The Tragedy of a Hero

Chapter 11

Father and Son

"Augh!" Raguna groaned as he was punched by his son, "Oof!" he fell to the ground,

"I think you have had enough..." Leona chuckled as he walked over to his downed father, "Now, just give me the sword and maybe I'll think about sparing your life."

"Don't do it!" Luna yelled, "He'll just haunt you! Kill him now! Give our baby a brighter future!"

"Hm..." Leona mumbled, "She's right, you know... I wonder why I didn't want to marry her."

"Because I was training you up to become something better..." Raguna groaned, "Something better than this..."

"What's better than being the Hero of the Runes?" Leona chuckled, "Now, give me the right side... I want the Blade of the Gods fully restored!"

"You will never have my half..." Raguna stood up, "You're not worthy..."

"I am holding the other half.." Leona said, "They're the same thing."

"No..." Raguna muttered, "A Hero holds this one..."

"Why you!" Leona yelled and charged, "Ventusgale!" he blasted his father with a hurricane wave,

"AUGH!" Raguna crashed into the wall,

"Leona, stop!" Mist stepped in his path,

"Get out of my way!" Leona yelled and slapped his own mother aside,

"AH!" Mist screamed and fell to her knees,

"You should just stay on the ground..." Leona growled at her,

"How dare you hit your mother like that!?" Raguna roared and charged,

"Huh!?" Leona didn't even have time to turn, "AUGH!" he yelled when he was viciously tackled.

KLINK! Leona's half of the sword landed a few feet away, as did Raguna's.

"Have... Some..." Raguna said whilst punching him, "Respect!" he delivered a crippling hook,

"Get.. Off of me!" Leona yelled and tried to push his father off, "HAH!" he punched him

"You made a grave mistake hitting her, you little brat!" Raguna picked him up, "HAH!" he threw him at a small pillar,

"ACK!" Leona yelled, "Argh..." he growled as he stood up, "Is that how you want to fight!?"

"Get him, Leona!" Fiersome roared, "Show him how real mortals fight!"

"No..." Leona grinned, seeing The Benefactor pointing at something, "I got a better idea..."

"What is it, kid?" Raguna growled, "You gonna run away?!"

"Even better..." Leona said, "Luna, get me the swords!" he yelled,

"Alright!" Luna said,

"I'll take care of the babe!' Ventuswill told her, and Luna dashed off, leaving her baby in her protection,

"Huh!?" Raguna turned around, seeing the two halves alone on the ground, "Oh no you don't!"

"I'm going, Raguna!" Mist stood up and dashed to them,

"Ha ha!" Luna beat her older rival to them, "I got them, Leona! Here, get them!"

"I'm going!" Leona laughed, and gave a sucker punch to his father before sprinting,

"Argh!" Raguna was fazed, "Hey!" he yelled and followed behind.

"Here!" Luna quickly tossed the blades over to Leona, who caught them perfectly.

"No!" Mist arrived too late to stop her,

"Hahahaha!" The Benefactor laughed, "You did it, Leona! You are the Hero!"

"Yes I am!" Leona quickly crashed the two halves together,

"Ah!" Raguna was blinded by the light created, "No!"

"YES!" Leona laughed, "I have done it!"

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"Things are not looking good for Raguna!" Frey gasped as the three watched the battle from afar,

"With Leona uniting the Blade of Light..." Lest gulped, "Raguna may be done for!"

"And so are we!" Noel cried, "If there was something we could do!"

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"Ha ha ha ha!" Leona laughed as he held the United Blade of Light in his hands,

"He's done it!" Terrable said in awe, "Hail the New Hero of the Runes!"

"Behold Father!" Leona said, "As I make this world a better place!" he yelled and pointed at the Divine Dragons,

"Huh!?" Aquaticus said as they started to float,

"What's going on!?" Ventuswill said as she saw the baby on the ground get smaller, "Why am I floating?!"

"Leona!" Terrable roared, "What are you doing!?"

"I am giving you the strength to fight!" Leona yelled, and power surged through the deities, "You are the gods of this world!"

"Ah!" Fiersome yelled, "Thank you so much!"

"It's over, Raguna!" Luna laughed as she stood by Leona's side, "This is your end."

"BEHOLD!" Leona yelled, "I HOLD THE BLADE OF THE GODS!"

"This is a disaster..." Raguna growled,

"He wouldn't dare kill his parents..." Mist mumbled, "Would he?"

"Yes... I would..." Leona chuckled, "What have you done to help me... This was all my effort!"

"We saved your life!" Mist told him,

"It was our effort that you are still alive and breathing!" Raguna added,

"It was our love and sacrifice that let us withstand 200 years of isolation in the Light Realm." Mist cried, "We did it all for you, Leona... Our firstborn son... We did it because we love you!"

"That is all lies!" The Benefactor told Leona, "They're deceiving you!"

"Silence!" Leona yelled at his parents, "You speak lies!"

"You are a liar too!?" Terrable scoffed, "I should have expected this."

"We are not lying!" Mist yelled, "Leona.. Please!"

"This is your end!" Leona raised his blade in order to strike them down,

"Kill them!" Luna told him,

"NOT TODAY!" a voice yelled,

"WAH!" Leona was knocked down by Noel,

"Give me that!" Lest yelled and tried to take away the Blade of Light from the youth's hands,

"Get away from him!" Ventuswill roared and struck Noel with her tail,

"RAH!" Fiersome headbutted Lest,

"Hyah!" Frey stepped in,

"Get off!" Leona groaned as he tried to get his mother-in-law off his back, "Hah!" he started to swing his blade wildly,

"Give me that!" Frey continued to hold on, like a cowboy with a bucking bronco,

"HYAH!" Leona gave one wild enough swing to knock her off,

"Augh!" Frey fell to the ground,

"Time to k-" Leona paused when he heard a whimper behind him,

"Oh my..." Mist gasped as she saw the sight.

There was Luna, with a cut straight across her chest,

"Le-Le-Leona..." Luna cried, "Why... Did... AH..." she fell to her knees,

"NOO!" Leona yelled in horror, "NO!"

"Did he..." Terrable muttered, "Kill his own wife!?"

"Oh my..." Ventuswill said in shock,

"LUNA!" Leona cried, "I... I didn't mean it! Oh gods! Why... Help her!" he yelled at the Divine Dragons,

"We can't!" Fiersome said, "We don't control lives!"

"Then who does!?" Leona yelled, but then looked down, his wife was dead, "RAHH!" he exploded, "Curse whichever god controls the lives of men! He has brought me great agony!"

"Huh!?" Raguna looked at the sword, which started to glow,

"What's this!?" Leona yelled as he felt the sword's power decrease, "WAH!" he yelled when the sword split once more,

"Ha ha!" Raguna laughed when the right side landed straight into his hand, "What a mistake you have done!"

"What did I do!?" Leona yelled,

"You have cursed the Greater Power!" Raguna laughed, "His blessing was in this sword! I guess he prefers me over you!" he felt the sword surge in power, "Ooh Baby! Am I back in business!"

"It does not matter!" Leona growled, "You only have one god's blessing! I have four!"

"This ain't no ordinary god, Leona!" Raguna yelled, "This is the Creator Deity!"

"Enough!" Leona yelled and charged.

However, Raguna saw this before it happened, his half regained the power of foresight!

"Ha ha!" Raguna did the steps to completely unravel that assault, "Take this!"

"Argh!" Leona was sent to the floor, "Why you! Aquatisurge!"

"WOAH!" Raguna was swept away, but quickly recovered,

"Hah!" Leona charged violently,

"I see it!" Raguna said, then stepped aside and struck his son in the flank,

"ARGH!" Leona yelled in pain, but his armor reduced the damage to a minor cut, "Why you!" he swung his sword,

"ACK!" Raguna was struck in the thigh, "A vision!" he exclaimed when he saw Leona shoot a Fiersome fire ball,

"Fiersphere!" Leona surely yelled, and the fireball shot out,

"Ha ha!" Raguna, expecting it, stepped aside,

"Hmph!" Leona said, and then looked to the side lines, seeing Lest, Frey and Noel standing there, "Ventusbolts!" he yelled and shot lightning bolts out of his fingers.

