Chapter 38: Kord
Trace looked up at Brahn and Ceterum. The three headed dragon seemed larger than he was at the Dragon Masquerade. His eyes glowed completely black-red with the same aura around his body. However, Trace felt the dragon's aura around his body weaker than it should have been. However, he was able to feel that aura around Brahn, almost mixed with his own aura into a dark necromancy concoction to the likes of which Trace , nor any other of the magic users had thought imaginable.
Even Braikeon, the dragon king felt afraid.
"What is this!?" One of the senators shouted.
"Brahn what are you doing!?"
"It's time to bring the world into a new age, Mekkan will be reborn from magic and blood!"
Sparking red-black magic spheres formed in Brahn's hands that slammed into the ground. A wave of magic spread through the room, anyone it passed by was burned into a skeleton, including many senators and praetorians.
Braikeon roared and leapt onto the wave, breaking it apart into nothing. He snarled seeing Brahn floating above them and tried to snap his jaws around the Grand Templar. However, Ceterum slammed into Braikeon first crashing him through the walls of the building.
"Brother!" Nora shouted.
Debris continued to fall down with the remaining dragons keeping them back.
Trace screamed with his eyes turning blue and his entire body glowing with magic aura with his dragon spirit coming out. Flora saw Daniel and Terron both do the same, silver and green colored aura around the two.
All three began hurling dragon shaped magical bombs at Brahn, but even their combined power only got pushed aside by Brahn. The Grand Templar looked at himself and laughed, still growing use to his power.
Many of the senators desperately tried to get out, but Natani and the other wolves smelled something foul they had smelled before. They heard a series of screams followed by strange growls and clattering of armor.
Flora's eyes widened when she saw undead legionaries rushing into the senate building.
"Guys!"
"Fuck!" Natani screamed while hurling a fire bomb into six that nearly jumped them.
Keith didn't waste a motion and began cutting down the undead legionaries. Natani quickly backed him up while Clovis covered them with more magic. Ash cracked his neck while seeing his companions and the praetorians desperately fight off the undead soldiers.
"This is more like it! One last ho-rah!"
"You know it." Ash said while the armor of the Chaos Soldier formed around him.
"Let's go!" Ash hurled twenty blades into the charging zombies and cut down dozens. This was followed by a storm of sword strikes that cut down a zombie with each blow.
Nora and Thedrad both tried to attack Brahn , but the walls of the senate building burst open again. To their terror a pair of undead dragons flew in and slammed them away.
"Trace darling, get away from him!"
Trace didn't listen to Nora and performed an uppercut. Flaming roots tried to ensnare Brahn but his magic withered them into nothing.
Daniel brought up liquid silver from the ground and tried to crash it into Brahn while Terron unleashed pure dragon-esk magic. Brahn pushed both magical blows harmlessly to the ground and held his hands up. The sky above him grew darker with bolts of lightning crashed into all three men, sending them to their knees.
"Fuck!" Daniel roared in pain.
Flora backed up in terror, Thomas crying hard with his mother desperately trying to find a way out.
"Flora!" She heard while seeing a group of zombies get blasted apart by magic. She saw Kei riding in on Reni. His sword drawn and zombie-dust on it.
"Come on let's get out of here!"
Flora was about to get on when she looked back at Trace and the others. Her friends, her husband. She looked at her frightened baby and grit her teeth.
"Take him! Take him somewhere safe!"
"Flora!?" Kei shouted.
"I can't leave them." Flora said tearing up.
Keith took Thomas and held him close.
"Don't leave this boy and orphan." Kei said as Reni quickly flew off.
Flora growled and drew her bow. She fired a few arrows that tore through three zombies. However, she spotted trouble, Tysis moved towards Terron. In all the chaos, the praetorians weren't around him.
"No!" Flora fired an arrow at the older tiger who knocked it away with his claws. He turned to Flora who had already fired two more arrows. Tysis smiled as he knocked away the arrows and caught two knives Flora threw.
However, the smile was knocked off his face by a piece of debris Flora threw, the same smile having found its way onto Flora's face.
Tysis roared , the rage fueling his sprint towards the younger tiger. Flora ducked down and rolled forward tripping Tysis up. However, Tysis recovered quickly. His claws soaring through the air like the wind. Flora used her bow and a throwing knife to keep them at bay while stepping back to avoid his foot claws. Flora slashed him with her own foot claws after his right foot hit the ground again. He growled and smashed Flora's bow to pieces.
