Rita Tales of the Cosmic Wars

Chapter 96: Fury Sparks! Liberating Puppets from twisted Puppeteers!

Last time in Tales of the Cosmic Wars, once more Ben and pals found themselves in a rapidly worsening situation! After agreeing to trust Yuri's word they went with Brave Vesperia to the floating city of the Kritya, Myorzo. Once there they met the blue haired elder, and he had answers to give, even if they were unpleasant ones. He explained to all the history of the Child of the Full Moon, and it seems it was bad news because her fate appears to be one that puts the entire planet in jeopardy! However, both Yuri's group and Ben's refused to let death be the only option for the poor pink haired princess and resolved to find a way to change things.

However, when they were thinking of options, a unexpected sideshow occurred when they opened the present Raven brought gift for the secluded race, only to find it was one of Link's dangerous foes, the insane Majoria's mask!

While it was even more crazed and powerful then last time Link fought him, this time the demon mask was up against a lot more opponents! While it transformed to its powerful Majoria Wrath form it's found itself out matched and after being barraged with attacks Yuri managed to land the final blow to destroy it once more. However, this soon became a hallowed victory when they found out that Estelle and Raven were no longer in the village!

Fearing the worse they tracked down the trail of energy using the Neo-Highwind and hurried to the Shrine of Bacton. Once there it seems things were worse then they imagined when they saw Alexei had indeed been deceiving the Enji, and now held Estelle in a magical cage where he could force her to do whatever he wanted!

Are hero's persuaded Alexei in to the depths of the shrine. They ran in to a road block in the form of a powerful energy wall, but luckily the mysterious being Duke that had crossed paths with Yuri and pals before seemed to be feeling like testing what Yuri could do and gave him his powerful sword Dein Nomos, which allowed Yuri to easily shattered the wall! At last they caught up with the traitorous Commandant just as he was killing another wounded Entelexia and took its power! While they had the madman trapped just when they were ready to smash him his ally relived himself, and to Link 's horror it was the dark magician who was long dead but recently back on the living realm causing darkness on the behalf of his master, Agahnim !

The servant of Ganondorf seemed to care more about furthering whatever scheme he was up to more than revenge and warped him, the trapped Estelle and Alexei away before are hero's eyes! However, in their place were some of the Zaphais Commandant's other associates.

The sly and ruthless leader of the Leviathans Claw Guild Yeager, the obsessive and blood thirsty Zagi, and the powerful Captain Schwann! But what disturbed Yuri the most was that he seemed to be none other than the true identity of their kooky ally Raven!

It seems that in order to save the day Ben, Cloud, Link, and especially Yuri and pals might have to take out there former ally in order to rescue Estelle!

Even if they can, can they stop the plot of Alexei and his alleys of darkness? Today we find are answer so ready? Go!

Today's chapter opens with a bang because we start off with the fight that started at the end of our previous episode! At the moment Ben has just defected a lighting blast from one of the Black Waltz Necrocalcous right back in to it, and as it is getting zapped by its own spell Ben flash steps in front of it and slashes it in half! Right after that a few more of the heartless monsters dive at him, only to be blasted in to dust by a volley of energy arrows from James! Ben then says," Well, looks like it's nothing special. Alexei seems to severely underestimate how strong we are.

First Kira and now this, I am a little tired of these guys that think they know everything think they can just do whatever they want! That's it, once I get out of here I am going to give Alexei the treatment he des, whoa!" He then senses something and turns around to see a giant green energy blast coming at him and dashes out of the way just as it blows a huge hole in the wall! Ben turns to see a laughing Yeager, whose Scythe seems to also function as a powerful energy rifle and the blue wearing villain aims at Ben again while saying," How rude of you to make plans that won't happen ya? After all, the only thing you will be doing is losing a lot of weight my dear out of world chum!"

With that he fires of a volley of shots at Ben's way, but are hero just as his magic energy grow as he defects every shot! He then charges at Yeager while saying,"

You think your weird accent is going to make me scared of you? Forget it; here is what I think of you."

He then unleashes a powerful energy sword wave attack that shatters the ground in front of Yeager, and makes him more than a little nervous as he summons his own magic energy to block it! However it seems Ben put more energy in to then he thought and his face is cut as he is blown backwards from its power, and that was just from only getting glanced by it!

Yeager looks amused and rasps out a wry," I see your power is great indeed my dear fellow. But I will make you yield that pretty face on to my trophy room! Now, time to say by by! Huh, what the?" He is shocked to see a stern Ben appear right in front of him as his first glows with energy and he says," Yah, you see I am not in the mood to drag this fight out to make you feel better due to being in a rush and all. So, shut up! "

With that Ben punches Yeager in the chest so hard he does not even have the time to shout as he is giving a uppercut so strong that he is knocked through the ceiling, and maybe even the whole shrine!

Doug see this and whistles before he yells out,"Nice punch Ben! "

Judith was also nearby and adds," Wow, I see your master the knocking pests out of the park art very nicely. "

Ben laughs and responds with a coy," Oh, it's not a trademark of mine, but thanks anyway. Now then, time to sweep out all the other obnoxious guests. Let's see, despite all of their acting, none of these guys are really that powerful. Hopefully we can end this before that prick Alexei gets to far ahead of us."

With that Ben sees more of Yeager's red lenses wearing assassins charge at him and sighs before going to deal with them.

Meanwhile, as Ben goes to help out his friend wrap things up, Cloud as been fighting Yuri's "Obsessive fan" Zagi. While Zagi is a powerful, unpredictable, and ruthless fighter. He still does not compare to the likes of Sephiroth, Genesis's, Kira or the others and Cloud is able to keep this fight to his advantage.

At the moment Cloud has just dodge a thrust from the red and yellow haired assassin's Blastia modified hand and as Zagi sees this he laughs and twirls his blade around while saying," I came here to have some more fun with Yuri, but you give me a thrill to! This is going to be fun! There is no greater spice in the world!"

Zagi then unleashes a barrage of stabs at Cloud, and they are all met with the spiky haired swordsmen's much larger sword!

Cloud then ," You know, while we just met but you all ready sound like you need professional help."

Zagi just laughs as his sword glows and he cackles out a deranged," In that case help me, help me feel alive! Cyclone Shot Destruction!"

With that Zagi charges at Cloud before spinning around and being consumed in magic energy! Seeing his opponent charge at him in a frenzy Cloud retorts with a harsh," Oh ill help you feel alive all right, Braver!"

With that Cloud jumps in to the air, and has his sword glow before he greets the madman's attack with his own limit break, and smashes Zagi in to the ground!

However Cloud sees Zagi quickly rebound back on his feet and even though his face his bleeding he just licks it with his tong and says," Oh yah, now we are having fun!"

Cloud just rolls his eyes at this psychotic display before he mutters a sore,"Great, so pain just makes him even more enthusiastic. In that case, I'll make sure the next blow ends it!"

Zagi just laughs and says," As if you can! I admit you Enji are every bit as fun as I hoped you would be. However, you're still going to be killed by me! No one will deny me the pleasure of killing Yuri Lowell! I am the greatest fighter there is, on this and every other world! Blastia Blaze!"

With that he looks maniac as he gathers more power, and fires a powerful red energy wave! However Cloud just dashes at the blast as his magic energy explodes and he says,"Keep telling yourself that, in hell! Cross Slash!"

With that Cloud uses his energy to boost his jump to be high enough to jump over the entire attack, and then land right to Zagi's side before unleashing a lighting fast barrage of slashes on his opponents chest that nearly look like a symbol. Even though the attack causes blood to pour out of him Zagi just laughs madly and screams out a fanatical," Urgh! Heh, you're awesome! I want more!"

Cloud just raises his eyebrows and quips out,"You do know you got dependency issues right? Enough is enough, Holy!"

Cloud then fires a powerful white magic attack at Zagi, and he is consumed with it as the sphere of sacred light blasts Zagi through the ground! Cloud continues to hear Zagi screaming as he is blasted deeper and deeper and just sighs and says," Well, no matter what world it is, there are fighting obsessed people every ware. Now, time to wrap this up and make sure the lunatics here don't get there way. "

With that Cloud sees more Necrocalcous form out of the ground and in a flash slashes them in half.

