Chapter 13: The Fall Part 2
"We have to go now!" the red-haired boy said running towards a doorway.
I followed him and the brown-haired one, who slightly resembled Nova, into a small room with several windows and chairs. Below us I could see several hundred Dark Elves holding guns and firing at us.
"These guys must be some kind of stupid to think they can harm this ship with projectile weapons." the one with brown hair said.
The enemy proved quick to adapt as a flame-coated bolder flew past the window of this... ship, I think that's what they call this thing.
"What the Hell was that!?" said the captain-pilot girl.
"I don't know, and I don't think I want to." said the brown-haired one.
"I can't fly very high with the engine in the condition it is." said the pilot, "Kaito, man the turret and keep the enemy from blowing us out of the sky while I try getting us out of here!"
"Sure thing Luka." said the now identified brown-haired one.
The ship then began evasive maneuvers, or as I now call them, lose your lunch maneuver. Below, there were several Netherworld Rock Giants helping the Dark Elves load and fire catapults. I held onto a metal bar on the side of the entrance to the cockpit as Luka, as I believe they called the pilot, attempted to avoid the boulders.
It seemed we had finally escaped as we passed the last line of Dark Elves when suddenly there was a loud crash sound and a jolt that when through the entire ship.
"We're still in the air, but I'm starting to lose her! Hold onto something!"
I held tighter onto the metal bar. Then the ship went down very fast. It struck the ground and I was thrown from where I was standing and everything darkened for a moment.
I forced myself to my feet and shook my head, then I realized my armor had activated itself to protect me. I looked around. Several panels were broken off the walls and large and small metal and colorful vines and threads (wires and cables) were hanging out of some parts of the ship.
Slowly the crew got themselves out of the rubble, Luka being nearest.
"Are you okay?" I asked placing my hand on her left shoulder.
"I'll be fine." she said rubbing the front right side of her head. Then she grabbed an odd small gun, much smaller than the rifles I'd seen, with orange lines on the sides and stood up.
I then ran through the broken hall into the room I had previously been in. Nova was still lying in the bed, the yellow-skinned guy was helping the Fairy up, and Yuka was loading another one of those small guns, this one was of a much different design.
"Those Dark Elves kept up halfway across a continent, and they'll be on us in no time. We've gotta move!" The red-haired boy got charge of his crew quickly.
"Right Akio." Kaito grunt as he climbed out of a hatch from the wrecked gunner. Then I saw he had a metal bar embedded into his right arm. He grabbed the bar, then inhaled deeply before pulling it out.
"Kaito, are you okay?" Luka asked running up to him.
"I told you being left-handed would come in handy one day." He said with smuggness to cover his agony as Luka quickly bandaged him.
Akio, the red-haired boy, ran up to a wall and pulled a black cylindrical device off of his belt and pressed a button on it. When he pressed the button, a red beam of energy similar to Nova's Lightaxe appeared. He held it with the blade facing downwards by the reverse grip and he swung it at the wall a few times leaving several glowing cuts in it before kicked landing a kick that shattered the already weakened wall.
He then turned back and signaled us to move. The yellow-skinned one picked up Nova and everyone began running out the hole in the wall, Kaito first to scout, followed by Luka, the alien and the Fairy, and myself, Akio following behind when he was sure everyone was safe.
Dark Tower
Terreck stood in the throne room. Suddenly two Dark Elves came in from a stairway while carrying Torrock between them. They let go of him and he fell to his knees.
"I am sorry my lord." Torrock said, "I failed you." he bowed his head in shame.
An oddly gentle smile appeared on Terreck's face, "Failure? Far from it my brother. Thanks to your unmatched command the young Overlord has been reduced so pitifully and now flees for his life.
"Thank you, my lord, my brother." Torrock rose, his loyalty unchanged.
The Elf Lord glanced about the seat of power he stood within, "Gather the artifacts, then return this place to rubble. There is something far stronger in the arcane magics than the Netherworld corruption I wield.
