Vanir Argent

Vanir's eyes slowly opened as a ray of light fell across his face. "Where am i?" He thought to himself as he became aware of an aching pain the covered his entire body, though it hurt worst near his heart.

As Vanir slowly began to process everything that had happened before he blacked out the door opened and Niren and Mithril both entered the room, the two of them had some bandages on them as well. "Vanir!" Mithril shouted when she saw his eyes open.

"About time you woke up." Niren said as he walked over to the bed, Mithril had practically sprinted in order to hug Vanir and kiss his cheek. "What the hell happened?" Vanir asked, his voice was raspy and he felt parched.

"Your healing implant burnt itself out, and now i'm guessing the painkillers have worn off." Niren replied as he walked over to a tray sitting on a table and poured a glass of water for Vanir to drink.

After Vanir had chugged the water, he lifted the shirt he was wearing to see a fair number of scars on his torso, the biggest was a long scar above his heart, right where the implant had been. "Great." He said as he handed the glass back to Niren who moved to refill it. "Could be worse, you could have died." Niren pointed out as he handed Vanir the glass again.

Vanir nodded as he swallowed the water, this time when he was done he handed Niren the glass and shook his head when he offered to refill it. "How long was i out for?" Vanir asked after he cleared his throat. "Two days." Mithril said while looking down at the Hades, the doctors had seen fit to leave it on him rather than remove it.

"And what about the city?" Vanir asked with concern. Niren looked out the window before answering, as if for some type of dramatic effect. "We cleared the city, but Beacon is still overrun, that massive Grimm isn't moving but it has yet to dissolve." Vanir looked at Niren with confusion "What do you mean?" He asked.

"The damn thing fell on top of the tower after a flash of light, but we aren't sure if it's dead yet." Mithril said with a small note of fear in her voice. Vanir looked at Niren for a while before asking another question that was on his mind.

"What about Talia and Lirril? Are they ok?" Vanir asked in order to change the subject. "Talia is up and moving, doctors want her to take some more time to recover, Lirril is fine as well, she can't walk for a while, but hey better than death." Niren replied with a small smile.

"Nexus and the others fine too, Rennic got a scar on his face from a punk with a sword and Torque is resting from exhaustion." Mithril said, she was also smiling, none of them had died and for once Vanir wouldn't have to bury any friends.

"That reminds me, Mordred sent me a message while you were out." Niren said after turning away from the window and sitting down in a chair. "Well what does it say?" Vanir asked curiously. "When Vanir is recovered, head to Haven, Uther is there." Niren recited the message from Mordred while leaning back with his scroll open.

"Of course the bastard wants us to head to Haven." Vanir said with a sigh, Lirril and Talia would want to join them and they didn't have the time to wait for them. "Nexus and Mithril have agreed to join us if Lirril and Talia can't come with." Niren said after he put away his scroll.

"Lirril agreed to let us go?" Vanir asked with surprise. "She wasn't happy about it, but she agreed we will eventually need the backup if Mordred can take control of the Knights." Niren responded with a grim look in his eyes. "We need to gather the others then, or whoevers left." Vanir said, the same look entering his eyes now too.

"Already sent word out to Iota, she said she can spread it to the remaining Maleficar." Niren said calmly. "What about Hephaestus?" Vanir asked, he knew the older man lived on Patch and hoped he would join them. "Already asked, he said he would meet us in Haven." Niren responded, Mithril had remained quiet while the two of them discussed the matter but couldn't take being in the dark anymore.

"Who are you talking about?" She asked while looking back and forth between the two of them. Vanir crossed his arms before wincing and saying "The remaining Maleficar, from what we have gathered and the timing of Mordred's message, the Knights are going to make a last stand, they no longer have enough forces to fight us or the Atlesian military anymore."

Mithril looked surprised by the revelation. for the past three years Vanir had her thinking that the Knights were still powerful, despite the efforts of the Maleficar and Military. "So now it's time to finish them off?" She asked while looking down at her hands. "Yeah, we killed Morgana years ago, and Arthur was taken out by Mordred during the purge that came after." Vanir said while slowly counting events off with his fingers.

"Don't forget, we destroyed most of their large bases and drydocks, we also crippled recruiting in the Kingdoms as well." Niren said, joining in. The three of them continued to talk until night, when the others left Vanir was ready to sleep for another day or two, then they would begin a long journey to finish a war that had gone on for long enough.

Sorry about the short chapter, i just wanted to wrap up the season three arc so i could move on to the Knightfall arc ive been planning on doing for a while, this will be an in between seasons arc so its gonna last a long while. Thank so much for reading my story.