Summary:

The Grand Chase defeated the Ascendant God but at what price? How long ago had it happened? Elesis did not know, all she knew was he was gone and he was never coming back. A love story that transcends the boundaries of life and death.

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Death of You

The Grand Chase an Order of knights and spell casters alike who righteously face the many adversities to protect the world from evil. During their many years of battle, a disastrous evil named Kaze'aze had appeared that ravaged the lands and spread corruption throughout the kingdoms for 5 long years. A special team of Warriors were dispatched to end the reign of Kaze'aze in the Ellia Continent.

The team was eventually successful but with the defeat of the demon manipulator a new and infinitely more powerful evil arose, the Ascendant god Thanatos. The team was now faced with their toughest foe yet. His presence alone instilled fear into their hearts and his power was like nothing they had even seen before. There was no underestimating this behemoth. Nevertheless, the team pressed on and faced the all-powerful god with everything they had.

Arme, Elesis, Lass, Lire, Ronan and Sieghart were the only Chase members awake after fighting for hours. They were weak, drained and heavily wounded and the ascendant god continued to tear through their defenses with ease. Thanatos grinned devilishly, as he pointed his open palm at the gang charging a large surge of dark energy. With a terrifying roar he launched a barrage of dark beams. The team scurried across the tower floor barely able dodge his relentless beams. With a loud grunt, while the team was still dodging the barrage of beams he shot a giant ball of flames at the team blasting them to the walls of the rooms.

"Hey bud! Easy on the fireworks! Clothes like this are hard to find nowadays!" Sieghart hollered at Thanatos. Though he joked, he hide his pain through his cocky grin. In actually his legs felt a lot like Jello.

"Oh this is just hopeless! Nothing works!" Arme complained weakly picking up her battle staff. Parts of her clothes were burned off and her magic wasn't at its best. Not even Lass looked too good; she always knew when he was forcing himself to appear strong. He just played it cool and sheathed his katana and waited for Thanatos' next move.

"Don't you dare give up on me!" Elesis clutched her Ssanggeoms tightly. She had to admit that this battle seemed hopeless, but that never stopped them before "Like hell we'll lose!"

"Come on! The Grand Chase doesn't give up so easily!" Ronan held up his spell sword as he spoke. His sword shined brilliantly casts a seal on the ground "Holy Blessing," his all-to-famous spell for raising attack and providing them with a magic shield.

"Delta formation!" Elesis commanded as she rushed towards the gigantic god, her friends close behind her. Lire was the first to act after a few moments of sprinting, she dragged her feet against the tower floor coming to a complete stop before she shot multiple arrows into the sky, "Star Dust Rain!"

A fatal skill that shot multiple arrows upward that converged onto one point until they exploded and rained down as burning embers onto Thanatos. While he staggered back from the explosions, Ronan created seal on the ground that would work like a jump pad and launched Elesis, Sieghart and himself upwards where they had a clear shot of Thanatos. Elesis quickly spun her swords on the way up; creating a ring of flames that scorched the air around her while Sieghart gave himself a head start on swinging his sword. Wing's appeared on Ronan's back as he created a rune in front of the trio, he forcefully stabbed the rune producing a much larger version of his "Blame Buster!" Elesis used that same rune and thrust her flame spiral through the rune, making it roughly five times the size "Fated Circle!" Sieghart in turned and sliced through the air itself releasing a purple surge of energy "Soul Edge!" The three attacks converged producing a powerful multi colored surged of energy that shot Thanatos to the wall from the shear brute force of the attack.

"Now!" Elesis screamed as she fell onto Ronan's jump pad. Arme appeared in the air, chanting a strange language that created a dark rune in front of her. Her eyes flashed purple and a vortex of dark energy emerged, using Ronan's rune enlarged it tenfold. Thanatos wouldn't allow her attack to hit him, he rose his hand to block but his arms were crushed to the floor below.

"What?!" Thanatos was appalled. He hadn't noticed Lass' enormous blade striking his hand down until it was too late. He must have waited patiently until Thanatos tried to counter attack. He saluted the god mockingly, before fading back into the shadows. By then it was too late, the vortex of dark energy made contact and with that the entire Fortress collapsed.

When the smoke cleared, Arme released the Mana shield she covered Lass, Lire and herself with and Ronan lowered the magic shield he made for Sieghart, Elesis and himself. The fortress was now only a shambled shell of what it once was.

"Is he dead?" Lass asked still on guard.

