Beowulf twirled the sword in his hand, he suddenly disappeared from sight and three demons were cut in half. Beowulf jumped up and came down stabbing one in the head, Beowulf pulled out his blade and threw it into another one, he teleported to his sword and forced the sword through its chest and ripped it out. The demons began to swarm Beowulf, he hacked at them but there were too many, he was about to be smothered by them. Clones suddenly erupted as did Beowulf from the pile and high into the sky, Beowulf raised his sword and all of them came back down with Beowulf slamming the ground with his blade sending numerous demons flying. Beowulf carved his way through the horde, hacking them to pieces, Beowulf threw the sword up and one of the clones teleported to it grabbing it and coming down onto a demon planting the sword into it's head, the Clone slashed away, cutting and shredding, the clone the threw the sword up and two other clones appeared grabbing the handle and kicking two demons on opposite sides of it, Beowulf returned to the sword and slashed with such force that it took a whole group of them off their feet. Beowulf sent his clones to assist the other Knights in the battlefield, Beowulf locked eyes with Mordred "very well, you have my attention".
Beowulf jumped high into the sky and came down with a vertical slash, Mordred drew his sword and blocked it, the impact caused the ground to crack "you are on the wrong side, Benjamin, I do not want to hurt you" Beowulf responded "that makes two of us, I don't want to fight you either" Mordred pushed Beowulf off "then why do you stand against me?! You should be beside me helping me!" Beowulf countered Mordred "this isn't the way to do it, look. I agree that your dad has done some bad, but that isn't a death sentence! Stop this and we can-" Mordred cut off Beowulf by rushing him and slashing at him with his sword, Beowulf dodged it and threw a knee into Mordred's midsection, Beowulf hit Mordred with a left hook sending him sprawling onto the ground "when we sparred, I didn't wanna hurt you, but now, I don't mind breaking a couple things" Mordred uttered a battle cry and attacked Beowulf again. Beowulf blocked an overhead slash but was caught by a kick to his stomach that made him stumble back, Mordred tripped Beowulf with a kick and thrusted his sword downward, a Clone grabbed Beowulf and pulled him out of the way. Mordred planted his sword in the dirt "I'm sorry it has to end this way" Beowulf dusted himself off and his clones surrounded Mordred "I am too".
Beowulf's Clones all broke their stillness and attacked Mordred all at once, Mordred blocked a punch from one redirecting it toward another clone, this one caught on and jumped over the flung clone landing a spin kick on Mordred's temple making him stumble, the third clone right hooked Mordred and the last one hit Mordred with a spin kick to the jaw sending him sprawling to the dirt, Beowulf turned his attention to Morgana who was terrorizing the knights with illusions "there she is" Beowulf threw his sword at her, Morgana leaned back dodging the sword, she looked where Beowulf was and smirked to see him no longer there, Morgana was blindsided by a kick to the side of the head. Morgana fumbled around in the air and fell to the ground, Beowulf tossed his sword and it stuck into the ground next to Morgana and in a flash of light Beowulf stood above her "y'know, you really didn't think this plan through did you?" Beowulf taunted, Morgana smirked at him "you reall think I didn't see this coming?" Morgana clawed the ground and a giant demonic hand emerged from the ground, Beowulf jumped away and Morgana climbed into the palm "Arthur, Dear Brother, witness the power of Dark Magic!" what followed the hand was a massive arm followed by a horned head, the beast uttered a roar that shook the earth.
Beowulf stumbled back as the beast emerged, it could only get it's torso out "this thing is way above my pay grade" Beowulf whispered, the Beast looked at Beowulf, Morgana floated to its shoulder "kill that one, his foul mouth annoys me" the Beast shrieked and raised its fist and brought it down onto the earth, the ground crumbled and broke as the force of the impact took Demon and Knight alike off their feet, Arthur stood his ground "we must take this Behemoth down!" Beowulf jumped up "I got him!" Beowulf threw his sword into the Beast's forehead and teleported to it, Beowulf took his sword and slashed at it barely piercing it's hide, it brought it's hand up to swat at Beowulf, Beowulf saw the rising claw and jumped high above, the Beast swung but didn't hit anything, Beowulf flipped his sword upside down and began to fall. Beowulf braced himself but was hit by the Beast's colossal fist.
