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Bold is for attacks

Kana's POV

"WHOA!" I awed as we rode on the back of Cherche's Wyvern.

We soared through the sky towards the volcano looming in the distance. Once morning came we got ready and left right away. Mikoto was waiting for us there at Demon's Ingle and I could tell Dwyer was raring to go, I was still nervous about all this, I wasn't sure if this was something we could handle but we'd been training so…I was going to support him.

"I'm going to start my approach." Cherche told me "It's tough to see in with all the ash but I'll attempt to get you as close as I can. Once you jump off it's up to you from there on.'

"How are we gonna get back out?" I asked.

"That's up to you." She told us "I'm sure you'll figure it out without too much trouble, the volcano is active but not erupting right now, still there's too much ash in the air for Minerva and I to stay close so we'll have to pull back."

"Wait what?!"

Before she responded the Wyvern dove straight down into the smoky ash pluming out of the volcano.

"Look down there!" I pointed.

Passed all the smoke and soot was a lone rocky island floating in the lava, standing there was one lone woman with glowing purple eyes.

"It's her." Dwyer said.

"WAH" I yelped when Cherche suddenly did a barrel roll to avoid an arrow that was shot at us.

"Seems we've been spotted." She hummed "Minerva!"

"RAAAH!" The Wyvern roared and started flying lower, diving in and sliding and spinning around the arrows launched at us.

She's so swift…

"Alright…get ready!" Cherche warned as we got close "Go now!"

"HRAAA!" Dwyer dropped off without another word.

"Wait for me!" I yelled jumping off.

Dwyer used the speed from his meteor drop to punch the stony island that Mikoto was standing on, the shockwave splintered the ground and broke the rock apart, even sending a wave through the lava.

"Hey I still need to land!" I yelped falling towards the lave "Ice Magic!"

I quickly waved my hands and blasted out a cooling stream to chill the red hot liquid to stone and land.

"Hmm." Dwyer didn't say much as he stared my Risen Grandmother down.

It's not like him…Dwyer would never endanger me like that…

"So, you came." The former queen blinked at us "You fool, you should have stayed away, now you will die as your father did."

"You shut up, and don't say a thing about my father." He growled, his fist lighting on fire.

"Dwyer." I took a breath to collect myself "Alright let's go!"

"Let's begin!" Mikoto pulled back an arrow and sent a shot at us.

"HMPH!" Dwyer pulled out a dagger and snapped through it, rushing in right at her.

"You didn't take nary a moment to analyze the field." Mikoto shot in front of him "How foolish."

The arrow cracked the unstable platform we were on, resulting in a gush of magma making Dwyer jump back.

"Don't you see." Mikoto darted around the burst and pulled her bow back "You cannot win!"

"We're just getting started!" Dwyer's hands lit up and her burned her arrow away while sliding in close and catching her with an uppercut "You haven't won anything yet!"

Mikoto was engulfed by the explosive punch and knocked away, her shall burning away.

"How troublesome." She stood up and aimed again only to get a dagger throw at her "You're an annoying little thing aren't you."

"HMPH!" Dwyer flashed in and threw a few punches.

"HYA!" Mikoto jumped back and fired an arrow that stuck into his arm.

"Dwyer!" I yelled.

"It's fine." He pulled it out and used his healing flames to close the wound right there.

What am I doing…he's out there fighting and I'm just standing her doing nothing.

"HHAAAA!" I transformed into my dragon form and charged in.

"Making this two on one." She pulled back to shoot me "That hardly seems fair-HA!"

The string on her bow suddenly snapped when Dwyer threw a dagger through it,.

"Who ever said shit about fighting fair?" he told her "Was it fair when you snuck up and killed my father."

The horns on my dragon body turned to ice as it to ready to splinter her.

"RAA!" I slammed into her, piecing her with my antler like horns.

"GAH!" she coughed "Finally…it's over…"

Her body slumped down. I turned back to normal and she slipped down.

"Is that it?" I asked Dwyer.

"…yeah, we're done." He turned away calmly.

"Okay…" I smiled a bit.

"Kana." Mikoto smiled as the purple tint left her skin and her eyes cleared up "You've…become quite strong since…back then."

