Merry Christmas Everyone! Hoping you all enjoy your lovely holiday and as a christmas gift I give you the first chapter of Book 3 Final! This will be a short book only consisting of 13 chapters. Thanks for staying with me all the way through these past two years.

(Travis Viewpoint)

My body hit the water hard as I began to drift further down into the dark environment. The holes in my body were writhing in pain from the water moving through them. I was losing oxygen quickly and instead of my survival instincts kicking in to try and get out I just stayed still.

"I didn't think I would have the strength to get this far in my life. But I guess I had a pretty good run. I hope that I can continue watching over my friends in the afterlife." I thought to myself. I reached into my pocket as I grabbed the ring that Shawn made. I couldn't even get a good look at that ring. I held the ring in my hand over my chest as I sunk further down into the pond.

I closed my eyes and when I did I felt someone place their hands on my face. I heard a voice that I haven't heard in years.

"Hey baby it's time to wake up." I heard my mother say.

"Oh come on Maria let the boy sleep. He's been through too much." My father said.

I slowly opened my eyes to see myself in an empty white room. I became startled as I quickly got up scared. I then calmed down as I began knowing more of where I was at.

"Where am I?" I asked.

I then looked in front of me as I saw a slender woman with white skin and dark brown hair that extended to her shoulders. She had brown eyes like mine and stood about my height. She had a white church like garb that covered her entire body. Next to her was a man with a freshly shaved face. His jawline was pointed a bit like an end of a triangle with short black hair and brown eyes as well. He stood about an inch higher of the woman he was next too wearing the same garb as her.

"Mom…? Dad….?" I said not noticing I had my hands up in a defensive stance.

Dad came closer to me at a slow pace so he could not trigger me to attack. "Hey son just be calm we aren't going to harm you." He said in his normal slightly pitched voice.

"Baby it's okay. You're safe here." Mom said to me.

I slowly began lowering my guard as my feelings of wanting to cry started taking hold. "How do I know this isn't some Phantom trick Vanity set up for me?" I asked them.

"We can assure you it's not." Dad said to me. He grabbed my hand as my dad's memories flowed into me on how they died. I saw myself in the car with them as they were coming back from picking up a gift of something I had been wanting all year.

"That's my favorite super hero movie trilogy." I said to myself as I looked into the bag. I then saw the two hold hands as Dad stayed focused on the driving.

"Do you think Travis will like his present?" Mom said to Dad.

"I'm sure he would. Spider-Man is his favorite super hero growing up." Dad responded back.

"I've been worried about him being so secluded. Ever since the incident with Mark, Travis just doesn't open up to anyone anymore. He can't even stay in school because he gets picked on or is sent to the principal's office. People just walk over him and he gets abused a lot. I'm worried about what will happen to him going forward." Mom said worried about me.

"He has had a very rough life Maria. He's gotten through it all. Remember God gives his greatest challenges to his strongest warriors." Dad said.

My tears were running down my face as I saw Minotauros running from the side and into the car at the halfway point of the bridge. The car slammed through the cement barricade and into the oncoming traffic on the expressway below. A giant semi-truck wasn't able to hit their brakes in time as they smashed right into the side. The car rolled hitting other cars in its path and I was rolling with everything but without having to deal with any of the pain. Once the car stopped I looked at all of the damage in the vehicle as my parent's faces were hard to make out.

"MOM! DAD!" I screamed as I tried to wake them up only to have my hands go through them.

I then was brought back to the white room as tears ran down my face and I could see my dad holding my hands with his.

Dad had a low frown on his face, "I'm sorry we weren't able to come home son. You're mother and I was doing our best to help make your life better in any way we could." He said with one tear going down his cheek. Mom came and stood next to him.

"Ever since we moved to Bowling Green all we wanted from you was to be happy and you spent those two years in such a severe depression. Your father was going to take you to Cedar Point when we got home because we knew how much you loved that park." Mom said in tears.

