Chapter 13: Doomsnight
The castle's dungeon
Zhalia was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling. Again. There was nothing else to do.
Suddenly she heard a sound.. a key.. somebody was opening her door!
She didn't knew whether to be happy or afraid.
When the door opened she jumped up, ready to fight if necessary. But the persons who came in weren't the one she'd expected.
"Zane?"
Zane came in, followed by a tall man with… dark blue hair, just like… hers?
"What's this? Who's that?"
"Zhalia! I know this is going to sound very weird but… this is our father!" Zane said smiling.
Zhalia's eyes widened. For a second she didn't knew what to say or think.
"But-but you said he was dead! I don't believe you anymore!" She yelled at him angrily.
Zack stepped forward.
"It was all part of Rassinov's plan. He deceived Zane, lied to him about what happened. The truth is that Rassinov killed your mother, and locked me up here in the castle."
Zhalia stepped back, she had never felt so confused in all of her life.
"Please Zhalia, you got to believe me. I'm- I'm so very sorry about what happened. I shouldn't have listened to Rassinov, but he.. he was my only family, I thought he saved me, I saw him like my father. I couldn't see what he really is; a monster…" Zane said appealing.
And she believed him, she understood what he was saying. He had thought about Rassinov the same way as she had thought of Klaus.
"Oh Zane you fool!" She said with tears in her eyes.
"I believe you." She said, and hugged him.
Suddenly she remembered the other person in the room, and what all of this mend.
She let go of Zane and a bit uncertain, she walked towards her father. He smiled.
"Oh Zhalia, look at you, you look just like your mother…"
Zack was now also crying, and without saying a word Zhalia hugged him to.
"WHAT THE-" Jeff had just came in and couldn't believe his eyes.
Zane reacted immediately and jumped into the surprised Jeff. They rolled into the alley, and before Jeff could scream for help, Zane eliminated him with a spell.
"Damn that was close…" He said.
"This probably means Dante and the others have arrived, we must go upstairs and help them!" Zhalia said determined.
"You two go ahead, there's somebody else I here I have to free first." Zack said.
Zhalia and Zane nodded, and ran upstairs.
The main hall of the castle
The sound of approaching footsteps filled the hall.
"Ah, that's probably Jeff with our last guest." Rassinov said with a sinister smile on his face.
But when the door opened, and Zhalia and Zane came in, that smile disappeared of his face.
"What's this? Where's Jeff? Zane-"
"Shut up Rassinov! I know everything now, you've lied to me, you've used me! My parents weren't a part of the Bloodspiral, it was the opposite! You've killed my mother and locked up my father! How could you?" Zane yelled at him.
Everybody in the hall looked completely stunned, Rassinov most of all.
He took a deep breath.
" So you've found out the truth, and now you're turning against me." He said with a emotionless voice.
"Fine, but don't think it's going to change anything. Tonight, I will gain ultimate power!"
He took the amulet of the night out of his pocket.
Suddenly Jeff approached Zane from behind and put a knife against his throat.
Rassinov smiled, and threw the amulet to Zhalia.
"So, Miss. Moon and Miss. Casterwell, you can summon the titans now, or Jeff will kill Zane."
Sophie, Lok and Dante looked at each other. Dante nodded as an ok- sigh. They knew what they do now.
The front doors of the hall slammed open, and out of nowhere a hard wind blew through the hall, making the windows of stained glass shatter.
"Who did that?" Rassinov yelled furious.
In the commotion nobody paid attention to Sophie, who pointed her hand at Zhalia. She took a deep breath.
Come on Sophie, one shot to do this spell right…
"Mindconnection." She whispered.
- Zhalia can you hear me?
Sophie…? What's this?
We can talk telepathically now, but I have to be quick. We have a plan. When I say so, you have to make yourself invisible with Thoughtspecter. Come to me, and touch my amulet with yours.
But Zane…
Don't worry, Santiago is here, he caused this confusion, and will save Zane.
Ok, I understand-
"Now!" Sophie yelled.
A lot of things happened at the same time.
Zhalia disappeared in a flash.
Santiago made Jeff, who wasn't expecting an attack, lose consciousness by hitting him with in the neck.
The people in long attires started to fire spells at Zane and Santiago, who used Armorbrand to block the attacks.
Rassinov's eyes searched for Zhalia, but when he finally found her, it was too late.
"NOOO!" He screamed, when Zhalia touched the amulet of the day with the amulet of the night.
