During my life, I’ve Resented on how I lived: My actions foretold, passed down, written in books for future generations to come. I’m a living entity of destruction and absolute extinction. I’m a monster who doesn’t deserve the gift forced on him by the woman he loathes. But, as humans, or, I thought I was; people can change for good or bad. And I wonder, could I? Perhaps in this circumstance, I have. Just watching her, my daughter, Sarah doing her best to break the barrier I put and her mother placed just to know the man who’s supposed to be her protector. I guess… I am changing. Hopefully, I never have to become the monster I once was in order to protect her, but if I have to… then I want her to put an end to my miserable life, once and for all.
Watching the fight continue as the numbers were finally showing a crumble, Ravana aggressively crossed his arms and tapped his fingers against them.
“Leon, you freak! How could you withstand an attack big enough to blow our world over a hundred thousand times? You even managed to subdue the blast radius enough to not reach the populist.”
Chelsea’s in awe as she watched Leon’s true nature slowly emerge.
“He’s so formidableS. Likes nothing can beat him!”
Her excitement went unnoticed and Ravana appeared in front of her, blocking the action. His glowing crimson eyes filled with murderous intent gleamed into her soul, which had her shaking to death.
“I’m-I’m sorry!”
Eligor arrived back to be beside her and held her.
“Ravana, chill. You got this, but at the same time, you can’t blame her for reacting this way since she still has feelings for him.”
Chelsea sadly gasped and slowly grabbed his arm. Ravana smacked his teeth and turned his attention back to the battlefield.
“You’re such a pathetic man, Eligor.”
“Huh?”
“What? Do I have to say it?! Ha ha.”
Ravana looked over his shoulder and his thin smile started to rub Eligor the wrong way.
“How could you be with someone who has feelings for another? That’s such a sad and pathetic display of manliness. Ugh, just looking at you is starting to make my balls shrink back into their sockets.”
Eligor frowned but kept it cool.
“You may not understand, but Chelsea is mine and I will do everything I can to protect the woman I love.”
Chelsea’s eyes quivered as she held him tighter.
Ravana shrugged and chuckled.
“Suit yourself. Now then, back to you, my old friend.”
Ravana gripped his chin and squinted his eyes as Leon paused.
“What to do to get rid of a pest like you? One that's grown immune to most attacks but somehow manages to pull more out of his tank despite being drained?”
Ravana began to pace as Leon roared again and killed another thousand with a mouth beam.
“Look at you. A man so proud to not resort to using his mana and condense it to form distant attacks? The only reason why anyone of your caliber would do such assaults would be—”
Ravana’s smile appeared again and it grew wide and vile.
“—ahhh, you’re in a panic. But, much worse than before. hehehe”
I already knew he was backed in a corner. But, seeing him this afraid of losing has me so fired up! Oh, what joy, what joy! Ravana thought.
“The next phase of my glorious plan has been made up!”
He turned to Eligor and Chelsea, pointing sadistically at them.
“You two, when he’s jumped again, I want you to strike him down as you did the first time.”
Chelsea averted her gaze and didn’t answer. Eligor nodded and helped Chelsea off the ground. The two stood on their feet and their aura of shame reeked, reaching Ravana’s nostrils.
“You two seem hesitant all of a sudden?”
His annoyance went unnoticed and Eligor quickly bowed.
“Not at all. We’ll get it done.”
“Good, I hope you do because if you don’t…”
Ravana slit his throat with his thumb and smacked his teeth.
“We’re sorry’s, Ravana.” Chelsea said.
“Hmph, as if you weren’t annoying enough, Chelsea.”
Her lips quivered as she moaned in sadness.
Ravana clapped his hands and went back to watching Leon kill more of his cult.
“Your dwindling power is mesmerizing to watch. It’s like watching a Lion fend off a clan of hyenas; absolutely wonderful display of—”
“Ravana, I would stop this if I were you.”
“Huh? Who said that?!”
He quickly turned to the voice that interrupted him and found John Malificus standing a foot from him. John’s ghostly eyes sent chills down Ravana’s eyes but he kept his composure and faced the powerful Witch.
“Malificus, what brings you here?” he asked.
John’s expression was still and his eyes were growing more ghostly.
“I’m here to tell you to have your assault on Leon put to an end before things get uglier than they already are.”
Ravana’s face scrunched in confusion. He smacked his gums and put his hand on his hip.
“You’re here to what, now?!”
“You heard me. Stop this attack before you and I and everyone else involved get into a world of trouble like no other.”
Chelsea and Eligor were frozen in fear as they felt John’s anger seeping through his skin. They could smell his seriousness and lust for death and it had them clinging to one another. Ravana gulped but kept his act up, expressing his distaste for John's warning.
“And are you going to stop me? If I don’t? Because if I remember correctly…”
Ravana approached John, carefully, standing face to face with him.
“...You two are close friends, right?”