"Do you guys know how much I've missed you? There were times where I wish I would die just to see you two again. It was so lonely without you." I said as mom gave me a hug. Me and her both cried together as soon as I hugged her.

"I missed you so much son. We've been looking over you since then. We prayed to God to let us see you grow. Even being dead we wanted to be there for you. We were scared that you wouldn't make it. You don't understand how worried we were." She said breaking down in my arms."

Dad put his hand on her shoulder as he tugged her back.

"Maria. We don't have much time left. We need to send him back." Dad said in a somber tone.

"Send me back?" I said as I broke free from my mother's embrace.

"Yes son. It's not your time to pass on. You still have so much to do." She said to me drying her face.

"You need to go give Vanity her finale son." Dad said with a smile on his face.

"My mana is sealed and part of it is gone. There's no way for me to beat her." I said to them.

Dad reached out for my necklace and yanked it off. He then held the cross necklace in between his fingers. "Son you have infinite potential to what you can do. This past year you have shown that being Wizard. You may have Dragon's mana sealed and gone, but you don't have your own power removed." Dad said to me. He then closed his fist around the cross and then spun his hand around as he opened his fist to show me a new transformation ring. The ring was a giant diamond with a silver faceguard and a different base of the ring then what my others looked like.

I reached out and grabbed it. When I did I could feel my mana overwhelming my entire body. But this mana didn't feel like Dragon's, and I realized it was my own. When I looked up to see my parents I saw them beginning to fade into glitters of light into the ring.

"We will no longer be on the sidelines watching you struggle anymore…" Dad said.

"…Instead we will be with you in every fight from here on out…." Mom said.

Then the two spoke together, "When you can't stand anymore, we will become your final hope!" The two then vanished into the ring as it took an extremely brilliant and radiant color.

I then heard the conversation between Karina and Vanity as I looked to my left to see her with a blade at Karina's throat. Karina reached out for the blade as I saw blood streaming down her hand.

"It's time I end your reign of fear." I said with conviction in my voice.

I was then taken back to the water as my wounds began rapidly healing and I thrashed around in the pain. When the pain stopped I felt my skin to know my wounds had completely been healed. Without a second thought I slid the new spell ring Shawn made onto my finger, "Here goes nothing." I thought.

"Alakazam! Please!

My entire body became one with the water as I began moving through the pond and came out forming a water like twister around Karina to protect her. I then stepped out shooting a ball of water at Vanity to get her to back off. I held my cross necklace in between my fingers just like my father did.

""You say you're not going to die huh? Want to make a bet on that?" I said to her.

"How the hell did you survive? What's more important is how are you able to cast that strong spell without access to your mana?!" She said shocked.

"Oh Dragon's mana is still sealed. What you just got a taste of is my OWN power." I responded back.

"There is no possible way that a human can create their own mana! Unless…." Vanity said as she stopped to look directly at Karina. "You did something! I'll kill you!" Vanity said as she shot out a bunch of feathers towards us. I grabbed a rock and in a very quick succession used the rock to bat each and every one of her feathers down onto the ground.

I then returned to my original stance of holding my necklace at her, "This magician has one more magic trick up his sleeve. Watch closely now." I said. I then closed my necklace into my fist as I turned my hand around and opened up my fingers to show Vanity my new transformation ring.

"How did you form your own spell ring?!" She said confused.

I then slid on another ring getting ready to end it all, "I'm not obligated to tell you anything." I said to her.

"Driver on, please."

"There is no way that you were able to get your mana back! Even if you could unseal it, the amount I took would make you less powerful than you were before." Vanity said scared.

I slid my new transformation ring on, "Do you ever shut up?" I said to her.

Vanity then began to fly in the air angry at the tables being turned. She had her sword she was going to use to kill Karina drawn at me as she came flying. . "I'll kill you for good this time! I'll see it to myself!" She threatened. I placed my ring over the singing belt.

"Sha Ba Doobi Touch to Transform! Sha Ba Doobi Touch to Transform!"

"Infinity!"

