Azeena's Dreamstate
A large crowd of unseen spectators cheered all around the arena in approval of how the battle ended. Violet joined in on the hug between Lynni and Charsi as Kira strolled over to EA, who is on the ground face down, not moving. With her foot, Kira rolled her over. The evil persona had been coughing up blood in her final moments.
"If I had known beating you was going to be this easy," Kira said, looking down at her, "I would have done it with my bare hands."
She turned away and walked back to the others, high fiving everyone, then they all had a group hug together. The clouds in the sky above them was becoming a dark hue of red. Thunder rumbled more often as lightning illuminate the clouds, not striking down. Kira looked up to notice it with the others doing the same moments later. The crowd's cheering simmered into talking among themselves, wondering what is happening.
The roar of a dragon echoed throughout the battlefield. The Videls, now on high alert after hearing it, scanned the sky in all directions, searching for an actual dragon.
"What's going on? Azeena's dark side is dead!" Violet said out loud.
Kira is more concerned than the others. "Something's not right."
"Oh, you think?" said Lynni.
An aura of fire magic enveloped on Charsi's hands, ready for anything.
In front of the stone ledge, another form of monk Azeena appeared. She is in her normal blue and white Elite Sunspear armor and her eyes are not glowing. She is walking towards where the group is standing, not displaying any emotion.
"Why are you here? The threat is over," Kira said to her.
The monk stopped next to EA and paused to look down at her. She then kneeled down, placed a hand on EA's forehead and closed her eyes. Her hand glowed in a soft aura of white light.
"What is she doing?" Lynni asked. The hole in EA's chest is regenerating and closing.
"Dwayna, save us! She's RESURRECTING her!" Charsi shouted.
"WHAT?!" Violet screamed. The monk looked up to her greatly surprised sisters. She has the eyes of a dragon. To be specific, the eyes of Zhaitan.
She slowly laughed out loud in a deep male demonic tone. The absorbing crystal of Azeena's greatsword still contains the combination of Zhaitan's dark energy and the Signet Of Judgment. When Azeena took hold of it in the waking world, her body was filled with its evil power again. This version of her represents that power.
Evil Azeena's eyes snapped open, glowing red, and immediately sat up, glaring directly at Kira. She is not displaying emotion of any kind. The unseen crowd is now reacting in horror over this unexpected development. The Videls took a few steps back. EA got up to her feet, not breaking her gaze. With the revival completed, the monk faded away from view.
"Kira, think you can beat her again?" Lynni said.
The assassin narrowed her eyes, in thought. "One way to find out." She leaned over to look around EA, to see where her spear is. Kira then raised up her hand. The spear disappeared from the ledge and reappeared in her hand. EA didn't seem to care.
"All right, you ready to die a second time?" Kira said. Channeling her strength to maximum, she assumed a throwing stance.
"Finish her!" Violet shouted.
Kira threw the spear with even greater velocity than the last time. It landed directly where the hole originally was. This time, it completely shattered on impact. EA wasn't even staggered or fazed by the blow in any way.
Everyone is in disbelief. Kira slowly looked towards the others. "Run," she whispered.
But before anyone could do anything, EA quickly raised up her right hand, now displaying rage. The Signet's power immediately blasted from it, covering the entire battlefield, and killing the Videl family.
Waking world - The Grove
Holding the greatsword in her left hand, Azeena grabbed the second guard's head by the hair with the right hand. She ripped the entire head from her shoulders, including the upper portions of the spine. Violett screamed out in fright as everyone except the Avatar is now on edge, ready to fight somebody.
Seeing that Azeena quickly changed her mind on what to do, Kira pulled out her pistol and fiery dragon sword. She put the pistol to Violett's head and fired. The mesmer fell over to the ground in silence. Kira shot even more rounds in the body.
And that's when the fight started.
Alexis whipped out her twin axes and turned towards Selene. Before she could strike, Himedahl shot her with a series of rapid fire arrows in the chest. Not having her own bow, Selene had to improvise. She snatched two arrows from the quiver on his belt and with one in each hand, she thrust them deep into Alexis' eyes.
Engie got further away from the action to give herself some distance for proper use of her explosives as Alexis fell to the ground, dead. Readying grenades, she waited for an opening that wouldn't harm her own sisters. Selene ran at her at full speed and shoulder tackled her down. The grenades fell out of Engie's hands and rolled on the ground back to her... armed.
Charsi transformed into her Death Shroud form. She activated Life Transfer on both Himedahl and Rasolnika at the same time. The Norn elementalist never had a chance to take any action herself. They both struggled to escape from it.
Boom! The grenades exploded, killing Engie.
Kira stealth teleported over to Selene and began pistol whipping her left and right. Azeena now turns her focus towards Azelia and the Avatar, walking to them, still limping. Azelia switched weapons from a scepter to a greatsword of her own.
"Mother, stay behind me! I'll protect you!" she said, motioning Avatar to slowly back up, crossing the face of the portal. From the other side, someone was watching the two walk backward as Azelia channeled Spatial Surge constantly, striking the guardian in the chest. It's having no effect. As they got a short distance out of the portal's view, Azeena now crossed in front of it, still being hit by the Surges.
Himedahl's life force had been totally drained. He falls over dead. But as for Rasolnika, she fired a bolt of lightning at Charsi, breaking the spell but not killing the necromancer. Both women fall down.
While Selene was briefly stunned next to a tree, Kira took her left arm and bent it around the tree with tremendous force, breaking her shoulder into multiple internal pieces. Selene screamed in pain, dropping to the ground holding on to her disabled left arm. Kira then charged Azelia and tackled her down, knocking the greatsword from her hands and disrupting the Surges. Avatar decided to flee, unable to defend herself. Azelia and Kira rolled around on the ground, exchanging punches.
Rasolnika barely had any strength left to stand after escaping the Life Transfer. She started to go help Azelia but Charsi shot her in the back with a Life Blast spell. Charsi is too weakened to get up at the moment.
Azeena watched the brawl between Azelia and Kira, looking for an opening to strike down the mesmer herself, if necessary. But then, she notices something strange out of the corner of her eye. She slowly looked towards the portal and what she sees on the other side is rather strange. She saw Azelia... but at Rata Sum, not the Grove. There were no sounds coming from that side.
Azeena tilted her head slightly in confusion. She looked over to the brawl. Azelia was definitely over there. She then looked back to the portal. This other Azelia was now doing what appears to be a 'come to me' gesture. But in Azeena's corrupted mind, she think it's a taunt, angering her. The Signet is powering up. She points her right hand at the portal. 'Azelia' and others who were with her appear to be on alert. Azeena screamed in fury and fired the Signet into the portal itself. The vortex absorbed the energy, creating an overload surge in the portal's gateframe.
The gateframe exploded, knocking back anyone who was close by. Kira and Azelia are stunned for a short time. Selene was protected by the tree she was against. She looked behind her as Azeena got back up, weakened by the explosion herself. The guardian sees her and warms up the Signet again, her hand raised where the crackling static of white energy moved like spiders.