Now then, since both Yeager and Zagi seem to be out of the fight the last major roadblock out of this shrine is Capitan Schwann! However, while Ben and Cloud were able to dispatch their opponents with relative ease, Yuri Rita Repede Karol and Judith are having more than a bit more difficulty beating there knight thanks both to the gap in power between them being much closer, and to the added stress of fighting there former ally! The members of Brave Vesperia are just beginning to realize that this double agent is deadly serious about performing his job!

After using his skills to extinguish the fiery magic attack Rita threw at him before swiftly blocking Yuri's attack! Glaring right in to Schwann's eyes Yuri says,"You know you're a real piece of work old man. Never thought you had to guts to be a double agent, or betray the don's trust. Waling Havoc!"

Yuri then unleashes a furious assault on Schwann, but his opponent dodges the blows before saying," Is that you're best? It won't be enough then, Violent Weasel!"

Schwann then shocks Yuri by disappearing and reappearing in front of Yuri and unleashing a powerful series of sword strikes that do a number on the long haired warrior! As he deals with the pain he lashes out at Schwann while saying,"So this is how good you can fight when you're not messing around huh? Not bad, except it's a lousy time for you to show us what you can do Raven!"

His opponents eyes just narrow and he retorts with a cold," Like I said, this Raven person does not exist, there is only Captain Schwann! Prepare your self's, Falling Edge!"

He then jumps high in the air and prepares to unleash a heavy blow on Yuri. However, Rita then jumps in front of Yuri and charges up a spell while saying,"

You old loser! To think I was starting to think you were something more than a slimy jerk! I won't let you get away with this, Violent Pain! "

With that Rita fires a barrage of dark energy spears right at the Imperial Knight! Schwann at once defends himself but the spears explode and he is blasted back! When he lands his hand is bleeding but he just laughs and says," You're all powerful, let us finish this."

Judith then remarks with a dire," Your all ready taking damage, and once the Enji clear out the other adversaries you won't have a chance at winning. Do you really plan to die here?"

Schwann just forms a crooked smirk before he responds with a cold," It's the duty of the Imperial Knights to give it their all. I will do what it takes. Taste my resolve, Havoc Thrust!"

With that his sword glows and he thrusts his sword to fire a powerful red blast from it!

Yuri and gang just barely manage to dodge it and Yuri sees the look in Schwann's eyes while saying," Damn it, I can't tell if he is just a good actor or if his mind is being warped!"

Rita then reacts with a heated," Whatever the case, ill blast his head till it's straight again! Fire Dragon!"

With that the young genius mage fires of a powerful flame in the shape of the dragon and sends it right at her opponent.

However, Schwann just charges at it and slashes it in half! However as he does he finds out to late that Judith was using that for a opening and attacks him from above with her Luna Crush attack! Her opponent is just able to block in time, but the force of the blow bring him to his knees. And as he has his hands full Yuri's faithful dog sidekick charges at him from behind and rips in to him with his Shadow Fang Punishment attack!

As the Imperial swordsmen is trying to shrug the wound of Karol jumps at him and slams his hammer in to him with his Ultra Punishing Crush attack! He hits Schwann dead on, and hurls him all the way to the wall! Even after this punishment he still gets up and says," You're all powerful opponents, finally, after all this time. However I will not fail my mission!"

Yuri then takes a deep breath and his face hardens before he states a grim,"So, you really won't back down huh? In that case, this ends now! I'll take out anyone that tries to stop us !"

Karol's eyes flash with alarm as he reacts with,"But, its Raven! We can't kill him!"

Rita just looks hateful as she reacts with," It doesn't matter. He will pay the price for doing what he did."

Yuri then looks darkly at his enemy before he adds," To do the job no one else wants, that's that path I trend remember Karol? No matter what, if anyone tries to stop me, I'll show them no mercy! Good by Raven!"

He then charges at Schwann, but is shocked to see his opponents magic energy explode as his aura surrounds him and he says,"

I never expected mercy, because I don't give it to my opponents! Now, burn this life to punish my enemies! Blast Heart!"

With that Yuri is shocked to see magic energy blast out of Schwann, before he fires a barrage of large red energy blast that home in and blast all the members of Brave Vesperia! They are all hit hard by the powerful Mystic art attack and only Yuri is able to quickly get on his feet. He is breathing hard and sees his opponent is doing the same as he says," Man, can't say I saw that coming. But looks like you can't just repeat that move one after another. Guess that means I just have to, huh? "

He is shocked to see Schwann disappear and then reappear behind Yuri with his sword facing his head as he says," Sorry, but it's time we end this. I'll make it painless.

" He then prepares to stab Yuri in the heart, but a new sword blocks his blade, and it's the Master Sword! Sure enough Link had defeated the foes in his way just enough to make it in time to help out Yuri just when he need it most! The green wearing swordsmen looks angry at Schwann and says," You, you would so causally kill your former comrades? You deceived us, brought the princess to that madman and the servants of Ganondorf, and sent Majora 's mask to attack us by surprise! You won't be forgiven!"

Link then unleashes his shield attack to throw Schwann of balance and then fallows through with his helm splitter attack! His opponent is able to back step fast enough in order to miss being hit and chuckles while saying," I never asked for forgiveness, I know where I am going. However, before I go I will do what must be done! Huh, AH!"

Schwann is shocked to see a spinning blade almost like a boomerang dash right for him and barely manages to doge it, and even then it slices in to his chest! As he screams in pain the sword swings around and heads back to its thrower, and its none other than Ben using his Star Sword! It seems Squad 7 and Kirby have finished of all the other opponents in the area and now they are also coming to help finish the fight as Ben says," Sorry, but if by doing what must be done means killing us then you're going to die empty handed. It's over, now you're going to pay for your crimes."

As Ben, Cloud Kirby and the others surround him he chuckles and Yuri gets annoyed before saying," What's so funny Raven? "

His former ally just looks at Yuri and says,"Oh it's just ironic. I always wondered how I go. Just thought it be sooner." Yuri then gets mad and charges at him while saying,"

Is that all you have to say Raven? Answer me!"

He then charges at him and they once again cross swords. However, Yuri dodges a strike, and then slashes Schwann across the chest! However, he is shocked to see his heart glowing, and it's not looking like a heart! He then says,"Hey! What is going on?"

His opponent chuckles and responds with a coy," Heh, I would have thought those blows would have put a end to me, to this cursed body. "

Rita then says," What the, is that a blastia in his chest?"

Judith then looks closely and says," Its, his heart. Or rather, a blastia has taken its place."

Schwann just closes his eyes and says," The original was lost ten years ago, in are great war. I lost my life during that war. But Alexei saw it fit to give it back to me with this."

Judith then says,"So, that must be a Hermes Blastia as well. But, why would Ba'ul not notice it then?"

Schwann then opens his eyes and says," I would imagine that is because it's not powered by aer, but by my own life-force. "

Everyone is shocked and James looks at it while saying,"Its sounds like, a crude form of organ transplant. "

Rita then says," A blasta powered only by human vitality? No way. Huh, what is that rumbling? "

Everyone feels the ground shake, before explosions break out over all the ways out of the room! The entire shrine then begins to shake as Cloud says,"

Damn, it's almost like this was a time delayed blast."

Schwann then sits down and says," That would be Alexei; he intends to bury you all alive."

Ben gets annoyed and reacts with a vexed,"He really pulled out all the stops huh? Sigh, he must really want us dead. "

Yuri then says,"Whoa hold on a sec. He was going to throw you away here regardless?"

His responds is,"He could not past up a chance to get rid of the sword, now that it was no longer any use to him. And also he wanted to make sure the Enji did not interfere with his plans."

Yuri reacts with a angry,"So, he was using Estelle to lure Duke here and try and bury him? This guy is more twisted then I though!"

Doug then cracks his knuckles before he throws in a brazen," To bad for him we can't be gotten rid of this easily!"

Rita then says," Hey old man! This is no time just to be sitting around here!"

Her responds is a calm," At long last, I can finally rest here."

Kirby looks upset before he inches closer and says,"Your saying you never intended to leave here alive mister? That's not smart at all!"

Yuri then goes over to Schwann and grabs him up and says,"Who said you just get to lie down and die here? Even if all your travels with us were just some joke to you, are you trying to tell me your anger at the don's death was just an act to? Don't you remember the don's last wish, to see things through to the end?"

