Prince Coljun had been observing the invasion through his monitor on his ship. Just like the rest of his siblings, watching from their home planets.

His planet was one of those, closest to Dargan. However, Alcra had told him to remain on standby. So his forces waited patiently cloaked on the outskirts of the Dargan Solar system, ready to strike at a moment's notice.

He knew his father was curious about the new enemy, but he hated seeing so much of his sibling's lifespans going to waste. Then Alcra gave him the order, giving him some much-needed relief. His ship and three others descended to Dargan over Gobaela's castle.

Beyond's forces were stationed there and recuperating. Coljun exited his spacecraft, as soon as it dropped into the atmosphere. Racing towards their temporary headquarters.

He let his bloodlust, wave over the entire planet. Every living creature looked up terrified, as chills ran down their spines. What was coming, was the apex.

He caused a Richter scale earthquake of 6.7, as he landed. Kicking up a dust ring explosion and showering debris everywhere, as he killed several unsuspecting soldiers.

The Novas, except for Norah who was unconscious, and Tobi, who was on another continent, raced to the center of the explosion, wary of the bloodlust they felt earlier. Just to see blood everywhere, from the soldiers who were just taking a break.

Coljun turned his attention towards them. His eyes sent daggers of fear, spurning only the thought of certain death. They instantly knew, that what was in front of them, was an untouchable. Something you just hoped would let you live and walk away.

The prince cleared his throat. "So you are the ones, who wasted my sibling's lifespans?"

None of them were able to speak. Sweat rolled down their faces, as the silence wore on. Crackling static broke the silence as Sarah spoke up. "Novas's evacuate immediately. He is a threat at over 456,000. Do not engage! I repeat run for your lives!"

Coljun disappeared before she finished speaking. León's head flew sky high, as the rest of them were sent flying back just from the wind. His body dropped to the floor as blood gushed everywhere. "That's one down." He said to himself, then turned around, squatted, and placed his hand above León's corpse. Absorbing his bones, blood and all, while some soldiers watched, cowering in hidden spots.

"How could you!" Kayed yelled, at the top of his lungs with tears streaming down. He was flying back on a magma platform, already in second gear.

Koji, Simon, and Kalista followed up behind him, powering up with whatever little energy they had, then manifested beams of fire, lava, and electricity. It was all or nothing.

The combined beam coming at him was massive and impossible to evade. Yet he stood his ground, raising his right palm towards it. "Constellation Flare!" He yelled as violet flames raced forth larger than the combined attack, burning it up completely and bearing down on them, without mercy.

They raised barriers to protect themselves, as Nur rushed in from the side, in first gear and created a massive ice dome to protect them. The resulting explosion sent every one of them flying back, heavily injured and knocked out.

Coljun flew up looking down at the defeated team. A massive ball of fire raised over his head. "I am utterly disgusted, that my siblings could lose to such trash. I'll get rid of them in one go."

Lightning struck across the land, as Tobi raced sword first at Coljun. Who instinctively blocked the strike, with his arm up, and caught himself from flying back more than a dozen meters away. His ball of fire dissipated, as he lost focus.

"Who are you!" Tobi yelled out, panting. His side-effects were doing a number on him and flying so far, so quickly, had taken its toll.

Tobi felt no energy signature from León down below. His worry turned to rage. For, it may be the only thing that could get them out of this situation. He felt powerless, as he tried to process his hands stinging just from the impact.

The prince looked at him, with cold, heartless eyes. "My name is Coljun, the 75th in line to the Cerian empire. I'm here to take out the trash that have been invading our territorial sovereignty. Do you have a problem with that?"

Tobi growled at him, yet Coljun continued. "Because if you don't have the power to stop me... Oh, Legendary Rennayan. Then I will just kill everybody down below and reset this planet." He smiled.

Tobi shifted into second gear, cladding himself in electricity and reinforcing his hands. However, he was still unable to see him as the prince leaped at Tobi, who blocked his strike at the last second with his sword.

He watched in despair, as his sword shattered from the flaming punch, which continued to knock him down into a clearing beside Gobaela's castle. Creating a massive crater, as he landed, coughing blood.