Once that belt recognized my ring I was taken into a black area in my mind where I saw a spell circle on a chest. It was a purple spell circle that had begun cracking. I could hear a dragon's roar emitting from the chest. I walked up to the chest as I placed my hands on the spell circle. Once my hands were on the circle the whole thing shattered and a mechanical dragon erupted out of the chest. Dragon flew around in circles as he landed down in front of me.

"Ha Ha Ha! Congratulations boy. You are the first mage ever to break a sealing spell." Dragon said laughing.

"That doesn't mean you are going to cooperate with me huh?" I said looking at him.

"My goals of making you a Phantom still remain. If it was my way I would kill all of your friends and make you despair right now." He said to me.

"Well that's a nice thank you for breaking your seal." I said as I showed him my new ring.

"What's that ring?!" He said surprised.

"Something that is more powerful than All Dragon. Something that is my own." I said to him.

"The only other mage who had a ring like that was Merlin." Dragon said even more shocked.

"You won't be controlling me anymore." I said to him as I placed the ring over my belt.

The black area returned back to the fight. A spell circle appeared around me as Vanity's attack hit it and she wasn't able to fight through it. "What kind of magic is this?!" She said shocked.

My belt kept saying "Infinity" over and over again as I looked at Vanity dead in her eyes, "My own." I said.

"Infinity, please! Fire-Water-Wind-Earth! Burn-Bubble-Blow-Rumble!"

A dragon made of diamonds erupted out of my belt and began zooming in circles around me. I raised my hands out to the side as I looked up at the sky.

"TRANSFORM!" I said yelling at the dragon in the sky.

The dragon dove right into my whole body as my brand new form appeared. I lowered my head down as I looked at Vanity with the immense and untapped raw power flowing throughout my body. "I am the final hope." I said facing her.

"I can see that you are forcing my hand Wizard. I will let you know right now that you achieving this form, I will give every inch of my power to kill you. I will make it to where you are going to wish you stayed dead in that water!" Vanity said.

I began slowly walking towards her as I placed the ring over my belt.

"Infinity!"

I quickly in one step zoomed behind Vanity as she turned to face me only to have me open palm her chest. I then super sped behind her as I kicked the back of her leg making her lose her balance and then zoomed to the front of her doing a rising kick where she got sent about a few feet into the air. I grabbed her hand as I flung her over me and slammed her onto the ground. I then open palmed her backwards.

Vanity's wings shot out feathers like blades causing me to step back and punch them away. She then stood up as she plucked a feather off and it became a bow. She shot an arrow at me and before it hit me I grabbed it and spun around throwing it back at her. I quickly reached for a spell ring and scanned it.

"Bind, please."

I raised my hand up as a silver spell circle appeared in front of it and chains began lashing out towards her. Vanity grabbed two of her feathers as she formed feather like scimitars from them. She started cutting through the chains and I raise up my other hand as it began shooting at her with the same chains.

"You're able to do double spells?!" She said shocked. The chains overwhelmed her as they all wrapped around her from shoulder to feet. I raised my arms as she got lifted into the air and slammed her back into the ground. I raised it again as I turned her body around and slammed her on her back. I then commanded the chains to move circular like as they began ripping her skin. I then proceeded to slam her into the ground again as I cancelled the spell.

She struggled to stand as I scanned another ring.

"Voice, please"

I raised my left hand as a white spell circle appeared as a focused sound wave went towards her. I began slowly walking towards her as she writhed in pain from the noise. I then grabbed her by the throat as her body started violently shaking from the sound waves that moved throughout her body. She went to uppercut me but I pushed her back just in time for her to miss. I then raised my foot as the white spell circle appeared around my ankles and when I kicked her, she was sent flying away with the force of the waves. The spell got cancelled once we were at a certain distance from each other.

On her body you could see how my last two spells greatly affected her. She couldn't even flap open her wings and she was breathing heavily.

"You can use double spells with more than just your hands huh?" She said to me.