Schwann just laughs and says,"You know you can be a real downer some times."

Ben just sighs and says," We can discuss this when we don't have to worry about being crushed. Time is not on our side here, huh?"

They all see the roof caving in and Yuri says," We are not going to make it!" Part of the ceiling then fall right on him! However, he is shocked to see his ally prove he still cares about him when he pushes him out of the way and uses all of his strength to catch the debris! Everyone is shocked and Rita says," What are you doing? If you use all the power you have left with your injuries you will surely, "

Her speech is interrupted when the man without a normal heart says," All of you get out of here now! Alexei, he is heading for the capital. There he and his demon palls are going to implement the final stages of their plan! The rest, I'll leave in your hands. Heh, must be getting soft in my old age."

Karol then says," No, Raven!" Ben sees most of the ceiling about to break and he gets determined before saying,"

I have a better plan, if all the exits are blown down then the only choice is to blow then back open! Multi Shadow Clones!"

In a hurry Ben uses his magic spell to summon a dozen clones of himself and Yuri and his pals are shocked as Rita says,"

A magic spell that creates copies of the caster ? Why did I not think of that?"

As Ben and his clones power up he says,"You all might want to duck, here it goes!"

With that Ben and his clones all fire a barrage of blue energy beams, and destroy all the rubble! They keep firing, until the sky can be seen! Ben then turns to his digimon partner and says," Now Hiryuumon, get us out of here!"

The purple dragon smiles, nods, and says,"Got it boss! One escape path coming up! Hiryuumon, double Digivole to, Geno-Wyrmmon!"

With that the digimon is consumed with light as he transforms in to his ultimate level stage, and appears in his much larger and metal form! Roaring loudly he smashes another falling debris and says,"

All on board, it's the last ride out of here!"

Yuri smiles and says," Not bad, at least you Enji having all sorts of tricks under your hat pays off! Come on!"

Quickly the Enji, Brave Vesperia and the others get on the digimon and he spreads his wings and activates the ion engines on his back before Karol says,"

Wait, what about Raven! We can't let him die!"

Cloud then says," I can clear the rock he is holding, stand back!"

There former ally just says," What are you doing, trying to save a traitor like me? There is no time, get going!"

Ben just sighs and says,"Good grief, it's always something. Hey Geno-Wyrmmon, get them out of here."

His partner then says,"But what about you?"

Ben gives him a thumps up and says,"Oh, just taking pity like a good hero you could say. Don't worry, I'll be right behind you. Just trust me!"

Geno-Wyrmmon says," All right, as long as you know what you're doing! Here we go!"

With that the Digimon blasts out of the area and Karol says," Ben, Raven! They are going to be crushed!"

Kirby looks worried but says," Don't worry. Ben was able to survive that scary Xehamaru guy even after he transformed in to a big evil monster! This should be no problem!" Both groups are nervous as Geno-Wyrmmon breaks out of the top of the shrine and lands in its entranced, just as it totally collapses! After a minute has pasts Yuri says,"

What was Ben thinking? Did he think he could pull it off? "

Cloud puts his head down and says," One thing I learned from Ben, most of the time he only does something if he knows he can go through with it. And since I can feel his magic energy, I think he was able to pull it off."

Yuri raises his eye brow and says," You sure have a lot of faith in Ben's abilities."

Cloud smirks and counters with a calm," Well, after training him, and seeing him master the skills he learned from the leader of are order. I can safely say Ben takes his job of being the supposed hero that is to confront the ultimate god of darkness seriously. Ah, and there he is now."

Everyone is shocked to see an explosion of light blast away the rubble that was once the shrine of Baction and Ben fly's out of it, with an unconscious Raven! Ben lands on the ground in front of his teammates and Doug says,"That was pretty close there buddy!"

Ben laughs and says," Yah, but I faced tougher situations in training simulations so it was nothing out of the usual . Still, it was cutting it close making it out of there while making sure this guy survived to."

He then lays down the unconscious Raven and Karol says," Is he, dead?"

Ben then responds with a solemn," His magic energy is faint, he pushed his body and spirit over the edge to save you guys. If we don't heal him soon it might be too late."

Yuri then says,"Raven, in the end it seemed like you cared after all."

James then looks at him and says," His injuries can be healed easy enough. However, with his heart not being natural it complicates things."

Ben then says," Well, he may have betrayed us. But he should live to stand trial for his crimes so see if you can, huh? All those guys, we got company."

Yuri readies his sword and yells out a driven,"Reinforcements? Bring it, I am angry enough to slash through a thousand more bucket heads!"

Geno-Wyrmmon just looks around and says," Hey, wait, I recognize those smells! It's are friends!"

Ben and the others turn around and see that the digital dragon is right, as they see both Luke and Cecil's squads running up to them! What is more, Flynn and his own troops are among them! Seeing the blond haired knight Yuri sighs and says," So now you show up Flynn, I see you have lousy timing a usual."

Cloud then says,"Luke, Cecil, and everyone. Glad to see you're all right."

Tear gives a pleasant smile before she reacts with," The feeling is mutual, glad to see you're all ok. I assume you were all ambushed by Imperial knights and monsters?"

Ben nods and says," Basically, along with nutty assassins, ruthless Guild leaders with funny accents, oh and a revived transforming demon mask. And to top it off Estelle is still in the hands of that jerk Alexei!"

Luke then gets mad and says," So, the Commandant was really using us for his own purposes, and is now holding Estelle hostage? Damn him, what is the point of all this?"

Cecil's ninja friend Edge laughs and says," Man, he must be really stupid if he thinks this little plot of his will be enough for him to get away with this! He must be betting the power he will get is really huge or something."

Ben looks worried and says,"Well, if he was acting alone I just would write him off as a moronic lunatic. However, it seems he thinks he can get away with this because all along he has been playing for the other side, the Zannacross Empire!"

As his fellow Enji are shocked Link says," Yes, I am afraid it's the truth. We saw Agahnim, the dark magician that served Ganondorf help that Alexei escape with the princess. If he has been reborn, then it can only mean that both the evil king, and the empire of darkness he now fights for wishes for that man's plan to succeeded. "

Cecil then says," If that is so, then this situation has become much more dire."

Yuri looks annoyed and mutters a frustrated ," So, would someone care to explain just what this Zannacross Empire is anyway?"

Ben tenses up before he responds with," They are the ultimate empire of darkness, the embodiment of all the evil in the universes. They have some of the most dangerous and powerful bad guys in the universe siding with them. They have been inflicting mass death and destruction throughout the entire cosmos. And there ultimate goal is to revive Chaos Zannacross Necron, who is the source of all evil and darkness, plus the being the god who nearly destroyed this entire dimension you could see why it's a priority that we can't let that happen."

Flynn then looks stressed and says," Commandant, how could you? He was the pride of the imperial knights, how could he commit treason and sell are planet out to this empire of evil? I feel like a fool."

Yuri then snorts before he grinds out a disgusted,"That's good since that is what you are for fallowing his orders without even suspecting anything! What happened to advancing as a knight and fixing things from within? You have been nothing more than a damn puppet on Alexei's strings! Don't you dare tell me that the Don and Belius died for nothing more than that! He was there working besides you the whole time Flynn, how could you not possibly suspect anything?"

Flynn looks ashamed and says," Lately the Commandant had been absent for longer periods of time. And he had been having more gusts than usual. But I never suspected he would be this far gone."

Ben gives a bitter chuckle before he retorts with," So you have been betrayed by the man you thought was the idea hero? Join the club. That happened to me more than once. Luckily I managed to survive those betrayals with my head, mostly."

Yuri gives a crooked grin as he declares a sarcasm laced," Congrats Flynn, you grown up to be the model knight. Unquestionable allegiance to your country regardless of the skeletons it hides in the closet. That's nice."

Flynn then looks defensive as he says," I thought I could trust him, but I am ready to atone for my mistakes. I will no longer just fallow his orders. I will make sure to atone for this by rescuing Lady Estelle no matter what!"

Yuri then narrows his eyes before he says," Whoa, hold on! Don't you have enough problems making sure that prince is safe to spread your forces even thinner? You wanted to be the ideal knight, so don't forget your responsibility! Brave Vesperia will rescue Estelle."

