Shaeg walked away, fully confident in his own abilities, not fearing Klaeb at all. He had devastated innumerable worlds, and not a single one had posed a challenge to him, what could one man, especially one as previously pathetic as Klaeb truly do to him? "Come out Klaeb, I sense your presence fool. You cannot come upon me in stealth, I am too keenly aware of everything for that. Show yourself and let us end this, I am anxious to have your woman...your former woman, she is all but mine now."

Klaeb appeared, and tied the device to his waist with a sash, a bright red sash of fine material. "You may have taken her away from me Shaeg, but that does not mean I cannot take her back once I have ended your vile threat."

Shaeg smiled and stretched, supressing a yawn as he did so. "Do you honestly beleive that it is as easy as that Klaeb? This power has just become yours young fool, I have been slowly acquiring my power for many years, it is as much a part of me as is...the stink of the ordinary is on you."

But Klaeb did not back down, he was not afraid of Shaeg. "Better that than the stink of hatred and death."

Shaeg bowed. "I admire your lack of fear Klaeb, but that will not help you, nor will it help save your insignificant life. In fact, it will only drive me to make your death more of an agony than it would have been before. Defiance of who you are has its price."

"What? I am just a loser, and can never be more? This is my day Shaeg, I will stop you and take back what you stole from me...what you stole from her."

"Actually, yes. There will always be the weak and the strong Klaeb. You are weak, and I am strong. It is an unmuteable fact."