Retracing Sabre: Part 2

Savior was now in a dark cavern, with glowing crystals extending down from the dark ceiling like daggers of beauty. The musk of phantoms was pooled everywhere, and the thrum of power, like a heartbeat, was echoing through the cavern.
"The Hive." she muttered.
It was an auspicious cave, where Apophis carried out some operations, but Savior didn't know that it could be... that beautiful.
She was standing on a sigil with a maze of carved ditches underneath her. Four holes signified places where Alpha Stones would go, although they seemed empty of... flames.
Sabre and Greely were seriously conversing in front of her. Not convulsing, but deep in serious conversation.
"Brother Greely, I must do this!"
"No! This is too dangerous for a Corax to handle."
"Then why don't you say that to Shade?"
"Don't bring her up, scrapbrain!"
In no time, Sabre and Greely were scrabbling on each other, clawing at the other's hideous hides, and rolling faster and faster towards the chasm below.
"No!" cried Savior, but it was no use. She knew that she was invisible to prying eyes, and yet, she couldn't resist the urge to try to stop their demise, to prevent any injuries.
Somehow, as if silently heeding her call, Sabre and Greely stopped and backed away from the edge, still growling at each other and glaring as if they thought one of them were going to betray the other.
Savior could somehow finally exhale, yet she couldn't exhale in the next breath.
Elvis squeaked timidly in her fur.
Suddenly, a sucking sound came from the cavern floor, and a phantom appeared from fumes of smoke.
As quickly as it came to life, Sabre had slashed it to shards of time energy with his extended claws. The teeth of another being were strapped to his knivy claws, the spirit of another animal used to spill blood. The very thought disgusted Savior, but unfortunately, she was alone.
Greely studied the claws with his eyes, giving them the once-over, twice-over and thrice-over.
"Hmm. You Coraxese disgust me in many ways, but I can admit I can see the purpose in your claw extensions. The Warrior Clans of Jamaa use similar tactics, but sparingly."
Sabre grunted as he licked dust off of his claws.
"It's nothing. We need to gather the Alpha Stones, though, before the Phantoms do. They are a by-product of the Mira Feathers, the Super Emeralds of this world. Spirit Stones are made from the same substance, but for a different purpose, and although they give each animal their individual qualities, the Alpha Stones can power almost anything with a portion of the Mira Feathers' power. We do not know of any sigils that make use of the more potent power of the Feathers, though." sighed Sabre.
Greely seemed to analyze ways to quip as he made an amused sound, but the amusement was founded on a feeling of watching a circus monkey do tricks.
"Well, well. So the savage knows much."
Greely made a slow circle around Sabre, who just stared at him with yellow eyes, Greely acting as if he were cornering prey.
"And who is 'we', could you say?"
"'We' is me and myself. I'm sure, Brother Greely, that you could figure that out yourself. You strike me as... the lone wolf type."
Suddenly, a Phantom Pod in the chasm below twitched, making a sickly screeching sound, and both Greely and Sabre stopped their mental, physical and verbal exchange.
"We must go." said Greely. "I have a feeling that we have already given the Phantoms a head start, and I do not like that. They may play mind games with us, but this time, we've already played some with them."
But as the two hostile, powerful and lonesome males headed towards the stack of boomseeds and torch pile nearby, it was as if two alpha males of a pack, both who'd suffered much loss and didn't like giving up territory, were on a temporary truce to hunt down a troublesome Twoleg. It was a truce, but a temporary one. Once the truce's conditions were no longer applicable to the situation, then fur and blood would fly.
Savior didn't like that, and horror bubbled in her stomach, but she made herself, salvatore, to play follow the leader.

The cold stone was damp and mossy underneath Savior's paws, and she skidded on more than once occasion. If Keldeo or another goofy Hero had seen her, she'd have died of embarassment. Savior was proud, refined and seductive, but certainly not clumsy.
Her ego required delicate handling, of course.
Ahead, Sabre and Greely defeated phantoms, tore apart phantom pods (which Savior didn't like because they made weird noises and smelled like a thousand rotten farts condensed and mixed with phantom musk), and gathered the occasional Alpha Stone. Savior tried gathering gems from treasure chests and exploring, but a sort of rope tied her to the leading males.
Yet, the atmosphere was so electrified that Savior didn't want to touch either Sabre or Greely due to the fear of tensing them and breaking the delicate truce.
Then, after much breathing of foul air and being unable to sit down because of being yanked on her rump, Savior finally got back to the sigil with Sabre and Greely, and the Alpha Stones were placed.
Fiery energy flowed through the ditches to a door, and it opened.

Beyond the doorway, Greely and Sabre glared up at a giant eye in the darkness.
"Hello there, pawns." the voice growled. "You seem to have claimed the Alpha Stones before we did."
The hisses of phantoms filled the darkness, and more eyes opened up.
"But, that wasn't our purpose! We have a cracked Spirit Stone here, and with its power, we can power more machines and grow closer to our ambition of sinking Jamaa!"
Greely facepalmed.
"You seem... desperate, Apophis. What has gotten into my old friend?"
Savior stumbled back at the mention of "old friend". What other secrets did Greely hide?
Apophis cackled even more.
"My queen is currently checking on other strongholds as I speak, and this is a special Spirit Stone. You see, my minions scattered the Spirit Stones around Jamaa, remember?"
Greely grimly nodded.
"Well, back then, I was naive. I believed that simply hiding the power of Jamaa would be enough to sink it while the Alphas were temporarily detained, instead of exploiting their power. The Ram Spirit Stone was even destroyed as a result. But now, I have a very, very powerful one, almost as powerful as a Mira Feather."
Sabre shuddered as he saw the shiny black orb floating several hundred yards above them.
The Phantom King descended.
"I don't trust my generals to handle this precious beauty, not even DarkBreath or Agate. The Quantum Dial and other powerful things tempted me, but were all destroyed before I could lay my tentacles on them. The Rebels are powerful, yet they cannot place moles into my ranks, so they don't realize what is happening. I AM UNSTOPPABLE!"
Suddenly, Savior backed away onto a floe of rock away from the battle, and watched as the male shard of Apophis and the two alpha males fight.

First, the King floated towards them, and got ready to slam down to squish them. A purple circle appeared underneath him, and Sabre and Greely backed away quickly.
BAM!
Dust rose as the King grew dizzy and was helpless as Greely and Sabre lobbed boomseeds at him.
Not his smartest tactic.
But then, the King bellowed, and the phantoms watching above descended, swarming in a pattern that resembled "SOS" to attack.
SLASH!
Although the sounds were corny, they made the fight even more intimidating as Savior watched Greely hold up a spear with veins of energy flowing within it, piercing the swarm and returning time fabric to the continuum, stabilizing the world.
Next, frustrated, the King charged forward, a large purple and white aura around him. Simply, Sabre held up claws, and the King vanished.
Panting came from the darkness, and the black orb clattered to the ground, unharmed.
"This wasn't my full power..." huffed the King. "This was a ploy to draw you away from Bunny Burrow.... I will gain full power!"
With that, he vanished in fumes of purple and black fumes.

Sabre lobbed the black orb at Savior.
"This is the Cheetah Spirit Stone, charged with power from a Mira Feather somehow. I don't want it, and Greely doesn't either. I just told him that I'd find someone to keep it for now."
Savior looked in it's depths, but only saw a core of grey crystal inside it.
"I think your friend Frost would like to have it."