekenesis and telepathy, making a bear on the top shelf of their house fall over into her hands. Their parents were at a loss to why their kids had these powers when they themselves had never felt them themselves.

    At 2 and a half years old, Sandra begin to understand that with every passing moment of her life, her physical strength only grew more, and never lessened, as she, Paula, and their parents had gone to Burglin Park in Twoson to have a picnic. This had been back in the more peaceful days in the park. That day, two things happened. The first was that Sandra had never been exposed to trees before, and was intrigued by one. She witnessed older kids playing on the trees and climbing them, or on tire swings. She had gotten an odd idea to play herself, and had gone up to a medium sized tree and decided to see if she could lift it up, and grabbed it by the base. At first it barely moved, but soon, it began to give way, root by root, until she got mad and kicked it, and the tree fell over onto part of the northern fence. Needless to say, everyone in the park that day was shocked. James and Penelope were surprised, but they knew that she could only get stronger with age. Paula however had finally understood the concept of strength, and it secretly made her look up to Sandra, lacking the strength herself. The second thing that happened, was that Sandra and Paula met Albert Everdred, the master thief and owner of Burglin Park. Everdred was attached to the two girls quickly, but the problem was that a lot of people saw Everdred only as a thief and thought of him as a wrong-doer. However Sandra and Paula eventually realized this was not all true, and had even snuck out to talk to him a few times in their later 2 years of life.

    At 3 years of age, Sandra and Paula had gotten the chance to meet their Grandmother, and Penelope's mother, Pollyanna, aka "Polly". At the long age of 79, Pollyanna and the girls grew attached to another, as grandmothers and grandkids did, but theirs was a special bond. None knew, but Polly was in reality, the girl Ana that had fought the alien Giegue 70 years back at the age of 9. Polly was much like Paula is now: as she possessed telepathy, telekensis, and another strange power, only known as PK: psionic manipulation of energy, matter and of the mind itself. She realized Paula's power partially came from her bloodline, but she was shocked with Sandra's strength, and her appearant limits in psionics. She was however aware of their telepathic bond. Polly would always give the two girls very lessons in life when they came over. Many of them had to do with independance and trying to be as good as any boy or man was, and to never let themself be put down because they were girls, as Polly herself was proof that heroes and heronies came in all sorts of combinations.

    Half a year later, Sandra had met who she would call, her first "enemy". With Paula and Sandra's existance, James and Penelope had over the last 3 years had decided to open a Preschool out of their home to help support their family. Most of the preschoolers were 4-5 year olds where enjoyed themselves. The girls made good friends with most, but during the recent months, one particular kid, named Wren, had arrived, and proceeded to become the bully of the preschool, bothering most of the other kids, but ironically leaving Paula and Sandra alone to keep himself looking good, as many of the kids were too afraid to tell on him, since Wren always managed to cover up his acts. However one day, another new kid, Joshua, had joined the Preschool, and Wren had intentions of making him miserable as well, but Joshua was bravery than most of the other kids, and fought back for a time. Sandra and Paula had finally had enough of Wren's ongoing antics, Paula used her powers to move a playing block directly underneath Wren as he was trying to fight Joshua, causing the bully to trip and fall on his face. Wren realized that someone was up, and decided he wasn't going to let the girls push him around, owner's kids or not, and came up to them, demanding why they had done what they did. When they told him, he riled them up by calling their parents names. Paula reacted and shoved Wren to the floor, shocking him and making him angry. He got back up and shoved her back into one of the chairs. Sandra's anger flared up, and she angry retailated with a shoved Wren right back into the wall hard, knocking him down for a good while. Wren had about had enough and was about to retailate again, when Paula suddenly started balling, getting Penelope into the room. Both girls managed to explain Wren's doings, and Wren was punished for his actions. As he was walking off, Wren was contemplating thoughts of revenge, but Sandra decided to add a final insult to injury, hearing this, telepathically telling him that if he ever hurt Paula again that he would end up much worse off, and Wren promptly shut up, and was removed from the Preschool for his misconductive behavior the next day, much to the delight of the other kids. Paula and Sandra had an important talk after that. Sandra explained to Paula that they cannot always simply call on help in a confrontation, as Paula had cried not because of being shoved, but to prevent Sandra and Wren from a fight. Paula in return told Sandra that while such may be true, that you need to trust others and accept help sometimes. The sisters took each other's advice into consideration, and Joshua thanked them both for helping him, and Josh had for a while become a minor crush for Sandra. However it had worn off in 6 weeks, since Sandra wasn't yet very understanding of such things.

    However, Sandra's life would take a very taxing turn one fateful day came when she was 5 years old. Polly had been asleep one night, when suddenly, she had been struck with a very massive vision. The vision showed many different images in her mind: An older, more teenager version of Paula, and three boys with her fighting a red mist of great evil which reminded her of Giegue, when a vision of who she assumed was an older, 11-year old Sandra fighting a strange mediveal like-man in a Black Cape, a teenage Paula and Sandra, and the same three boys, yet another boy, and many other nameless, yet somehow familar faces, fighting together against a blackish-grey, ugly, six-armed monster. Then a strange vision of Paula suddenly rising out of what looked like a casket, then the first and the last of the four unknown boys fighting a purple-robed man with a strange magic barrier around him. She had seen many other visions, but the last two she saw where one of Paula with angel's wings, as a teenager, and finally one of Sandra as a teenager with a green aura of energy around her, and oscaliating eyes. However, Polly would never be able to tell Paula and Sandra of these events. This was because sadly, the dream had also caused Polly to have stroke and die in her sleep moments after the last vision. She was reported dead two days after she had died by her neighbor, who had come over to see her. When James and Penelope found out, they were greatly trumatized by the experience, and knew Paula and Sandra would be effected worse. Penelope however had found Polly's will and last testament. On the will, Polly said she would pass down a pair of strange badges to her granddaughters. These badges would later be known as the Franklin Badges, which held the ability to harmlessly absorb and them reflect any attack with an electrical and thunderous attribute away from their wielders. James came back later to give the badges to his daughters, and tell them the bad news. Sandra and Paula were shattered by the news, but accepting their grandmother's final momentos. James then left to return to the funeral home with Penelope. Sandra decided to take a long walk to mourn. Unfortunately, during those years, a gang worse than the Sharks had recently made home in the northern forests of Twoson. This gang, called the Serpents, were considered to be more than the average street gang. Rumors report that the Serpents had rare individuals that knew Wicca, or Witchcraft. Sandra would soon learn, in a very hard way this was actually truth. Despite warnings from Everdred, Sandra wandered into the northern forests, stumbling upon fruits of labor being enacted by a Serpent known as Ramona, who was in fact the head magician of the gang, as well as the second in command. Ramona was attempting to open a gate to another world, a world filled with creatures of lore. Sandra confronted Ramona, who in return told her there was nothing she could do to stop him, and to "watch in fear". Sandra didn't let him scare her, and with a very regretful decision, jumped into the very gate Ramona had opened. Sandra's sudden intrusion had stopped and reversed the path of whatever being had been on it's way from the other side, but Sandra had been caught herself within the gate, and was sucked into another world as the gate closed, seemingly permanently. Very soon after this event, the Serpents met an untimely fate at the hands of an enraged Paula, who had found her sister's telepathic link had vanished without a trace, and had summoned all of her courage and anger to fight the Serpents and their leader off from the depths of Eagleland, which lead to reveal to most of Eagleland of her psychic powers, and paved the way to being harassed constantly by reporters. Unknowingly to most people outside of Twoson, no one who had lived in Twoson when Sandra disappeared mentioned word of her disappearance to outsiders, since the Polestars didn't wish for sympathy for their loss. They wanted to mourn their losses without help, which is why Paula never spoke of Sandra to Ness, Jeff or Poo.

    As for Sandra though, the trip through the gate landed her onto the roads of a mountain range. She awoke, surprised to be alive, assuming whatever had meant to attack Twoson would've already found her and finished her off. She then heard the shrieking of a large sized dragon, later known as a Teenage Jagno Dragon, and ran for her life, knowing she couldn't fight a flying creature of which. Sandra's speed allowed her to get away from the dragon and into a cave. Inside she heard the dragon suddenly fighting briefly and then rushed out. She found a boy fighting the dragon, and looking to be on the verge of doom. Sandra jumped up and landed on the back of the dragon's tail, surging pain through it and allowing the boy to use a slash of freezing energy to cleave it in half. The 6 year-old boy named Darren, a novice monster hunter, had been hunting for various dragons on the mountainside to bring in for money and food, and managed by lucky coincidence to find the dragon and distracted it from her. She thanked Darren, who in returned thanked her for stepping on the dragon's tail, and asked of her presence on the mountainside. Sandra took a chance and explained her dilemma to him. Darren felt sorry for Sandra, not doubting her claim, as she wasn't the only person to come to his world the way she had. He explained that the world she landed on was called Santranus a world Sandra figured out later was quite medievalish compared to her own world. Sandra wondered to herself how she'd ever take living in such a different world, but Darren decided to answer her thought with his own idea. Darren escorted Sandra to his home, about 3 miles from the mountain range, and into a dense forest setting. On the way though, Sandra got sick from the portal rush, and had to finally take Paula's advice from the incidient with Wren, and let Darren carry her to his home. Darren and his family of two sisters, his mother, his father, and his pet spider Webgarth adopted Sandra as their own child. Sandra felt grateful, and began her life anew.

    Over time, Sandra grew to fit in with Darren's family. Within the first year she had on Santranus, she learned a lot about the world around her. Darren AND his father in addition were monster hunters, as it was a living for them. Darren's mother was a White Mage with standard healing and curative powers, and his sisters were on the same path as their mother. Darren and his father only knew elementary Black spells, but also didn't use them often. The magic her adopted family wielded had caught her interest, and she asked Darren where they learned their powers. Darren and his mother told of a village of magic about 20 miles from where they lived, and that they taught the foundation of all white and black magic on Santranus to those who were willing to learn. Sandra also secretly wished to become a monster hunter as to in an unique way, thank Darren for taking her in. Darren however said she didn't have to, saying that he didn't need addition help from her, and that she probably didn't understand monster hunting well enough. That hit a sore spot with her, and she promptly walked outside with a darkly calm expression, and up to a tree. Darren and his family watched in wonder, wondering if they might have hurt her feelings. It was the opposite. Sandra looked up at the 15 foot tree, called a Dacklewood on Santranus, and grabbed it by the bottom, and began to pull. Darren thought she was going crazy, and that there was no way she could move such a thing. Sandra somehow caught drift of this, and pulled even harder, until the foundation around the tree shook, and the tree began to slowly lift out of the ground from Sandra's pulling, until with one mighty yank, she uprooted the entire tree, and a decent chunk of land, from the ground, and threw it out in front of her. Darren was shocked speechless, and his father impressed, and his mother and sisters with nearly bulging eyes. She walked back smirking, and saying "Okay, but if you need me anytime, I'll help you."

    Before they could swallow their pride to ask her, Sandra had soon set out to the village of magic, with food and healing herbs in tow. She no doubt had met some creatures along the way, but they weren't like the baby dragon that almost ate her a year ago, and most stood little chance against her. Some were stronger than others though, and Sandra didn't have a flawless journey. 3 days later she managed to make it to the village. She asked the head teacher about teaching her magic, stating that she had come from the forest marsh 20 miles away. The teacher remembers Darren and his father coming from there in the past, and assume she is another of Darren's sisters, but he soon realizes differently when Sandra requests to be taught White and Black spells, and not just one type. On Santranus, women commonly had preferred to be healers, and not fighters, and Sandra's spunk had given the teacher a new light. She and the teacher, Grant went though a 3 week period, where Sandra had learned how to use the white powers of Keal, Reizu, Poisona and Raibura. She was then taught to learn Faia, Sandaa, Blizzado, Water and Bio, five elementary Black spells, much to the disbelief of the other teachers and elders of the village of magic, who had believed Sandra to be a heretic because of her being a girl who wanted to learn black spells. Due to common choice among the people of Santranus in history, it was considered tradition for women to learn white magic only, and for men to learn only black spells, but Sandra had broken the code of tradition by taking up both, but they also didn't know of her origins. They threatened to execute Grant for being in cahoots with her, but then Sandra decides to pull another tree-pulling act, and a couple of other acts to prove that her origins do not go back to Santranus. The elders comment for a while, and decide not to kill Grant, and that he could continue to teach her, but only because of Sandra's origins. After that was over, Grant decided in a way to thank her for saving his life, that she should know more, and spoke that others knew Time Magic, or spells that can affect the time around sentient beings. He told her that Gallon, a time mage and hermit, lived in the swamps 5 miles back in the other direction towards Darren's forest. Sandra thanked Grant for teaching her all that he did, but Grant gave her two warnings. One was that they could only teach her the foundations of magic, and to learn stronger spells, that she herself had to learn on her own, and secondly, that Gallon was easy to surprise, and could mistake Sandra for his enemy.

