In the fortress cube, Viral had finally perfected the infinity synthetic mutagen inside her laboratory. She then headed her way into the training room, where Lady Shadestrike was waiting patiently for her result. The training room was filled with black and blue glowing spider webs.
"Is it finished yet, Viral?" Lady Shadestrike demanded.
"Yes, my mistress. The synthetic mutagen has finally been perfected." Viral answered. "It was designed to stabilize your system that will keep her body from falling apart."
Viral injected the infinity synthetic mutagen into Lady Shadestrike's right arms, causing the black mage mutant to feel herself growing stronger than ever with her mutation finally stabilized.
"Yes, this feels good." Lady Shadestrike said with a satisfying smile. "Activate the Level 13 Shadow Droids!"
"As you wish." Viral said with a nod.
Viral slithered away and snapped her fingers that summoned five Elite Shadow Droids to surround Lady Shadestrike in a circle. Lady Shadestrike swung her giant claws to defeat the first two Elite Shadow Droids. Three Elite Shadow Droids came together with their weapons and charged forward towards Lady Shadestrike, but she instantly performed two swift slashes at the last three elite robots. Suddenly, a holographic Kuro jumped in the scene and began charging forward towards the black mage mutant with dark energized claws. Lady Shadestrike felt absolutely no remorse in striking him down as she swiftly attacked the holographic Kuro with a strong drill attack from her right claw. Then, the holographic Kuro collapsed to the ground and pixeled himself into nothingness.
"It worked." Lady Shadestrike said with a smile. "You have done well, Viral."
"Mistress Shade, we have found out that Kuro hasn't left the city at all." Galva reported. "He has a new secret hideout."
"He's staying with the Amazons in Bronx." Masque added.
"Finally, I'll be ready to find Kuro and destroy Sage and those vile K-5 once and for all." Lady Shadestrike said with a malicious smile. "Viral, get to work on the surprise for Ezra. That boy is about to get a real challenge coming to him."
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In the Crete Fortress, the K-5 and Norbit were sitting on the couch in the living room. Camilla was eating gummy bears, Kirana was eating a bowl of buttery popcorn, Ezra was sipping on his teal water bottle, and Ariana was sipping her mango soda. Talia stood in front of the TV with an exciting smile.
"Alright, ladies and gentlemen. Today's the day. The final episode of Sarina Universe!" Talia announced as she held a DVD up in her right hand.
Talia placed the DVD in the DVD player and sped down to the couch, sitting between Kirana and Ariana. The K-5 and Norbit cheered when the Sarina Universe theme song logo. Sarina, Tanya, Kayla, Susan, and Lila are running on a narrow, straightforward platform aisle as Madame Eliza was riding inside her giant mech dragon. She began launching a string of neon green energy bullets in a straight line at the girls. After that, the Mech Dragon started firing two neon green lasers and moved them at the girls across the pathway. Lila formed a large shield of telekinetic energy in front of her and grabbed neon green energy bullets that entered the shield before throwing them back at the mech dragon with enough force. Susan channeled raw chaos energy into a large sphere and then fired it as an energy bolt at the mech dragon. Kayla jumped slightly into the air and then punched her fist into the ground to create powerful volcanic explosions that damaged the mech dragon within its radius. Tanya threw a batch of explosive orange energy tacks at the mech dragon. And Sarina jumped quickly to kick out with her leg and released a thin blue wave in its wake that hit the mech dragon. With the powerful attack combination, Eliza's Mech Dragon started falling on the ground and rolled on the ground with massive damage. Sarina and her friends cheered their victory with high-fives.
The K-5 and Norbit looked at the screen when the credits appeared with wide-eyed faces.
"That. Was. Awesome!" Talia smiled widely.
Kirana walked up behind Sage and saw her mother meditating right in front of the family shrine inside the dojo. She knew her mother has been acting strange for the past few days. Not even her aura sense can find out the problem. Ezra his behind the wall as he listened to the conversation of his eldest sister and adoptive mother.
