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The Battle to End All Battles
A city looking like a citadel appeared on a vast plain of grass. It looked familiar but at the same time it was something that Gard had never seen in his centuries for life.
"What place is this?" asked Gard.
"It is Wilusa." Replied Wodanaz, appearing beside Gard. "It is Wilusa once upon a time." Gone was the scene of this other Wilusa and then appeared the garden where the Setanta tree would have been except this was no garden. It was a courtyard with a wooden throne in it. Upon the throne sat Wodanaz and yet like this Wilusa this was not the Wodanaz Gard knew. Standing beside him was a red-haired young man with a beard and before them was one that Gard did not know but for some reason there was something familiar about him.
"Cast your weapons at me, friends!" said the Evabon standing in the center of the courtyard. "They will not Arjuna!" Arjuna… A hero of the Ten Year War, he whom Gard had in someway aided but this could not have been him.
Beside a blind Evabon warrior stood a Labinnac, a most strange sight to see a Labinnac in Wilusa but yet there was one. "Go on, Piyamaradu, cast your staff at Arjuna! Since you are blind I will guide your hand."
"Yes, Melyk, since all things have sworn an oath not to harm the grandson of the sea shaman." Piyamaradu and Melyk. This Piyamaradu did look like the Piyamaradu of Gard's own time but this Melyk, whom Gard had yet to meet, lacked the resemblance to Mumm-Ra.
What Gard saw next was enough to shock him. Piyamaradu hurled his staff like a spear and it entered Arjuna's heart. The scream from Arjuna was enough to let Piyamaradu know what happened and thus to his knees the blind Evabon fell.
"Father, Arjuna is dead!" exclaimed the red-haired young man.
"Aye, Balor." Said the other Wodanaz nodding. "And thus with our invulnerable defender dead I fear that the Labinnac hordes finally have their chance to take Wilusa. But they will not without a fight! Thus has Melyk betrayed us as I always suspected he might! I only knew not how."
Again the scene changed. The plain upon this other Wilusa was on with two great forces meeting. With a sword did this earlier Melyk lead his vile brethren while Wodanaz brandished his great spear with a golden helmet upon his head leading the hosts of all Evabondom against the Labinnac hordes.
Many died that day. First was Wodanaz dying at the hands of the feral son of Melyk: Yplya. However, Wodanaz had not one blood son. Running forward was the son named Ragnar and with a sword did he remove the head his father's killer. P
Past the field Pwyll, the ever watchful guard of Wilusa's gate, did do battle with this earlier Melyk. It was sword against axe but at the end of it all both were doomed to die. Into Pwyll's chest did Melyk thrust his sword while Pwyll brought is axe into Melyk's stomach!
Once more in the field did Balor do battle with a Labinnac who looked a lot like Alaksandu. The two fought long and terribly but ultimately Balor brought his sword down onto Alaksandu the Labinnac's head killing him but this Balor was already not long for this world. He took a few steps then fell dead.
All were dead upon the field save for one. Loge, the fire obsessed Labinnac warlock, alone lived. Seeing victory at last, Loge did set the entire Savage Area of that long forgotten time. Thus did he destroy himself and but destroy that other Wilusa as well.
"A nightmare!" exclaimed Gard. "This can be nothing more but a nightmare!"
"Hold." Said the Wodanaz of his own time. "Look who now comes from the smoke and ash."
Gard did look and from the smoke and ash walked Arjuna, alive! Following him were eight others one was Piyamaradu but the seven others were not known to Gard: That Wodanaz's brothers Woden and Voton, that Wodanaz's sons Ragnar and Horik, but yet there was one whom Gard did know but he was much different from the one he knew yet it was a Zuvowang and here were two whom Gard would know in time: Kormac and Kukhulainn, sons of Balor.
"When did this all happen?" asked Gard.
"The very day that the demon called Mumm-Ra was born." Replied the Wodanaz of his own time.