Flynn then says," What, you really think you can rescue her by yourself? "

Ben chuckles and says," Well, they are not really going it alone since we will be fighting to."

Yuri looks amused and says," You know, we can get things done without you Enji."

Ben just shrugs before he lashes back with a determined," Maybe, but things will be more fun and efficient this way. Besides, he backstabbed us to, and there is no way I will allow him to get away with this!"

Cloud then says," Yes, it's clear that are mission objective has changed. We should hurry to the Zaphais Castle at once and free Princess Estelle from the control of the traitor, and then confront and defeat Alexei and his supporters no matter what!"

Everyone then nods and Jade says," Well, we must tread carefully. He knows we are alive, and that we will be coming for him. Therefore we must be ready for a trap. "

Yuri then says," Well, one thing is for sure, sometimes the only way to reach your goal is to slash right through the trap and endure the pain to ensure victory!"

Ben then takes a deep breath before he says,"All right then, let's move out."

Oh wait, what should we do to the "spoony bard" ?"

Ben points to the still unconscious Raven/ Schwann and Rita just looks away and grumbles a hateful," What about him? Just leave him there. That's one face I am trying really hard to forget. Let's go!"

With that Brave Vesperia move in the direction of the Neo High-wind. However as they do they hear a familiar voice say,"

What voice do you mean? Must be a poor sap with a pretty ugly mug."

Yuri turns around to see a wounded but still standing, and smiling Raven on his feet! He then says," You, your still alive?"

His responds is," Of course, Raven the Great is now ready to be back on your service!"

His former teammates look at him oddly and Rita says," Is this a joke? First you betray us, try to kill us, and then die to save us, and now your acting like none of that happened? "

Yuri then snickers before he adds a harsh,"She is right, don't try and act like you forgot what you did old man."

Raven grumbles before he throws out a annoyed," Look, I was between a rock and a hard place. I admit I was ready to die to make up for fooling you guys. But what can I say; I did not think I cared that much about living. But before I knew it I was waste deep in all of this. If I have to be done in by you guys here, well, there are worse ways to go."

Judith looks at Raven and says,"If you're really going to defy Alexei you do know that he can most likely shut down your heart Blastia at any time? So you might as well die here, is that what you mean?"

Raven chuckles and adds a dead panned," I have been a dead man for over ten years."

Yuri looks at him dead serious and furiously yells out," So what is a dead man like you doing here anyway? You're saying you want to settle accounts with us? Well, Brave Vespria will be happy to take care of that for you."

Yuri walks over to Raven and picks up his fallen sword and Ben says," Hey now, don't do anything foolish Yuri. We still have more use for him alive. "

Yuri just walks right up to Raven, and punches him in the face! As he falls to the ground Yuri throws his sword at his feet and says,"Your life depends on Brave Vespria now. Wherever or not you live or die depends on us. Right, boss? "

He turns to Karol and the boy smirks while saying," That is prefect Yuri. This is your punishment for going against the Guild!"

Karol then wallops Raven in the back, and Judith fallows up with a kick to his leg! Rita then smashes his foot and says," I don't want to feel out!"

Raven just looks dazed and says,"Oh, the brutality!"

Karol then says," You're not just allowed to die on us Raven, you're the immortal old man! So, is this all right with you guys?"

Doug smiles and responds with a playful," It's cool, clearly you guys had dibs on him. "

Flynn then smiles and says," I see after all this you still insist on doing things your way Yuri."

Yuri looks at his long time friend and says," But of course, after all, I rather live my way or not at all."

Ben then takes a breath of air before he reacts with," All right, now that that is settled, may we proceed with the bad guy smashing and villain thwarting?"

His friends nod, and Yuri says," Don't worry Estelle; we will free you no matter what!"

With matters here settled are heroes hurry to their ships begin to set a course for the capital of the Zaphas Empire! Meanwhile, all this time Alexei and Agahnim have been making there final preparations on top of the castle, and have nearly completed them as the dark wizard senses something! Seeing him stop his and his servants chanting Alexei looks at him and says,"What is it Agahnim? "

The old foe of Link has his eyes glow and responds with a dark," As I expected, your plan failed to eliminate the Enji, Link, and those humans that have been pestering you. I can already sense them heading in this direction."

Alexei looks annoyed and says," Bah, it seems the combined might of Yeager, Schwann and that mindless thug Zagi was even less productive then I thought. I was hoping that my trap would have finished off a few of those overblown warriors of light.

" His ally looks at him and rasps out," You were a fool to underestimate there power. Repeat that mistake and you will be rewarded with death!"

Alexei then says," Well then, I will just make sure they don't get any further. The Heracles will insure no uninvited guests enter the castle. Huh, what are you doing? "

Agahnim then fires a orb of darkness in to the sky that instantly grows larger as he says,"I will not trust the completion of this plan on your aged technological weapons. Time to send some of my own minions to keep out the trespassers! Servants of the king of evil, rise once more to serve your master!"

With that the evil magician fires a blast of dark energy in to the cloud, and soon many monsters break out of it!

One of them is the subterranean lava dragon Volvagia ! And the other is the Twilit Dragon Argorok !

As many other former Zelda bosses break out of the dark sphere like the first dragon from the first dungeon of the original Legend of Zelda, Aquamentus, and begin to surround the castle Agahnim says," Now then, this will make sure we have the time to finish the ritual uninterrupted!"

Alexei laughs and reacts with a keen,"Ah I admit I am impressed. This decors the stage quite well. Now Princess, it's time to fulfill your destiny."

Estelle, still trapped in the energy sphere tries to look defiant and says," No, I refuse to be a part of this evil plot! No matter what you do to me, I won't help you. AH!"

Alexei at once makes his system try to control her as he says,"

Now there my lady, the only thing this attitude will bring is more suffering to you. It is time, for the true glory to begin!"

Agahnim then narrows his eyes at Estelle before he grasps his right hand and says," Yes, you WILL comply with your destiny maiden of the light. Ill insure your will is swept away completely by the will of the dark side!"

With that the vile mage suddenly fires a ebony energy blast right at the girl! As the darkness seeps in to her very soul she screams out in pain as she thinks," Yuri, Flynn, everyone, please, I don't know how much longer I can hold on."

With that the pair of jerks begin the final steps of their plan, and as they do the hero's are coming ever closer to them!

We now return to the main bridge of the Neo High-Wind, were the Enji are preparing to storm the capital. At the moment Cid is going over the terrain and says," Well, this won't be a picnic but it should not be too much of a hassle for this bird. Hell, Alexei does not have a real fleet or nothing, just a bunch of old fashion stuff and that walking oversized metal beetle!"

Rita then winces before she says," Hey, don't take the Heracles lightly, it has some serious firepower."

Cid smirks before retorting with a prideful," Maybe, but so does my ship. Well, looks like this Alexei has plenty of unaccounted pets guarding the place to!"

Cid points to the hologram displaying the general area of the city, and everyone is shocked to see monsters all around the city! Link recognizes many of the monsters as ones he has previously bested in dungeons and he says," This must be the work of Agahnim! It seems that twisted wizard really wants to pull of this plan. And all the more reason it must be stopped!"

Karol looks at all the monsters around the city and says,"There, are so many of them! And they are huge, with even larger fangs! Ow!"

He instantly reacts to Rita kicking him down and she says,"You use to be part of the Hunting Blades remember? This should just be another day! And no matter how many monsters are in the way, I'll blow through all of them to rescue Estelle!"

Yuri then grips his sword and says,"How dare Alexei call himself working for a noble idea if he is stuffing the city with monsters to keep any one from bothering him? And I bet they just left the people in the lower quarter to die!"

Cloud then says," Easy Yuri, we don't plan to let anyone else get hurt. So, let's stop talking and get this over with."

With that everyone nods and they hurry to the hanger. After Cid opens the doors Ben readies the descent crafts and says," Hope you're up for some air surfing, these things are not designed for calm landings."

Raven, back in his normal outfit, looks at it and says,"Oh great, this can't be good for the old bones."

Ben chuckles and says," Don't worry, it even comes with air sickness bags. Now, time to get this show moving."

With that his fellow freedom fighters enter the craft, and moments later they are blasting out of the ship with an incoming course to the ground! Once outside they see that the still evolved Geno-Wyrmmon is all ready fighting some of the new "guard dogs/dragons" and just smashed Aquamentus apart with his Striking Crusher Claw attack!