    Sandra ventured onto the forest swamps, making better time compared to her previous 20 mile journey to the magic village, as it had strengthened her speed and endurance a good deal. Within the swamps, she had difficulty making out where to find Gallon's house. Suddenly from out of the blue attacks a old man with good speed and decent power, ambushing her from behind, and sending her on her face. Thinking this man as a robber, she lashes out and send him flying into a tree behind him. The man scowled and began chanting a spell unknown to Sandra. She began to feel more sluggish than normal, as if her vital systems had slown down. The man laughed, boasting that she was no match for him. Sandra didn't give up, and with an angry shout, shot the spell Blizzado in his face, and then followed up with Sandaa. The man recovered, and then used another spell, sending a rain of coins down at Sandra, but instead of taking damage, she suddenly regained her reaction time and didn't feel sluggish again. The man smirked, and then changed to a smile, announcing himself as Gallon, the man she had been looking for. Sandra was surprised to discover that Gallon had already anticipated her arrival. Gallon told her in return that he gotten news of her wanting to learn White and Black spells, and of her tree-lifting feats. He has also known that Grant had sent her to him, stating that Grant was his brother, and that Grant had told him through a psychic link of her arrival. He decides that Sandra handled her "test" well enough to start teaching her Time spells.

    Gallon teaches Sandra for 2 weeks about the nature of time spells, and how they should be used[so she wouldn't try to go thief on someone and freeze them in place or something to steal their belongings]. Sandra slowly learns how to use Surou, and then Heisuto, and then after about 5 days learns Stoppu. Gallon likes her determination, and understands why Sandra wants to learn what she does: so she can help Darren in thanks for taking her in when she arrived on Santranus. Gallon decides she might as well understand other types of magic, since she already knows the elementary White, Black and Time stuff. Gallon teaches Sandra how to use Gravity, a spell that can compress an enemy's health by 1/4 of what it currently has. He tells her that the spell may save her life someday. He also decided to give her two gifts before she goes. One was a special outfit that she now wears at all times[the black outfit in the pics of her above], and the gloves that go with it. He tells her that these clothes are not for looks, and that her suit has a special pocket that is like a magically transdimensional suitcase, and will help her in her life as a "Green Mage", as he calls her, since she knows an assortment of various white, black, time and gravity spells, and some stuff most people didn't know existed. He also gives her a present wrapped in Dacklewood bark, telling her not to open it until she returns home. Sandra acknowledges, and heads back home, taking only 4 hours now with her strengthened speed and endurance to reach home within Darren's forest.

    When Sandra returned to her home, she opened the gift from Gallon, to find it to be a book on Blue Magic, a very hard to understand concept that few know of. Gallon's note inside says that Blue Magic is something you must somewhat teach yourself, and reading the book would help give her a grip on how to understand it. For about a full week she looked through the book almost non-stop, trying to figure out exactly what it means. However, Darren and his father decide to finally take Sandra up on their offer, and she joins them as a monster hunter, with her Blue Magic studies on the side. 2 more years would pass before Sandra finally understood that most Blue Magics are actually unique techniques various monsters and creatures use that can be learned by getting hit by the technique and surviving it. Sandra had also learned Faira, Blizzara, Sandara, Biora, Kealra, and Kealga over the two years. However, Sandra would soon meet her first "rival", who was none other than Darren's cousin, Carnes. Carnes was a much more skilled monster hunter than both his cousin and uncle were, and knew spells such as Faia, Faira, Blizzado, Blizzara, Blizzaga, and Sandaa. Carnes thought Sandra to be a fool for trying to be a monster hunter, and promptly challenged her[and Darren just make it more interesting] to a contest to see who caught not the most monsters, but the most valuable ones. During that time, a dangerous monster known as the Devil Owl[called so because of it's reddish coloration and dangerous attacks] existed, and far as they were concerned, Devil Owls were worth almost 2 million in gil each at the time. The main danger of the Devil Owl was the immensely poisonous bite it had, coupled up with it's great speed and tendency to shy away from the public. Even Carnes had never gotten one himself.

    During said contest, Sandra went hunting in an area about 3 miles towards the village of magic, a place were Devil Owls sometimes flocked to during summer times. Sandra was searching for a Devil Owl to win the contest with, knowing Carnes had never caught one himself. Sandra manages to sneak up on a lone devil owl known as Aska. Sandra uses Stoppu on her to freeze the owl and render it helpless. She takes Aska and begins to trek back, but then realizes that Devil Owls aren't as demonic or bad as people think[they aren't really demons, just owls with ruddy-colored skin and poisonous bites], and puts her down, planning to unstop her, but Carnes had been watching her to make sure didn't find any good monsters, and steals Aska from Sandra. Sandra quickly chases him into a nearby section of the woods. However, Carnes' activity gets the attention of the rest of Aska's flock, and they loom overhead, and ambush Carnes, and surround him, angrily demanding their friend back. Sandra arrives to find Carnes cornered, and calls the flock's attention to her. She casts Surou on Carnes and takes Aska from him while in front of the flock, and then puts her down, and then admits she was the one who originally caught Aska to her flock, and then unstops Aska, and tells her she's free to go back to her flock. Aska caws in understanding, and gives a low purr at Sandra, as thanks for freeing her and not giving in to temptation. Aska and her flock leave, and Sandra unslows Carnes, who is fuming mad that Sandra let Aska go. "Get over it. I was already planning to free her just before you stole her. Her kind isn't as bad as what you people say they are. Humph. I don't really care if you're 'better' than me or Darren at monster hunting. I only hunt monsters that directly attack travelers!" She said and walked home, leaving Carnes in shock. The next day, Sandra is in her room, when Aska flies in, and lands on her dresser. Sandra looks at the Owl, as it drops a vial in her hand. Aska caws at Sandra again, and nudges her playfully, as a final thanks for not turning her in to the hunter's guild and flies off again. When she asks Darren's father about the vial, he explains that it's a "HyperElixir", a very rare restoration item, and that she should keep it with her at all times, in case she needs it.

    2 more years would pass, and Sandra kept to her magic training, learning a whole plethora of White, Black, Time, Gravity, and even a few Blue spells, such as one Aska taught her that threatened Devil Owls could use, called Revenge Blast, which focused the users injuries and lost health into power and pounded its attacker with it. Sandra knew many level 3 spells and a couple of level 4 ones, such as Tournedo, which could sap a lot of health away from entire parties, including herself if she wasn't careful. She had also learned Gravira and Graviga, both being able to halve or quarter out a targets life. Soon, Gallon paid his former student a visit, and spent some time with her, wanting to know of her recent life experiences, but when he was done, he took Sandra to a private clearing away from Darren and his family and told her of a new tidbit of information he knew Sandra would want to know. He spoke of a strange tower called the Bourdon Towers, a haunted and infested tower where ancient spells of lore were said to be hidden. He mentioned spells such as "Hourii", "Gravija", "Meteo" and "Ultima", as well as other unknown spells of power lie in wait of a powerful traveler. Gallon felt bad for mentioning it to Sandra, knowing she'd likely try to go to the towers and learn the spells, but many spirits of dead mages guarded the spells, and used them as well, as to test a traveler longing for them the strength of the spell they sought. Sandra assured him that if she went for the spells, that she would try to be as ready as she possibly could before hand. She had also learned "Areizu", a stronger Raise spell that revived a person with full strength, as well a rare new spell, "Rereizu", which could be cast on a person prior to death or unconsciousness, and when killed or knocked out, the spell would then act like an automatic "Reizu" spell and bring them back, as a back up. Sandra didn't realize it, but this would be another spell that would save her life in the future.

    After Gallon's departure, Sandra decided it was time she learned Protective magic, knowing it would help her in taking on the Bourdon Towers. She knew Grant would probably be able to help her again on this matter. He had spoken of much about it in the past. Sandra quickly headed to the village of magic, and asked Grant about learning protective magic. Grant told her that he personally wouldn't know, but the village elders would know something, however he was still worried about what the elders thought of her, because of her last visit to the village to learn elementary White and Black magic. Sandra traveled to the elders' house and asked them about teaching her protective magic. They said if she could defeat one of them in a test of magic strength that they would help her. She faced the second elder, whose name was unknown. The elder knew spells like Sheru and Purotesu, which increased physical and magic defense temporarily. Sandra however, with the help of Gravira and some of her speed overcame the elder in record time, much to the impression of all the elders, including the one she defeated. They then realized Gallon must have taught her some of her magic. They decide to train Sandra in not only protective and defensive magic, but stat raising magic as well. She soon learned the Purotesu, Sheru, Rijene and Rifureku spells. During this training, she also learned two of her own unique spells: Trada, and after learning Surora and Heisutra, Tradra, which stole speed from one/all target[s] for a short time and transferred it to the user/ally party, speeding up the user and slowing the down the target all at once. Sandra had also learned the Time spell Comet, aka ‘Baby Meteo’ to Sandra. Later on after returning home again to help Darren with more monster hunting, she learned the first true stat-raising magic that didn't require manipulating time: Strength, a layerable magic that could slowly increase an ally or herself's own physical attack and defense, and Endure, a layerable similar to strength, but for Speed, Vigor and such.

    Soon Sandra felt it was time to take on the Bourdon towers. Gallon had told her the tower was almost 40 miles to the northwest of the magic village. Sandra made sure to take as many supplies as she could find off of monsters, Darren and his family, and other places. When she finally found the Bourdon Towers, she was shocked the see the shape of the tower. It started simple enough, but then branched into 3 separate towers on the way up. With worry and some hesitation, she went and began the journey. She was not without opposition on the way to the spells, as she met up with various ghosts of minor level magicians that possessed some of her weaker spells. They were only a nuisance compared to what she would first face. She went for the magics of Hourii and Gravija first, both locked within the left tower. She met a being called Number 86, who was the magician guarding the two spells, and wielded others. During the fight, Number 86 used a lot of Blue Spells on Sandra she didn't know yet: 5th Death, which luckily missed her, 4th Flare, which almost KOed her instantly, 3rd Konfyu, which missed, and 2nd Old, which also affected Sandra part way through the battle. Luckily her Esuna and Kealga spells got her around that, and she soon had learned all four Blue spells. Number 86 then used Hourii, and then ?th Hourii on Sandra, almost knocking her out of the tower and to her death below, but she managed to catch the edge of the tower with her arms, and pulled herself in. Instead of healing herself, Sandra went on a total rampage as the magician used Gravija, reducing her to a dwindle of life, but it didn't matter by then. Sandra's powerful physical blows ended up doing Number 86 in, and winning her a full recovery from him as a first reward for defeating him, and then the knowledge of Hourii, ?th Hourii, Gravija, the time spell Old and one more cure ability, Fulkea, were bestowed upon Sandra.

    Sandra tackled the right tower second, wanting to save the center tower for last. Meteo was one of the spells locked within this tower, and probably others. Sandra had heard before from Gallon of the destructive power Meteo had, and he warned her that she would most likely need Rereizu if she wanted to win against someone else with it right now. The guardian of this tower was a being called DarkBlade, which took the form of a large broadsword without a wielder. Sandra used Rereizu on herself right before entering battle, as to prepare for it's Meteo attack. Such did not come for Sandra, but instead of Meteo being used on her, DarkBlade used a spell called Degeon, opening a vortex that threatened to suck Sandra into it. Sandra fought at first vainly against the black hole, but then quickly cast Tournedo on herself and DarkBlade. Both were sapped to minimal health, but the drain was enough to stop Degeon in the nick of time and save Sandra from the void. DarkBlade manipulated the last of his strength to use Meteo on Sandra, however in doing so it defeated itself from deprivation of magic. Sandra on the other hand had been pummeled into unconsciousness, but restored by Rereizu, and then DarkBlade, like Number 86, restored her to full strength, and gave her Degeon, Meteo, Meteor, Rebiteo, and Burinku to use, and commended her for being smart enough to use Rereizu. Sandra had also learned a weakness of the Magician ghosts: depleting them of their magic reserves renders them totally helpless, as they are unable to attack physically.