"Mother?" Kirana spoke.
"Yes, Kirana?" Sage responded as she opened her eyes and turned her head to her oldest daughter.
"I've noticed you have been distant from the past few days. You've been meditating non-stop and not have any time to sleep. Are you alright?" Kirana asked with a concern face.
"Kirana, please. Let's not talk about me for now." Sage said as she levitated up on her feet and moved towards Kirana. "Let's talk about you. Do you know why I made you leader of this team?"
"Well, yeah, because I asked." Kirana answered. "You also said it wasn't because of my skills nor my magic."
"Well, not exactly." Sage explained. "When you were a little girl, I knew you would one day grow up to be the leader of this team just like your father and when I pass on to be like a mother as well to be at his side."
"Pass on? Wait, what are you talking about, mother?" Kirana questioned confusingly.
"Leona, I can only gave one piece of wisdom that will remain with you forever. Remember, giving guidance to your siblings and friends doesn't always come from here." Sage continued as she tapped Kirana's head with her finger and then pointed her palm to Kirana's heart. "It comes from here."
"But you're fine, mother." Kirana said. "There's something else you're not telling me."
Suddenly, Kirana and Sage turned around to see Camilla, Ariana, Talia, and Ezra walking in the dojo.
"Hey, we're gonna want to go visit Kuro at the Amazons' crib." Talia said with a smile.
"You should come too, mother." Camilla said with a grin.
"Agreed." Sage answered as she walked away with Camilla, Ariana, and Talia. "I do need to get out of the fortress more often."
Kirana looked at Sage in a mix of concern and worry as she pondered over what her mother has said to her.
Ezra was about to follow his family, but he stopped as he noticed something wooden buried next to the bamboo tree. Curiously, he walked over to the tree and dug up a wooden box from the dirt. He opened the box and spotted an old letter. He pulled it out to open it and read it with surprised eyes to find out the letter was to him from his father; Dastren!
"Dear, Ezra." Dastren's voice echoed. "Being your father is the best thing about my life. But sometimes a job like that for a sorcerer can be dangerous. I'm in trouble and I'm afraid I won't be around for much longer. I need you to know that I am always with you, even if you can't see me. I promise we will meet again, but for now, my future vision detected a family that will be yours and they will both love and cherish you. No matter what may happen to either one of us, I will always love you. Love, Dad."
Ezra stared at the letter with tears in his eyes and quickly wiped them away with his hand. Kirana walked over to her younger brother and saw the letter. She frowned and kneeled down to his level before she put a hand on his shoulder.
"You know, your dad's not wrong." Kirana said. "We will always love and cherish you. He will always be with you in your heart forever."
"Thanks, K." Ezra smiled, sadly. "Now, don't we have a party to get to?"
Kirana smiled before she and Ezra got up to walk to the Sonicrusier where the others were waiting for them. Suddenly, Ezra stopped and placed a hand on his hand as he was having a headache.
"Something is coming. Be prepared."
Ezra shook off the headache and continued walking with one thought on his mind.
"What is coming?" Ezra wondered.
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In the Amazons' hideout, Whitman was fixing secret formula vials with the help of Silver, Amber, and Kabocha. Verona and Gumko were playing solitaire Cardwell on the table. Samara, Mala, Leia, and Kale watched as Kuro was using his light magic to pinpoint possible places Lady Shadestrike's secret location on a map of New York City.
"Kabocha placed trackers on two spotted Shadow Droids." Kuro said. "We found that they both went to this spot here. It's 25 miles north of New York City to Lady Shadestrike's hideout."
"We should contact the K-5 to form a plan of attack." Mala suggested.
"I concur, Mala." Samara agreed with a nod. "In the meantime, we'll be safe here. Thanks to Whitman, this place has been set on a total, complete lockdown."
"Thanks for letting us stay, Samara." Kuro said to Samara with a graceful smile.
Suddenly, the security system started to alert the mages and the mage mutants inside the hideout. Silver immediately looked over to detect Lady Shadestrike approaching on the view screens.
