Suddenly, a portal forms in front of them.
The Gates of Balder were formed from the remnants of the goddess Hylia. The portal opens.
The Diamond Order walks through the portal without hesitation as the voice echoes.
"Come to me, Diamond Order," the terrifying voice echoes from far away.
They step into a large throne room. There is a giant demonic throne in the centre of the room. On the throne is the demise of the Demon King, the son of Hylia."Well done, diamond order," Demise the Demon King stands from the throne and says, "Welcome to my Demonic Domain."
Demise The Demon King towers over the Diamond Order. His skin is a deep red, with two horns sticking out from either side of his head. He wears nothing but a small robe, and his eyes glow red. In his right hand, he wields a sword that seems to be made of fire. Demise cackles and says, "You know, I've been waiting for this day for over a milenium."
The Diamond Order draws their weapons, but Demise instantly turns all of them to ash.
Demise laughs, "How pathetic."
''What quarms do you have against us, Demon?'' Kobi shouts across the grand room.
''Thousands of years ago, a prophecy was born: four heroes would take me down. I cannot let that happen!'' Demise bellows
Demise raises his left hand towards The Diamond Order, and a red orb forms above his palm. The red orb shoots out a red beam of energy at Frederick the Redeemed.Frederick is almost disintegrated until William Dwayne counters the orbs magic with healing magic of his own. He saves Frederick, but his arm is badly burned.
The demise of the demon king "You think your magic will help you here? I am Demise, the demon king, son of Hylia. You fools are nothing compared to me."
William Dwayne smirks and laughs. "You underestimate us and my dwayne and archangel bloodline." William Dwayne then uses his archangel powers while Kobi stares wide-mouthed. William Dwaynes wings unfold and his eyes turn silver as he draws his sword and flies towards the demise of the demon king.
demise, the demon king cackles and says, "I will destroy your diamond order."
"Try us!" The diamond order yelled in unison.
"You won't win the demise of the demon king; we are the diamond order, and we are not going to be defeated by someone like you," Kobi the fabled screams.
Demise The demon king raises his hand towards William Dwayne, who flies towards him and swings his sword down at the demon king.
demise The demon king smirked. "You can't touch me. I will destroy all of you.'' Kobi the fabled ignites with rage; his eyes go black, and an undead aura surrounds him.
Kobi the fabled vanishes from the scene; reality sets in all this time. Kobi the Fabled was never alive. He died with his crew but is still tethered to this mortal plane. The entire time, he was an undead warrior protecting the diamond order. Now fate has chosen him to take a stance.
A blue sphere forms around the diamond. The sphere acts as a barrier that the demons attacks cannot pass through, but it doesn't stop them from throwing all of their power at it. Demise: The demon king unleashes a beam of energy, creating a crack in the sphere that starts to shatter as the pressure grows. Demise laughs manically. "Soon your sphere will shatter and your blood will stain the ground.'' He continues to increase the amount of energy being released from his hands.
The sphere shatters, and the Diamond Order stands face-to-face with the demon king, who then launches a wave of powerful bolts towards the group.
"Run." William Dwayne yells
The group spread out as the attacks exploded around them, raining debris everywhere. "I will rain hell upon you. Demise screams, unleashing a wave of fire that explodes into a massive wall of flames that surrounds them, filling the air with black smoke. The heat radiates off the flames as they crackle and spark in the darkness.
Kobi the Fabled teleports back in, glowing with the power of the undead.
"You don't know what hell looks like yet, you fool; that is a mere ember of the fiery pits'' Kobi the Fabled screams as he ignites.
''I wasn't honest with you all; I died with my crew; my determination to extinguish evil keeps me here!''
As the demons powers burn, he laughs and charges at William Dwayne with a flaming blade, "Be prepared to taste the pain of death. You wretched piece of shit." The blade begins to swing down, creating sparks as it moves.
William Dwayne fires a flurry of archangel attacks, protecting Kobi the fabled. "I will protect you!" William Dwayne yells.
"Now try it, demon! Do your worst! This will not be an easy victory, that I can assuree you. Kobi the Fabled explodes, launching Demise into the sky. The demon falls, landing hard on his back, as he groans and laughs. "About time you put up a fight, boy," Demise chuckles. He gets back on his feet and creates a magical orb in his hand. "The pain is only beginning, little one," he growls, launching the ball of energy at him.
All four of them join together to prepare a group attack, using all their powers together in unison to form a diamond-shaped magical barrier to stop the incoming magical orb. It absorbs it, sending it flying into the air and exploding harmlessly against the sky above.
"This is why your stupid ass is stuck on this rock," George the Devious snorts.
William Dwayne flies above, glows a bright white, and then activates the archangel eye! The archangel's eye allows him to see everything. Then he locks his archangel's eye on the demon king and sees his troubled past.