"How does it feel being overwhelmed Vanity? Because that's exactly how all of us felt the first time we met you. I'm also not done with you yet, there is still more pain you need to endure before I have you begging for death." I said to her as I quickly zoomed behind her. I zoomed behind her and kicked her back legs as I zoomed in front of her and began open palm at her face. I then back fist across her jaw and before she could fall to the ground I raised my foot up and axe kicked her face into the ground. I then raise the foot behind me as she lifted her face and kicked her right in the center. This caused her to get sent flying.

"You've gotten a lot stronger! How did you get this strong in just seconds?!" She said angrily.

"I want you to feel all the pain you've caused me. The people I've lost because of you. The hurt you caused to the people I care about. The emptiness you placed in us when you took DJ from us. You will be the first to witness how far I'm willing to go to protect people from having to go through what all of us had to go through!" I said as I reached out my hand.

"Come! Axecalibur!" I said.

A crystal stream of mana formed out of my belt as a weapon appeared in my hand.

The weapon had a triangle like blade with a yellow and red gem in the middle of it. The blade extended up to a silver rectangle piece where my hand was at so I could use it in Axe Mode. There was another rectangle silver piece on it's side with a small black hand with a gold outline on it. Above that was a standing rectangle piece which was the handle for Sword Mode. The handle had this curved blade that was not only the axe with a red blade, but used as a shield for if my opponents should try to slice at my hands. Attached to the handle at the beginning of the blade was a crystal etch of a dragon with a silver wing underneath the red blade.

"I see you want to dance with the devil." Vanity said to me.

She then stood up as she plucked a feather off of her body and placed it on her chest. The feather began to absorb into her skin and every single wound that was made by me rapidly healed. Her stamina was replenished too. "As long as I have feathers I can greatly replenish and heal myself back fully. Also my stamina and armor on my skin is greatly increased so I can't get damaged like before." She said to me.

"It doesn't matter how much you replenish yourself. You're still going to be dead when this fight is over." I said to her. I went to scan my Infinity Ring again to do a variety of attacks on her but she quickly grabbed her feathers and pulled them off as she threw them up into the air. I quickly grabbed the handle of my blade to use it like a sword so I could swiped at the oncoming attack, but instead of them zooming at me the feathers became different color versions of herself. There was one red, blue, yellow, green, and a purple version of herself.

"Each of these is strong in their own merit. Each of them can do a variety of spells. You think one of me was hard let's see how you handle all six of us." Vanity said.

The red vanity had a stream of fire fired at me as the other slammed her feathers onto the ground as ice wrapped around my legs binding me to the ground. The green one created a blast of wind to make the fire stronger as the yellow one caused my body to become heavy with its gravity manipulation. The purple one teleported all over the place around me as it began landing multiple blows into my body. All of their attacks stopped as Vanity emerged through the chaos and began slashing at me with her twin blades. She then kicked me in the chest as I got sent flying backwards until I landed in front of Karina who was almost done fading away.

The pain was a bit overwhelming but I started to stand, "If you want to have multiple versions of you I guess I'll do the same." I said to her. I reached for a ring and scanned it.

"Copy, please."

Five more versions of me appeared as they began to fight the different clones. The red Vanity threw her feathers up into the air as giant balls of fire were made. Two of my clones scanned a ring to help protect the others.

"Very Nice! Blizzard! The Best!"

The two kneeled to the ground and slammed their hands onto the field as ice began to rapidly form trapping all of the Vanity's including the real one in ice. Another clone scanned a spell ring to control the fireballs in the air.

"Very Nice! Gravity! The Best!"

The clone raised it's hand up into the air as a yellow stream hit all of the fireballs and rained them down on the blue and yellow Vanity's causing them to explode.