"It's Shade!" Silver exclaimed frantically. "And she looks ticked."
"Amazons, prepare for battle!" Samara ordered her team.
Samara, Mala, Amber, Whitman, Silver, Verona, Kale, Leia, Kuro, Gumko, and Kabocha drew out their magic as they all got into their fighting stance when Lady Shadestrike ruptured the entrance door with a powerful energy beam of black magic and walked slowly towards the mage team.
"Hello again, Kuro!" Lady Shadestrike spoke with a sinister smile on her face. "I can finally put your pathetic scheme down for good!"
"You gonna have to get back us first, witch!" Samara said.
Lady Shadestrike's giant razor-sharp claws began to glow in blazing black energy and charged at the Amazons with remarkable speed. Samara spun at Lady Shadestrike like a drill with her electrical claws outstretched, but Lady Shadestrike blocked the attack with her giant claws. Lady Shadestrike charged forward at Samara and rapidly slashed her with her giant claws, sending Samara to hit the wall and fell to the ground in pain. Mala glared at Lady Shade and charged forward to attack the black mage mutant with a rapid series of claw slashes, but Lady Shadestrike jumped over the attack and grabbed Mala and repeatedly slashed her with her giant claws followed by grabbing Mala's face and flipping her over her head hard to the ground. Verona swung her tail into Lady Shadestrike multiple times and jumped in the air to slam her tail onto the black mage mutant's head. Silver fired four ice energy balls at the black mage mutant, who dodged the attack and blasted a black energy ball to the leopard mutant, that made him crash in the wall. Whitman jumped high into the air and fired a machine barrage of dark green energy blasts at Lady Shadestrike in a 360 degree fashion. Amber grabbed Lady Shadestrike and began smashing her mercilessly into the ground with her massive ears until she tossed the black mage mutant straight to the wall. Lady Shadestrike quickly recovered and got up from the wall as if she was completely unaffected by the attacks. Lady Shadestrike summoned several small black energized arrows that encircled her body and began firing them one-by-one that hit Whitman, Amber, and Verona. Gumko charged forward and threw numerous pumpkin bombs at Lady Shadestrike as Kabocha charged pink energy between its tentacles and fired it as a massive beam at the black mage mutant. Unfortunately, Lady Shadestrike chuckled sinisterly as she remained unaffected by the combo attacks. Lady Shadestrike extended her giant claws to grab Kabocha's tentacles and pulled it forward before swiftly punching the pumpkin creature away straight to the wall. Lady Shadestrike then charged forward and unleashed a brutal barrage of claw slashes on Gumko before tearing through the pumpkin mage ninja with her claws to collapse him to the ground. Kale charged forward and began jabbing Lady Shadestrike back with a series of punches while Leia dashed forward and unleashed a series of rapid dark energized punches to the black mage mutant. Lady Shadestrike smirked as she slashed Leia and Kale with her giant claws four times in immense speed before double slashing to finish her former Sirens with both giant claws.
"No!" Kuro shouted as he watched all of his defeated allies unconsciously on the ground. He turned to face Lady Shadestrike, who was extending her giant claws with a murderous grin. "Stop this madness, Shade! You don't have to do this!"
"Don't wasting my time." Lady Shadestrike spat. "Your father was perished and you will share the same fate along with him!"
Kuro growled furiously and clenched his fists tightly. He charged forward and shot out large balls of dark energy straight at Lady Shadestrike, who quickly dodged out of the way. Lady Shadestrike was immensely fast as she swept her black energized slashes at Kuro. Fortunately, Kuro was immensely fast as well. But his speed couldn't keep up with the black mage mutant. Lady Shadestrike dashed forward at Kuro and attacked him with a vicious barrage of claw slashes as she finished Kuro with two slashes that sent him flying to the ground.
"I didn't want to do this to you, Kuro. But you have let me no other choice." Lady Shadestrike said as she walked over to the unconscious Kuro.
With that, Lady Shadestrike departed out of the hideout with her enhanced speed.
