Hero Badge

The Earth was growing darker, the clouds grew heavier, and the rain seemed to never cease. Thunder roared around the mountain and the icy winds howled at the people spectating the showdown. Lightening attacked the ground again, bringing up a fine dust, which the wind blew around the stone stadium. Mora brought his foot down into a puddle of mud and drew his blade. Li stared at him with his ice-blue cats eyes.

Mora leapt in the air and brought his blade down, but Li dived out the way and spun his spear round, catching Mora with the bottom of it. Mora thrust his blade into Li, who leapt over it and kicked Mora in the face. Mora put away the blade and pulled out a spear. Li and Mora clashed their spears against each other. Mora thrust his blade into Li, who ducked to the side, but was hit in the ribs by it. Li swung his spear round automatically, and caught the back of Mora's knee, and he fell down.

"I'm meant to be the greatest fighter alive" roared Mora, climbing to his feet, and getting his spear, while avoiding another blow.

"But I'm using the spirit of the greatest fighter that's not alive" said Li.

Mora threw his spear at Li, who raised his spear to knock it away, but Mora pulled out his blade again and stuck it into Li's stomach before he could defend himself. Li fell back and clutched his stomach, Mora leapt at him, but Li rolled out the way, and swung his spear round, leaving an icy blue trail of smoke behind, the spear hit Mora and knocked him back and a layer of ice formed on his stomach. Mora smashed it and ran at Li, who spun his spear round and force it down on Mora, who raised his blade to defend himself from the icy spear. Li leapt in the air, and Mora followed, their weapons met each other and there was a metal-on-metal sound, repeating over and over again, until they landed at opposite ends of the arena. Li leapt in the air and brought down his spear to Mora, who only just managed to avoid it. The area where the spear struck had a layer of ice form over it. Li pulled it out and swung it round, releasing its blue trail, and it hit Mora in the side of the face.

Mora fell back, and Li thrust it into him, but Mora dropped his blade and rolled to the side, where he picked up his spear and tried to attack Li with it, but he was quick to block it and maneuvered his spear under Mora's and lifted it up, disarming him, he then swung his spear round and knocked Mora back a few feet. He spun his spear round and created a large blue cloud of ice, Mora got to his feet and Li threw the spear at him, the ice trail surrounded it and penetrated Mora, along with the spear. There was an explosion of light and Li stood there holding his spear, and wearing the Hero Badge.

Li's veins started to shine ice blue, they had been visible under his unnaturally pale skin for quite some time, but the glowing really caught the fellow elements attention. Then the glowing suddenly expanded, and just as suddenly vanished. Li growled under his breath and leapt down the mountain in a spiral, leaving an icy blue trail behind, he struck every Shen Gong he came across with his spear. He bounced around, attacking them, either destroying or freezing his prey. He eventually reached the bottom and moved like a lightening bolt amongst the Shen Gong down there, he battled of around half of them, still keeping his circular motion, until he was at the front of the mountain (where his cave was). He then took massive leaps up the mountain, leaving a thick icy trail until he came to the top, where the other elements had remained, he then stood still, letting the icy steam build up then, he leapt in the air, and his trail became solid ice, and in midair he was surrounded by his own element, with his arms spread out. The icy pillar beneath him stopped his prison from breaking.

"Li?"
"...Dead" muttered Azo

"But..."

"The curse of ice" said Azo, as though it were a simple fact. The weather decided to take this moment to suddenly pick up a massive howling blow, which blew Azo's hair about her bowed head. Sue looked up and over to her. It was strange how they were all mourning over the coldest of the elements, the one that was supposed to be unloved and could never love once the end started. This was Azo's thoughts at least. Despite the fact that the element of ice had left the world forever, it suddenly got colder, and the ground began to shake. They all dropped to their knees. A giant armadillo burst from the ground beneath them. A black tentacle from Sue's back immediately attacked it, anger filled her and she forced all of it on the armadillo. The armadillo was destroyed almost instantaneously, but zombies poured out of its tunnel, she started attacking them, and throwing them off the mountains with her tentacles, but soon too many came, and their master, Zing, came out of the hole. The zombies restrained the elements with ease, and held them in front of their master. The rotting skeleton stood in front of Sue and held her chin, she felt it started to rot and smelt the smell of death coming from the lead zombie. She felt the power of the Zing Zom Bone over-take her, and she felt woozy. A steel spear shot through the air from high above and narrowly missed the lead zombie, who pulled back instantly. Jack leapt down from Dojo and, in his steel suit, attacked the zombie. Hundreds of other zombies poured round to help. Sue took this chance to make a break for it and she attacked her restraining zombies with shadow tentacles, several zombies chased her, she knocked them off the mountain, but one leapt at her and pushed her over the cliff. Jack saw this and fired bladed disks all round the mountain; the other elements had to duck to avoid decapitation. He then fired metal poles into the tunnel, causing it to collapse on the hundreds of zombies inside. Zing leapt at him, but Jack was too quick and forced a spear through him. Zing didn't seem to mind and attacked Jack. Jack raised a metal mask to cover his face so the zombie couldn't use his magic on him. Several other Shen Gong were climbing on to the peak of the mountain now. The other elements took care of them. Jack swung a bladed fist at the zombie and cut of his hand, the zombie picked up one of his minion's swords and swung it at Jack, who leapt over it and fired a massive spike into the zombie's head, causing it to explode and the Shen Gong to vanish.

A Shen Gong tried to attack Jack from behind but he swung round and easily disposed of it. A bronze snake-like creature floated up through the ground and flew at him, he swung at it, but his blade went through, the snake came back again, this time it head butted him in the chest. Jack smiled and waited for it to come again, as it head butted him; spikes came out his chest and smashed through the snake.

Omi knocked down any Shen Gong that trued to come up, he also harnessed the rain to strike certain Shen Gong. Raimundo was using the same tactic with the wind. Nine dragons leapt up at the two of them, they leapt down at them, then there was one dragon, then two, then four, three, eight, seven, one, then the amount of dragons changed rapidly, and they couldn't keep up. Raimundo and Omi reached their elements to the heavens and a cloud came down, forced into a small area, like a comet, Raimundo and Omi leapt to the side and the cloud-comet hit, exploding in wind and water. When it cleared nothing was left.

Azo struck the Shen Gong with his sword, suddenly a large Shen Gong came from behind, but roots miraculously came out of the ground and tripped the beast, and it fell on to a large thorn which went right through it's neck.

"Never underestimate nature" muttered Azo, and swung the sword at another Shen Gong.

Sue had managed to abseil down the mountain with her tentacles, she forced her way through the muddy puddles and got on her knees and searched frantically, frustration got the better of her and she plunged tentacles into the earth and there was a small explosion of darkness, the immediate are suddenly became very dry, but only for a second, Sue saw what she was looking for and grabbed it just before the mud returned.

The four elements stood back to back, surrounded by Shen Gong, when suddenly flies came from the base of the mountain and surrounded the Shen Gong, however they soon moved on to the elements themselves. They all gripped their heads and dropped to the ground. Sue floated to the peak of the mountain, and stared at the bodies, with no emotion shown on her face. She floated over to the center of the peak.

"Well done" said Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies.