CHAPTER FIFTEEN Last Battle Of Kathren

When Kathren awoke in the fiery cavern, she wondered where she was. She knew she was in Bri Delenn's body still, for it felt alien to her. As Kathren looks around, a strange pain and vibe takes over Kathren's mind…something is horribly wrong here! And worse, why has Bri Delenn surrendered so easily?

Kathren gazes around the fiery cesium of the belly of the volcano…of all places to wake up in, it had to be volcanoes, she hates volcanoes! They are hot, smelly, gassy, and unpredictable! When Kathren calms herself down, she hears a noise and in response she turns quickly to face a giant in cold iron and steel. It's face stretched, it's eyes black like dying embers, the color of the figure is all bronze. And in it's hand is a staff with three spikes dripping with red blood.

As Asron walks forward, he poses to Kathren in a mocking manner, but does not know that Kathren is entrapped in Bri Delenn's body. As Asron pulls out his sword, he will cut down this creature once and for all!

With Asron's blade swinging in mid air, Kathren dodges the sharp blade and feels the emotions of fear and anger well up in her body like trapped molten rock of a volcano. Clearly, this body is much more mobile then her own and poses many advancements then hers, possibly, these creatures are once advanced then she is?

When the blade hit the basalt, sparks fly and in a brief second Kathren dodges the next slice and Kathren dodges the blade for the third time.

Asron is becoming tired of the slicing approach and changes over to the stabbing approach, a more difficult approach to block, which proved useful against Bri Delenn the first time around.

With the stabbing approach, Kathren is becoming lucky, but when Kathren grips a device that looks like a blade, she slices off Lord Asron's hand at the base of the sword. When the hand fell free from its master, the sound of the sword clings to the floor, Kathren has won the final battle with her greatest enemy.

With sheer exhaustion, Kathren drops her own sword and tries to catch her breath. As Kathren turns her back on Asron, Asron rips off a piece of metal from his suit and stabs Kathren in the back. The sheer pain causes Kathren to drop to her knees and as Kathren gasps for her next breath, Lord Asron pulls out the metal. He picks up Kathren with his one hand and throws her near the crack hoping that she would fall into the belly of Mount Cerfire, but Kathren doesn't even clear the ledge and as Kathren staggers to her feet she has somehow managed to remove Lord Asron's ring off his good hand.

"Lord Asron…the hour is late, and it's about our time to rest for good." Lord Asron looks at Bri Delenn, wondering what is all this rubbish he speaks of. "I've return to pay forward the vengeance of Alquarious!" Says Kathren through the vocals of Bri Delenn.

Lord Asron slowly walks over to Bri Delenn. "You fool, you can not kill me! Only ancients an harm me!"

Kathren smiles, forcing the tired muscles on Bri Delenn's face to mimic the reaction. "I know, how sad for you to have forgotten the Aqua Ancients!" Kathren opens Bri Delenn's hand to expose Lord Asron's ring. One could guess that Lord Asron was well quite pickled how a organic, young race child, not of the reign of ancients could have managed to remove his soul.

As Lord Asron looks at Bri Delenn, he now has pieced two-to-two together. "Kathren!" Kathren smiles to realize that Asron will go to his death bed realizing that it was a fish that torn down his empire. As Kathren releases the ring into the fiery abyss, Lord Asron looks at Kathren and as the metal begins to glow, a wind implodes the suit and the energy of Lord Asron is no more.

With Mount Cerfire released from it's unnatural activity, the volcano gives Kathren enough time to escape the molten caverns and then showers the landscape with fiery rock.

By the time Kathren placed enough distance between herself and Mount Cerfire, Mount Cerfire removes about 500 feet of its top in one gigantic eruption and the wind knocks Kathren down. As Kathren lies there, she orders the last of her healing abilities not to heal her soul, but to heal the body of Bri Delenn. Feeling life draining away from her, she can actually understand what it feels like to die.

Darkness creped back into Kathren's eyes, she releases every once of energy to repair the crippled body and despaired soul of Bri Delenn. When the world grew cold, Kathren felt herself float away and pass out of Bri Delenn's body.

It must not have taken long for Kathren to soon feel herself awaken back in her aquatic environment, she was alive, and passed out of the realm of the flesh and now stepped into the realm of the supernatural as Human's would call it. As Kathren Deprofit Eastmar swam around, she feels something different in the water…it's Bri Delenn, and she is near and alive!

Feeling the presence of Bri Delenn, she swims to the surface, but the ocean is too stormy to be able to see at all. As Kathren feels horrible vibes in the water, something is not right! Kathren immediately gazes the horizon as she feels the safety of the Prophecy being assured except for one…Bri Delenn, who can't swim!

Feeling the presence of Bri Delenn and finding her body cling in suspended animation. Kathren swims up to Bri Delenn, touches her hands and passes her soul into Bri Delenn's body once more. Even though Kathren is not dying, she wants to explore other worlds and in-turn would save Bri Delenn's life once again. But this time there is a price for the supernatural helping the natural.

When Bri Delenn awakes, she looks at Kathren. Since coming to K'ha'dum, Bri Delenn has always been connected to Kathren in some form, and now meeting her, this is the highlight of being on this god-forsaken planet.

Bri Delenn has taken on the characteristics of Kathren and as the process of mind speech develops, I will not tell about their discussions, I can only say that Bri Delenn has accepted Kathren's gift and has passed her name upon herself calling herself Kathren Mira.

As Kathren passes out of her birth planet of K'ha'dum, she travels back to Minbar and relocates herself in one of Minbar's might oceans, but then that's another story.

Author: David J.

Based Off: Babylon 5, Surface, Lord Of The Rings

Genre: Science Fiction

Copyright Date: 2006

Final Edit/Typed Date: December 27th 2006