Chapter 24

Long Live the King

Garrison in The Sky

Elsword's PoV

Its dark...very...dark...I...feel..nothing...

I...can't...see...i...can't...feel.

My...body...What...happened...

Rena...and Aisha...Im...

"So this how you want to end it? tch and i had such high hopes for you. I guess a HUMAN can go so far."

The dark around begins to get lighter and the same familiar field is replaced with it but thus time its different. A large lion is staring down at me. It had light orange fur and mane with golden armor on its shoulder and back along with a golden chest plate with a lion head on it.

"you..." I found that i was laying down but i couldn't move no matter how hard i struggled. How can i do anything, im dead aren't i. My friends as well. What can i do now.I lay my head back down.

"So why are you still here hmm? if you truly thought that i would know" Of course i dont want this. I want to get back up, but i can't. I wont accept this.

I begin to feel different. My body was glowing before the familiar feeling of fire entered my body. The lion then smiled a devious grin. "Then tell me. If i was to give you life, how would you use it? hmm how about we lift those limits upon you." What? what does he mean?

The heat is getting stronger but, its not bad. I twitch my hand and it moved! i begin to get up slowly. "Yes, if its you. You can handle it." Yes, if its me.

""I can handle it""

3rd PoV

Before King Prime Prime could take Apple his arm was suddenly cut off. "! wha-" He then jumped away when he saw a wave of fire surround him from Apple. He looked around and saw that Raven and Crow disappeared. "What is happening."

"This." Prime was then struck though his lower abdomen by a claw like hand. He turned around and saw Elsword but different. His body was giving off a light orange aurora and he seemed much more confident now.

"What is this." Elsword growled and swiped his arm out of Prime breaking him in half. "I know you can fix yourself so get up." Elsword stood over Prime. "Els!" Elsword turned over to Aisha and ran over to her.

"How are they." He asked her. "They will come through, im not sure about Crow though. I can only use minor healing but it should be enough for Rena and Raven." Elsword sighed in relief.

He got up and turned to catch a punch from a fully repaired Prime. "Els!" He turned to Aisha with a neutral face. "Get em" She smiled and Elsword smirked before turning back to Prime. "Oh i will. Take care of Apple" She nodded.

Elsword crushed Prime's hand and he backed off. "Yes boy, now this will the perfect test now. Stay just as you are. Strong." Prime flew back away from Elsword. "You respond to me with your full power." Prime's body began to glow a bright blue and blinded everyone in the room.

When the light died down Prime was now glowing blue with light blue wings on his back(An: CbS Wings) and his with his armor transforming into more of an suit of armor. He now had a white armored shield with a handle sticking out the back of it.

"I shall respond to you with my own full power." He grabbed the handle and pulled it out revealing a light saber sword with a blue hue. He then got into a knight's position with his shield in front of him and his blade at his side.

"Here i come" Prime seemingly vanished from sight and appeared right in front of Elsword with his blade descending down on Elsword. Elsword quickly Grabbed Prime's body and charged to a wall away from Aisha. "Lets take this out side then."

Elsword and Prime broke through the wall outside and into a free fall. Elsword hung onto Prime while Prime attempted to shake him off. Prime fired an energy blast from his chest that opened up at Elsword, who jumped off him to escape it.

Graveyard of Purification

They landed on some ruined buildings and charged at each other the moment they landed. Prime swung his blade vertically but was grabbed. Elsword kicked Prime away but he quickly recovered and fired energy blast from his shield.

Elsword dodged all the blast and clasped his hand and slammed them on the ground. "Incendiary smasher." Fire bursts from the ground everywhere around them. Prime flies up to avoid it and counted another kick from Elsword with his shield.

"Try again." Elsword smirked and jumped off his shield. Elsword then inhaled air and bent his body outward. "Dragon flame shot Elsword bent inward and released a large fire blast from his mouth.