The impact made Beowulf's body go numb as the Beast sent him straight into the dirt with the follow through, the impact caused the ground to rupture and a huge dust cloud to form as the battlefield went silent for a moment, the dust cleared and Beowulf lied there in the crater, his costume was torn in various places, he had red marks all over his body and blood began to pool underneath him "no..." Arthur whispered with Mordred looking on somberly "why, Benjamin?" He whispered, the knights lowered their heads. Suddenly Beowulf's sword flung out of the hole and stuck into the ground, a moment of silence fell over the war as both sides waited, Beowulf suddenly appeared next to his sword, he was on one knee and blood dripped from his forehead, he grabbed the handle of his sword and began to pull himself up "it's gonna take a lot more than that to kill me!" Beowulf picked his sword up, his breath became heavy and his eyes glowed red, he roared a mighty roar as he charged forward toward the Beast, the other knights raised their weapons, rallying to Beowulf's call and began to fight ferociously against the demon horde. Beowulf threw his sword into the Beast's arm teleporting to it and keeping his momentum dragged his sword along the Beast's arm slicing through it's flesh, Beowulf jumoed at the elbow area where Morgana was "Morgana!" Beowulf roared, he reeled back his sword and slashed Morgana sending her straight into the ground. Beowulf then called to Galahad "I'll take care of Morgana, you guys handle Big Boy" Galahad nodded and called for Lancelot "Father!" Lancelot threw his spear at the Beast, the Beast tried to block but the spear curved around its arm and found its target, the Beast's eye, it shrieked out in pain and it grabbed it's eye with its hand. Galahad threw his shield and struck the Beast in the chin making its head cock back, Tristain jumped into the air above the Beast and began to drop toward it, suddenly a chain from behind the Beast shot forward and wrapped around Tristain's waist, the chain was attached to Gawain and he yanked on it causing Tristain to pick up speed, with a quick and powerful slash Tristain passed the Beast and a large gash suddenly appeared on its neck, molten liquid sprayed from its wounds. The Beast fell onto it's hands as liquid dripped from it's neck, the Beast suddenly moved and swung it's arm, the Royal Knights dove out if the way except for Galahad, Galahad raised his shield and when the massive arm made contact it bounced off the shield as it radiated the visage of a largr golden shield.
Beowulf landed infront of Morgana who was recovering from her sudden loss of altitude "you abhorrent thing! Your presence here ruins everything!" Beowulf shrugged "I am who I am" Morgana shot a beam out of her hand and it trapped Beowulf, she lifted him up with the beam and slammes him into a trees she then lifted him high up into the air and slammed him into the ground, she used her other hand to conjure another spell, runes apoeared underneath Beowulf and roots suddenly erupted from the ground trapping Beowulf in a dead tree "the Soul Fern will bleed you dry you little pest!" Beowulf pulled at the branches trying to get himself free, Morgana laughed maniacally as the Soul Fern began to glow. Her laughter was cut short as a blue spinning blade interjected and cut the Soul Fern down, Beowulf broke out of the branches and landed on his feet, Beowulf and Morgana turned their attention to the direction the blade came from, Merlin stood there with his arm raised, the four-sided blade floated above his hand "thanks Merlin" Beowulf saif with relief in his voice, Merlin smiled "no problem my boy, now, I think Morgana is due for another lesson" Morgana gritted her teeth and began to swirl her hand around and a mystic circle formed onto it "I will show you more than you could ever teach me!" Morgana raised the magic circle and summoned an army of blades that pointed at Beowulf and Merlin "uhhh, this is a bit above my pay grade" Beowulf said with Merlin pursing his lips, Morgana laughed maniacally "time to send you to your doom" she thrusted her hand forward and sent the blades flying. Merlin put two of his fingers up and pointed at the blades, Beowulf closed his eyes for impact but it never came, Beowulf looked to see the blades had turned into butterflies "woah, that's some magic" Beowulf whispered with Merlin laughing "child's play, if you want to see real magic..." Merlin raised his arm and lighting came down from the sky hitting his hand and causing a shockwave, Morgana was barely budged and laughed at Merlin "is that really all you have to give? Your old age HAS caught up with you" Merlin then pointed his open palm to Morgana, a sonic boom erupted from his hand and it sent Morgana several hundred feet back, Merlin dusted his hands and looked at Beowulf who was dumbfounded "well? Go assist the King" Beowulf looked at Merlin and nodded before regaining his composure and began making his way to Arthur.