While a few streams of hazardous energy were heading for them after a few swift defections the group was able to land right outside the capitals front gate! Ben can all ready see both his friends like Luke, Cecil, and Guy along with those loyal to Flynn or Raven's brigade fighting both the Royal guards and various monsters. Yuri sees a pack of Moblins heading on way, including one fat one riding a boar that seems to be a distant cousin of the stubborn King Buldin from Twilight princess.

He just takes out his sword and says," Well, the uglier the better because now I don't have to worry about holding back."

Ben just chuckles and reacts with a slick," I was under the impression you were not one to hold back anyway Yuri. Oh well, time for another princess to be librated! "

With that Ben charges at the group, only to find a new blast blow them away! He then sees explosions break out all around them, even blowing away the green monsters! Ben turns to the side, and sees that the one responsible was the Heracles! Yuri sees the giant metal tank thing firing missiles out of its back and says," Damn him, he is using the Heracles even though it's blowing up the city! He must really want us dead."

Ben sighs and says," Well, at least he won't unleash everything it can do, unless he wants to blow himself up. Huh, what the? Well, there is the chance he is just totally insane!"

Everyone then sees the main charged particle cannon roar, and as the hero's see a massive amount of energy forming Rita says," No, that blast will wipe out most of the city! But, it's too late; there is no way we can get away from the blast radius in time!"

Ben then gets determined, and begins to power up as he says," No, there is no way I will let him do this! Only one way now, time to fight fire with fire!"

Everyone sees the Heracles fire of its main attack, and as Yuri sees the powerful blue blast of death heading there way he says," You better have a good trick up your sleeve, because it almost looks like you're about to try and fight fire with fire!"

Ben grins and says," Time to show you what wonders my training did for me. Shinryukenha!"

With that Ben's power explodes as he jumps in to the air, and fires of his powerful energy wave attack and has it collide in to the Heracles' beam! The blasts cause a shockwave that nearly blow every one off their feet, and Cloud says," Impressive, he unleashed all this power and he is not even really giving it his all. It seems the Grand Master's training really did pull of some impressive results. Great, I think he has just about surpassed me. Maybe I can ask Master Myers to train me next, not really keen on turning in to a third wheel."

As his friends see Ben continue the beam struggle against the massive mobile fortress Ben then says," I'm not done yet, your reign of terror is ending today Alexei so get ready! "

With that Ben's magic aura bursts out and he puts even more energy in to his attack, and swiftly breaks the stalemate as his attack cuts through the opposing blast, in to the Heracles, and destroys it in a massive explosion! As Ben lands on the ground without breaking a sweat he smiles and says," All right, one less hassle, shawl we proceed? "

Kirby jumps in the air excitedly and says," Wow Ben! With this you could easily have a side job as a professional firework's men!"

Yuri just looks at Ben and winces before he says," You could have easily killed me in are fight if you really wanted to go all out."

Ben does not try and hide the facts and just smirks before he responds with a innocent," Most likely unless you have a secret power you're not telling me. However, even though you were target, I did not want to kill you outright. After all, some people would have gotten upset and that's not a way to make an impression. Lucky for you there are people who believe in you. "

Yuri just nods and says,"That's why I have to hurry. I don't want to let another person who believed in me down."

Doug then charges at the front gate and says,"Then what are we all standing around here for? Time to bash some heads! Hammer of Might!"

With that Doug powers up and unleashes a powerful punch that blows down the large steel door and at once the heroes enter the capital city! They at once see many solders and monsters waiting for them, but the good guys won't let anything stand in their way and cut a path right through them!

While they are able to move through the enemies lines easily enough, they are reminded at how time is not on their side when after Link Kirby and Yuri slice apart the large three headed turtle monster Trinexx when they see the top of the castle begin to have a massive amount of energy swirl around the Sword Stairs!

Rita then looks mortified before she screams out,"No, they are already starting!"

Yuri then sees more monsters heading there way and says," Damn, at this rate we will never make it!"

Cloud's view hardens before he reacts with," At this rate maybe, but time to create a short cut." James then walks forward and says," Leave this to me, I guess this is my turn to show off a little. This should clear a path; I now summon you, Bahamut Fury!"

With that James radiates with power before he then fires a large red and green orb in to the air, and has it explode! Brave Vesperia is shocked to see when the light fades a mighty golden colored dragon with unique wings that have green orbs in them appears!

Its none other than Bahamut Fury, one of the most powerful variations of the dragon king summon and the one that Zack fought against before being able to control in the events of Crises Core! The mighty dragon roars with such force it shakes the ground and Rita says," A, summon sprit? That is, amazing!"

Ben smirks and says,"Nice James. Glad to see your now strong enough to make a pact with the highest level of summons besides the three Lylat gods."

James smirks and says,"But of course. All right, now clear us a path to the castle Bahamut Fury! Exa Flare!"

With this the summon obeys the summoner and fly's high in to the air! He then fires of spikes from his wings before they form a circle around the planets moon in the distance!

A large amount of power then flows out of Bahamut and in to its self made circle, and a massive amount of energy seems to bounce of the moon, and flow in to the dragon king! As the other monsters like Argorok begin to charge at the summon the dragon gives them it's acknowledgment of their existence by unleashing a massive energy blast that instantly destroys all the monsters in one hit and unleashes a massive explosion! James then says," All right, I think we have an open path now."

Raven says," Wow, that dragon looks like he could eat Ba'ul for lunch! Still, I thought the point of Ben blowing apart the Heracles with one impressive blast was to avoid wrecking the city? Looks like your pet just caused some unexpected design changes. "

Seeing the massive hole where the aggressors stood James looks embarrassed and says," Oh right, forgot just how wide the damage is."

Yuri sighs and says,"Great, so much for that. At least it seems the people already got the hell out of here. "

Cloud then says," Don't worry, all damages will be fixed by the Lylat Kingdom once the battle is over for free."

Yuri rolls his eyes and mutters a dry,"Hear that before. "

Ben smirks and says," Don't worry, its guarantied. All right James, with Geno Wyrmmon still fighting outside think you can have Bahamut Fury give us a lift?"

James nods and says," All right, just hurry."

With that the two groups quickly get on the dragon and hurry to the top, and without delay the king of dragons is able to fly them to the curved walkway and they all quickly land and dash to the top! It seems they are just in time, because in the center they see Alexei, the still trapped Estelle, and Agahnim and his minions in some sort of chant! As a large amount of energy seems to be pouring out of the poor girl when he hears the Enji and co run up before he turns around and says," Ah, so you survived my ambush? I give you Enji Knights credit; you are definitely deserving your reputation. Your luck seems to be good today Yuri Lowell."

Yuri just points his sword at the commandant and says,"Enough! You can let her go now and save yourself pain. Or we can break you first. It's your call. "

Alexei looks bored and responds with a dismissive," Sorry to be a bore, but what if I refuse both of those?

Yuri looks at the traitor with murderous eyes as he responds with a dark," I am more than happy to decide for you."

Ben then has his Star Sword glow with holy energy as he says," Face it Alexei, whatever grand plan you have up your sleeve is about to crash in flames! "

Alexei then has his eyes burn with raw ambition before he responds with a twisted,"The Princess was splendid. Her power indeed equals the ancient Children of the Full moon. Every person has a role, and the Princess has played her role exceedingly well."

Rita then says," Well, if she did her role then we will take her back now!"

The dark wizard above them all hears this and scoffs and says," Pathetic human, you will never achieve what you desire."

Link then jabs the Master Sword at his old foe before he shouts out," Agahnim! You will never win. I defeated both you and your master time and time again and with my friends you will be stopped once more!"

Agahnim responds with a fanatical," Not this time Link, this time we have enough power to give you the fate you and all your heretics deserve!"

Alexei laughs and says," Now then Agahnim, it seems there last request is to see the princess one last time. In that case, as you wish."

With that his hands glow and he fires a bolt of energy to go in to the sphere encasing the pink haired women, and it fades! Everyone then sees her land on the ground as she takes out her sword and shield. Ben then says,"

What is he up to? Is he really just going to let her go?"

Rita then says," Estelle! Are you ok? Huh?"

