Warriors: The New Era

Chapter Fifty Seven: At Tyranny's End.

The End of Rock's delusions and lust of power...


Rock held a fistful of sand in his palm...

It slipped into the dirt...

Rock closed his fist and grunted angrily.

"Rock...if you give up the Moonstone, we'll let you live," Jayfeather negotiated behind him.

Rock turned to look at him, a rotten smirk on his face, "Give up the Moonstone?"

"It controls you...just like it did me..." Lionblaze admitted with a scowl.

Rock chuckled dryly, "Is that what you think is true? I believe I control IT! Although to be honest, I never did consider the fact that it could control someone..."

Rock gave a sarcastic and dark shrug, "Perhaps it can?"

"You have been corrupted by the Moonstone's power! Surrender! Or we WILL kill you!" Ivypool threatened.

Rock raised a brow, "You threaten me on corruption? Well...then in your demands, you raise an INTERESTING question. Do you want me to give up the Moonstone in order to...'Save My Soul?' or do you wish it FOR YOURSELF so you can do with as you please?!"

Jayfeather seemed offended at such a notion, and began to glow with power, "Who are we to become gods over these people? You have become so intertwined with your power, that you have become deceived that you are a god. You are not Rock. You never will be."

"Deceived? Well we don't want that now do we, Jay's Wing?" Rock floated up, now off his knees and in the air. He summoned the Moonstone in his hand, "It's an ABSURD thought but...let's say I was CHOSEN to wield the Moonstone...how would YOU behave differently?"

Lionblaze faltered in his step, as Ivypool shrugged, "I...I would give it up...no one needs it..."

Jayfeather nodded, "Humanity has crossed MOUNTAINS of turmoil without Moonstones. Why would we need it at all?"

Lionblaze (who was not as adamant as the others) had a different response, actually thinking of a reason to KEEP the Moonstone, "I...I would use it for the good of EVERYONE! Not just what's good for myself or my friends!"

Rock raised a brow, seeming impressed by these answers, "Well control over the Moonstone is both a burden and a blessing, tell me!"

Rock began to power up, and grinned malevolently, "When you shake the earth with your hands...or see the darkest secrets of the mind...or know spells that can reverse DEATH itself...are you content with hoarding that power? Or would you wish to use it to be a master and representative among the people?"

"The people want you brought down! And so do we!" Ivypool countered.

Rock smirked.

"But you didn't answer the question..."

Rock did a 180, and snarled and foamed at the mouth, fully powered up.

"I AM THE ONLY GOD HERE!"

Like a switch, Rock fired electricty that burned redder then the lowest star, and it blasted Jayfeather and Lionblaze away, while Ivypool was fast enough to dodge, zipping around as Rock furiously blasted everywhere in attempts to strike her. Ivypool circled around Rock so fast, that she created a hwirlpool effect, Rock spinning around and round, and after a moment, Ivypool stopped, and delivered a furiously well placed kick to the back of Rock's spine.

Rock scowled but before he could turn around to try and blast her again, he was tackled by Lionblaze, who shoved him to the ground. He sat on him, and punched his head repeatedly in the face, over and over again.

"YOU MAKE US YOUR PUPPETS?! FUCK YOU!" Lionblaze roared.

Rock blasted Lionblaze off of him, and started to stand up.

Jayfeather floated above, and began blasting bolts of lighting himself. His blue blasts caught Rock's golden and red ones, while Rock floated up to meet Jayfeather's blast beams.

Jayfeather huffed, "I WILL END YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE!"

Rock scoffed, and let go the the lightning beam lock, and sunk his fist so far into Jayfeather, that he was sent to the ground at a high velocity.

Ivypool began to mutter a spell, and turned invisable.

"Where have you gone, Little Ivy?!" Rock scoffed, and started lifting the ground to cover his surroundings in dirt, only to be struck in the back of the leg by Ivypool, decloaking herself, and slamming her open palm on Rock's neck.

Rock hit the ground, and rolled out of the way from a boot strike from Lionblaze.

Rock floated into the air, and sighed for breath.

"You're slipping Rock!" Ivypool noticed, "GIVE UP!"

"NEVER!" Rock roared with as much venom.

Jayfeather shook his head, and tied it into a pony tail.

Lionblaze grabbed Ivypool, and threw her at Rock, who grabbed Rock's head midair, and started screaming at supersonic waves, deafening Rock.

Rock roared and shoved her off, only for Lionblaze to hold him down by grabbing his leg and sinking him to the ground like a weight.

"JAYFEATHER! EVERYTHING YOU GOT!"

Jayfeather glowed blue and his fist coated aflame and electric hums.

He blasted Rock with full power, burning and electrocuting him.

Rock snarled, and casted a golden forcefield around him, keeping him safe from any harm. Lionblaze grabbed trees and uprooted them, throwing them at the force field in hopes it would break.