"Grandma!" I gasped "Are you…I…"

"It's fine, thank you." She held her stomach "Thanks to you, I no longer have to serve that evil creature."

"Is that so?" a smoky image appeared behind her.

"AHH!" the smoke surrounded her "No! Stay Away from me!"

"Grandma!" I yelled.

"Get back!" Dwyer grabbed me.

Mikoto squeezed her hand and triggered a dragon vein that made the Volcano rumbled.

"It appears this one is going to lose." Two voice came out of her mouth "But if that is how it shall be so be it! I'll force her to use the last of her power to activate the Dragon Vein sleeping her and burn both of you two to ashes!"

"Stop it!" I begged "Why are you doing this?! Just let her die!"

"She will die, after finishing her service to me." Grima laughed.

"GAH!" Mikoto coughed as an arrow suddenly lodged in her chest and froze her body in place.

"Paralytic Arrow!" The smoke around the rim of the Volcano blew away and revealed Nina aiming her bow "Get locked up you son of a bitch."

Nina had a new outfit on, she still had her hood but now she had a cape on and her right shoulder was covered with a fan like shoulder guard.

She wasn't the only one there, pretty much everyone was here too, Sieg and all his cousins, the Hoshidan Royals and their retainers, everyone, even Soleil and Ophelia.

Ophelia was in a slick black bodysuit like outfit with some armored bits to guard her, she had a book strapped to her waist as well as a sword on her back.

Soleil was in a similar outfit only hers was a white suit and had more armor on it, she too had a book and blade.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Soleil yelled diving in with Ophelia.

"What?!" Grima gasped as suddenly both of Mikoto's hands were cut off, burned away by Rainbow flames.

"Purging Evil with blades and eyes of Light and Darkness!" Ophelia snapped her long katana into her holster.

"Ignis Exorcism!" Soleil yelled.

"AHHH!" Mikoto's body withered away in a blazing rainbow shower.

"Soleil! Ophelia!" I awed.

"Sorry there was a storm, our boat was a bit late." She smiled.

"Whoa, you're eyes." I awed.

"Cool new power right." She laughed.

Both she and Ophelia's eyes were warped, one black purple with a Grima mark, and one light white with a Naga mark.

"Damn him, unlocking powers like that." Grima's spirit was forced to flee Mikoto's body.

"You're not getting away!" she yelled "Do it now!"

"Spirit Binding Cage!" Mitama swung her staff around and pillars of light started to surround the dark spirit.

"Snake Hex Seal!" Rhajat swayed and waved her fan to set up a sealing circle with an Ouroboros on it "You can't escape."

"VALIDAR!" Grima roared.

"Hex Break!" A crooked looking black magician suddenly appeared from invisibility and shattered both seals "The paltry attempts of child like sealing magic is nothing before me."

"I'll be going now." Grima surrounded his servant in smoke and both fled "Till next time children of fate."

"He ended up getting away in the end." Nina hissed jumping down.

"Still he had to bring in someone to free him, that proves he can be captured." Siegbert nodded.

"Feels like a total waste though to have gone through all that trouble and all we managed to do was take out a single Dread Lord." Shiro grumbled.

"It's one more than we had before." Soleil said, her eyes turning back to normal "One less person imprisoned by that monster."

"What are you all doing here?" I asked.

"We heard that Dwyer had gone on a foolish quest for revenge." Ophelia smiled "With our training as successful as it could be we used Henry's Teleportation gate to gather the others and go to Chon'sin, after which we came to aid you."

"I told them you two could handle it yourselves." Soleil smiled "But just in case…"

"Thank you." I smiled.

"We saw you totally charge in like that!" Selkie cheered "You looked super badass Kana!"

"Really…" I laughed a bit "I don't know, Dwyer did most of it."

"Hmm…" he sighed looking up "Well it's over, now maybe I'll stop being so…angry."

"That's just your Flame Tribe blood." Velouria smiled.

"Maybe." He said "So, what now?"

"We stop hiding." Soleil smiled "We take the fight to him. It won't be easy, Grima's slippery and has multiple hideouts but, together with everyone's strength we'll force him out and take him down!"

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