The purple Vanity began teleporting across the battlefield as it punched the two clones with it's fist leaving a purple spell circle on them. The Vanity clone snapped her fingers as the two exploded. I ran towards that one as it grabbed two of it's feathers that turned into battle axes. I raised my Axecalibur up to block an incoming attack and when our attacks connected the Vanity teleported behind me leaving her weapons in the air to kick me in the back. I stumbled forward as I turned around to slice at her but she teleported behind me. Every slash I tried to make caused her to teleport at the last second. One of my clones grabbed a spell ring as I kept up the little dance. Every time this Vanity vanished and reappeared she would strike me with a sword. The red Vanity joined the fight as I started to get a bit overwhelmed.

"Excite, please"

My clone became taller and buffer as it ran and boulder rushed the two away from me. The clone then grabbed the knock down Vanity's as it lifted them up into the air and slammed them into the ground. He then aimed his palms that got planted right into their heads causing them to explode.

Out of nowhere the green Vanity came soaring from the sky with a giant cleaver made out of wind as it ran its blade down the giant clone's back. In the midst of the explosion I scanned my ring.

"Extend, please."

I reached my hand through the spell circle as my arm became rubber like and wrapped around the last Vanity clone's throat as it pulled it towards me and stabbed my sword through her chest. I then cancelled my spell as I lifted my blade up and blood shook the sword causing her body to fall off my sword and explode next to me. I then stared at the real Vanity who was trying to break out of the ice trap she was in.

"You look like you're stuck." I said to her.

She opened up her wings as she began firing multiple feathers at me. I reached for another ring and scanned it before the feathers could hit me.

"Defend, please."

A giant silver spell circle appeared in front of me and the feathers hit the spell circle as they started going around me. "You're real goal was Karina huh?" I said to Vanity as I raised my other hand and shot out a spell circle behind me that covered Karina in a silver sphere protecting her from all of her attacks.

Two black spell circles appeared next to me as a black fiery stream hit my sides but were held back by my Defend Ring. "Even my strongest fire attack can't hurt you!" Vanity growled.

"You may be exceptionally strong Vanity I'll give you that. But because you didn't get all of DJ's stone implanted into you when you were born you're about as powerful as my All Dragon form. This form of mine is exceptionally stronger than All Dragon." I said to her.

"Do you think you've won Wizard?!" She said as she broke free from the ice. She reached her hand out as the fallen feathers came flying back towards me. I cancelled my Defend Ring as I scanned a new one.

"Connect, please."

I stretched my hand out as a silver spell circle appeared as the feathers went inside. I raised my other hand over the other as a silver spell circle appeared above raining down the feathers onto her. She moved in a quick like motion past me as she had a blade raised.

"I'll get more powerful if I absorb you're friend's life force! It's over Travis!" She said.

I slowly turned around to face her, "You think so?" I said.

A pair of hands emerged from the ground grabbing her ankles and prevented her from moving. She was trying her best but couldn't move. The ground started to spread out a bit as she got put knee deep into the ground. "Why can't I move?!" She said. She then knew she was in sword's reach from hitting Karina who was frozen in fear.

She raised her blade and before she swung it down on her my clone that was underground emerged out and took the slash as it vanished in front of their eyes.

"When did you have time to scan your Copy Ring?!" Vanity said shocked.

"When I first used it, I kept the clone underground around Karina in case you should try to go after her." I said as I walked up to her. I reached for the back of her wings and pulled one of them back a bit as I went from sword mode to axe mode of my weapon. I stretched the wing out sideways.

"No! Please!" She said screaming.

I raised the axe up as I slashed downwards at her wing cutting the whole thing off. I had to chop through the wing one more time as the wing became removed. I threw the wing to my side as it began shriveling up and rapidly decaying. "I thought so." I said as Vanity roared in pain.

"MY PRECIOUS WING?!" She screamed. She then flapped her last wing as black blood began pouring out and got out of her bind. I reached for her leg as it was getting farther away from me as I slammed her into the ground with a strong force.

"The source of your power comes from your wings. You can't do anything nor considered much of a threat if you don't have them. This entire time the thing that made you exceptionally strong was also your greatest weakness!" I said as I stomped on her remaining wing. I then put my other foot on her side above where her other wing once was. She screamed more in pain.