John raised a brow and blinked.
“Of course I’m close friends with him, but this has nothing to do with our friendship.”
John put his hand out to the battle, and squinted his eyes.
“This has to do with balance and intervening with the natural order from a higher power.”
Ravana had it with everyone’s interference and talk backs. He massaged his eyes and loudly sighed, growing aggravated.
“I’m so sick and tired of all you people getting in the way of my plans!”
His shout echoed and made bird wildlife fly off, spreading across the sky above them.
“You, you! Of all people should be the last to tell me to stop my revenge on that loose cannon.”
Ravana’s glint appeared and John looked straight at it.
“I’m doing the world a favour in ridding the ex-destroyer of worlds, Leon—Bolverkr!”
John clenched his teeth.
“You fool, this isn’t about doing the world a favour. It’s about the consequences of your selfish actions that’ll summon a higher power no one alive can ever stand up to.”
Ravana rolled his eyes and playfully shrugged.
“Oh, that’s rich coming from you and your devious plan in mind!”
John chuckled and gently grabbed Ravana’s shirt, which ticked off the cult leader.
“The difference between my plan and yours is that my plan will come into fruition, flowing into the river stream that’s our time flow. Your plan on the other hand is based on your messily obsession and envy towards a man who out did you in every aspect imaginable.”
“Watch your tongue, Malif—”
“Or what?! Will you finally face me and prove yourself the Witch you wish to be? Because if I remember correctly…”
John tilted his head and he had a smile Ravana thought he’d never see on a guy like John’s face.
“... you’re an Esper still playing pretend, he—heh.”
Ravana grabbed John’s wrist and growled.
“Shut up…”
“Come now, Ravana. I’m correct.”
Ravana had his brows knitted and growled some more.
“Screw you.”
John let go and Ravana did too. John could feel Leon’s mana almost nearing its end, which had him quickly turn his face.
“Ravana, stop the assault, please.”
Ravana grew quiet and clenched a fist.
“And don’t mistake my plea as begging. It’s simply a command that must be done, otherwise either you don’t and continue, pushing him to the limit; will trigger the PTSD that’s instilled in you from the tournament. Or, we all fall in the hands of the higher power.”
Ravana looked away.
“Hmph, I don’t know if I’ll follow your command, old friend.”
“Well, how about get your ego out your ass and actually be a responsible man for once. Because compared to you, you didn’t make a deal with God! I—did!”
Ravana’s shocked hearing the revelation coming from the greatest Witch in modern time. To hear someone such as John to make a deal with God has him curious as to why? It made him raise a brow and grip his chin.
“Oh? A deal with God? A Witch? Very surprising.”
John knew Ravana’s devious nature and decided to feed it, revealing his deal.
“Yeah, unlike you, I am a Witch.”
Ravana moaned and dropped his hand.
“The deal that I made was not with a God you can’t see by the naked eyes; The God that I speak of, the one in which my own devious nature wanted to ensure the deal was struck and not told by empty words: It was done with the great William H. Christ.”
Ravana’s deviousness, his confidence, it all drained when he heard that name: William H. Christ. The most feared, the most respected, and undouble, the most powerful being to ever exist. It made him frown and slowly back away and for the second time in their lives, Eligor and Chelsea both saw fear in his eyes.
“You… you mad man…” Ravana said.
He averted his gaze to the battle, and it was reaching the heat of its moment.
“What deal did you strike with the great William that involves Leon?!”
John grew serious and also turned to the battle.
“The deal? The deal I made and vowed to have it never broken?!”
John grit his teeth and put his arms out, basking in Leon’s growing anger and venting his dormant power to the blinded Cultist’s. An explosion from Leon sent a shockwave that violently fluttered their clothes and displayed an amazing emp blast in the colour of Leon’s anger: Purple, red, and yellow flames that erupted into the sky.
“The deal I made was to set The Great Destroyer Bolverkr—to have him stay dormant, for he shall not slay another innocent being and not cause disruption to the natural balance of our world!”
Ravana gasped and ground his teeth in fear. Yet his ego and curiosity wanted to test if John’s genuinely being serious or being the known manipulative Witch that made him infamous.
“Is-is that so? Well, if that’s the case, then perhaps you’re not full of shit afterall.”
“Yes, it’s true and if you don’t stop and Leon loses control, we’ll both fall in the hands of death.”
Ravana scratched his head and shut his eyes for a moment.
I’m so curious as to what this deal is about. It’s almost worth risking everyone’s lives including my own to see if he isn’t bluffing. Ravana thought.
“Alright alright, I’ll call off the assault.”
John read right through Ravana’s fake act and grabbed the collar of his shirt.
“Fool, quit screwing and stalling, end it or else I’ll take it into my own hands if I have to.”
He leaned his face into Ravana’s.
“You wouldn’t want me unleashing the knowledge that makes me the most dangerous and earn the title of greatest Witch alive, Ravana.”
