Link Fangirl01: Why do you think they just get to walk away? They are main characters after all, and did you miss the part where the Vzalorous got borded? There will be no place to run very soon. I had one of those times where my ideas kept going and I kept writing and all was well.

Yina The Darkness Selatrope: Don't worry Yugo and Adamai will be fighting side by side, but I wanted to explore the nature of Adamai's powers, being a dragon he is inclined towards Stasis which is an energy of destruction, while Yugo is inclined towards Wakfu which is an energy of creation. The final battle will have the brothers working in tandem, but first I have to move some characters around so they are in the right places. (btw are you using google translate to read the story? Just curious.)

Author's note: This one is a long one with an epileptic number of jumps between characters, gonna get people moved towards the big finale now.

Chapter 25: Battle Royale

Chibi remained in the room that Seraphin's crew had given him, Grougaloragran hovered around him as the boy sat in a meditative position with his eyes closed. Perhaps he couldn't really help in the battle but at least he could watch. Grougaloragran would occasionally land on the eliatrope's head and temporarily share his vision until he grew bored and flew around the room looking for a way to cause trouble.

The golden knight had become an angel with a lot of wings and he fought with the dark one who wielded an ever regenerating hurricane of dark powers. Big brother Yugo fought alongside Rubi and Dally, they had just beaten everyone on their ship and prepared to board one that belonged to the dark one. Mother fought alongside a yellow haired boy fighting a man with a large scythe, Father fought with a female immortal who used her powers to suck life from her opponents.

Ruel and Amalia had left the battlefield, however his future sight told him they would be unable to rest for long before being assaulted again, this time in a garden of some kind. Flopin had killed a dark being and that made Chibi jealous, if they could fight, why couldn't he? Yugo's new friend fought alongside Ush, Eva and Cleo and were in the process of taking a dark ship for their own.

The god's each had an opponent as well, immortals and Aetherians that pit themselves against the deities. Goultard had the most success with his opponent who was a lesser immortal in blue armor. Pandawa fought with someone in red, Ecaflip fought with a green one. CHibi did not know what to make of all this. Adamai was trapped in a small room, training with Jack, who was being very mean for some reason.

The Eliatrope sighed and opened his eyes. "C'mon Grougal." He said, proud of how far his speaking skills had gotten. The two of them left their room and headed for the observation room he had seen Flopin and Elely in during his visions, it looked pretty cool, he wanted to see it.

Upon leaving his room however he was made painfully aware that something was wrong, people were running to and fro, they appeared paniced. He didn't like this, it made him feel afraid. He just wanted to go talk to Flopin. He decided to ignore them unless they tried to interact first and began running down the hall.

Eliatrope was quite tired of feeling useless in this battle, the was the mother of the gods dammit! Mortis was a very difficult opponent, but he couldn't keep up with Rip's speed, the little boy was incredible, dashing to and fro slamming the Aetherian's form with his hammer. But that did not mean Mortis didn't get his share of hits in, he was fast too, fast enough to catch the boy off guard from time to time.

The azure goddess searched for an answer, she had spent most of the battle healing her wounds, wounds that Mortis had caused. Her energy waves seemed to have little effect on The Death Bringer, he just shrugged them off, but she was not strong enough for a close quarters battle.

During a short pause in the action she formed a wakfu spear and threw it at Mortis, it impaled his shoulder and the Aetherian screamed in pain.

"Spawn of dogs!" Mortis uttered as though it was a curse, Eliatrope couldn't help but chuckle a little, what era did this guy come from, even she knew words like that meant nothing to her world anymore. Regardless this was fortuitous, her energy waves could not be used against the Aertherian, but her spears caused damage and pain, she would be able to help beat him.

"Tell the blue woman to stay out of our battle!" Mortis grunted at Rip.

The Immortal smiled "I could, but I don't think she'll listen," he said "You are trying to destroy her world after all."