    Now with even more magic powers, Sandra finally goes to the central tower, which is guarded by a powerful beast known as AtmaWeapon. Sandra immediately uses Reraise on herself again as a precaution. She then uses Raibuga on AtmaWeapon and discovers he has an ungodly amount of health, but not as much in magic. Sandra decides to use a Blue magic called Magic Hammer, instantly halvening AtmaWeapon's MP. AtmaWeapon begins his attack, using a spell called Queku to shake the ground beneath them. Both Sandra and Atma appear to have taken damage, as Queku is an unfocused spell that affects any on the ground. Sandra immediately uses Rebiteo to allow her to escape the Queku spell. Atma then uses another unfocused spell called Merton, a piercing fire attack that again slams them both for serious damage. Sandra only survives thanks to her guts and determination to live. Sandra then uses Magic Hammer twice more on AtmaWeapon. Atma has little magic left, but enough to use Ultima on her once. Sandra is caught in terror by a massive expanding blue dome of elementless blue energy. Sandra again barely manages to survive and resist the effects of Ultima out of her guts, and then uses Fulkea to more than fully restore her health, and uses Asupiru to drain the remainder of AtmaWeapon's magic from him, defeating him. Atma is very impressed and proud of her, and gives her the Ultima spell, Queku, Quera, Quega, Merton, Furea and another new spell, Reareizu, which was slighty better than Reareizu, since it fully restored the health of who it revived. Atma has also told Sandra, that in learning all these spells, she has released the souls of the magicians and himself, and allowed them to pass on, knowing that their powers are now in the hands of a capable being. Sandra watched in awe as Number 86, DarkBlade and AtmaWeapon ascend into the heavens above. Sandra soon sets off to the magic village to tell Grant of her success, and then to Gallon's swamp to tell her old friend she had survived. Gallon was very pleased with his former student. She was truly destined for greatness, it seemed to him. Sandra then arrived at home, telling Darren, his family, and even Carnes of her successes in the Bourdon Tower.

    Not much more time passed before Sandra would meet another person from a world that wasn’t Santranus. In the middle of Darren’s backyard, much to the frightening of poor Webgarth, a strange looking portal had opened up. Sandra saw this, and at first thought of Earth. Maybe someone had been coming back to find her. But it turned out the gate had nothing to do with Earth, as a tall elven man stepped out, looking intricately confused. She heard the elf blabbing about the “Outer Worlds” and “That cursed D’Sparil”, etc. Sandra decided she should find out more, and met the elven man. He was taken back by this, since he must’ve been at first expecting her to attack him. After Sandra confirmed she was not hostile, the man told her his story. He was from another world, as Sandra had at first thought, but it wasn’t Earth by any means, but another medieval like world known as Parthoris. The man called himself Corvus, and told of a perilous journey he had through the former worlds, whom he called “The Outer Worlds”. She asked Corvus exactly how he had gotten into this problem. The elf explained that Parthoris had once been victim to a great evil known as D’Sparil, a Serpent Rider. Sandra’s mind clicked a little at the mention of “Serpent Rider.” She had heard of the many legends of the Serpent Riders told to unruly children, and as old stories elsewhere. Most of Santranus believed in them, but they never believed that the riders would care for the world of Santranus. There were no major monarchs or tyrants or political groups since the times of old, where a powerful rich lord and tyrant, Serin Nagar had been pretty much ruler of the ancient Santranus. It was said his daughter, Sarah Nagar, who like Sandra, was powerful in her own right, and lead a revolt in overthrowing her father. But due to these events, Sandra also believed the riders would’ve found no interest in the world of Santranus. Corvus continued his story to her, telling her of finding his Tome of Power, Tejallah, who helped him in his later battle against D’Sparil himself. D’Sparil was burnt to ashes by Corvus’s phoenix rod, fueled by the suffering and oppression of Parthoris, but D’Sparil had before his death set a curse on Corvus that would set his fate: to roam the Outer Worlds, searching for a way home. Sandra felt terrible for him, and told him about herself, and how she had lived on Earth as a child, and had been separated from her own family by such cursed magic. She had almost thought about traveling with Corvus to help him find a way home, but Corvus convinced her that he should search on his own, and he also tells her that perhaps someday she too will find her way back home. Corvus does stay with Sandra, Darren and his family for a few days to rest up, but he soon sets back out on his journeys, another portal like the one he had been through before opening up and taking him to only a place he knows of...

    During that time, a village was being constructed outside of the limits of the Bourdon towers. They had learned that someone had rid the tower of all the spirits that had been haunting the area. Soon they had realized that it was Sandra who had been responsible for clearing the area. The chief architect of the village sent people to find Sandra and her family, and to thank them for their services by offering them homes in the new village. When approached with this offer, Sandra convinced Darren and his family to move on to the new village. Because of this, they wouldn’t have to hunt monsters for money as often. They agreed and traveled to the village outside of the Bourdon towers. Sandra, Darren and his father paid Grant a visit at the village of magic on their way there. Grant was happy to know they were moving into a better area, and perhaps they’d live safer lives. They then moved on to the village, where for almost a full year they lived in peace. However the worst event of Sandra’s life up to that point would soon occur...

    On an island about 5 miles off shore from near the Bourdon Towers there was an ancient castle, thought to be abandoned along the island shores for many years. This was once the castle of Serin Nagar, known as Castle Damiao. In the days before his defeat and hanging at the hands of his daughter Sarah, it was called Castle Vertigo, in short recommence to the height of the towers, each over 550 feet high. However it was unknown to the populace that Serin Nagar, now called “Count Nagar” was now once again alive and well, and building up forces for an attack on all of the world of Santranus to reclaim the world back into regression under his tyrannical rule, and this wasn’t just any force, but a supernatural force. His armies consisted of zombies, skeletons, bats, ghouls, goblins, and various undead beings. Two of these beings, known as Slogra and Gaibon, had been told the truth of Count Nagar’s intentions by an unknown force, and had fled from him, coming to the mainland of Santranus to flee rule under their former master. However with them brought problems that what would eventually result in Nagar’s defeat. Nagar discovered of their treachery, and sent part of his armies to retrive Slogra and Gaibon and bring them back to Nagar to be decided on their punishment. The waters and the oceans had no effect on Gaibon, Slogra or the pursuing armies’ progress, as Gaibon could fly, Slogra had no lungs nor a need for breathing, and the armies were already dead to begin with. The fleeing monsters made it inland, and into the middle of a nearby forest to hide. However the very same day Darren had ventured into the woods to do some monster hunting by himself. He stumbled upon the two fleeing monsters. Believing by the looks of battle they wore, he assumed they were hostile to the humans, and attacked them. The two monsters were taken back, and tried to escape Darren without fighting back, but Gaibon was forced to use one of his moves called Snap Wing when Darren almost cut Slogra in half with a large dagger of his, protecting Slogra from harm, but blowing Darren through a tree and knocking him out. Unbeknownest to all of them, the legions hadn’t lost tail on the fleeing monsters. A large snake man known as Acyrllis had been leading the armies and came upon their trail, and Darren their wake. He ordered the armies to go on and trail Slogra and Gaibon, while he finished off Darren, because his encounter with the two fleeing monsters would put Count Nagar’s surprise attack in jeopardy if he lived. He puts his head on Darren’s forehead, and uses a power of his to suck a white light out of Darren’s head, his soul. Without a soul, Darren goes totally pale white and dies. Acyrllis goes to rejoin with his armies at this point.

    About an hour later Sandra decided to go in to find Darren to find out what has taken him so long and finds the dead Darren with his body thrown through a tree, and with a deathly pale expression. When she finds out he’s dead, she goes practically ballistic with a tearful, and rageful scream that echoes throughout the countryside. Acyrllis hears the screams, still trying to trail Slogra and Gaibon, who have killed about 3/4s of the legion minus himself, and decides to see what happened, and if Slogra or Gaibon are to point at for this. Acyrllis comes upon Sandra, and realizes it was her screaming at Darren’s dead form. Acyrllis, stupid enough to have never thought a second thought about her, taunts her about how he had stolen Darren’s soul, and that she would soon join him, and mentions Count Nagar to her[this helps saves Gaibon later also]. Sandra decides to prove a point, and before Acyrllis could even think, she is suddenly with her arm through his stomach and out the back of his chest, much to the snake-demon’s surprise. She then jumps back and fires at him with an Blizzaga spell. Acyrllis can only say... “Could she have survived this whol...” as he is frozen into a statue, and promptly shattered into pieces by Sandra’s following punch. Darren’s soul is freed, but unfortunately, it cannot return to his body. Darren’s soul tells her to be strong, and that he is sorry for underestimating Gaibon and Slogra. Sandra isn’t familiar with the two though, and he tells her that even though Acyrllis had stolen his soul, Gaibon had been the one who blew him through the tree and left him unconscious to be killed by Acyrllis. He tells her it wasn’t intentional though. Gaibon and Slogra had been running from Acyrllis and his legions. Sandra cries as she realizes to truly avenge Darren that she must stop all of this.

    Sandra follows on the trail that Acyrllis and his armies were using, running into various soldiers of his that had been wondering why their leader hadn’t returned. She sends them on a one way trip to the underworld, and soon finds Slogra and Gaibon on the edge of the forest. Sandra growls at them, demanding why they threw Darren through the tree and left him to be killed. Gaibon is taken back to find out Acyrllis had killed the same kid he knocked out earlier. Gaibon tells her to blame solely him, and that Slogra had no role in the skirmish. Gaibon mentioned Count Nagar, and Sandra is now fuming, and wants to send Nagar off of the mortal plane for what he is attempting to pull. Gaibon understands her pain, and tells her of where he is attacking from, but warns her that it is very dangerous to lead a one-girl attack against Castle Damiaou. Sandra tells them her personal safety doesn’t matter, and throws something to Slogra, who catches it: the frozen head of the slain Acyrllis. Slogra is surprised, yet at the same time overjoyed that a great general of Nagar had fallen at the feet of a seemingly simple little village girl. Gaibon seems to think a little differently of her though. He asks her if they can help her out. Sandra is suspicious, but decides that for some reason they are truly sincere with helping her. They go back, and regretfully return Darren’s body to his family, who are all shocked at the news of his death. Sandra, Gaibon and Slogra all explain to them about the situation at hand, and the events leading up to Darren’s death. Darren’s father asks Sandra to follow him outside. Sandra does, wondering what he has to say to her that no one else could hear. Outside, Darren’s father points to a very large tree, much larger than the one she lifted the day she offered them a hand at monster hunting. He asks her if she remembers her strength. She nods. Darren’s father decides to teach her a technique he hadn’t shown anyone, using a huge boulder near them as a demonstration. He tenses up and lets a wave of white aura appear on his body, and with extreme force, lifts the rock like a paperweight. Sandra hadn’t ever recalled him being so strong. Darren’s father tells her that Darren had from the beginning cared for her like more than just a sister. Sandra realizes that Darren had been falling for her in the recent months, and Darren’s asked his father that if something ever went wrong, to teach the move he is telling Sandra of, called Tameru[Build-up], or the ability to focus all physical strength inside to one point, doubling to tripling your physical strength on average. Sandra wonders how he knew it. He tells her that he was a monk in his days as a child, and had to use the move to pick up boulders similar to the one he recently picked up and throw them at enemies. Darren’s father teaches her Tameru, which she uses to lift the large tree as a demonstration of it's potential to her, and the he wishes her, Slogra and Gaibon luck in defeating Nagar, warning her that Nagar has likely found out about the destruction of his first wave of soldiers and Acyrllis, and says his good byes. Meanwhile in a nearby village, Carnes is told of Darren’s death, and is devastated at the news, and decides it’s time to take action himself. Carnes finds the three adventurers, and asks to help them, saying he’ll do anything to avenge his cousin’s death at the hands of the armies.

