A day passes Keireens capital city has defences primed and ready, be they conjured or real they are there ready to resist an onslaught of millions thrown at it. Keireen looks down from his castle at the soldiers that still defend as well as the war beasts that are standing alongside them before Onikerm comes flying down with dragons behind him. Keireen looks at the dragons and sees them not terrified but more smiling eerily.
"May not be his specialty but at this distance his mind control will work as needed" Keireen thinks to himself
Keireen starts to telepathically speak to the entire city.
"You all are the last of those loyal to me, I do not care if its out of the law or respect but what I do know is this, even if I die today those that still stay loyal to me will come for all of you that failed me. SO DO NOT FAIL ME!" Keireen shouts into their minds
Onikerm teleports to Keireen and looks down from the castle with him.
"Such inspiring words" Onikerm says
"Shut it Onikerm, right now we have to make sure everything is ready, I sense Reinlas and his army on the way. Every fucking Harraele within our grasp or more accurately within yours" Keireen says
"I know Keireen, make Reinlas vulnerable. if every harraele is there then theres the problem of Farenhale" Onikerm says
"Farenhale may be just as powerful as Reinlas but hes never been as good a fighter as his kingly counterpart, plus when he unmerges we just need to purge the war beasts if he had unmerged after we deal with Reinlas" Keireen says
"Risky but effective plan if done right" Onikerm says
"We're only down to gambles Onikerm its the best we have" Keireen says
Reinlas and his army march upon Keireens last city and as it comes into sight they immediately begin getting fired on with magic and arrows as well as boulders from catapult fire. Reinlas and Farenhale quickly put up barriers that stretch far enough for the entire army to be covered boosted by Liara and Farenisles own magic. The entire army begins to charge while the Tykema fly in from the other direction but get intercepted by Keireens own Tykema, the Hykra run in towards the city walls but are stopped when the mages on the wall bring up lava from the ground creating a moat of lava around the city. The two dragons under Onikerms control fly out of the castle and begin to breath lightning and water across the army but the barrier protects them.
"Should this barrier fall too many get shocked to death, someone deal with those dragons!" Reinlas shouts
The archers and mages begin to fire up at the dragons but they dodge easily and come back around to attack till a gigantic roar is heard in the distance.
"Wait a minute was that Jo-" Linra is cut off by Reinlas
"Indeed, Jorankra is back after her little stay away" Reinlas says as he looks towards the mountains in the distance and he sees she is the same size she was but she is far away
"She is bigger, MUCH bigger" Linra says looking at her with him
Jorankra flies towards them gradually growing bigger as she gets closer, when she is close enough its obvious she is a titan of a dragon bigger than a castle easily 200 feet tall and Jorankra lands next to the army and slams the two dragons into the ground with her wings knocking them out flat as the soldiers on the city walls as well as the war beasts stand in shock. keireen looks from his castle at the dragon goliath infront of his city.
"NO NO NO NO FUCKING NO!" Keireen shouts as Jorankra breaths a combined powerful stream of lightning and dragon fire into the wall blowing it apart
Reinlas's army cheers at the site and Reinlas makes a divide in the lava flow letting his army charge through the Hykra moving in first takign down a shield wall full of enemies before getting attacked by Keireens Hykra. Reinlas stays back a bit and Farenhale runs to him.
"Just like yesterday the war beasts fight like their lives or even others depend on it. Keireens a bastard if it was jsut them at risk they could escape right now and fight" Farenhale says
"Then what is it?" Reinlas asks
Syremais head comes out of Farenhales chest even through his armour making Farenhale clearly unnerved.
"I hate it when you do that" Farenhale says
"Yeah yeah whatever, anyway their kids are being held hostage, unmerge and I can get in there" Syremai says
"Best know what you're doing Syremai" Reinlas says as Farenhale unmerges
"Just keep Keireen distracted" Syremai says
Reinlas draws Kylorn.
"Into the final battle we go then Kylorn" Reinlas says
"May we have eternal rest from war then" Kylorn says before Reinlas flies into the city to fight quickly being met by Keireen
Syremai disappears as Reinlas and Keireen clash trading blows they manage to not harm each other as they know each others attacks by this point. They speak no words to each other as they merely want to kill the other, Keireens eyes turn into a blinding light and Reinlas's eye turns black as his other eye socket has a shadow eye grow in it, Reinlas's attacks hasten and his defence greater with the shadow eye allowing him to see all around him far easier. Keireen clashes blades knowing Onikerm is doing his work but he doesnt know what is really going on as Syremai sneaks his way into the castle he finds where the war beast children are being kept and begins to make his way there using illusions to make himself look like Onikerm to make his way down. The guards of the castle and dungeon especially dont question him as he walks past even as he gets to the area of the dungeons where the war beast children are being kept.
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"None escaped?" Syremai asks
"No Onikerm, none have escaped and no war beast has tried to get them back your threats kept them in line" A guard says
"Disappointing" Syremai says as his wings sharpen and he stabs through the two guards next to them then he quickly breathes fire on the other guards there
The guards nearby hear the guards die but dont question it as they saw onikerm go in, Onikerm himself is upstairs looking down on the city.
