The five Haven siblings stood united against Griflore. They stood tall in their amazing armor with the power of their Ka flowing through them.
“You should be thanking me, girl,” said Griflore, “These humans wanted nothing to do with you. They left you to die. Yet, here you are, standing before me, defending them.”
“You took advantage of me. You fed off of my negative feelings and used me to do horrible things. But I’ve found my family and I’m going to take you down!”
Griflore laughed. “You fool! The river of death will flow with your blood!”
Griflore attacked first, swinging his colossal arms down at the five siblings who scattered quickly. Each of them struck the great beast with as much elemental force as they could conjure. Corrine summoned a powerful ray of energy from her hand, plowing the monster into the ground. While the beast was left recovering, the five siblings gathered and filled Corrine in on the plan to get Arayan back.
“So we have to cut the tubes connecting to the boy on his head?” She asked, “That’s what’s going to stop him?”
“Yeah.” replied the four brothers.
“We hope so,” Dye added.
“Fine, then I'll do it,” she said, turning her back to her brothers.
The enormous creature retreated from the ground once more, spreading its wings and unleashing a loud cry upon the city.
“No way!” Said Dye, grabbing her arm, “We do this together.”
Corrine turned around but didn’t respond to her brother’s objection. She took a quick glance at each of them and transformed her body into a jet of light and took off towards the creature.
“What is she doing?” Asked Dye angrily.
“She’s your sister,” replied Mack, going to rejoin the battle, “apparently more stubborn than you.”
“She’s going to get herself killed again!” Dye barked.
“Hey, that didn’t stop you,” said Jason as he passed his baby brother to resume the battle.
“That was different,” announced Dye as he followed.
The news helicopter still lingered around the battlefield, keeping a distance to avoid being swatted down by Griflore.
The brothers helped their sister attack the creature. With each blow, the creature fell to the ground and moments later got back up. It thrashed its talons and feet with high hopes of striking one of its opponents.
Seconds later, many missiles soared through the sky and hit the creature. The siblings saw a second team of military helicopters heading their way. The choppers opened fire on the beast and flew through the air firing missiles at will. Their mighty propellers tore through the air, the rippling of their propellers whirling through the sky. The cameraman aboard the news chopper pointed his camera at the dozens of helicopters heading towards the battle, showing the people all across the nation what was happening.
Sam flew into the air and caused a lightning bolt to strike the beast. Immediately following the lightning strike, a dozen of the choppers fired missiles at Griflore that detonated upon impact. The creature tore through buildings and recovered quickly. He ripped through the smoke and tried to swat down as many choppers as he could. The pilots used evasive maneuvers and successfully escaped from the out of control beast. As Griflore pursued one of the choppers, Mack came bursting from the ground, wielding a hammer made of stone, he slapped Griflore across the face, making him plow right into the rubble. Mack fell to the floor and slammed his weapon into the asphalt, causing boulders to explode into the air. One by one he struck each one and they bombarded the mighty beast, bringing Griflore to his knees.
Jason surrounded his body in a cyclone of water and raced towards Griflore at an intense speed. The water ripped and tore its way through the enormous beast, cutting Griflore severely.
Dye and Corrine raced towards the monster side by side. Dye summoned his blade again while Corrine summoned a bright, silver shield. Dye gave power to his sword and allowed it to glow with a golden light. Next, he threw it at Griflore while Corrine shot a powerful beam at the beast which accelerated Dye’s sword. The sword sliced through one of the tubes that kept Arayan’s body tied down. Corrine’s assault knocked the monster down again. Dye’s sword went flying back to him and he caught it. The five siblings and the military halted their assault and waited for Griflore to rise and tear through the smoke, but nothing happened.
As the smoke began to lift, they saw the yellow eyes of the beast, its body struggling to get up.
“Yes!” said Dye. Corrine turned her head to Dye. “We finally got him down!”
Jason, Mack and Sam joined the two.
“Great,” said Jason, “let's kick him!”
“I’ll do it,” said Corrine, walking away from her brothers. Dye seized her hand, stopping her.
“No,” he said. “We do this together.”
“He’s my problem. I brought him here. I’ll deal with him.”
“He’s our problem. He’s their problem too,” he pointed up at the military choppers, “we do this together.”
She snatched her hand back.
“Don’t you see? It's my fault he’s here. If it wasn’t for me, then all of this wouldn’t have happened. He has caused too much pain and suffering and forced me to do things I didn’t want to do.”
“But it wasn’t your fault,” said Sam, “You were under his control.”
“Besides, if he hadn’t taken over your body, you probably wouldn’t be here with us, your family.” Said Mack. “Look at us. We’re as beaten as you are and we’re not going to let you do this by yourself.”
“Why?” She asked. “Why risk everything for me after what I’ve done?”
“Because,” Jason stepped forward. “That’s what we do. A family who saves the world together! Get grounded together!” Sam smacked him. “What? You know it’s true!”