Mortis growled and tried to pull the spear from his shoulder, it disintegrated as though it had never been there and the wound closed. Eliatrope came up with a theory, she waped in closer through a portal, getting near Rip.

"Get him to stand still for a minute." She said "But you can't be near him." Rip nodded understanding and reengaged the Death Bringer. The cloaked figure battled furiously, but he was not able to put the immortal down. It was rare for an immortal to stand toe to toe with an older aetherian, but Rip was pulling it off.

Mortis was visibly irritated by this, believing himself the superior being he believed he should have little trouble with such upstarts. The boy was merciless hawever, bashing him with that hammer at every opportunity. What even was that hammer anyway? How was able to cause him damage? Again the boy struck and again Mortis parried it away. He was getting frustrated, it was time to be done with this.

Mortis pulled away from Rip and held his scythe vertically in his hands he began a low chanting to enhance whatever power he was planning to use.

"Now Eliatrope!" Rip said calling to the azure goddess.

Mortis' eyes snapped open from his meditation and looked up at the creator deity with alarm. A dome of portals opened around the Death Bringer and from each one emerged a wakfu spear. Now Mortis' eyes showed fear, he would not be dodging all of those. He sped up his chanting but it was too little to late. With a swing of her arm Eliatrope commanded the spears to fall towards the Aetherian, he moved and attempted to dodge, he couldn't block because he kept chanting. But most of the spears hit their mark and Mortis cried in pain as he was skewered like a pincushion.

The Aetherian began to shrink and his cloak dissipated showing his skull mask and the blue eyes that lay behind them for the first time. His body became that of an adolescent and his eyes bulged in pain.

"I thought," He breathed as life left his body "You were a man of honor." Mortis' body fell from the heavens gaining speed and velocity as it his the atmosphere of the world of twelve and fell to where, no one knew, the spears dissipated as he fell shrouding his body in a beautiful blue aura.

"You killed him." Rip said in awe "Not even Jack could pull that off."

"At least I know they can be killed," Eliatrope said "I was starting to wonder at that."

"Well yes," Rip said "Theoretically it's possible, but noramly you have to have soul energy or a primordial weapon of some kind. It's very rare for life force energy to pull it off."

"Well, I guess I'm the rare case.' Eliatrope said with a huff of pride in her voice, she was the mother of the gods and that should prove it.

Adamai was not comfortable in this little space he had nearly no room to move and Jack, now visible assaulted him at every chance. How he managed to move in box barely big enough to hold them Adamai surely didn't know. His breathing was getting heavy, it was getting hard to breathe in this box. Yet Jack kept coming, as though he had no end of stamina or energy.

Adamai was mostly successful at parrying the blows so far, but his inability to breathe was starting to become a problem. He still didn't know how to convert his aura, unlike Yugo who regularly manipulated it into weapons and shields he had only used mainly energy projection as his means of attack.

Wait, he did stab Yugo with a stasis blade didn't he? Maybe if he could recall how he had done that, maybe he could change his aura again, this time into air. Jack came at him again, and again Adamai parried. But it wasn't enough, the blow had certainly damaged his arm this time.

The dragon concentrated hard, he tried to remember his feelings, the way his body and mind had moved, he tried hard. And he was successful… in creating another blade to use. Jack cocked his mouth in a half smile.

"Well, that's something." He said, then he had an Idea, he added burst energy to his fist and slammed the young dragon in the stomach forcing all the air out of his lungs. The dragon sputtered and tried to breath. He sucked in what little air remained as it became staler and staler. Then he seemed to be breathing fine suddenly.

Adamai stopped, where had this new rush of air come from? He looked around, there were no holes in the box. He saw that Jack was floating there smiling at him. Had he done it? He didn't feel like he was doing anything different.

"That's how it's done." Jack said

"Huh?" Adamai said "but I'm not doing anything."

Jack continued "It's a survival reflex," he said "I had to force it out of you, for Yugo and Percedal it was easy because they are willing to take things in stride. But your subconscious kept you from using it because you draw a line at what should be done to survive."