Plains of Falling
The group continued to run as they were still pursued by an army of Dark Elves. They had managed to put some distance between them and their enemy by escaping into the Plains of Falling, the site of many battles where countless heroes had lost their lives. The Plains were covered with green grass except for in the many large trenches, just like the one they now ran through.
Akio ran in front, diagonally behind him to the left was Kaito and Luka, and behind him to the right was Yuka, while directly behind him was Ichiro, who still carried Nova in his arms, and Elise was to Ichiro's right as she was still finishing the healing of Nova's wounds. Heading up the rear was Rin, who wore all of her armor except for her helmet.
Nova groaned. "Wait, stop!" Ichiro said causing them to halt.
Nova's head shook slightly, then his eyes started to open, they weren't glowing like usual, but were instead plain blue, human eyes. Ichiro lowered himself to his knees and mostly placed Nova on the ground, though he still held up Nova's back. Rin then ran over to Nova's side.
"Where am I?" Nova asked still unable to see completely, then he looked over at Rin, "Rin, is that you? What happened to your hair?"
"It's a long story." Rin said smiling.
Then Nova, who had completely come to his senses, looked around, "Yuka, Luka, Kaito, and Ichiro. What are you doing here?" he asked confused, then he saw Akio, "You!" Nova's voice twisted in rage.
"This isn't the time for this Nova." Akio said looking forwards along the path instead of at Nova.
Nova forced himself to his feet, "Of course it is Akio! I will never forgive you for what you have done!" Nova reached for his Lightaxe.
"Look out!" Luka called out.
Nova and Akio dodged and avoided a rain of arrows as Dark Elves then began jumping down from the right side of the trench and the blocked off their forward path.
"We can settle our score another time." Akio said activating his Lightsaber.
"Fine, but this doesn't change anything." Nova said igniting his Lightaxe, "I will kill you one day."
Soon enough the pursuing army caught up to cut off retreat.
"We'll have to break through that defensive line in order to escape." Ichiro said raising up his rifle.
Kaito nodded, then Nova, Akio, Kaito, and Rin charged forwards at the enemy.
Nordhaven
The rebel's only remaining ship was retreating with all of the villagers and soldiers on it.
On the shore on the hill in front of the village, Sir James and Lady Emily stood back to back surrounded by their enemy. Both gripped their swords tightly with their hands.
"There's too many of them." James said striking down one who had attempted to charge him.
"We must hold out to buy the rebels time to escape." Emily said jumping forwards and swinging her sword to the left and cutting down three Dark Elves before jumping back.
Sir James closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, he waited three seconds before exhaling, "Emily, ever since I found you that day you have been like a daughter to me."
"And you have been like a father to me. But why are you bringing this up right now?" she then stabbed a Dark Elf.
"I hope that one day you can forgive me for this."
Lady Emily didn't have the chance to question him, Sir James grabbed her by the arm and threw her up into the air. Immediately after one of the yellow jewels his sword lit up and a Great Eagle made from golden light appeared in the sky and caught Emily on its back.
"Take her back to the castle!" Sir James shouted.
The Eagle nodded and began to fly off with Emily struggling to stop it from carrying her far away.
Sir James spun in a circle swinging his sword and defeating all of the Dark Elves who attempted to attack him.
'I have lived a fulfilling life.' he thought swinging his sword in front of himself, 'I have always done my duty as a knight.' He spun to his left and stabbed one in the chest, 'The girl I raised has grown to be a beautiful and capable woman.' He then spun and behind and swung his sword downwards, 'And now I shall finish my tale by giving the next generation a chance.' then all three jewels lighy up as well as a jewel on a necklace he was wearing.
His whole body became covered with golden light, "Let's do this, Excalibur." he said to his sword. Then he looked to see that the rebel ship was gone, "God's Verdict!" then the whole area was filled with blinding light.
Plains of Falling
We were fighting with all we had, but still it wasn't enough. No matter how many we defeated more would just take their place.