"Hardly," Thanatos voice boomed as it blew away all the remaining smoke. He shrugged off Arme's attack like it was nothing despite the heavy wounds on his body. "I grow tired of this!" Just then, with the wave of his hand a black hole appeared and sucked the team inside one by one. After a few moments, it exploded shooting everyone into the ground.

"Pitiful Grand Chase, You cannot defeat me!" Thanatos then opened a large seal and began charging a large scale attack. Ronan thinking quickly gathered his remaining strength, opened a rune under each of his friends and teleported them out of range of the attack. Just then he winced as he got down on one knee unable to move, as a painful surge coursed through his left arm. He was over exerting himself. Thanatos grinned as he released the large surge of energy directed straight at Ronan.

"Tch," Ronan clicked his teeth as he turned his pained left arm towards the beam and created a round projected shield that deflected the brunt of the attack. Ronan couldn't keep it up for long and Thanatos was well aware of that. Ronan felt a disturbance in his magic. His shield was cracking up.

"Crap." It wasn't long before the shield broke and he was enveloped in the dark surge.

"Ronan!" Elesis screamed as Ronan was consumed by the dark energy. She ignored the pain in her body and rushed over to him. When she got there, he was on one knee struggling to stand up. He was hurt, badly. She held him up and noticed the burn marks that covered his body and the large amount of blood dripping from his left arm "How many times do I have to tell you! Stop trying to be a hero! You can't protect everyone!"

"I couldn't live with myself if I couldn't protect you," Ronan covered his left arm in a Holy Flame that slowly closed the wounds "We need to finish this quickly."

"No!" Elesis gritted her teeth and punched him in the ribs.

"Ow! I'm wounded here!"

"You're sitting your butt right here! I get it you're a knight, you have to protect people but that doesn't do you any good if you're dead!" Elesis fumed.

"But..!"

"Girlfriend's orders," Elesis said sweetly before she kissed his forehead "Please, I don't want to see you get hurt anymore." Her voice which was no longer angry, cooed Ronan. He couldn't argue with that. He looked at her for a moment before slowly nodding, "Lass get him out of here!" Lass appeared next to them and grabbed Ronan and teleported him to another location. Now they could finally focus on the target ahead. Lass, Sieghart, Arme, Lire and herself were all that stood between Thanatos and his plans.

Thanatos shot four large spikes at the heroes "Sword Spirit!" Lass charged forward and slicing through all the spikes with ease. Thanatos grinned for he had expected that. Each piece of the spikes pointed at different people and shot themselves at them. Most avoided the sharpened earth, but unfortunately Lass lost focus long enough for Thanatos to blast him away with one of his death beams.

Sieghart fed up with Thanatos at this point charged gripping his Soluna tightly; he roared as he unleashed his pent-up rage. He tore through the air at a breakneck pace, moving at an incredible speed and slice Thanatos wherever he could at every angle possible, "Dark Unlimited Blade!" Sieghart summoned the swords above Thanatos which spun around before pointing towards him and crashing down releasing a large explosion. This heavily wounded Thanatos and Arme used this chance to her advantage. Arme pointed her staff at him and trapped Thanatos momentarily in a ring of constricting runes. Lire unleashed her "Star Dust Rain!" once more adding to the God's overall damage. With Arme's spell they could have a little breather before he began acting again. Suddenly, Thanatos began breaking through her runes.

"Arme cast the spell again!" Elesis shouted still rushing towards the god to land the finishing blow but then out of nowhere, a blue hair teenager appeared on top of Thanatos' head and used his orb to increase the power to Arme's spell preventing the god from escaping.

"Ronan stop! You'll kill yourself like that!" Arme shouted.

"What?" Elesis asked momentarily taken aback.

"He's exhausted and over exerting himself! Plus his wounds are too deep; if he tries a spell like that he will die!"

"RONAN get your butt off Thanatos now!"

"Sorry, but if I don't do this he could kill you all." Ronan called forth on all the power he had left in his body. He couldn't allow Thanatos to win. He couldn't bare the loss of losing his friends. He winced slightly, due to his wounds and his overused magic drive do this was fatal. "I don't want to lose my friends. If the choice is me or you, well you can guess the answer."

"Ronan stop it!"

"Don't think I will be so easily defeated!" Thanatos roared as the runes around him broke. Opened his mouth and produced a large beam that he blasted upwards.