“What my brother is trying to say is that a family protects each other,” added Sam.
“No matter the danger of the situation,” Mack added also.
“We’re together now,” said Dye, “and love is what's going to keep us together.”
“Love?” She said, staring into the symbol that led to Dye’s eyes.
She watched as all around Dye a light began to shine. Not just any light. A never ending and uncontrollable crimson aura gave his body a new life. The T on Dye’s face was filled with the red glow and sent dozens of red, glowing lines surging through his body. He looked at himself and a strange energy started to fill his spirit. From behind him he could feel the warmness of other auras creeping up. He turned around and looked at Mack and saw a brilliant yellow light shine through the symbol on his face and all around his body. Sam and Jason’s armor showed similar signs with their blue and white radiance.
“Sammy, explain!” Asked Dye, looking at his body. ‘Spirit Life Force thingy, right?”
“Correct,” replied Sam, looking at himself and remembering how much more powerful he was the last time he accessed this power. “It must be responding to our love.”
“Huh? I thought this only happens when we get really angry or something,” said Dye.
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“You said Griflore told you that this only happens when intense emotions occur. Why should love be any different?” replied Sam.
“Apparently we’re all sharing the same feeling here,” Mack said
Corrine stared at the bright, glowing bodies of her brothers.
“So this is the power of love,” she said to herself.
There was that word again.
Love.
Something she had forgotten and hadn’t bothered to rediscover. Sixteens years of cruel pain and suffering. Of being left out in the rain forced to fend for herself. How could she love? Was it even possible for her to even begin to discover what that meant?
I suppose at one point I was happy.
Loved.
She recalled her words as she tried to sort through everything. She stepped deep inside herself, but all she found was a dark void; shadowy and filled with loneliness. The unknown feeling she claimed to have known but had eluded her for sixteen years. As she walked, she came to a halt and standing there in the darkness was a little girl who shared a striking resemblance to her. Corrine stood in front of her, and the both of them stared into each other’s brown eyes.
“Why can’t I find this?” Asked Corrine.
“Why do you have to look?” Said the little girl in a sweet and innocent voice.
“Because I don’t know what I’m looking for.”
“You know what you're looking for. You just don’t know where to find it.” Corrine sighed. “You’ve been loved before,” continued her younger self, “and love never actually dies, it just gets replaced.” Corrine looked up at her. “If you have no love in you, then you’re evil. And you’re not evil, just lost.”
“Then what am I supposed to do?” Asked Corrine, allowing her eyes to water.
“Just let it happen,” said the young girl as she took a step forward.
Slowly the girl approached her and the moment their bodies crossed, she felt a hand touch her shoulder. Suddenly, a warm feeling came over her, and a silver light exploded throughout her soul; the feeling of everlasting love traveling through her body. She opened her eyes and saw her body radiating a bright silver aura. Dye took his glowing hand from off her shoulder and looked at her, possibly smiling behind his helmet.
“You ready to do this, Sister?” asked Jason.
The five different colored lights shone brightly from the Xenton. The cameraman caught the entire footage of the five heroes and their strange light. As the love flowed through their bodies, the light got stronger and brighter. The audience watching the news observed the phenomena through their television, and as it became more brilliant, a glare filled their screen. The military helicopters fell back, allowing the siblings to finish the job.
“Let's take him out!” Said Dye to his sister.
Corrine gave an affirming nod and turned to face the fallen beast. Griflore slowly got up from the ground. He saw the blinding glares fill his terrible, yellow eyes. In a shorter time than it takes to blink, the five Xenton tore through the street at supercharged speeds and struck the creature, taking turns to give him a beating. Another one of the tubes penetrating Arayan’s body was cut and a glowing clear liquid squirted from it.
Tiny lines of red, white, blue, yellow and silver whizzed through the city streets, coming to Griflore and striking him. Griflore couldn’t keep up with their miraculous speed. The beast was struck from its left, its right, from above and from below.
The siblings continued their quick attacks against him and were swiftly cutting the tubes that were imprisoning Arayan’s body.
Mack tore through one.
Jason sliced through another using his water trident.
Sam flew from above and used lightning to sever one.
Corrine jumped into the air and fired a beam from her shield that tore through one more.
Griflore fell to his knees with fatigue, the air around him getting thin.
Dye sped towards the towering beast with his blade in hand. He took a leap and used his sword to slash his way through the very last tube that imprisoned the Quailocian. Arayan’s body fell, but just before colliding with the ground, Dye grabbed him and sped away from the battlefield.
Miles away, Dye laid Arayan’s naked body on the ground; his body showing dozens of holes from the tubes that punctured his body. Dye’s glowing, red face watched as the holes on his body were healing slowly.
“That’s…odd,” he said to himself. Making a mental note.
He saw movement in Arayan’s eyes and quickly sped off. He came rushing back with an old newspaper, covered Arayan’s body with it and sped off back to the fight.