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As the K-5, Norbit, and Sage arrived to the Amazons' hideout, they entered inside to see their mage and mage mutants lying on the ground with painful groans.
"Uh no!" Camilla exclaimed.
The six mages and one robot ran forward to help their friends off the ground. Sage and Kirana ran up to Kuro, who was lying motionlessly on the ground.
"Shori. Shori!" Sage yelled.
"I've got this." Kirana said.
Kirana narrowed her eyes in determination as she enveloped her hands with a glow of blue healing energy and held them to the injured Kuro, who started coughing and looked up at his family with a painful groan. Samara, Silver, Gumko, Leia, and Kale quickly recovered as they ran over to check on Kuro.
"Kuro!" Gumko cried as he knelt his knees down to Kuro. "Thanks, Kirana."
"What happened to the hideout?" Norbit asked.
"Shade has grown much stronger and doesn't even care about Kuro anymore. This time, she wants all of us dead." Gumko replied.
Sage stood up and looked at the exit door as she concentrated on her white magic to see images of Lady Shadestrike, Masque, and Galva leaving the area. Except that Lady Shadestrike was actually heading in an opposite direction.
"Gumko, you stay with my son and get him to the ambulance." Sage said firmly. "And Kabocha, you help out the Amazons."
Gumko and Kabocha nodded their heads at Sage as their responses.
"I see two clear trails leading off in opposite directions." Saldana said with a bold face. "Camilla, Norbit, Leia, Kale, and Samara, you're coming with me. Kirana, you will lead Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Silver, and Mala in that other direction. Take the Sonicruiser. The rest of us will travel on the foot."
"Mother, this is not a good idea and you know it." Kirana said hesitantly with a worry face. "If we're going to take Shade down, we should all stick together."
"She's right, mother." Ezra agreed. "This could lead to a trap and something bad could happen."
"Remember what I said back in the dojo, Kirana." Sage reminded as she pointed her palm to Kirana's heart and then pointed her palm to her own heart. "From your heart, no matter what." She looked to Ezra and placed her hands on his shoulder. "Ezra, never be afraid."
With that, Sage kissed her younger son's forehead and sped off with her team as Kirana and Ezra were looking at their mother as if they knew that something's gonna happen to her.
"You must go, Ezra. Sage is right."
"But it doesn't feel right." Ezra thought.
"Go, my son! Hurry!"
"Dad!?" Ezra gasped.
"Dad?" Ariana asked with a confused face. "Guys, come on."
"Kirana, I know you're worried about mother, but we got to move." Ezra said as he stood by Kirana and ran into the Sonicruiser.
Kirana looked back at Sage and followed the others to the Sonicruiser.
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Inside the Sonicruiser, Kirana drove the vehicle through the streets as fast as she can.
"Kirana, I found Jinx and Crystallia's van on camera." Ariana reported from her station. "They're heading to the Bellezza Canopy three blocks ahead."
Kirana turned a corner and parked the vehicle right in front of Bellezza Canopy. Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Silver, and Mala walked inside the massive regal atrium. The entire regal atrium has a beautifully elegant ballroom with a giant flower-shaped canopy glass above. As they walked further, all of the lights suddenly went on. They looked up to see Crystallia jumping down on her feet out of nowhere.
"Let's dance, ladies." Crystallia giggled.
Crystallia shot small crystal shards at the K-5, Silver, and Mala from her fingertips. Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Silver, and Mala dodged various crystal shards with fast speed.
"She's mine!" Mala shouted.
Mala charged forward to attack Crystallia with her claws and Silver to aid her. Four mages unexpectedly saw Jinx, Masque, and Galva jumping down on their feet out of nowhere towards them.
"Sweeties, you are so not ready for what you are about to face." Jinx grinned.
"Our reign and your fall are long overdue." Masque said.
The K-5 and Shade's henchwomen charged as they clashed into a brutal battle.
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Sage, Camilla, Norbit, Leia, Kale, and Samara ran across the building rooftops until they came to a stop when Sage was looking at a towering skyscraper in front of her and her team.