    Sandra, Carnes, Gaibon and Slogra make their way to the seas off the shores, but then Slogra and Gaibon realized while they could cross easily by just flying over and treading underwater, Carnes and Sandra were humans and didn’t have an easy way to get there. However as luck would have it, another person from Castle Damiaou had pedaled over to them. A ferryman working as double agent against Count Nagar had offered his services to them after Gaibon whispered something to him. The four were carried to the island of Castle Damiaou. They started from the courtyards outside of the castle, fighting a powerful skeleton knight called Rowdain, who’s knight skills were said to be unequal, but he was defeated by being cut in half by Slogra’s staff. Rowdain’s ghost appeared, but he was now without malice or anger. He looked at Sandra, and shot a strange ball of energy to her. He told her that if she needed his help, he would come at his beckoning. Carnes understands what has just happened, telling him this being had given her the power to summon various spirits. Sandra merely nodded, never knowing this type of power before, and just decided to let it pass for now. They then fought their way through a twisting forest infested with spirits that possessed the plants, the trees, and spiders, mudmen, and other various ghouls. They met up with another guardian, Mepthom[a male Medusa to be more exact, and rumored to even be related to the gorgon of Greek legend], who’s powers included the ability to petrify enemies with his glare and throw snakes at him. Sandra and her friends resisted his glares though, and she made pork roast out of him with a couple of well placed Faiga spells though, and they continued through an underground cave found within the island, and through an underground waterfall within the bowels of the islands, and then into an ancient city. They learned that they were behind the castle, and that there was much more to the castle ground than once expected. In the ancient city a pair of beings known as the Orphic Vipers attacked the group. This time Carnes put the monster out of commission, and at the same time impressing Sandra, as he learned Meteo a year ago from her, and had used it to obliterate the twin vipers.

    The group found themselves within a strange haunted house filled to the brim with skeletons and living skulls, many of which attacked them. Soon they faced Puweyxil[‘Lix yew up’ backwards], a strange skull with a long and acid-stalked tongue which burned it’s way through the room. Slogra and Gaibon combined sent the skull to the recycler with a combination of Gaibon’s aerial fireballs and Slogra’s many fireballs from out of his staff. Soon they fought their way though a large atrium with many moving walls and ceilings and floors, and almost got themselves crushed within a few times, but soon escaped, only to be greeted by a stone golem called Koronot[‘Ton o Rok’ backwards]. Koronot attacked the group by stomping at them with his large feet, sending rocks and stone from above, and by punching at them with his giant fist. Koronot had one major weakness. As he got hit more and more, his size diminished, until he was nothing, and was finally destroyed by the combined efforts of all four of the adventurers. Koronot, like Rowdain before, decided to let himself become a summon power for Sandra to use in dire times. The group continued on and finally into Castle Damiao itself. By this time, Count Nagar had realized that his armies were being decimated, but he had no way of knowing exactly who was doing it. He did have suspicions that Gaibon and Slogra were likely among them though.

    The trek through the first part of Castle Damiao was immensely treacherous for all the group except for Gaibon because of this flying ability. Part of Castle Damiao first section included clearing a large group of flying Chandeliers that the group had to cross by jumping from one to another, and a dance hall filled with spike traps and blood-red skeletons that rose up seconds after being shattered every time. Soon they found their way into the castle library, where Sandra had about halfway through stumbled upon a strange spirit. She told the others to wait near her and fend off any attackers that came, and that she felt a great need to find out about this spirit. Sandra find the spirit behind an old bookcase. Upon approaching it, it forms itself into a human shape, a young girl with curly green hair and blue eyes that reminded her a little of Paula’s own. The girl told her that Count Nagar’s full intentions were not only to reclaim Santranus as his own, but to extend his reach out to worlds beyond. Sandra asks the girl why and how she knows this. The girl spirit tells Sandra that she reminded her of herself as a girl. She tells her that she is in fact the spirit of Sarah Nagar, daughter of Count Nagar and the first true heroine of Santranus, long before the days of now. Sandra is shocked too much for words at first as she finally meets her, but soon recovers and asks why Sarah is asking for her help. Sarah said that her father rose back to life because Death himself made a deal with her father. Death revived Serin Nagar as an immortal for the price of his soul, and also helped in supplying him with his armies. Sarah also tells Sandra that Death himself lurks somewhere within the castle, and gives her a power she says she had the ability to use as a girl: Wazokuma, or the ability to cast two spells simultaneously for the price of one. Sarah then tells Sandra the story of exactly how she led the revolt against her father when he was still mortal: she had pretended to toil alongside her father as a child, learning of her father’s true plans for Santranus, and then other worlds. Her mother had died from birth complications, which is believed to be the cause of Serin’s attitude towards the world and the rest of those beyond the stars. She then told that her father’s slaves had been developing a special weapon that was never completed before the revolt, called the Trillian Spectrum Cannon, a weapon that could act as a beam to zap upon another worlds, and take users to those worlds, like a two point tractor beam could. Sarah vividly recalls the day the revolt began: She was only 14, and was quietly reading a book, not giving off any suspicion to her unsuspecting father, and then the revolt began, but from the outside of Castle Damiao. Because of Sarah’s past information, the revolters knew exactly what they were going up against, and began storming the tower. Nagar, fearing for him and his daughter’s safety, told her that they were going to flee, but she tells him in a grim voice that she is in no danger from them, and then uses a dual-Sandara spell on Serin, much to his disbelief. He hadn’t realized that she had been plotting his defeat the whole time, and pleas with her not to turn against him, but Sarah knew more people would die if she didn’t continue, and KOed him with a Sandaga spell. She tells Sandra that after turning on her father that the revoltists hanged him. She remembered the regret on his face to her the day he was hanged. She realized that Death was originally intending to revive her father immediately after he died, but he didn’t want the guilt of facing Sarah in another battle, so Nagar asked Death not to revive him until after Sarah died 66 years later. Sarah tells him that the Cannon is resuming work, and may be completed at any moment. She tells Sandra the left tower is where the cannon is being made, and that if Sandra comes upon it, to destroy it at all costs. Only then can she say that Nagar is truly stopped. Sandra vows to Sarah to stop her father for her, and wishes her luck in the afterlife, as Sarah’s spirit leaves for the time.

    Sandra rejoins Carnes, Gaibon and Slogra. Gaibon realizes what he believed was correct. Sandra was like another incarnation of Sarah. Gaibon and Slogra had also known about the tales of Sarah’s revolt against her father, which in fact where what convinced them to turn against Nagar in the first place. Soon the four found themselves in the art gallery of the castle, where strange beings came to life from the paintings and the bookcases. After a while, they came upon a huge suit of armor in a large and open room of the castle. The suit suddenly comes to life and attacks them. Slogra remembers this as the suit of Sir Grakul, a fallen knight of Castle Damiao in the times that Serin was still a child being raised. Sandra fights him one on one, dodging his attempts to slice her in half with his axe, and then shattering the axe and telling him she is not here to hurt him. Grakul’s spirit understands this, as his former prince had forced him into servitude after he died. Grakul realizes Sandra is trying to stop Nagar, and like Rowdain and Koronot, gives his spirit to her in the form of a summon, and vanishes.

    However, the floor begins to shake beneath them, and then the floor breaks out, dumping the four adventurers into the dungeons of the castle, which are filled with acid pools, spikes, blood pools, large dragon skull-pillars that are alive, and various other hazards such as exploding walls and stairwells. However the four manage to brave all the hazards with little to no harm to themselves, and meet another guardian, the Frankenstein monster.  The monster was much more durable then most of them thought, and even Sandra’s physical attacks weren’t hurting him much. Carnes attempted a use of Sandaga, but the Frankenstein monster appearantly knew Rifureku, and repelled it back at them, luckily missing them. Sandra finally decided to put Tameru to good use, and builds her power to great heights, and get the upper hand on the Frankenstein monster, and finally ending the fight by picking it up and throwing it head first into the lab it came from. The monster faded away, but like some of the other guardians, it also transferred itself to Sandra as a summon. A long and winding staircase crashed out of the ceiling, and Count Nagar’s voice boomed at them, commending them for surviving this long, and inviting them forward to their impending doom. The four took cautious heed to his message and scaled the staircase until they found themselves within the massive treasury of Castle Damiao. The place was so overstocked that piles of money, gold and coins literally decorated and littered even the floors of the place. Carnes felt like he was in heaven at that point, and proceeded to try and suck up as much money he could get. Sandra also decided for the sake of it to pick up whatever money jumped out in front of her. However the treasury did have it’s share of foes: the skeletons were also literally made of gold in this place, as Sandra examined a bone from a fallen skeleton, learning it to be made out of pure gold. Many golden skeletons, piles of gold, money bags, and treasure chests later, they came upon a room with no ceiling, and a massive pile of gold coins in the center of the room. However the coins rose from the pile, and soon formed a giant bat called the Zapf Bat. The Zapf Bat was quite the odd creature, dropping heavy coins and sometimes even money bags on the group of four, but not really trying to attack them directly. It scurried around for a few minutes until it tired out and landed on the ground and curled itself up in it’s wings. Gaibon got it’s attention, and told it that they were going to stop Count Nagar. The bat looked at Gaibon, and opened its’ wings suddenly, flickering until it turned into a glowing money-bag shaped spirit and flew over to Sandra, also offering itself to her as a summon. After this, another flight of stairs formed, and the four took them and found themselves within a large vertical clock tower.

    Sandra soon realized this was the tower with the Trillian Spectrum Cannon in it, and Sandra tells them to look around for a very large weapon while they search the tower and to destroy it. Slogra realizes that she is referring to the Spectrum Cannon and leads the group up the clock tower, avoiding loose gears, skeleton knights and skeletons with whips along the way. They find the cannon at the Clockface, which the hands of the clock are frozen as stone in a 9:10 position, and the beam is atop of it. Before they reach the beam though, another guardian appears. A mummy called Akomdan II attacks the group, and binds Sandra and Carnes with some of his mummy wrapping, giving them a hard time. Slogra and Gaibon have to fight it most of the battle, but Sandra and Carnes finally break free and both use a twin-Meteo to finish Akomdan II and at the same time obliterate the Spectrum Cannon. The spirit of Akomdan II also goes to Sandra, and offers itself as a summon. The four see a ledge to a bridge to the other tower materalize and cross it. The bridge to the next tower is long, and it also begins to crumble under the group’s feet. Gaibon has to carry Slogra on his back, and Sandra and Darren dart across as the bridge crumbles away, leaving them trapped at the middle section of the second tower, which is even higher than many centuries ago. After a long and tedious climb to the top, with a crazed spinning gear set up as a trap for them following them half way up the tower, they finally reach the last floors below what is Count Nagar’s inner sanctum. Inside of these final floors, they fight clones of Slogra, and then Gaibon, appearently created to replace the originals, except that these clones were created without conscience this time to prevent them from going awry as well. After defeating the clones, the room before the final tower of Nagar is guarded by Death himself. However when seen, Death appears to have an ice-blue color on his bones, but he states the group as met their end. The group fights him, making to sure to stay away from his scythe. Another of his powers is to try and draw an enemy into his hands to steal their soul, but he fails, and is defeated badly and crumbles into a heap, and then reawakens, but with a standard color to him again, gasping horribly. He tells them the form of him they had fought had been possessed by Count Nagar’s control, much to the shock of the group, who thought Nagar had himself made a deal with Death at the cost of his soul. Death tells them that he hadn’t originally intended to go as far with Nagar as what had happened. He tells the four he only gave Nagar a small army[compared to before Slogra and Gaibon fleed], and his immortality, but Nagar had tricked Death, and took control over Death himself, forcing him to create many of the guardians the four adventurers had fought along the way, and even Slogra himself. Slogra remembers that he was combined from the skeletons of two powerful dinosaurs and made into a warrior. Gaibon’s existence was different and out of the reach of Death’s knowledge. Sandra asks him why he wanted to revive Nagar prior to Sarah’s passing. Death tells him that Nagar didn’t have the heart to see his daughter again in battle, and wanted Death to wait 100 years until he brought the count back, but as soon as that had happened possessed Death with his magic control, which has strengthened in the many centuries. Death tells them he is happy they have freed him, and tells them he is always right behind him, giving Sandra the power to summon him as well, and to be careful when fighting the count. The four venture into the inner sanctum of Count Serin Nagar.