Griflore was still on his knees. The tubes on his head were squirting out the clear liquid as he was growing weaker by the minute. Dye’s luminous red body returned from his warp and he stood next to his siblings.
“Arayan okay?” asked Mack.
“Yep, though he was healing,” Dye replied.
“Healing? How?” Just on his body language alone, Dye knew Sam went into his calculating stare. Dye snapped his metal fingers at his face.
“No, Sammy! Not the time for that!”
“Err— Right! I’ll figure it out later!”
“Wait, how does he even have a body right now?” asked Jason.
The physical body of the beast towered over them as Jason brought up a good question.
“Maybe he sucked just enough life force from Arayan.” said Sam.
The five stood and stared into the eyes of their greatest foe, finally brought down by their love for each other.
“This isn’t over yet, Xenton!” He yelled as he picked his weakened body up to stand. The mighty beast stood over them once more and stomped its feet down at them. The five warriors sprung up into the airspace above the beast. Griflore threw his head back and saw them falling back down towards him. The energy of the five siblings grew out around their bodies giving them a coat of the animal Ka that possessed them.
Mack fell with a yellow coat of the bear that inhabited his body; his fist tightened around his hammer. Grflore raised his talon and the eldest brother raised his stone hammer. Mack delivered a demolishing pound, causing Griflore’s arm to break. The beast hollered.
Sam nosdived with the form of an illustrious eagle surrounding his body. Lightning encased his fist as the eagle screamed with might. He struck Griflore with everything he had, destroying his other arm. Griflore yelled in pain as he fell to one knee.
Jason held his water trident tighter as he came soaring down with a blue veil of a shark surrounding his body. Jason plummeted into the beast, spearing his weapon forward and causing one of the wings to detach from his back.
Griflore yelled in agony again.
Corrine dropped upon the beast with one of her fists holding the other. The bright silver light of the wolf that coated her body filled her enemy’s eyes. Without any hesitation, she slammed her joined fist against the creature, causing its other wing to fall to the ground.
Dye was the last. He followed behind his sister with his glowing red body and his gold and red blade in hand. He lifted his sword above his head, ready to strike. Griflore’s yellow eyes were filled with the red light of the fox that coated the young hero’s body. Dye swung his sword and slashed the beast down the middle of its entire body. He slid down with his sword cutting his way through all of the creature’s organs and skin. Griflore finally fell to both knees. Dye landed on the ground and jumped back up. His glowing, free hand grabbed some of the fur on Griflore’s chest, grasping his sword.
“Let's see how you do with a blade through your heart.” Dye plunged it into the titan’s chest, puncturing the monster’s heart. The creature cried in pain and fell back. Dye jumped off the creature and rejoined his siblings as they watched the disjointed monster crash into the ground, hopefully for the final time.
Dye, Sam, Jason, Mack, and Corrine stood in the half-ruined city, their bodies still glowing with their respective colors. They observed Griflore’s body beginning to maneuver through the rubble. It struggled to turn its body so that its head was facing the five siblings. The armored heroes saw the yellow, piercing eyes of their most hated foe.
“It's not over!” He yelled, opening his mouth and allowing a purple energy to gather inside it one last time; it grew bigger than before.
“He’s going to destroy us all along with the rest of the city,” said Sam.
“No he’s not!” Dye said sternly.
He joined his hands together and started to gather his own energy.
“I’M TIRED OF LOOKING AT THOSE UGLY ASS EYES!” he said with vigor, extending his arm holding the mass. “I’M GONNA BLAST THEM RIGHT OUT OF THEIR SOCKETS!”
Sam extended his white lit hand to join Dye’s energy with his own.
“I'm going to enjoy this!” He said.
“You done, bro! It’s been real but you’ve messed with my surfing and that ain’t cool!” Yelled Jason, holding his hand out, grasping a ball of blue energy.
“You messed with the wrong city. So get out!” Shouted Mack, with his hand joining his brothers’, holding a ball of raw, yellow power.
“Consider this pay back!” Yelled Corrine as her hand joined the rest of her brothers’, holding a silver orb of power. “Go to hell!”
Together, the Haven siblings unleashed an mighty attack that ripped through Griflore’s body. A beam of multiple colors whirled through the city and consumed Griflore. The evacuated people watched as multicolored lights rose from the horizon.
The siblings continued to advance their attack as they watched Griflore’s entire body become entirely obliterated. His torso was torn away into nothing; his legs were completely eradicated, and his head along with his evil cat-like, yellow eyes were annihilated. A wave of energy was sent out into the sky, its raw power blowing some of the choppers off balance. The cameraman held on to one of the safety bars and continued to shoot the amazing display of power being performed by the five heroes.
The glare from their final attack faded.
The capacity of the power they accumulated was finally depleted. Dye and Corrine fell to their hands and knees, the glow on all of them fading away. They looked around for any signs of the tyrant’s body, but they saw nothing except for most of their city nearly destroyed. Thus, the threat known as Griflore was, at long last, abolished from this world.