Prime held up his shield and created a force field to withstand the flames. After awhile the shield began to crack. " Prime flew out the flames only to be met with Elsword waiting on him. "Meteor crusher." Elsword punched the shield Prime had put up to block the attack.

The attack pushed Prime back into the river with a large crash of water. Elsword landed down and looked around for him. "Where did he- !" Elsword jumped back to avoid the rising sword thrust from Prime under the ground.

Prime flew up and spreads the electronic wings. "Thousand Star." The wings began to fire small homing blast everywhere aimed at Elsword. Elsword tried his best to evade them but some struck him causing small cuts on his body.

"Damn it." He dove into the water in hopes of escaping the needles but they followed him even inside the water. "They are not made of just electrical components." Prime said hovering up in the air still firing needles.

The needles would lock onto him the moment they were fired so escaping was not an option. "This is just annoying." Elsword swam up and jumped out the water up into Prime's face. "Wha-" Elsword spat out hazel ash into Prime's face covering it whole.

He jumped onto Primes back and forced him downward into all the incoming needles and jumped off when he hit the ground.

Prime got up with countless dents in his armor and scratches still functional to fight. "You little." Prime held out his sword and fired a beam from the laser blade. Elsword easily dodged it by moving his neck to the side.

"You!" Prime and Elsword looked over to see Add descend down in front of them. "Who are you. You have no business here." Prime lowered his guard. He knew that Add was not a threat due to him keeping a watchful eye on his activities on the island.

"You must have been the one to have extracted the codes. Well this works out either way. I take you down and ill have all three of your cores." Add faced him and is dynamos pointed at Prime. "Ill take it from here." Add flew at Prime charged with electricity.

Prime thrust his blade into the ground and held out his shield. "Such insolence." His shield expanded and fired multiple beams at Add who evaded them by flying upward.

Add fired a beam from his dynamos at the ground to create a smokescreen. He flee down into the smoke and used a barrier around Prime. "Heh" The prism began to shock Prime but had no effect as Prime just stood in it not moving before swiping his arm to break it along with clearing the smoke.

Add was pushed back and had his neck grabbed by Prime. "You have no experience in battle boy. You have knowledge, but not the necessary knowledge for battle." Prime began to choke Add, who struggled to free himself.

Prime's arm was then gripped and looked over to see who. "You forgot about me." Elsword yanked Prime over and took his sword out the ground. He then cut off the arm he held onto in half. Prime stumbled back.

Add freed himself form Prime's clutched severed arm and flew over to Elsword. "Dont expect a thanks." He said with a scowl. "I wouldn't want to hear it from you even if death was an option." Prime picked up back his shield and held it close.

His wings came out again and began to fire needles again. Add placed up his prism barrier to block while Elsword charged Prime, countering the needles and taking the hits.

Prime then turned his severed arm into a new electric blade. "I wont go down so easily!" He engaged Elsword in a sword fight while still using his shield to block.

Prime was then struck in the back by none other than Add who took advantage of his timing. Prime was disrupted and Elsword slashed his chest leaving a large gash with wires sticking out.

Prime bashed his shield at Elsword and few to Add. Add flew up and fired beams at Prime but the beams only deflected off of Prime's armor. Prime swung his blade at Add only nicking and teaing his shirt while leaving a small cut on it.

Elsword recovered and fired fire balls at Prime while he was flying. Prime dodged and flew to Elsword, but was knocked down by a punch from Add.

Prime quickly got up and attempted to fire and blast at Add, but Elsword threw his sword at Prime's shoulder deactivating it. Elsword then made a unsheathing motion with his hands and created large energy blade and charged Prime who put up his shield to defend while his other arm repaired itself.

He jumped up and thrust the blade in front of him piercing the shield and into Prime's chest. "No...No...NOOO!!" Prime shakes off Elsword and flew up into the island. He threw his shield as an distraction while he fled to take Apple and restore himself.