Beowulf spotted Arthur and Mordred locked in combat "there they are!" Beowulf rushed over but was ambushed by a horde of demons "there's no end to these things" Beowulf reeled to throw his sword but one of them grabbed his arm and dragged him down. Meanwhile Arthur clashed swords with Mordred "is this what you wanted Mordred? All of this death, for what?" Mordred gritted his teeth "this is what is needed for me to rule, a clean slate, a fresh new beginning, only the deaths of the old values are the key to that!" Arthur pushed Mordred back "this is not the way my son, there's still time to stop this!" Mordred shouted at his father "no! I have made my decision, and just like you, I shall reap what I sow..."
Arthur closed his eyes and lowered his guard, Mordred lowered his sword in confusion "what are you doing?" Arthur answered "if you truly think that this is the right path, then strike me down..." Mordred rushed in but stopped short and jumped into the air coming down with his sword, Arthur effortlessly blocked the blade with his gauntlet and delivered a powerful gut punch to Mordred, Mordred fell off his fist and backed up "you..." Mordred attempted to speak but he was winded "you don't get to be King by brute force, you must be cunning, be able to see your opponent's weakness and exploit it" Mordred recovered "you're as unfair a ruler as you are a fighter" Arthur twirled Excalibur in his hand "and you are as ignorant a leader as you are fighter" Mordred gritted his teeth, yelled out and attacked Arthur. Beowulf erupted from the horde and threw his sword straight at the two royals, Beowulf suddenly appeared between them and stopped their blows with his blade "that's enough! You two are family, stop this now, you will regret it!" Mordred pushed Beowulf aside "do not get involved boy, this is between my father and I". Beowulf nearly jumped in again but Arthur and Mordred glared at him, Beowulf stood by while they finally began to get serious. Arthur and Mordred suddenly disappeared from sight, Beowulf heard the swishes and clangs of swords around him "they're that fast?" Beowulf whispered, a sudden spark of metal flashed on his face and he back.
Beowulf looked around frantically trying to keep track of their movements, the occasional gust of movement, Beowulf focused his mind and breathed in to catch their scent, he managed to pinpoint where they were going to collide next, Beowulf threw his sword at the position, Beowulf opened his eyes to see that he had stopped the two of them with his blade, all of their swords were interlocked together, the scratch of the metal could be heard over the chaotic booming of the battlefield "stay out of this Benjamin!" Beowulf pushed the two away "no! This battle tears your kingdom apart! Camelot doesn't survive and neither do you two!" Arthur and Mordred ignored Beowulf and charged at one another. Beowulf tried to catch them by thrusting his sword inbetween them but he overshot it, their blades connected with Beowulf's Miraculous, the force redirected both Mordred and Arthur and their blades found themselves plunged into one another's abdomens. Ben tumbled to the floor, his vision was blurry and his ears were ringing, he knew he was no longer Beowulf "Sturnn? Prowwl? Where are you?" Ben said weakly, he looked down to see his Miraculous in pieces "no, no, no!" Ben got to his knees and picked up the pieces "what happened to them? Are they dead?" Merlin placed his hand onto Ben's shoulder "no, Kwamis are concepts, they cannot be destroyed, they have just returned that, a concept, however, that does mean they can no longer interact with our world, I'm sorry Ben" Ben looked at the pieces of the Miraculous in his hand while Merlin saw Arthur and Mordred on their knees facing one another "so this is it?" Mordred asked weakly, blood pooled underneath him, Arthur coughed "it would seem so, my son" Arthur reached out and touched Mordred's face "you have Guinevere's eyes, filled with passion and empathy" Mordred closed his eyes, tears ran down his cheeks becoming stained by the dirt that covered his face "father...what have I done? Only in death do I understand what you did... I was a fool" Arthur lowered his hand to his shoulder "no, I am the fool, if I had only trusted you with the truth instead of hiding it from you praying that you would never find out, you might've accepted the truth differently" Mordred grabbed the sword in his stomach and began to pull "Mordred! What are you doing?!" Arthur exclaimed with Mordred responding "Ben has a Healing Stone, he can use it on you..." Ben looked back up from his Miraculous and rushed over to them, Arthur began to pull the sword out of his own body "no! I will die first so that he may give it to you" Ben pulled the stone from his pocket "it has one more use left, what do I do?!" Mordred and Arthur made one final pull and the blades came out of them "give it to my father/son" they both said, Ben groaned in frustration and grabbed Mordred's hand putting the stone in it "good..." Arthur said before Ben grabbed his hand aswell and put it onto the stone "both of you...hold it".