"It doesn't seem that we will win so easily." said my elder brother Kaito Stargunner as he cut down another Dark Elf.
"Oh, you think so." I said sarcastically as I slashed to the right and cut down several Dark Elves.
"Just shut up and fight!" Akio said.
"How about I shut you up, Akio." I said blasting three down with a Force Push.
Over to side a bit Rin and Yuka were helping to hold back the enemy forces behind them.
"Do they ever not fight each other?" Rin asked Yuka while throwing a Fireball at a Dark Elf.
"This is as civil as they get." Yuka said blasting two Dark Elves consecutively.
I was breathing heavier and struggling to fight them all off. It was evident that we'd run out of steam before they run out of troops.
As I had just taken down one, I turned to my left and saw that the blade of a sword was just a couple inches from my head, I couldn't block or dodge.
No, this can't be the end.
The Dark Elf suddenly fell sideways to his right with a dagger(kunai) in the left side of his head.
A sudden a large explosion of dirt and dust appeared to the right side of the trench. When the smoke cleared a tall man appeared wearing black armor and wielding a halberd.
To his left landed a girl in a thin black suit, and then an Elf with black armor came running up on his right out of breath.
"Ready?" the tall man asked.
"Ready, Okami." the girl said with a fierce look in her eyes.
"Yeah, ready." the Elf said panting as he placed his hands on his knees.
"Go!" Okami shouted as he swung his weapon to the left and sent several Dark Elves flying. He swung again to the right and sent more flying, then jumped up and, while still in the air, raised his weapon over his head while holding it in two hand, and then smashed it down on the ground causing a big explosion.
The girl then jumped up into the air while spinning. In only a few seconds she became nothing more than a spinning blur in the air. Suddenly hundreds of those daggers began flying out all hitting the Dark Elves with precision.
"Whoa, a ninja and a samura!" Yuka said.
I looked at Yuka unsure of what she was talking about.
"Big strong armored warriors in my world and especially my country were called samurai. Very lightly armor and fast moving warriors were called ninja or shinobi or, in this case, kunoichi." Yuka said.
I still had no idea what she was saying.
"Just forget it." she said.
A few seconds later the one called Okami ran up to me, "You're an enemy of the Dark Elves?" he asked loudly.
I didn't even need to answer as he saw it burning in my eyes.
"Then duck!" Okami said with a grin as he raised his weapon above his right shoulder and prepared to swing. I barely moved in time as his swing sent several Dark Elves flying through the air.
I leaned over and used the Force to propel myself forwards very quickly, and while I was moving I swung my Lightaxe and took down at least six Dark Elves.
With the backup we were making a dent and crack in the enemies formation.
"We have to move now!" Okami said, "Anata, Mortane, released the power of the Kuro Tenno!"
All three of them lined up in front of the enemies who were hindering our escape. Okami was to the right, Anata was in the middle, and Mortane was to the left. Suddenly they had bits of pitch black energy swirling around them and coming off of them.
"Worthless pests!" Okami shouted slamming his weapon on the ground and sending a shockwave of black energy through the ground which then exploded sending multiple enemies flying.
"You're in the way of peace." Anata said coldly before pulling the blade off of her back (she holds it with the blade end down) and swinging it to the left and cutting down three enemies, then jumping up into the air and then landing in the middle of several enemies and stabbing her blade into the ground and creating a black wave of energy that took down all the enemy around her.
"I guess it's up to me." Mortane said hoping back and forth slightly and then slashing to the left and then the right with black energy trailing from the blade, then he jabbed forwards creating a blast of energy that sent several flying.
I stared amazed by their power, I hadn't sensed any magic or felt a connection between them and the Force, yet their might was unbelievable.
"Let's move, now!" Akio shouted.
"We all began running forwards through the path these new warrriors had made us. We had run for at least a minute when we came across a fork in the path.
"This way." Okami said running to the right.
We all followed him, or, at least that's what I thought.
"Titania?" Ichiro asked.
I stopped and turned around to see Elise staring down the left path.