The ego driven Ravana couldn’t retain the curiosity seeping in his body. On the other hand, seeing John this serious convinced him enough that his words weren’t empty afterall. While the two were and their ideas were quietly conflicting each other, meanwhile, during his battle, Leon’s conscious state was slowly dwindling and time was running out for both parties. Leon shouted and wiped out another thousand cultists, wiping out almost all of them off the face of the earth.
With twenty percent left, Ravana, seeing his people slowly being wiped from existence, the vile Esper pretending to be Witch couldn’t retain his intrusive thoughts and decided to stall John more to see the deal be enacted.
All according to plan, in riding you, my old friend, Leon.
***
Watching Leon fight for his life, fearing that he might not be able to do a thing to save him; Jack Samr tried getting up, but his weakened body refrained him from moving a muscle. All he could do was keep Sarah safe in his arms, and await her awakening. Luckily, in Jack’s favour, when he glanced at her motionless body, he saw movement coming from her eyelids, which made him gasp with excitement.
“Sa-Sarah!” he said.
He gently shook her and couldn’t help but smile.
“Come on, wake up buddy.”
Sarah could hear his muffled voice, and slowly could see the darkened curtains lift off to the rafts. Her vision fogged, the explosions, war cries going off, the first thing her eyes laid on were the grey skies filled with shockwaves and debri filling the empty gaps. She shifted her head to Jack who was a battered mess and she blinked rapidly and gently put her hand against his cheek, which made him a little nervous.
“Ja-Jack?” she muttered.
Jack’s eyes quivered as he finally could see her beautiful crimson eyes lock onto his soulless pupils. He gently grabbed her hand, and nodded.
“Yes, it’s-it’s me, Sarah.”
She could feel his warmth and protective nature. Her hearing began to clear up, and once a sonic boom went off, shaking the earth, she sat straight up and cling onto Jack.
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“Jack!”
Jack replied to her embrace and patted her back. He let out a weak chuckle as her embrace ached his broken body.
“Ow… everything still hurts.”
Sarah saw the battle ensue over his broad shoulder and saw her father a bruised and violent mess. He sliced a Cultist straight in half. He paused and his body split, letting it rain blood and organs to the ground. Seeing such a grotesque sight made Sarah almost gag and avert her gaze. She gently let go of Jack and was in disbelief as she watched her father enact more carnage. Never has she seen her father this blood thirsty or detestable to her eyes. She even began to wonder if she’s looking at the same man.
“Fa—ther?”
Jack also turned and he saw Leon’s sanity begin to fade completely out.
“No, Leon…”
Sarah’s jaw was dropped as her father coursed through the sky and killed a dozen more men.
“Why is he killing like that?! Is that really my father!”
She began to shake, although, once she saw one cultist land a punch to his stomach that made him gag blood and another slicing at his chest with a mana blade, her fear quickly went away. Her eyes grew exponentially wide as he was starting to be pummeled with punches, kicks, thrown, stabbed, blasted, and it was boiling her blood.
“Jack, let me go…” she muttered.
“Huh? What did—?”
“I said let go!”
Sarah aggressively broke out of Jack’s clutch and crawled to her feet. She stood, watching her father become a battered mess but his wounds were mysteriously healing at an aggressive rate. Yet she could see his frustration seep out of the angry blank face he had.
“I have to help him! I got to save him!”
Jack quickly crawled and was quick to action in grabbing Sarah’s ankles before she could take flight.
“N…o! Sarah!”
“Jack, let go of me. My father needs my help!”
“And he wanted me to protect you! If you go out there, you’d only get in his way.”
“Huh?! You think I can’t help him?!”
Sarah furrowed her brows and tried pulling Jack’s hands off her ankles, but she fell on her butt.
“I’m not saying,—you can’t, bu-but trust me, your father’s got this, Sarah.”
“It doesn’t matter, he needs me. For God’s sake! Look at what they’re doing to him!”
Sarah managed to slip through his grip and quickly got back to her feet, running off.
“Sa-Sarah!”
“Father!” she shouted.
Sarah stood beneath the battlefield and tried taking flight, but her powers weren’t working. She gasped and tried to shoot mana at a Cultist that flew behind Leon. But, nothing came out and she felt her soul leave her body. She’s in disarray and was left stunned, feeling helpless.
“No, wh-what’s going on?! My-my powers, my mana, it’s absent.”
She brought her palms up to her face, and collapsed to her knees.
“I can’t help him, I can’t help my father. Why? Why are my powers not working!”
She could feel her mana inside swelling, but something was preventing her from having it come out. Jack was able to reach Sarah but collapsed behind her, and his thumping body quickly turned her head.
“Jack!”
She got to him and put her hands on his chest.
“No, you’re dying, Jack!”
Jack was growing more in pain and could feel his life close to zero.
“You idiot, why would you waste your last bit of energy to get to me?!”