She and everyone is shocked to see the princess charge, before nearly beheading Yuri! He is able to block the strike with his own sword and says" What the hell? "

Alexei looks smug and lashes out with a mocking,"What will you all do with the princess now? Her power has subsided her will entirely. Her power has finally been controlled. By the system I have put in to place. Blastia that go out of control must be destroyed. You should know that. She is now a pure puppet of the darkness!"

Rita then says," Don't talk about Estelle like she is just some, thing!"

Her responds is, "Oh, but the princess was most crucial to are plans. Ah, as were you Schwann. Since you survived, I will use you again. Return like the hallow puppet you are and you will gain true power and wealth."

Raven just says," Sorry, but you buried that poor schmuck alive. The name's Raven, nice to meet ya."

Yuri tries to get Estelle of her while saying,"

We each have a role to play, but each person has a say at what that role is!"

Alexei responds with a cold," Even though so many live such mundane meaningless lives? I think not."

Karol then says," If they choose to live their lives like that then so what? That's what deciding for yourself means!"

Alexei then looks amused and says,"How unfortunate, it's clear we will never see eye to eye."

Ben then gets annoyed and says," I really am sick of people like you who think they can dictate everyone's life's! Time we cut your strings."

Alexei then has his sword glow and responds with a firm," I think not. For to touch me, you will have to kill her!"

He then has his sword shine even more, and Estelle screams in pain as her body continues to press on! Yuri sees she is in pain and says,"Estelle, don't do this! Damn it!"

Kirby then looks upset before he cries out,"Hey that's really mean! Stop using that nice lady as your shield!"

Ben then powers up and says,"Its more than mean Kirby, it's the lowest you can get! Using her as a hostage to take your blows? That's it, I will not forgive you!""

Alexei looks amused and says,"You look quite angry at me Ben Auro. Just don't forget all your rage will be felt by the princess! Now then my lady, kill them to the best of your power!"

With that he waves his hand, and Estelle breaks out of her sword lock with Yuri, and then goes on the offensive with her Piece Cluster attack!

Yuri is able to dodge the high speed attacks, but is then left open when she fire of her Star Stroke energy wave attack!

Even though Yuri is able to block it he is nearly blasted of the edge of the castle, and while Yuri can see in Estelle's eyes she is in pain. However she can't stop her body from attacking with a powerful Holy Lance attack! Ben flash steps in front of Yuri and manages to defect the energy lance, but it is blasted back in to the pink princess and blast in to her shoulder!

Rita then says, "Are you trying to kill her?"

Ben at once feels bad and says," Damn it. Sorry Princess, I nearly forgot to hold back. Damn it, this is a lose lose situation. I won't allow her to die, we have to free her from the control Alexei has on her!"

Alexei then says,"It's useless, I can control her ever whim regardless of how she feels. You will never break her control! "

Judith then jumps high in the air and aims her lance on the Commandant while she says,"I don't know about never. In fact it's quite simple, we just have to kill you!" Raging Luna Storm! Huh, no!"

She is about to try and fire a whirlwind at the white haired man, but she is horrified to see the controlled princess warp in front of the attack and block it with her shield! She then fires a Photon light blast at her friend but Link is able to get in front of her with his mirror shield and once more bounce the attack away!

Ben then says," Man, I never realized Estelle was this powerful . I guess she was right to be afraid. Estelle, you remained me a little of Lacus. She is afraid of her true power to, I sometimes wonder just what the truth about what really happened with that Blue Eyes White Dragon inside her is. Still, no matter what happens, I will never abandoned Lacus. And I will also make sure you have a future where you can be happy and free Estelle so if you can hear me don't give up!"

Back above them Agahnim laughs and says,"It's no use you pathetic tainted hero! Your only choice to try and meddle with are plans is to destroy her. But even if you show your true cold heart, her energy will still complete the ritual regardless if she is alive or not. Of course if you are all to die it would make things a lot smoother. And in that case, time to force them to show the Enji's true motives Child of the Full Moon!"

He then seems to add his power along with Alexei's to cause the young lady to scream in pain before she begins to form a massive amount of holy energy in her sword! Raven gulps and says,"

Oh great, looks like if we don't take her out soon were cooked!"

Ben then powers up and reacts with a determined," No, I won't except the terms of jerks! Whenever a situation looks impossible it's the job of a true hero to kick it to being possible! Now, I refuses to let your plan go through, nor will she die. Instant, ill just make sure she can't be controlled by anyone. Time for a test drive, Hexagon Light Prison!"

Ben sees Estelle is almost ready to fire her attack when he swiftly fires a column of light at her, which instantly transforms in to six bars of light that seem to stop her in her tracks!

Karol then says," Estelle? She, stopped moving!"

Ben smirks before he gives a confident," Don't worry, that was just a powered up time and barrier combo magic spell to insure she won't do something either we or she will regret. Now, you can't use her to defend you Alexei. Your going down!"

Alexei just looks up in the column of energy forming in the sky and says," Tsc, we must have held back too much power. Nice try Enji. But it's too late, you ran out of time!"

Agahnim then glows and says," Hehahahah! He is right clowns, the ritual is ready to start, witness the sight of your doom!"

Alexie then has his sword fire even more power in to Estelle and she once more screams in pain! The energy circle once more forms around her and shatters Ben's bindings as the traitor says," Thanks to your actions Yuri Lowell, the key to replace Dein Nomous is now complete. As a show of my appreciation. I will allow you to witness the fruition of are plans. The awakening of the true Child of the Full Moon!"

With that everyone sees the entire giant sword they are on top of burst with energy, before a large symbol appears above them! Agahnim then fires a blast of pure darkness in to it, and the symbol fires its own blast not at are heroes, but in to the distance! Ben and the others see it hit the ocean in the distance, and soon enough a massive shrine with a giant green crystal can barely be seen rising out of the water!

Ben sighs and says," Oh great, more problems. Well, at least it's not a giant cannon or a monster. Still going in the bad news section though."

Raven breaths hard and says,"Urg, What is that?"

Judith then responds with a unsettled," We saw that, at Myorzo!"

Alexei then seems to be ecstatic as he says," Heh heh, Hahahah! Success! At last , at last I have done it! Behold, the greatest remnant of the ancients! The ultimate Blastia which one obliterated the catastrophe that once threatened are world!"

Cloud eyes Alexei and the newly revealed area before he mutters," That thing is a Blastia? Figures."

Yuri then says," Maybe you could save your little speech until you get some alone time. You're embarrassing yourself."

Alexei then looks amused and says," The show I am afraid is over for you all. It is time for the final curtain. Now Princess, if these fools still will not fight you then do them a favor and remove their heads from their bodies!"

His ally then says," Good, the master will be pleased that we were able to complete this phase of the operation. Now, time for the next one."

Doug then grumbles out," Whenever a psycho talks about multi-phase's of some plan it never ends good!"

Yuri then says,"You really think I am going to let you get to that shrine? Forget it! Shinning Eagle! "

He then charges at the Commandant and tries to slice in to him but his opponent causally dodges the slashes and jumps in to the air to avoid the final strike as he says," Oh please, like your feeble skills could ever match mine you barbaric clown! Huh, no!"

While he was laughing at Yuri's attacks, all of a sudden he senses something behind him and turns his head in mid jump to see a furious Ben behind him. Before he can even take this new sight in the owner of the Star Sword shouts out a vicious," Here is some advice, gloating only works when you can back it up!"

With that he unleashes a powerful punch right to his foes face that hurls Alexei right through one of the area's pillars! The commandant is just barely able to grab on to the ledge of the top, and pulls himself up before coughing up blood! As the red armored man wipes off some blood he emits a snide,"Sorry to disappoint you, but I have more pressing matters to attend to. Agahnim, finish things up here and I'll see you at the shrine!"

With that he is surrounded by magic energy before a dark tornado of sorts seems to form over him!

At once Yuri charges at him while saying," Where do you think you're going? Get back here!"

He then tries to stab his foe, but it's too late as he finds the madman has already warped away!

Agahnim laughs and says," Good, now that he left I can work without interruptions! Now, it's time to wrap things up here. A pity, if we were not on Hyrule I once more just warp you all to the Dark World to keep you from interfering!"

Link then points the Master Sword at the magical foe and says," Get with the times Agahnim, the dark world is no more. When I defeated Ganondorf that time the Tri Force returned it to the golden realm. Now, it's time to erase vile ghosts like you!"

