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Mark noticed her silence and said nothing more, he encased his body in rock and dove at Chimera.

Chimera spun, twirling around Mark's attack. She proceeded to blast them with shadow energy.

Mark panicked and put up a shield, a weak thin one that broke from her attacks.

Chimera followed up with more shadow fire, while simultaneously creating tendrils of shadow energy.

"Crap crap crap." Mark said, he put more weak shields that broke, most of the attacks hitting his body.

Chimera thrust her charged tail to Mark's neck, "Do you yield?"

Mark growled, most of his rock armor gone. "I said I'd never give." His tail hit the back of her head as he kicked out her back legs

Chimera frowned as she got hit and fell. She proceeded to grin as she shifted into her shadow cloak.

Mark stood back up. "Come on! Quit hiding!"

"I'm not hiding, I'm here, you just can't see me." Chimera said, preparing another attack.

Mark looked around him, his body alert and waiting.

Chimera rematerialized behind Mark, charging up a powerful blast of shadow energy, "I call this, dark night nova." She unleashed the blast.

Mark gasped as the attack hit him, he flew back into the back wall, the back of his head hitting the wall. An audible crack sounding throughout the cave. Mark fell onto the floor and groaned. "What did you do to me?" A small puddle of blood started to form at the base of his head.

Chimera blinked in surprise and shock, and proceeded to use her shadow healing, "I'm sorry, I didn't think it'd do it that much."

"Dang Chimera... Smart, beautiful, and strong..." Mark said with a smile, half closed eyes.

Chimera blinked in surprise, but continued to heal him, "Mind removing the rocks?"

"I would if I could concentrate..." Mark said. "My head is buzzing."

Kihei hit the button to stop the match before having Flower and Virtu run down there "The match has been stopped, the winner by TKO is Chimera" Kihei said

Flower and Virtu started to heal Mark too

"There is one tonight Spyro, what do you want me to get Ki to make something special?" Midnight asked

Chimera helped Mark up, "Thanks guys."

"Oh, hey guys." Mark said loopily. "When did you get here? Aren't we underground?"

"Oh dear..." Vexx said.

"I hope he's ok." Spark said.

"Yes, that would be great." Spyro said.

"Ok" Midnight said

"We used a rope ladder to come down" Virtu said

Mark was wobbily. "Oh, how are we going to get out?" Mark asked with a blank expression.

"We fly, and carry you out." Chimera said, playing along; she hoped her attack didn't hurt Mark that much.

"Sweet..." Mark said with a nod. "So what were we doing before this?"

"We woke up" Virtu said as she waited for them to get lifted out

Chimera wondered what exactly happened for his mind to take this so badly; maybe it was hitting his head on the rock, could it have given him a concussion?

"Oh, so its morning? When's breakfast?" Mark asked with a yawn. "Maybe I should take a nap..."

"Errr, no, not quite." Chimera was not an expert on internal injuries.

"Oh its not morning? Thats sad..." Mark said, "I'm just going to take a nap right here..." Mark yanwed as he lied down and closed his eyes.

Chimera picked Mark up with shadow telekinesis, "No you aren't."

Mark whined. "But I'm tired..." He squirmed a bit.

"You never sleep with a concussion Mark, it could kill you" Virtu said before looking out of the hole "Hey! We need some real help here!" She yelled up

Isis and Makil lifted Virtu, Flower, and Mark out "Get to the med bay" Makil said

Flower carried Mark as she and Virtu ran to the med bay

"I don't have a contusion..." Mark said. "I just... Just..." His body then began to seize and shake.

"Oh no..." Frost said as they saw Mark get carried away.

"This isn't good..." Gaia said.

Chimera's wings drooped, "Oh ancestors."

Careena and the others watched with worry.

Vexx's eyes flickered white for a moment and his scales seemed to darken a bit. He walked over to Chimera and pushed her against a wall, "What the hell did you do to him!"

Chimera growled, "It was only an attack, he must have got it from hitting the rock." She pushed Vexx away.

"Mark doesn't get easily beaten unless you purposely used an attack to hurt him like that..." Vexx growled, his voice deeper than usual.

Spark gulped, she jogged over to Vexx and started to pull him away. "Enough of that."

Chimera growled, "I told you, it's just an attack, if it weren't for him hitting his head like that on the rocks, he wouldn't be like this." She vanished into her shadow cloak, and didn't reveal herself afterwards.

Spark led Vexx out of the room. "Get better grip on him Vexx."

Vexx shook his head and his scales and voice returned to normal. "Sorry..."

Isis flew over to Vexx "Are you ok?" She asked

"Mom! That's not good" Virtu said as they reached the med bay

Flower put Mark in a strange tube machine "Please be ok" She said

Ganter blinked at where Chimera was, "Chimera?"

No response.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." Vexx sighed looking at the ground.

When Mark was placed in the tube he started to groan, his shaking had stopped but the cut on the back of his head re-opened.

"Ok, you scared me there, you started getting darker" Isis said

The tube raised up to a vertical position as it started to close the wound on Mark's head

"I did? Oh uh... I'm fine." Vexx said, wanting to change the subject.

Mark's wound was sealed, but he still looked in pain, the back of his head started to swell.

(Chimera's magic should have gotten rid of the wound.)

The others were hushed, unsure what to do.

"Are you sure? Is there something I need to know?" Isis asked

The tube started giving medicine as needed to stop swelling and treat his wounds

(It did, but if you knew the full extent... It was reopened do to movement and swelling.)

"No, nothing." Vexx said shaking his head.

Ganter sighed, "Chimera, where are you?"

"Ok... But I'm still worried" Isis said

The wound on Mark's head was healed, he was awake but barely. "I'm tired..."

vexx smiled. "Don't be, I'm perfectly fine."