Flora felt the crushing blow of Tysis's paw into her face, picking her up and onto her back. Flora spit up some salty blood. Tysis's foot coming down like a falling boulder to curb stomp her. Flora desperately rolled to the side and slashed his foot with her claws while stabbing him with a throwing knife.
Tysis snarled and stomped at Flora again. She jumped up only to be grabbed in the throat and lifted up.
"Watch your precious emperor die!" Tysis growled, Flora's eyes widening when she saw a pair of hidden tiger assassins come at Terron's sides.
"Your majesty!"
Shadow and Whisper took out their blades. Both coming in fast and efficiently only to be beaten back. The two tigers saw Tersias and the praetorian prefect standing between them and the emperor.
"Stay back!" Tersias shouted holding two swords.
Shadow and Whisper acrobatically leapt up and lunged at the two praetorians. The prefect guided Shadow's blade away and hit his head with his elbow like a mace. Not wasting a motion, the prefect stabbed Shadow through the chest.
Tersias similarly grabbed Whisper's foot while he leapt up to kick and dragged the tiger down, stabbing through his back in a quick motion.
"What!?" Tysis shouted. Flora bit his arm hard, making him move her close enough for the tigress to stab his remaining eye with her throwing knife.
"Ahhhh!"
Flora bit Tysis's throat , feeling salty blood fill her mouth and the tiger grow heavier. His body almost dragged her down with him.
Euchre used his necromancy to try and help the wounded men in the room.
"Hold still." Euchre said holding a screaming praetorian who was missing his right hand.
Euchre's eyes glowed red as he grew the man's hand back.
"Huh! How- Lookout!" The praetorian used his regrown hand to grab his sword and stab a zombie who almost snuck up on Euchre.
"Go!" Euchre shouted bringing the man up.
The Templar master saw Brahn battling the emperor and other dragon mages and considered joining.
"No, I can do more good helping the injured."
Trace, Daniel, and Terron continued to pummel Brahn with the fury of their magic. Trace brining a storm of dragon spears, Daniel a hurricane of liquid esk-magic, and Terron an inferno of fiery magic.
Brahn was pushed further up but soon contained all of their attacks sending it up in a magnificent display. He pointed down with more bolt shaped magic crashing into the three. Trace and Daniel cried out , both nearly fainting until they felt relief.
Terron grunted as he forced the magic onto him.
"Get up!" Terron screamed. Brahn smiling.
"Even an emperor must bow before a god."
Daniel opened his eyes and saw the world slow around him. Another bolt of magic from Brahn hit Terron and burned through his chest. Thedrad howled in pain as if he were hit. Terron convulsing violently but was then still.
"No!"
Tersias and the prefect both fell to his body in horror. Trace also shaking as he saw this.
"Grawwwww!" Trace roared. Brahn picked up by a magic dragon the size of Nora conjured by Trace.
Natani, Clovis, and Keith managed to push the zombies out of the senate building with the help of the praetorians and Euchre.
"Come on!" Natani howled when she saw more zombies rush to join them. However, they got unexpected backup from a group of Templars. Red leading a pair of wolves, three human women, and two Archidons soon slammed into the back of the zombies with legionaries and other garrisoned knights joining them.
The people in Roma were running in terror and chaos with the undead legionaries and dragons running rampant. The path to the senate building nearly cleared when a series of crows and black cats began to attack them as well.
They were confused at first , until seeing Brahn's daughter approaching them.
"Her." Keith said gritting his teeth. The girl hurled magic bombs at them, Raine sprinting over and doing her best to knock them away. Raine was lifted up and crashed into Natani.
"Hey." Raine said.
"I'm going to kill that little bitch." Natani growled.
"Get in line." Raine growled as she got up.
The two she-wolves began covering each other with their magic. Each taking turns deflecting the girl's magic while the other pushed her back with their own. An undead dragon crashed into the ground beside the girl. It snapped its jaws towards Raine only to have a pair of arrows crash into its eye sockets. The force behind the enchanted arrows pushed the dragon back.
Yanna and Archie ran around the side of the zombie dragon, firing arrows into it's rotting yellow scales. The dragon hurled its tail around, but the two acrobatically avoided it. Keith and Red slashed at the front legs of the dragon with their bright steel swords, cutting through the scales and bones, however, not all the way.
The zombie dragon backed up until Morgana slashed at its back leg with her lunite saber. Just like the bright steel swords it cut through scale and bone.
Clovis hurled a magic bomb at the dragon's head, making it go down even further.
However, before Clovis could hit it again, she lurched away narrowly avoiding a blade from Caligus.