The stone glowed a vibrant green and began to heal both of them, after a minute the stone dulled and they both dropped it to the ground, their wounds had been healed and there was a scar on them both "you saved us both, thank you Young Benjamin" Ben was busy catching his breath "cutting it a bit close, if this is what secrets do then I want to be as transparent as glass with my kids" everyone's attention shifted when a booming voice came over the field "so...father and son have reconciled, how touching" Morgana hovered above the demon horde "now that my pawn has betrayed me, it seems that I will need to kill Arthur myself, and my former minion" Mordred approached Morgana "please mother, do not do this, we can work together for a better-" Morgana flicked her finger and a large root erupted from the ground and struck Mordred away. Arthur grabbed Excalibur off the ground and pointed it at Morgana "you will not escape this time Sorceress!" Arthur and his Knights charged forward, Ben picked up his sword "huh, heavier than it used to be..."muttered before charging in aswell. Suddenly Ben's shoulder was grabbed by Merlin "I have a plan and I need your help" Ben nodded "okay, what's the plan?" Merlin answered "I'll throw you and you kill Morgana" Ben's face changed to a worried expression "that doesn't sound like a plan" Merlin responded "well that's because I just thought of it, but the whole plan revolves around your sword, you can get close to her more effectively" Ben looked at Morgana as she tore apart the battlefield with her magic "this doesn't sound like it'll work, incase you haven't noticed I lost my powers" Merlin responded "it's not the powers that make the Hero my boy" Ben responded "that's literally what made me a Hero, my powers gave the opportunity-" Merlin cut him off "y'know you're a real bummer kid" Ben then asked "how do you know modern lingo?" Merlin responded "I've seen the future...I've seen your future, now go". Merlin casted a spell and lifted Ben off the ground "good luck!" Merlin exclaimed before chucking Ben at Morgana, Morgana saw Ben rocketing towards her and glided out of the way with Ben careening past her, Ben turnes in the air and threw his sword, Morgana tilted her head and the sword missed "hm..." Morgana said before noticing that Ben was gone. A shadow grew behind Morgana, she spun around prepared to blow away what was there but she was too late, a blade plunged into her chest with Ben wielding it.
Ben and Morgana fell to the ground, Ben let go of the sword and stumbled back, he had never aimed to take someone's life before, Morgana coughed blood and began to choke, a magic circle appeared underneath her opening up the ground and swallowing her along with Ben's sword, Merlin ran to Ben "don't try to go to your sword, where she went, you don't wanna go" the demon army began to shrivel and blow away in the wind. The remaining soldiers cheered as they were victorious, Ben reached into his pocket and pulled out the pieces of his Miraculous, Merlin reassured Ben "we'll get that fixed up".
