(…Warning… Warning…Warning… This is the beginning of Ragnorock… )
Chapter 24
…The White Knight stands …
Why do I feel calm? I feel almost as if nothing is happening… Am I dreaming? Or is this just the end Ceil leaped over her bed, landing she ripped Zero's buster from its holster in his armor that had been laid to rest beside her bed. Ceil could feel her heat pounding as she saw the three Pantheon units march into her room as daemons skulk thought the mist in a marsh…
Ceil squeezed her eyes shut as the pantheon's Buster canons fired off three red flashes …. Zero… I'm so glad I meat you… And I'm sorry I dragged you into this… Thought… I… If I could only just tell you… I… I love you Zero, with every fiber of my being, and I know in my heart that I wasn't truly alive until I meet you… My only hope now Is that one day I meat you in haven… Ceil opened her eyes, to find that time had stopped… The light of the Plasma blast still hung in the air, and their light still bleed into the air around her, but now in this moment of peace… The lights shone black, and the colors of the armor of the pantheon were inverted, twisted… Shadows of what they should have been.
Yet, Zero's body stayed the same as hers, Is this what it's like before you die? Every thing faded into blackness, and Ceil saw the day Zero was sealed away. Ceil watched as X spoke with Zero in his final waking moments, As she was saved by the red light from the Mavericks when she was a child. So you helped me that day… I did… Were you the one who saved Alouette and me? …I was…Are you the one who's going to save me now? …Of course I am. I'm going to save you and every one every one else here so that your dream of a peaceful future might come true… Ceil felt the warmth of the light that had engulfed her and Zero, and the Calm she had felt earlier. Are you the one who Loves me too? …Of course I am…I love you with every fiber of my being…
Zero stood from his sleeping position on the bead, and took Ceil up in his arms. I will always be here to save you Ceil… Even if it's from Death himself… Zero spoke then his final words in that dark shadow of the world, with Ceil in his arms, his voice like that of the king whispering over his realm. "…Release… Dark hold…"
Leviathan and Colbor leaped aboard the final transport leaving the collapsing Resistance Base. "Commander Radio in to the other transports… see who got out…" Colbor nodded to some of his solders who stood near enough to hear them "You think Zero and Miss Ceil made it out?" Colbor asked unsure of the future… Leviathan shook her head… "I don't know…" Then as all hope of faded from her voice asked, "Do you think my Sage will come back alive, Commander Colbor?"
Colbor shook his head and placed a hand on Leviathan's shoulder to comfort her. "Guardian Harpuia was a honorable Warrior to the very end…." Light like that of a dying star erupted from he four corners of the earth, cutting swaths of desolate Ruins in their mighty wake… "At least Harpy you will die with honor…" Leviathan whispered as the light gave way to the all consuming Maul of a Black hole…Leviathan felt in her heart as Harpuia stood before his executor… even as the rainbowed light of The Clones demonized Charge shoot filled the skis, did Harpuia's blood red thunder decimate the world. Leviathan began to Cry, her tears freezing into shining crystal diamonds as they rolled down her cheeks…
The clone of X wiped the blood red cooling fluid from the small scratch on his cheek. "I must say, you lasted fare longer than I imagined, Sage Harpuia…" the Demon winged Replode mused as he looked down into the crater were Harpuia now tried to stand. "I…I… Kuuuakkuuka…. I would never die from such a weak…Kuuakkuuka… Imitation of Master X!!!" Shouted the broken Emerald Warrior, between coughs that threw what presses blood he had left that wasn't poring out of the unholy number of cuts, gashes, and gaps in his broken and destroyed body, to the dry and thrusting ground.
…Tetra Furma Reuzukan… "Wh-what!!!" The clone flew back, as a great spire of Stone, steel, and body's of Pantheon exploded from the ground. The stones of the spire shot forth like spires, impelling and enrooting themselves in the pantheon's body's, and the body of the Clone. The stones twisted them selves in to a bulb at the peak of the blade like spire. "N-n-noooo-o-oo, I c-c-cc-can no-----t be defeated like thi-s-s-s-s-…." The clone struggled to raise its head to the bulb of stone. "I-i-i-I Will KILL YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!" he screamed in a voice fit for a demon.
The Bulb began to glow in response… Shining forth from the stone came light which was like the sickly green of poison, and death, but it slowly grew… first to the shining green of emeralds, then to the light of creation, and finally it turned to a flaming raging blaze of Gold's, and silvers...Dao-Reuzukan… The light form the stone, shown forth engulfing the Clone in a light of pure heavenly fire cast in the lighting of the thunder god of old...
"AAAA. AAARRK. UURRAAK…" Screamed the clone as his body was torn asunder by the light, and the powers of the Dark Elf leaving him a broken and useless shell. The light of the Dark elf burst forth into the Great glow of the orb atop the spire.