In the shadows stands demise, with the demon king looking back to his throne. With a bloodshot eye, he scans for his father, a bloody stump instead. He cries tears of crimson red, dropping into a pool of blood and tar.
"Damn you!" the demon king roars, swiping a massive axe through a chunk of rubble and striking his fallen throne. "Damn you, father," the demon king says sadly.
William Dwayne gasps as he watches history unfold in front of him. ''This is not what I expected," William Dwayne replies. He then watches the demises past further.
Demise of the Demon King, Knelling, holding a lock of green hair He roars loudly in pain while thinking back to his brutish actions. "Damn them all to the abyss. The gods will burn with the rest of the Hylians!" He points his fingers down, and a small ember burns brightly.
What else have you been through? William Dwayne wonders as he looks at the young demise struggling in pain from the battle.
He then sees how the throne he has has blood splattered all over the floor. He turns around, and the castle is burning down, burning cinders dropping into his bloody pool. In a haze, he rushes through the flames and reaches a portal of sorts. Inside, the sky is crimson red, and the clouds are pitch-black. Lightning strikes the portal, leaving a burned crater behind. The gate has fallen, allowing demons of all kinds to invade Orario. Demons rush forward and strike the walls of the Gratsid castle in full force. ''Fall'' Demise screams loudly.
A swarm of demons descends upon the castle of King Dwayne in this long-forgotten past, ravaging and destroying. Demise slices the king's throat. Demise, the lone survivor of the battle, is hurt badly. His injuries are terrible, but he manages to keep going. With blood flowing out of every limb and a crushed leg, the demon crawls to safety. There, his wounds heal slowly, but he feels his willpower crumble and give in. In a moment of empathy, he remembers his father's words: "Kill or be killed."
A thunderstorm forms, putting out the fire.
Amidst the wreckage lie three: the Demon King, Demise's guards and soldiers, as well as dozens more who were unfortunate to be inside the building at the moment of the explosion. He stands in front of them with his ruby sword raised high, surrounded by thousands more like him, all wearing black armor. Is this it? Did our deaths really accomplish anything? Demise thinks before a lightning bolt from nowhere lands next to him, engulfing his body.
The rain does not stop.
Then, another man with black eyes, white hair, and silver skin appears. This person stands opposite him on the battlefield, holding a glowing staff.
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The man reveals himself to be Zeke, the ruler of the underworld. "Who are you? What have you done?" Demise asks, and the other man simply laughs. "We are demons. You are nothing. We've conquered death. It does not exist in our domain."
Zeke then reveals Demise's greatest weakness for William to see in the vision through the archangel's eyes: "Your greatest weakness is the weapon hidden deep within this fortress of yours, a magic sickle called "the Soul Edge.'' William stares into this past long forgotten; now he knows the weakness and can return to the battle of the present day. ''Kobi, Frederick, and George, find the soul edge; it's the key to winning this battle!'' William screams
They all split up and searched the throne room for the soul edge. Kobi jumped between swinging axes and fiery pits and discovered a clue. ''It's buried beneath the throne!''
Kobi dashes towards the throne and summons a fiery spell to unleash the sickle.
Kobi finds the Soul Edge buried underground. He lifts the gem into his hand, and the blade emits a crimson glow. He runs back towards the fighting, holding it in front of him. William shouts, ''He has the soul edge!''
Frederick fights fiercely against the other soldiers surrounding him while watching Kobi rush into the battle. Suddenly, he is struck with a tremendous force and sent tumbling down a nearby cliffside. He clambers back up towards the top. As soon as he regains his footing, he sees that the demon king is standing above him. Frederick lifts his own light blade high into the air and shouts:
"It ends here!" The demon king flies towards him. The sky goes completely black and the winds whip up violently around them, but Kobi is able to dodge just barely, slicing the king's tail off in one swing of his own sword. With a burst of energy, he cuts through his enemy's right leg.
"Fools!" Demise screams, "I will destroy you all!"
Kobi charges the Demon King once more and slashes him across the chest, sending him crashing into a building. "You think you've beaten me?" the creature taunts. "Then I will show you real power, mortals." He opens his palm to reveal a huge orb of light. A flash of blinding white light blinds everyone in the field. Kobi looks away and covers his eyes. When he turns back, he sees something new. A tower made of shining gold metal rises into the sky, filling every inch with power. A brilliant beam of energy shoots from its peak, annihilating anything it touches.
Kobi shakes his head and prepares himself for combat. His blade starts to glow blue as a symbol appears across his back. He charges forward with a loud cry, swinging his sickle in an arc at the base of the golden tower, cleaving it cleanly in two.
The demon king falls back with a scream: "How could you?"
As the smoke settles, Kobi walks slowly to the centre of the ruins, dragging the soul edge behind him. His ghostly, undead aura glows around him. ''I am the leader of the Diamond Order; I will not let your tyranny continue'' William Dwayne, Frederick the Redeemed, and George the Devious all rally behind him.George's wounds glow bright purple as he is healed by William Dwaynes archangel healing power.