"This path leads to an old sanctuary, we can Gate to Evernight." she said, "I have to go to my people, I must warn them!"
"You'll never make it on your own." Ichiro said.
"We don't have time to debate this!" Okami said, "Go if you want, but we can't wait around."
"I'll go with her." Ichiro said.
"Are you sure about this?" Akio asked
Ichiro nodded, "Yes." he then looked towards Kaito, Luka, and Yuka, "Take care of them, commander."
Akio nodded and then Ichiro ran over to Elise. Elise and Ichro then ran off in the direction of Evernight.
"I hope they make it." I wished for them, but I saw a distance back the enemy army coming into view.
We ran for what seemed to be a long time. We didn't stop, even to rest. We knew that if we stopped the Dark Elves would catch us.
The sun had begun to set when we reached a hill overlooking a small town next to a port.
"There, our ship." Anata said pointing at the dock.
"Prepare to set sail. Quickly!" Mortane said.
"Yes captain." said a soldier who was on the ship.
Just as everyone was about to board I turned around and looked at the town.
"The people, we have to warn them!"
"There's no time for that." Okami said.
"I think we should help them too." Anata said in a more childish voice.
"Fine." Okami said in defeat, "But be fast."
Evernight
"You're done mechanical abomination." said one of four Dark Elves surrounding HK-47.
HK was on his knees clutching his sparking left shoulder. "Objection: That's what you think pointy-eared meatbag." HK said, and if he had a organic face he would probably be grinning.
"The Dark Elf in front of him scoffed and raised up his spear and was about to bring it down when a blaster yellow blaster bolt hit him in the head bringing him down.
The blast came from Ichiro's sniper rifle. He was positioned on a hill a distance away.
HK took this as an opportunity to make his move. He quickly got up and grabbed the necks of the Dark Elves that had been on his left side and behind him and then bashed their skulls together. After that he quickly spun around and threw his fist through the chest of the last one that had been surrounding him. He then began racing straight for the shield where a very drained looking Akomar stood still stuck in the same position.
"Don't let him interfere!" the head Priest said.
Four Dark Elves holding spears blocked HK's path, but the two on the right, front right of HK's view, suddenly fell down from consecutive sniper shots. HK then leaped over there and grabbed one of the spears from a dead Dark Elf and swung it to the left cutting the back of the neck of the closest Dark Elf and severing his spinal cord. Then HK threw the spear at the last one.
The Priests holding ip the shield began to worry, but they could not stop the spell until it's finished.
"Do not worry sisters." the head Priest said, "I will deal with this heretic!"
HK charged at her, "Observation: It seems you don't plan to let me get past easily meatbag, this should be fun." he said grabbing his disruptor of the ground where he had lost it earlier.
The head Priest put her hand out in front of her and her eyes turned purple, "Wodahs Llaberif" she chanted before black flames shot from her hands at HK-47.
HK jumped to his left to dodge the attack and then fired a shot at Priest.
"Tectorp." she said as a shield appeared in front of her and deflected the shot.
Instead of attempting to get through the shield, HK went over it. He jumped over the Priest and then turned around at the same time she did and they were both facing each other. The head Priest's eyes widened with shock as she had not expected HK to be so strong, the the latter threw his hands at the former's face and ripped her eyes right out their sockets.
The head Priest screamed in pain before a sniper shot took her down.
"Sister!" one of the Priests said in shock.
Without the head Priest boosting their power, the rest of the Priests strength quickly decreased, and then suddenly energy began pulsing from the center of the shield. And then with one last pulse the shield shattered like glass and all of the Priests were sent flying.
Akomar's eyes were closed and he began to fall forwards, but HK quickly moved to his right side and caught him.
A moment later Ichiro and Elise came running up to them.
"He needs help." Elise said, "You must come with us to the village."
"Objection: There's no way we're going with you, meatbag." guess who said that.
"No HK..." Akomar said tiredly, "We can... trust her." he was breathing slowly, but heavily.
"We have to get moving." Ichiro said firing a blaster bolt off at something far behind them.