    The count sits on a throne of sorts in the background, and rises up, catching the attention of the four travelers. He greets them like honored guests, even Gaibon and Slogra, for making it as far as they had. He decides to try and give them all a second chance, offering immense power to them all for their servitude. Sandra, still remembering Acyrllis’ acts of terror, scowls, telling him she can never gain back what she has lost. Carnes also reacts the same way, telling him that Darren was important to him as family. The count tells them that Death is no longer the only one who can give life back to the dead, and tells the two that he could revive Darren as he was. Sandra hears Darren’s voice in the back of her mind telling her to go with the offer. However Sandra’s mental state doesn’t buy the pleas, and Sandra refuses the count. This time Darren’s voice begins to turn into the count’s own, telling her he was trying to get into her mind to make her join him. Sandra growls at him, and demonstrates proof to him she will not join, and uses Wazokuma and uses a warning pair of Sandara spells at Nagar. Nagar realizes in hidden fear that Sandra is in fact much like his daughter Sarah, and then realizes Sarah’s spirit was never truly gone. He demands of Sandra to tell him of when she had met Sarah’s spirit. Sandra tells Nagar of all that Sarah’s spirit told him, and that the Spectrum Cannon is gone and nothing but a memory. The count looks at her in horror, realizing she isn’t going to back down, especially after a pep talk from his daughter’s ghost. He growls at all four of them, realizing he must fight them, and vanishes in a column of whitish-purple light.

    The group believes he’s escaped them, but he then reappears in the same light, and shoots at them with an Blizzara spell, hitting Gaibon and doing some damage. He begins zapping around the room and casting various spells at the ground. Sandra anticipates him once though, and uses her Koronot summon, and the Stone Golem appears and smashes into Nagar with his large fist and vanishes. The count is becoming horrified, realizing Sandra has turned half of his own guardians against him in the form of summoned spirits. Sandra also successfully connects with Zapf Bat and Frankenstein’s summons, and almost hits with Sir Grakul, and Death’s. Nagar is getting immensely angered at them, and begins furiously zapping around the room as if in an uncontrollable pattern, secretly charging up a move for them. He suddenly appears for at least 2 seconds, and a large column of energy forms above Sandra, Slogra and Carnes. Gaibon, not right near them, sees this, while they don’t, and charges in, and shoves all three out of the way as the energy consumes and incinerates him. Slogra is furious at the death of his friend, and Sandra and Carnes are left speechless at this as Slogra furiously slashes and hacks at Nagar, who is using Slogra’s blind rage to overpower the dinosaur knight. Sandra suddenly hears Gaibon’s spirit talking to her, and he tells her that his act to save them was repentance for letting Darren die. Sandra cries almost uncontrollably at all of this, but Gaibon gives his spirit to her, also as a summon. Sandra is now beyond po’ed, debatably more than even when she found Darren dead, and with a scream of rage, summons Gaibon upon Nagar again. Nagar is about horrified out of his mind to see the being he just killed summoned again in front of his eyes, but now with red skin, and a po’ed expression on his face, sending down 10 consecutive Meteo spells on Nagar. Nagar manages to survive by blocking most of his body with his magic-induced cape, but the onslaught was also a distraction for Sandra to prepare a Wazokuma-Ultima combo, for Slogra to prepare a Staff Blast Combo, and for Carnes to use a new form of Meteo again. Count Nagar looks to Sandra to use a spell to counter her last attack, but Sandra immediately shoots off her double-Ultima spell, along with Carnes’ X-Meteo, and a barrage of blasts from Slogra. Nagar is too weakened from the summoned Gaibon’s attack to defend himself and is incinerated beyond all of reality by the combined blast of magic and physical energy, however the backlash of energy not only blew the top of the tower off, but it sent the three surviving adventurers many 100s of feet to the bottom, unconscious.

    The three survivors awaken, finding that they are all still alive after being thrown from the top tower by the final blast. Gaibon’s spirit appears in front of all three of them, telling them that he was the one who made sure they landed safely, and that the three had been rendered unconscious from the backlash. Slogra says his final goodbyes to Gaibon. They go to leave, bur Sandra stops suddenly, looking back at Castle Damiaou. She staggers back over to the now-to-be-revealed 563 ton castle, and pushes against it, despite being very worn out from Count Nagar himself. Slogra and Carnes are wondering what she's doing. However suddenly the castle moves under the push of Sandra's strength, and begins to uproot from the island. Slogra and Carnes can only gawk in disbelief as Sandra suddenly lifts the entire castle completely out of the ground, and with one massive heave, she tosses the castle out of the Atmosphere of Santranus, into the void of space. When asked why she had done it by Carnes, she replied. "That was so Nagar's creepy minions can't do a revenge strike on us. They'll have to worry about the void of space. Only this way I can say Nagar's influence over this world can truly vanish." And then they leave the island. Sandra, Slogra and Carnes return to the village outside the Bourdon towers, telling Darren’s family of their success, but also of Gaibon’s death at Nagar’s hands. The next day, Gaibon and Darren’s funerals are held, and Slogra, Sandra and Carnes bury Darren side-by-side with Gaibon’s grave in the back of the village. Sandra and Carnes vow to prevent anything else like the threat of Count Nagar from ever happening again. Slogra in the meantime, decides to move on and try to make a new life for himself, now that he is alone, but not before Sandra and Carnes wish him good luck. Carnes and Sandra also learn that their travels through the Castle Damiao treasury raked in over 150,000,000 gil overall, which the two split in half among themselves, to the massive surprise of the entire village. They hadn’t even realized the castle still had all of it’s riches within the treasury, despite their large journies through it, as the money could regenerate itself, as part of one of Nagar's former commands to Death[the coins contribute to 132 tons of the total 563 of the castle[. Sandra and Carnes go back to their normal jobs then... for a time anyways...  

    However one day over a year later proved to be a mysterious day. Sandra was only 12 at the time, and was training her magic more, trying to understand why during the Nagar conflict that it had suddenly become so much stronger. However it was sudden when they arrived. A strange group of roughly 35-50 strange robotic creatures. Each was roughly 4'6" in height, and some where white and blue, others where white and grey. Sandra noticed they were all staring at her. She asked one of them of who they were, who rode up to her, similar to R2-D2 from Star Wars. The robot spoke in a mechanical voice about DNA or something, and fired a streaking laser, leaving afterimages behind it, at Sandra, but she had enough reaction, to dart aside, and suddenly into the 'face' of the robot, and with a clean karate-like chop, severed the 'head' of the creature off of it, and green fluid leaked from the head. The rest of the robots proceeded to attack. 20 long minutes later, Sandra had finally managed to destroy the last of the insane robots, and she was worn down, but barely hurt, even when one of them tried to zap her at close range with some odd probe it held in one of it's compartments. Most of the robots she had destroyed with physical force, moving much too fast for them to react, but she had destroyed the last 4 of them with a blast of Megafurea, tiring of their persistance. She finally dashed off from the forest, pondering what those strange robots were. They were definately out of place on a world like Santranus. The encounter left Sandra wondering if people from Earth may have found where Santranus was in the solar system, but someone else told her a sinsister plot out of her reach in another galaxy was about to occur, but she quickly got over it for the time being, going back to her training.

    One year later, Sandra and Carnes however would have to go into action yet again to protect the world of Santranus. Sandra was 13 and Carnes 14 when they arrived. The Phantom Zone, lead by the evil Demon-lord Sardius had arrived and docked itself outside the world of Santranus, connecting a gate of theirs with another gate located many miles ahead of even where Castle Damiao was over the seas. Sardius had sent scouts considering of his Red Aedeemer Aces and his Red Guard out onto Santranus to scout, but the Red Guard, as blitheringly stupid as they were to the dismay of Sardius and the Red Aedeemer cousins, broke from the Aedeemers and attacked the village of magic, spreading fear and pain, and murdering three of the elders of the village, including the very one Sandra had to fight before she could be deemed worthy of being taught protective magic prior to her experiences at the Bourdon Towers. Sandra learned of this and took out the Red Guard and the Red Aedeemer armies on Santranus in an angering display of her power, and saving the village for the time, but she had learned from a Red Guard before it’s death of the Phantom Zone and Sardius, and his plans for the world of Santranus. Sandra returned to her own village and packed herself things for the following trip. She wasn’t going to let any demons, of Santranus or not, destroy the world and people that took her in when she had nowhere to go. Carnes caught word as well and once again gave Sandra assistance. They persuaded the ferryman from the Castle Damiao incident to give them a ship to travel to the Phantom Zone gates with.

    Upon arriving at the rocky cliffs in the sea where the gate was, two guardians of Sardius, Cockatrice and Barnacala, attacked the ship, attempting to prevent it from getting into the gate. Sandra and Carnes fought back to protect the ship and themselves, easily destroying Cockatrice, but Sandra had to get in close to fight Barnacala, who was mostly submerged underwater. After her death at Sandra’s hands, the waterfall nearby faded away, and the Phantom Zone gate opened. Carnes told Sandra that he had to stay behind, to make sure the ship doesn’t get destroyed, and because he doesn’t think he is strong enough to help with some of the obstacles in the Phantom Zone. Sandra tells him it’s alright, and to just watch the ship, and make sure no denizens of the Phantom Zone that got by her get out and attack Santranus and rides into the Phantom Zone.

    Sandra’s first part of the Phantom Zone to survive is the Crucible of Flames, a realm where many of Sardius’ beasts were made from lava or fire, and pits of fire and lava spread throughout. Sandra didn’t have much problems with the inhabitants, but the terrain was the hard part. She soon found the Towers of Molten Steel, housed with stone statues of various demons that had opposed the rule of Sardius and paid for it. She braved the perilous heights and twists of the towers, as well as the primitive goblins that liked jumping out off the towers and onto passerbyers. She soon found a locked gate, and a guardian called Monogoliow, a giant centipede/Mongolian death worm-like monster that had a knack for spinning around it’s prey to make them confused and shoot them down with corrasive slime balls. Sandra quickly put Mongoliow out of his misery with a single Faiga spell, showing that the Phantom Zone definitely may not have been ready to mess with Santranus. From Mongoliow emerged the key to the locked gate, but behind it was a place Sandra wouldn’t end up very fond of.

    Sandra had to now make her way through the Ghoul’s Stomach, much like a living cave of skin, and various monster-cells that would come from the walls and attack travelers. Sandra had many near sickening encounters inside, but finally mananged to it make to the Ghoul’s Intestine, which was although a worse place to be than the stomach, as Sandra was stuck upon a floating platform over digestive fluids that she definitely didn’t need to fall in. She manages to ward of the vapors of acid and the flaming pixie demons inside and make it to the end, and into the Ghoul’s Heart, where she meets another guardian and finds another locked gate. The guardian of this place is a delta-elemental beast called Hydra, which used its’ various colored heads to summon fire, ice and thunder attacks on it’s prey. Sandra didn’t have the easiest time with them, as she had to hit certain heads with certain elements to destroy them, but she finally prevailed, and won not only the key to the next area, but Hydra’s spirit appeared, telling her that Sardius’ rule over the Phantom Zone was wrong, and gives his spirit to her as another summon.

    Sandra now finds herself in the Forests of Ice, the home of a rebel society on the Phantom Zone known as the Order of the Dark Shield Knights, a group opposed to Sardius’ rule in secret, and only pretending to serve him. Sandra fights her way through the lower forests, and into a large and long cave where Knights of the Shield order begin attacking her. She is forced to destroy almost all of them as they attempt to assassinate her from above, but it was said one or two of them survived by merely watching their friends be destroyed and not attacking. Sandra arrives at a place known as the Walls of Ice, which borders the castle of Sardius himself, and serves as the only path to him. She scales most of the wall, encountering wolves and more beasts of Ice. She also must brave three separate avalanches along the end of the path by clinging onto various objects for dear life, but finally reaches the gates of Sardius’ castle, only to find them locked and also guarded, this time by a powerful Ice Golem named Freon. Using her Faiga spells and some of her physical powers, she manages to defeat Freon somewhat quickly before he has a chance to do much, much to the surprise of the spirit of Hydra, and Freon’s own spirit, which is impressed with her for beating him, and also gives himself to Sandra as a summon, also believing Sardius’ rule is oppressing against most of the inhabitants of the Phantom Zone. Sandra uses the key he dropped to enter the keep of Sardius.

