Chapter 9

Aster jumped in between the two charging groups, raising two walls from out of the earth, towering over both opposing sides, as he stood in the middle of these two walls,

"Aster, my nephew, move or I will move you", Zaraar shouted, he stood at average height, with dark brown skin and a bald head, he wore black pants, a golden brown shirt, which had a long cloth running from the waist down to his knees which had the symbol of a golden tree with many branching limbs and a halo above it, the symbol of junorra, the nature goddess, and the prime goddess of the faith of junism,

Aster chuckled to himself, one of Canaan’s many well trained spies landed next to Aster,

“Young lord Aster, Lord Canaan request that you remove yourself from preventing this battle”, the spy asked,

Aster smirked, raising the two walls even higher, “I don’t really want the clan infighting”, Aster said,

“I see you have given your response”, the spy said, vanishing into the air,

Shortly after both sides were given the command to let loose their arrows at walls and destroy them, archers on both sides drew their bows loaded with arrows, these weren't normal bows however, the clan had forwarded their technology so that their normal soldiers could fight super powered individuals, the bows were made with highly condensed energy infused with a dense metal which harnesses human energy and forms it into the shape of the user, in this case arrows. The archers released the arrows at aster, the arrows flew into the sky, as a soft golden glow rained down on to the two giant walls from both sides,

The walls started to crack and crumble, aster stood in the middle of the commotion, covered in dust and very pissed off,

"Oi, Barak, what’s the plan here ?" Shouted aster, Barak grinned with a devilish look on his face, "let's go" he said to polaris and levant, and the three of them jumped to aster's position,

Aster looked up and polaris landed on his right and levant landed on his left while Barak landed right in front of him, " Okay we're pairing off, Levant and aster take care of Canaan's side, me and polaris will take care of Zaraar's side" Barak explained,

"okay, lets get this over with" aster replied, relaxing his stance, he and levant turned and walked away from polaris and barak, to face the oncoming army of canaan’s men,

"By the way, don't kill anyone we still need someone to defend the clan after all this is said and done" Barak said, side looking levant ,

Levant smiled," that’s rich coming from you, not like I was planning on it though" he said to barak,

Zarar's archers loaded their bows again, and aimed at polaris and barak, they let loose the arrows as they all flew at the two of them gaining more and more speed, as the first arrow reached Barak’s lightning surged and the arrows disappeared and barak was now over the army in the air preparing to launch an attack,

“ARCH VOLTAGE:MINIMUM IMPACT”, Barak shouted, a giant blue electric eagle formed and flew straight towards the army, Polaris stuck his sword into the ground as he to also prepared to attack the army,

“MAGNET ZERO: BOUND”, Polaris said calmly, ice chains rushed out from the ground binding everyone to the ground just as the eagle hit the army lightning flew off in all directions knocking out majority of the army while the others were incapacitated, however Zarar avoided both attacks,

Zaraar drew his sword and stuck it into the ground and placed one hand on it,

"tsk tsk tsk, I'm the one who taught you swordsman ship and helped you develop most of your attacks, Polaris, now let me show you how it's done",Zarar said shaking his head,

“RELIGIOUS CONTRACT:BIND”, zarar commanded,

Black chains shot from zarar's sword and into the ground, Polaris jumped into the air but the chains came from out of the ground and latched onto him and furiously pulled him into the ground, Polaris managed to get onto his knees when the chains grew tighter ,

“AHHHHH, AHHHH, AHHHHHH !!!!!!!”, Polaris screamed in pain, Barak landed next to polaris, Barak tried to cut the chains but his sword nor his lightning could break the chains,

“well this just got a little more complicated”, Barak said, looking at polaris,

“Yo...You think”, Polaris said, struggling to break free of his bindings,

“okay just give me a minute”, barak said to polaris, turning around to face zaraar,

“Let him go”, barak shouted,

“look at this, you brats think that because you have been professed as the children of the prophecy that you are basically untouchable”, Zaraar said,

“I’ll say it one more time, LET HIM GO”, Barak said, lightning pulsing on his body as he spoke,

“why should I, all he does is make his mother worry and leave for days on end, he even slacks off in worshipping our goddess, if you ask me he needs to be punished, thoroughly”, zaraar said,

tightening the chains around Polaris’ neck, causing him to scream out in even more pain,

Polaris could feel his mind on the verge of going blank, even so he stubbornly struggled without a hint of giving up in his eyes,

"I will withdraw if and only if polaris decides to come with me" Zarar bargained, Barak looked pained but ultimately sheathed his sword,

“pol go with him, I’ll come get you when we stop this battle”, barak said, he looked down at Polaris’ pained expression, Barak could feel the burning in his throat as those words left his mouth,

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“but”, Polaris said,

“right now our job is to stop this senseless fighting, regardless of how much it aides the elders agenda”, Barak said, looking at Polaris, then quickly averting his eyes from Polaris’,

“fine…. Fine, I’ll go with you Zaraar, so pull back your men”, Polaris said, as the spark of resilience in his eyes drowned out,

“good”, Zaraar said, smiling, as the chains tightened around Polaris’ neck, causing him to fall unconscious,

“you son of a...”, barak was cut short when he felt a hard blow to the back of his head, and then everything went dark,

Meanwhile on the other side of the walls, Levant and Aster faced the other army.