Jack weakly chuckled and grabbed her hand.
“Your life ma-matters more than mine, Sarah.”
“Sarah’s eyes swelled and she tried bringing her mana out to heal
Jack, but nothing was coming out.
“Darn it! No!”
Jack saw a mana blast coming towards them, and he used his last bit of energy to grab Sarah, throw her away and stood in front of the blast. Sarah rolled and saw Jack take the blast head on. It exploded and the young man was blown away. Seeing his body, slowly thrown with smoke trailing off the end of his body; as he fell back to the ground, rag dolling, Sarah screamed, but without making a sound, which left her in a frozen, confused state. The young man’s body rolled back to her knees, his skin sizzled, flesh missing from parts of his arms and chest, she saw his beating heart in plain view.
“Jack?” she muttered.
The young man could barely weep or let out a breath.
“Jack?”
Sarah gently placed her hand on his bloodied hand. His pulse was almost gone and she felt her anger swelling. She grit her teeth and her eyes grew wide.
“Ja…ck?”
Sarah interlaced her fingers into Jack’s, and his warmth was almost absent.
“Jack…” she quietly growled.
Her hair began to climb up; Each strand stiffened, yet was still loose enough to flutter. Her eyes glistened yet glinted with sharpness. Her vision blackened and silence introduced itself. Her surroundings completely darkened as nothingness was her current partner.
They hurt him…
“Huh?”
They hurt the man you care about and he’s losing his light.
“Wh-who’s speaking?”
Me, I’m speaking to myself.
“Huh? What’s that supposed—?”
Sarah, Sarah, don’t shy away from who we really are. Because if you do, then he’ll die.
Sarah could feel her body grow hotter yet the blackened environment made it seem as if she were unconscious.
Show them us, show them we—show them our strength.
Sarah could feel her subconscious fade and the black screen burned away, revealing her—
Sarah, my dear Sarah, just this once, for a minute, allow me to grab back what’s mine…
A single tiny flame erupted into the darkness, then it expanded and took the shape of Sarah’s unholy mother. Samantha’s burning body reached for frozen daughter's body, wrapped by fiery chains that were beginning to melt. Her engulfed body was the only source of light and her crimson eyes were blazing hot like the sun. Her hair floated and billowed to that of cosmic waves.
Allow me to use my new vessel and showcase what happens when they mess with the people we dearly care for.
Samantha grabbed Sarah’s face and the two locked eyes.
My dearest daughter, my Sarah, my…
Samantha hugged her and their bodies molted together, and a blackhole with a light ring around it appeared, beginning to suck the light that was Samantha.
Or should I say, my separated—heart.
Leon killed most of the cultists, and felt Samantha’s presence, which snapped him for a moment to instill the fear he had for Samantha.
“Hu…h?” he gasped.
The rest of the bystanders also felt the presence of the great Samantha and out of all of them, Ravana was the happiest.
“It’s… It’s her!” he shouted, pointing at Sarah’s frozen body.
Sarah’s arms trembled and she eerily snapped her head upwards to the sky, and screamed. Everyone covered their ears and her scream alone began to shatter reality. Chelsea cling onto Eligor, he held his lover for dear life, Ravana’s jaw was utterly dropped, John couldn’t believe his eyes; Leon, was absolutely shocked, but couldn’t see well due to his raging vision.
Sarah’s body exploded out an aura that was molten hot, sparkling with space dust within. It crackled, spiraled, stabbing its way into the growing dark sky. Her body shot out electrical currents throughout the area. Her eyes were set ablaze and she put her hands over Jack’s body. Her aura transitioned and became a light of death, shooting like a spiral into the heavens. Once it passed through broken shards of reality, everything shattered back to normal.
Everyone was beyond speechless and in fear. The deafening silence in combination with eerie winds created an environment of absolute petrification. Sarah was unexpectedly back to normal and saw her hands glowing above Jack’s body. Her glow healed his body entirely and it made her begin to silently cry. She hugged him and Jack felt his body back to one hundred. He patted her back and she lay off a bit. The two locked eyes and for a moment, the two blushed and moaned. They could feel their bond grow even stronger and their true feelings began to show.
Unfortunately, Sarah felt the awful presence of the man who abducted her and had her living in a cage for more than a month behind them.
“Samantha! It was you!” Ravana shouted, collapsing his hands in joy.
Sarah and Jack quickly got back up and the young man went forward, putting Sarah behind him.
“Stay behind me, Sarah.”
The young man pulled out his handgun and cocked it, aiming it at the group of villains.
“I won’t let you take her away from me, not without my life being taken away.”
“Jack…” she muttered.
She cling onto his shirt and felt his strong heart beat as she pressed her ear against his back.
“Try it, and I won’t hesitate to take the first shot.”
Ravana laughed hysterically and snapped his fingers. Jack suddenly collapsed to the ground. He was pinned by some unknown force and he angrily grunted to get back up.