"WOAH!"
"AH!"
"YIKESS!" The three were knocked out of the Palace.

"The less enemies, the better..." Leona chuckled to his father, "Huh!?"

KAPOW! Raguna had snuck in a devastating left hook,

"AUGH!" Leona fell to the ground,

"I'll take that!" Raguna snatched the left half of the Blade of Light, "HAH!" he reunited the blades.

"NO!" the Dragons screeched, then tried to stop the process,

"I SURELY SAW IT!" Raguna yelled, having received a vision, and used the fused blade to attack them all.

"RAH!" Terrable was struck, as where his comrades, they all were quickly disabled...

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"The less enemies, the better.." Raguna repeated to his son, who was barely getting up,

"Shut up!" Leona yelled and entered a tantrum,

"Kill him now!" The Benefactor yelled,

"You shut up!" Leona yelled at him, "You led me into this mess!"

"Who are you talking to!?" Mist asked, seeing Leona was yelling at thin air,

"You shut up too!" Leona held his head in pain, "Go away, Benefactor!" he yelled at him,

"We need to win, Leona!" The Benefactor argued, "Or you'll never be the Hero again!"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Leona punched him,

"My son is mad!" Mist cried as she saw Leona punch thin air with such ferocity,

"I'm trying to help you, boy!" The Benefactor yelled, "We just need to get that sword back!"

"Who do you think he is talking to!?" Mist asked Raguna,

"ARGH!" Leona held his head as a dark spirit came out his left ear,

"GAH!" the two parents gasped as The Benefactor appeared in spirit for all to see.

"Why don't you ask the man himself!?" The Benefactor laughed, "I am the rage of Leona concentrated throughout the years! And it was you! Oh Great Hero! That sparked my birth!"

"What?" Raguna said,

"It was your incessant oppression that made Leona hate you and hate you..." The Benefactor said, "Your pride poisoned his mind... To him, it was all about you! But no longer! I helped him rise up, and now... We shall defeat you!" he laughed and once again entered Leona.

"Hah!" Leona yelled, "I will kill you!" he yelled and tackled Raguna.

"WAH!" Raguna yelled as he was knocked down,

"Raguna!" Mist gasped and stepped aside,

"I will kill you!" Leona yelled and snatched the Blade from his hand, "HAH!" he raised it up sky high,

"HRAH!" Raguna kicked him off, then the two stood, facing each other.

"It's time for you to die..." Leona chuckled as he held the blade once more,

"I just want you to know, Leona..." Raguna mumbled, "I never wanted this to happened... I always loved you... When you were young... It broke my heart the thought that you were going to perish... Because of that... I trained you like there was no tomorrow."

"Shut up!" Leona was livid now, and blindly charged in rage against his father,

"Hah!" Raguna caught the blade,

"Huh!?" Leona said, but was kicked down, "Ooof!" he fell on his back, "Damn it! Die!" he tried his hardest to stab his father.

"Hyah!" Raguna grabbed the blade, and took possession of it,

"Hmphh!" Leona growled and took out a concealed dagger, trying his hardest to strike his father wherever possible,

"Stop!" Raguna held down the dagger arm, "Oh my son... I am so sorry.." he mumbled and hovered the blade over Leona's heart,

"Father!" Leona gasped in horror, "No! Father! Please! Don't!"

"I always loved you..." Raguna cried, and gave the thrust...

"Agh..." Leona gagged, "Agh agh... Gha..." he looked to his left, and he saw The Benefactor frown and slowly fade away... After a few moments, he breathed his last.

"He failed us..." a voice said from behind, it was Fiersome, who was the only one conscious, "That puny mortal failed us!" he roared and charged, "HE WILL PAY!" he flew past Raguna and Mist,

"Fiersome!" Raguna yelled, "Don-"

"BRAH!" Fiersome breathed fire on a certain spot...

And with that... Leona's bloodline was terminated...