Axel felt himself smiling as he watched the knight, now with a hole through his chest, begin to disintigrate into ashes. They had done it after all. He then felt his legs give out from under him, causing him to fall to his knees. The Knight's strike, though it had missed his body, was so infused with darkness that it had zapped some of Axel's light and left him highly fatigued. The sounds of thralls began to echo through the chamber around them. "Kalyx! Start transmatting that shard now! They're coming back!" Kalyx immediately appeared by the shard and began to transport it to the tower, but Axel found he couldn't stand up. "Striker, I can't move!" He called.