Chapter 21

John

Almost drowning in ice cold water isn't pleasant. I was suffocating by the time Nine had ran over and pulled me out.

"Dude, are you okay?" Nine asked me, as I was wheezing on to the ground. It look me a minute to catch my breath, before I nodded and gave a thumbs up, to signify I was fine.

I had turned on my lumen so that I could warm up, but barely had enough time before the next battle had begun.

Once Claire had released her vividly broadway related battle cry, everyone charged at Setrakus Ra. That was, until he simply ticked them off with a telekinetic force.

Suddenly, a wave of Mogadorians protruded from the forest behind us and started attacking. In a matter of seconds, it was a bloodbath. The human garde fought bravely with their weapons of choice. Mogadorian ashes were blowing around everywhere. The only sounds to be heard were shots going off and screaming. War.

I stand up next to Nine. He's just standing there, looking at the battle ahead. His lips spread apart in an 'o' shape.

I look over to where he's staring at.

Maddy is lying motionless on the ground with a blaster wound in the head. Nine clenches his fists and then turns around to where Setrakus Ra is fighting the others. He looks back at Maddy once more, before screaming and lunging at Ra with lots of force.

I never understood why us nine were meant to be sent down to earth as children. I always presumed that the elders were sick-minded in thinking that we could defeat a whole race of evil as teenagers. Even now, I know that it was either this war or death for us, but it just turned out to be the exact same all these years later.

Amongst all the screaming, I hear a familiar one. Sam. A Mogadorian is on top of him, trying to stab him. I run over to where he is and lob a fireball at the Mog. It turns to ash right in Sam's face. He sighs a breath of relief, but I notice his shoulder is injured. Quickly, I heal it and he's set to go.

"John, time's running out. You have to face Ra again." Sam tells me. I look down at the ground and back up at him.

"I know. I will. This time for good. No matter the consequences, I'll kill him. If I end up dying as well, let's just hope it isn't in vain." I reply.

Sam gives me a pleading look, as if to say, 'come on man, you can't think like that!' but he knows that I will do whatever it takes to end Setrakus Ra once and for all. Sam gives me a side hug before I take off to where Nine is currently battling Ra.

Nine is unleashing his anger towards Maddy being killed to fight him. I join in and aim my lumen directly in Setrakus Ra's eyes, in hopes to temporarily blind him. He tries to use a force field to block it, but my power is stronger than his. He then stumbles and falls on to the ground. Nine yells as he's about to drive his knife through Ra's heart, but he gets shoved back and lands right in to Six.

Setrakus Ra stands up from the ground.

"STOP!" he booms. All of the Mogadorians freeze, but soon get killed by the garde they were battling.

I'm about to tackle him, but he holds me there in an extremely telekinetic grip. He then raises his arms and suddenly the vines from the trees around us move and wrap themselves around everyone except for me.

"I can't move!" somebody cries out. I stare over at my friends.

Six and Nine are trapped in the vines beside each other. Marina is trying to freeze the vines, but it's only making the air colder. Eight is stuck right next to her, squirming to get out. Hannu and Maggie are wrapped right around a tree, trying to cut themselves out with a knife, which is soon ripped from them by Ra.

I can't find Five anywhere, as well as Ella, Adam and One.

"Let's test your fatal flaw, now shall we?" Setrakus grins at me. He releases me from his grip and pulls out a blaster. Before I have time to react, he shoots twice in direction of Sam and Daniela.

Time slows down.

I run as fast as I can towards the two of them and push them over. The bullets fly above our heads, but Daniela screams. I feel a sharp pain in my back and I crumple over.

Six

"NO!" I scream as John gets shot in the back by Setrakus Ra. He falls over and lies still as blood pours out of his back. I feel tears form in my eyes as I await the scar to burn into my ankle, except it never does.

The wound on John's back heals and he rolls over on to his side. His eyes snap open, but they're not the regular dark blue color. His eyes are glowing an extremely bright light blue and he easily stands back up.

"There you are, Pittacus." Ra spits out.

"This isn't my fight anymore, Setrakus. It's theirs." Pittacus/John says before collapsing. It's back to John now. He groans and gets up again to face Ra.

They don't even say anything to each other before John punches him. Ra wipes the blood off his lip and then tries to whip John, but he jumps up and hovers above it before it reaches him.