“Jack!”
Sarah slammed her fist on his back and whatever force was used was broken. Ravana gasped and Sarah helped Jack back up.
“Th-thanks, yet I can’t help but feel embarrassed that you just assisted me.”
Sarah grinned and ripped her shirt from the upper right arm area. She used the piece of clothing to wrap a new wound created by Ravana around Jack’s forehead.
“That should stop your bleeding.”
Jack rapidly blinked but something caught his eye, which began to grow his hatred more towards the Cult.
“Sa-Sarah, your upper chest, it’s—?”
Sarah also blinked rapidly and took a glance at what the young man’s mentioning. She saw a scar and it made her confusingly tilt her head.
“My-my chest, how did I get this mark?”
Ravana growled and stomped aggressively to get their attention.
“How is it that street trash is getting the attention I yearn from you! That’s not fair! After everything that I did for you?! Samantha!”
Ravana’s anger exploded and it forced Sarah to grab Jack and she forced him to fall and take cover. Ravana’s glare erupted an explosion that went off far away. It was nuclear and it shook everyone.
“Damn it all. Very well, if you insist on protecting that street trash then I have no choice but to make him our new pet. How does that sound, Samantha?”
Sarah knit her brows and ran back to the front.
“I’m getting sick and tired of being called my mother!”
She aimed her palm and John magically appeared in between their line of sights.
“Stop! Everyone, please.”
Ravana smacked his teeth.
“John, you’re starting to annoy me more.”
“And you’ve already pissed me off you dingus.”
Sarah let out a chuckle, which made Ravana twitch an eye.
“Stop your assault on Leon, and this is my final warning.”
Ravana kept quiet. Sarah put her hand down and when John turned around, he saw the scar on her upper chest. His face turned white and he immediately began to sweat.
“No, no no no. How did you get that scar?”
His worried tone and body language was sincere, and knowing him a little already, she knew to trust John.
“You’re my father’s friend, right?” she asked.
Jack was back to her side, and held her hand. John’s face was blanched and he began to panic as he panned his attention back to Ravana and his group.
“Oy oy, you doofuses! Which one of you did that to her?!”
Ravana also shared his anger with John.
“Exactly! How dare my foolish friends here leave a scar on Samantha’s precious body!”
He stepped away from them. Eligor and Chelsea bowed their heads in shame. Chelsea slowly raised her hand and wanted to cry, but Eligor comforted her. As everyone surrounded themselves with awkwardness, Shaman had walked into the area and made himself present, standing beside John.
Seeing Shaman back made Ravana cross his arms and look away in disgust.
“Oh? Back to rub it in more Mr. I’m right guy?” Ravana said.
Shaman also glanced at the scar on Sarah’s chest.
“We gotta cover her up before Leon finds out. Or else, we’re going to be destroyed.”
“Then hurry up! Go do your prevention in reviving The Destroyer! Tch, all of you are burdens on my existence. If it weren’t for John being present, each one of you wouldn’t share the same breathing space with me right now.”
Ravana’s arrogance made Shaman shake his head.
“Your ego will be your undoing, Ravana. Call off your assault and let's all go our seprate ways.”
“Huh?!”
Ravana went up to Shaman and grabbed the collar of his shirt.
“And what makes you think any one of you fools will be able to do so alive?!”
Shaman grabbed his wrist and squinted his eyes at him.
“I didn’t say it was going to be without a fight.”
Ravana knit his brows but expressed an annoyed smile.
“Oh Shaman, you really are a joy to have as a friend! You damned fool, bwahaha!”
John pushed the two away and pointed at Ravana.
“Quit screwing around and put an end to your quest.”
Ravana scrunched his face and spat.
“Alright alright!”
He glanced at the sky and saw others being destroyed by Leon. Although, his devious nature was thirsty to see what John’s deal’s about. And on top of seeing if Leon would snap back into the destroyer that sent fear into his very being during the tournament, he became consumed by his curiosity and fell into it.
He put his fingers into his mouth and whistled at the remaining cultists.
“Hey! You can stop attacking the brain dead fool!”
One more was obliterated before they all panned their attention back to their leader.
“That’s it, wrap it up everyone… or what’s left of ya.”
Ravana sighed and put his hand on his hip, glaring at Leon who remained in a distressed state.
“To think he wiped out ninety percent of our Cult… unreal.” he muttered.
John angrily stomped to him and grabbed his arm.
“You dumbass! What are you thinking?!”
“What?! I’m just getting their attention to stop the assault as you requested? Dear friend.”
“You utter fool…” John growled.
While they argued, Leon was coming back to his senses and could hear their loud voices muffle into his subconcious.
“Wh…at’s happening? Ugh, my head…”
Leon grabbed his head, but his mana was finally coming back into fruition.
“My mana, it’s strangely not being drained away anymore.”