"RAHHHHHHHH" Ronan created five large runes and enormous sword that would match Lass' Sword Spirit. With the remaining strength in his body, he jumped to the sword and grabbed it by the hilt and slammed the sword through the runes releasing an enormous white surge of energy that clashed with Thanatos'. Ronan couldn't hold on forever, his power was draining the longer he kept it there. With a flash of rainbow-colored lights the remaining Chase attack Thanatos from the back weakening and distracting him. In that moment Ronan used this chance to release his magic drive to max blasting Thanatos away. As Ronan pushed his eyes dulled and he could taste something warm and metallic in his mouth.

Crap…

Elesis ran swiftly, barreling through the fire that spread across the ground, diving in recklessly through the smoke ignoring the danger that Thanatos might still be alive. But she didn't care; she had to make sure Ronan was alive. He was too wounded to even carry out an attack like that. She jumped over the remains of Thanatos who reverted to his first form. She didn't care about him if he was alive Sieghart could take care of him. In the distance, she could vaguely make out the three large figures that appeared. Upon closer inspection, they were Ronan's summoning; his dragon, Templar and Guardian Angel all encircled a downed man. Elesis cringed as horror spread through her body and sped up her dash. When she got to him, she noticed that there was a small puddle that smelled faintly of metal.

"Hey…I was just thinking of you…" Ronan faintly smiled. Elesis felt part of her mind shatter. Cuts and bruises covered his forehead to his chin, his eyes had lost the perky light that it once held before and his clothes drenched in blood. That's when she noticed his left hand over a dark patch on his shirt. He was bleeding and badly.

"You…you…" Elesis was speechless. A flash of emotions surged through her body interrupting her speech "Arme!" She screamed and a flash of purple rushed next to her. Arme appeared within seconds, the look on her face not much different from Elesis'. She removed his hand and began her cure spells casting them as quickly as she could. The rest of the conscious Chase members lined up, all shocked and horrified.

"God! What were you thinking?! This is too much even for you!" Elesis finally chose anger above all other emotions "If we can't stop the bleeding you might…!" Elesis stopped, not wanting to think of it.

"Arme, don't you…think you should tell her?" Ronan spoke softly, looking over to Arme who seemed pained.

"What is he talking about…?"

"Elesis…I…I'm sorry…" Arme's cheeks were now wet with tears streaming down her face. Elesis' head whipped to Ronan. He only gave a faint smile, and then using the last of his remaining strength raised his left hand. A seal appeared on the orb on the back of his hand, and no sooner had it emerged it broke.

"There…You guys can already tell, so you're all free." A seal flashed on each one of his summons disappearing into the night air. Elesis felt that he wasn't only talking to his summoning. The dragon and templar roared and the angel shook her head from side to side "Come on guys…"

"Stop spouting nonsense already! Arme heal him god dammit!" Elesis barked but Arme shook her head.

"Ely," Ronan weakly grabbed Elesis hand "its ok…" He smiled.

"H-how can you smile at a time like that!? You idiot!" Elesis could feel the tears pouring out of her eyes. Ronan raised his hand and softly brushed her fiery red hair.

"Ely…I want you to do something for me…my parents I want you to tell them what happened. Just tell them who you are you'll get something I never had the courage to give you myself."

"Stop talking! You need to save your energy!"

"Sieghart, Arme, Lire…I want you to protect her…please…"

"Of course." Sieghart replied, his eyes full of sorrow. Arme and Lire nodded wiping the tears from their eyes.

"Ronan!" Elesis closed her eyes hoping this was just a bad dream. "No! This is some sick joke right? This can't be happening!" Elesis screamed into the heavens above.

"Ely…." Elesis opened her eyes and looked down at him. He smiled, tears streaming down his face as he slowly spoke "I love you…you'll always be my little firecracker…" With a bright smile his last words seem to fade into the background until his eyes slowly closed never to open again. And with that his hand slid out of Elesis' grip and fell lifelessly to the ground.

"Ronan…? Come on…open your eyes…" Elesis shook his body. Sieghart looked away unable to watch anymore "You can't…you can't just leave me here…I need you…"Lire stretched her hand out towards Elesis but Arme held her back. Instead, she knelt down besides Arme and comforted the weeping mage.

As if the gods themselves were weeping, the sky darkened and the thunder roared as the rain drops drizzled on his cold body. Elesis' eyes dulled as she felt like her heart forcefully ripped from her body. The wind that kept her world alive and thriving was gone, never to return again. She continued to stare at him in hopes that he would just open his eyes and tell her everything was okay like he always did. When reality hit her, all the emotions she held back resurfaced when she opened her mouth and screamed to the heavens above, her eyes drowning in her tears and the rain.

Ronan Erudon was dead.