    Within the castle of Sardius, Sandra meets the remainder of the Red Aedeemer Aces, and they spring into battle against her. The battle is irritating, as they continuously dodge Sandra’s blows, but a wave of Blizzaga finally puts them all down for the count. Sandra doesn’t actually go very far in the castle before meeting the next guardian, the powerful behemoth known as Austorouto. Austorouto was immensely powerful, as only blows to his top face hurt him, and he had strong attacks in return, including his flamethrower and nose laser attacks. However Sandra defeated Austorouto by summoning Hydra and using his delta-beam to kill Austorouto, and gained the key into the final towers before Sardius. The final tower was also short compared to the other parts of the Phantom Zone. At the end, she fought TWO guardians, a clone of Austorouto, and a green beast similar to Austorouto known as Nebiroth. Nebiroth was much tougher to beat then Austorouto, as not only did his flamethrower have much greater range, but he also had a triple stacked laser almost as big as himself. Sandra finally defeated Nebiroth in a similar fashion as the original Austorouto, and proceeded into the inner sanctum of Sardius, not realizing the real Nebiroth had been watching the previous battle and that it was only a fake of Nebiroth that she had fought.

    A giant Sardius greeted Sandra by stomping her way and spawning little platforms to ride up to his head as a taunt. Sandra fell for this, and almost got hit with a barrage of Sardius’ mouth lasers as a result, but also aimed a Faiga blast at his head as she rose up, scoring some direct damage. Sardius pounded down at her with his fist, but she summoned Koronot who struck Sardius in his head as he was hunched over with a blow of his own. Sandra then summoned Frankenstein who threw a firey potion in Sardius’ face, blinding him for a short time, while she rode up to his head and performed a Jackhammer Kick on his head, almost beating his head into his neck with it. Sandra then aimed Meteo at Sardius’ head, causing him to combust into a giant column of hellfire.

    However it was not over. Sardius had a second, and smaller yet faster form, that of a two headed Kelbeross[Cerberus] with two faces on each side of his stomach. Sardius quickly showed Sandra he meant business by pounding on her with many “Delta-Magics” or the ability to use three spells at once for the price of one. His spells even included Ultima, which he had used in a delta attack to knock Sandra unconscious at one point. Sardius thought he had won, but there was one big problem for him:

    At the same exact time of Sandra’s battle against Sardius, was ironically another monumental battle going on upon her homeworld of Earth. The battle with Giygas had commenced, and Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo were currently fighting the true form of Giygas. Paula had prayed eight times at that point, her eighth prayer not reaching anyone because of their being no one on Earth left. Paula attempted one last prayer, one that seemed to give her personal hope once more...

    Sandra had been the final person to receive the prayer. Somehow the distortion of time on Earth caused by the Phase Distorters had allowed for Paula to unknowningly contact her sister’s mental consciousness while she was unconscious herself in the fight with Sardius. Sandra thought for a moment the voice she heard was only an mental illusion of Sardius, but then she somehow figured out it was Paula’s voice, and she listened to every word of her plea, and responded back by mentally praying for the safety of her sister and anyone on Earth, and she continued praying and praying, and then the faintly evil force of Giygas in her mind that had come with her sister’s pleas had vanished, but she could still faintly sense Paula’s aura, meaning whatever she had been fighting had died off. Paula didn’t know then it was Sandra who prayed for her and her friends’ safety in the final battle with Giygas, but it was enough to cause Giygas to overload with goodness, and explode into nothingness...

    Sandra’s praying for her sister’s safety had given herself hope again, and the strength to regain consciousness and return to battle with Sardius, who was enraged to learn she was still alive. Sardius attacked with a delta-Ultima attack again, but Sandra had also learned two new powers from her praying experience: one being Chourifureku, a magic barrier that could block and sometimes repel with Reflect couldn’t, including Sardius’ delta-Ultima attack. Sandra then demonstrated what would undoubtedly be her most powerful ability, and began praying again, channeling and linking her soul and heart with the power of her spells, also known as “Focusing”. After focusing her powers, Sandra went to work, kicking Sardius’ butt royally with her own Meteo and Ultima spells, except they were now many times stronger because of her focus powers. However Sardius still came at Sandra with all of his Hellaious fury, attacking her with another Ultima spell, which caught her off guard, but her will to live got her over that attack. Sandra then felt a new power surging inside, a new spell, one that Sardius himself knew, but was a different spell from his own. Sandra dashed at Sardius, and used her confusion dashing catch him off guard, and then grabbed Sardius’ smaller form in a bear hug, and then used the spell: Ultimara, to summon a much stronger version of Ultima upon Sardius. Sardius, being too close to the epicenter of the Ultimara spell since Sandra had held him in place, was slowly incinerated into ashes, which themselves vanished into nothingness. The spell soon faded off, and Sandra was alone and with a foreign look in her eye as she collapsed on the ground, exhausted, and thinking she was going to finally die.

    However Sandra soon would wake up, at full strength. Not understanding why she had so many miracles, she knew one thing: Sardius was finally destroyed, and the Phantom Zone laid to waste. It’s evil beings would never again rise up to attack the innocent. Sandra found a magical portal behind where Sardius had greeted her, and stepped through it, finding herself at the beginning of the Crucible of Flame again. Little did she realize, the Jester Wizard, hiding near the room with the real Nebiroth, had been the one who fully restored Sandra’s power and health to her, as “thanks” for finally freeing the Phantom Zone of Sardius’ reign, even if she did have to destroy most of them to do so. Sandra returns to Santranus to find Carnes waiting for her with their ship. He greets her and is thanking the gods she is safe, as he had an awful nightmare about her dying by herself in the Phantom Zone. After this, the ship return to the shores, and Sandra and Carnes go home, finally...  

    3 months pass after Sardius, when Sandra comes to make an important decision. Despite being only fourteen years old, she feels she must venture out into the world alone to become truly independant, and she also feels by staying behind with everyone else that she'll put them in future danger. Sandra packs up and moves herself to a remote location in the forests near Darren's family's first home, and begins to live there alone, and goes into independance training, knowing the roughing condition on Santranus are even more harsh than Earth's. Not a great deal is known exactly about what this training did for her, though.

    However over 6 months later, Sandra deals with a THIRD problem threatening Santranus. It turns out that there is more to the Phantom Zone than Sandra had known. While Sardius may have been the strongest ruler of the dimension, it didn't mean other lesser demons weren't appearantly hiding in the more 'human'-like parts of the Zone. These lesser demons had learned of the downfall of their oppressive leader, and within two years, a being known as Phalanx had risen to power, seeking out 6 strange rune crests of power, known as the 'Demon's Crest'. Sandra had only learned of the full extent of what was still to come, when an unobtained piece had found its way back to Santranus, enacting Phalanx's minions to go there and to try to ravage the world up and down on their search. Sandra was not fully aware at first that she had been facing the Phantom Zone again, as many of the enemies she had to fight seemed to appear like nothing she had seen before. However it was when a Red Adeemer Ace had arrived and fought against some of these legions themselves, that Sandra realized the Phantom Zone was involved, but she did not yet realize about the full history of the Phantom Zone, and that the Ace she had seen was none other than the former hero Firebrand, who himself had fought against Sardius' legions in other parts of the Phantom Zone that had been further out of his reach. Firebrand was also on a mission to find the full Demon's Crest, and to destroy Phalanx, but not to SAVE the Phantom Zone now, but to become ruler in Phalanx's place, as something had happened that made Firebrand tainted and lusting for power, which almost destroyed the other half of the Phantom Zone in years past.

    Sandra continued her quest and decided to go back to the Phantom Zone, and this time, was so determined to finish it once and for all with Phalanx, that she hadn't bothered to ask Carnes or Slogra, who had by that time moved into her village to settle down, to come along with her. She makes it to the gate, and finds a alternate path at the bottom of one of the Towers of Molten Steel, taking her towards the more human-like parts of the Phantom Zone, and she even talks to some of the local demons, who explain their stories of how Phalanx rose up after Sardius's death, and that a lot of them owe their thanks of freedom to her for killing Sardius. She realizes that not ALL of the denizens of the Zone where like Sardius and his minions, and actually has some remorse for them. She doesn't decide to tell them yet that she is looking for Phalanx, as she can tell the demon people truly believe he is a leader to respect. She does ask about Firebrand, although not knowing that to be his name yet. The townsfolk explain furtherly into his past, and tell her that he had recently escaped from the Coliseum nearby. Sandra decides to go to the said Coliseum to check around for clues of what to do next, and meets Somulo, the once-legendary 'Demon Dragon' that Firebrand had fought while it was still alive. Somulo sees her as lunch though, and tries to eat her, forcing her to fight it in the middle of the coliseum itself, finally destroying it. However like Hydra and Freon, it offers its' essence to Sandra as a summon, telling her that Phalanx had set up its fatal battle with Firebrand intentionally to weaken Firebrand enough to grab what crests the Adeemer Ace had already collected, which had been all but the crest of Fire, which Sandra herself found on Santranus earlier, since Phalanx was too weak to take on Firebrand directly with all of the crests he had collected. From Somulo's death speech, she begins to believe Firebrand is misunderstood, and can be set down the right path again, and furthermore that Phalanx is evil like she thinks.

    Setting down the path outside of the Coliseum, Sandra makes her way through a small graveyard, a spiky canyon full of deadly traps, and then must finally scale a large upsloping wall. Upon getting to the top, she has unexpected company. A strange gargoyle creature with feathered wings flaps down from above, laughing a bone-chilling laughter. He tells Sandra that he is surprised to see her of all people back in the Phantom Zone. He tells her that he is the head general of Phalanx, and introduces himself as 'Arma'. He also tells her to stay out of the Phantom Zone's matters now if she wants to survive, and that she's done more than enough by killing Sardius. Sandra isn't deterred, and dares him to try to strike her down. Arma takes to her challenge, and the two trade some serious blows, and Sandra finds out that Arma is using the Crest of Earth, Phalanx appearantly splitting the Crests between himself and some of his minions. However Sandra finally tires of Arma's presistance, and uses Tameru, and slams into Arma with a airborne kick that sends him almost plowing several feet into the ground. Arma pulled himself out, saying that she is truly as good as the stories of her fight with Sardius say, and that he looks forward to meeting her again, and flies off. However after he is out of her visable range, the Crest of Earth falls from the Sky, hitting Sandra on the head, but allowing her to gain it and keep it out of Phalanx or Arma's hands again.

    Sandra heads back to the village she had met some of the local demons, learning from some of them of a strange warrior attacking travelers in the graveyards outside town, and that he is planning to make a full attack on their village soon. Sandra asks how she can help them, and one local tells her that the graveyard is straight to the north of town, but to watch out for some of the zombie-like inhabitants, who they say like to grab foes and hold them in place while other monsters attack them in their binded state. Sandra soon begins to understand the locals' fear of these undead beings, as they loved attacking in massive swarms from underground. Sandra had to use several Earth elemental spells to put them in their place along the way, also fighting flying suits of decomposed armor along the way. At the end, she reaches a large boneyard, and from the yard emerges the warrior that has been attacking the locals, a large hunchbacked skeleton known as Belth, who carried a wicked-looking curved sword which he also used as a crutch. In all actuality, he wasn't a huge challenge for Sandra, since his blade couldn't damage her vest and do much damage, and Sandra soon grew acustomed to his movements, and ended the match by summoning Koronot on him, who had decided to do his 'Funky Dance' power to finish Belth off, causing him to explode violently. Sandra returned to the village, only to find a different breed of monsters, mostly bats and other underground-like creatures, attacking the village. She fights off some of these creatures, and traces them to their source, a concealed cave near the edge of the village leading underground. In this cave, she is forced to use fire spells often to light up the rooms, as there is little natural light. At the end of the tunnel, after shattering a lot of loose blocks, she finds herself at a vertical shaft, where a large green jelly-like goo with a large eyeball in the center begins to chase her ever so slowly. Finally Sandra and the strange creature reach the top, and the creature releases several smaller floating eyeball things to attack Sandra. She uses fire on some of them to get rid of them fast, but she finds Earth-elemental attacks are working on the main eye, which now peels itself from the good, calling itself Ovnunu. Ovnunu and Sandra fight a long battle, Ovnunu able to command the gunk he once vesseled in to attack and bind Sandra when needed. Sandra finally decided to get rid of the jelly like-substance once and form all, casting an Terafurea spell to disintergrate the goo, making Ovnunu angry. However Sandra finally prevails by jumping onto Ovnunu and smashing him into the concrete ground with her strength, crushing it to death. Ovnunu drops a small piece of the damaged Crest Sandra found on Santranus, and she makes sure to hold onto it.