Agahnim has his aura of darkness grow larger and he says,"It matters not, soon master Ganondorf and Supreme Emperor Necron will turn this entire cosmos in to a realm of darkness! Once enough maidens like her are sacrificed we will have more than enough energy to breach the seal!"

Yuri then says,"You're not going to sacrifice her or anyone else freak, you're going down! Huh, no!"

He is shocked to see his friend's sword coming for her and just manages to block in time!

He then says," Snap out of it already Estelle!"

Agahnim laughs and says,"It's futile to reach out to her. Even with Alexei gone his system is still controlling her. And, her mind is still for the darkness to command, see!"

Everyone is horrified to see the symbol of Necrocalcous appear on her forehead and Ben says," Oh great, so they have cursed seal crystals attached to her to? It's just like me, I won't let things stay like this though! Just have to get in close and destroy them all with one swift, whoa!"

He is about to dash in when an outburst of power from the lady keeps him back!

Everyone then hears her say,"Please, before I can hurt anyone else, please kill me."

Yuri then says,"Damn it, to do the job no one else wants. All right, will set you free. I am sorry I could not save you."

He then charges at her again as she once more powers up her energy and charges at Yuri he is able to block her strike and then kicks her sword out of her hand! He is about to strike her when Karol says,"Yuri don't!"

Yuri looks conflicted and says,"It's the only way, GUH!"

He is about to hit her in the chest when Ben warps in front of him to punch him to the ground while blocking Estelle's strike with the Star Sword!

He then says," What the hell you think you're doing Yuri? You're going to give up on your friend and kill her? "

Yuri grunts before he answers with," Of course not, but if she is suffering, then I want to make sure she does not suffer."

Ben then says," Well we will do that by freeing her genius. It's not like she wants this, all we have to do is break that stupid system."

Agahnim then says," It's pointless she is firmly in the thrall of the darkness, and soon you will be too! Finish them off!"

Estelle then is forced to fly off in to the air, before she then says," Holy Rain!"

She then causes a divine barrage of energy rain down on everyone and the swordsmen are busy defecting the blasts, and Rita then says," Yuri, I think I figured out a way to try and free her! The system Alexei uses to control her is based on aer, so with the power of Dein Nomos you should be able to break it!"

Yuri looks at the sword Duke gave him and says,"Worth a try, your right Ben. I was ready to give up to easy. But not anymore!"

Ben grins and says," Glad to hear it, let's do this, before she goes out of control. Er, if it's not too late, duck!"

He then sees Estelle shine again as she says," Angel's Ring!"

She then creates a ring of light in front of the combatants, and has its edges become razor sharp as she is commanded to make the ring close in on them, and the good guys nearly get a lot of weight removed forcibly before they duck, expect for Kirby who is short enough to have it just go over him anyway. Yuri then tries to channel his energy in to Dein Nomos and fires a beam at her with its power as he says," Come back to us, Estelle! Are you just going to let it end like this, like someone else's tool?"

At first the beam appears to do nothing, but then they see the pink haired women's eyes start to return to normal as she trembles! She then cries and this infuriates Agahinim as he says,"

You dare defy your fate child? You will obey or you and your dear friends will suffer immensely! We knew such a maiden of pure heart would resist us, so now its time to have my insurance take effect."

With that the agent of evil snaps his fingers, before suddenly a surge of dark energy erupts out of the pink princess body! Estelle's body then convulses before suddenly her gut turns black! Estelle then moans, before a demonic eye forms out of her chest! Estelle looks lifeless as her body floats in to the air like a puppet! As everyone sees the darkness around Estelle get larger before Yuri curses and says," Damn it, what the hell did Alexei do to her? "

Kirby suddenly looks confused before he says," Hey, that looks kind of like the Dark Matter! "

Ben turns to Kirby before he says," You seen that kind of thing before Kirby?"

The pink wonder nods and says," Monsters like that invaded Popstar and my friends world of Ripple Star! Theses things took over King Dedede and a whole lot more people!"

Rita looks tensely at Kirby before she says," Give us the history lesson later! How do we free Estelle from that thing?"

Kirby smiles and says," That's easy enough, just blast it with holy power! "

Ben grasps the Star Sword tightly before he says," Well, thankfully there is no short supply of that for me."

Link goes for his bow before he says," Ill help you Ben, Estelle is to great a person to allow theses mongrels to make her a casualty of there evil games!"

Kirby then takes out the Star Rod before he adds," Let me in to, I am not going to let this mean man keep using this nice lady as his shield!"

Estelle then has the Dark Matter eye in her gut narrow before she rasps out a demonic," You, you will all die!"

The Dark Matter eye then fires a blast of red lighting at the hero's, but Ben keeps the dark lighting at bay with the Star Sword. As he deflects the dark energy blast Link jumps up and fires a volley of Light arrows at Estelle. The light causes the possessed women to wince in pain and even as she grasps one of the incoming arrows the outpouring of holy energy still causes her body to wrack in pain. In responds she screams out in fury and unleashes a red blast of raw dark energy at everything in her site! Ben is shocked at the intensity of the blast but gives it his all to repel the attack. As he sees Estelle's eyes looking full of sorrow he gets even more determined before he says," There is now way that I am going to let someone as good as her die like this! Hang on Estelle, it will be over soon I promise!"

With that Ben slashes the energy blast in to the sky, and as he does Kirby points his Star Rod at the controlled women to fire a holy energy star at her! This causes Estelle to be consumed with holy light, and she gives a distorted scream before she says," No, I will devour all the , NO! Stop it, get out of my body! "

Agahnim sees Estelle is resisting and sneers before he says," Its no use, your fate is sealed child! Resistance will just make it all the worst! Enough, kill theses maggots!"

The Dark Matter reasserts its control over Estelle before the eyes form in to pair of demonic jaws! Estelle then lurches forward like her body is just a puppet before the teeth dive right for Ben! Ben grasps her by her arms, trying to keep her teeth from gashing in to her as he says," You can fight off this demon Estelle, I know it! Your not alone in this fight. Lets hope this works."

Ben then winds back his left hand and has it shimmer with holy energy before he gives a open palm thrust to send a surge of holy energy right through Estelle's body! The pink haired women screams out in pain, and Rita sees this before she says," Come on Estelle, don't give up!"

Kirby then winds the Star Rod back before he says," You nasty Dark Matter, get out of the nice Ladies body!"

With that Kirby fires another blast from the Star Rod, and combined with Ben's own energy the Dark Matter roars out in pain before it starts to fragment! Agahnim sees this and widens his eyes before he says," No, our plans are to well in to motion to be stopped! Further more, one way or another I won't allow this vassal of light to find salvation!"

He then fires a blast of pure darkness in to her, but she just screams out and blasts it back with holy energy! She then drops her sword and says," I want to be, myself. I want to keep on living!"

With that her eyes return to normal and she falls down on the ground. However, soon the energy sphere forms around her again, and turns red before it shocks her!

James then says," While she has regained control of her mind, now it's uniting with the Dark Matter in trying to forcibly command her!, and lash out on everything around it to!"

It seems they get what James is saying as energy surges out of the sphere and destroys everything it touches! As she sees part of the tower get melted in an instant she says," Everyone, I, I can't stop it! Everyone please run.

" Yuri then fires another burst of energy from Dein Nomos and says," Don't worry we are not going to lose you! When Brave Vesperia does something we do it right!

" Ben then smirks and has his Star Sword glow while saying," And don't forget about us. I'll help, this sword is good for theses kind of things. Just one more final push should do it!"

Yuri grins and says," All right. Hang on, it will be ok soon."

Estelle then smiles and weakly says," Ok."

Ben then says,"All right, here we go!"

With that he fires a blast of holy energy form the Star Sword with the intention of breaking control of the system just as Yuri does the same with Dein Nomos. And it seems to work has the combine blasts shatter the sphere, and also cause the Dark Matter to roar one last time before it is expelled from the pink haired women's body before it shatters in to fragments! Estelle then gasps, and as she opens her eyes again she appears to be normal! She falls to the ground but Yuri catches her and says,"Welcome back. "

Estelle looks worn out but smiles and says," It's good to be back."