"Which one to take, or should I take all three? Harder but easier to put Reinlas off especially as it seems that Farenhale has disappeared... Hold on, did a sneaky little tykema make his way in?" Onikerm asks himself as he smirks making his way to the dungeons confusing the guards who then follow him per his orders
"Sneaky sneaky sneaky! Exactly what we made you for Syremai! Well done!" Syremai shouts down the hallways
"shit!" Syremai whisper shouts to himself and the kids as he looks at the tykema children
"All of you grab the others and disappear, ill distract that fucker" Syremai says as he flies out and kills as many guards on the way to attacking Onikerm
The Tykema children grab as many others as they can and disappear with them taking them out of the city, Onikerm gets caught up in fighting Syremai as Keireen continues to fight Reinlas. Jorankra breathes lightning and fire onto a parts of the defense force killing them easily as they came towards Linra, Liara and Farenisle. Keireen locks blades with Reinlas as his sword lights on fire.
"You bring a giant dragon Reinlas? Seriously? Where did you keep that monster?" Keireen asks
"Fuck. You. She is no monster Keireen the only monster in this city is the one I'm fighting and the insane one in your castle" Reinlas says as he has some shadow creatures come out the shadows and attack Keireen
Keireen with more blinding light manages to destroy the creatures very quickly before looking at Reinlas.
"In my castle? Oh I'm sure Onikerm has something planned Reinlas" Keireen says as he begins to use the light and the pure heat it gives off and attacks reinlas with it channelling it into the now Geirniam arm and leg Reinlas has
Reinlas feels the arm and leg weakening and sees them begin to melt so he charges towards Keireen before he can do much more and he punches Keireen with his normal arm before the leg gives out but reinlas quickly turns the bottom half of his body into a shadow getting rid of the need for legs as he stretches the shadows around himself and Keireen into a dome. Even with his light the shadows grow darker making the light less effective as Reinlas becomes apart of the dome sending hordes of creatures after Keireen deciding to exhaust Keireen and making it easier on himself. Meanwhile Syremai is fighting onikerm and once he realises the Tykema children have taken all the other war beast children away he smirks.
"Onikerm, seems your hostages are gone" Syremai says as he quickly stabs his wings into onikerms hands and teleports with Onikerm into the battlefield amongst the war beasts that are fighting for Keireen
Syremai drops Onikerm as he looks around.
"EVERYONE YOUR KIDS ARE SAFE, HE HAS NO LEVERAGE KEEPING YOU HERE TO FIGHT!" Syremai shouts
The Delantramites, Hykra and Tykema all growl or angrily grunt as they turn to look at Onikerm and as they slowly surround him Onikerm gets up.
"Well no way I'm getting out of this one. Seems its time, come on and kill me! Time to experience death for myself!" Onikerm shouts before laughing insanely as they all begin to tear him to shreds
Keireen couldnt hear Onikerm die through the shadow dome while Reinlas could, he makes his face come out the wall of the dome as a giant shadow and he looks down at Keireen.
"And there goes your insane torturer taken apart by those he made on your orders" Reinlas says
"Onikerm is not dead, he cant be" Keireen says to himself in disbelief
"Even you are as fallible as anyone else without those to support you it seems. Well tough shit, Onikerm is dead and you are soon to join him" Reinlas says as he comes out the wall behind Keireen and throws him into the wall and the shadows trap Keireens arms and legs
"A simple execution really Reinlas?" Keireen asks
"No, not so simple. The shadows tell a history especially with the aid of time magic I have seen your turn to the man you are, I saw you murder your parents as it happened if they had seen all you did after that I cannot even imagine their anger and disappointment about you. The son they brought into this world became the worst thing it ever had walk it" Reinlas says
"If you think your words will move m-" Keireen is cut off
"No, even if I did you are far to gone for it to matter, I am doing a service to the memory of your parents, to all those that have died in your wake and to the future of our world by killing you" Reinlas says
"Sure" Keireen says as he turns his entire body into pure light allowing him to free his arms and legs
Keireen flies into Reinlas and tackles him managing to break through the dome with Reinlas and toses him through multiple buildings till he slams into one of the city walls. Reinlas gets up his entire body still a shadow as he gets angrier he slashes at Keireen with shadow blades and Kylorn as well as conjured objects, Keireen keeps up as best he can but one of Reinlas's slashes tears through Keireens armour and sends him crashing to the ground. Keireen not done yet springs back up and goes to attack Reinlas but he quickly shoots a look at Jorankra who breathes dragon fire onto Keireen this fire burns hotter than any fire an immortalai can muster and it metals Keireens armour burning and damaging his body permanently before Reinlas slashes his stomach. Keireen holds his stomach as he feels the blood come out and he is laying on the ground.
"Fuck" Keireen says as he gets up bleeding heavily as he tries to charge Reinlas
Reinlas drops down and sweeps his leg then kicks him into a wall.
"Your time has come Keireen and while it may be right for me to be the one to kill you and end this I feel it more appropriate that someone you killed do so instead" Reinlas says as he walks over to linra and his kids
Syremai, Kytal and Dykrama merge together to make Farenhale appear.
"You killed me, tore me apart and make war beasts from my soul Keireen, you did things us first generation could never have imagined to happen when we made the ancient laws, naive we were but no one could imagine what you did" Farenhale says
"I did what I wanted, got power and made sure I held it until now" Keireen says
"May you rot Keireen" Farenhale says as he chops Keireens head off and lights it on fire
All fighting stops as the soldiers, citizens and war beasts all begin to cheer looking to the now only living royal family for guidance.
"Begin rebuilding, that is the only course of action left now, we jsut continue on and remember our fallen" Reinlas says as everyone gets to work while in Reinlas's head he remembers back at the beginning surrounded by the others of the first seeing the second come into view through the light.
Reinlas feels as hopeful as he did back then as he sends a little vision back to himself years ago, showing his past self of is to come...