"My dear Clovis, we never got to finish that dance!" Caligus ran fast at Clovis, slashing fast to keep her from using magic. The she-wolf now sweating as she tried to get away from him.
"Keep running little fox, you're about to-" Clovis licked his knife hand away and snapped her jaws around Caligus's through. He yelped and violently tried to stab Clovis , but she pushed him away far enough to set him ablaze with a fire bomb.
"Ahhhhhh!" Caligus dropped his knife and ran, Clovis smiling seeing him fall down and thrash until he became ash.
Meanwhile Raine and Natani kept at the Templar girl. Despite her powers, Raine and Natani worked too well together. That was until more of the birds began to fly into their faces. The two wolves desperately tried to get them out of their faces. Brahn's daughter hurled a bomb between them, the magic scorching their fur and hurling them back with blood staining their singed fur.
The two tried to get up as the girl gathered more magic. A splatter of blood sprayed over the two. Blood coming out of the girl's mouth as she looked down to see a blade coming out of her stomach. She tried to grab it but collapsed onto the ground.
Standing behind her was Karen having an almost dazed look while staring at the body.
"Is she dead?" Maren giving a nearly crestfallen look seeing this.
"Yes, that tends to happen when you stab someone." Natani said.
"Oh no, I didn't mean to kill her, I just wanted to help you both."
"Your sister's insane." Scythe said as he stabbed a zombie.
Archie and Yanna fired four arrows into the cut bones on the legs, causing them to break off. When the dead dragon fell down Keith, Red, and Morgana slashed at the same part of its neck, brining the head off.
Brahn brought rain down on the capital, laughing while he looked at the sky.
"I can control the weather!"
"Brahn I just felt it, your daughter, she's, she's dead."
Brahn wasn't moved.
"A god has no need for a family."
Another magic dragon hit Brahn and caught his attention. Trace and Daniel were both on the ground looking up at him.
"I'm going to send you to the deepest layer of inferos!" Daniel roared.
"You dare speak to a god like that!" Brahn brought down fire from the sky like massive rain.
Daniel brought water up and around them in the shape of three dragons that kept the fire away.
Trace unleashed his own magical dragons into Brahn but just like before they had little effect.
"We are amused, but not impressed." Brahn formed his own magical dragons that smashed apart Traces.
Meanwhile Ceterum and Braikeon violently fought each other. Both dragons using their brute strength and magical power to try and maul the other. Despite Braikeon's god like power, Ceterum was enhanced beyond him.
Nora, Argenti, and Thedrad were battling multiple undead dragons, despite their strength and power, the zombie's lack of pain and single sense of existence drove them beyond mortality.
Braikeon was hurled to the ground and groaned, another undead dragon coming down on top of him.
"Father!" Thedrad roared trying to reach him.
Ceterum prepared to blast Braikeon with all three heads, only to be hit by a smaller blast.
"Get away from him!" Reni roared as she flew around the three heads.
"Reni! Get away!" Braikeon roared.
The small dragon princess flew down and smashed into the undead dragon. She pinned it down while Kei stabbed through its eye socket with his free hand.
"Not without you!"
As Ceterum regained himself, Argenti and Nora attacked his sides, drawing his attention.
"Your majesty, are you alright?" Kei asked while Braikeon got up and shook his head.
"I am now, you came bake with a child just to try and save me?"
"Well I."
"You're either very brave or very foolish. I can see how your courted my daughter."
"Well I….You, you knew." Kei began shaking.
"Of course after acquiring her new ability she came to me and asked my permission. Do you really think I don't know what goes on with my daughter."
"Well I uh, just…." Kei wasn't sure to be afraid or relieved.
"There will of course be the matter of the marriage."
"….What?"
"Really!"
The Chaos Soldier cut down another hundred zombies when he saw Ceterum in the sky.
"Geez he's making mince meat out of Nora and Argenti."
"Our blades can pierce his hide, if we can get to his center head we can kill him."
Ash was surprised by this, but here was something in the way Chaos talked that seemed almost , off. But it was Chaos so Ash paid little mind to it.
Ceterum flew after Argenti, the silver dragon lord flying lower to the ground. The Chaos Soldier waited until Ceterum was close enough and sprinted forward. He jumped up and grabbed onto Ceterum's leg. Ash and Chaos slowly scaled the back of the dragon before reaching the center of his middle head.
"Time to die!" Ash brought a sword up but couldn't bring it down.
"Huh?"
"I'm sorry my friend, but I can't let you do that." Ash felt a sensation he hadn't felt since the basitin islands. The face mask of the helmet came over Ash as Chaos took control again.
