Chapter 5:
Ken and Eto looked around through a dark room while Stolas and Karura was behind them making sure nothing came from the flank.
They walked over a few mercenary bodies that they killed and found a roof access door where a shuttle was ready to leave.
"No, you don't!" Stolas shouted.
Stolas used his magic to bring the shuttle down and leaping from it before it crashed and exploded was the Shadow Exchange leader, Valentino.
Ken and Eto ran at Valentino who just stood there watching them with a grin on his face.
"Wait!" Karura shouted.
Valentino clicked a button on a small handheld device and suddenly a surge of lightning came from him and zapped both Ken and Eto to the side of the roof, knocking them both out.
"He has a shield disruptor." Karura said.
Stolas held both his hands out while his book opened behind him and he sent a current of dark pulses at Valentino trying to break that shield.
Karura activated her lightsaber and dashed at Valentino with a lunge of her blade trying to pierce through his shield and it started to work while Stolas' dark pulses kept going.
Valentino's grin faded and he jumped up while his shield shattered.
Valentino dropped his device and revealed his moth wings that sprung out of his outfit and he flew in the air looking down at them.
"I cannot believe with all this effort, you came just to kill me." Valentino said to Stolas.
"You kidnapped my daughter!" Stolas shouted.
"Then you shouldn't have stopped being a Tyrant." Valentino said.
"The other Tyrants are dead, you didn't need to do this since your clients aren't able to pay you." Karura said taking a few steps forward.
"You don't get it, do you doll? The Federation has always been my enemy and seeing how everyone is over your homeworld, that makes you a fine bounty world. Each Federation officer is worth ten thousand credits a piece. You're holding a gold mine for me, Stolas." Valentino said.
"You can have anything you want, I just want my daughter free and safe." Stolas said.
Valentino put his finger up to his comlink in his ear.
"Noi, Vern. Kill the girl." Valentino said as his grin widened.
Stolas yelled running at him but suddenly Valentino frowned.
"Noi? Vern? Where are you?" Valentino asked.
Stolas leaped in the air and managed to punch Valentino in mid-air knocking him to the ground.
Valentino rolled up to his feet and fluttered off the ground.
"Noi! Vern! Answer me at once!" Valentino shouted.
Suddenly they all heard screeching in the sky and saw twelve Aparoid Moths.
Valentino threw the comlink away and yelled in anger.
"Look what you did, you managed to bring them here with all the commotion!" Valentino said.
Karura leaped at Valentino but Valentino surprised her by sending out a poisonous wind from his wings that made her cough and fall to her knees to focus on her breathing.
Stolas patted her head and sent a magical power to heal her but she fell over passed out.
Valentino tried to send the same poisonous wind at Stolas who quickly put his hands out and created a magical shield that vaporized the powdered poison and then a magic ability to bring down one of the neon lights on a roof down at Valentino who quickly flew away from it.
Stolas created ice crystals to grow on Valentino's wings and then shot out a rocky cluster into Valentino's back to break his wings right off.
Valentino yelled painfully and the two immediately got into a fistfight.
The two twelve-foot tall beings brawled but Valentino having four arms was winning and managed to knock Stolas to the floor of the roof.
Stolas punched Valentino's glasses making them shatter into his eyes and making him yell and roll off of Stolas.
Stolas opened two magical portals on each side of Valentino and pushed them together and out the other side exploding his body into nothing but blood.
Stolas sighed falling to his butt and looked at the sky seeing the Aparoids invading.
Ken and Eto walked over to him.
"Stolas." Ken said.
"You guys go, I have to find Octavia." Stolas said.
"But I'm right here." Octavia said.
Stolas sprang up and ran to Octavia hugging her.
"Dad." Octavia said with her face in his chest as tears ran down her face.
"Via, oh Via!" Stolas said happily with tears.
Karura got up and saw the Last Resort flying to them and landing on the roof.
Thane beckoned them and Hide ran out from the entry door.
"Come on, the fleets are retreating back to Turvess!" Hide shouted.
"The Shadow Exchange leader is dead which means they are out of the war." Kugo said.
As everyone was walking into the Last Resort, they heard a loud screech and they saw in the sky a missile coming down with twelve Aparoids creating a strange hexagon dome that sprawled around the city.
"What is going on?" Hide asked.
"They're keeping all of us in to make sure we die from the explosion." Ken said.
"Oh my god." Kugo said.
Stolas looked at all of them and then looked down to Octavia who looked up at him in tears and shook her head.
"Don't." Octavia said.
"I must." Stolas said.
Stolas handed Octavia his grimoire.
"No please, no!" Octavia said.
"Ken, get her and yourselves out of here." Stolas said.
"There has to be another way." Scourge said.
"There is no other way. Go, now." Stolas said.
"No, I'm not leaving you!" Octavia shouted.
Ken pulled Octavia into the ship with Scourge picking her up off her feet and carrying her inside.
"No! Dad no!" Octavia shouted.
Stolas gave her a smile and wave with tears coming down his face.
The Last Resort lifted off into the sky and Stolas looked up at the missile coming down and the Aparoids creating the hexagon dome.
Stolas raised his hands up and opened a cosmic portal but it didn't seem to suck them in as they was fighting against the gravity, even the missile was still on course.
"So it comes to this." Stolas sighed.
Stolas held his hands out to the missile and held it in mid-air while yelling in pain as to how much spiritual energy he was using by doing this.
The Aparoid Moths had no choice but to stop their dome ability and fly down to stop Stolas.
"Dome is gone!" Karura shouted.
The Last Resort left and entered hyperspeed right when they reached orbit.
Stolas smiled seeing the speck of light, knowing they made it out.
One Aparoid Moth flew down with its large head looking at him while the other eleven was surrounding him.
"Organic nuisance." The Aparoid said charging its solar beam.
"Stupid insect." Stolas said.
Stolas lowered his arms and let the missile continue its course and the Aparoid Moths completely forgetting about it were obliterated along with Stolas from the impact.
The blast was seen from space by other Aparoid Moths and they headed down to the planet to see what was left to destroy, or harvest.