    Returning to the village, Sandra is given a map of the lighter side of the Phantom Zone by a wise man in town, telling her that he knows about Phalanx's intentions in secret, and that he had been waiting on either her or Firebrand to come and stop him once and for all. He tells her that Arma is also not as bad as he makes himself out to be, and is more of loyal to Phalanx than devoted to destruction. Sandra leaves, heading to a strange, murky forest to her north, across a small circuler river of water. Within the forest, she finds most of the lower parts are thorny and spiky, and vines hanging all over the place, while one-eyed bats, monster caterpillars and other dangers lurk. She also makes her way across a small part of the river, riding on strange platforms with faces, fighting more bats along the way. On the other side of the river, the forest ahead is suddenly burnt away by a group of flaming birds. Strange treeroots start breaking around the ground, trying to pull Sandra under and to her doom. She manages to avoid these problems, and fights of some more familar foes, including even more one-eyed bats, and strange flying armor ghouls from the graveyard outside of the village. Finally she comes towards the edge of the forest, still with some trees. However they are burned down by the same birds of fire, which then form into a strange entity of fire known as the Flamelord. Sandra uses her Blizzaga spells on the Flamelord's first form, causing extreme damage at first, but the flamelord then turns into a large triple-skull of fire, and becomes stronger to Ice. Sandra has to fight this thing with Water-elemental and physical attacks to finally destroy it. After killing the Flamelord, she senses an odd distrubance underneath her, and heads back to the river. Sandra isn't too experienced with swimming yet, but she decides that whatever is getting her attention is under the water somewhere, and dives in. Underwater, she finds a group of loose blocks, and shatters most of them, finding a caved in door, which she breaks open with a Tameru-built kick. Inside of these caves are strange, damp and cold cave which leads to more water, and several underwater denizens of the Phantom Zone. At the end of this tunnel, she manages to get back on land, and meets a strange insectoid monster known as Scula, who is actually two entities known as 'Toss' and 'Roll', as one. Toss and Roll fight Sandra for a short time, but Toss is easily destroyed by a blast of Sandaga, leaving Roll to fend for itself. Roll gives Sandra a tougher time than expected with its erratic moving habits, but is brought down by a Megafurea spell in the end.

    However Sandra has unexpected company. The Red Adeemer Ace that she saw on Santranus lowers himself inTO the room. She finally realizes this is Firebrand, The Red Demon, and the former hero of the Light half of the Phantom Zone. Firebrand tells Sandra that while he is impressed with her powers, that the crests she has are what's keeping her alive. Sandra, however has not actually figured out how to use the Crests, and has been going it all so far on her own power. However she decides that she won't use the Crests now at all. Firebrand thinks her words are a lie at first, and challenges her. The Red Demon fights her for a short while, demonstrating some of his powers that made him the hero he was. Sandra has some inital difficulty, but she finds out that Firebrand isn't very adept in magic, and starts hitting him with spells like Compress and Slow, making Firebrand's movements and overall power temporarily weaker. Firebrand manages to get out of her range however, and realizes that Sandra has been told about him and his past, and assumes that she doesn't want to kill him. He takes advantage of it and claims that he will find Arma and take the other two crests that he still has, and use them against her later. Sandra now realizes that finding the other Crests is as high a priority as finding Phalanx is. She returns to the village, learning her next destination is a good way across the ocean. A ghoul in town notices that she has the Reibetio power, and tells her she can use it to levitate to the island and back. Sandra never made much use of Reibetio to that point, and decides to give it a shot. She lucks out and it allows her to get to the island. However she finds the Air Temple nearby already decimated to an extent. Knowing Firebrand likely came through here, she has little trouble getting through the first part of the temple. However she soon finds herself miles up in the air, with a large gap between the temple and another area on the other side. There are little pillars rising up and down, but the wind is blowing forward at a strong level, pushing Sandra slightly forward, and making her jumping harder to use. Her suit's ability to attach to walls comes in handy a few times where she almost falls over, especially since enemies are attacking from several angles. She finally reaches the last pillar, but as she jumps, the wind tilts downwards, blowing her down too fast and making her miss the other side, and tumbling her into a whirlwind. Sandra regains consciousness on a ledge a decent distance below, but she finds a Hippogriff waiting for her, which she has little difficulty destroying. Ahead of her is a very tedious tower that has ledges revolving around a center pivot in the middle of the tower. She jumps around between these many ledges, and goes in and out of exits along the sides of the tower, making her way to the top, where she finds the moon shining bright, but Arma's familar laugh reigns in the distance. The bird-winged gargoyle lowers to her level and tells her that he is ready for a second bout with her, now sporting a strange green color to his skin. The fight is longer than before, now that Arma has gained a new whirlwind attack from drawing the Crest of Wind's power, but Sandra uses her Earth elemental powers to help thwart the attack, and finally does enough damage to Arma that he runs again, but not before showing the slightest bit of fear towards Sandra. The Crest of Air is dropped as he leaves, and Sandra now has Earth, Air, and Fire.

    After returning out of the Air temple, Sandra felt an odd disturbance from a half-sunken city to her north on the same island. The distrubance was partially dark, however something blared in her mind that finding it would benefit her much later on. Sandra made haste to the sunken city, fighting her way over the deteriorating platforms over the lake seperating the city from the rest of the world. She realized the strange power was coming from beneath the waves. She submerges into the water to attempt to find this source, but realizes she doesn't have enough air to go the whole way. Disappointed, she decides to ignore the power source and go above water through the temple, still sensing what she believed to be the energy signature of a Crest on the upper level. Expecting a fight with Firebrand again, she entered the uppermost level with caution, only to find a hideous looking beast of mud and goop known as Crawler. Crawler's defense was amazing compared to most of the creatures she was used to fighting, and even her magic didn't hurt it much unless it's eye was open and exposed. However her curative magic allowed her to outlast the Crawler and finally send it into a combusting blaze of glory by using Burieka and then Ultima twice on it, crumbling it to dust. To her delight, a Crest fell from its remains. She learned this was the Crest of Water, and realized that it may be the key to giving Sandra the swimming abilities to reach the odd power from below the waves that had been calling her. True to her thoughts, the Crest of Water grants her unlimited air and mastery over the use of swimming. She however does not use it to actually amplify her water-elemental powers, still vowing not to draw off the power, in fear perhaps that it could turn her evil or such. She finally swims her way to the source of energy she has been feeling: a strange, but giant snail-like being called Holothurion. Holothurion sees her as an intruder on his territory, and attacks Sandra by using his manipulation over water currents to move the water all around, and Sandra along with it, making her crash into it's extremely dense shell 2 or 3 times. Sandra fights Holothurion physically for a while, but learns his defense is even more amazing than Crawler's, thanks to his shell. Fire, Water and Ice elemental spells are barely working on him, and Thunder-elemental only did so much damage, and also dispersed too quickly in the water to be all that effective. She then learns in a surprising shock that Air elemental spells seem to agitate Holothurion to the point where he can't use his air current attack, and that he is forced to retreat back into his shell. Sandra then starts using Dark and Holy-elemental spells on his and the shell, slowly cracking it. Finally the shell is unable to take anymore pressure, and explodes, and Holothurion is destroyed along with it. Sandra is disappointed she had to kill him, wondering what she sensed from him that was so important. Holothurion's spirit suddenly appears, and Sandra assumes it wants to help her out. Holothurion, in his own langauge, confirms her suspicions, giving his spiritual form to her to use as a summon attack. Sandra then quickly swims back to the surface and leaves the sunken city.

    At first, Sandra is now totally unaware of what to do next, until she sees the fleeing form of Arma flying to her Northwest, landing in an icy group of mountains several dozen miles away. She is unaware of how to get their first, and Rebeiteos herself and returns to the village. The same ghoul who had given her the tip about using Rebeiteo to reach the island noticed her holding the Crest of Air and noted that the Crest grants the wielder the power of flight. Sandra again thanks him for his advise, using the Crest of Air, and growing a pair of bird's wings, much like Arma's own, and uses them to fly to the frozen mountains. Of course Arma realizes that she saw him earlier, and has sent his forces to greet her at the mountains. Using the Crest of Air still to fly, Sandra finds a hidden temple above the normal part of the mountains and enters, squaring off with a strange flying creature called the Flier [natch], who resembles a flying bug with claws. Sandra fighrs it hand to hand, still using her wings to keep level with it. The Flier finally falls, and she finds more of the temple behind the Flier. Sandra now has to deal with pits full of hands like the ones in the graveyard, and also more darkened environments to use her fire on to light up. Still using her wings, Sandra finally reaches the top of the area, finding a dead end. However Arma flaps down into the room, now with a greyish skin, and he tells her that her journey will end there, and that he will stop her, even if he has to die trying. He is also now drawing his power from the Crest of Time, which makes his skin almost like Iron, giving him more defense, and thwarting the effectiveness of some of Sandra's physical techinqiues. He also is throwing strange star-like blasts that do decent damage on contact. The last for at least 20+ minutes, as Sandra is healing herself like crazy, and Arma isn't taking a great deal of damage. Finally however Arma loses control over the Crest of Heaven and almost craters, leaving him extremely weakened. He decides to tell Sandra he's finished. He tells her that she possesses the power necessary to stop Phalanx, and end the final reign of Sardius once and for all. Sandra wonders why he's said this. Arma proceeds to tell her what he learned about Phalanx: he is the apprentice of Sardius, and that Sardius made him hide in the lighter half the Phantom Zone before Sardius and Sandra had fought. Hydra and Freon's spirits come out, with forlong looks on their faces. They tell Sandra that part of the whole Phalanx matter is their fault, since they knew of his existance two years ago, but had saw him as insigificant and not worth chasing, which they now regret. Arma recognizes Hydra, and asks Sandra how they are able to appear as they do. Sandra explains her process of summoning and how Hydra and Freon, and even Somulo and Holothurion offered their powers. Arma chuckles to himself, saying "I believe it's time I sealed my powers and gave to you. The Crest of Time is also yours." He compresses himself into a spiritual ball of energy, which flies to Sandra, and then the Crest of Time remains, which Sandra claims for herself. She decides to continue using the Crest of Time, and flies out the window in Arma's lair, landing just short of the east side of the mountains. Nearby, a strange beast, half-feline and half-canine, howls at her and lunges forth, breathing firey bubbles of lava and scratching its claws like no tomorrow. Sandra ducked the attack and retailiated at the monster. It then attacked again, starting a battle between Sandra and what Arma's summon identified as 'Grewon', a powerful ice/fire elemental creature whose howl could temporarily make it invulnerable. Sandra took note of the greenish color the Grewon turned when hit, and realized it was its point of immunity. Sandra timed her attacks just right, managed to avoid some close swipes of Grewon's claws, and finally causing it to collapse on its' side, and fade away. However, Grewon's ghost appears, telling Sandra that she is good at strategical maneuvers as well as fighting. It introduces herself and joins Sandra as another summon, and the last one she got for the time being. Sandra flew from the mountains with the Crest of Air, and with the spirit of Arma guiding her, flew to where Phalanx's castle was now located.