"Chaos what are you doing!?"
"This is an opportunity I cannot pass up!" Chaos slammed his palm into Ceterum's center head.
Ash felt a power inside Chaos he hadn't felt before. As if the very soul of the dragon inside him began to attack Ceterum.
Elsewhere , Brahn began to cry out.
"Gahaaahh What's happening to me!" Ceterum roared inside of Brahn.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Who, who are you!?"
"I am Chaos, and you have made a fatal mistake. You've fused your soul within your human's, but in doing so you've left your body unprotect, what's left of your soul is weak, too weak to protect itself!"
"No!"
The remnant of Ceterum's soul inside his body shattered, Ash howling as he convulsed. The armor of the chaos soldier broke apart and fell off him. Ash gasping for breath as he felt a sense of relief that he didn't know he could have again. He still felt a connection to Chaos, but not like he had before.
Ash looked down at the dragon body. It's black and red aura changing to black and blue while it physically began to change, becoming more fierce and chaotic.
When it finished the dragon roared with all three heads, each giving an evil grin while their eyes glowed blue and black.
"Chaos is reborn!"
"OH no!" Nora roared in fear.
Ash had to hold onto Chaos tight as he flew down in his new body. He smashed into an undead dragon, viciously tearing it apart like a savage animal. He roared in delight, looking for more prey, eventually finding another undead dragon and blasting it apart with all three heads.
"Yes! I love my new body!"
"Chaos."
"You needn't fear my friend, you and I are still connected, just not like before. We're still in this together!" Chaos flew down and began blasting apart every zombie he could see.
"Is this good or bad?" Argenti asked.
"I don't know yet." Thedrad said.
Brahn convulsed before giving an enraged look.
"How dare you!" He flew at Chaos and grabbed his center head.
"I'm taking by body back!"
Chaos growled.
"I'm finally free, you won't take that away from me!" Chaos smashed Brahn into the ground. The deity floating back up.
"Die!" Trace roared, he and Daniel continued to punish Brahn with their magic, but it still wasn't working. That was until one of Trace's roots ensnared Brahn long enough for Daniel's metal dragon to break through his barrier and hit him.
"How dare you! Filthy insects!" Brahn hurled them both back. Rising up higher until Nora and Argenti came down on him, both dragons mauling him into road.
"No! I am above all of you!" Brahn blasted the two dragons back, only to have a third snap his jaws around him.
"You will suffer inferos !" Thedrad roared as he violently shook Brahn around.
"Get off me!" Brahn brought lightning magic onto Thedrad, forcing him to let go.
Trace roared with Nora, the two combining their magic around Brahn , holding him in place.
"No! I will not be contained! I am greater than man , I am greater than dragon! I am a god! I am-" The ground shook around them. Braikeon landing behind Brahn.
"Let's see what kind of god you really are!" Braikeon let out a roar that shatter class and bend metal. A white magical beam hitting Brahn, his magic shattering and his skin peeling back.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Brahn and Ceterum screamed, their very souls broken apart into nothing.
"Not a god then, just a man, and a drake!" Braikeon finished his magic, revealing nothing left of Brahn.
The rain stopped shortly after, the sun slowly coming out again. Trace was on the ground with Nora, both just as exhausted as Daniel and Argenti.
"It's over, he's gone." Trace said shaking.
"We've done it my darling, it's finally over."
"Trace!" He slowly looked over and saw Flora rushing over with the others, Reni and Kei among them.
Flora brought Trace up with a hug, Kei carefully handing them Thomas back.
Chaos had landed as well, Ash coming down and lifting up Clovis in his arms.
"I'm free, I'm finally free!" he said tearing up.
"As am I!" Chaos roared in excitement.
"Chaos!" Braikeon roared.
"I'll look past what you did in your last body, but be assured, my laws are still the same. Should you be as you were before."
"…..Fine, as you say, my king. Better to have a body, and I must say I never realized having three heads was quite so, incredible."
"….Does he have to stay with us?" Clovis asked shaking.
"Afraid so."
"Oh well." Thedrad looked at the body of Terron, tears streaming from his eyes.
Braikeon came down and consoled him.
"I'm sorry son. He was as true an emperor as Romulus." Daniel was helped up by Argenti , Maximus, and Brandon who had arrived.
Daniel saw Braikeon over him, something in his mouth.
"Daniel , kneel." Daniel did so upon seeing the emperor's crown in Braikeon's mouth.
Braikeon slowly placed the crown upon his head.
"Rise now, Emperor of Kord!"
Daniel rose up, all those able to see falling to their knees.
