Chapter 36: Lydea V Mordecai
Lydea weaves her way through the battlefield. Her sights are on a certain owl god who has caused grief and killed owl gods. He is responsible for Night Eternal in the first place and for the war that followed his first attempts on world domination. He is Mordecai and she will waste him as vengeance for Nya and Cheyenne, as well as correcting the forces and to make the sun appear once more.
Mordecai is taking down all who is in his path, decapitating limbs and blowing chunks of body parts etc. any unfortunate owl that ends up in the way of his power lances. Lydea thinks that he shouldn't have such dark magic, but whatever she thinks, he has just got an evil version of anything he finds moral. Just if he isn't the one that did things that are very unholy and taboo when it comes down to it. He is practically the king of Hagmire when you come down it and he will never take his place in the Council of Gods. He is the very meaning of impure, immoral and evil and Lydea plans to send him back to his rightful place, the burning depths itself.
Mordecai then sees the Northern Queen when he is too late as she bashes into him. Knocking him into the rocky terrain below them. He gets up when Lydea lands before him and they circle each other.
"Well, well, well. Nya's descendant. With those rare eyes and snowflake markings you and she are almost identical." Mordecai says
"I am here to do something the gods should have done a long, long, long time ago. They would have disposed of you themselves if there was a way to control the forces without you." Lydea replies
Mordecai gives her a blunt look and says "That means you are going to kill me." Before laughing sarcastically
"I have Cheyenne's dagger and remember this dagger. It killed you the first time and it will kill you again." She replies
"Bring it on, petty child." Mordecai says signalling for her to make the first move.
Lydea lunges at him and he dodges her attacks. She hits him in several places before he makes once hit on her. He sends her backward into a rock pillar and she immediately gets up. Most of all the goddesses he fought against, except for Cheyenne, Nya and Cynder, had been taken down on the first blow and he has some mercy for goddesses (except Nya, Cheyenne and Cynder) and he would probably let them go. He thinks Lydea has the will of the goddesses and she then charges at him again. Mordecai receives blows and remembers his nightmare from not too long ago. He was beaten by Amara, an ancestor of a certain Pure One (Guess who yet) with the blue eyes that could pierce your heart. He compares the two white owls. And they may be different by species, but they are string willed and beautiful, no matter what.
He is using the vision of Amara as motivation, but Lydea seems to have an upper hand. He is beating beat and yet he won't give up. Lydea smashes his head into a rock and he has blood coming from his beak. He wipes it away and then lunges at Lydea. She then takes out the dagger and when he comes to try and pin her, she lunges the dagger into him and he falls to the ground. He lets out a terrifying shriek over the whole kingdom and it is heard by everyone, Guardian and Pure One. He tries to shoot her with his power lances, but he is rapidly fading fast as blood pours all over the ground. Lydea hovers in the air as Mordecai lies there dying.
"How did you…?" He asks
"I learnt a lot it comes to killing Pure One Kings. You are no exception when it comes to the rules." Lydea replies
She picks up the dagger once more and keeps stabbing Mordecai. Blood spraying all over her feathers as she stabs him over and over. He makes moaning noises as he is stabbed and then she decapitates his head and he turns to dust, like what happens when Pure Ones are destroyed by the mirror. Lydea stands there as Josh lands behind her.
The Pure Ones know that Mordecai has been defeated, but they will not stand down, no matter what. Elanore knows that Coryn will fight her soon and she stands ready. She sends Nyroc out to fight on the battlefield, seeing as she doesn't want him to get involved with the battle that she knows is ahead.