The floor gave way and they crashed back into the room that originally brought them to the pyramids apex. The black blood was starting to course through all the walls now. The immortal hammer made it through the entrance in just enough time to turn around and see the prince reach the door, but as he was about to pass through the precipice, the looming darkness engulfed the prince.
For what seemed like the hundredth time in the last 3 days the prince felt like he was floating in darkness. It wasn’t until he noticed a small white dot on the horizon that was growing progressively larger did he realize that he was actually moving forward. As he approached the dot he realized it was more a hole and he was being pulled through it.
On the other side the world was made of a dull greenish blue hue. He looked forward and saw a huge mass moving in his direction.
It took a moment before the prince realized that it was a gigantic creature floating through the ether. It resembled the whales that lived in the lake behind the castle back in continuum city, but this creature was easily 30X larger. The creature had long rows of what appeared to be rubber wings continuously undulating along its side. As he got closer to the creature, it opened its colossal maw and began to suck in everything around it (which included the prince).
The next few moments were chaos as he was sucked in by the wind vortex created by the Sky Whale. It was dark inside the whales mouth so the prince fumbled for his sword hilt. Once the hilt was in his hand the blade instantly emerged. This had never happened before, and the prince wondered what had changed so that he could now control the blades release. He surmised it must have something to do with the death of the dark rider.
Now that the blade was illuminating the cavernous area, the prince could see that he was amazingly still being dragged by the same force as before. The walls of the whales inner lining were strange. While they appeared organic, parts of the wall looked like they had been either patched up or constructed by human hands, and every once in a while he would come across a small structure or light fixture built into the walls. The prince was just starting to get used to this bizarre trip through the inner workings of a whale when he noticed that he was careening towards a dead end. Trying to flail or propel him self back the other direction was futile so the prince closed his eyes and stuck the sword in front of him.
There was a slight pressure on the tip of his sword and then the prince opened his eyes to find he was floating over a vast city of buildings made up of the same organic matter that lined the walls. The prince looked behind him to see a hole in the wall where he had passed through. The sword had burned away the wall just like it had done all the other organic matter it had come in contact with, but he could see that the damage wasn’t permanent and that the wall was already starting to repair itself.
The prince marveled at the city below him, but his awe was quickly cut short by the appearance of two winged creatures that flew out of a large dome he had just passed over. The creatures reminded him of bats, but these were much larger, easily 3X larger than the prince himself, and instead of being black their skin was a pinkish white color. Their bodies were amorphous and seemed to have no facial features. When the creatures got close to him, he could see there were small red glowing humanoids with their arms wrapped around the bats necks, guiding the creatures. They flew up next to the prince and motioned upward. Above him there was a large hole in the ceiling. The prince pointed his sword in the direction of the hole in an attempt to communicate with the humanoid, but once he did his trajectory changed and he started flying upwards towards the hole. The prince realized that he could control his direction simply by pointing the sword where he wanted to go. The red pilots swiftly took the lead back from him, and the prince began to follow them. They darted this way and that changing directions and tunnels wildly, the prince could hardly keep up.
Finally they came upon a long tunnel that shot straight upwards. Without warning the two creatures broke off from each other both going down separate tunnels. It happened so fast that the prince couldnt follow either of them, he lowered his blade and his ascent stopped just in time to hear a cacophonous boom come from below him. The sound was instantly followed by a huge gust of wind that enveloped the prince.
The next thing the prince knew he was back in the ether. He looked behind him to see the sky whale off in the distance with a trail of stardust streaming out of its blowhole. The prince was dazed, and he started to feel the same current grab him again, slowly pulling him back the direction it had before. He wasnt worried anymore because now he had the guiding power of the blade. Surveying the area he realized he was in some sort of kinetic tubular structure. Gargantuan space cylinders bent around themselves and fed into a massive glowing orb creating a sort of colossal möbius band. Blue planetoids floated all about. Some were broken and incomplete. Some were spherical and some had flat edges. He observed some housed small structures. One even seemed to have a miniature castle on it. The prince pondered what all the other ones could hold, but his curiosity was cut short when the gentle current suddenly went haywire.
The prince looked up to see two giant black hands ripping apart the fabric of the space band. He looked on in utter horror as a black behemoth ripped its way towards him. The giant looked to have been sliced off at the mid section, black guts and innards dangled from its mangled form dripping black pixels like blood. It wasn’t until the colossus turned its blood red gaze towards him that the prince recognized him. The dark rider had somehow changed himself into this new hulking form.
The prince pointed his sword at the dark giant and flew towards him. The blades glow grew brighter the closer he came to his gigantic attacker. A massive black fist came hurtling towards him. The prince swiftly diverted the swords direction into the careening fist in time to sink the blade into his black skin. Tendrils of rainbow colored light spilled from the dark giant, and it bellowed in anguish. The prince turned to see the goliaths other hand close around his body. The dark giant was trying to crush him, but miraculously the glow of the sword surrounded him and created a shielding aura that was preventing him from being flattened. The prince could tell the aura wouldn’t last long and he summoned all his strength and forced the blade into the giants palm. The crushing fingers instantly released him.
Using the sword he flew around the dark giant trying to confuse and tire him out. The prince was starting to worry. He couldnt keep this fight up much longer. The sword hurt the colossal foe, but didn’t do anywhere near enough damage to vanquish him. The giants eyes followed him everywhere he flew, but the behemoth was just too slow and clumsy to catch the nimble prince, and that’s when the idea hit him. He flew towards giants face, pulling up just as two massive hands clapped together in an attempt to squash him. At lightning speed the prince looped back around just as the dark giant pulled his hands apart. The black goliath didnt have time to react as the prince flew straight through his left eye. The prince turned around to see the dark giant explode in a cloud of black pixels. Using the sword had drained every last bit of the princes energy, and he went completely limp. Slowly he felt the current grab him.

In and out of consciousness the prince went. One second he was passing by another floating island, the next on the ground. He used the last bit of his strength to look up and survey the surroundings. In the distance he spotted another pyramid like the one in the underground cavern, and then blackness. He didn’t have the strength to open his eyes, but he could still hear, and something was coming. It was getting closer. He could feel hands on him. The prince pried his eyes open to see two men in strange dark garb dragging him towards the pyramid. He tried to struggle, but it was pointless. The prince closed his eyes and let the darkness take him.