    Entering the castle of Phalanx, Sandra makes her way carefully through, fighting and avoiding pairs of goblins manning ceiling crossbows, strange jesters jumping from Stained glass, and hazardous spikes along the floors. Sandra gets by this to find the shattered bust of a Hippogriff. Sandra suddenly realizes that Firebrand is likely beaten her here and is looking to kill Phalanx himself, thus making her gain haste. She enters the next area to find herself having to scale up a vertical shaft with ghosts, spikes, armored ghouls, and other assorted baddies. At the top, she comes to another point where the Crest of Air's flight comes in handy, a windy gauntlet full of spiked floors and towers. She scales her way through this area, avoiding odd ghoulish machinary trying to press down on her and crush her, and enters another vertical shaft, except going back down this time. Letting herself glide to the bottom on her wings inherited by the Crest of Air, she manages to safely make it to the bottom of this area after some frustration with more ghosts and armored ghouls. At the bottom, she goes through what seems to be the purple tinted dungegon of the castle, fighting strange demons coming out of Iron Maidens strewn about the area. At the end of all of this, Sandra fights a yellow-fured clone of Grewon, however halfway through the fight, a large blast of Hellfire hits the clone and causes it to combust. Sandra sees Firebrand descend from the ceiling above, telling her it had been him who shot the blast. Firebrand lands and observes Sandra, noting that all five all of the crest pieces are in her hands. He is not happy to see Sandra there, and demands she hand over the Crests and leave in peace, or suffer a horrible end. Sandra of course doesn't budge, and tells Firebrand that he's fighting the wrong person if he wants vengence. He replies that he needs to have all Five of the other Crests if he is to be able to match the Crest of Heaven, which is in Phalanx's possession, in the chamber just ahead of them. Sandra demands to know why Firebrand wants to kill Phalanx so badly. Firebrand decides to explain, telling her that he had five of the Crests himself at one point, minus the Crest of Fire, but after destroying Somulo's living form that he was left weakened, and Phalanx struck from behind, taking him out and stealing the five crests. Sandra understands better about Somulo's story earlier, but offers to help Firebrand fight Phalanx, telling him that Phalanx is the successor of Sardius. Firebrand seems to not be affected much by the piece of news, and gives Sandra final warning. Sandra simply replies by casting Expand on herself, doubling most of her power, and then rushing into Firebrand with a powerful knee to his face, knocking him away and starting the battle. Firebrand, while not happy he has to fight, is still amused with her for her persistance, claiming he'll do what Arma couldn't, now unleashing some new tricks, including his Demon fire techinque, as well as using some unique spells he bought at the village outside the collesium. Sandra is a little taken off guard by Firebrand's new arsenal of abilities, but it's only a matter of time before she finally finds out he's using special talismens he found to increase some of his power. She casts Gravity on Firebrand, successfully connecting on him once, but Firebrand reveals some healing items of his. After so long, Firebrand is running short of items and spells to use, and Sandra is barely winded overall after healing herself a few times. Firebrand just doesn't understand why she has so much strength. Sandra tells him that he wouldn't care to know, and that the story is too long. Firebrand also realizes that perhaps Sandra can help him, and he shakily agrees to assist her on their final crusade against Phalanx, and enter his lair...

    Sandra and Firebrand enter the lair of Phalanx, finding the strange demon successor to Sardius dwelling within, waiting for them. He congratulates Firebrand for surviving long enough for them to meet again. He then look to Sandra and scowls at her, saying that she has made her greatest mistake if she dares to take him on with the Crest of Heaven in his possession, and that he will make her pay for Sardius's death. He then looks back to Firebrand and smirks, saying that he has two secrets he wants to share with the Red Demon before killing him. The first is that Phalanx reveals he is a magic-created demon combined by the magics of two demons named Goza and Breager, whose names bring Firebrand into a seething anger, as it was apperant that Firebrand fought them both over five years back. Phalanx tells Firebrand that his whole existance is one of two backup plans by Goza and Breager. He tells Firebrand the second plan, which was Firebrands own corruption from exposure to Breager's power during their fight, and that the exposure is what turned his nature into a greedy and dark one, making him into an anti-hero. Firebrand then realizes in anger that Phalanx's words seem to be perfectly true, since he had not begun to turn dark until months after Breager's death. Phalanx decides to begin the battle, and raises two spiked walls around himself, Sandra and Firebrand, and takes to the air. Phalanx decides he wants to try and rid himself of Firebrand first, seeing him as the weakest, and starts shooting odd orbs of black energy and slicing beams at the Red Demon, who barely manages to dodge. Sandra, in a very odd move, throws the other five Crests to Phalanx, while she pounces up and spin kicks Phalanx to the ground hard, and Firebrand uses the Crest of Earth to the become the Ground Gargoyle and dashes Phalanx up against the spiked wall of his lair, hoping to mortally wounded him in one fell swoop. However Phalanx, while badly damaged by the combo assault, is far from dead, but too wounded to fight in his normal state. He calls the Crest of Heaven into the fight, and the crest emits a light down upon Phalanx. When the light clears, he is fully healed, and stronger than before. Now he calls upon the spiked walls in his lair to spill water into the room, and the room begins to slowly fill with water, which Phalanx hopes will limit Sandra's attacking ability while he tries to hammer on Firebrand, shooting orbs, and small vortexes at them. Sandra blocks some of his orbs and blasts him back with Sandaga once, while Firebrand becomes the Tidal Gargoyle, jumping in and out of the water and shooting Phalanx for all he's worth. Phalanx begins to slowly turn red, charging up a large blast and blasting Sandra backwards out of reach of him and Firebrand, and begins to hammer on him again. Firebrand quickly equips the completed Crest of Fire, and breaths a huge wall of flames in Phalanx's face, warding him away. Phalanx proceeds to counterattack, but misanticipates Sandra recovering so fast, and she jumps up with a knee to the back of his spine, sending Phalanx tumbling to the ground. The water lowers away, but Phalanx refuses to give up, taking the air a third time, summoning all the energy his body could muster. Firebrand finally turned himself into the Legendary Gargoyle with the Crest of Time, and shot a large, charged blast of energy through Phalanx's chest, sending him to the ground, mortally wounded. Phalanx gets to his feet, still staggering, but in a twisted look of malevolence, tells them that by bringing all Six of the Crest together, that the Demon's Crest, aka the Crest of Infinity, is born. The Crest falls into Phalanx's hands. He summons the illusion of a huge form of his face, and disappears within the illusion, saying he was merely a shadow. The room begins to fill with Lava, and Sandra and Firebrand ride columns up the lava to the top of the dying castle, where they find a hideous foe. Phalanx is now in the form of a huge green demon, much like a snakeoid. He tells Firebrand that he no longer needs him, and that the Phantom Zone and Santranus as well will be helpless against him, and he gives a Cruel look at Sandra, telling her that he will finally avenge his teacher and best friend, and flips out, going ballistic on the two with flurries of fireballs, much too many for both to completely dodge. In addition, they must fight him over the boiling Lava below. Sandra takes the Crest of Air to stay airborne, shooting Ultima at Phalanx a few times while Firebrand uses the Legendary Gargoyle form to destract Phalanx's shots. The fight seems never ending as most of their attacks are reduced to almost nothing by Phalanx's heavy defense. Sandra begins to summon various creatures, including Grewon, who freezes and shatters one of Phalanx's four arms with a lucky blast, then Holothurion, giving her and Firebrand much improved Defense. She then summons Arma, who manages to Sheer off another of Phalanx's upper arms, and then finally Somulo to blast his head with a huge blast of flame. However Somulo's attack is the last straw for Phalanx, and he literally snaps, going outright feral on Sandra and Firebrand, and managing to bind them in his last two arms, and throws them against the wall, still pinning them against it and threatening to crush them between his arms and the wall. However Phalanx's train of thought is finally broken when the voice of Hudra echoes around him. Phalanx loses control of his feral state, recognizing Hydra's voice, and tries to taunt him about their old rivalry, and how his mistress and Firebrand are about the be reduced to grease spots. However Hydra suddenly appears spiritually in Phalanx's now fully exposed face, telling him, "Grewon and Arma did their job, and I will finish it, for you have no more defense!" and fires a SUPER-level Delta-Flare at point blank range, overwhemling Phalanx and causing him to drop Sandra and Firebrand, who manage to recover. Phalanx is however been mortally wounded once again by Hydra's super Delta-Flare attack, and decides to taunt all of them one last time, "You may... have destroyed me, Red Demon, Slayer of Sardius... but hear me... One day... when you have grown old and weak, I, Sardius, Loki, Goza, Asteroth, and Breager will return... and we will avenge! One... more thing... I have... a final pre... sent for you, Fire... brand... and you too, Sandra... He will... be meet...ing.. you... soon... fools..." and he finally begins to crumble into ashes, leaving the Crest of Infinity behind in death.

    Firebrand and Sandra emerge from the remains of Phalanx's castle, and silently return to the village outside of the Collesium. Upon arrival, the vilagers run from Firebrand at first, who doesn't care now about his cover being blown, holding the Crest of Heaven, the proof that Phalanx is slain. The villagers are too afraid of him, but Sandra snaps them from it, telling them that Phalanx was going to do worse things with the Crest than Firebrand had thought, and most importantly, how Phalanx was Goza and Breager's creation. Upon hearing this, the villagers begin to understand that Firebrand's darkness was not fully his own doing, and they declared that they will forgive the Red Demon if he helps them rebuild what was lost in the war over the Demon's Crest itself. Firebrand reluctantly agrees, wondering why he still feels some of the darkness in him. However they have little time to go further into it, as a massive earthquake rocks the entirity of both halves of the Phantom Zone. Suddenly the ground opens up to the southwest of the village, as the form of a skeletorial demon rises from beneath the ground. Firebrand is in shock, vaugely recognizing the creature, referring to it as the "Dark Demon." Sandra asks what the Dark Demon is, and Firebrand mentions that it was once a project made by Loki, Asteroth and Sardius, that was never completed, because they had been banished to the Phantom Zone because they tried to fight a god known as Tensei in the world of Eden, which was said to connect to Heaven itself. The Demon however, was finished when Phalanx became Sardius's apprentice, Phalanx discovering the uncompleted form of the demon, and giving it the necessary power to born. The demon when into a fury though, ravaging some parts of the Phantom Zone before Sardius himself was barely able to stop it, and sealed it within the underground. Firebrand also assumes Sardius and Phalanx's deaths broke the bind on the Demon and allowed it to break out. Sandra decides she is going to fight the Dark Demon, but Firebrand stops her and tells her she cannot beat it alone. Sandra invites Firebrand for help, and he decides that this may be the only way to prove he is not after world rule anymore. The Demon however manages to strike random areas around both halfs of the Phantom Zone, swooping in and out in a hellacious fury, and even heading his way towards the Towers of Molten Steel, towards the gate to Santranus. Sandra and Firebrand follow it, but are forced to fight on Santranus territory, on the same island where Castle Damiaou had been standing 4 years ago. The Dark Demon was extremely powerful, quickly proving how powerful it really was, summoning a rain of lava on Sandra and Firebrand, doing decent damage to both. Sandra took the Crest of Air again, while Firebrand used the Crest of Infinity to become the Ultimate Gargoyle. Both begain flying around the strange demon, blasting his upper body with Ultima spells, and charged up mouth blasts. However the Demon made a suprising move, and changed his form into a strange skeletorical angel, which began firing dark bolts of electrical energy at them, and throwing pieces of earth up at the flying warriors. For what seemed to be hours, the Demon shifted in and out of his two forms, and Sandra and Firebrand used their most powerful spells and summons. Sandra finally realized after so long, remembering that Firebrand said Sardius himself had barely been able to beat the Demon that she would have to use Focus once again. She asks Firebrand to distract the Demon while she does this, and Firebrand is almost burned alive for it since the Dark Demon suddenly summoned a waterfall of lava on him. Luckily he had been able to heal himself as Sandra fully refilled her magicial reserves from her Focus ability, and Sandra flew, in bombing the Demon with Focused Level 3 Elemental Spells, Focused Ultima spells, and other various spells, anything to keep her and Firebrand going. Finally Firebrand charges up his most powerful know blast, putting some of his own life energy into it, and prompts Sandra and him hit the demon at the same time. Sandra fires of a Focused Ultimara, which combines with Firebrand's blast, and the c