"Lady Shade. She's at the top of Beekman Tower building." Sage said.
"And that's where we take her down once and for all." Samara said.
Sage, Camilla, Norbit, Leia, Kale, and Samara jumped to the towering skyscraper as they landed on the rooftop.
"I sense Shade's presence. She's close, but she's not alone." Sage informed.
Suddenly, everyone spotted a large portal made of black energy and summoned their magic as they watched Lady Shadestrike walking out towards Sage's team as the portal disappeared right behind her.
"No matter how strong you become, you cannot overcome my power, Sage." Lady Shadestrike smiled sadistically.
"Mark my words, Rozu. Those who tamper with hatred will be haunted by it later." Sage said firmly as she summoned her white magic from her palms.
Sage and Lady Shadestrike charged forward at each other in a fierce battle. Sage performed a back-swinging kick at Lady Shadestrike with her white energized leg, but Shadestrike grabbed Sage's leg and threw her away tumbling to the ground. Sage immediately jumped away before Shadestrike could strike her with her giant claws.
Before Camilla, Norbit, Leia, Kale, and Samara can help Sage, Amora suddenly teleported in front of them. Behind her was hundreds of clones of herself.
"I'm sorry it has to end this way." Amora said mockingly.
"No, you're not." Leia snapped.
Amora smiled and charged forward to attack her enemies along with her clones. Samara delivered crunch-cross-slashes at the clones with both of her electrical claws. Camilla dashed around the rooftop several times and hit all of the clones from several directions in a blazing red psychic energized aura. Leia charged forward towards Amora and jumped into the air while firing dark energy bolts in a 360 degree fashion. Unfortunately, Amora flipped backwards in mid air and shot a blast of dark energy at Leia. Norbit went to her side and helped her up. Kale unleashed a rapid-fire combo of dark energy slashes and kicks at Amora, but Amora punched forward twice and launched two huge dark energy blasts at Kale that sent him flying off the roof.
"Kale!" Leia cried.
"I will get him." Norbit said as he flew to the dark alien.
Kale screamed as he fell off the towering skyscraper, but Norbit caught him in the nick of time in his arms and flew to a nearby building rooftop.
Leia narrowed her eyes and performed several spinning sweep kicks as she created a powerful ring of dark energy that expanded outward towards Amora, who was trying to block the attack with a shield of dark energy. But Amora was too late and got hit by the attack effectively. Amora fell forward and rolled across the ground while gasping in pain. She picked herself up and breathed heavily only to get attacked by Camilla's massive red ball of psychic energy that sent her lying on the edge of the rooftop. Sage dashed forward and drilled her white energized fist into Lady Shadestrike, but that attack wasn't effective to the black mage mutant. Lady Shadestrike swirled her hands around in front of herself and released a gigantic tornado at the white mage, but Sage blocked the attack with a large white energy shield to protect herself.
"I am the most powerful being on the planet." Lady Shadestrike said as she walked up to Sage. "No ordinary mage, not even you, can compare all-powerful goddess."
Sage narrowed her eyes and charged forward towards Lady Shadestrike.
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Mala threw Crystallia to the ground and tried to slam the crystal mage mutant with her claws, but Crystallia dodged the claw attack with quick speed. Talia spun herself around rapidly and shot multiple orange psychic energy bolts at the luck mage mutant, but Jinx nimbly skipped away from the attack. Ariana charged forward to attack Masque with a flurry of berserker purple psychic energized punches and flips. Kirana shot out large blue balls of psychic energy at the goo mage mutant, but Galva pinned her down with her giant right arm to the ground.
"It's over, Kirana!" Galva said.
Before Galva could strike Kirana with her giant left hand, Mala charged forward to crunch-cross-slashes with both of her claws and injected her with solvent vial that Whitman created back at hideout from her tail. Galva started screaming when solvent vial began bursting from inside her entire body before dissolving into nothingness.
