Heroes From Above: The Birth of An Epic Saga
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls. They are the Property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. However I do own the ideas for this story.
A/N: Hello everybody, how are you doing today? I hoped you enjoyed the previous chapters. Well, here is the exciting Chapter 9. R.E.A.R. (Read, Enjoy, And Review).
Chapter 9: The Pillaging of Scandinavia
The world seemed to enter a short period of peace after Leonia left China. Apparently, the dark lord is massing his forces as he tried to find the fourth seal. In the cold tundra of the Scandinavian Landscape, in what is now Norway, a blue hue in the snow could be seen. Clearly, this was the fourth seal, hidden from Leonia's current view. Back at the fortress, Leonia's minions were multiplying exponentially. The current force was much more powerful than the legions encountered in China's attack. Leonia's concentration was totally focused on the search and retrieval of the fourth seal. Once attained, Leonia would be able to achieve the long lost ability to control the weather elements, in a dark sinister way. "Arghh!!! Can't find the fourth seal. The signal's too weak. Where can it possibly be?" Kradsigh, seeing his master's frustration, suggests a plan. "Perhaps you should send Marzul to find the next seal." Kradisgh suggested. "Imbecile brain of mine! Why didn't I think of that idea?" Leonia thanked his advisor and summoned the Marzul to find and bring him the location of the seal. The dark hooded elite demons have grown in strength and number since the last encounter. The Marzul left the fortress, now known as Minus Drakum, when the orc shamans decided it's time their home had a good name, and spread out in small groups. They scattered themselves and infiltrated many countries.
Meanwhile, back at Townsville, the kids were enjoying a little break from saving the day against Leonia's forces. "Boy I'm glad to go around capturing petty bank robbers again instead of killing those ugly demons for once. The robbers are easy!!" Buttercup boasted. Her sisters agreed with her and laughed. Butch and his brothers laughed as well. Butch stopped laughing and then added, "However, they're not as fun to defeat as the demons! I just love watching them being blown up, limbs flying everywhere!" The girls except Buttercup shuddered when they heard what he said. "True, I like that too. But it's also fun to catch easy foes." Buttercup objected. "To me the demons are easy!!" Butch snapped back, sticking his tongue at his girlfriend. "Does the demons seem that hard to you?" He asked again, with a slight caring tone, showing that he was only kidding around. Butch was not expecting Buttercup to give him a powered zap from her eyebeams. "That felt like it would fry a demon easily, didn't it, Butchie?" She asked with a smirk. Everyone else laughed at Butch. "Shuddap!! Shuddap!! Shuddap!! Shuddap!! Shuddap!!" Butch yelled repeatedly as he left the room, embarrassed that he got beat by his girl.
Norway, the Atlantic coast Scandinavian country, was peaceful, until a couple of Marzul demons desecrated the snow and tundra with their dark presence. They were busy searching for the fourth seal. Every plant within the Marzul's presence shriveled up and died. Meanwhile, ten miles to the east of the Marzul's location, a faint blue aura was seen from the sky. It appeared to be rippling from its point of origin. As the Marzul traveled east, the Aura became more clear. Finally, the Aura hit one of the Marzul. The vile creature howled and within moments, all the Marzul in the world knew the location of the fourth seal. The Marzul in Norway cast a spell to 'mark' the location and joined their brethren from all over the world on their rush back to their fortress to inform Leonia.
Brick was busy at the town library researching old books about demons and myths. He was unable to find much information on the enemy, the fearsome Leonia. " 'Many years ago, there were accounts of a war between humans and demons that happened…the demons were commanded by a fearsome demon king of immense power.' Hmmm…but the book doesn't really say who the demon was or what was his weakness." Brick thought as he read a passage in the book on legends he was reading. He prayed a prayer to the lord for his guidance in finding a way to defeat Leonia. "I hear your pleas, my son. I can't provide you with too much information other than the one I have given you. But I will guide you to a couple books that will most likely answer the questions. Listen carefully." A voice suddenly speaks to Brick after he said the prayer. Brick listens to the voice in his head intently, as information began to fill his head. Light shone in from a window in the library and stopped at a bookshelf. Brick took this as a sign and went to the shelf. As though he knew what to do, he picked out a few books and took them to a desk to read.
Brick discovered the terrible truth of the method in which they must defeat Leonia. "This is bad… how can me and my brothers carry out this deed…I guess I should break out the news to my brothers and tell them to keep it to themselves until the time is right. I don't want to break the girls' hearts right now. I don't know how accurate the information in these books, but I guess it applies to us." Brick thought. He sighed and got up and left the library with Blossom, while keeping his grim findings a secret.
The dark lord was eating his meal when the Marzul charged in to report their findings. "Master Leonia! We are pleased to report that the fourth seal has been discovered! We should make our move, master!" Leonia dropped the piece of meat he was holding and stood up. "Excellent, my minions, ready your brethren for action!" When the Marzul left, Leonia summoned Kradisgh to his chamber. They talked about tactics and plans to stop the meddling children that attack their forces every time Leonia tries to retrieve a seal. After they came up with a plan, Kradisgh left the chamber to rally the troops while Leonia sat on his throne, snarling and snickering as he recalled the plan.
Within an hour later, huge legions of Orcs, demons, and the undead stood outside Minus Drakum. They await their new orders to move through the portal to Norway. Undead griffins were flying in the sky, with new companions, the winged beasts of the ancient times. These beasts resemble dragons, but not completely. They are smaller and do not breath fire. Suddenly in the front of the fortress, a dark bluish green light was unleashed. When the light faded, a dark portal stood in its place. The griffins flew through, followed by the winged beasts, then legion by legion of warriors. Leonia and his elite council shuffled through when the last warrior entered.