Everybody stopped fighting and looked at the blinding white light that appeared, when the two amulets melted together, and disappeared.
The light was gone, and the titans to.
"Unbelievable… How did you knew that Sophie?" Zhalia asked.
"All thanks to the Casterwell secret library." She said proudly.
"There I found out, that the titans of the night and day aren't only opposites, but also twins, separated by seekers. And when the Bloodspiral and the Casterwell finally make peace, and unite the amulets, the titans can return to spirit world again, and live together in harmony forever."
Rassinov looked terrible.
"But my plan was infallible, the Bloodspiral would be unstoppable, the world would be ours! It's all your fault, all of you will pay for this….. Brothers and sisters of the Bloodspiral, destroy them!" He yelled with an insane look in the eyes.
Shauna jumped towards Sophie.
"Now It's finally time to kill you, filthy Casterwell!" She said with a voice dripping of hate.
"Raypulse!"
Sophie avoided the attack.
"Help me; Albion, Icarus!"
"Ash, Anubian, destroy them!"
In the mean time Wind fought with Dante, trying to hit him with Darkwave, while Dante tried to hit Wind with Dragonfist.
Lok was being attacked by four of Rassinov's minions.
"Kipperin!"
Within a few seconds Lok flew through the air.
"Try to hit me now losers!"
Zhalia wanted to help him but suddenly Rassinov stood right in front of her, so she quickly summoned King Basilisk. Rassinov summoned Kopesh and Nighlurker.
King Basilisk turned Kopesh into stone, but was destroyed by Nighlurker, who attacked him from behind.
Before Zhalia could summon another titan, Rassinov hit her with Touchram. She fell on the ground, but quickly stood up and used Shadowspeed to avoid a new attack, and then used Poisonfang on Rassinov. But unfortunately Nighlurker caught the attack for him.
Rassinov smiled.
"This is getting interesting."
He tried to hit her with Darkwave. Zhalia blocked the attack partly with Armorbrand, but was still thrown against the wall by the power of it.
She felt dizzy and tried to stand up again, but Rassinov was faster and pushed her against the wall, with his left hand on her throat. He right hand glowed up black.
"You should have chosen our side Zhalia, now it's too late."
Suddenly Rassinov was hit in the side by Raypulse. He fell on the ground and looked stunned to his attacker.
"Not my daughter to asshole!" Zack yelled at him.
"Dad!" Zhalia said relieved.
"How touching….."
Rassinov tried to stand up, but Zhalia and Zack quickly hit him with a combination- Touchram. He flew another five meters through the air and hit the big mirror at the end of the hall. Now he didn't stood up any more.
"No!" Shauna yelled when she saw her brother being defeated.
Sophie used that distraction to hit her with Raypulse.
At that moment Dante hit Wind with Dragonfist, and Shauna and Wind crashed into each other.
"This is my chance…" Dante said.
"Stopglue!"
He glued Shauna and Wind stuck to the ground. They couldn't move no more, and realized that they were defeated.
But in the mean time Lok was still having trouble with Rassinov's minions. One of them hit Kipperin, and Lok fell down on the ground, at the feet of one of the minions.
"It's over kid." He said.
"On the contrary." A voice said.
Lok looked to the person who had said that, and saw a man with blond hair and a moustache. A man who was older than he remembered, but who he still recognized. He would always recognize him.
"Oh my god? Dad? Is that really you? It can't be-"
"It's me Lok. I was locked up here, just like Zack. But now I'm free, and I'm not going to let anybody hurt you."
He hit two minions at the same time with a spell Lok didn't knew, and walked towards him.
Lok stood up, and while tears of happiness and disbelief ran down his face, he hugged his father.
Finally they had found each other.
Together with Sophie, Zack, Zane and Santiago they fought with the other eight minions.
In the chaos of flying spells and people, Dante desperately searched for Zhalia.
"Zhalia!"
Suddenly he heard her voice.
"Dante!"
She ran towards him, and fell in his arms.
"Zhalia finally, I'm so happy you're okay…" He whispered.
His dark- brown eyes looked into her gold- brown, and without a word, he kissed her.
Around them the fight slowly became silent. The Bloodspiral was defeated, and world saved.
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Hooray, the bad guys lost! ^^
Now the story's almost finished, there will be one last chap, as a cherry on the whip cream…..
Ps: Of course reviews are welcome! =)