"Gross." Silver said as he covered his mouth with a disgusted look.
"Hey, we did it! We beat them!" Talia exclaimed in joy.
Crystallia, Jinx, and Masque ran up to the ceiling glass and exited out of the place.
"No, we didn't!" Kirana gasped.
"What do you mean?" Ezra asked.
"It was all a distraction to split us all up!" Kirana exclaimed. She focused on her aura sense when her blue glowing spade-shaped birthmark appeared brightly on her chest area and detected familiar colorful auras coming from few miles away before the glow of her birthmark faded away. "The others are fighting against Amora and Shade on the Beekman Tower rooftop. Let's go!"
Kirana, Ariana, Talia, Ezra, Silver, and Mala immediately ran into the Sonicruiser.
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Back on the Beekman Tower rooftop, Saldana clashed her white energized fists with Lady Shadestrike's black energized claws. Sage dodged a claw strike and stood behind Lady Shadestrike before hitting her with her white energized leg. Sage then flipped over Lady Shadestrike and hit her again with another white energized leg, making the black mage mutant pant hard in exhaustion.
"Give up, Rozu." Sage declared. "It's over."
"Is that so?" Lady Shadestrike questioned with a sly smile. She looked over at Amora and the defeated clones. "Amora, sacrifice yourself!"
Amora's fierce look faded away for a hard, sadistic face.
"Oh, well! So much for being the next clan leader!" Amora said with a careless shrug.
Amora's clones began crumbling into a mass of dark energy and they were being absorbed by Amora, transforming her into a distorted entity of dark magic energy being. Sage, Camilla, Leia, and Samara watched the scene with shock faces. Amora started approaching towards Lady Shadestrike's body and poured herself into her mother's wounds to repair the black mage mutant. Lady Shadestrike began laughing when her daughter's full power had empowered her body. Her flexible organic skin was now neon green and her indestructible metallic claws are now neon black.
"I'm deeply sorry your existence has to end this way, my daughter." Lady Shadestrike apologized.
"It's alright, mother." Amora's last existing words spoke as she was consumed by her mother. "I've always remain on your side no matter what the cause. I'm proud to serve you and only you."
"Okay, ew! That's disgusting!" Samara cried in disgust.
Sage narrowed her eyes and charged forward to kick Lady Shadestrike in the face repeatedly, but Lady Shadestrike became unaffected by the attack. Lady Shadestrike then swung her claws to hurt Sage, but the white mage moved out of the way and landed on her feet in her fighting stance.
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Kirana drove the Sonicruiser through the streets at full speed. Ezra looked at the map from his station and turned to the view screen in Camilla's station.
"There's the building!" Talia called out.
Kirana narrowed her eyes and made the vehicle drive faster than any normal speed.
"Let's hurry before we're too late." Ariana said.
"You and me both." Kirana said.
Sage charged forward to attack the black mage mutant with white magic, but Lady Shadestrike grabbed Sage and smashed her mercilessly into the ground until she tossed the white mage against the edge of the rooftop.
"Sage!" Samara, Leia, and Camilla called out.
Samara, Leia, and Camilla charged forward to attack Lady Shadestrike with a combination magic, but Lady Shadestrike dashed forward and slashed the girls with her giant claws twelve times before sending the trio away with a final slash. Lady Shadestrike started approaching towards Sage, who got up from the ground and hid a medium-sized white magical circle behind her.
"It would appear that you have gone senile, sister." Lady Shadestrike said. "Now, prepare to die."
"Don't let arrogance get the best of you, Rozu." Sage said. "I refuse to be defeated to the likes of you."
Lady Shadestrike charged forward to attack Sage with a yell. Sage glared as she swung her white magical circle and began firing numerous white energy arrows straight at Lady Shadestrike at fast speed, causing the black mage mutant to fall off the edge of the rooftop.
Sage took deep breaths as she turned to see Samara help Camilla and Leia up on their feet.
"You did it! You rock, mother!" Camilla grinned.
"Thanks to all of you." Sage said with a smile.