Brick sat on a chair in the house, deep in thought. He suddenly heard a voice speak to him. "Young Brick. The fourth seal…Leonia is advancing towards it, you and your companions must rise to stop him!" Brick stood up and nodded to the ceiling, as if he was nodding to the lord above. Brick went to the living and found Butch and Boomer asleep on the sofa. He shook them and told them that it is time to act once again. He went to the closet and removed his halberd and passed out the other halberds to his brothers. The Powerpuffs grabbed their bows from the closet and moved to fill the packs with supplies. The sextant slung their packs onto their backs and went outside. It was time for another battle. Brick heard the voice speak again, telling him where to fly to. He looked back at his companions. "Let's go!" he shouted as he leapt for the air and started flying northeast. Streaks of red, blue, and green stretched across the sky as the heroes flew towards Norway.
Flying menaces raged all over the Norwegian sky. Towns endured sieges from these horrible creatures. Leonia's legions occupied much of Norway. Citizens were taken prisoner and militated. The Norwegian military fought with valor and bravery, but to no avail. Their weaponry and handful of troops was no match for the seemingly endless hordes. Leonia moved towards the seal at this moment. This was truly a grim sight.
On the northern coast of Norway, the humans barricaded themselves in a desperate attempt to defend their countrymen in a city. The griffins attacked and transformed many of the defenders into mindless undead warriors. Their survival appeared bleak until bolts of energy appeared from the sky and struck the undead warriors down. The heroes appeared just in a nick of time to help the survivors fight off the invaders. Upon arrival, Brick surveyed the battlefield. The humans have raised a tall wall surrounding the city from the west to the east. Masses of demons and orcs were advancing from the west and the east. Knowing what to do, he told his companions to split and fight off the invaders along the wall. Brick's plan was to have the boys to attack the mass of enemies coming in from the east side, while the girls take on the west. The heroes moved to fight off the hordes.
The boys flew to the wall and tended to some of the defenders on the wall. They watched the demon army of 20,000 marching in towards the east wall. Brick was surveying the enemy masses, when a human commander came up behind him and tap his shoulder. The commander spoke in Norwegian but Brick was able to understand nonetheless. Brick replied and told the commander to relinquish command of his troops to him. Brick commanded the men to pick off the enemy one by one with their rifles and long range attacks. After a while, he told them that his brothers and him would engage them head on. They waited for the enemy to march within range.
The girls were matched with a similar challenge. Blossom told the men on the west wall to ready their defenses. Occasionally a griffin or winged beast would try to attack the defenders, which fortunately the girls would take them down with their bows. The mass of warriors approached closer with each waking moment.
The east wall was the first to react to the enemy troops below. Brick shouted a command and rifles opened fire, taking down several of the enemy warriors. Their commanders urged them to hold their advance, despite their losses. Brick raised his halberd and raised the tip towards the enemy. He released short beam after beam of fiery blasts at the enemy. Many fell instantly, unable to defend themselves against such an attack. The other boys followed, firing their halberds to take on the opponents.
The west wall began to fire once the enemies got in range. Blossom fired shot after shot from her bow along with her sisters as the human defenders fired their guns. She looked beyond the enemy lines to see towering masses moving slowly towards walls. She looked closer to see that there were enemies inside. "An traditional siege tower! We must not let those reach the wall or else we will be overwhelmed!" She called out to her sisters. They concentrated their powers to release big shots at the towers, reducing several of them to broken shards of timber after a few tries.
Meanwhile, on the boys' side, other huge masses appeared along with other siege towers. They appeared to be some kind of cannon. One fired and flaming rubble was hurled towards the walls. It landed a few yards from the boys' location, killing some of the human soldiers standing on that section of the wall. Pieces of the wall were blown open, and a breach in the defenses was possible. Brick told his brothers to concentrate on the cannons and the siege towers.
The children fought hard, but then the wall was breached after 2 siege towers managed to attach a walkway over the palisades of the walls, while the cannons knocked huge gaps in the wall. Demon and orc warriors whom were able to get close to the edge of the wall poured through the openings. Brick saw this happen and jumped toward the incoming troops. He beckons his brothers to follow him. After some rough fighting, the boys were able to push the invaders out the gaps and back out onto the battlefield, back into firing range.
The battle raged on for an hour and an half. The humans finally slew the last demon warrior. The kids were exhausted but they knew it was only a beginning. Suddenly there was a dark bluish streak of light rising from the ground towards the sky. The heroes dashed towards the streak. For a distance of twenty miles they traveled. As they approached the streak, they noticed was Leonia picking up his fourth seal. Leonia was unleashing the seal's sealed powers. The streak faded when Leonia regained all of the fourth seal's powers. He noticed the heroes approaching. "Nice try, my adversaries, you were unable to stop me from gaining this seal! I shall go and wreak havoc elsewhere! Good luck trying to catch up, weaklings!!!" He roared as he threw a container at the ground. Dark smoke and fumes veiled Leonia from sight and when the smoke cleared, Leonia was gone. All of Leonia's surviving legions had also disappeared through their portals once again.
The battle for Norway was over. Even though Leonia got away with the fourth seal, the heroes were glad to be able to save Norway and the vicinity countries from demonic dominion. They were able to save the Norwegians from the demons' genocidal rampage. They picked up their belongings and headed back to Townsville, where they hoped that they will develop a way to be a step ahead of their enemy. The day was won for the sake of preserving human life, but can they be ready to prevent more catastrophic chaos in the not too distant future?
A/N: Well, Chapter 9 is finally done folks! Sorry it took a while to produce. I got hit hard with writer's block on this chap. I took some time to write for my other story, "Sora's new love". But now that chapter 9 for this story is continued, Chapter 10 will be well under way! Thank you for reading, and please review!!