"Add fly me up there." Add smirks before flying up. "Fly your self. He's weak now." Elsword sighed.

Prime was was going slower due to the damages to his body. It seems he did not calculate at how the energy needles would work on him. The needles seem to have a magnetic interference on his body due to him being a nasod.

Add was catching up to Prime and began firing beams at him. "Here's some pay back." He said laughing.

Prime placed a barrier around himself to deflect the attacks away but i could not hold up well due to his weaken state. "Just 30 more seconds until i reach the island."

With Aisha

Aisha was treating Raven and Rena. Apple had fixed up Crow and he was looking out for any other surprises. "Company." Crow said and a hole was blown in the wall. Through it came Prime rushing to Apple.

Crow tackled Prime to the ground. Add them came up and stood around until his eyes fell on Apple. "Even the princess is here?! kekekehahahahah" Add slapped a hand to forehead and began laughing.

"Yes all four cores. Sitting ducks." He walked over to Prime who was slowly getting up. Add stood over Prime with his dynamos ready to plug up into Prime.

With Elsword

Elsword was staring at the Island trying to figure out how he was going to get there. "Use your origin." The voice in his head told him. "My origin? what is that." Elsword asked.

"Your origin is a technique exclusive to one person. Everyone has a power only they can use." Elsword began to think and clasped his hands together and think. "Your flames. A fire that can and will burn anything down. A fire so great, it turns anything it burns into nothing." Fire energy began to radiate from his body.

"Burn to nothing. Grand fire annihilation" Elsword breathed out the air and out came a streak if fire that started small before becoming an enormous cloud of fire. The fire was shot directly at the island.

Up with Prime and Add

Add's dynamos latched to Prime. Crow then felt small quacks in the ground. "What?" The area began getting hot and Crow thought that was bad. "Princess and you, we need to go!" Apple grabbed Aisha, and Rena and Crow too Raven and they ran outside and saw a large fire heading toward them.

"Grab onto me." Apple said and they did. Apple pulled up a holographic screen and entered numbers into it. All them was engulfed in light before being teleported away from the island.

The fire struck the island engulfing it in the fire. The island began to fall from the sky while burning and exploding. Elsword stared at it in worry hoping his friend got off it. Then he was squished...

"Why..." He said and looked up and saw Aisha, Rena and Apple along with Crow on top of him. "Elsword, explain.." Aisha said with frown. "You got off in time. Cool?" He backed away a bit from her.

"We would have died if Crow didn't warn us!" She took the laser sword and chased him around with it. Rena woke up and looked around. "Why are we outside?" She asked drowsy. ""Rena!"" they ran over to her and hugged her.

"Yea me?" She said hugging them back in confusion. Then a large earthquake came throwing them all off. The island crashed into the large mountain near them and exploded. "What happened?" Rena asked and Elsword explained it to her.

The sun was raising after a long and hard night. They decided to check the wreckage of the island. While walking Elsword apologized to Apple in case he destroyed Prime. "If the King and Queen are gone. Does that mean Apple is the new Queen?" Aisha questioned and Apple shakes her head.

"The responsibility falls on to me yes." Apple was on Crow's back and Raven on Elsword's. "So what about the king?" When Rena asked that, all eyes fell on Crow. "There doesn't need to be a king." he said looking away.

When they got to the wrekage, the place was still burning. In the midst of the burning fires however, there was a body.

A half molten Prime was laying down im the debris. His helmet was destroyed revealing his humanoid face complete with with eyes a nose and mouth.

"In the end...I still fall." He said as the group approached him. "Why did you do it sire..." Crow asked. "I truly wanted us to rebuild. I wanted us nasods to take back the land we were forcefully taken off of. I wanted our race to be the greatest just like so long ago." Everyone looked down at him with sadness.

That's right, Prime was here since the beginning. Since the first humans came to this continent to find life and new homes. He's been through wars, and hardships and watched as his people died and sent to graves due to the infection that plagues them today and because of the humans.