Back at Merlin's Lab
Merlin welded the Miraculous back together "ah, there we are, try that on" Merlin tossed the repaired Miraculous to Ben, Ben slipped it on, everyone waited for something to happen but nothing did "I don't feel their presence at all, I think they're lost..." Mordred took off his Miraculous with his Kwami emerging "take my Miraculous, you need it more than I do" Ben shook his head "I think it's been proven that I'm not worthy of having a Miraculous in the first place, Arthur approached Ben "nonsense, you have proven that you are worthy a thousand times over, yes you weren't born to greatness but you've proven that a Hero can come from anywhere no matter where theu come from" Ben looked at his Miraculous and sighed "how will I defend my time without a Miraculous?" Sturnn and Prowwl looked in specific spots of the room "hey, what are you guys doing? He's worried sick you know?" Everyone was confused but suddenly Ben's Miraculous glowed with life and emerging from it was Prowwl and Sturnn. Ben was speechless with Sturnn groaning "ah man, we wanted to build suspense" Prowwl interjected "no, I wanted to merge back right away, you grabbed me and whispered 'watch this' honestly brother, I would've thought you didn't care if you hadn't panicked when we were separated from Ben, you were sad that we may never be able to see him again" Sturnn pounced on his brother and the began to fight, Ben ran to them and hugged them both "I missed you guys!" Both the Kwamis returned the hug and they finally felt whole again. Merlin interrupted the moment "hey Ben, just so you know, there's still a flaw on your Miraculous, a small piece is missing, Ben took off his Miraculous and inspected it, Merlin was right, there was a noticeable knick on the inner ring "huh, I never noticed that" Mordred looked at his own "yes, it's in mine aswell" Merlin stretched out and groaned "that's probably why the Wolf Miraculous is considered weaker than others, maybe it's power is hinderes by that defect".
Ben put his Miraculous on and sighed "okay, now we need to find a way to get me back home, I can't stay here" Merlin got up and directed everyone's attention to a part of the room near a wall "I've developed a little something, take a look" Merlin pulled out a wand, it was gold and silver with runes carved into it and a platinum handle, the shard of the Tome as fixed on the end of it. Merlin pointed it at the wall and a purple bolt of lightning shot out of it and struck the wall causing a tear to open, Ben could see a New York street "whoa! You found a way for me to get home?" Merlin dusted his shoulder "you bet your sweet bippy I did" Merlin tossed Ben the wand "now the wand can only go to the time it was taken and the time it was sent, this thing can take shards, I don't know how many so I high balled it and went for ten". Ben walked to the portal "I really hope I didn't change history by saving you guys, New York might not be the same than it was before." Merlin scoffed "the timeline always has a way of fixing itself, y'know, unless it's catastrophic like the whole Cat Blanc situation, then someone needs to step in, for now just go home and rest kid" Ben nodded and stepped through the portal, he was greeted by the familiar smell of the city hit him like a wave, the cold air bit at him and the familiar sound of car horns and shouting people filled his ears "it's good to be back..."
Ben made his way to the Donovan's Jewelry Store, he opened the door and turned the lights on, the surfaces were covered in a layer of dust "I really need to clean up". Ben plugged in his phone as it had died within the first day in Camelot, he saw that barely five minutes had passed since he time travelled. Ben texted his parents where he was and that he was staying the night there. Ben walked along the behind the counter and opened up the study, Ben sighed, Adrien was still gone, Ben scanned the bookshelves until his eyes locked onto a book, the spine read "The Legend of Camelot" Ben grabbed it from the shelf and opened it, he flipped through it until he got to the Chapter titled "The Schism" his heart raced as he read through, he finally made it to the duel between Arthur and Mordred, he dreaded seeing the illustration of them fallen, both skewered by blades.
Ben's anxiety was lessened when he saw a fairly rough depiction of himself giving the stone to both of them, Ben read the name he was given "Lucan..." Ben whispered "so that's the name they gave me". Ben kept reading about the adventures Mordred and Arthur went on, Ben read until he got to the final chapter "The Fall". Ben read through the chapter, it detailed how Arthur and his Knights were defeated by Morgana in her second attempt at conquering Camelot, Ben sat down while reading how Mordred had also died defending Camelot "I guess Merlin was right, the timeline has a way of correcting itself". Ben put the book down and got up "my fight with Darkbug taught me something, Chronoa's allies are much stronger and dangerous than the riff raff we're used to, I need to step my game up and fast, who knows what they're up to now, we need more allies...".
Meanwhile, in a Void
Chronoa admired a Tome Shard in her hand "we are that much closer to to our goal" Chronoa turned around to her crew, Cat Blanc, Darkbug, The Shroud, Mayura, and the Pangolin approached her, Chronoa channeled her magic into the shard and a bolt of lightning shot out of it causing a portal to open "so, who's up next?".