Frederick's anger burns deep within him, making his body tremble. ''Ive lost so many allies on this journey; I won't let you take any more'' he charges forward into the smoke with the claymore ready to kill, his body glowing half white and half black, showing that he holds the powers from good and evil.
Demise's rage boils over, sending cracks rippling through his skin. "You pathetic mortal!" he shouts, "you haven't even scratched my power!"
Frederick launches towards the monster with a roar, clashing blades in a tremendous explosion.
Kobi the Fabled raises his undead pirate crew to hold off the demon army as the three other heroes begin the attack.
George strikes his seismic hammer into the ground, making tremors to attack the demon army as well as the demon king.
Kobi points at the demon king and begins casting a spell with the soul-edge sickle. '' i cast undead lich the soul eater, attack on my command'' a flash of blue lights emitted from the soul edge, followed by the demonic symbols covering his skin turning bright purple and hissing, causing him to wince from the burning pain.
Demise breaks through Frederick's barrier, sending him flying into the distance. With a roar, he charges at George, crushing the ground in his wake. He lifts him by the throat and says, ''you filthy, incompetent fools...
'My power will return soon, and your pitiful lives will end!"
George's smile widens. ''Im not the filthy fool, you are'' the large hammer in his hands releases a massive blast from the earth, blowing him clear of death's grip.
''My crew, take it down!'' Kobi the fabled exclaims. The undead swarm in from the sides, crashing into the demons, and start to bite and tear the demons apart.
''Useless weaklings like you can never hope to beat me," the demon king says before rushing to William with such speed that George couldn't react fast enough to defend his brother. William tries desperately to block him, but all of his magic defences are shattered instantly. The demon King kicks William, sending him flying into one of the pillars. The impact cracks it, causing large stones to fall from the top. William ducks his head, shielding himself from the debris. As a last resort, he reawakens the great Dwayne bloodline from within him and then sends forth his wave of fiery dragon magic that covers Demised completely in blue flames.
The flames burned brightly for a few seconds before dying out, leaving no evidence that they even happened. The demon army surrounding the group suddenly died, falling to their knees as if someone had cut their life force.
frederick The redeemed shouts, ''That's it; you've played with us for long enough'' he snaps his fingers and transforms into the great dragon Yang, releasing the full might of his draconic powers upon the demon army. A gulf of flame tears up the ground, and the army of the demon kingdom falls before his wrath, leaving only the king himself.
''Ha, I'll wipe you away instead," Kobi says, raising his sword. He fires a ball of green energy from his sword. and rushes in for a final combo blow with the diamond order as he runs. Frederick throws a thunder slash from resummoned dark claymore. George lands on the side of the demon king and hits him with the seismic great hammer. Kobi rushes in for the final strike while the demon king is occupied trying not to get cut in half by Frederick's great Claymore.
Kobi impales the demon king and hits him with his flaming wave combo. The demon king let out a painful scream before Kobi said, You don't know who you're messing with." Kobi raises his blade above his head and says, ''TAKE THIS." Kobi slices the demon king's body in two as blood splatters across the field. The demon king's body is torn apart. blood gushing all over the place. Then Kobi slowly approaches the fallen enemy. He picks up the shattered crown and destroys it. and a long silence ensues. The Diamond Order looked at the sky as if the sun were too bright and close for comfort.
Frederick says, "Jilliant, now we have to clean this up all up...'' The Diamond Orders journey homeward and leave the realm of the dead behind, satisfied at having prevented another calamity; this time they didn't destroy their own home.
The Diamond Order slowly sails back out to Gratsid. Their journey has finished; many were lost along the way, but it all came to fruition. Frederick the Redeemed set foot on land. William Dwayne walked beside him, followed by Kobi and George. It was finally time to return to the city they had fought so hard for. The city of Gratsid
They go to the last remaining tavern for one last drink before going their separate ways.
William Dwayne goes into the bar, where he is immediately recognised.
"The King's Son! Where have you been?'' a random drunkard says. '' I am the King of this city now; I will take the throne'' William shouts back. All the drunkards turn to him. ''So, what are the laws?"
"Well, for starters, drinking is free for the king and his companions!" William says.
Frederick's face lightened up as he stood up and began to chuckle. "Well, I'm not going to argue with that!"
They all ordered a round for the whole bar, and Kobi made a toast: "To our victory, long live The Diamond Order!".
They all raise their cups to toast.
They drank and drank until everyone had a good time and sang some songs. But the celebrations didn't stop there, as King William himself decided to have a royal ball in honour of the diamonds orders successful and final conquest of Orario. The Order partied all night with the citizens; even the old fishermen decided to attend.
After the festivities were over and the people returned to their homes, the town of Gratsid slept easy that night, knowing that they would be safe under the rule of the new king.
The Diamond Order will return.