He wanted his race to be restored back to the way it was before. He wanted his race to be the top race instead of just old texts in forgotten books. He wanted them to rise and prosper.

"I wanted to restore out race. To fight off this sickness. But.." His chest popped open and three crystals came from it. The crystals were pink, white and black and glowed with holographic symbols. "In the end...i allowed my self to lose sight of my true intentions. I let myself get drowned into worldly desires." He paused and looked over to Crow.

"Crow...I, the king hereby grants you the title of King." Crow shakes his head. "Im not fit to be king." He said and Prime shakes his head. "Restore the Queen and Q-Proto-00. Crow, i give you my core to better approve your status. There is no else i would rather be king." Apple took the cores from his chest.

He kings eyes went dark and stopped moving.

3 weeks later

Rena's PoV

After the whole ordeal that happened a few weeks ago, things took a big change.

Eve and Q-Proto were now alive or running? anyways, Eve took the title of Queen for awhile and made new rules and laws for Altera called the New Order.

The pongos were now able to live above the surface and below and work with the nasods. The nasod's palace was now build outside as well for better communication and for it to be the capital of the whole island. The nasods and pongos began creating cities and villages around the island and the new palace creating a whole government.

They were even working together to build and create to better the island and their lives on it. Although, they still work on weapons to keep out outsiders though, i can't really blame though. The pongos even forgave us and apologized by showering us with gifts.

For us we were all in the palace living there while all was going on. We helped Eve with her decisions and what course of action should be done.

Crow was also made (forcefully made) the king. With Prime's core, he now had a similar appearance to how Prime did, through he does hate it when we call him king Crow which is too funny to watch.

As for Raven, he received a new arm. It was much more better than his old bulky one and i must say we all like it. (An: Furious blader's nasod arm.).

Q-Proto decided to stay as a royal adviser and not Queen. I feel like she dis thay so she would not have to fo too much work. Believe it or not, she's actually pretty lazy. She was also the first Queen to be made but was considered a failure.

When Eve was done with her plans she resigned herself as Queen and gave it over to Apple. Everyone accepted her, even through technically she would be about 12 if she was human but age is just a number.

When Apple became Queen, she made me, Elsword, and Aisha her royal knights even though we can't stay here for long since Feita has requested us.

It was very peaceful really. The sickness in Apple was cured after it was identified and the whole alterian spire epidemic was contained and exterminated with the help from both races knowledge on how it works and infects.

Life in the palace was really fun. It seems like Eve Q-Proto and Apple installed emotions since they were a bit more approachable now.

Apple was like a daughter to Elsword since she was like 90% of the time with him. Raven and Crow were like brothers who didn't look lile they got along but still had each other's backs. Me, Aisha and Q-Proto felt like sisters since we always were together it almost felt like one big family. Cheesy i know.

I really like the peaceful life here, it was a nice change of paste from all the fighting we've done. But soon we have to go to Feita and most likely fight again. One thing that still bugs me was what happened to Add. No one saw or found his body from the island wreckage so he might have survived.

Elsword said he is most likely alive and we will be seeing him again someday.

Me, Q-Proto and Aisha were sitting in the living room, but it felt lile i was in a whole new kind of house really the place was enormous and had kept the Victorian style.

"It is truly a shame that you have to leave soon. You will be missed." Q drank some of her tea. She wore a black dress with light blue ascents on it with a white necklace. Me and Aisha wore the same to get the whole 'Royal experience' or as Elsword calls it.

"Yea now we gotta go back to fighting, hope we can visit again someday though." Agreed but how will we get here again?

As if Q read my mind she responded "We have a new pecail carriage that will permit you to come whenever you like. Also a teleporting pad to come to the palace at anytime." Oh how convenient technology is here.