The four of them ran off in the direction of Evernight Village.
Docks, Eastern Coast
The boat was beginning to leave as the town burned. The sky had been painted crimson and orange from the flames.
Akio, who had stayed behind to help someone, ran forwards and to the edge of the docks and jumped off and towards the ship. He almost made it, and got to the side of the ship, but didn't reach it and began to fall. I quickly threw my hand downwards and grabbed his arm and, with the help of my brother Kaito, pulled him up.
"Thanks Stargunner." Akio said sitting down and leaning his back against the railing.
"This still doesn't change anything." I said.
I don't know why I bothered to save him, especially after what he did.
I walked past the crowd of people we managed to get onto the ship and over to where Rin was sitting at the far back. I sat down to her right.
"Hey." I said hoping to start a conversation.
"Hey." she said looking down.
"So, about your new look?"
She sighed, "Okay, but it is a long story.
I looked over at Okami and Mortane and saw they were looking at a map. "I'd say we have time."
"Okay." and then she began her story, "I'm sure Gnarl told you about the previous Overlord?"
"Yeah, the one he often referred to as the Overlad?" I asked.
"Yes. Well, fourteen years ago, his mistress, Kelda, gave birth to a child. A young girl, I was that girl. For seven years I lived in the Netherworld Tower. I was raised like royalty, servants, food, and anything else I could want. Then one day, the Overlord, my father, brought me with him an a trip to a nearby village. We went to a gold mine. There, I could see several people, many seemed tired as if they had not slept in a long time, others appeared to be ill or injured, and one or two were on the ground not moving. I was scared and didn't know what to do as I continued to follow my father. Then, suddenly, a man stopped working, walked in front over my father, and threw down his shovel. The Overlord raised his axe and was about to smite him where he stood, but then lowered his axe and looked at me. He then pulled a gauntlet." she paused for a moment to show me the gauntlet on her arm now, "And he then handed it to me and told me to put it on. Afterwards he placed a finger on ther crystal in his gauntlet and a redish orange orb floated from it and into mine. Then my father had me raise my hand towards the man, moments later a Fireball flew from my hand and struck the man.
"I don't think I had ever been more scared before than I was in that moment. My father simply laughed as the man screamed in pain as the flames burnt away his flesh. I then looked at my shaking hand and fell to my knees crying. Then after a few seconds I turned to my father and raised my gauntlet up and threw a Fireball at his face. He stumbled back and stood there stunned for a moment. I took that as my chance to escape. I threw off my gauntlet and ran.
"After that I kept on running for hours. I got as far away as I could before falling of exhausted. I probably would have died there. After sitting there in the dark night, I looked up into the sky that was filled with stars and said 'Please, I don't want to go back. Please take me somewhere I can be safe.' Then, only moments after, a blue flash appeared and then I saw an older woman in blue and white robes standing there, then she spoke 'Is that what you wish child?' I nodded my head. She promised to help me. I soon found out that this was my grandmother, Rose. She took me to the village of Spree, she then told me that she had to go, but that she would always be watching. Before she left she gave me a potion, 'Drink this, we must make sure that your father never finds you.'
"I drank it and then my hair turned from its natural orange, to the blonde hair I had when we first met." when she said that she grabbed my hand, "After that, grandma Rose left. I then ended up going to the village. It was then that a nice couple took me in, my parents, that's what they were to me."
I listened to her story all of the way through, and I now felt that I understood her even more than I did before. I then turned to her, and then wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into a hug. She returned the embrace. After we separated I looked into her eyes, her beautiful brown eyes, and she also looked back into my eyes. Our face grew closer and then our lips met. We kissed. It was much less rushed than back in the Tower just before I got shot, but more gentle and passionate. I don't exactly remember, but I think it lasted for at least a minute.
After we parted, we both leaned our backs to the wall, then Rin leaned over and layed her head on my shoulder, and I then leaned my head on hers.
"So, where are we going now?" Rin asked.
"I don't know."
