Chapter 25

Light After day

When the mothership finally stumbled upon the second moon, he realized that the barrier has gotten weaker, and it let them in without having to use any weapons of such. Akaz knew something was up. He immediately teleported everyone in that room back to the world, and he was greeted with Lava. He was fine with it, but Enuo and Altayous was not. The heat was rising with a intensity that Enuo cold not bear, so he tapped Akaz on his head, and told him to fly onto land or anything with a ground that doesn't burn. Altayous asked what had happened, but soon the answer was clear. Raleigh and Zhallo succeeded with his plan. When they got up into the air, they realized the sun was not shining any more, and instead, skies of crimson light and a subterranean layer of molten lava was beneath their feet. The air was humid, and was almost unbearable to Altayous, even though his suit supports his air. It smelt like burnt rock, and dead corpses. Without warning, they were all teleported to a huge sphere in the sky, and it was spinning violently. All of them were risen and was tied to the sharpest chains in the universe. One that could kill in any second at command. Raleigh came into the center, flying in a black walker. Rocks formed underneath them, as others came in too, and rocks formed wide and spacious platforms that could support them if they fell.

"You will all taste death today. You really thought you would be able to stop me from completing my original intent?" Raleigh bellowed. "Especially You, Eidolon. Pathetic pieces of flesh."

Soon Eidolon began giving strength to everyone using his hand, and he was immediately freed from his prison using his hand. Raleigh saw this, and tried to impale him using a dark spear, but it missed when Eidolon rolled left. Soon, everyone, even the wolves and Tuo was freed from their torturous positions. All of them were standing on their platforms, with their weapons high, or magic preparing.

"What's This!? A Joke!?"

Eidolon jumped at Raleigh, and sliced into his necklace, that was used to make him eternal. Raleigh bellowed; "No!" And was furious. Soon, with his darkness, the shadows came to appear as the others were swarmed with his minions. Akaz then emitted a powerful blast that exterminated the shadows. One however tried to stab another poisonous thorn into his skin, but it did not work. On impact, the shadow was dead, and every one of his minions were dead. Soon Raleigh began to take matters in his own hands, so he began shooting rockets and guns from his Mech. Tuo dodged each bullet, and while dodging, charged his lasers like the Sevawings, and fired continuously. The Mech began getting holes through it, but then it regenerated to the point where it was thought that the Mech was just pure flesh. The guns began firing at Kareem, but with the wind torrent was whirling around them, Kareem had the best advantage ever. She used the wind around him to start slicing the Mech to pieces, but when it landed on a invisible platform, it made them duplicate, as the parts regenerated as itself. The mechs were now targeting everyone at one time, so that Raleigh doesn't need to be shooting every person at one time. Marcello then made the rock that was used on the platform fly at the mechs, and Andre blasted fire at the Mechs but they were stronger, and therefore they were not affected at all.

Akaz was getting tired of Raleigh using machines to get his way, so Akaz flew off the platform, and swooped up to get a angle. Suddenly, he shot a huge beam that vaporized the Mechs. Raleigh was falling down to the invisible platform, and Akaz got straight onto his platform. Raleigh was lying down, but he got back up to wreak vengeance. He immediately choked all of them, and merged the platforms away from them.

"DIE IN VAIN." Raleigh yelled.

Raleigh let go of their hold, and soon they all dropped down, but Akaz had a better Idea. He caught the ones who couldn't fly, with Kareem using the wind to get onto the platform. Raleigh didn't notice, and Eidolon got Talya back to the scene, with her casting spells on the whole team. Eidolon quickly drew his sword out of the holster, and jumped at him, but Raleigh denied it, forcing him back with a tremendous push. Raleigh then made a beam slowly get more powerful right at his hand. It grew larger and larger, growing faster by the second.

"ANY LAST WORDS!?" Raleigh complained.

Eidolon and Akaz knew this, and knew what to do. Soon, darkness and light orbs began to appear behind Akaz, who was putting a shield down, while Raleigh chuckled lightly saying it was not going to work. Eidolon then got up to the edge of the shield, and backed it up with his shield.

"Talya, mind if you can help us, can anybody else strengthen this thing?" Eidolon asked.

Tuo placed down a shield that almost reflected anything, and Talya tried to at least help them with whatever they had got. Soon Everyone in their group ran into the shield, hoping they were safe. Raleigh felt like the laser was enough to take them out, so he pointed it at them, and made the laser fire at the group. However, the first and 2nd shield broke within a few seconds, but the last one reflected the huge blast of energy, and Raleigh became stunned for a while. Akaz wanted him to pay for killing people, and Tuo wanted revenge for trying to capture the Vermilion core using the sentient, while Eidolon knew this had to be done. They all began stabbing their sharp objects into him, while Tuo was charging a beam that would be able to make him die. Eidolon gone back and charged up While Akaz charges up. Raleigh then looked at them, but it was too late, they have already shot the beam, and he was eradicated. His corpse fell on the floor, breaking and breaking slowly. They heard a huge explosion from down below. They knew that this was the end of the world, and in about some time, Raleigh's corpse is going to send them flying.