He shifted his head from the hovering Cultist’s who were watching John and Ravana argue to their argument as well. At first he didn’t think much of it until, as his head panned to where the others stood, just a foot away from them, he saw Jack and Sarah side by side.
“Sa-Sarah? Are you? You must be back!”
He was at joy and relieved to see his daughter back in safe hands. But, something caught his eye and at first he wondered why her shirt was ripped. Yet, upon further glance, he saw something that broke his heart and made him feel like the failure of a father he’s implemented into his guilted mind.
He began to drop his jaw, his eyes were wide, his pupils dilated, he saw the mark that showed they harmed his beloved daughter.
“They hurt my… daughter?” he muttered.
He slowly clenched his fist and began to shut his mouth to grit his teeth.
“They hurt my—daughter…”
Leon’s anger boiled into his head and clouded it with nothing but memories of destruction, agony, and the devastation he’s laid upon the world countless times.
He growled beneath his breath and a vein popped out the corner of his forehead.
“You… bas…tards!”
Everyone on the ground wondered who just shouted? The others glanced at their surroundings, but John grew terrified. Ravana caught his shocked expression first and looked up at the sky to find Leon staring directly at them. Ravana’s eyes slowly expanded and he felt the surge of mana that’s printed into his hatred towards the man who took the key to his ambition.
John quickly looked over his shoulder and saw his friend slowly levitate back to the ground with his fists clenched in anger. He saw crimson seep through his clenched hands and he began to panic.
“Leon! It’s not what it looks like!” he shouted.
Leon slowly shook his head, repeatedly and kept his teeth clenched.
“You hurt my daughter…” Leon muttered.
Sarah saw her father and seeing his surprised yet angry expression made her scared.
“Fa-father?”
Jack could see the anger ready to explode and he held Sarah close, forcing her behind him.
“This doesn’t look good. Quick, Sarah, cover your chest!” Jack exclaimed.
Jack quickly took the makeshift bandana off and wrapped it around the area.
“You—hurt my daughter.” Leon said.
“Leon, relax, chill, cool it now, my dearest friend.” John said.
John put his hands up and slowly began to approach Leon.
“Take it easy, big guy. Your buddy here is going to take care of that idiot Ravana and make amends to this whole stupid situation.”
Leon’s gasps grew more repetitious, louder, and it even began to sound as one was gasping for breath. His eyes were wide, edging to his face as he angrily marched towards the group.
“You hurt my—daughter!”
Leon growled monstrously and his marching grew more intense and heavier.
“Le-Leon! Relax!” John shouted.
Leon’s aura exploded out and sent a huge gust of hot wind that almost made everyone fall over. Everyone had to cover their faces as it was intensely cutting the atmosphere around him. Sarah tried to run after her father but Jack prevented her from doing so. Ravana began to step backwards as he felt the power he feared be surpassed, which made Eligor feel shocked to see.
As Leon was growing his death march towards them, Eligor quickly flew up and around to go behind him.
“Hey! What do you thinks you’re doings babes?!” Chelsea shouted.
Eligor grew serious and expanded his mana muscles and charged all his mana into his right hand.
“Don’t worry, I’ll knock Leon out before he can lose control.”
Eligor shouted and once he felt ready, he attacked Leon straight behind, giving him a nasty chop to the side of his neck. The collision, it sounded heavy, meteoric impacting, yet as Eligor flew off to grow distance between them, it did nothing to Leon. He was unfazed and his marching was growing more earth shattering.
“You hurt my daughter!”
Ravana repeatedly gasped and put his hands up.
“He-he put everything into that chop and it did nothing to him!”
John began to panic more and grabbed Sarah, flying them away to grow more distance.
“Listen Leon, I promise your daughter’s okay, see, look, I’m going to heal the wound!”
Ravana and the others also followed suit while Leon’s stomping started denting the ground beneath with every march forward.
“Everyone get down!” Eligor shouted.
Everyone saw that Eligor transferred all his mana into his palms and he was about to launch a huge attack. They all tried to get away, but Eligor launched his beam too fast and it hit Leon straight on his back, creating a gigantic explosion and multiple expanding smoke clouds that covered the entire area. The silence of reckoning came, smoke still covered everyone's visions, and John had Sarah shielded. As the smoke began to sweep away in opposite directions, John and Sarah were the first to see that Leon was still standing, but he was still and quiet. John let go of Sarah and walked forward, but remained cautious. Eligor was in the air behind, seeing if his attack did anything to Leon. Ravana got up, dusted himself off and before spewing his annoyance to Eligor, he saw the statue that Leon had become.
“Is, is he?” Jack mumbled.
John squinted his eyes at Leon and put his hand up to him.
“Leon? Have you calmed down?” he said.
Sarah clutched her chest.
