Fantasia

Arc1: Battle of villages

Chapter7: The invasion comes to end

Juan and his brother Roné managed to free their village's sage Luffine and restore his lost magic power, the latter ordered them to escape while he will take care of Sumeria's leader.

Juan aided his brother –who seems totally passing out- to walk, which made Kura ask: "What's wrong with him?".

"It's his fire breath attack, father prohibited him from using it because it draws out all his energy making him in a critical state" Juan answered, then he noticed that the old ragon is hurt too, " , I believe you'll need a hand too." The young man suggested.

"No, I'll be alright, you go on your way." Kura said.

And so the two brothers exited the tower, but alas they found themselves trapped against a large number of angered guardian ragons, one of them approached saying: "Well, Well, what's this? a beastman and a human sneaked into our village".

"I'm not a hu…" Juan tried to say, but he couldn't because pain is started to flow in his body.

The guards pulled their weapon and approached the brothers slowly, but suddenly a fireball hit them, they turned back to find that the rebellion force had came to the rescue.

"Father!" Juan said with eyes filled with tears.

Rocux raised his hammer in the air and shouted: "My fellows! Charge!" ordering all the fighting beastmen to attack the ragons, and it was a matter of minutes when the Ardnerian managed to defeat all the Sumerians.

"Juan! My boy! What happened?! You look broken to pieces, and what happened to your brother?" the worried father asked his son.

"It's along story father but first let's take Roné ba…" but Juan was interrupted by his father unusually embracing him tightly, as he felt warm drops falling on his hair, he wanted to talk but he didn't, "I don't want to lose my family" the father said, and his son responded by nodding with his head.

"But how did you manage to come so fast? I mean there're guards on the village borderline too" Juan asked.

"We've seen your signal", the father answered, then Rocux turned his face away making a disgusted face expression: "Hmph…it was that reckless brother of yours who got rid of the guards in the village. " He added.

"Demetri?! He helped you out?" Juan said expressing surprise, with a joy in his tone.

"Enough talking about that brat!" the father said while carrying Roné on his shoulder then he added: "We still have to free the women and the kids, let's go.".

And with just few steps, an earthquake hit the place, and explosions are seen coming from the royal palace.

"This is great!" a beastman said.

"Lord Luffine's wrath!" another one boasted.

"Victory is ours!" a third one added.

And as the beastmen expected, the royal Sumerian palace was falling like a dead tree; the walls were simply breaking as if they were made of thin glass, the pillars were shaking like they were shivering from fear, and from the windows a red fiery light was flashing once in a while.

All this mess made the inhabitant of the castle evacuate the place in panic, followed by the imprisoned ones who were broken free with the help of Zolu.

"Everyone leave Sumeria at once!" a beastman shouted, and so the Ardnerian started running away to the borderlines of the ragon's village, but Juan was standing idly looking left and right like he was looking for something, a beastman grabbed his arm and pulled him saying: "Let's go Juan! It's dangerous to stay here!".

But Juan refused and ran toward the palace telling himself: "This is bad! Zolu isn't here with the escapees, which means that he's still in the castle, he might've been captured, I have to save him!".

Meanwhile Luffine the sage was ascending to the highest of the palace to face Ramusus, the more steps he makes the stronger his released magic becomes causing his surrounding to tremble until he reached a large gate but it was turned into nothing but mere dust with one punch.

"Ramusus! We settle this here and now!" the old sage shouted, and his fearsome voice echoed all over the falling building.

Ramusus on the other hand was on his throne, shortly before he walks toward Luffine: "Great…you are asking for a death fight?" he asked.

"This time it's me or you…I shall never let you harm my clan anymore, nor let you have the Yusseir's Judgment!" the old sage answered, as each on e of the combatants gave the other a cruel stare filled with rage.

At the same time, Juan was climbing the palace that'll soon turn into rubble, he took a turn in the hall to be surprised by a familiar person; a beast girl with black flowing hair, she was yera, the sage's granddaughter.

"Aren't you Juan Rocux?" she asked.

"Um…yeah, please leave this place immediately, it's going to crumble soon!" he answered, but soon the floor broke apart and the two fell to the rubble.

Few minutes later, Juan woke up outside the palace which turned into nothing but shaking pillars and stairs that holds the highest room where the fight between the sages is still on, he turned left and right, Yera was there too but she was unconscious, he lifted his hand to see ashes on it, he stared a bit farther to see the shadow of a man, and the sparkle made by his cigarette, "Demetri! Is that you?" Juan asked him but the latter said nothing but: "Juan, don't die…" before he disappears like a mirage.

At the top of the Sumerian royal palace, the ferocious battle occurs, Luffine and Ramusus' powers clashes, but it seems that they are really at an equal level.

Both of them stepped back to prepare for another move, they were breathing heavily as wounds were seen on their bodies, but the two seemed intent to defeat his foe.

"Such impressive magic power and skill at such young age, isn't it better if it was used to make peace roam in your village?" Luffine asked.

"Heh, nonsense! old man!" Ramusus answered, with a disgusted expression.

"It grieves me to hurt the person who was the son of my old friend, so please enough of this meaningless fight, take your village away, and let our clans live in peace." The old sage said.

"Yusseir's Judgment…I want it as a price for the peace you seek." Ramusus said with a crazy stare.

"Enough please!" Zolu interrupted the battle while running toward Luffine to face him while trying to protect the sage of his clan, "Lord Ramusus please, let's not go any further facing the beastmen, they don't really want to fight us!" the young ragon said to his lord.

Ramusus calmed a little bit, but then he slashed Zolu in the back with an ice blade, tossing him toward Luffine, who was enraged like he never was before, he turned to the water sage and shouted: "Reckless brat! To hurt a child of your own flesh and blood! Did the devil took over your soul?!".

"Enough lecturing, old geezer! Those who stand in their king's way…ought to pay with their lives!" Ramusus answered emotionlessly.

"Then nothing is left but…" Luffine said, while shredding clothes of his right arm, "Judgment" he added.

Suddenly Luffine's right arm started to glow in golden light, as some strange ancient symbols started to slide from his shoulder, noted by Ramusus who said in fear: "Yusseir's Judgment! It was sealed inside you all time!".

The old sage ignored the younger one and started the spell's incantation while pointing his fist to the sky, that shined in golden light as well: "O' blessed light, the light given to the chosen one, shine…and fall from heavens…"

The light in the sky was noticed by Juan who said: "This light…it's warm, it's nostalgic" as his wounds were healed perfectly.

Zolu on the other hand was stunned of the immense power he felt while this spell was casted that he noted: "This light, it makes me feel sick, like it's strangling me.".

While Ramusus couldn't move a finger standing startled looking at the sky" The light that obliterates anyone who's not of pure Zheinian blood…and all those who are not following the commandments of the ancient Zheinian clan shall perish when this light fall upon them" he described remembering the truth of this light that his father once taught him.

"Make this evil of your enemies descend to the deepest abyss, to be forgotten for the rest of eternity...I call you from above, Yusseir's Jud…" Luffine was about to complete his incantations when he saw Ramusus on his knees and his eyes gave the stare of those who are about to die, the old sage's merciful heart got him before wrath did, and so he disabled that spell before it's too late.

A moment of silence it was, then Luffine aided Zolu to walk as they started leaving the rubble, the old sage gave his opponent a last stare saying: "This ends here, take your clan and leave at once…"

To be continued