"All hail emperor Rian! Long may he reign!" Braikeon roared.
Epilog
In Roma Euchre sat with Marc Antony and the Grand Hospitaller inside a citadel.
"Really you've managed to regrow an entire arm." The Grand Hospitaller said in interest.
Euchre had a proud look on his face while sipping coffee.
"Yes, I'd be more than willing to show you."
"Perhaps, I'll have Mary Silverlock come see you " The man said, Euchre smiling a little know what his friend was getting at.
"Personally I thought you would have turned your attention to your grandson and his ability Grand Templar." Antony said.
"He has his mother for that." Euchre said.
Elsewhere in the citadel a white wolf hybrid baby was playing with a grey wolf hybrid baby and a human one.
Raine, Morgana, and Maren nearby watching them.
"You convinced them you were a werewolf, Raine that's just mean and unprofessional." Maren said while Morgana laughed.
"I wish I had had magic so I could be one of your students." Morgana said.
The three heard crying, Maren turning to the babies.
"Raine your son is scaring our daughters again." Maren said picking up her hybrid daughter while Raine's son turned from a white wolf with red hair to a human baby with red hair.
"He can't control it, I couldn't for the longest time."
Red was nearby training templar knights with Scythe, who was now wearing knights armor, when he saw this. He smiled and picked up his son.
"Awww Chris are you scaring your little friends again." Red said holding him while Raine smiled.
Archie was training a few Templar Archidons while Yanna helped Karen.
"Hold your arm steady."
"And aim."
"No, guide, your mind knows where it wants to go."
In Lyn'Knoll Trace was with Ash and Clovis outside a small Temple. Nora and Chaos were there as well. In front of them were a group of keidran, human, and hybrid students.
"Remember that magic is naturally part of you, the more you practice it and refine it, the stronger it will be. But how you practice it is just as important as how much you do." Trace said, him, Ash, Clovis and the dragons showing them various technique.
Ash felt something tugging at his leg and looked down to see a mostly white wolf pup.
"Not now William, go bother your mother." Ash said , but the pup kept at him. Clovis smiling.
"He wants his daddy."
"Alright fine." Ash said picking up his son.
"Come on." Ash said while his son panted.
Elsewhere inside a house, Flora wore a blue mana crystal around her neck while watching Thomas slowly try to walk.
"That's it Thomas, you're doing great, mommy's very proud of you." She said before he reached Flora and braced himself on her stomach. Flora smiled and put her hands on his head.
"You found your little brother or sister." She said putting her hand in her stomach.
In another house Keith and Natani sat with Kat and Zen while two wolf Keidran children played with a wolf pup. A baby basitin with Natani's fur color and wolf-esk features in Natani's arms.
"So Natani is motherhood everything you thought it would be?" Kat asked.
"How can you handle three of these things!? When is he going to be old enough where I can make him an assassin?"Natani asked.
"I see you're in that phase of parenting." Zen said smiling with Kat.
"She's just putting on a show, the other night I saw her giving him a belly rub while doing baby talk." Keith said smiling as Natani growled.
"Well I'm glad you two are doing well. Are you going to head back to the basitin islands anytime soon?" Kat asked.
"Eventually, I have to report back to the king eventually, plus she's announced the birth of her new son, she'll want us there for his first birthday." Keith said. The four heard a yip.
"Justus, Clara, be gentle with your little brother." Zen said.
"Yes dad."
Later that day, all of them had gathered at the emperor's estate. They sat in the dinning room, but not alone. Argenti, Daniel, Creiya, and the praetorians were there. As well as Maeve, Adira, Urien, and a baby leopard in Adira's arms.
"Your work in the Midnight Isles was very impressive general, Praetor Fullmix was right to recommend you." Daniel said.
"Thank you your majesty, my men did their part well." Urien said.
"Your majesty what I must say it is an honor and privilege to be invited here." Adira said.
"It's no trouble, your friends and family here are the ambassador and chief Hospitaller for Lyn'Lnoll."
Trace noticed Creiya's stomach swollen in a manner he was all to familiar with. He looked around at his friends and family , thinking about what his life had come to. He smile while picking up Thomas in his arms, knowing that they had helped ensured the future for all in the Kord Empire.
Author's note
And thus, the story ends, The Templars are now as they have been under Euchre, Daniel Reigns as well as Augustus Caesar, and our heros have earned the rewards of their hard fought cause,
I hope you guys enjoyed this story,
All future stories of mine will be short stories, no more than say 10 chapters, if any of you like Pokemon my next story will be another amourshipping,
So until next story,
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