He got up and immediately injected himself with a booster. The world watched from Sarah's site, in horror, wondering what was going to happen.

Coljun dropped down and started walking towards Tobi, while Tobi healed himself. "Your abilities... Including your level of ascension, is nowhere near enough to take us on. Yet you assumed you could invade us and what? Defeat us? You're not ready."

Tobi summoned lava to him and covered himself in an armour of magma, as Coljun continued. "For example..." He formed two fists. One went on fire, while the other froze up.

Tobi's eyes grew wide. The prince was using two different abilities.

Coljun rushed him, punching him randomly from all sides. Bruising and forcing him to cough up more blood, as he braced himself, completely unable to keep up with him.

Coljun jumped back, letting him breathe. "Some of us, in the top 75, were blessed by Father to have two abilities. Lastly, just for your despair..."

Love what you're reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.

He began to gather energy, as rings of fire crushed the ground and the air temperature dropped down ridiculously. Light violet marks raced, as veins all over his body. He looked at Tobi, with eyes, flickering blue. His energy had skyrocketed, as he became much stronger, than he was, just a moment ago.

"The most of those top in the top 100, can ascend too." He said, then charged him, almost disappearing for a moment.

All he saw were cloud rings, trailing towards him. He instinctively raised his hands up, reinforcing them as much as he could. The shockwave, along with the snap of his bones, resounded for dozens of kilometres, as Tobi was sent flying through Gobaela's castle, and fell into her basement, as the castle crumbled down around him.

Tobi didn't know, how he managed to survive that. He sat up and vomited some more blood. He lost too much. He could no longer feel anything in his arms and used the energy he had left to hold up the crumbling basement.

"Umm, excuse me?" A voice in the darkness, shook him, as he frantically looked around.

In front of him was a figure, stuck in a cage. He stood up and walked closer, as his vision, cleared of the child of Atlas before him.

Immediately, he backed away freaking out, as the princess called out to him. "Please, I'm sorry for scaring you. Please help me, I was locked up here for protecting a child, who they ended up killing, regardless."

He looked closer. The woman was short with jet-black hair and had the same slits as her siblings but in a grey prisoner's suit. She had high-tech handcuffs on. "You're definitely a foreigner, aren't you? Please take me with you!" She begged.

Tobi finally managed to speak, still shocked by the situation and what he was witnessing. "How... how can I trust you? All of you children of Atlas kill and enslave people."

She shook her head, smiling. "My name is Nirro, the 100th in line and I have never killed an intelligent being, nor harmed one. I am the only child of Atlas programmed to do good, in the hope that I would be the one to become closest to God... However, I failed him and have been kept imprisoned and tortured for the past 20 years."

Tobi pondered everything she had said, still unsure of what to do. Suddenly the chills came back, as the entire room filled with dread. Coljun blasted away at the castle rubble trying to reach him.

Nirro looked at him, understanding the situation. "It seems my older brother Coljun, is after you."

Tobi nodded, as he tried to think of a way out of this. "That's right and none of us are getting out of here with that monster still around."

Nirro smiled. "You still have a chance to defeat him, if you fuse with me."

Tobi's ear perked up, he had only ever heard of something like this, in stories and manga. "What do you mean by fusing with you?" He replied, a little taken back.

Nirro continued to smile, walking closer to the bars of her cell as tremors rocked the basement ceilings. "There seem to be millions of people's aura within you, so I had thought you were familiar with this..." A small square opened up below her chest.

She dropped to her knees, zapped by the handcuffs. Tobi rushed to help her up. Using clay to move his broken arms and fractured hands.

She continued on. "This is my core, which also acts like a fusion device. Combining both of our powers and personalities into one being. It's temporary for 45, maybe half an hour, or even less depending on the amount of energy used."

Tobi recalled Haylon and Tamorn doing the same thing. She made a worried expression, for a second. "Usually you're not supposed to fuse more than once, but you seem like you're your own personality, not millions. So, I'm willing to risk my life with you." She gave him one more smile.

Suddenly, the ceiling caved and light shone through, they watched Coljun descending through it. She looked back at Tobi. "There's no time foreign warrior! Take it and swallow it whole."