Adamai still didn't undertand and cocked his head to the side to try and think it over.

"Anywho," Jack said "You can sense energy signatures and auras yes?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Your dad needs some help," Jack said "he's fighting a particularly nasty immortal named Lillith, she has some kind of control over dead souls."

"That sounds… bad." Adamai said understating it a bit.

"Very," Jack said "After that you need to find your brother, The Valorous has been borded and I don't know how long his friends are gonna hold out once the enemy is in sight."

"So what, I just get him and come back?" Adamai asked

"Pretty much," Jack said "meet on the observation deck."

"Okay." Adamai replied

Jack began to move the room and change it back to it's original size so he could let the dragon get out. But to his surprise the dragon simply disappeared into a purple vortex that dissipated a moment later.

"He can teleport." Jcak said "Huh."

Lillith was having fun, sure some of her powers didn't work on this one because of his reptilian nature, but the good ones still did, she could drain him of life. The dragon was trying very hard to keep his distance, but it was clear he was a short range fighter. So was she, but her weapons were her fingers, not a blade.

She rushed in towards him again to grab hi face, but something slammed down on her from above. Something heavy and powerful, before she could react fire burst from whatever it was and engulfed her hair and dress. She twisted in midair and put out the flames by allowing the vaccum of space to end them.

Now she could see her assailant, another dragon, this one was smaller and clearly younger, but she could feel his power was on par with the other one. This was bad, she wasn't going to be able to take on two powerful entities easily. The smaller dragon proceeded to throw his hand outward and a purple blast flew forwards towards her. And he was a ranged fighter, this just went from bad to worse. Lillith dodged the blast but was uneasy.

"Hey," The younger dragon said to the older "I guess you're my real dad huh?"

"Time for a reunion later Adamai," The older dragon stated "First we must deal with her."

Lillith cocked an eyebrow, these two were family? That could play to her advantage, the older would most certainly protect the younger and perhaps vice versa. Yes, she could play with these two quite well.

She charged the new arrival with all her speed, a formidable force to be sure, the new dragon countered with an energy beam, which she turned her body to dodge, the older dragon wasn't moving to protect the younger though, she was curious why; until she impaled herself on a purple blade the younger dragon had formed over his fist. The younger dragon smiled at her as she shrieked in pain and backed off at near light speeds. Her wound regenerated rapidly, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

This was a problem, the older was a master at short range combat, while the younger could attack from a distance, this put her at a considerable disadvantage. She had underestimated these two, it was time she -, wait, that feeling, Mortis had fallen? It had been a long time since Mortis fell in battle.

"I apologize gentlemen," Lillith said "But an urgent matter has come to my attention."

She rushed away from the dragons, the younger pursued her, but the older stopped him saying it was not worth the effort, a pity, if they had really wanted they could've caught her easily. Though she would have made sure that killing her would be difficult.

"My dear Mortis," she said quietly to herself "Whatever has happened to you now."

Ruel and Amalia walked slowly back towards the area where they had met, the observation deck, he believed the golden knight had called it. Alarms were blaring, these were louder than before, people were running to and fro and Ruel was becoming concerned. It seemed as though the threat was becoming more immediate. Nevertheless he traveled with the sadida princess away from the battle, they were not fit to be combatants here.

As they walked the passed an area that had a sign above it, the sign read something in the Aetherian language that Ruel couldn't understand. Amalia suddenly shifted though, her eyes widening and seeming to shine with some intensity.

"Ruel!" she said "There are plants here!"

Ruel cocked an eyebrow at her, but otherwise chose not to respond, he knew she could sense things he could not, but he was doubtful that there was any plant life in this metal vessel.

Amalia looked at the door, she wasn't sure how to open it since it had no knob or handle. She felt around the area before hearing Ruel sigh.

"You have to push that." He said pointing at a small piece of metal that jutted out a little from the rest. "You push on it and it goes into the wall, then something will happen."

