As the glass from the ceiling rained down, Aluric could see his ragged and fatigued reflection in the pieces of glass as they fell and he fell to the ground along with them, he landed on his feet, facing off against his four equally tired and beaten opponents, Aluric looked down clenching his bloodied fist, a smile strode across his face, reeling back is hand it began to turn a cherry red, as though it was metal being heated up,

“Not a chance’, Aster said, as he spun his body and threw his war hammer at Aluric, the air around aluric exploded it all directions, the war hammer falling to a stop, Aluric’s hand outstretched pushing against the force that the earthen weapon was exerting, he pushed forward his other hand as a red scream of flames burst forth, racing towards Aster, a look of surprise jumped on to his face as he saw the stream of flames coming towards him, Levant stepped in front of him blocking the brunt of the attack, though it sent him flying towards the large wooden doors of the throne room,

“Lev”, aster shouted, but before he could recall his hammer to attack again, a white blur sped past him, and Aluric found Polaris with a sword lunging towards his face, thinking quickly Aluric dropped the hand holding back the war hammer, and as it began to glide pass him, he grabbed onto the brown handle of the hammer, and swung it sideways, sending it barreling into Polaris’ ribcage, Launching him into the wall where Bard and Kosh had been Fighting,

“Now that’s two of you taken care of”, Aluric said, straightening his posture, his eyes unwavering in their deadly stare at Aster and Barak,

“Aster surround him with stone, and once I get in his range close it off with the two of us inside”, Barak said, pushing one leg forward and dropping his center of gravity, he drew one hand back bringing his sword in line with his face,

“that sounds like suicide”, Aster pointed out, his voice wavering with concern,

“no, what I’m about to do will most definitely affect everyone if you don’t cover my attack, so be quick about it”, Barak replied,

“but what about…”, Aster trailed off as, he felt the lightning begin to surge off of Barak, on the opposite side he saw aluric take up a stance readying himself for the attack,

Aster let out a sigh, dropping down and placing both of his palms on the ground, “you’re funeral”, He said, Barak smiled,

“ARCH VOLTAGE: DIVINE RETRIBUTION”, Barak shouted, as a bright blue line appeared between him and Aluric, Aster only felt when the floor of the throne room got tore up from barak moving,

“RASHOUMON: GREAT DOME”, Aster shouted, as barak raced toward aluric in what felt like slow motion for him was only a split second in real time, as soon as he got close to Aluric he was surrounded by a spiral patterned dome in darkness, soon after a blue spark lit the darkness, in that millisecond, barak saw Aluric's body, embroiled in the golden tiger striped armor along with the red flames,

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Aster surrounded Barak and Aluric, but as quickly as the doom had sealed, it was followed by a massive explosion that sent everyone in the room flying in different directions, pushing Bard through the hole in the wall, as he fell through barely hanging on at the ledge, sending kosh into the wall directly next to the hole, As the pieces of white stone that the dome had been made out of flew everywhere, one had launched into Amon, careening him through the large wooden doors, and yumi and Ea flew into the wall next to Levant, Aster had been launched into the air and his body fell back to the ground as a few charges of electricity ran across his body, and Aluric had been catapulted behind the throne, barak had only been sent a few feet away from the center of the explosion,

Barak held ont his sword plunging it into the ground as he pulled all of his weight against it trying to get back to his feet, he looked behind him to see Aster kneeling on one knee, blood trickling down his cheek, and coming out of his mouth, Aster stretched out his hand and called for his hammer, which picked it self up from next to Polaris and flew back into his hand, Barak focused his attention in front of him, His face almost going pale when he saw Aluric climb out from behind the throne, his white and gold trnch coat completely gone, bujt what replaced it seemed much worse, his entire torso colored with the golden stripe pattern of his armor, and plumes of red flames billowing out of his body, forming a scarf like appearance around his neck and shoulders, a form similar to the one levant had taken just a few hours ago, Levant looked on from the wall of the entrance to the throne room, he had been cut over his eye earlier, the blood streaming from his forehead affecting his vision, he pulled out one of his guns, pointing it directly at Aluric, he fired,

The searing hot bullet raced towards Aluric, but barely noticing the incoming attack, Aluric pulled his brothers out of the throne and deflected the bullet, in shock, Levant fired twice, no three more times, all of which were met with the same fate, all deflected,

“well I guess there’s really only one way to end this then”, Levant said, his arms turning red as steam began to rise off of them, Barak, had had the same idea as levant, as lightning surged off of him once more, as the ends of his hair grew a bright white, and the veins within his arms began to glow the same electric blue as his lightning,

Kosh looked on at the fight that raged on in the throne room, when he heard a groan come from the ledge of the busted wall in the throne room, he walked over and looked at bard hanging over the edge, they were at least four stories up, and below bard stood a large white spiked fence, Kosh’s actions had caught Aster’s attention, who began to move towards him, Aster soon realized that someone was hanging out the edge of the wall, as he rushed over Kosh with a wicked grin on his face,

“all of that bluster and bravado earlier and this is how you die”, Kosh said smiling from ear t ear, a wicked smile, As he eyed the spikes of the fence below bard,

“such a pathetic way to go for someone who fancies themselves a warrior”, kosh added,

“well I guess it’s the only way a weak obedient lapdog like you would be able to take me out”, Bard said, grinning, as Kosh crumbled the edge that bard was holding onto, Aster rushed over, and with barely enough time to gather what was happening he placed his hands on the floor of the throne room, and as bard fell beneath him the white spike fence move, twisting and contorting, an instant later, a loud crashed could be heard, as Bard had landed on the flat side of the fence unable to move as he appeared unconscious,