“Fa-father…”
Once all the smoke had finally cleared, Leon’s face changed in the matter of a second. He growled intensely and his eyes snapped, veins were edging out from the corners as he intensely ground his teeth in agony. He brought his arms up to his abs and let out a haunting cry that froze everyone's bone marrows. The day was no more as it became night. Leon’s cry, his wail haunted the ambience of death that he was procreating with the horrifying light that was created by a glow emitting off his body. The glow was amythest and scarlet, glaring off into the newly darkened sky. His wail grew more wretched, hurt and angry. His glow pulsed out more, reflecting onto his potential victims bodies that were watching in horror.
Ravana’s shaking exponentially that Chelsea thought he was going to faint.
“Un-unbelievable…” she muttered.
Never did Chelsea think she’d ever see Ravana, a man driven by greed, lust and ego, expressing the definition of scare.
Leon’s wailing continued as it began shaking the earth and everything around them began to crumble, implode; New hills were starting to be created, as tall as skyscrapers as he continued to resent his anger to the people responsible for hurting his daughter.
John was in full panic mode and aggressively grabbed Sarah, which made her yelp.
“Stop! Take it easy, Leon! Look, look! She’s healed now!”
Leon’s consciousness was gone as his face was staring at the dark sky while he continued his horrifying cry that was nightmare fuel.
“If you don’t stop now you’ll destroy our freaking world!” John shouted.
Sarah tried pulling away from his grip, but his palm was quickly placed over her scar. She felt hotness and she could tell he was healing her skin.
“You see! All gone, now just chill—I SAID STOP! PLEASE, LEON!”
Leon’s wailing went on for one more moment until his wails transitioned into maniacal laughter. He laughed hysterically and his voice began to deepen. His laughter was the tip of the iceberg scale of fear as it made everyone crumble to their knees. Eligor flew back to the ground, and his whole body shook violently from Leon’s overwhelming new presence. Lightening began to appear from the vacant dark sky, striking Leon only, repeatedly as his laughter echoed off into the night sky. With a couple more intense thin, yet horrifying lighting strikes, he stopped.
Silence came back for a moment, and Leon broke it with muffled moans.
“We’re… we’re doomed…” John murmured.
He shakily shifted his head to Ravana and saw the fear in his eyes just as much as he showed back in their youth.
“Look at what you've done, you fool…”
Ravana repeatedly gasped beneath his breath as they were too afraid to attack Leon. The mana, the power they sensed a minute ago was gone; They no longer could read his energy as it became too incomprehensible for them to make out, which in turn made Ravana finally realize just how more powerful he had become. His analysis, years of research, everything he thought he had planned to beat Leon, was nothing that he could imagine right now.
“You’re… a monster…” Ravana muttered.
Leon’s pupils were barely visible as he was moaning in anger. As everyone waited, suddenly, Leon let out a final cry of anger and pain, and his eyes went blank. Light propelled out of his eye sockets, mouth and the pores in his skin. His muscles expanded, his head too, and his overwhelming mana tore his face and flesh apart, blowing him up to that of a bomb test dumby. The explosion of his body sent a huge ball of light that flashed everyone's eyes and with the expansion came with a reverse suction. The center of where Leon’s shouting came from, sucked the atmospheres light and colours back into him. More and more of the atmosphere was being sucked until a flame finally formed. The faint flame shined for a minute then it became a burning inferno. A small shockwave subtly went off as Leon was visible again, but he was no longer the same man.
Sarah was devastated for what she had to bear witness with her innocent eyes.
“No, father…”
John was broken and collapsed to his knees.
“It’s all over,” he said.
Standing and growling animalistic, barbaric was a being who had a fiery, sharpened aura that resembled a mixture of iron and methane flame. His skin was chalked, his eyes were blank, his hair was long, spiked, amethyst yet loose, but most noticeably were marks around his arms; All resembling Sulfur crosses, pulsing molten red as the being growled rabidly. The sound the flame created as it was growing sounded to what the fires of hell would sound like; Screams of people being burned alive and distorted.
John panted as he saw his close friend become the being everyone feared, the one he failed to subdue.
“Leon’s gone… it’s Bolverkr, the destroyer.” John said in a dead tone.
Leon’s growling stopped and he brought out a stone cold smile that sent chills down everyone’s spine. He slowly brought one hand up and pointed at the group in front of him. Everyone wondered who he was pointing at, until he eerily jolted his finger to the right, telling Shaman and Chelsea to move aside. They exposed Ravana who had his eyes bulged out.
Bolverkr opened his mouth to form an ear to ear open mouth smile.
“You, Ravana, was it?”
His voice was deep, guttural and distorted.
“You will be my first blood shed, marking the earth on its new rapture with your blood!”
Ravana loudly gasped and Eligor quickly flew back to be Ravana’s shield.
“I won’t let you kill us, Leon!”
