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Chapter 7 – The Bearomachy:
During that day, the furious siblings and Panthers (who now only listened to Lin Chung's directions) took their anger out on the Bears, trapping Sheep Queen and Asteria. Both daughters of Coeus had called out for their father, and when both their father and mother arrived, they were caught in the trap.
"Help!" Coeus and Phoebe rushed over to where Sheep Queen and Asteria were trapped, chains surrounding their wrists and ankles.
Phoebe lifted her hand, ready to release them, only to get trapped as a large vine emerged from the ground and wrapped itself around her. Coeus cried out in shock, but didn't have time to move before the vine surrounded him as well.
Their daughters, eyes wide, cried out to their parents, who were helpless to do anything.
Coeus and Phoebe were now also out of the battle.
With only 3 Bears left in battle, Highroller grew desperate, and acted foolishly, which cost him Mnemosyne. The end of the War was coming. Nearly 9 years had passed since the start of the War.
Finally, only Bearstomp, Highroller's faithful general, and Highroller himself were left.
Taking advantage of old battle wounds, Highroller commanded Bearstomp to ambush the Heroes, focusing his attentions on his two eldest children.
"Why're they running away?" Latifah frowned at the retreating minions all around them. Kowloon shrugged, while Sonia looked around for any explanation. NoHands was furious, looking around for Bearstomp, who he had been fighting not too long ago.
Sonia looked at the empty battlefield around them, and then at where the minions had retreated. Now, Highroller was getting desperate, and had found some tiny aquatic soldiers, called Jellyfish, who had previously been serving Yan Ching.
"Wait." She now noticed what, instead of being on the battlefield with them, was not. "Where're Rosefinch and Lin Chung?!"
Looking at one another, they tightened their grip around their weapons and ran in the direction the Bears had retreated to.
Rosefinch blocked a blow with her dagger, before leaping overhead and blasting a column of flames at the minions. "Why're there suddenly so many?" She and her younger brother were now being backed into a cliff.
Lin Chung blocked a blow by several combined Jellyfish, and then leaped up, landing neatly and then knocking one of them out.
"And why can't we just kill them?"
Lin Chung sighed. "If we kill them, Yan Ching might get mad and go back on his word. We're not risking that." His eyes widened as he saw something, and then he tackled Rosefinch, sending them both falling over the cliff as Highroller, combined with Bearstomp, landed on where both of them had previously been.
It worked.
With Rosefinch and Lin Chung out of the battle, the siblings grew desperate. Highroller tried tempting the Panthers, but they were still loyal to Lin Chung. The Panthers were tempted, they really were, but at the last moment, Sonia reminded them of Lin Chung, and they withdrew.
"Are you going to betray Lin Chung just like that?" Sonia demanded of the Panthers, who just looked down, looking slightly ashamed, though too proud to admit it.
The lead Panther sighed, but stepped forward. "Forgive us, Mystique Sonia. We acted foolishly."
The Elephants were easy to convince, having formed a bond with Sonia herself.
The Gorillas were now loyal to Kowloon, and nothing could change that.
Highroller was furious, and snuck into Big Green, once again toying with Lin Chung, injuring him more severely, seeing him the more vulnerable of the two.
The siblings again flew into a rage, enough so that Bearstomp could be disposed off.
Highroller was now alone.
He fought with all he had, before he was sliced up into tiny parts and thrown into Tartarus. The Heroes got the idea, and, soon enough, some of the other Bears joined Highroller down there: Perses, Hyperion, Pallas, Menoetius, Iapetus, Cruius, Coeus, and Highroller.
It was Latifah's idea to force Bearstomp under the weight of the sky, carrying Uranus.
The Bears were watched over by the Elephants, and the Bears who had not participated in battle were free to go.
10 years passed, 10 years of War.
And, finally, that was the end of the Bearomachy.