She begged him, as he looked back terrified at the sight of the prince. "Just please remember, to keep my body safe."

He looked back at her and nodded. Then, reached into her gut and pulled her core out, swallowing it without hesitation. He then turned back and looked at Coljun, as he grabbed his chest.

"Nirro... So this is where they kept you. What are you plotting with the enemy?" Coljun asked, curious.

Her body dropped, lifeless as Tobi enclosed it in ice. Intense searing hot pain shot through him, as he dropped to his knees, and grabbed his chest tighter. He felt his heart beating louder and quicker.

His mind started to muddle away, as his brain fused with Nirro's memory circuits. His hair glowed jet black, as a myriad of purple and black veins wrapped around his whole body.

Black fire, crushed the ground in rings, as he stood calmly at the epicentre, dropping the temperature, drastically. Static electricity crackled around them, ripping the room apart, as the ceiling continued to cave in.

Sarah had ordered all ships off the planet. She could tell, that two disasters were about to go head to head.

Coljun looked at Nirro's still body, then glanced back at Tobi, whose energy was exponentially rising by the second. "You traitor! I will execute you, on behalf of Ceria! How dare you taint our blood with an insect! You are no longer worthy of being one of us."

He placed one hand in front of him, creating a massive fireball white hot, as Tobi stood up and opened his eyes. Bright blue, with white rings in the middle, spinning, as his eyes, darted around the room. Black slits ran down horizontally from the base of his eyes, down to his neck.

Coljun launched the fireball at them, expecting a catastrophic explosion. One, he prepared to protect, even himself from. However, it vanished, supercooled in an instant.

"How rude..." Tobi shook his head, speaking in dual tone. "I the ultimate warrior Torrin, have descended. Yet this is the welcome you bestow upon me!" The ground cracked up as he yelled, with intense authority and produced winds, forcing Coljun to cover his face.

He looked up at the warrior, claiming to be Torrin. "So you've fused? Is this a joke? A futile attempt to survive?" The prince replied.

Torrin cleaned out his ear, ignoring him as he looked up, sensing the situation outside and his surroundings. "Hmph, It seems I was called here, during a difficult situation... I can smell blood."

He glanced back at Coljun, then Nirro's body inside the dome, while scratching his chin, and nodded. "I see... You're an enemy, aren't you? I could feel that you've taken something important from part of me..." He concluded as he began to gather energy.

The marks around his body glowed even harder, as electricity built up to its peak within the room, moments from caving in.

Coljun responded in kind, gathering all of the energy he could muster, up to the surface. "Killing you would mean the end of those two... I guess you've made this a little easier." He said arrogantly. However looking at the newborn monster in front of him, it was clear to him that Torrin was a threat.

Torrn suddenly laughed out loud, unsettling Coljun."Easy, huh? I guess I should return the favour."

He disappeared, appearing just below Coljun, giving him only enough time to glance down as he gave him the most jaw-breaking uppercut, the prince had ever received in his life.

Shooting him through the castle ceiling and into the sky, free-falling. Only regaining his balance, a moment later, as Torrin appeared once again, above him and smashed him back down to the ground, levelling the rest of the castle city.

Torrn descended, looking down on the prince, recovering within the massive crater he created. Coljun coughed up blood, then got up and launched thousands of fireballs at Torrin.

However, Torrin appeared in blips, disappearing and reappearing within the same vicinity, as he dodged each of the fireballs, nearly missing him. Coljun was furious and immediately covered himself in armour made out of ice, and reinforced with flames, then charged at full speed at his opponent, smirking calmly in the sky.

Torrin lunged at him, gladly receiving his charge, with fists covered in magma and electricity. Resulting in the collision of fists, sending shockwaves across the continent.

They continued striking each other. Blow for blow, almost even. Coljun's body was struggling to regenerate as quickly, as the damage he was taking.

Torrin was starting to bleed all over and felt a few fractures, but he treated himself as best as he could over and over. Then finally broke the deadlock sending Coljun flying across the continent, in an electric, blazing inferno.

Beyond and the World continued to watch through telomoniters Sarah had inbound, broadcasting to her site. Along with the children of Atlas...