Ivypool shot beams of energy from her mouth, pushing the field into itself, while Jayfeather blasted beams of blue and white fire and lightning. Eventually the forcefield cracked, just in time for Lionblaze to have thrown a tree straight at Rock, sending him flying with the three like a fruit on a javelin.

Rock landed against the ground, and split the log in half, freeing himself, and ramming his shoulder into Lionblaze, and then kicking Jayfeather away. Ivypool grabbed her set of knives and threw them, speeding around to catch them if they missed Rock. Rock's arms were impaled by two of the knives, and when Ivypool caught the other three, she ran to Rock's back and shanked him four times, eventually stabbing him in the throat.

Rock, angry, exploded with rage and fire, knocking Ivypool away. He grabbed the knives out from his neck, and snapped them in half. Jayfeather ran forward and launched a series of kicks and punches at Rock.

Jayfeather swept his fist across Rock, who ducked, only to get kicked in the chin by Jayfeather's knee. Jayfeather lifted his leg and kicked Rock twice in the chet, but Rock caught the third one. Jumping up, Rock slammed Jayfeather back on the ground.

Lionblaze gained a boxer stance, and Rock did the same. The two began to trade blows. Lionblaze su nk his fist into Rock's face thrice, and then an uppercut sent Rock into the air. Rock flipped in the air and shot blasts of lightning at Lionblaze who rolled out of the way, in time to throw a nearby stone.

Ivypool began to summon spells of all kinds, the vines and roots under the ground began to snatch Rock at his ankles and pull him down, as Jayfeather and Lionblaze began to savagely beat him.

"ENOUGH!"

Rock called off the attacks, with the moonstone in his hands.

The power of the Moonstone sent the three flying away, as Rock ascended into the sky, overlooking their suffering.

The moonstone blasted it's power into the three's heads, their heads feeling like they have been crushed on the inside.

Rock increased the power, "I AM IT'S MASTER! I AM THE FUTURE!"

"NOT OUR FUTURE!" Jayfeather roared back, raising his open palm.

With one final blast, he hit the Moonstone with one pure bolt of lightning.

The effect was catastrophic for them.

Not only did the three's heads get so in pain, but Rock began to suffer under it's wrath too, clawing at his head in an effort to make the pain stop. He dropped to the ground, Moonstone in his hand as he suffered.

Jayfeather started to crawl at the Moonstone.

Lionblaze began to desperatly army crawl to it.

Ivypool, on her hands and knees, slowly walked towards it.

Rock, who was taking the worst of it, still had the Moonstone in one hand, writhing on the floor.

The light from the Moonstone blinded them all.

"Jayfeather!" the voice of Breezepelt reached his ears, "I died for this prize! Leave the MOONSTONE! LEAVE IT BE!"

"No," Jayfeather refused, "I can change things...AGAIN!"

"LIONBLAZE!" the voice of Jay's Wing caught his ears, "Forget the Moonstone! DON'T TAKE IT!"

Lionblaze didn't respond to the apparation, still going for it.

"Ivy please..." the voice of Dovewing said, "Please...you'll make things worse...Stop trying to change history...this is inevitable..."

"NOT TO ME!" Ivypool roared.

The voices changed to their owns.

"NOW'S YOUR CHANCE!" the voices of Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Ivypool roared, "TAKE THE MOONSTONE! TAKE IT! TAKE IT!"

At the same time, all of their hands hit the moonstone and grabbed it.


The three opened their eyes, the light blinding them.

When the opened them, they were standing in a forest.

With Rock rubbing his eyes open as well, dressed in his signature brown cloak.

Jayfeather looked around, "Wait...what happened?"

Rock, eyes no longer red with evil, but blue with compassion. But they were still angry with rage.

The four looked around them, confused as to where they were...

Rock noticed the Moonstone on the ground and quickly picked it up, holding it in his hands.

The three shone with power, strong enough to finish the fight.

Rock...

Slowly...

Lowered the Moonstone...

And then he dropped it to their feet, slowly cowering away.

"Take...take it...take it away from me, I do not want it! I CANNOT HAVE IT!" He turned, walking away in a hurry to his tunnel.

The three looked at each other, as Ivypool picked up the Moonstone.

"What...what do we do with it?" Ivypool asked.

"Throw it. Weight it, and throw it into the sea," Rock desperately hid his face in shame, walking into the tunnels dejected.

"WHERE YOU GOING OLD MAN?!"

"Wait..." Ivypool slowly put the clues together..."Where...where are we?"

Lionblaze checked his pockets, only to find his phone. He ditched it after the island takeover, it was useless anyway.

"Uh...guys?"

"Don't tell me," Jayfeather sighed, "We changed history again?"

"No...it's the exact same day was it was when we fought him..."

Jayfeather raised a brow, as Ivypool grabbed the phone to assure it, "Yeah...that's the date..."

"Wait, was it all a dream?" Lionblaze asked.

"I...I...I don't...I don't know," Jayfeather answered.

What happened?


Next chapter...

The epilogue...

Adios.