I look to my side at Nine, who has the most aggravating face on. He's boiling with anger. I try to gather a lightning storm to strike these vines off me, but something is holding me back. Most likely Setrakus.

I suddenly notice a figure crouching down next to the trees behind Hannu and Maggie. In an instant, they're both freed from the vines and step out into the sunlight. That figure was Ella. She runs over to Nine and I and cuts the vines off with her knife. Hannu and Maggie are working on cutting everyone else free.

Setrakus Ra then notices what is happening. He yells and tries to wrap everyone in the vines again, but John stops him with a mini force field.

Setrakus looks at John and everybody escaping sourly. He shoves John to the ground and kicks him in the head multiple times. That doesn't stop John from fighting back.

I want to help, but it's their fight. I jog over to the others.

"How do we help him?" Marina asks.

"We create a divergence to distract Ra, so John can kill him." Maggie speaks up.

"How did you think of that so quickly?" Nine beckons.

"I read a lot of books." Maggie replies quietly.

"Okay, so what should we do to distract him?" I question. Nobody speaks for a minute, all in thought.

"I know!" Sam snaps his fingers, "We blow shit up." I hear a few snickers, but it is a good plan.

"That's actually not bad. We can get Lexa and Mark to drop a missile right next to John and Setrakus Ra, just enough to startle him. Then, John can do whatever it takes to kill him." Eight states.

"I'll try to contact Lexa telepathically and then tell John the plan." Ella steps in. She then closes her eyes and after a minute or so, reopens them.

"We're good to go." she smirks.

John

"John, we're going to send a missile right next to you, to startle Ra, and then you can make your move." I hear Ella's voice in my head.

I give her a short, "Okay." as a reply to let her know I heard her.

Setrakus Ra is trying to use his flaming whip on me when I see the Loric ship and the missile drop down. It creates a giant crater in the ground, but it's enough to distract Ra.

I throw his whip away with telekinesis and grab him, while flying right on top of our ship.

"Just keep flying up!" I telepathically shout at Lexa and Mark. The ship lurches forward and keeps rising. The wind flips my hair around as Setrakus Ra growls in frustration.

I pull out my dagger, as does he whip out his sword. Springing forward, the tip of my dagger reaches his arm, slicing a deep cut into it. He continues to back up and I advance forward until we're at the edge. The ground keeps getting further and further away.

I don't care what happens next, as long as Setrakus Ra is dead.

I leap right on to him and my dagger embeds itself right in his chest. He howls in pain. The next thing I know, is that his sword impales itself into my stomach as I tackle him off the ship. He grabs ahold of my shirt at the last second and we're both falling to the ground.

I can't tell if I'm screaming or in utter shock. I can feel myself drifting, but the only thing that keeps me from going unconscious is the face of Setrakus Ra as he is dying.

I don't have the energy to stop myself from hitting the ground. It all happens too fast.

It gets closer and closer.

Then I feel arms wrap around me and I'm not falling anymore. I'm flying. My eyes that were half closed slowly open to see Five staring worriedly at me.

"F-Five?" I say sluggishly. He nods and smiles with a grim look on his face though.

I look down. Setrakus Ra has reached to ground. His body is sprawled out. Then he starts to decay, but differently than any normal Mogadorian. His skin starts ripping apart and forming a weak looking Loric symbol, which is then blown into ashes.

Five and I eventually make it to the ground. He sets me down next to a tree and calls for the others to help me.

I can't feel anything. I just know that there's a sword inside of me.

Looking around, I see that the remaining vatborn Mogs are turning to ashes.

"We did it." I whisper. I then notice Marina rushing up to me and kneeling in front of me.

"This may hurt." she murmurs. The sword is ripped out of my stomach and soon it's being healed by her. I feel good as knew in minutes.

That's when it sinks in. Setrakus Ra is dead.

I jump up and embrace Marina, thanking her. Six, Sam, Daniela, Nine, Eight, Five, Ella, One, Adam, Maggie, Hannu, Lexa and Mark all join in as well to form yet again, a ginormous group hug.

The war is ending the same way it started.

Together.

The battle is over! He's dead! I really hope that this much longer than usual chapter was okay! It took me a while to write haha. To answer your question, thepandabella, I'm Team Cap. I was Team Iron Man before I saw the movie though (oops) Anyways, the next four or so chapters will be the aftermath and ending of this story! I'm so happy that I made it this far. :)