Bolverkr let out an angry shout and charged at them. His speed was undetectable and Eligor couldn’t see the monster charging at him. John quickly appeared and pushed Eligor out the way. Bolverkr was scrapping the earth as his arms missed Eligor by a millimeter. Everyone quickly got out of the area, flying off in different directions. Ravana barely made it a mile off the ground until Bolverkr appeared and put his chest towards his face, and pumped it to create an explosion that sent him crashing back to the earth. Eligor and Chelsea flew towards Leon and charged at him. He laughed and put one hand to Eligor’s stomach, sending him away with an explosion greater than what he gave Ravana.
“HONEY!”
Eligor screamed and Chelsea went after her lover.
Bolverkr pursued them and began firing small mana blasts at them. When Chelsea caught him and the two now holding hands, flying away from the destroyer, every blast that missed, when landed, created magnetic explosions that threw them off course and almost succumbed to just the blast waves. Bolverkr laughed and laughed as he charged more mana.
Shaman helped Ravana out of the hole, but he let his body become dead weight from his unbearable fear towards the revived Destroyer. Shaman let him go and he collapsed to his face.
Shaman deeply sighed and shook his head at him, looking at the Destroyer wreaking havoc in the distance.
“I’m going to go help them. Even if the odds are against us now, we can’t allow Leon to destroy our universe.”
Shaman powered up and his long coat was burned away. His mana was in its full powerful glory. Shining the darkened environment in purple and twinkles, he began to cast a spell and a forefield formed around the edge of his body.
He looked over his shoulder to Ravana who was barely off the ground on fours.
“So much for trying to be an oh so ruler.”
Shaman levitated off the ground and in the matter of seconds his body charged up. He flew away faster than light and he joined the battle in seconds. John appeared next to Ravana, gazing at the new hell being created miles away. Seeing the three fend off the great Destroyer told by prophets and the bible made John feel disappointed at himself. But, never did John imagine that Leon would be this strong.
He had a frown on his face and Ravana was on all fours.
“You know what’s even more frightening, Ravana?”
Ravana didn’t speak.
“His power, you may not be able to comprehend it with your weak mind, but if you could sense what I’m sensing—”
John furrowed his brows and clenched a fist.
“—its matching to that monster of an Exorcist Archard, perhaps even greater than his abilities from my knowledge.”
Ravana gasped again and brought his face up to also look at the battle.
“Im-impossible!”
He repeatedly gasped and sweated profusely.
“He’ll kill us, he’ll kill all of us! I never would’ve thought he would’ve grown this formidable…”
John’s eyes quivered as he saw Bolverkr relentlessly beat down Eligor into a bloody pulp and blast Chelsea away over his shoulder. Shaman summoned a spell that could easily wipe out an entire continent but to Bolverkr, it was nothing but smoke.
“Now that Leon’s lost all control, broken from any one’s control, he’s become what Lucifer and Satan have prophesied in summoning; An enforcer to Lucifer’s army of darkness and the one to lead in taking over our reality, The Legend of Abaddon.”
Bolverkr roared and powered up, breaking apart everything around his presence. His vile grin didn’t affect Shaman as he took him head on, but was casually blasted away by his glare. Seeing Shaman scream to the Abyss below made Ravana cower more in fear.
“He won’t stop killing; in becoming the ultimate killing machine, he’ll destroy everything, including this planet, then the next, then galaxies, anything in our known observable universe that shows any signs of life; It is his duty to wipe out all creation for Abaddon to take over and engage a new war on heaven.”
Ravana got back to his feet and ground his teeth.
“How-how do you know so much? Wh-what are you?!”
John watched more of Bolverkr’s destruction as he began targeting the sky and shooting into it, destroying planets with every mana blast. Dozens, hundreds, thousands were destroyed in just twenty seconds. He laughed and powered up more, shooting a giant beam that faded out to the horizon, and John saw him wipe out entire nebulas with his all seeing eyes.
He squinted his eyes and shut his eyes.
“I’ve always had an idea of his unusual powers. Since meeting him as a kid, who destroyed his village and getting the attention of every supernatural being, I’ve been watching him since his birth and his parents making a deal with the devil to have his life spared; only to be taken by the very thing they cherished.”
John looked over his shoulder to Ravana, his ghoulish eyes glowing from the explosions and darkened sky.
“Now it’s our time to endure the pain, the fear, that poor Leon has endured for so long from being the wedded wife of the horrid Witch of Envy. We will face our judgement and if Bolverkr the destroyer won’t be the one to do so! Then The Great William H. Christ will Forsake Me And Lay Down My Judgment!”
John spread his arms out, facing Ravana as his eyes glinted. His body emitted a light that seemed both heavenly, and hellish.
“For I! John Malificus, the Witch of knowledge and perception, SHALL ACCEPT HIS CONSEQUNCES FOR FAILING OUR GOD, WILLIAM H—CHRIST!”
John let a tear slip out his eye and it was flung off his face from another shockwave.
"May he have Mercy on us all, Ravana, my foolish old friend."