"You're a monster!" She screamed back at me. I raised my axe over my head and slammed it into her wing and ran the red blade down until it was removed from her. I tossed the wing to the side as it began decaying and then vanishing.

"Says the victim lying at my feet in agony." I said ready to end this.

I bent down and grabbed Vanity by the throat as the black blood was pouring out everywhere. "I think it's time I ended this." I said to her. I threw her body up into the air as high as I could as I raised the weapon up to me as I took my transformation hand and hovered it under the black hand.

"Turn On!"

I then tapped the black hand once.

"High Touch! Shining Strike! Sparkling! Sparkling!

I threw my axe up into the air as it began slashing at Vanity in different directions. It slashed at her from the left shoulder across to her right side which caused her to fall sideways. The blade then slashed her from her left side to her right shoulder with the blunt area of the axe impaling her higher into the sky. The Axecalibur then zoomed past and above her as the sword's tip pointed down at her. I took out another ring and scanned it as I attempted this pincer attack.

"Very Nice! Kick Strike! The Best!"

I jumped up into the air as silver and crystals formed at me feet as I came in to Rider Kick Vanity. I was soaring through the air going through three giant silver spell circles and right before I impact I said one last thing to her.

"Your finale." I said as her eyes opened further.

My foot hit her right in the chest as she got sent flying further into the air as my silver mana formed around her body as if she was enflamed. She ran through my sword's tip as I landed down onto the ground. I raised my hand up towards my weapon as it ripped right through her. Once my Axecalibur came back into my hand Vanity gave out one final cry as her body began to fall towards the ground. She hit the ground and a giant explosion was made as I kept my back turned to it all.

I slowly slid my new transformation ring off as I reverted back to my human form. "It's finally over." I said breathing in and exhaling. I then ran towards Karina who was almost faded from existence.

"Bro…" She said weakly.

"It's going to be okay. You're coming back home Sis." I said to her. I grabbed her fading arm and placed it over my black hand on my belt.

"Please, please."

A massive amount of my orange mana began to embrace her as her fading body started to revert back to its original state. It took a lot of my mana to restore her but when we were done I didn't feel as tired as I normally would after using up a lot of my mana. Karina then looked down at her entire body as tears began running down her face.

"I'm not going to die…" She said surprised.

"No you aren't. You get to keep living on Karina. Come on let's go home." I said as I held my hand out to her with a huge smile on my face.

She had a huge smile on her face as tears ran down her face. She grabbed my hand as she got up off the ground and gave me a hug happy that she could keep being with all of us.

"You don't know how happy I am right now." She said clutching onto my shirt.

"Travis! Karina!" I heard Mark saying from above us as he came flying down towards us.

Once he landed I heard noise behind us as Robin was running towards us.

Robin and Mark came up and hugged me as they were greatly worried about us. They had a lot of questions seeing me in tattered blood stained clothes. After the reunion we all made our way to Robin's car where I explained everything to them about what happened as well as my own new power. Shawn was greatly excited that he could be more of use and when we got home he opened up to me about what he and Robin had talked about at the hospital prior to all of the occurred events.

"I know I might be sounding selfish but I just wanted to be a part of something. I wanted to be more useful than I have been. I'm sorry that I gave up on believing you. It's not right and I'm sorry." Shawn said with his head down.

I placed my hands on his shoulder, "You don't have to apologize. For a brief moment I knew exactly what you were going through. But I'm back so let's focus on moving forward okay…My apprentice?" I said holding my hand out to him. A huge smile was on his face as he grabbed my hands with both of his.

"I will continue to improve and be better. All of us are going to get DJ, Manuela and Maria back. We will beat Makoto, Amber, and Tyler. All of us will be this city's hope!" Shawn said excitedly.

Night time fell quickly as I was sitting in my chair up against my window looking outside. I reached for my wallet on the stand next to me as I pulled out a photo of Manuela. "No matter what it takes I'll bring you back. I'll bring all of you back." I said rubbing my thumb up and down the photo.