"We all stay here. We cannot avoid this." Talya said.

"I am sorry, I could not kill him sooner." Eidolon Apologized.

"Me too. If only we could've actually done better this time."Andre confessed.

"It has been good seeing you guys. Thanks for everything you have done. Maybe if we all live, we could all see each other again." Akaz stated. "There comes the first light striking up from his corpse! Brace yourselves!" He said while covering himself with his wings.

Soon, the corpse exploded, causing them to be blasted almost across the universe. Some of them landed close, and some of them was sent to a faraway place. None of them were dead, but they were now separated from each other.

-The first moon-

Akaz landed on the lunar surface, being classified as a meteor, but no more. He was very tired, from all the fighting, but what he did was remove the piece of armor from his head. He felt excruciating pain from the lashes of that AI, and when it dug deep into him, it saved him from the Demon. When he removed it although, nothing happened. Who knows? His whole family must be dead. The wind made him cool when the sun was beaming brightly down on the area, causing him to feel comfort as the lashes were removed from his head. The blood that came out of it, was immediately healed, and it became a sense of relief. He slept thinking that this was just a time to finally not do anything for once, not having to worry about things, he thought while holding the piece close.

Elise was rescued right before the world ended, and just in time as well. Enuo came in and guided her out of the collapsing dimension, as the second moon only became a supernova in a small place. She was then led to her mother, which was no longer dead, thanks to local healers. She bowed down to her, making sure she knew that she was respecting her, although the king was dead. The queen stated that it was good to see her again, and she thanked her for that, and came towards her. Lightly, her arms and claws came around her, with Elise slightly crying as a tear came down her face and began applying more pressure. Elise responded to her; "I missed you so much". She added to her current words; "Why did you have to leave me?". She said that, despite knowing it was not her fault, it was the Sevaeric. The soldiers that walked in held their guns up. Elise then heard His roar, as She knew that her husband was back. Although who walked in the door was different, so that meant that Akaz was someplace far from here, but at the same time, close enough to be heard.

"Hey, umm your majesty, where is Elise?" The random person said.

"Right here, the huge dragon right in front of you." The queen answered.

"Alright thanks." "You still up for that offer that I gave you?" The person Elise knew said.

"FOR THE LAST TIME! NO!" She outrageously yelled at him. "I KNOW YOU! STAY BACK OR I WILL KILL YOU MYSELF!"

"What!? I never hear-" He tried to say.

"Shut up, I have proof that you are not what you say you are." "Here, Enuo, you here?"

"Always for you my princess." Enuo reacted.

"Good." She said while tossing his records to him. "He kills his wives. Running and running until they get to a moment, and then he would pull out his knife and kill them. Guards, if you may so kindly inspect him." She calmly ordered.

"Besides, I am a dragon now, and you are a human. Even if you were not a killer for the last decade, what sense would that make? Making me your servant. Hmph." Elise angrily stated. "Also, I just heard my mate sound out a distress call. I got to go now."

The guards then pulled out his knife from his pocket, and it seemed like it was a poisonous one too. He was immediately restrained and the one guard who pulled it out was shouting out; "She speaks the truth!". Elise then ran out the door, taking off with her huge wings flapping and sending a huge gust of wind through the palace. She began searching through the lunar surface, as well as the green hills that were strange to look at, since it was a moon. Then she remembered, that was the alliance that the queen made, one that was a deal or a costly war. Obviously Elise's kingdom would win, but it would kill many of them. She hovered, trying to look all around for him, and finally found him in a lunar crater. Although a strange person was walking up to him. He swooped down silently behind him and watched what would happen, just to see what he was planning.

"Nice... Another one. This will serve us well." He said while getting hold of him and walking backwards. He looked back and saw the princess standing right behind him. He then trembled when he saw her, as he almost knew what was going to happen. "Excuse me? Are you really going to drag him away from me?" Elise said. The soldier nodded, saying the truth while was backing up into Akaz. "Can you please get away from him? We have business to deal with, and I want him to be with me." Elise explained. The soldier nodded again, and released his grip on his neck, and gone away towards the green patch. Although his theory was wrong, He known that if he had continued, she would've either killed him or took him away and sent a message to his kingdom saying; 'this man has given us a reason to start becoming enemies'. He ran, while Elise tried to move Akaz off of the ground. Akaz woke up and yawned for a while, when he was playfully knocked in the head by Elise's forehead.

"Well finally! What the heck happened!?" Elise said while laughing a bit.

"Second moon ceases to exist. We got blown to this first moon, and yeah, We had to leave the corpse. We just had to." Akaz Responded.
"Whatever, we got a whole lecture to go through. I am speaking for that." Elise said. "Stupid, and annoying person that wants to kill me with his knife, at the same time trying to marry me. I know he might be a prince, but I am not that foolish like the other women he lied to."

"Geez, sounds like you had a rough morning today." Akaz added.
"You think!?" Elise being annoyed said to Akaz. "Follow me, and sorry for the inconvenience."