"Im sure Queen Apple will be the one who will miss you the most." Q says and i can't help but tease her. "Oh so that mean you wont miss us as much Q? oh how it sad." I say in dramatic voice making Q all flustered. "N-n-no that's not what i meant." oh how cute she is.

"She kidding Q, dont take that seriously." Aisha ruins my fun. Boo.

"Hmm i wonder where is Elsword and Apple." They were always around the palace some where playing whatever came to mind. Guess Elsword is pretty good with kids.

Palace Garden

Morning

Elsword's PoV

Me and Apple were in the Alterian garden in the back of the palace. Apple was wearing her long princess robes even though she was Queen now. I was in a black and red suit as i was her most trusted knight of her force.

Apple was admiring the new flowers that were planted a while back. They surprisingly grew pretty fast and well over the time we were here. "Look." I look over her and saw small nasod bees flying around some flowers.

Huh, before they were big and now they go back to being small. There were even some butterflies around the flowers. The flowers were made by extracting the infectious spores out of them and just leaving the plant itself.

But how the nasods evolve in such a short time is pretty impressive. They adapt do quick its like they know what problems and solutions are to be made.

"Hmm your race is always impressive Apple." I told her and she looks down bashful. If i ever have a daughter. she has to be like or similar to Apple. Raven joked that if me and Eve were to ever have a child, if it was posssible, that it turn out looking like Apple. I actually wouldnt mind it really.

"We are a superior race, even more superior to humans." She puts her hands on her hips. All she needs is a long nose and she's all set. "Yup very superior, very powerful." I rub her head. She always like it when i do it and gets a big smile.

She then frowns and looks up at me "When do you leave." She asked. Aw i didn't like talking about leaving. "In two days. Sadly." I said looking at the garden.

"I will not hinder your departure, but will you ever return?" She asked looking into my eyes. I went down on one knee and got eye level with her. "You can bet on it. After we are done with our business in Feita, i will come for a visit." I gave her the reassuring smile she needed.

Two Days Later

Morning

3rd PoV

Elsword, Aisha, and Rena were standing on a teleportation was boarding the airlift built for them to take them back to Elder where their messenger from Feita would be. For their departure, Elsword and crew received new clothes more suited for combat.

Elsword had a white and red short sleeve jacket with a dark red light armor vest over it with black gloves. He had sash over his waist and wore white long pants with dark red armored boots.

Rena wore a long green dress with white thigh high boots that had golden markings on back of the dress. She also received a new bow. It was a light blue with white swirls at the end of the tips.

Aisha was given white coat with a black skirt and black boots. She was given new books that the nasods and pongos had found for her to increase her spell pool.

Before they could leave how ever they heard voices in the distance. Elsword was the first to see them and saw Eve and Raven walking toward them in new clothes.

Raven had a sleeveless black vest with dark gray arm sleeves with black gloves. He wore black pants and dark grey armored boots.

Eve had a white short dress on with white arm sleeves going from her shoulder to hands.

"Els." Raven said approaching the crew. "Raven, you leaving to go somewhere too?" Raven shakes his head and holds out his hand. "We're going with you." Elsword widen his eyes. "Really? what about Altera?" He asked and Eve steeped in.

"As Altera is right now, we are not needed here. Please accept us to join you." Elsword smiled and took Raven's hand. "Welcome to the team." he turned to Aisha and Rena. "Any objections?" They shake their heads no and went over to Eve. "As long as we get another girl to the team its all good." Aisha said hugging Eve.

They all boarded the Airlift and set back to Elder to be informed of what is happening.

An

Whew well this is the end to the Altera ark.

Was it different from what you would have thought it would be? I decided the happy end route since this was the first big adventure but next ark wont be so easy for them.

I was also trying to decide on whether or not Eve and Raven should join the group. I was thinking about leaving them but decided to let them join since they will make story more interesting.

Now then time for a new Ark, The Feita ark and i have no clue on how to even start or end it. But i will have something up so no worries.

Hope yall have a good one

Peace.