Chapter 20

Adrianna stood up. Aimed and fired an elemental arrow towards one of the knights. Derek and Lothar attacked with ease. The advocates came next Lothar and Adrianna attacked them. An hour later the demons were dead. All the while Diablo looked on and watched. Now only Diablo remained. Derek turned to Lothar and said,

"We can't wait for the Messiah of Love. We have to fight now!" Lothar nodded and Derek turned to Adrianna.

"You stay here. I don't want you to get hurt!" he said.

"What? No I am going to help you. You need my help!" She cried.

"No you will only get in the way. You are not strong enough. You will only distract us! Please just stay here!" he said as the two Messiahs turned. Adrianna watched as they engaged the horrid beast. She sank to her knees. Lothar was thrown back against the wall. She cringed. Derek stumbled back but attacked again, bringing his sword around Diablo caught him and threw him against the wall. Where was the Messiah of Love? The Messiah was supposed to be here. All three Messiahs had to fight together.

Adrianna looked at her two dead friends and felt her anger rising. She remembered Jayalm's look as he fell to the ground. She saw Daniel as he was stabbed to death. She remembered what Derek had said and the kiss.

"We will fight Diablo together". She saw Lothar get thrown back. Her other special friend, she thought remembering what he had said to her by the well.

"I am your friend," he had said. Adrianna saw the pain that Tyrone had seen and felt. She remembered all that had died in this dark time. Adrianna saw Derek fall. He rose to his feet and defended himself with his shield. Derek, the man she loved. The thought struck her. She loved him with all her heart. He could not die now. She had to protect him. No she lost him once, she wouldn't lose him again. Her family, the family she would never see again. She would avenge the deaths of them all. She would avenge the deaths of all who had died at the hands of this monster. She would rather die, than see anyone else die.

"This is for you world!" she thought to herself. The world would not fall to the hands of Evil. She would not let this evil win!

Adrianna rose to her feet. She brought her bow up, aimed and fired. The arrow hit Diablo in the arm. He stopped his attack, looked at the arrow, and then looked at her. Lothar and Derek turned to see Adrianna. They looked at her in fear that Diablo would kill her. Diablo moved towards her. Lothar and Derek moved after him. Diablo hit them with Apocalypse. Fire rose around them preventing their movements. They were trapped. Adrianna saw the look of fear in Derek's eyes as he looked at her. Diablo advanced, pulling out the arrow as he walked and threw it aside. Adrianna began to glow. She walked towards Diablo.

"Run, get out of here!" Derek screamed at her. She shook her head. No more running. She continued walking towards Diablo. She narrowed her eyes at the beast. He stopped a few feet from Adrianna.

"You killed two of my friends, killed my family, destroyed a mighty kingdom, hurt and tried to kill another of my only other friends and now you try to kill the man I love? Well I won't have it. By all that is still holy, I will destroy you", she yelled. Diablo hit her with Apocalypse. The fire rose up around her, but she only stared coldly at him. She fired two water arrows in front of Lothar and Derek. The fire disappeared.

"The world will no longer see the pain you inflict on it. Go back to where you came from Diablo. I am not afraid of you!" Adrianna yelled pointing at the beast. Adrianna glowed even brighter. Suddenly a bright white light erupted around her. Her silver armour turned pure white. On her chest a silver angel appeared. Her bow turned pure white. Her arrows glowed white as well, the power of Love. She knew whom she was and how to show Derek she loved him.

"I am the Messiah of Love," she said aiming her bow at Diablo. "With the power of love, friendship and peace we will destroy you" She fired a white arrow at him. The arrow pierced his arm again. He screamed out in pain, the power of love eating away at his pure evil soul. Derek appeared behind him and plunged his sword into Diablo's back. Adrianna fired an arrow where Derek's sword pierced Diablo. Lothar fired an orb of light that hit Diablo where the arrow and sword were. Derek removed his sword. Diablo's blood gushed out of the wound. Adrianna aimed at the soul stone containing his spirit in his head and hit it. The stone cracked down the middle and a vision of a boy appeared. It was Albrecht. He smiled and bowed his head to the Messiahs. His vision disappeared and the soul stone burst into dust. Albrecht's soul was freed and went to the High Heavens. Derek and Lothar retreated. Diablo staggered back into the middle of the symbol of Power. A hole in the floor opened and Diablo fell into it. Red-orange lava poured out of the hole and into the Gate Way. Adrianna used the power of water to create a water wall to temporarily block the lava. Adrianna ran to the two dead warriors and knelt by them. She closed her eyes as she touched her hands to the hearts of Daniel and Jayalm. Their life energy was restored as white light shone so brightly that Lothar and Derek had to shield their eyes. When the light faded the two warriors alive and confused as they looked at themselves.

"There's no time we must leave now!" Adrianna said as Derek and Lothar joined them. Jayalm and Daniel got up quick and began to run. The five warriors ran to the stairs to the rest of Hell. The wall collapsed and the lava hit the stairs and the stairs melted. The warriors managed to get to the portal. They ran through the next floor. The portal shattered and the floor began to crumble into nothing. The warriors ran to the next floor running as fast as they could. The floor continued to collapse. The Gate Way was closing. They hit the first floor of Hell and found the stairs to the cave. They emerged into the caves. The rest of Hell crumbled. Large boulders of rock fell over the cave entrance to hell, forever blocking the entrance to the Gate Way. The warriors watched as the rocks fell over the entrance, large plumbs of dust rising from the rock. Finally, Diablo had been destroyed, hopefully for good. The warriors collapsed on the floor of the cave to catch their breath. Adrianna explained to Jayalm and Daniel what happened. The world had been saved...