The light of the orb around Zero and Ceil broke of a moment as the Dark Elf glided in of the light of the clone's death. Dearest brother, you came… Just like you said you would... And you brought me a sister…Protect my brother oh sister… I'm afraid Dear X will need me before the end, Good bye my beloved little brother...
Weil sat upon the bridge of the Apocalypse as a Oni sites upon the side of a mountain waiting for its next victims. "All Neo Acadian forces, Master X is dead… I will take control of our forces, and destroy the bustard Mavericks that killed our glory us leader!!!" You will pay for that old man… Weil placed a hand upon his glass helm once again. "Who are you to address me as such? Who is so foolish to defy the new god of this world?" The voice in Weil's mind screamed as a strange side was M shot across Weil's vision THE NIGHTMARE!
Weil half in anger at the defiance of this voice in his mind, and half in hatred towards Zero screamed across the command channels of all his fleet, and all his armies "Fire!!!" In the few hundredths of a second that followed, the plasma cannons of the Pantheon, the electron cannons of the Mechalod artillery, and the Laser cannons of the thousand armies, and fleets of Neo Acadia began to fire! There light like the light of a thousand dying suns.
Thunderous Light of the hundreds of thousands of weapons firing caused a second sun to rise in the sky as the blast collided with the spire. And the Spire buckled and bent, shattered, and tore, exploded, and evaporated in the after math of the exploding light of the Acadian borage. Even as the blasts of lasers, and plasma struck the spire, was their light and strength sucked into the orb. And as the light of the Orb drew in the light of the blasts, it changed, first to the pure golden light of the sun, then to the dark burring shin of Hel's fire, and lastly to the all consuming black light of Ragnorock! Before the Orb closed in on itself.
Ceil felt her heart beat slow, as in the light her heat began to beat with Zero's. She felt his joy as her own as the Dark Elf spoke to them, and he, her's as his sister had called her thusly. Zero you miss her don't you? Ceil felt more than heard his reply. Yeah… The two lost track of the world, not knowing how long they stood in the light. Only as the light began to change, and the sound of the Acadian Armies attack on the Orb, did they know their time in this perfect place was coming to and end.
Zero began to regain feeling in his arms, and he felt Ceil's arms tighten around his neck as the light of the Orb gave way, "What Ceil your not afraid of heights are you?" Ceil's small body shook in his arms, "No! I… I am afraid of falling…" Ceil squeezed her eyes shut. "Then just hold on…" Zero cradled her in his arms. The light of the orb condensed around the two, and Zero with a wave of his sword struck the light away.
The orb exploded! Sending fire and, plasma, Stone, and steel flailing out! The ground and sky both crumbled as the shock wave of the orbs' light exploding flew across the world, as the lord of war fly astride the wings of chaos to the battles of me, and the ravens of death precede their masters coming. Crushing, grinding, decimation, and consuming the armies of Neo Acadia.
Weil's eyes widened in anger, as many of his ships, and all of his army crumbled away in the light. His demon eyes scanned over the deep crater in the earth, from witch smoke still rose, trying desperately to find the source of the light's explosion. "Damn you!!!!" Weil screamed as his eyes fell on Zero, and Ceil who stood in the heart of the explosion, the fire of the light tearing in caracals around Zero's feet, as he held Ceil In his arms. The flames not daring to near them. And forth strode a white replode knight, "Yes… Lord Weil…" Weil's angered snarl turned to a pleased smile. "I do believe your friend id waiting for you. Kill him." The white armored replode nodded. "Yes… Lord… Weil…"
Zero gently set Ceil back to her feet taking care to help her keep her balance. "See bying up that high isn't that bad is it?" Ceil closed her eyes trying to stay her weak stomach. "Not… Not when I'm with you it's not…." Ceil tried standing on her own. "But let's not to that again unless we have to… Kay?" Zero nodded laughing. "You got it." Zero took her back up in his arms. "Ceil… I'm glad to be back beside you…" Ceil kissed him deeply allowing her love for him to bleed form her to him. "I'm glade you're back too…" Ceil slid from Zero grasp, as a white light shone from the only reaming Acadian ship in the air. "Ceil get back."
Ceil felt fear rush into her from the white knight standing before her, for he look just as Zero did, only his armor was White and black, were Zero's was Crimson red and black, and Zero's eyes shone blue as this abominations shone red, like the eyes of Zero Forte, and were Zero hair flowed like liquid gold, this new demon's hair was as white silver.
Zero's eyes narrowed as the white knight began to stand before him. Its red eyes looking onto his. White like began to flow form this White Zero's form, like an aura of power. Zero drew forth his sword. "Are you really going to follow Weil?" the white knight drew its sword in response, taking the same stance as Zero. "Yes…"
And so, is the end of all things… For both you, and me… For we are the ones who time has past… And are no longer part of this world…We will be the end of this world, You and I… For we are one… Two sides of the same coin…The wolf of Ragnorck, and the Knight of Death …Yes this shall be the end of all the world. For now you and I meet once again…Zero…