"How do you know?" Amalia asked disbelieveingly. "Enutrofs make things like that, usually out of wood though, they're called buttons. We use them as a means of starting our machinery."

Amalia cocked an eyebrow, but did as the old enutrof had suggested and pressed her finger against the button, the button depressed into the wall, coming out when she lifted her finger. Nonetheless the door seemed to disappear with a whooshing sound.

"That's something you don't see everyday." Ruel said as he walked into the room, Amalia was quick to follow, she did not want the foul enutrof to hurt the plant life she had sensed inside. It was dark, but lights began to flicker on illuminating a vast room. There were metal walkways around the room and a few that passed through the middle of the room. The vast majority of the room was a giant garden full of teeming plant life.

"Welcome ad oxygeni officinas." A feminine but mechanical voice said, seemingly coming from nowhere. This room had no alarms blaring, but the alarms outside were still audible and that still bothered Ruel.

"We should get back to the observation deck Amalia," he said "It sounds to me like the fight is getting closer."

"But that's just it!" Amalia said happily "I feel so useless out there, I can't fight with anything but my doll. Here I can fight the way a Sadida warrior should!"

Ruel frowned, he never was too terribly fond of the Sadida kingdom, all the plant life made him feel claustrophobic. This was worse, the place was clearly a purposely created garden, forest, jungle, thing with a whole mishmash of plants that probably shouldn't grow together. And who knew what danger lie within let alone how would he fight if they were attacked here.

"Hey the oxygen factory is open!" someone outside said "Get in there and check for intruders, if they've made it this far…" the man did not finish his sentence, but he didn't need to, Ruel had heard all he needed to hear, there were enemies aboard the Valorous and they were making headway, and it would be very bad if they took this room, apparently called the oxygen factory.

Several men rushed in with weapons drawn and ready to attack. Ruel still had no idea how their weapons worked, though they held them in a similar fashion to rouge rifles. They quckly surrounded the forested area in which Ruel and Amalia had taken cover. The two now awaited the response of Seraphin's military forces, afraid they would attack on sight.

"Aren't we supposed to be their friends!" Amalia whispered in hushed tones, but clearly angry about the situation.

"When people become afraid, they sometimes forget their friends." Ruel said in reply Amalia cocked an eyebrow again wondering when Ruel had become so wise and sagely.

"Come out intruders!" The voice of the commanding officer said "We know you're in here, and if e have to flush you out you will definitely die."

Ruel suddenly stood and came into view of the soldiers "We're not intruders!" he said quickly.

"Indentify yourself!" the commading officer said

"I'm Ruel Stroud," Ruel replied I'm here with Yugo and Adamai and the others."

The commander muttered something to one of the troops, the sodier pulled a small metel object out and pressed buttons on it and moved his fingers around.

"We have confirmed your identity," The commander stated "You should know that the enemy approaches quickly, it is inadvisable for you to remain here Mr. Stroud."

"I will be fine sir." The Enutrof said "I fight better in such an environment." He blatantly lied in order to get them to leave.

"Negetive," The commander said "We will likely only hold out so long, if we are forced to retreat you will be trapped in here with the enemy, this is an unacceptable outcome."

"You won't have to retreat" Amalia said as she too stood up, Ruel huffed, he had been trying to keep her presence a secret.

"Identify yourself!" The commander said and the soldiers stiffened their weapons on her.

"I am Amlaia Sheram sharm, Daughter of King Sherarm Sharm and Princess of the Sadida Kingdom." She said with an air of royal pride "We are sworn protectors of the World's forests and plants, I can use this room as a means to defend this place at your side."

The commander again motioned to the young man with the thin metal device and again the young man tapped and scrolled. He nodded at the commander "Short of all the titles, she's in here with the other locals." He said.

"Very well," the commander said "If you wish we will let you aid us in the defense of this area."

Author's note: So I took a fall on my bike and have been stuck on the couch for four days sorry about the lack of updates. As it turns out being trapped and unable to move does not make it easier to write, because constant pain certainly kills creativity and motivation.