Levant and Aster walked towards Canaan's army, Canaan raised his arm, the army went silent for a moment, after a moment's silence he dropped his hand, and then, they let out a blood curdling war cry,

OOOOOUUUURRRRAAAAAA!!!!!!,

All of the men charged forward at the two of them,

Levant looked at Aster a bit annoyed,

"You ready to kick some ass", Levant asked annoyed,

“Yeah obviously, though I really wish it hadn’t come to this", Aster answered him,

“Aster, Aster, Aster, always eager to talk things out, when are you going to realize that, sometimes the simplest solution is to speak through fighting”, levant, said,

“I swear you and Barak are the same”, Aster said, pushing his face into his palm,

“nah, Rak, loves fighting, it’s just the fast way to get the outcome I desire”, Levant answered,

Levant drew his two guns and ran towards the charging army, Aster launched himself into the air directly over the army, and diving right at the middle of them ,

”METEOR RUSH”, he shouted, when he made contact with the ground aster used his power and created a crater wiping out a sizeable chunk of the army, he placed his hand on the ground and as he stood up he pulled his war hammer out of the ground , Aster stood in the middle of the chaos he caused, with a wicked grin on his face,

“oh ho ho, weren’t you just preaching about not resorting to violence”, Levant said,

“sure I did, never said I didn’t enjoy it every once in a while though”, Aster answered,

The soldiers that survived looked on at Aster in horror,

Levant shouted out, "I hope you peasants haven't forgotten about me",

the soldiers that had regathered themselves charged at Levant, but he was ready, he had stopped charging forward but instead took a firm stance and braced his entire body, as his guns started to glow a bright orange, he smirked and thought to himself,

"well I can't kill them so if they die from me holding back they weren't meant to be here, REND: CANON IMPACT”, he stated to himself, he fired the two bullets at the army and on impact there were two giant explosions,

When everything settled only a few of the archers and Canaan were left standing, the last of the archers took aim at Levant and fired only for their arrows to be met with a wall made by Aster, Aster lowered the wall and Canaan placed his hand on one of the archers shoulder and shook his head as if to say stop, he jumped down from his position and landed in the battlefield in front of Aster with Levant now joining aster's side,

“light work”, Levant said grinning at Aster,

Canaan smiled with his hands in the air, he wore a black long sleeved shirt, with a red westcott, and grey gloves, he wore black pants and shoes matching his shirt, with a red sash similar to Aster’s green one, around his waist, he had brown skin that almost seemed pale, with white hair covering one of his eyes,

"Look I really don't want to fight the two of you, so how about you turn around walk away and let me take control over the clan", Canaan said,

Levant looked at him and raised his gun, pointing it directly at his forehead,

“I’ve never really liked you, so I could shoot you in your head, tell the elders that the battle got to intense and one thing led to another”, Levant said,

"sigh..... I guess I have to do it your way" Canaan said looking reluctant,

“not like you two stand a chance anyways, you four boys may be the most exceptional Enforcers we have seen to this day in this clan, but you lot are still a far cry from being the best fighters in the clan, take me for example, I have been personally assigned to Maria Almin Maltrov, our country’s esteemed leaders, personal task force, so that means I am far out of your league”, Canaan said,

Canaan charged at Levant but was stopped short by Aster,

"hope you didn't forget I was here", Aster said smiling,

Canaan jumped back but aster was right onto him and a pillar of earth was charging right at him at astounding speed but Canaan stood there and just put out his hand forward, as the pillar of earth met his hand it stopped,

” VIBRATE: REDUCTION”, Canaan shouted, the pillar of earth shattered, but aster was right behind it, as the pillar crumbled away aster punched at Canaan but he dodged, Aster dropped to the ground, spinning around, swinging his hammer upwards with as much force as possible, a loud smashing sound filled the air, Aster pushed his hammer into Canaan, but something felt off, As Canaan pushed back Aster’s war hammer with his hand, he had a strange smile on his face,

“not bad, not bad”, Canaan said,

Pushing his hand outwards, pushing down both Aster and his hammer into the ground, pinning Aster under his own weapon, As Aster stared intensely up at Canaan,

“oohhh scary”, Canaan said jokingly,

“Forgot about me bitch”, Levant said, swinging his leg at full throttle, kicking Canaan in his face, or so he thought, Canaan grabbing Levant by his leg, blocking the kick to his head,

“wait your turn, I’ll be getting to you shortly”, Canaan said, effortlessly swinging Levant across the field,

He ripped the war hammer from Aster’s hands, and grabbed aster by the head, lifting him into the air, Aster looked down furiously at Canaan,

“this is the difference between us”, Canaan said, he whispered, “vibrate”, Aster's body went limp and he fell to the ground unconscious,

Levant picked himself up from off of the ground, as he looked over to see Aster’s body fall limply to the ground, unconscious, he dropped his guns and dropped to the ground,

“Canaan, Motherfucker, eat this”, Levant shouted,

the ground started to shake and then fire erupted from beneath, Canaan looked on and just smiled, before Levant knew what was happening Canaan was in front of him with his hand on his forehead,

He whispered, "sleep now child", Levant felt his brain shake and he fell to the ground, the last thing he saw was one of the archers throwing aster over his shoulder as the others checked on the fallen soldiers.

Levant opened his eyes, he realized he was still on the battlefield, he sat up and realized it was now night, he looked up and the moon shined ever so brightly,

“finally up”, Barak, said, sitting on a nearby boulder,

“shit, guessing you got you ass kicked also”, Levant said,

“Hardly, that shady motherfucker, Zaraar snuck one on me, really don’t get how he’s the head bishop of the clan”, barak said,

“well all is fair when were fighting”, Levant said, getting up from off of the ground,

“by the way where is Aster”, Levant asked,

“I’m guessing Canaan took him and left, when I came to he and his men had already left”, Barak said,

“anyways lets go get back, Pol and Aster”, Barak said,

outside the village

A shadowy figure stood at the top of the slopes staring down into the village smiling.

“hmm so those are two of the four that he was looking for”, the stranger said,