So they flew back as Elise guided Akaz back to the capitol, and when they reached the balcony, they landed, sending an additional two large gusts of wind. Within that sight, came with a scene of two guards with a halberd pointed to his neck. Akaz said hello to all of them, but nobody answered, since they were all focused on the person who was trying to assassinate Elise.

"Elise, why were you actually looking through his diary? and why were you also doing that to his records and journals?" Enuo angrily asked. "You utterly ignored the resources you had and put the matters in your own hands."

"Hey Enuo, I saw a Sevawing, and what I studied was that the leaders of their tribes usually do that as well. The omega class does not need someone else to complete what it needs, depending on how hard and strenuous the task is. Elise would make a fine queen if I do say so myself."

"Oh Akaz.. Why did you have to point that out." Elise said being embarrassed while getting closer to him.

"So, What do you want to do with him Elise?"

"Throw him in the worst dungeon possible, and once fifty years has passed, kill him."

Akaz gasped as Elise said that while being extremely annoyed. The guards lifted him by his arms, and one still had a halberd up to his head. Elise was then prompted to say what happened in her disappearance, and Akaz sat down and listened next to one of the guards. The person next to him was becoming terrified as he saw his tail slowly creeping towards him. It finally stopped and the guard was uncomfortable, wishing that he did not have to be neither listening to Elise or being next to a twenty five foot high dragon, being thirty five with the neck up high.

Elise was explaining her story on how she survived and grew up over the years, even mentioning when she first met Akaz. The queen saw one Guard sleeping and walked down to him and tapped him on his armor so that he could be reminded that he had a job to do. She was done hours later and everybody sighed.

"Well, that was interesting." Enuo said. "Night is about to occur. We should all find our places to hide and sleep."

"Why hide?" Akaz asked.

"Its just in case we are attacked that most of us will hopefully not die." Elise explained. "Enuo, mind if he comes with me tonight?"

"With pleasure." Enuo stated.

So they were led to her training grounds, which surprisingly was still on fire for all this time. The time has passed for when the citizens were already cleverly concealed away from the outside. The rock that they were all standing on was smooth, yet, the lava that was flowing from the left of them, while the gap was leading to a surprise inside. Enuo explained why that was there. It was used for training her to not be a pushover. He knew what the last king did when they refused to fight against an assassin.

"Last time an assassin broke into the palace and killed the king when he was too afraid and begging for his life. And the queen was fast enough and was willing to slit his throat after the assassin threatened."

"Oh my god, how many assassins are there?"

Enuo then pondered what he had said and guessed a hundred of them as an estimate. Elise mouth dropped to the floor as her head was laid down low, as Enuo gave her a strange expression. "Elise stop faking it, you were there too, do not get surprised with me m'am." Enuo scoffed. He said it was okay for the outsiders to be surprised about the assassins in the area, and then he stopped being surprised about the statistic. "May I Akaz?" He assumed that he knew what Enuo was talking about. Akaz twisted his head a little, being utterly confused and buffered, trying to see what the heck was he was refering to. "Akaz, he means taking self defense lessons." Elise said.

"Oh, nah i am fine, I usually do it on the go." Akaz responded.

"Meh, cant win em' all." Enuo reacted.

Suddenly a masked person ran in with a knife, jumping over the fire, and Akaz quickly turned him around and knocked the knife out of his hand, and pinning him down to the smooth rock. He saw the knife burn, as it was being scorched by the fire. Elise responded in a nice way, seeing that he knows what could be behind him. Elise clapped and said; "Nice one. Now, I will answer the question that you are probably going to ask now, and yes you may kill him. I do not know this person." Akaz then happily responded, eating the flesh from the person. The person quickly screamed in agony as Akaz ripped the flesh off his arms, and the blood was quickly flowing from his arm. Akaz then chomped off his head and then ate the body whole. Enuo was sort of grossed out by this, but all it was is just the feeling that e could eat him at any time.

"Oh sorry if I scared you Enuo. I usually am friendly towards humans." Akaz said.

"It is alright. It reminds me of her when she was a kid's age. Some person comes in here uninvited, and she tears them to shreds as a reward." Enuo stated. "After she did, she would actually laugh saying that that person was a hardcore idiot."

Akaz stepped back with his arm and looked at Elise as Enuo said that. She said the same thing that he just said a moment ago and replaced Enuo with Akaz. Enuo asked where the egg was, being genuinely worried, and he said it was right over there, inside the cave where they usually sleep. It was very large for a cave, and the egg was wrapped around with reeds. Enuo was confused on how it got there, and asked Elise how. She answered back with a resounding; "That was what I did when I sneaked away from you". He sighed and crouched near the egg.

"Do not touch it please."

"I'm not."

Elise came in, and Akaz stepped in between the fire and the cave. As a result they both laid down next to each other, being glad that they were together. Their necks became combined, and their scales rubbed against each other's. Soon they were resting, and Enuo decided to leave the scene so that they would have at least a little privacy. He did not worry for both of them however, as he knew both of them were adept at hunting and defending. Their noses breathing was loud enough so that Enuo could hear them breathing. Although, with that in mind, he wondered, is he a sentient?

(halfway there guys. I might be almost in time for the War within quest that soon will be coming out for PS4. :D)