Ben takes a deep breath and says," Whew, glad that worked. It would be a shame to let anything bad happen to her. All right, now one thing remains."

He then looks up to see the only one not relived to see Estelle is free, a furious Agahinim!

Seething with rage he says,"You really are worthless Child of the Full moon! Bah, the energy from Princess Zelda is far superior anyway, and soon enough her power will once be the King of Evil's to control! Now, if you will not die gracefully Princess Estellise then die painfully!"

His hands then glow, before he forms a massive red energy ball in his hands and fires it at the weary Estelle still in Yuri's arms! However Link at once dashes in front of them and bats the blast back at its caster as he says," Its over fiend! You have lost, and now you will return to your rightful place in hell!"

Repeating their previous battle long ago Link was able to send the blast right at Agahinim! However the servant of the dark side shows he has improved by just catching the blast and absorbing it!

He then says,"Think I am a fool? Your tricks will no longer work on me Link! Oh?"

He then turns around and sees both Doug and Karol charging right at him while Kirby is above transforming in to his stone power for added punch as Doug says,"In that case how about we just smash your face in! What the!?"

He Kirby and Karol both hit their target, but on impact Agahinim just turns in to a shadow and splits in to three fragments, before taking the shape of three different Agahinim!

Karol then says," What is with this guy? Is he even human? AH!"

He gets his answer when all three bad guys fire blasts of dark lighting to zap the trio! He sees James fire some energy arrows along with some steel arrows from Raven but he just holds his hand in the air and causes them to shatter!

Agahinim then says," Human, oh please I am a far more evolved being then you trash! And with my renewed enhanced power I will not be defeated!"

Yuri then puts Estelle down and gets mad while saying," Oh shut up! It does not matter what special skills or natural talents you have, all that matters is the will to survive! I'll show you what matters when I cut you up!"

Ben then says," Just when things looked like they could be relaxing you had to mess things up. I'll be more than happy to show you my appreciation! "

He, Yuri, Link and Cloud all then charge at the dark warlock and his clones, but he waves his hands, and causes steel pillars to break out before they mutate and shock everyone by grabbing them all! As Yuri struggles to break free he says," What the hell is this? Huh, oh no!

" At once all three Agahinim ascend in to the air and all fire a massive amount of power in to the sky before it forms a massive red and black energy javelin!

The apparent real one then says," I am not foolish enough to play futile games and give you a chance to pull an unwanted surprise! I will greatly please Lord Ganondorf and kill all of you right now! Link, and all of you other alleys of the light, PERISH!"

With that he launches the powerful attack. And seeing it approaching at an alarming fast rate Ben says,"

Damn it, it's faster than I expected! I might have to use the Kaio, huh? Is that, Estelle?"

Ben is shocked to see the pink haired princess back on her feet and glowing with power, and she then says,"No more, I won't allow you to put my friends in danger anymore! I thought my power was nothing but a curse, but my friends went through all the trouble to save me despite the trouble. And I won't betray the trust they put in to me!

You and Alexei sought out the power of the Child of the Full Moon to use as a tool. But now I will use its power properly, to defend my friends and this world!

Sacred Penance!"

With that she unleashes all of her power and fires of her Mystic Art attack as a powerful energy cross! The massive holy attack goes right through Agahinim's attack and shatters it! The dark wizard can't believe his eyes as he says,"

No, this cannot be, AH!"

The blast hits all three dead on, and causes an explosion that rocks the sky! She lands on the ground and Karol says,"

Estelle that was amazing!"She smiles and says," Oh, I just wanted to make up for causing everyone so much problems."

Judith then says,"Well, blasting that annoying guy to bits makes up for it a little. Huh?"

They see the smoke clear, and they see Estelle's Mystic Art did not finish him, even though his clones are destroyed and he is badly burned! He glares at the one who attacked him and says,"

You dare lash out on me? Such power will not save you, everything in the end will be devoured by darkness! And now the time for you to be, AH!"

His speech is interrupted when he feels a burning sensation and turns around to see Link just shot him with a volley of light arrows in the back even as he was still trapped! Link aims his Hero's bow again and says," You're not the only one who can change tactics you mad man. Now, this ends here."

Even more enraged Agahnim tries to gather up energy for another attack and says,"

Your right, it does end here! This time I will make sure you all die!"

Ben then shows he is through hearing this guy talk and unleashes his real power, and blows his magical bindings away with his magic energy! He then has his Star Sword shine before it splits in to two different blades and as his energy surges he says,"

The only one that is going to die is you freak! You had your fun and now it's over! Take this, Shinning Flare Tornado! "

With that Ben's energy surrounds him before he charges at Agahnim with his blades forming a holy energy tornado, that goes right in to the servant of Ganondorf and unleashes a fatal blow through his chest! Now with a large hole in his chest he screams out in pain before saying," Damn you Ben Auro! I was so close!"

Link then says," This is the end, and this time make it be for real Agahnim! Hopefully by the time Ganondorf hears of your destruction he will realize that no matter what planet he tries to concur he will never succeed!

"His foe coughs up blood before laughing and saying,"

You are a fool Link. And you will die as one for I see you fail to understand that killing me right now will not save any of you or this planet! Nothing you do will prevent the darkness from consuming all!

Hahaha, it's useless, Lord Ganondorf, has already, RAH!"

Before he can even finish his wounds cause his magic energy to go unstable, and he yells one last time before his body explodes! Raven then says,"Well, that's one way to shut him up. Whew, never thought I live through that one."

Yuri chuckles and says," Well, looks like Alexei managed to slip away, but at least we just cut all of his alleys, and managed to bring back are most hopeless member back unharmed."

Estelle then says," Thanks everyone. I am so sorry to be such a burden."

Ben smiles and says," It's nothing. Can't go failing the mission now, it's bad for the image and everything. Just glad to see you smile again my lady.

"Estelle smiles again and says," Oh, I am so grateful you Enji and your friends were able to help Yuri and everyone."

Yuri then says,"I admit, first time I heard about the Enji I thought you were all a bunch of blowhards but you do seem to have some skill. Still, we are not out of the woods yet. That Agahnim guy must have been pretty cocky if he went to all this trouble to rise this Shrine of Zadue. It must have some serious power if Alexei knew he was going have the Lylat Kingdom breathing down its neck."

Cloud sees the shrine in the distance and says," Most likely, but regardless of the power it has, it's not going to be enough to keep us down."

Link then says," If he is in league with Ganondorf and the Zannacross Empire then he must be stopped at all cost!"

Ben looks confidant and says,"Don't worry, he is just another guy who is oblivious to reality. All the more reason to cut down his plans before he goes and hurts more people for his" noble" cause of blowing enough stuff up to make him this worlds ruler. "

Yuri then glowers before he firmly states," Alexei, you caused a lot of grief, and nothing is going to stop me from making you pay your debts! "

Well, it seems that are heroes won the battle, but have they lost the war? While Ben and pals were able to help Yuri and Brave Vesperia save both Raven and Estelle from the fates Alexei had planned for them and managed to defeat the powerful Agahnim once more. However now Alexei is in the mysterious Shrine of Zaude. Why is the Zannacross Empire helping him with his ambitions? To find out theses answers, tune in next time for Tales of the Cosmic Wars!

Next time after catching their breath the Enji and the native heroes of the world of Terca Lumieris know time is not on their side and launch a full out assault on the shrine !

While its well defended are hero's are able to break inside, only to find even more defenses!

It's clear Alexei is fully in league with the empire of darkness as he has infested the shrine with both various Necrocalcous and more Zelda monsters!

And for an added announce the odd and persistent Yeager stands between the alleys to good and the traitor, and has brought all of his elite warriors with him like his two twin fatal females Gauche and Droite! And after all this Ben Yuri and co at last confront Alexei in the center of the shrine. After just getting over Kira's own grand betrayal Ben and the other Enji are in no mood to let Alexei get away with his plans, especially when it's quite clear that compared to Kira his power is far inferior even after he infuses a second stage curse seal of Necrocalcous crystal ! However, even while it seems that with the number of fighters against him the white haired man's defeat is inevitable, can they stop him before he unleashes the power of the shrine, or will a even greater disaster land with a thud on the Enji's laps?

That answer will be given in Chapter 97: Brave Vesperia 's, "And friends" , assault! The Truth between the Layers of Ambition. Till next time!