The Sonicruiser parked next to the Beekman Tower as Ariana pulled out a violet touchpad from her waist belt. She and her two sisters looked the screen that showed a video of the building rooftop, making them scream in horror as they saw Lady Shadestrike flying back to the rooftop. Ezra ran out of the vehicle and gasped at the terrifying sight.
"Mom!" Ezra cried.
With a scared face, Ezra quickly performed a speeding spell to run up the building.
"Sage!" Leia cried.
Sage turned around and gasped sharply as Lady Shadestrike stabbed her mortally on the chest with her giant claw, much to the horror of the other mages. Camilla and Leia's eyes widened wide in shock at the sight.
"Sage!" Camilla and Leia cried.
"Cheap magic will not work against my all-powerful magic, Shiroibara Sage!" Lady Shadestrike hollered. "Now die!"
Then, Lady Shadestrike threw Sage off the building.
"Mother!" Kirana, Ariana, and Talia screamed from below.
"MOM! NO!" Ezra screamed in despair.
Norbit and Kale watched in horror as they saw Sage's body. Ezra ran up at Lady Shadestrike and used his magic powered hands to attack her, but the black mage mutant blocked the attack with her hand.
"YOU BEAST!" Ezra yelled in rage.
Lady Shadestrike threw the teal mage ninja off the building rooftop and he landed safely on the ground. He looked at his mother, heartbroken as he saw her unmoving form with tears rolling down his eyes. He crawled over to his mother and lowered his head in despair.
Kirana, Ariana, and Talia ran up to Sage as they knelt down to their mother and younger brother. Ariana embraced the sobbing Ezra in her arms as she was crying too. Kirana placed her left hand hard on Sage's chest and felt her mother's heart stopped beating with her aura sense. Sage was gone again.
"No." Kirana whispered.
Lady Shadestrike stood at the edge of the building with a victorious grin on her face.
"Say goodbye to this world, witch!" Lady Shadestrike said as she clenched her right claw into a fist. "Your time has finally come to leave this world!"
As Lady Shadestrike turned around to face the others, Leia lifted up the black mage mutant and trapped her in a giant sphere of dark energy. She then closed her fist, causing the energy sphere to condense and crushing her mother within. The giant energy sphere exploded and Lady Shadestrike went flying off the building rooftop. As Lady Shadestrike started falling down, Kale blasted a powerful blast from his gun to punch Lady Shadestrike, sending her into the air far away and straight back into the ocean because of the impact.
"Good riddance, Shade." Kale said with a glare.
Kirana, Ariana, Ezra, Talia, Norbit, Samara, Leia, and Camilla have gathered around the lifeless Sage. Ariana, Talia, Ezra, and Kale already started crying while Kirana, Camilla, and Leia were trying not to cry. But Norbit lowered his head with his eyes closed while Samara turned her head away as she was trying to be strong.
Ariana shutted her eyes tight as a childhood memory came to her mind.
Sage plays a game of chess against a five year old Ariana, who was reading a book about astronomy at the same time.
"Mommy." Talia murmured sadly as she looked at Sage with tearful eyes.
A five year old Talia was eating sandwiches happily with Sage.
Camilla stared down at Sage's lifeless body while trying to fight her tears.
Sage was training various aggressive fighting moves with a five year old Camilla.
Kirana looked down at Sage with wet eyes from her tears.
Sage was having a tea ceremony with a five-year-old Kirana and then gave her a choker necklace with a proud smile.
"Mom, I'm so sorry." Ezra apologized before he cried again.
Five year old Ezra hugging Sage during her meditation and she hugged him back.
The K-5 cried sadly for Sage as Kale and Norbit hugged Samara and Leia while they were crying silently. Kirana, Ariana, Ezra, Camilla, and Talia lifted Sage up over their hands with sad faces. They walked away while crying for Sage's death. Everyone walked inside the Sonicruiser and drove away.
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Back into the ocean, Lady Shadestrike rose out of the water with deep breaths for her survival.